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edge by the means of manuscript sent to parties desiring 

 it ; but it soon struck me that in this present enlightened 

 Ensil-age it was not exactly " up to the times ! " I have 

 therefore jotted down, as I have had leisure, what I know 

 about the system. I feel diffident in thus giving in- 

 struction how to proceed, for I know I have much yet to 

 learn ; but the farmer who carefully studies this book 

 will know a great deal better how to go to work than I 

 did when I began ; and my cattle and sheep all told me 

 to-day (May 25) that it " was the greatest kind of a suc- 

 cess ! " But then, my stock like me, and are doubtless 

 partial. 



