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measure indebted to tlie red and alsike clover. The grasses 

 will, I have no doubt, show more later. 



" The pasture field adjoining of young grass [the grazed Held 

 alluded to] astonished and pleased me even more than the hay. 

 The amount of stock on it and the quantity of grass is wonderful, 

 and your manager told me it was stocked in April. I remarked 

 how closely the sheep had eaten the burnet and chicory, and 

 here, again, how the kidney vetch showed on the gravelly soil." 



As I had asked my correspondent to be kind enough 

 to give me any hints or suggestions as to my procedure 

 of laying down.'he further remarked, in the letter quoted 

 from, as follows : — 



" I have a very strong opinion, and that founded on experi- 

 ence, that your system, followed by a liberal use of cake on the 

 pasture, would show results even more surprising than those 

 attained. This I mentioned to your manager, who said it was 

 thought an objection to the sale of the lambs their having been 

 fed on cake. Those who use cake for their lambs, from this 

 time of year, prefer those who have learned to eat it. If I 

 farmed Clifton I would spend .£500 per annum on cake, and I 

 feel certain it would pay. I spent £1700 on it last year, and so 

 I know something of the results, and I intend, so long as it is 

 as cheap as it is now, to use more than ever. It is the only 

 way land can be kept in condition and rents paid." 



In the opinion, then, of the eminent agriculturist I 

 have just quoted the farming of the future resolves 

 itself into plenty of stock and abundance of grass and 

 oilcake to feed it, and with his view I need hardly say 

 that I entirely concur. 



And here I must note one point of importance as 

 regards the two poor fields to which his letter refers; 

 that is, that neither were re-seeded in the spring, 

 and yet they were so completely filled with plants 

 that I was under the impression that this operation, the 

 necessity for which I have fully pointed out in a previous 

 chapter, had been carried out. I regard this result as 



