60 PRINCIPLES OF GAEDENIKG. ^CH. II. 



during hot sunny days in summer; continually 

 changing the crops ; keeping the hoe at work at all 

 seasons in suitable "weather ; forking up all odd 

 comers and spare ground without loss of time. By 

 this management, I find the ground is always in 

 good condition, and never tired by cropping ; some 

 judgment only being exercised in applpng such 

 properties again to the soil that have been taken 

 from it, or that are likely to be required by the 

 succeeding crop. To rest or fallow groimd for any 

 length of time, is only loss of time and produce ; 

 more benefit will be obtained by trenching and 

 forking, in frosty or hot sunny weather, in a few 

 days, than a whole season of what is erroneously 

 called rest or fallow. Trench, fork, and hoe ; 

 change every succeeding crop; return to the earth 

 all refuse that is not otherwise useful in a green 

 state, adding a change of other manm^es occasionally, 

 especially charred refuse of any kind, at the time of 

 putting the crop into the ground. Every succeeding 

 crop will be found healthy and luxmiant, suffering 

 but little either from drought, too much moisture, or 

 vermin." 



The benefit derived from keeping the roots near 

 the surface is more apparent in fruit trees and 

 other perennials than in our annual crops, inasmuch 

 as that the roots of trees being thus kept within the 



