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with soils and the rocks from which they are frequently 
produced, with the chemical component parts of them, 
with the plants which they produce, with the manures 
which feed these plants, but with cattle and sheep which 
again feed upon them, and which God has given for the 
use of man. 
The Earl Fitzwilliam said he was sure they must all 
feel obliged to Mr. Thorp for the trouble he had taken 
in compiling the paper, and he trusted they would be 
able to enlist some antagonist of Mr. Thorp's views, who 
would put some questions to him upon the various 
opinions which he had advanced. When he said " anta- 
gonist," he did not mean to be understood as wishing 
that they should be refuted, but that they should 
be established upon a firmer basis than the mere ipse dixit 
of any individual ; he should therefore be glad if any 
one would enter the lists. 
The Rev. Theo. Barnes said he would enter the lists, 
but not as an antagonist. Mr. Thorp had mentioned 
Mr. Smith's subsoil plough ; but he had not mentioned 
a machine which was getting into great use in the neigh- 
bourhood of Pontefract, and which was producing larger 
crops than could be produced on some lands without it. 
That machine was called " Crosskill's Crusher." There 
were some lands which were so open, as Mr. Thorp 
would say, especially in the neighbourhood of Doncaster, 
that they would derive great advantage from the use of 
this crusher. He had heard a farmer say that he could 
get two loads an acre more by using this instrument than 
he could without it. Sir George Wombwell had an 
estate in the North Riding on which he never thought of 
growing corn until he had become acquainted with the 
