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A Walk from London to John O’Groat’s

CHAPTER IX
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The outlay for oil-cake and corn purchased for feeding, amounts to about 4,000 pounds per annum.
Another heavy expenditure is about 1,700 pounds yearly for artificial fertilisers, consisting of guano and blood-manure.

Mr.
Jonas is one of the directors of the company formed for the manufacture of the latter.
The whole income of this establishment is realised from two sources- -meat and grain.

And this is the distinguishing characteristic of English farming generally.

Not a pound of hay, straw, or roots is sold off the estate.

Indeed, this is usually prohibited by the conditions of the contract with the landlord.


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