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will be unavailing. Should the Hon. Member for London b 

 induced, by the perusal of this letter, to institute further 

 inquiries into those plans which I advocate for providing em- 

 ployment through the cultivation of flax, the fattening of cattle 

 upon native produce, &c. &c., he will discover that they are 

 eminently calculated to aid his humane designs ; that under 

 the improved management, flax, by the preservation of the 

 seed, is become a double crop — that the seed itself amply repays 

 —and that whatever the fibre produces above the cost for 

 labour is gain. 



I remain, &c., 



John Warnes^ Jun. 



Trimingham, Norfolk, Oct. 24, 1844. 



P.S. — I shall have the pleasure of forwarding, for insertion 

 in your next week's paper. No. XV. of this series, as a reply 

 to several applications from various parts of the kingdom 

 affected by the drought, for information respecting the most 

 economical method of keeping cattle through the forthcoming 

 winter. 



No. XV. 



Sir, 



In off'ering to the public the 15th number of my series, 

 I cannot avoid expressing some apprehension that compara- 

 tively few of the thousands who may read it will be induced to 

 follow the advice therein contained ; because many of my cor- 

 respondents and visitors assure me that no sooner do they in- 

 timate an intention of adopting my plans, than they become 

 objects of ridicule in their respective neighbourhoods. Such in- 

 deed was my own fate, when specimens of the cattle-compound 

 were first exhibited to the North Walsham Farmers' Club. 

 Supported, however, by profit, the most powerful of all allies, 

 I obtained the victory ; and now thousands under the same 

 banner proclaim to the agricultural world that native produce 

 is preferable to foreign. Until this fundamental principle is 

 fully recognised by a systematic rejection of foreign, in favour 



