98 MODE OF FARMING. 



pensating return in the shape of manure is 

 brought to the farm. 



The consequence of this system has been 

 to pinch the land to such a degree, that this 

 alluvial and naturally most fertile soil, capa 

 ble under judicious management of carrying 

 crops of I should say fifty bushels of wheat per 

 acre, produces no more than from twenty-five 

 to thirty. 



At the same time I should notice a singu 

 lar fact alluded to by Mr Marx, and which 

 indeed I had remarked before, but omitted to 

 mention, as being general over the States, that 

 more than a bushel, or a bushel and one-fourth 

 .of wheat per acre is never sown, and to this 

 practice I think may in some measure be as 

 cribed the lightness of their crops. 



Another circumstance no doubt contribut 

 ing to the same effect, is the great heat of the 

 sun, the thermometer at this season commonly 

 ranging in the shade from 85 to 95, a height 

 of temperature which may give a hurtful pre 

 maturity to the crops of wheat. 



From these different causes stinting the 



