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ensuring, throughout the year, an independent and adequate 

 supply of cattle-food and manure ; a defect which the system 

 embodied in this work is designed to remedy. 



The extraordinary facilities afforded for the purchase of 

 artificial manures, are only encouragements to sloth and extra- 

 vagance. One tailor does not employ another to make his 

 clothes ; neither should our fields be dressed through the 

 medium of manure-companies. 



The annual cost for agricultural nostrums is infinitely 

 Jbeneath the loss by fallows, and by the waste upon farms. 

 Were the former sowed with linseed, and the latter obviated, 

 the necessity for purchasing manure would be avoided, and the 

 soil permanently improved. Let the reader calculate, if pos- 

 sible, the difference between a hundred acres of land lying idle, 

 subjected to rent, rates, and tillage, and a hundred acres sown 

 with flax. For my own part, I am unequal to the task, so 

 innumerable are the ramifications of advantage in favour of the 

 latter. 



During the Rebecca-riots, I often expressed, to my corre- 

 spondents in Wales, an opinion that the box-feeding system 

 would abolish more toll-bars than the carters of lime ; because 

 farmers would obtain a sufficient supply of manure without 

 recourse to the kiln ; and thus render unnecessary the payment 

 of toll. 



I cannot therefore conceal my gratification at being informed, 

 a few days since, by Mr. Walter T. Jones of Cefu Reig, 

 Merionethshire, that he intended to have my work translated 

 into the Welsh language immediately ; an undertaking, 

 which, aided by the patriotic exertions of Mr. Purchas of 

 Pilstone, will open a new agricultural era to that neglected 

 principality. 



Ireland, also, will now learn the intrinsic value of the flax 

 crop. For, although competition may reduce the price of the 

 fibre, her farmers will receive an ample compensation through 

 the fattening properties of the seed. 



By the introduction of the improved system of managing 

 flax, Scotland would derive the greatest advantages ; of which 

 the rearers of cattle will be large participators. To them a 

 supply of native linseed must prove a benefit that cannot be 



