PRUDENCE MORE NECESSARY THAN SCIENCE. 69 



Only this year had he ventured upon a few rows of 

 turnips. If, therefore, hired labour pays liiin, it ought 

 to he still more profitable to one who knows what crops 

 to raise as the most profitable under the circumstances 

 in which he is placed ; how to raise them most abun 

 dantly, and at least cost ; when raised, how to dispose 

 of them most skilfully and most economically in feeding 

 stock, or otherwise; and who, like him, has at the same 

 time industry and prudence in the management of 

 affairs. For though it is my profession and niy pleasure 

 to diffuse knowledge, and to recommend it because of 

 its actual money-value to the rural community, I must 

 confess that a want of industry and prudence, as often 

 as a want of knowledge, are with us at home the causes 

 of want of success in farming. It is because the posses 

 sion of superior knowledge by more learned farmers has 

 been so frequently unaccompanied by the prudence in 

 affairs which is so necessary to worldly success, that so 

 much difficulty is found in persuading practical men of 

 the real worth of science in the prosecution of the arts 

 of rural life. 



Labour here is paid for at the rate of 50s. a-month 

 for the six summer, and 30s. for the six winter months, 

 or 24 a-year, besides board and lodging. The price of 

 wheat I did not ask, but oats sell at Is. 6d. to 2s. a 

 bushel, weigh from 36 to 40 lb., and yield more than 

 half meal of excellent quality. 



After breakfast, we walked over from Mr Murray s hou sc 

 about half a mile to Bear Cape, to examine the section 

 exhibited by the cliffs on the shore. We found it to be : 



Feet. 



/Red marl and sand, 5 

 , Yellow sand, and angular yellow) 



t sandstone blocks, . / 



Yellow thick-bedded sandstone, . 10 



Grey silicious conglomerate with quartz 

 pebbles, of unknown thickness. 



