186 THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



he adopt it, to start back in fear of bankruptcy, we have in no 

 instance controverted their statements, preferring to appeal to the 

 public through the medium of our book. We now say, once for 

 all, that the fitting of lands from year to year with the plow and 

 the spade, and their fertilization by methods hitherto in vogue, are 

 waste and extravagance by the side of those called for in " The 

 New Agriculture." 



