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shape of meat, of butter, and of wool. He would also be placed 

 upon an equality with the best turnip districts in the kingdom, 

 with the advantage of growing greater crops of corn; because, 

 if turnips can accomplish so much for sand, doubtless the seed 

 of flax will do more for clay. 



The value of the stalks beyond that of litter depends upon 

 management; of which, the farmer being ignorant, it would be 

 necessary at first to obtain instructors, when that part of the 

 crop will be found not the least important. My present object 

 is to show that the seed alone remunerates. Common sense 

 stimulated by the claims of an unemployed population, will 

 soon devise the proper method of disposing of the fibre. An 

 intelligent correspondent observes, " I am desirous to afford 

 my tenants and neighbours every information which may tend 

 to improve the system they now pursue, being convinced that 

 it is only by an increase of home produce that farmers can 

 hope to surmount the diiRculties under which they are at pre- 

 sent labouring." 



Similar opinions and sentiments are daily forwarded to me 

 from ever}' part of the kingdom. They are in perfect accord- 

 ance with my own, but home produce can only be profitably 

 increased from our own resources ; and to what expedient can 

 we resort, except to the introduction of a crop that will provide 

 food for our cattle, manure for our land, and employment for 

 our people ? 



I was present at the dinner of the Agricultural Protective 

 Association in London, and listened with attention to the can- 

 did and eloquent, yet powerless, speeches, delivered upon that 

 occasion — powcrliess, because they contained no proposition 

 for ameliorating the condition of those classes that comprise 

 the great mass of idle hands ; a mass, however, for which the 

 League profess much sympathy, and assert that the manufac- 

 turers could employ with a free trade in corn— an assertion 

 which, however delusive, carries weight, because the poor, like 

 an invalid at the last extremity, will submit to the nostrums of 

 any quack rather than relinquish hope. 



Could Government be induced to retrace its steps with 

 respect to the Canada Bill, the Corn Laws, and the Tariff, 

 even then the population in agricultural districts would be re- 



