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please, I would always secure to myself a beautiful and plentiful supply 
of yellow and sweet milk, and butter, just as in summer. From the 
kind of ground it grows on, and the never-failing nature of the crop, I 
always think it is an invaluable article, in seasons like this, and in a 
country where the other crops are liable to failures, as has been the case 
with hay and corn, in a great part of these upper lands, during the late 
seasons. 
A boy with my gorse-mill will have crushed a supper for a dozen 
horses in about an hour. By this, I imagine, I must have tired you 
with a long reading of w^hat you know better than I do ; but it is all the 
answer that I can make to your note. 
No. 10. 
From Mr. Owen Jones, an experienced land agent, and the oivncr of 
the Gorse on the banks of the Nantlle Railway. 
Carnarvon, 19fh April, 1845. 
I HAVE cut ihe gorse on the ?nade banks every year for five years run- 
ning, and as they fall off I allow them to run into two years. On the 
slopes, where there is a hard natural subsoil, or inclined to wet, I cut 
them generally at two years old ; but I beg to observe, that this I do for 
my own interest, as the two years old will sell for generally more than 
double they would at one year, and those on the hard subsoil would die 
by being cut every year. It is my opinion that the purchasers are quite 
mistaken, as there is more food in a square yard of one year old than in 
a square yard of the under decayed, long-shank, two years old. By niy 
annual cutting, and the grass smothering them, they get into patches, 
which I get pricked and re -sowed about every three years. 
No. 11. 
From Mr. Johnston, a large farmer, and an extensive coach a?id post- 
Jiorse keeper. 
Victoria Hotel, Llanheris, 23rrf April, 184.5. 
In answer to your inquiries, I beg to inform you that, in the year 1842, 
I sowed nearly two acres of land on my farm at Cefn-tre-seiont, near 
Carnarvon, with gorse, employing 52 lbs. of seed. The plants were 
luxuriant, and the gorse Avas cut this last winter. I used it a third of 
gorse, a third of hay, and a third of straw, as fodder for nine horses, and 
my horses never were in such excellent condition. 
I consider gorse invaluable. I wish I had ten acres of it instead of 
tw^o. I would much rather have ten acres of gorse than ten acres of the 
best wheat that I ever saw in my life. 
No. 12. 
A FARMER in the county of Carnarvon has of late years adopted this plan 
of forming fences, and has cultivated gorse upon them. His is a well- 
stocked upland farm of about 200 acres. By having paid some attention 
to the cultivation of gorse, he has been enabled this year to keep his stock 
in good condition, notwithstanding the scarcity of provender, and to sell 
upwards of 601. worth of hay, instead of buying, as was tlie case wit4i 
many farmers in the district. 
