16 A NEW THEORY. 



land will become positively enriched. Every farmer 

 should divide his farm into six parts or fields, two of 

 which should be in wheat, corn, oats, tobacco or any 

 other vegetable productions. The other four fields 

 should be in clover, timothy, or any of the grasses. 

 The fields should be numbered one, two, three, &c. 

 For instance, No. 1 should be in corn ; No. 2 in grass- 

 es ; No. 3 in grasses ; No. 4 in wheat, tobacco, or 

 such like production ; No. 5 in grasses, -and No*. 6 in 

 grasses. Now in order to give the land that rest 

 which it absolutely requires, the fields before number- 

 ed, must be cultivated in regular routine; that is to 

 say, No. 1, that is this year in corn, must be left in 

 clover; and No. 2, that is this year in clover, must 

 next year be planted in corn. Also, No. 4, that is 

 this year in wheat, must be left in clover ; and No. 5, 

 which is in grass, must next year be seeded with 

 wheat, oats, or tobacco. This routine should be reg- 

 ularly followed, by which the greater portion of the 

 farm, say two thirds, would be in a state of rest ; and 

 being shielded from the rays of the sun by the coat of 

 clover, evaporation would be greatly lessened, the 

 earth would retain all the fatness it possesses, and 

 would be continually increasing in fertility, from the 

 abundance that falls from the clouds. 



No intelligent former should tc^ke more than one 

 crop of grain or clover in one year from any one of 

 the fields, as the old plan of cutting several succes- 

 sive crops of clover the same year, leaves the land 



