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tivated lands. In the corn field, seventy, eighty, and one hundred. 

 bushels to the acre was not an unusual yield; now thirty-five or forty is 

 ofteuer the exception than the rule. At this rate our land will rapidly 

 become exhausted. Good husbandry, good farming, if not able to keep 

 the soil up to its primitive fertility, ought, at least, to prevent its rapid 

 deterioration. 



