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crop plowed in. The plowing sliould be deep. Com- 

 posted manure, well rotted^ and worked fine, is the most 

 suitable ; tliongh we have known some of the best crops 

 ever grown, to be grown with long, green, barn manure 

 only, and that not applied till nearly planting-time. 

 But this was on warm, sandy land. The application of 

 such manure at a late day before planting, certainly 

 could not be recommended for other than very warm 

 land, and hardly for this. In slow soils, there would be 

 danger of its not becoming sufficiently decomposed to 

 afford its elements to the crop while in its rapidly grow- 

 ing stage, say in June and July. After plowing in the 

 manure, the soil should not lie still. The oftener it is 

 plowed, harrowed, rolled down, and plowed up again, 

 crushing, mixing, and pulverizing, the better. This 

 should be kept up, with occasional rests only, till the 

 very day for transplanting ; and the soil should then be 

 in the condition of a most perfectly prepared seed-bed. 



All this may not be essential to the obtaining of a 

 fair crop ; we do not suppose it is ; but it is essential 

 to a large crop of a uniformly high-priced tobacco, and 

 therefore we say it is necessary in order to the best 

 profits. The extra labor is not lost, but much is gained 

 in consequence of it. On the alluvial soils of the Con- 

 necticut River, in Massachusetts, one would think, on 

 seeing the farmer work his field for tobacco, that he 

 never would get pay for so much labor. But wait for 

 the report of autumn, and see. 



We once saw a man in that region puttfng in sixteen 

 acres. There was none of the " nothing venture nothing 

 have" about him. We confess to having* been alarmed 

 at his expenditures. In addition to immense heaps of 

 compost, one-third from the barn yard, and two-thirds 



