196 My Little Farm 



by the North British Agriculturist, on the faith of 

 " an Irish correspondent," and yet we know how 

 Irish correspondents are organised to discourage 

 production in order to destroy the landlord. The 

 Scotch paper has published many columns of 

 " criticism " on this article in several issues, and 

 an editorial attack is based mainly on a misprint, 

 not from the Saturday Review, but from the report 

 of my evidence before the Royal Commission on 

 Congestion. " Tritro-culture " is printed for 

 " nitro-culture," and the Scotch editor revels in 

 the slip, as if he were a Mayo moonlighter. Such 

 is the literature of agriculture, and it could not 

 be without having removed culture from the soil ; 

 but the absence of education is an invitation to 

 the educated, who may find still in the fields a 

 fair remuneration for talent, more free from the 

 corrupting influences of modern life than any 

 other pursuit called business. 



