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planted on the same land annually and indefinitely. Isle of Wight: 
No attention to any judicious alternation of crops, the object of farmers 
being to cultivate that crop which will bring in most money, without 
regard to improvement. No attention is given to green crops. The 
usual course is the three-field system—corn, oats, and peanuts—which is 
regarded as ruinous. Princess Anne: Corn and oats are the principal 
crops. These alternate, except when the land is permitted to rest, that 
is, to grow up in weeds and natural grass, which are turned under in 
the winter for corn again. No green crops. Norfolk: This being a hor- 
ticultural rather than an agricultural county, we give some statistics of 
its production and trade: Number of acres cultivated in fruit, about 
4,000; in trucking, about 20,000. Shipments of fruit and truck, in 1870, 
averaged at least 10,000 packages daily, and for one hundred days 
amounted to about 1,000,000 packages, the estimated value of which 
was fully $1,500,000. Freights realized by the carrying trade, $350,000. 
The grape business is yet in its infancy, only about one hundred and 
twenty acres being in cultivation; but experience bids fair for the most 
flattering results, especially in wine-making. 
Piedmont district, (Southside.)—According to the divisions we have 
adopted, this is the largest in the State. Chesterfield: The plan adopted 
and generally coming into use for rotation is, first, corn, then wheat or 
oats, followed by clover or peas, the latter preferred on light soils; clover 
on stiff soils. In every instance, when properly cultivated, marked im- 
provement in the land is observable, the increase of production being five 
to fifteen bushels of wheat per acre. Powhatan: Increased attention paid 
to the alternation of crops. Clover is the only green crop raised to any 
extent. It is generally followed by wheat; sometimes*ou a small seale 
by tobacco. The people are slowly rallying from their depression, and 
adopting the policy of working less land and making it rich. Cumber- 
land: Farmers gradually, though slowly, improvjng their system of 
culture, and a judicious rotation is being generally introduced. The 
summer crops of corn and tobacco are followed by wheat; the wheat by 
clover for ene or two years. Properly carried out, a rapid improvement 
of the soil is visible. Amelia: The report is substantially the same as 
from Cumberland. Lunenburg:-Agriculture is at a low ebb in this 
county. Little or no attention is paid to a judicious alternation of crops, 
on account of the straitened circumstances of the people. Nottoway: 
This was formerly a highly cultivated county, and the farmers in pros- 
perous circumstances. As a general rule, but little attention has been 
given latterly to a rotation of crops, but in some instances farmers are 
dividing their lands into three, four, or five fields, cultivating them in 
turn, and alternating with clover and the grasses. Appomattox: No 
attention to rotation of crops. Buckingham: Slightly increased atten- 
tion is paid to alternation of crops, and farmers are beginning to return 
slowly to their former methods. <A large crop of wheat was seeded in 
the fall of 1870, followed by a general inquiry for grass-seeds. Camp- 
bell: Nothing being done toward an improved system of culture. On 
ithe contrary, the best lands are severely cropped to meet the immediate 
wants of their owners. Charlotte: Not much attention paid of late years 
to alternation, with the intervention of green crops. Prince Edward: 
Farmers are adopting the four-shift system; first, tobacco or corn, fol- 
lowed by wheat; wheat, by clover and timothy, and one year in pasturage. 
Under this system the lands are kept up to their original fertility. 
Tobacco the leading staple; average yield per acre, one thousand 
pounds; corn, thirty bushels; wheat, fifteen bushels; oats, twenty- 
five bushels, Pittsylvania: Very little increased attention to a judicious 
