98 MODE OF FARMING. 



pensating return in the shape of manure is 

 brought to the farm. 



The consequence of this system has been 

 to pinch the land to such a degree, that this 

 alluvial and naturally most fertile soil, capa- 

 ble under judicious management of carrying 

 crops of I should say fifty bushels of wheat per 

 acre, produces no more than from twenty-five 

 to thirty. 



At the same time I should notice a singu- 

 lar fact alluded to by Mr Marx, and which 

 indeed I had remarked before, but omitted to 

 mention, as being general over the States, that 

 more than a bushel, or a bushel and one-fourth 

 of wheat per acre is never sown, and to this 

 practice I think may in some measure be as- 

 cribed the lightness of their crops. 



Another circumstance no doubt contribut- 

 ing to the same effect, is the great heat of the 

 sun, the thermometer at this season commonly 

 ranging in the shade from 85 to 95, a height 

 of temperature which may give a hurtful pre- 

 maturity to the crops of wheat. 



From these different causes stinting the 



