xxii. Pr^fitce. to the, Fourth Edition. 



this into consideration as he looks at the high initial 

 cost, as compared with the much lower initial cost of 

 the mixtures he usually sows. Here it should be re- 

 membered that it is not what you spend that should 

 be considered but what you get for your expendi- 

 ture, and viewed in that light there can be no doubt 

 that in grazing, in hay, and the enrichment of the 

 soil by the vegetable matter supplied by a four year 

 old turf, the farmer will have an infinitely greater 

 yield from the mixtures used by me, while the old 

 time " windle-strae '' farmer has much less grazing, 

 less hay and aftermath, and when he ploughs, 

 having no manurial residue worth mentioning as 

 compared with a four year old turf composed of 

 the large, and deeply-rooted plants supplied by 

 my system, he has therefore to lay out money in 

 top dressing his cereal crops with artificial manure. 



In conclusion I may add that I have had most 

 satisfactory evidences of the spread of my system, 

 and of various modifications of it, from all parts of 

 the Kingdom. A widely known agriculturist, after 

 a careful survey of my demonstration farm, wrote 

 to me as follows : " What I saw the other day con- 

 vinces me that you have revolutionized the methods 

 hitherto pursued, proved to the hilt that the old are 

 very inferior in results to those you advocate, and 

 I cannot but believe that sooner or later what you 

 have so persistently laboured at will be generally 



