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remainder, not lIuipdorivcLl solely Irom airnnd wa- 

 ter, are the few earihy ami saline parts, which are 

 left as ashes afier burninrr, and which form a very 

 small portion of the entire weight of the plants. 



But thouch plants draw so lari^e a portion of 

 their pupport (rum the atmosphere, tliey must be 

 placed in frooJ land, or be nourished by manure, 

 to enable liiem to profit well by the supply ol' at- 

 mospheric Ibod. Il" there was nothing; in the earth 

 to make a plant grow, it could draw nothiiinr (i-om 

 tiie atmosphere. If it had barely strength lent it 

 Trom the earth to make a small developenienl of 

 growth, it mitrht, it is true, derive three times as 

 much from the air, and yet be still but a j)oor pro- 

 duct. But let its power from the earth be increased 

 four-fijld, and in the same ratio, the atmosphere 

 would raise the product Clx3=:3X'l=) 12 times 

 more than its first capacity. Thus the more the 

 land is enriched, in a much greater proportion is 

 the crop enabled to draw benefit ami support fiom 

 the atmosphere. Hence, in one respect, the great 

 profit of giving manure to land. But there is an- 

 other reason why green crops for manure should 

 rot be raised and ploughed under, except there is 

 already enough strength in the land to make a 

 heavy growth. The expense of seed, for a ma- 

 nuring crop, will not vary materially, whether the 

 land be able to produce one or ten tons of the 

 green manure to the acre; nor will the labor of 

 seeding and ploughing under be of much greater 

 diH'ercnce. Thus if the seed and labor on an acre 

 of the poorest land v/ould amount to $4, it would 

 probably not exceed §6 on (he richest, requiring 

 such aid; and yet if the increased product of the 

 first year gained on the pnoicst, was of the value 

 of .^1, it might be 8S on the richest land. 



Clover is the most valuable of all [r;owin2 vesre- 

 fables, not only because of its sharing the property 

 and power of all the pea-tribe to draw sustenance 

 largely fiom the air, but because its long tap-root 

 also draws both moisture and food from a great 

 depth in the eanh. Its being a biennial plant also 

 gives it greater product and enriching power from 

 one seeiling, than any annual plant has. But, on 

 the other hand, its long occupancy of tiie ground 

 gives opportunity for weeds and insects to multiply. 



In a continuation of remarks upon this general 

 Kubject, will be considered, 1st, the other grounds 

 f r choice between ploughing in vegetables when 

 green, or after bcinn: matured and dry — and,2ad!y, 

 the advantages and disadvantages of different 

 pcliemes of rotations of crops, as tested by the 

 views here set forth, as well as by the received 

 general principles to which it is desirable that ro- 

 tations should coni'urai, as nearly as circumstances 

 may permit. E. R. 



rnivATu coiiHi:spoNi)r;::vcE, and hejiarks 



OS PRIVATE MATTERS. 



To tlie Editor of tlic F:!rmcr3' Register. 



'■a)!umbu3. Ga.. Sept. 5, 1839. 

 "By the request of John L. Lewis. I iidbnn you 

 that be does no: take t'la Farmers' R'-crisier from 

 til'' ofTi-e.. and says ho does not want ir, and fur- 

 ther states that if was not sent to him by his re- 

 quest, so you will please stop if. 



"J. A. Sr.ATON, Asf. P. M." 



We have been tempted to publish the foregoitifj 

 notice, as it presents a sample of the mo.le in which 



sundry of our accounts with subscribers and debt- 

 ors are settled. From the mere words of the above 

 letter, a reader would infer that the Farmers' Re- 

 gister had been obtruded upon Mr. Lewis, by the 

 publisher, without his order, or authority; and that 

 he had given this notice, as soon as be was assured 

 of the circumstance, by successive numbers being 

 directed to his address. But such has never been 

 our mode of seeking support, and we never have, 

 without being so directed by some one supposeJ 

 to be authorized, placed a name upon our sub- 

 scription list, or sent, in continuation, our publica- 

 tion to any one, except as a present. Mr. Lewis' 

 subscription was commenced /or the fifth volume, 

 which volume was pa{d for when the order was 

 given, and therefore, we presume, by some person 

 having authority. More than two years have 

 since passed, and two more } ears' subscription are 

 now due, (810,) and afier the issue of the 8ih num- 

 ber of the second of these volumes not paid for, 

 we received the above and first notice of any kind, 

 from (or for) Mr. Lewis. It is not unlikely (though 

 not so intimated) that he may at some former 

 time, have requested his post-master to direct the 

 disconunuance of a work to which he attached so 

 little value; but if so, his order never was received, 

 if indeed sent, and of course could not be known 

 or obeyed. If such neglect of his request oc- 

 curred, it was not our fiuit, and he is not the less 

 indeb'.ed for the two volumes since sent to him — 

 and, according to the conditions, for every lliiure 

 volume which we might choose to send, notwith- 

 standing the present notice to discontinue, which 

 has no validity, until all arrears due are paid. 

 But our se//Zewcn/ of this claim will be as sum- 

 mary as that of Mr. Lewis, though less profitable 

 to our interests. We sim[)ly erase his name from 

 our list, and submit to the loss already incurred. 

 We have no means of enforcing our most just and 

 clearest claims against subscribers, and cannot but 

 admit the i.-uth, that against those subscribers who 

 neglect or refuse to pay what they owe fur sub- 

 scriptions, vve have no redress. We can only en- 

 deavor lo lessen the number of non-paying "pa- 

 trons," by erasing the names of all subscriptions 

 long in arrcar. We have but to beg of those who 

 have merely fillen in arrear, not from intention, 

 but because of inattention, or a common habit of 

 procrastination, not to compel us to confound them 

 with thosL'. the loss of whose names and subscrip- 

 tions IS a gain to the publication. 



There is another class ol' discontinuancps which 

 are no less common, and of which the following 

 letter irom a post-master presents an example. 



^'iiJomU Laurel, Fa. 3rd April, 1839. 



Mr. Stephen Cronin, a subscriber to the Far- 

 mers' Register, at this offi.;e, has removed li-om 



