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with one ploughing, for which the above-named 8s. is al- 

 lowed by Mr. Pusey. This is marvellous enough ; but in 

 farming, when any statement comes to us well authenti- 

 cated, we accept it as far as the imtance in which it has 

 occurred is concerned. We know, however, that if this 

 forking of couch were attempted on our wheat stubbles, 

 or on the bulk of those over which our eye passes, the 

 hardened surface would come up in lumps, and the couch, 

 instead of being presented on the surface in the handsome 

 form in which Mr. Pusey has presented it to us by a draw- 

 ing, would be broken into short lengths, each imbedded in 

 a hard lump of soil, and ready to sprout with the first 

 rains of autumn, and could only be destroyed by " the 

 ploughing, harrowing, rolling, raking, and burning, ' very 

 likely' repeated a third time," which he so much depre- 

 cates. We know, further, that if we should attempt to 

 grow turnips on one ploughing from a wheat stubble, we 

 should never get a sufficiently tender tilth to ensure a 

 plant. Oh ! that Mr. Hudson and Mr. Bond could be our 

 godfathers, and that, leaving 8s. for ploughing and Is. for 

 forking, we could " strike out at once the remainder of Mr. 

 Bayldon's long bill, which will give a saving of 2. per 

 acre upon the turnip crop, that is, on one quarter of an 

 arable farm ; and as II. is the average rent of land in 

 England, a saving of one-half the rent. Let no one here- 

 after speak of clean farming as expensive farming. What 

 high farming may be remains to be seen. At all events, 

 according to Mr. Bayldon, we have saved two pounds per 

 acre to pay for artificial manure on our turnip crop, which 

 we must hope will suffice." Pusey, p. 47. 



On his own farm Mr. Pusey allows only one pair of 

 horses to one hundred acres of land a lower estimate 

 than we have seen elsewhere. He says, " I had a farm 

 full of couch, and having now made it clean " Happy 

 man ! But we long intensely to know at what cost of 

 money and of time he made it clean. What capital of 

 cleanness has he invested in the farm ? What sum does 



