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upon which their labour may be constantly put in action 

 iu innumerable places at once, and with a certainty that 

 the most valuable results will follow, and with a rapidity 

 unequalled in any other style of improvement; and also 

 that the value created by it will bear a far greater propor- 

 tion to the expense incurred, than could be procured by 

 any other exertions of pure manual labour. 



I have also to add in favour of the measures I wish to 

 see carried into effect, that they are not theoretical specu- 

 lations, founded on general principles and high prohabi' 

 titles, like some of the preceding : for before I ventured 

 to propose them to the world, experiments were carefully 

 and patiently made, success ascertained; and now, after the 

 lapse of several years, the meadows formed on cut-out moss 

 of the very worst description, and utterly unfit for any 

 other culture, continue to produce crops, not to be ap- 

 proached in quantity or quality by the meadows formed 

 in the old way, and loaded with the best dung to any 

 amount. 



It is eight or nine years since I published a pamphlet, 

 the most important topic in which was the improvement 

 of cut-out moss. Now as the positions there laid down 

 have never been controverted, and as the experience 

 of so many years has given to myself the most complete 

 confirmation of their truth, I shall state some few of 

 them as laid down in that pamphlet, which was honoured 

 with a medal. 



Page 17. — Under the head of Wet Morass ; comes a 

 " description of a ground well known to, and actually in the 

 " possession of most farmers and gentlemen in the North 

 " of Ireland, as well as in many other parts of the United 

 ** Kingdom — I mean cut-out moss, 



^' The facihty with which the very xuoi^st and wettest of 



