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the ex pence of " planting one thousand eight 

 " hundred rod of live fence"? That is to say, 

 nine cents, or four pence half -penny sterling, a 

 rod! What plants ? Whence to come? Drawn 

 out of the woods, or first sown in a nursery? 

 Is it seed to be sown? Where are the seeds to 

 come from? No levelling of the top of the 

 bank ; no drill ; no sowing ; no keeping clean 

 for a year or two : or, all these for nine cents a 

 rod, when the same works cost half a dollar a 

 rod in England! 



1004. Manure too ! And do you really want 

 manure then? And, where, I pray you, are you 

 to get manure for 100 acres? But, supposing 

 you to have it, do you seriously mean to tell us 

 that you will carry it on for two dollars au 

 acre? The carrying on, indeed, might perhaps 

 be done for that, but, who pays for the filling 

 and for the spreading? Ah! my dear Sir, I 

 can well imagine your feelings at putting down 

 the item of dung-carting, trifling as you make 

 it appear upon paper. You now recollect my 

 words when I last had the pleasure of seeing 

 you, in Catherine Street, a few days before the 

 departure of us both. I then dreaded the dung- 

 cart, and recommended the Tullian System to 

 you, by which you would have the same crops 

 every year, without manure ; but, unfortunately 

 for my advice, you sincerely believed your land 



