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his farm, would you not think any man a great fool 

 who refused so good an offer < \ But suppose I not only 

 gave him the manure for nothing, but offered myself to 

 draw it home for him, and to pay him well for accepting 

 it, would you not say that a farmer who refused such 

 an offer must be the greatest fool that ever was born 1 

 In short, you would not believe that any man in Ireland, 

 let alone Carbery, could be found to refuse such an 

 offer. 



Now, I must tell you plainly, that in neglecting 

 Green Crops, you are acting just as foolishly as the 

 man who would refuse the manure, though delivered at 

 his bahn, and paid for accepting it. And I will now 

 prove this to you. 



Look at the quantity of dung which you are able to 

 collect in any one year, by the old system, of laying 

 part of your land out in grazing, feeding your cows and 

 horses out on this, and giving them in the house only 

 what little straw and potatoes you can spare. Even by 

 drawing a great deal of sand to add to it, and gathering 

 earth and scrapings from old ditches, you still have but 

 a very small quantity of manure, and this is poor thin 

 stuff, often more than half of it earth. Now, compare 

 with this the quantity of good rich manure you would 

 have, if you sowed with clover and turnips a moderate quan- 

 tity of land. I say, compare the quantity of manure 

 you could make this way with what you now make. 

 First, you would be able to keep more cows. Secondly, 

 being kept more in the house, and well fed, they would 

 make much more manure than they now do ; and much 

 richer, as good as that we just spoke of from Clonakilty. 

 Thirdly, none of it would be lost, as it often now is. 

 There it would be all ready in the bahn ; no trouble of 



