2O THE LANDED INTEREST. 



increased acreage quickly follows. Were the 

 . price to rise steadily, and show signs of per- 

 manence, the second-crop system would extend, 

 and continue to do so until the increase of pro- 

 duce was found to check the rise in price. 



Barley may be taken after barley with more 

 success on many soils than wheat ; and where 

 there is reason to suppose that a second crop of 

 wheat, however carefully the ground may have 

 been managed and manured, may be likely 

 to fail, barley may, with great probability, be 

 expected to succeed. 



The use of nitrate of soda or other sources of 

 ammonia, combined with phosphatic manures, 

 promises to be a more permanent resource to 

 British agriculture than Peruvian guano, which 

 unites the same properties in itself, but seems 

 Autumn likely soon to become exhausted. Autumn 



culture 



and steam- culture, aided by the command of time which 



power, 



with im- steam-power has given to the agriculturist, 



ported ma- 

 nures, have a nd that supplemented by spring top-dress- 

 given great 

 command i n cr s of nitrates and phosphates, have made 



of crops. 



continuous corn-cropping possible and profit- 

 able, without injury to the land, whenever soil 



