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product. It must often be true, all things considered, that for home 
use the rough, low-grade hays are actually better fodder than English 
hay. 
I am far from seeking. to deter any farmer (or combination of 
farmers) from embanking his salt marshes or from draining his bogg 
meadows when his circumstances and the conditions of his land are 
favorable for improvements such as these. There has never been any 
question but that the agricultural product of New England might be 
enormously increased, if but a fraction of the wild low land in that 
country which is susceptible of improvement were subdued. But the 
consideration of the importance and general desirability of those 
improvements should not be permitted to conceal the fact that the 
natural products of the wet lands are by no means wholly worthless. 
Whatever value these products do really possess, be it large or small, 
should be clearly recognized and allowed for, and put to use. 
My thanks are due to my assistant, Mr. D. S. Lewis, for his skilful 
co-operation in this research, and the one described in the next article 
also. 
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