Preface to the Fourth Edition. xxiii. 



adopted." I thought at the time that the writer 

 had formed too wide a view of the results of my 

 work, as I had originally only intended my system 

 for the cultivation of poor, and worn-out lands, but 

 I am now inclined to agree with the writer except- 

 ing perhaps in the case of heavy clay lands. 



What a contrast there is between our Government 

 action and that of State action in America ! The 

 former through its Board of Agriculture seems not 

 to be able to rise beyond the conception of urging 

 the farmer to put down more and more artificial 

 manures, while the American Government is urging 

 the farmer to cut the fertilizer bill in two by the 

 adoption of the priaciples advised in these pages. 



ROBERT H. ELLIOT. 

 Clifton Park, Kelso, 



November, 1907. i 



P.S. — The Clifton-on-Bowmont Experimental and 

 Demonstration Farm is always open to visitors, who 

 are requested to give notice of the time of their 

 arrival to Robert Reid, Steward, Clifton-on-BoW'' 

 mont, Yetholm, who will show them round the 

 farm. 



Clifton-on-Bowmont farm is distant from : 

 Kelso (Railway Station), 8^ miles. 



Yetholm (Post Town), IJ miles. 



Mindrum (Railway Station), 6 miles. 

 Clifton Park, , ^ miles. 



