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ing, and placing his agricultural concerns un 

 der his direction. By this means such a farm 

 as that of Mr Marx might soon be advanced 

 in productiveness to an amount greatly beyond 

 the salary of such a manager, and an improved 

 and advantageous practice of husbandry would 

 spread itself and take the place of the defec 

 tive and comparatively profitless system now 

 followed in the States. 



I was glad to find Mr Marx not obstinate 

 ly wedded to old modes ; for in the discus 

 sions on agricultural subjects I had with him 

 and his brother after dinner at their country 

 house, I was able so far to convince him of the 

 benefit he would reap from a change of system, 

 that he resolved to give a fair trial to what I 

 suggested, and instead of ploughing in his lux 

 uriant crops of clover, to use them in soiling 

 his horses and cattle, to cart out the manure 

 to be so obtained for his wheat, and to en- 

 crease his allowance of seed to four bushels an 

 acre, the usual quantity given by British farm 

 ers. 



I can have no doubt of the favourable re- 



