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to the outlay, or equal to what might have been obtained by 
spending half the amount in other manures, and in feeding-stuffs 
consumed on the land. 
Although the depressed condition of trade has lessened earn- 
ings, and thus temporarily checked the consumption of meat and 
dairy produce, while at the same time an immense increase of 
foreign imports has combined to reduce prices and thus to lessen 
the profits of grass farmers, the general tendency of the con- 
sumption of meat, both here and abroad, is to increase year by 
year. Therefore, spite of an increasing foreign competition, I 
do not fear that prices of the best qualities of our home-grown 
beef and mutton will fall so low as to be wholly unremunerative. 
The extremely low rate at which many concentrated feeding- 
stuffs can now be purchased makes their liberal use in many 
cases profitable, and is one redeeming feature in the present bad 
times. 
The writings of the late Sir Harry S. Meysey-Thompson 
upon seeding land down to permanent pasture, and upon grass- 
land management, published in this Journal, vol. xix. Part I. 
1858, and vol. viii. Part I. 1872, are well worthy of careful 
study by all who take a special interest in these important 
agricultural subjects. They have had some influence upon my 
own practice, and are marked by sound practical experience. 
1 feel convinced that the opinion he emphatically expressed 
at the close of his last paper, in favour of " an extended use of 
artificial manures on pasture land, and of feeding stuffs to 
cattle and sheep whilst at grass," has already been in many 
cases^adopted with success, and will continue to gain adherents, 
unless the prices of meat become greatly and permanently de- 
preciated by increased foreign imports. 
XVIII. — Waste Hill Lands : Bozo they may he Utilised by Pony 
Breeding. By J. Nevill Fitt. 
In considering the subject of the Horse, and the various means 
by which breeding him can be made to pay, practical men 
will not unnaturally turn their eyes towards the moors, hills, 
and waste lands which are at intervals to be found scattered over 
all England, though more extensively in the north and west 
than in other parts. How these desert places of the earth are to 
be rendered profitable is a problem that many have been trying 
to solve for years, with no great amount of success. In some 
parts the land is actually so poor and sterile that it can never 
pay for cultivation ; while in others the climate is such as to 
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