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the soil, and by no means the master of work in 

 hand. Soils are as varied in their exigencies as 

 are the constitutions of men. 



The requirements of soils are essentially 

 different. What will suit one soil Avill not suit 

 another; and you cannot, with any reasonable 

 liope of success, catch from the northern counties 

 and heavy rich loams, a visiting bailiff, or audit- 

 ing steward, used to, and bred up, say, in York- 

 shire, who will at once understand the poorer, 

 liglit, and stony qualities of Buckinghamshire, 

 portions of Dorsetshire, and Surrey. If I knew 

 any one wanting a supervision over a home 

 bailiff, — sujoposing the caj^abilities of that home 

 bailiff were not deemed sufficient for the assump- 

 tion of exclusive direction, — I should advise a 

 county man to be called in, as the best calculated 

 to know what would be right to do in the 

 locality of his practical experience and exercise 

 of his daily life. 



Though the steam plough is a most useful 

 invention when well directed and closely looked 

 after by the owner or manager of the estate, yet, 

 if not so looked after, and the depth of its 

 needful action strictly enforced, it is only a 



