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minent mention of the distressing position in which we 

 and they are placed by the unprecedentedly low price of 

 this article of agricultural produce. Whatever measures 

 they may consider it incumbent on them to take with refer- 

 ence to protection or to taxation, general or local, we think 

 it must be wise to keep these matters quite distinct from 

 the question of the most efficient practice. We cannot 

 look around us and doubt that, in order to maintain our 

 position, to the most efficient practice we must resort ; 

 and if our remarks can assist any struggling farmer in 

 discovering and adopting it, we shall have attained our 

 object. 



We had hoped to have included in this article some re- 

 marks on draining, a subject so intimately connected with 

 artificial feeding that it may almost be called its founda- 

 tion. But time and space forbid. A few memoranda 

 which we had made must be returned to our desk, perhaps 

 to be re-produced on some future occasion. 



