ABSTRACT
The great difficulty of the bringing in of waste lands consists in hitting upon the most congenial manure and in giving a surface to the peat soil. A vast number of ignorant landlords have been induced by as ignorant writers to adopt the large farm system very extensively, from the idea that the country was over populated and that the small cotter tenants were so many drones living upon the industry of the large farmer. The spade and the spinning wheel are two of man's oldest and best friends, and he has derived but a poor benefit from the substitution of the plough and the 'rattle-box.' The superiority of spade culture over all other modes is clearly established by the perfection to which market gardens are brought, as compared with the same quality of land under the very best system of plough husbandry.
