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Farm Capital. 
the few fine days we had, without usinjjf a tedding machine, 
and carried and stacked my corn (nearly 100 acres) in quite as 
jjood order as my neighbours. To effect this, notwithstanding- 
that I often kept on carrying until 10 or 11 o'clock at night, 
one 18-gall()n cask of Is. ale, and two or three lots of soup, were 
all the extra sup])lies and expenses required. I consider that by 
not idling about my men save me in the course of the year much 
more than the value of the coals, &c., which I give at Michaelmas, 
although that is a gratuity entirely within my own discretion, and 
no part of the bargain which 1 make with them. 
Rujhj. 
Some circumstances attending the publication of the preceding 
Essay seem to call for explanation to account for its not having 
received that amount of correction and revision which had been 
intended. The author met the editor at Leeds by agreement ; 
discussed with him the pages relating to the heavy-land farm ; 
made an appointment for the next day to report upon the sug- 
gested alterations, and continue the revision ; but in the interval 
he was seized by an illness which terminated fatally in three or 
four days. An acquaintance thus brief had, however, sufficed to 
inspire a lively interest and proportionate regret for the sudden 
death of one whose business-like habits, acuteness, and zeal gave 
promise of valuable service to the cause of agriculture. 
The question then arose. How was the Essay to be dealt with ? 
It is essential that those substantial corrections which may often 
be serviceably introduced into treatises should be made with 
the concurrence of the author ; short of this it would be rash 
in the extreme to make any change before opportunity has 
been afforded to him of explaining and justifying his posi- 
tion.* In the present case the value of the contribution much 
depends on the fact, that, in the main, the items in the account 
have either been actually allowed by a valuer, or paid by the 
author, and entered in his day-book ; and if some few rest on a 
theoretical basis from facts ascertained on one kind of farm 
having been imported somewhat conjecturally into the other, or 
from the difficulty of making a neat join between two tenancies, 
the extent of these theoretical items cannot in the first case be 
* There are considerations which point strongly to the inexpediency of pressing 
forward publication until not only the work of adjudication, a lush ivh/cli cannot he 
hurried, but also that of revision by editor and author coitjuintlij, has been deli- 
berately performed. Under any circumstances, tlie essays of ursuccessful com- 
petitors returned upon the award being- announced, will often get a priority in 
publication. It will rest with author and edit<ir, by subseciuent painstaking, to 
convert jjerhaps a slight aihantiigeiu merit into a iubstantiiil supeiioiity. I'lut 
concert, time, and a stock in liand are essential to reconcile these ai:i;s and ends 
with the demands for punctual publication. 
