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the best preparation for wheat or any gram 

 crop for the ensuing season. Although 

 the American planters and farmers say that 

 Indian corn and tobacco ruin their land, 

 I am convinced the contrary is the fact. 

 The climate is the cause of the soil being 

 so poor. Fourteen days' hot sun scorches 

 up the grass much in England ; but what 

 would be the effect of eight months' con- 

 tinued much hotter sun, the winter then 

 setting-in in the course of two days with a 

 severer frost than the sharpest we ever 

 experience, and that generally without 

 snow ? When snow falls in America, 

 there is always sun sufficient during the 

 following day to melt it, and expose the 

 soil to the frost. Under those circumstances 

 grass cannot grow, and for want of pro- 

 duce all soils will become poor. 



The quantity of seed sown for grain 

 crops is from three to four pecks ; I be- 

 lieve as often three as four. When I 

 first got into the country, I supposed there 

 might be an advantage in sowing more 

 seed: but I was soon convinced to the 



