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agriculture, will at once occur to every person 

 acquainted with the principles of good farm 

 ing ; indeed it must create infinite surprise 

 that the advantages to be found in a right 

 system of convertible husbandry, should at this 

 time of day be as a terra incognita to the 

 otherwise enterprising American cultivator ; 

 for it is proper to observe that in describing 

 Colonel Wordsworth s practice, I relate what 

 takes place generally over the States. 



Were Colonel Wordsworth to alter his mode 

 only so far as to provide the means of consum 

 ing his straw by foddering in the yard in win 

 ter, and his clover by soiling with it in sum 

 mer, his cattle might be brought to double 

 their present value at the time he sends them 

 to market ; and his land being manured with 

 a due allowance of farm-yard-dung thus ob 

 tained, might carry nearly double the crop of 

 wheat it now produces, which notwithstanding 

 the great natural fertility of the soil averages 

 only from twenty-five to thirty bushels an 

 acre. 



