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 ed (horse hoed), the gfound is thereby kept 



light and clean, and gives a fallow with a 

 crop : but it is an ill-chosen crop for a fal- 

 low, because of its giving only a trifle of 

 shade to the fresh exposed soil, and because 

 it is corn, to-be succeeded by another crop 

 of corn ; both terrible exhausters. Some 

 farmers sow wheat on this maize-field, be- 

 fore the maize is ripe, on a clean and light 

 soil. Others delay sowing it till the en- 

 suing autumn, when, the soil being some- 

 what settled and in weeds, they plough, 

 harrow, and sow it with wheat. Of the 

 two evils, farmers differ in their choice. I 

 have known some of them, who had prac- 

 tised both methods, return to the former, 

 because the latter was, as they judged, 

 more injurious to the soil than the former 

 method. 



American 'Fallow-Crop new Methods; with and 

 without Maize. 



Maize, taken into a rotation under the 

 new system of crops, according to the new 



