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agriculture, will at once occur to every person 

 acquainted with the principles of good fann- 

 ing ; indeed it must create infinite surprise 

 that the advantages to be found in a right 

 system of convertible husbandry, should at this 

 time of day be as a terra incognita to the 

 otherwise enterprising American cultivator ; 

 for it is proper to observe that in describing 

 Colonel Wordsworth's practice, I relate what 

 takes place generally over the States. 



Were Colonel Wordsworth to alter his mode 

 only so far as to provide the means of consum- 

 ing his straw by foddering in the yard in win- 

 ter, and his clover by soiling with it in sum- 

 mer, his cattle might be brought to double 

 their present value at the time he sends them 

 to market ; and his land being manured with 

 a due allowance of farm-yard-dung thus ob- 

 tained, might carry nearly double the crop of 

 wheat it now produces, which notwithstanding 

 the great natural fertility of the soil averages 

 only from twenty-five to thirty bushels an 

 acre. 



