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strictly to deductions from the incidental statements of the 

 agricultural writers. We are quite aware that this is a 

 very narrow corner of a great field, which abler husband- 

 men than ourselves are occupying with resources which we 

 do not pretend to command. We have the satisfaction, 

 however, of knowing that our partial conclusions point in 

 the same direction as their more extensive and elaborate 

 researches. 



