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shed, as the oftener it was emptied over the solid parts of the 
manure in the pit the better. 
I consider that this would be a way of making and preserving 
manure suitable to the requirements of this county ; and I would 
like to see such manure sheds, of a size suitable, erected on 
every farm in the county. 
VVhere expense is no object, I am aware that whole yards 
have been covered over, and the solid part of the manure stored 
here ; but the liquid part has been conveyed to a tank by itself 
and used by means of a liquid-manure cart over grass land. 
This may do where there are facilities for it, though I think 
there can be no question that when the solid and liquid parts 
are combined, the manure must be better than either separately. 
My objection to covering the whole yard, beyond the additional 
expense, has been stated. 
The seventh suggestion has rather a local application, though 
possibly to a less extent it would be suitable in other parts of 
the county. In the higher lands, that is, the mountainous 
part of the county, are many considerable tracts which now 
produce little beyond heather, gorse, brambles, and rank grass. 
Over these tracts roam a few mountain sheep, ponies, or, in 
the summer, young cattle. Probably if the larch was planted 
it would do well over most of this land, and not only be a 
paying plantation, but an improver of the soil as well. 
Having now endeavoured to meet the requirements of the 
Royal Agricultural Society by describing the agriculture of 
Pembrokeshire as it appears to me, and having — whilst writing 
It — received many valuable suggestions from numerous friends, 
1 beg to acknowledge my indebtedness, and express my thank- 
fulness to these gentlemen. 
At the same time, my idea has been to make the essay 
as original as possible, and 1 am only too conscious of the 
consequent imperfections of my work. 
I trust, however, that, if many things have not been inserted 
that should have found a place, there is nothing in it which had 
better not have been written. 
IV. — Report upon the Spring Show of Thoroughbred Stallions at 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. By William Blew, M.A., of Tiverton, 
Tarporley, 
" I SHOULD like," wrote Jeremy Bentham, " to live the remain- 
ing years of my life a jear at a time, at the end of the next 
six or eight centuries, to see the effects which my writings 
