GO FACT AGAINST FICTIOX. 



CHAPTER III. 



FAliMING AND ROTATION OF CROPS. 



Tlie Superintendent should be well acquainted with the Nature of 

 the Soil — Difficulties in getting Remunerative Crops — Remedy 

 for " The Fly" — Wages of Labourers — Piece-work — Employment 

 of Boys never Profitable — Artificial Manures and Farm-yard 

 Manure — Scientific Crotchets — Cows, their Kindly Treatment — 

 Injurious Effect of Artificial Manures on Game — Legal Penalties 

 against Laying Poison — Xew Vegetation which sprang up after 

 the Fire at Alderney Manor — Game Preserver and Farmer. 



When ladies and gentlemen have farms thrown 

 on their own hands, and are obliged to cultivate 

 them while in search of new tenantry, they arc 

 forced, particularly where there is a landlady only, 

 to call in aid to direct their proceedings over 

 the land; and, in such instances as those I now 

 refer to, they are apt to be taken by some scientific 

 advertisement which may catch their attention, 

 and to call in a periodical supervisor from some 

 distant county, not suited to the occasion nor 



