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the word cultivation to imply both the manuring of the 

 soil, and the working of it, we say : 



1. Cultivation, with diminishing crops, exhausts the lana 



always, and no other cultivation does. 



2. Cultivation, icifh neither diminution nor increase of 



crops, just keeps the land good and no more. 



3. Cultivation, with increase of crops, improves the land 



always — makes it worth more to the owner, worth 

 more to a purchaser, worth more to a lessee. 

 If we were going to lease a farm for ten years, if two, 

 equally good ten years ago, were offered ; and if the out- 

 going tenant from one had contrived to diminish his 

 crops one-third, while the out-going tenant from the 

 other had increased his in the same ratio, we would pay 

 double for the latter that we would for the former. 



The same rules hold good with regard to the cultiva- 

 tion of tobacco, as to general farming. The views of 

 Mr. Minor, who was himself a practical and successful 

 farmer, are undoubtedly correct. The very general idea, 

 that tobacco is, of course and necessarily, an exhausting 

 crop, has grown out of unskillful management. Tobacco 

 may be made to exhaust land; and so may corn, wheat 

 or any other crop. 



LX.-MANUEE REQUIRED. 



Barn-yard manure*\vill answer all purposes of farming 

 No other would be necessary, if any prescription could 

 be found whereby the farmer could obtain it in sufficient 



