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for some ten or fifteen years, must now content 

 itself with an abstract. 



It appeared from this discourse that Agri- 

 culture was a most interesting hart but quite 

 in its hinfancy quite entirely so. The farmers 

 were a very hignorant class, and knew noth- 

 ing whatever about it nothing what-hever. The 

 land did not produce enough by arf not a 

 quarter what it hought to du. Summer fallowing 

 was a shocking waste of time and expense : a 

 pair of 'orses were enough to plough the stiffest 

 land to any depth. Farm-yard manure was 

 good for nothing. Go-anner was the thing ; and 

 the four-course system, which no landlord ought 

 to allow his tenants to adopt hany other. Six 

 feet deep and forty yards wide was decidedly the 

 proper depth and distance for drains, and if the 

 clay was well stamped down upon the tile this 

 would drain the wettest land hamply ar.d effect- 

 chally. But no "agriculturist" could be expected 

 to lay out his capital in these improvements without 

 a Lease nineteen years at least, as they ave in 

 Scotland. With a demand of which after many 

 other useful hints about game, &c., the lecturer con- 

 cluded his remarks ; offering to exemplfy them in his 

 own little person upon the identical " Clay Farm." 



