land, can come _after vetches_ cut up for horses (as, indeed, a part of Mr. PALMER'S transplanted Swedes did), and requiring less labour and expense. I asserted this in my "_Year's Residence_;" and Mr. PALMER, who has been very particular in ascertaining the fact, states positively that the expense of transplanting is not so great as the hoeing and setting out of the drilled crops, and not so great as the common hoeings of broad-cast. This, I think, settles the question. But the advantages of the wide-row culture by no means confine themselves to the green and root crop; for Mr. PALMER drills his wheat upon the same ridges, without ploughing, after he has taken off the Swedes. He drills it at _eight inches_, and puts in from eight to ten gallons to the acre. His crop of 1820, drilled in this way, averaged 40 bushels to the acre; part drilled in November, and part so late as February. It was the common Lammas wheat. His last crop of wheat is not yet ascertained; but it was better after the Swedes than in any other of his land. His manner of taking off the crop is excellent. He first cuts off and carries away the _tops_. Then he has an implement, drawn by two oxen, walking on each side of the ridge, with which he cuts off the _tap root_ of the Swedes without disturbing the land of the ridge. Any child can then pull up the bulb. Thus the ground, clean as a garden, and in that compact state which the wheat is well known to like, is ready, at once, for drilling with wheat. As to the _uses_ to which he applies the crop, tops as well as bulbs, I must speak of these hereafter, and in a work of a description different from this. I have been thus particular here, because the _Farmer's Journal_ treated my book as a pack of lies. I know that my (for it is _mine_) system of cattle-food husbandry will finally be that of _all England_, as it already is that of America; but what I am doing here is merely in self-defence against the slanders, the malignant slanders, of the _Farmer's Journal_. Where is a _Whig lord_, who, some years ago, wrote to a gentleman that "_he_ would have _nothing to do_ with any _reform_ that _Cobbett_ was engaged in"? But in spite of the brutal _Journal_, farmers are not such fools as this lord was: they will not reject a good crop because they can have it only by acting upon my plan; and this lord will, I imagine, yet see the day when he will be less averse from having to do with a reform in which "Cobbett" shall be engaged. _Old Hall, Saturday night, Nov. 10._