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clay or heavy loam, you are driving spring 

 operations with Napoleonic energy. But if 

 there comes a drouth in June or July, youi 

 crops may be standing still or gcing back, 

 while your neighbor's are growing luxuriantly. 

 Still, the probabilities are, that you will 

 always be earliest in the market, and can 

 chuckle over the first green peas of the 

 season^ though your crops will not be so heavy 

 as those on your neighbor's slower but surer 

 ground. 



The next soil of which I shall speak is just 

 the opposite in character, and not much if at 

 all better a heavy, adhesive clay, and a sub- 

 soil that will hold water like india rubber. 

 What shall we do with this ? Let it alone if 

 you can find any better. But if here again fate 

 is against you, and such ground must be cul- 

 tivated or none at all, then here, also, skill 

 and industry can wring from reluctant Nature 



