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ends meet at the year’s end, upon poor land, made poorer. every 
year by the same exertion which, if rightly applied, would make 
two stalks of corn grow where only one grew before. That this SyS- 
tem, or rather want of system, has a remarkable influence in the 
aggregate production of wheat and other grains in the United States, 
is proved by the fact, that the average produce of such in England.is 
double that of the United States,—in the former about 28 or 30 
bushels, in the latter about 14 or 15,—shewing, what we haye found 
out by experience, that superior cultivation on an old soil is an over- 
match for the natural resources of ‘ virgin land’ or good soil, with 
slight or careless tillage. This maxim is gaining ground by slow 
but sure steps in the States; agriculturists are beginning to see that 
it is better diligently to cultivate one acre, and of course profitably, 
then spend fruitless and ill-directed exertions on a hundred, Men, 
who were formerly the veriest slaves to industry, getting up early and 
lying down late, eating anything but the bread of idleness, are be- 
ginning to sell portions of their large farms, and are studying agri- 
culture as a science, not, as formerly, a mere haphazard undertaking, 
Manure, formerly wasted, is now carefully kept and skilfully ap- 
plied; draining is carried into effect thoroughly, and all the im- 
provements made in this country are eagerly sought after by the 
educated farmers. The result of this new spirit has been exempli- 
fied in a striking degree during the last twenty years. Since’ that 
period a spirit of enterprise and degree of improvement has been 
manifested by the farming interest. The actual products of the soil 
in the old States, north and east of Washington, have probably been 
doubled ; and so has also, in some of the States, the aggregate value 
of land. The old States in the south have been applying their 
energies in earnest to the renovation of their impoverished lands—— 
(The Journal of Agriculture, and the Transactions of the Highland 
and Agricultural Society of Scotland, No. 28, New Series, p. 357.) 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
10. Funeral Obsequies of the celebrated Danish Poet, Oehlen- 
schléger.—The Danish Oehlenschliger is dead. The most fertile and 
famous dramatic poet that the Scandinavian kingdoms have pro- 
duced. He died of apoplexy in the seventy-first year of his age. A 
poet counts for something in Scandinavia. Such marks of public 
mourning as we reserve here for the more material royalties, have 
signalised the Danish loss, and the people's sense of it. The three 
theatres of Copenhagen were ordered to be closed for a week, and all 
other public amusements were suspended for the same space of time. 
The poet was accompanied to his tomb, in the church of Fredericks- 
burg, by the largest attendance that has been seen in Copenhagen 
since the funeral of Thorwaldsen. “Upwards of twenty thousand 
