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it owe him annually for permanent interest on cleanness, 

 or for gradual replacement of money ? We want to know 

 " what landlords and farmers ought to do," not on clean 

 farms, but on average farms. Will he tell us what sum of 

 money must be invested to make all the farms in England 

 as clean as his own ? He, a provident man, got landed in 

 good times. We are still struggling in the slough, and 

 want him to tell us how we are to get out. We admit, 

 however, freely, though we differ with him sometimes, 

 that he has done more to help us out than any man we 

 know. 



Passing on to other points of practice, Mr. Pusey takes 

 frequent occasions of showing that the idle, the ignorant, 

 and often even the parsimonious farmer is the " real 

 spendthrift." He treats both of increase of produce and 

 of reduction of expenses, and perhaps, on the whole, gives 

 rather the greater prominence to the latter topic. This is 

 at least an useful corrective to other agricultural publi- 

 cations, which have dwelt almost entirely on the former. 

 We beg leave to convey to Mr. Pusey, with much respect, 

 our sincere obligations. He opposed the late legislative 

 changes which affected his order, and probably retains on 

 that subject his old opinions ; but he writes with admirable 

 candour ; and the unrepining and even hopeful spirit in 

 which he treats of the prospects of agriculture, indicates 

 the influence of a temper and of principles which it must 

 be a happiness to any man to possess. 



Mr. Pusey says that farming estimates of the expenses 

 of cultivation are fanciful things ; and often they are so. 

 But there must be expenses, or there must be limits within 

 which they can be estimated. We are sure that we could 

 form an estimate which no man could prove to be exces- 

 sive, but which would show that where an arable farmer 

 grows only twenty bushels of wheat, thirty of barley, and 

 forty of oats (gross produce at present prices about 4Z. 4s. 

 per acre) and in this category would be included more 

 than half the arable farmers in England he must draw in 



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