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THE AUTHOR REPLIES TO 



Many observations upon the efficacy that may be expected 

 from the box manure over that of the farm-yard must be de- 

 ferred till next week. 



John Warnes. 



August 30th, 1843. 



No. V. 



Sir, 



In accordance with my plan of answering objections to 

 the above subjects, I cannot allow the letter which Mr. Rich- 

 ardson, of Heydon, published in the Norwich Mercury, and also 

 in the Farmer s Journal, to pass unnoticed. '^'Let me ask/' he 

 says, ''does a farmer like trouble? Will he go daily and see the 

 fire lighted, the boilers cleaned, his articles properly crushed 

 and meted out in due proportions, properly boiled, cooked, 

 cooled, weighed, and given to his cattle ? I may say, for the 

 whole brigade. No, no. They are not men of that sort. I am 

 a bit of a farmer myself, and have some little knowledge of 

 their likes and dislikes." 



It is extraordinary that this gentleman could venture to in- 

 clude all the farmers of Great Britain under the fanciful term 

 of a '"Brigade," which is merely a detachment from the main 

 body of an army. But, perhaps, he had principally in view the 

 tenant-farmers on the Heydon estate, under his own immediate 

 influence. These, perchance, he might array against the cattle- 

 compound. But I can assure him that encamped around 

 North Walsham alone, is a large army brave and true, which 

 unflinchingly encounters "buildings, boilers, steamers, crush- 

 ing-machines, troughs, tubs, and even poles" that cost two 

 shillings per dozen; an army that is daily being augmented by 

 the most industrious, enlightened, and intelligent agricultur- 

 ists in that neighbourhood, who have shaken off" their allegiance 

 to foreign oil-cake; and despite of the phantoms summoned 

 from the depths of Mr. Richardson's imagination, are deter- 

 mined not only to see the fire lighted, and the boilers cleaned, 

 if need be, but also to see the "articles" [which form the 

 compound] properly crushed and meted out, boiled, cooked. 



