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nicious weed in opposition to the inestimable flax -plant ! — inestimable, 

 because its acreable value exceeds that of any other crop ; inestimable, 

 because the fibre is convertible to the most useful, as well as the most 

 costly, articles of wearing apparel ; inestimable, because it affords more 

 employment than any other production of the earth ; inestimable, 

 because of the seed, which produces a valuable oil, a superior cake to 

 fatten bullocks, and forms the principal ingredient of the incomparable 

 cattle-compound. 



Again, how careful ought gentlemen to be who canter their specula- 

 tive " hobbies " after pleasurable pursuits, lest they instigate others to 

 gallop after phantoms that only allure them into fatal mistakes. 



Reprehensible, too, is the man who ventures to recommend plans for 

 public adoption of which he has not made full proof from often repeated 

 experiments. " Lofty and incomprehensible theories have been too 

 long obtruded upon the agricultural community, to the exclusion of 

 those benefits which were absolutely within their grasp. The farmer's 

 attention has been directed to fattening his cattle upon foreign food, 

 and to the vain attempt of enriching his land by foreign manure, in- 

 stead of obtaining both from the resources of his own farm." At the 

 present eventful period, British agriculture is exposed to a species of 

 high treason, aided by a powerful secret conspiracy on the one hand, 

 and by an over-reaching, extorting, and plundering fraternity on the 

 other, to counteract which ought to be the peculiar care of the protec- 

 tive agricultural societies now being established in various parts of the 

 kingdom. It is- my intention next week to forward No. 8 of my 

 series, giving an account of the extraordinary results from summer 

 grazing, and box-feeding with linseed compound, unmixed with grain 

 or pulse, and showing the correctness of Mr. Fleetwood's conclusions 

 over Dr. Playfair's theory of the non-flesh-making properties of olea- 

 ginous seeds. I beg to observe that I shall be ready to exchange a 

 line as promptly as possible, either publicly or privately, with any 

 party on the above strictures. If publicly, his name and address must 

 be given, or I shall not consider him entitled to a reply. 



I am. Sir, &c., 



John Wibnes, Jun. 



Trimingham, Norfolk, 



Dec. 2^rd, 1843. 



Sib, 



Observing a letter in your interesting journal of December 5th, 

 in which a statement of mine respecting the " Gold of Pleasure " is in- 

 troduced, I hope that you will allow me to insert a reply in your next 

 paper, to the said letter of Mr. Warnes. 



I readily admit that I am sometimes too confiding, and that my 



