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The children will then be a real benefit to you, instead 

 of a burthen, as they too often now are. 



And so I have now come round to what I began this 

 letter with speaking about, the great value of manure ; 

 and my firm belief that it is because you have not 

 enough manure, you are not better off. It is the case 

 with tenants in most parts of Ireland. I have, as you 

 know, made myself acquainted with the circumstances 

 of all of you, and with the state of your different farms. 

 It is my clear opinion, that more manure is what you 

 all chiefly want. I have myself seen a gentleman's pro- 

 perty in another part of Ireland, upon which the tenants 

 were, a few years ago, much worse off than you are, and 

 with farms much smaller than yours ; by following the 

 plan I have advised you, namely, by sowing clover and 

 turnips, they are now a great deal more comfortably off than 

 you are ; many of them paying their rent (and it is a 

 high rent) only by the butter which their clover and 

 turnips enable them to make, and so having all their 

 wheat and potatoes for themselves. Mind, this is Irish 

 farming, not English. Now I wish you to be as com- 

 fortable as that gentleman's tenants. I have done all 

 that I can do to lead you to it : will you do your part, by 

 taking the advice and assistance that is offered you for 

 your good, or not ? It is not because you can manage 

 now to pay your rent, that you will always be able to 

 do so. Depend upon it, bad times will come : we have 

 had them before, and you know how hard it was then 

 to get on ; you may be sure they will come again. In- 

 deed, by God's appointment, times are always changing : 

 sometimes bad, sometimes good. If you will exert 

 yourselves, you may now, while times are good, so pros- 

 per, as far less to be injured by the bad times ; but it 



