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My reason for issuing this Pamphlet is that for a long 

 time I have desired to see this subject brought l)efore the 

 public, and I had hoped that some person far better qualified 

 to deal with it than myself would have taken it up, but no 

 one has done so at present (so far as I know). The major 

 part of the following pages was intended to have been given 

 in a speech, which 1 was asked to make at a Conference held 

 in the Town Hall, Macclesfield, on Tuesday, June 14th, 1881, 

 under the presidency of the Right Rev. Bishop Kelly, the 

 subject for discussion being " Intemperance : its bearing upon 

 Agriculture ; with, special reference to Beer in the Hay and 

 Harvest Field ;" but, in consequence of the number of speakers, 

 the time .allowed was only sufficient to enable me to say a 

 few words on the subject. I have, therefore, on the advice of 

 several friends deeply interested, thought it well to print it, 

 with the valuable testimony contained in the Appendix, which 

 I now humbly yet very respectfully dedicate with all its faults 

 and failings to the Bishops and Clergy of the Church of 

 England, and to the Agriculturists of the United Kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. 



JOHN ABBEY. 

 44, St. Giles', Oxford, 

 July, 1881. 



THIRD EDITION. 



Valuable testimony has been added to this Edition. 

 I earnestly commend the subject to the careful study of 

 the Clergy, Landlords, Farmers and other Employers. 



June, 1882. J. A. 



HOW THE CLERGY MAY HELP. 



The Rev. J. T. Penrose, Rector of Gawsworth, said, "It was 

 his intention to invite the farmers in his own parish to a 

 conference on the subject, and see if some joint course of 

 action could not be agreed upon. Unless something of this 

 kind was done in the different parishes, he thought the move- 

 ment could not meet with that success it otherwise would. 

 If the farmers and labourers could meet together in conference 

 he was sure much good would be the result. — Speech at 

 MacdesfieM Conference. 



