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cum dignitate, with which such egotism is calculated to inspire 

 him, but I fear he is not possessed of the mind of the Spartan 

 philosopher, whose maxim was, u Know thyself^ otherwise he 

 would not write so of his deeds, and condemn a society from 

 whose reports and my instructions he wrote his pamphlet. 



I observe that he has, in 1848, discarded his system, his 

 ne plus ultra system of cooking Flax seed by boiling, and which 

 for three or four years, he argued was the most economical and 

 best mode of preparing it, and adopted the system of steeping 

 in cold water, a system that Mr. McKane had practised for 

 more than a dozen years, and which by his letters to Mr. 

 Duggan, he recommends before all others. What must the 

 quietly disposed Norfolk farmers think of the great novelty of 

 the boiling secret, now, that he (Mr. Warrens) is an apprentice 

 to Mr. McKane's mode of preparing it by steeping in cold 

 water. - The following is an extract from the Agricultural 

 Gazette on his blunders respecting box feeding. 



" Flax culture and box feeding. — I think it very important 

 that gentlemen when they put forward pet schemes in farming, 

 ought to be as correct, full, and fair in their statements as 

 possible, giving in every instance an account of failure as well 

 as of success, otherwise the incautious may be misled and 

 seriously injured. I observe what I judge to be an error in 

 Mr. Warrens' statement lately, of barley meal consumed in 

 feeding twenty-eight beasts, only £4 ! If I recollect, Mr. 

 Warrens' compound is composed of one part linseed and three 

 parts meal ; in this case the account would be fourteen quarters 

 linseed, £35, and forty-two quarters barley meal at 30s. per 

 quarter, £63 ; together, £98, instead of £39, as stated." 



Guy. 



As to the system of box feeding, however commendable it 

 may be, as to making manure, I would not credit it as true, 

 that an animal shut up in a box or crib and allowed to remain 



