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drawing from Clonakilty. Is not this much the same 

 as giving you the manure, and drawing it home for 

 you 1 And would not the cows fed in this way, and 

 kept warm in the house in winter, instead of being 

 exposed in the fields to rain and cold, give very much 

 more milk, and much richer milk 1 and would not this 

 rich milk give more butter than you now get 1 You 

 will, besides, be able to keep many cows well, with no 

 more expense than you now keep a few ill ; and would 

 not this be very like paying you for accepting the 

 manure from Clonakilty 1 and do you really think that 

 a potato garden, manured with this rich manure, would 

 not pay you better than it does at present 1 and do you 

 think you would get a worse wheat crop afterwards 1 

 Now, put all these together, and tell me, if, in advising 

 you, and showing you how to grow clover and turnips, 

 and so to increase your manure, I am not doing you an 

 equal kindness as if I gave you the manure in Clona- 

 kilty? Remember, too, that there it is all ready in 

 your own bahn, just as much as if I drew it home for 

 you. And if you will in this way get much more 

 butter, and better crops of potatoes and wheat, will not 

 these as much put the money into your pockets, as if I 

 paid you for accepting the manure 2 And now, if all 

 this is so, is not what I said true, that you are acting 

 as foolishly in neglecting it, as the man who would 

 refuse the manure from Clonakilty, though paid to 

 accept it ? I will leave you to answer the question. 



Depend upon it, my friends (for as such I wish to 

 regard you all), YOU ARE RUINED FOR WANT OF MANURE. 

 Those who are best off amongst you are not half as 

 well off as they might be, if they had more manure ; 

 and the poor man, whom I am obliged to put out of his 





