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nod of time. Every part of a farm thus derives a 

 proportional share of the advantage of being kept in 

 grass, which is preferable to the plan of preserving 

 one part of a farm constantly in grass, and the other 

 in yllage. On the whole, the convertible system of 

 husbandry, where a large proportion of a farm is cul- 

 tivated for grain, and the remainder for grass and 

 green crops, is in general to be recommended. By 

 the grain crops, a sufficient quantity of straw is pro- 

 vided as food for cattle, or for litter to be converted 

 into dung ; whilst at the same time, a fair profit is to 

 be derived from the grain. The superior advantages 

 of that system, can only be questioned by those who 

 have had no advantages of obtaining accurate infor- 

 mation. 



" These departments of husbandry, when conjoin- 

 ed, (instead of being kept separate,) reciprocally 

 contribute to the support of each other's prosperity.*' 



MAY. 



Your Spring grains are now all sown, or about 

 closing ; and your Indian-corn now claims your first 

 attention. I have before remarked that corn gene- 

 rally has been found to do best when planted upon 

 one-bout ridges, with a deep ploughing, either upon 

 long dung spread at large, before ploughing, or upon 

 yard, compost, stable, or hog dung, put in the hill, 

 (say one shovel full to the hill,) and the corn horse- 

 hoed between the ridges, and hand-hoed upon the 

 ridges, and thus preserving the ridges unbroken 

 through the season. As this mode is seldom practis- 

 ed, being an innovation upon the ancient custom, I will 

 cite a few reports to the Agricultural Society of New- 

 Haven County, to show the practical correctness of 

 my remarks. 



