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on top. The small potatoes left on the ground are after 

 wards picked for pig feed, yet sometimes they are sold to 

 the bakers to piece out the superfine flour, and make it 

 carry more water, so as to answer the law that requires 

 bread to be sold by weight. The baskets being filled are 

 loaded upon a wagon that carries forty, with feed and food 

 for a man with two horses, who starts in time to reach the 

 market some time in the night, where he sells his load 

 early the next morning, and returns in time to rest and 

 load up again. This potato ground is sown as soon as 

 cleared of the crop, to wheat and seeded to clover.&quot; 



From this copious summary of the condition and 

 capabilities of the neglected lands of Long Island, 

 new wonder will be excited at the fact of any large 

 body of them continuing to be unoccupied. The 

 term &quot; barrens&quot; should now become obsolete they 

 never have been such. The consumer is at their 

 very door, taking not only all they now produce, 

 but ready to devour all that their uncultivated acres 

 could be made to yield. It would be wise for the 

 producer to plant himself beside this consumer. 

 Every man now looking for a farm should go and 

 examine them. 



