On the cultivation of flax; the fattening of cattle with native produce; box-feeding; and summer-grazing . ountry a fictitious I must express my astonishment that a mind so acute asMr. Richardsons is reputed to be, should not have perceivedthe propriety of minutely inquiring into the particulars con-nected with the experiment in question, before an essay wasmade to turn it into universal contempt. Had this honourablecourse been pursued, Mr. Richardson would have avoided theerrors with which his letter abounds. He would have dis-covered, also, that farmers were governed by the laws o
On the cultivation of flax; the fattening of cattle with native produce; box-feeding; and summer-grazing . ountry a fictitious I must express my astonishment that a mind so acute asMr. Richardsons is reputed to be, should not have perceivedthe propriety of minutely inquiring into the particulars con-nected with the experiment in question, before an essay wasmade to turn it into universal contempt. Had this honourablecourse been pursued, Mr. Richardson would have avoided theerrors with which his letter abounds. He would have dis-covered, also, that farmers were governed by the laws of reasonand the dictates of common sense; and not, as he expresses it,by the likes and dislikes that regulate the actions of thebrute creation. For example: The North Walsham Farmers Club is go-verned by certain rules, one of which enjoins the discussion ofsuch subjects only as were proposed at a previous , that no topics of a political tendency shall be intro-duced, or any thing irrelevant to the direct advancement ofagriculture. Amongst its large body of members are enrolled the names. 172 MEETING AT NORTH WALSHAM. of Lord Wodehouse, W. Windham, Esq., and many of thegentry and clergy in that part of the county, independent ofall party considerations. The fattening of cattle upon native produce formed the sub-ject of many consultations, experiments, and tests. The systemwas fully developed in my pamphlet and letters, and particu-larly illustrated at two meetings in the town of North Walsham^convened by advertisements and circulars, of which the follow-ing are extracts:— NORTH WALSHAM FARMERS CLUB. The Hon. W. R. Rous, President. An especial meeting of this Society will be held on Thurs-day, the 19th of May, for the purpose of Inquiring into theresults of experiments made by several members of the Club,in grazing bullocks with linseed compounds instead of , and samples of the compounds with which they havebeen fed, will be shown in the yard of th
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