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is more than the animal and ve2;etable both of the French farm. — 

 Comparing the two agricultures as a whole, the English animal 

 product is greater than its vegetable ; while the French vegetable 

 product is twice greater than its animal. 



As a consequence, the English agriculture is rich and the French 

 poor. And yet France has a soil every way equal to England, and 

 a climate adapted to corn, tobacco, the grasses, and many crops that 

 England can not well raise. It is evident that the high state of 

 English agriculture is due chiefly to the superiority of its stock. If 

 we examine the agriculture of all countries, we shall find that they 

 are profitable and successful just about in proportion to the amount 

 and character of their stock. It comes to this we think, that the 

 value of the annual stock produce of a country, must at least equal 

 the value of its vegetable produce, or its agriculture is not in a 

 healthy state. 



According to the census of 1850 our whole vegetable product, in 

 round numbers, was 5800,000,000 ; while the animal product was 

 only $330,000,000 ; less than half of the vegetable. In New York, 

 one of the older agricultural States, the value of the vegetable pro- 

 duct is about twice that of the animal. The conclusion is that Am- 

 erican agriculture makes a tremendous drain upon the soil, which 

 is not compensated by animal manure. It is therefore exhaustive 

 and destructive. Our farmers should weigh this subject well, and 

 if they would not leave to their children exhausted farms and an 

 exhaustive system of agriculture, they must bring the animal and 

 vegetable products of their farms into proper relations. Let stock 

 raising be at least equal in importance to vegetable. — The Valley 

 Farmer. 



Cotton in King ; or the Culture of Cotton, and its relation to Agri- 

 culture, Manufactures, and Commerce ; to the Free Colored 

 People ; and to those who hold that Slavery is Sinful in itself. — 

 By David Christy. H. W. Derby & Co., Cincinnati, 185G. 



The revised Edition of this work is on our table. We would, 

 were it in our power, lay it upon the table of every reading man in 

 the nation. "We have read it with intense interest, and propose to 

 do so again, and place it among those works on the book shelf of 



