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barn or a stable ? Low prices must, among other expe- 

 dients, be met by an economy of dead capital. 



The rest of Mr. Pusey's excellent treatise is devoted to 

 what he calls " the practice of farming," and comes there- 

 fore only collaterally within our present scope. But, se- 

 veral pages on, " The Foulness of Land" has so intimate 

 a connection with the expenses of cultivation, and Mr. 

 Pusey's statements are so utterly opposed to our own ex- 

 perience, and to everything which we have ever seen stated 

 by any other agricultural writer except Mr. Huxtable, 

 that we cannot pass them by without notice. Mr. Pusey 

 quotes from " Bayldon," a standard work, "the absolute 

 expense" of fallowing an acre, "and his charge is esti- 

 mated, be it observed, not for a field casually foul, but as 

 a regular ingredient of the cost of the entire turnip crop 

 of a farm every year." The absolute expense amounts to 

 %l 9s. 6d. per acre. If to this be added the 28s. Qd. per 

 acre for rent, tithe, and taxes, included in our proposal to 

 Mr. Huxtable, the amount will be 3Z. 18s. per acre. Our 

 field is casually foul, fouler probably than the average land 

 of England, when its turn comes to be fallowed. On the 

 other hand, we are sure that land which has for a series of 

 years been periodically subjected to Mr. Bayldon 's fallow 

 would be much less foul than the average. We do not, 

 therefore, after having seen Mr. Bayldon 's detailed esti- 

 mate, repent of our charge of 61. per acre for making a 

 field, casually foul, " free from couch ;" nor do we think 

 that the additional 2Z. for eradicating the deep-rooted 

 weeds, whose existence Mr. Pusey completely ignores, is 

 excessive. Every farmer knows that when a field is ca- 

 sually foul, or even of average midland and western county 

 foulness, both these enemies cannot be destroyed by the 

 fallow of one average summer. But Mr. Pusey proposes 

 to strike out the whole of Mr. Bayl don's bill, except 8s., 

 adding Is. per acre on the following authority: Mr. Hud- 

 son, of Castleacre, forks the couch out of his wheat stub- 

 bles at the expense of Is. per acre, and sows his turnips 



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