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tlie form of larvae fmilier sliowed tliem in tlie bowclfs of their new 
host ; the capsules soon open, the young worms set at liberty soon arc 
impregnated, and the brood then passes from the bowels into the 
flesh. They here come to maturity in three or four weeks, to then 
await, in a capsuled form, either liberty in a new body, or death in 
their old habitat. 
Meeting of Weelchj Council, May IZth. Lord Berners in the chair. 
Paper on Steam Cultivation, by Mr. E. . Euck, of Castle-hill, 
Crickiade. 
Mr. Edck said : Having been requested by Mr. Holland, on behalf 
of the Journal Committee, to give my experience of steam cidture, I 
have readily consented to do so ; but you must allow me to observe 
that I have never appeared thus publicly before, and that I am no 
learned professor, to keep your attention engaged for two or three 
hours on a stretch, but shall in all probability run out all the wind I 
have in less than thirty minutes. I particularly wish to guard myself 
against being considered to be an advertising medium, or in any way 
desirous of supporting one system of steam cultivation to the detriment 
of another. It is my intention to speak " the truth, the whole truth, 
and nothing but the truth," so far as I am able ; and if I am misunder- 
stood, I shall be happy to give any explanation in my power. 
You are, of com'se, all well acquainted with the names of the makers 
of steam cultivators — Fowler, Smith, Fiskens, Howard, Stevens, Cole- 
man, Hall, Halkett, Boydell, and others. Thirty years ago, I find 
Baxter writing thus : " The injudicious agriculturist goes blundering 
on in the footsteps of his forefathers ; in some of his operations being 
perfectly right without knowing why he is so, and in others egregiously 
wrong, yet not able to detect the cause of his error." This remark 
will, I hope, stimulate the farmers of the present day to turn theu- 
minds to the study of steam cultm-e. Science has done much for 
agriculture during the last ten years. Superphosphate, I consider, has 
been a wonderfid thing for light lands ; and I believe that steam-power 
is destined to do quite as much. 
I look upon farmers like a flock of sheep running through a gap : 
it is very difiicult to get one to start ; but when once he does start, 
they all run in a body. 
Allow me here to say a word respecting myself, and to state that I 
am a farmer living upon the same faim that M'as occujiied by my father 
and grandfather for upwards of seventy years. I used to work fifty- 
six oxen, making seven teams in the morning, and seven teams in the 
afternoon. At that time I had an opinion that we could do work witli 
oxen free of cost, and tliat, as I had 150 acres of grass-land, the oxen 
would generally by their improvement pay the rent, though they would 
not give a profit upon that grass-laud. I am entirely dependent on 
the profits of farming, and consider no system of culture worth notice 
if the balance-sheet docs not show that it is profitable. I have had 
