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milk, and manure, and for the exercise of force — that 

 is, for their labour. Also, if opportunity should 

 occur, to treat of the question of the application of 

 town-sewage to the land. 



Finally, I should observe that, throughout the 

 illustrations which I shall bring before you, it will 

 be my endeavour to keep in view the bearing of the 

 data with which I shall have to deal, on the im- 

 portant question of compensation for unexhausted 

 improvements, so much in discussion at the present 

 time. 



The first experiments on crops to which I shall 

 direct attention, will be those on the cereals ; for, 

 although bad seasons, and foreign competition, have 

 of late tended to lessen the relative importance of 

 these products to the British farmer, the experimental 

 evidence obtained, both in the field and in the labora- 

 tory, is more complete in regard to them than to any 

 other crops ; and the discussion of the results, will 

 afford the opportunity of considering important ques- 

 tions of wider interest to agriculture, than those 

 exclusively relating to the production of the cereal 

 crops themselves. 



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