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to sucker the stalks, was very irksome to my boys, and 
the price of labour rising at this time out of a due pro- 
portion, and my other employments engrossing my time, 
I did not pursue the experiment. Since that time I have 
chiefly improved my small portion of land by letting it 
to others, 
My neighbours are generally farmers, and are called 
good farmers in the old fashioned way ; but they have 
too much land to invite them to make experiments, and 
to spend the summer upon a few acres. I do not know 
that any of them have tried the methods which my pub- 
lication prescribed. They saw and admired the result 
of my experiment, but either for want of help or for 
want of zeal in making experiments, they went on in 
the old track—raising 20 or 30 bushels on an acre.— 
‘They had as many acres as they could improve without 
employing any additional labour on two or three acres, 
which would have filled their cribs, as full as they are 
commonly filled from ten or twelve. I have not omitted 
to pursue the method stated in my publication, from the 
slightest eonviction that there is any error or defect in 
the system, but merely from my not being employed in 
farming, as my stated business. Too much of my time 
would be engrossed to pursue the course effectually. — 
Want of leisure and capital, prevented my course of ex- 
periments, in such a manner as the importance of the 
subject demanded.—My publication was designed to 
invite farmers of property, and practical husbandmen, 
to pursue the experiment. And I am persuaded that 
they might pursue it to as great advantage, as my pub- 
lication supposes. Not looking much to my little por- 
tion of land, and unable to procure labourers at a rea-_ 
