of increased production annually, over and above the effect of all other means employed, it is quite evident that it will pay as well as drainage.
But does it augment the yearly production of the farm by this amount?
To say that it is the only process by which the baky and chappy soil of Tiptree can be thoroughly fertilised, would not suffice to prove its necessity or value to other soils of different composition.

One fact, however, may be sufficient to determine its virtue.

The fields of clover, and Italian rye-grass, etc., are mown three and even four times in one season, and afterwards fed with sheep.

Certainly, no other system could produce all this cropping.
The distinctive difference it makes in other crops cannot, perhaps, be made so palpable.

The wheat looked strong and heavy, with a fair promise of forty-five bushels to an acre.