text:  And we would counsel "one who has whistled at the plough " whose "farming notes" in the _Morning Chronicle_ when confined to such matters of practical detail as may be supposed to lie within the scope of his own experience and comprehension are not destitute of interest and information though with distorted and exaggerated views to ponder well before a next reiteration of the random and absurd assertion that the "corn-law has done to agriculture _what every law of protection has done for every trade that was ever practised_--it has induced negligence and by its uncertain operation has obstructed enterprise