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weighed, and at last given to their cattle. I repeat, that a 

 multitude of farmers and gentlemen, stimulated by the North 

 Walsham Club, had the courage last year to 

 encounter these horrors ; and all came off victo- 

 rious. In the present year, legions of agricul- 

 turists are mustering ; not only in this, but 

 also in distant counties. They are fast buck- 

 ling on their armour to engage in this new 

 and lucrative branch now added to the routine 

 of farm-business. But observe, instead of 

 boilers, steamers, crushing-machines, troughs, 

 tubs, and poles, all the apparatus really re- 

 quired worth notice, where the grinding is done 

 at a mill, consists of an iron copper, at the 

 cost of about twenty or thirty shillings, and a three-pronged 

 fork, like Neptune's Trident, to stir up this ocean of national 

 wealth. 



With respect to Mr. Postle, and the members of the North 

 Walsham Farmers' Club, to whom Mr. Richardson has alluded, 

 they require not my feeble aid to rescue them from the odium 

 of having attempted to palm on the country a fictitious report. 

 But I must express my astonishment that a mind so acute as 

 Mr. Richardson's is reputed to be, should not have perceived 

 the propriety of minutely enquiring into the particulars con- 

 nected with the experiment in question, before an essay was 

 made to turn it into universal contempt. Had this honourable 

 course been pursued, Mr. Richardson would have avoided the 

 errors with which his letter abounds. He would have dis- 

 covered, also, that farmers were governed by the laws of reason 

 and the dictates of common sense ; and not, as he expresses it, 

 by the " Likes and Dislikes " that regulate the actions of the 

 brute creation. 



For example : The North Walsham Farmers' Club is go- 

 verned by certain rules, one of which enjoins the discussion of 

 such subjects only as were proposed at a previous meeting. 

 Another, that no topics of a political tendency shall be intro- 

 duced, or any thing irrevelant to the direct advancement of 

 agriculture. 



Amongst its large body of members are enrolled the names 



