IMPROVED HUSBANDRY. 



general association of its leading men, encou- 

 raging by their own example, and rewarding 

 by liberal premiums, improvements in the 

 various branches of rural economy. More re- 

 markable testimony to the benefits diffused by 

 that Society, could not have been borne, than 

 has been afforded by its having been taken as 

 a model for England, in an association lately 

 established, and now in operation in that 

 country. 



But although it is not difficult to show that 

 an alteration of the practice of husbandry in 

 the States, is called for by a regard to the pub- 

 lic advantage, the improvements I would sug- 

 gest for the adoption of the American farmer, 

 are such as I conceive would not diminish im- 

 mediate profit, but, on the contrary, material- 

 ly encrease it. 



The principal error in American cultivation 

 is the frequent repetition of culmiferous crops, 

 without the application of a sufficiency of ma- 

 nure to compensate for the matter they abstract 

 from the soil. 



The arable land in those parts of the States 



