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is the very same, and as for Mr. Ellis's beautiful books on 

 Rural Economy, he let them be for what they were worth, 

 dem lanmade h.an i sit varde, but this he said he 

 was sure of, that if Mr. Ellis did not make more profit 

 out of sitting and scribbling books, and selling the Manu- 

 scripts to the Publishers, than he realised from his 

 farming, he would soon have to go and beg —for Mr. Ellis 

 mostly sits at home in his room and writes books, and 

 goes sometimes a whole week without going out into his 

 ploughed lands or meadows to look after the work, but 

 trusts mostly to his servant, drang, and young son, who 

 is still a boy. 



I feared that the farmer said this from envy, and there- 

 fore left such a heretic ! after he had constrained me 

 to confess at least to myself that he had a very large 

 experience in farming. 



We had now walked through a great many of their 

 arable fields, meadows and inclosures, and had at 

 last entered the churchyard to view the church, when 

 Mr. Ellis himself came to meet us. He had got to hear 

 from someone that strangers from foreign parts were 

 come to visit him. We then, at his request accompanied 

 him home to see the inventions he had discovered for 

 the improvement of agriculture. He showed us a 

 mixture of a particular manure which he had under a 

 thatch-roof. He said that this manure had not its like, 

 to produce the growth of a manifold crop, but we could 

 not get out of him what this manure was composed of. 

 He next showed us his four wheeled drill plough, fyrhjulta 

 drill-plog, which he considered to be worth its weight 

 in gold. 



This is now to be seen drawn on the title page of 

 Mr. Ellis's Farmer's Instructor. 



[T. I. p. 189]. Afterwards he showed us the double 

 Hertfordshire plough, of which there are both an illustration 



