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to be sold off to the better farms. For it is a general 

 rule that the raising of young store stock is most 

 suitable to the man who farms poor unimproved land 

 without much capital, while dairying and fattening 

 are most suitable to the man who is going in for high 

 fanning. 



The clays have probably never been managed on 

 sounder lines than they are at present, but the lesson 

 of history is absolutely clear ; these soils are very apt 

 to suffer in bad seasons and to ruin their occupiers 

 in times of depression. A good margin must therefore 

 be allowed for contingencies. Esi>ecially ought small 

 holders and beginners to remember that the profit 

 these soils can be shown to yield over a run of good 

 seasons changes with disastrous suddenness to serious 

 loss as soon as bad times come. 



STARTING once more from the fertile loams, a 

 succession of soils can be traced, getting lighter and 

 lighter and finally ending in the coarse material of 

 heaths and sand-dunes. Thus we can begin with 

 clay wastes, work through the fertile loams, pass on 



