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foregoing recommendations may be accepted 

 as a guide to general principles on average 

 soils. Should anyone be in doubt as to what 

 is likely to best suit his own particular condi- 

 tions, he should make some experiments on the 

 lines indicated before going to any extensive 

 outlay, care being taken that the land is neither 

 in high condition, nor that manures have been 

 applied previously for at least four years. As 

 judgment by the eye alone is apt to deceive, 

 it should not be considered conclusive evidence. 

 Only actual weights should be accepted as 

 proof. 



The increase from the land is the primary and 

 greatest source of wealth. It should be abun- 

 dantly evident from the proofs which have been 

 recorded that, notwithstanding all that has been 

 written and said about the unprofitable condi- 

 tion of farming, as well as the uncertainty of 

 our seasons, when everything is taken into 

 consideration there is absolutely no investment 

 to be obtained that will pay such handsome 

 dividends as will money judiciously expended in 

 suitable fertilisers, thus proving that the old 

 Roman maxim " The more you give to a field 

 the more it returns to you,* 1 holds as good 

 to-day as when first promulgated. 



G. CAMPBELL ARNOTT. 



