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With the foregoing statements I have arrived at the following con- 

 clusions, viz. : That Prof. Elliotts work is a literal statement of his 

 analysis of the Wilton House Home Farm account with the general 

 bearing of the facts recorded — it gives the normal products in 1850 and 

 the average increases obtained in an experience of twenty-three years, 

 which singularly as to wheat accord in yield to Sir James Lawes^ 

 acquirements at Rothampstead ; it also shows that soils of an inferior 

 type in Wilts, Dorset, and Hants, may be made to yield products (and 

 their maintenance in fertility, though its extraction in fertility may be 

 readily evinced) sufficient to afford remunerative interest on the capital 

 employed, as exemplified by the tests in the foregoing statements, which 

 also prove that -the loss of £2 18s. 8d. in the hay, root, and green crops, 

 as deduced in Prof. Elliot's analysis, was occasioned by an excess of that 

 amount in the cost of feeding stuffs (before the designed increased products 

 were acquired) , and therefore I have corrected this amount both as regards 

 capital and expenditure in the foregoing calculations on the eight-acre 

 farm, which is shown to be entirely exempt from the local circumstances 

 attending Wilton House Home Farm, and confined to purely farming 

 results as tested with the facts of the twenty-three years' experience, 

 including the vicissitudes of seasons in that period. 



With the views here recorded, and the land latos adjusted to the 

 necessities arising through a rapidly -increasing population in this 

 country, I venture to think that the landlord, tenant occupier, and the 

 labourer, may yet hold their former own in this kingdom. 



I am, your obedient servant, 

 *'An Impartial Looker-on op Sixty Years' Standing." 





