FARMING AND ROTATION OF CROPS. 69 



and well ; and to tliat amount would the expense 

 of a farm be lessened if none l^ut men Averc 

 employed. I have elsewhere alluded to the fact 

 that an old gamekeeper at Ashdown Park, of 

 the late Lord Craven's, on meeting three boys 

 together, used to draw from his pocket a heavy 

 dog-whip of tlie kind carried by keepers, but 

 wliich ought to be exploded from the annals of 

 dog-breaking, and commence an indiscriminate 

 flagellation of the astounded youths. On my 

 asking his reason for this, to me, apparently 

 unprovoked assault, he invariably replied, — ^^ I 

 always docs it, sir, for, rely on it, you never sees 

 three boys together, but they be bent on some 

 mischief or other, so I likes to 1)e beforehand 

 with 'em." 



If you employ labour, let the source of it be 

 reliable ; be liberal in the amount of hire, and 

 let there never be any sort of mistake as to 

 what you require for the money you agree to 

 give, or in what tliey^ the labourers, have to do. 

 Uncertainty induces mistake, mistake begets ill- 

 will ; and labour cumbered by dissatisfaction is 

 not worth half its value when thus apjoroached 



