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the farmers were enabled to produce the necessary 

 funds for its purchase. 



Thus, as I have said, the Canadian farmer in the 

 mean time need only turn round to find about him 

 a valuable and sufficient source of riches, for his 

 present' use and future enjoyment. Let him work 

 his fields carefully, not lose any sort of manure, let 

 him increase the quantity of manure within his 

 reach and make a judicious use of what he has, let 

 him adopt a good system of rotation, and if he is 

 active, careful and economical, I may guarantee 

 that he will not long fail to enter upon the 

 road that leads to fortune. Let him attach his son 

 to the farm, it is better for the son to remain a far- 

 mer than to vegetate in large towns, there to lose the 

 love of his family, the habit of working and spend 

 a life often useless both to himself and to society. 



The principal manures that we have at our im- 

 mediate disposal are green and stable manure. 



Green manure has been employed at all times 

 and in all countries ; it consists in plants that are 

 allowed to grow and are afterwards buried in the 

 earth. In North America red clover is not. mowed/ 

 it is merely buried as a manure. In this country 

 maize is often repeatedly grown on exhausted lands 

 for the same purpose. The green plant is each time 

 buried in the soil with its leaves and thus makes 

 more manure for the land. In France, England and 

 Belgium, buckwheat, vetch and theafter growth of 

 clover, fc &c., &c., are used for the same purpose. 

 These crops are buried when just about to flower. 



