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ijccasioning loss of surface ; important where the ground 

 sets high. I reply, I gain surface ; for the stolones, by their 

 propensity to run down decli^ities, soon make the sloping 

 sides the best part of the meadow. 



Our material for forming compost, may also be got on 

 the outside of our strong inclosure ; but this depends upon 

 local circumstances. 



When we have selected our area, we should commence 

 by lighting fires ; these will be kept up by the men em- 

 ployed in making the drains and fencing the meadow; 

 and as I never break the surface myself for the purpose of 

 cultivation, I will not allow it to be broken up hy paring 

 for burning. 



As the immediate object of the Board of Agriculture is 

 to find employment for the industrious and unoccupied 

 poor, I fear the very slight operations I require to be per- 

 formed, are so trifling in themselves, and so speedily exe- 

 cuted, that they will be deemed insufficient for the 

 purpose, and as not aflbrding the occupation required. 



I admit, that when we compare these labours with those 

 that in the common course of cultivation are expended 

 on equal areas, we shall find the employment afibrded by 

 these new measures to occupy much fewer hands. 



And when we compare the great profits to be derived 

 from them, for which I am pledged, so far to exceed those 

 usually made by similar exertions of manual labour, I fear 

 I shall be deemed to have failed in my engagement of 

 finding employment for the industrious and unoccupied. 



But when it shall be considered, that the exertions I 

 j)ropose to call out, require not either previous preparation 

 or weighty capital, and that they may be employed in an 

 infinite number of places at the same time ; I expect that 

 the complaints of my not finding sufficient employment for 



