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result of any one element in the plan, but the joint 

 product of the whole of them. Moreover, each part 

 of the plan is adapted to all the other parts, and the 

 whole together are adapted to a particular sojl. The 

 method and the soil are the counterparts of each 

 other, and the highest capability of each is only de- 

 veloped when they are brought together. 



The above method with a different soil might be 

 entirely inadequate to such a yield might even be a 

 total failure ; and the soil, whatever its merit in this 

 connection, might, under a different treatment, give a 

 very uncertain result. But when the method and the 

 soil are perfectly fitted to each other like dove-tailed 

 joinery, or like the wheels and grooves of machinery, 

 it would seem as if results larger than these might 

 easily follow. 



When the conductor of an electrical machine is 

 highly charged, you may apply a hundred different 

 objects to it, and none of them is qualified to extract 

 the fluid. But there are substances in nature pre- 

 cisely fitted to produce this effect, and the moment 

 you apply one of these the spark flies, and the fluid 

 is given up. So when the farmer applies to his soil 

 the method that is exactly suited and congenial, it 

 surrenders its prolific virtue with an exuberance be- 

 fore latent and unsuspected. 



Now there are some soils which, without any ma- 

 nure whatever, are capable of yielding, and with deep 

 and thorough culture have yielded, over one hundred 

 bushels per acre. It seems, then, reasonable to infer 

 that if such a method as the above is applied to the 



