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almost thought, if he were to see an ox eating liis 

 jacket, he would give him his coat also. 



Ten years after thU was written, he speaks still 

 more favorably upon this subject, in Walk* and Tt'.ks, 

 No. 11(J, - ; We shall have to go back to the old- 

 fashioned plan of plowing under clover, says the 

 D.acon, and, as usual, lie is more than half right." 



What a great satisfaction it would be to see, the 

 strong and powerful pen of Joseph Harris engaged, in 

 full faith, in defence of green manuring 



Here is another example, showing how little it 

 costs to enrich land with clover. 



I). D. T. Moore, sowed clover seed with barley, and 

 the next spring on the 8th of June, plowed in the 

 clover for corn. He says : ' To ascertain the weight 

 of the c:op of clover thus turned under, he cut a 

 square foot of the sod, shook off the soil, and found 

 the weight of clover and its roots to be 2i pounds. 

 This would give 49 tons per acre." 



Hence he obtained 588 pounds of nitrogen for 

 > 1.50 the reported cost of the seed per acre ! 



Now mark, and remember well, this astounding 

 fact, that we have a green manure, which cost but a 

 trifle over three cents per ton, and which is more 

 valuable, ton for ton, than stable manure ! And not 

 a cart, nor horse, nor fork of any kind, was required 

 to spread it evenly over the whole field ! 



When I first read this account in the Cultivator, 

 for June, 1854, I was inclined to suppose that there 

 was some error in the report. 



That such a mass of clover could grow in less than 

 fourteen months, and part of that time in the winter 



