POVERTY BOT1J.M.
The author of the new system is Mr. Hosier, of Wexcombe House, Marlborough. New though his experiment is, it is already celebrated. Mr. Hosier has done in one sort of farming very much what Professor Somerville did in another during the War. Both men took poor, thin, and half-derelict land. Both men transformed it ; and both men have given accurate accounts of the economic results. The Professor's experiment was fully described in a most excellent pamphlet, entitled, after the name of the land that he treated, Poverty Bottom. Mr. Hosier's wider acres have some resemblance, but his area is rather Prairie Top than Poverty Bottom ; and his paper—first addressed to the Farmers' Club—has attained a more exalted circulation ; and his method is more generally applicable, for it requires much less capital.
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