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F A R 31 E R S ' REGIST E R . 



[No. 7 



tion haa arrived to that hei to render it 



dangero 



benevolent Creator, and vv • . 



again d \ nov >. 



is but a dro] 



From I.ov ' 



. 



As cr ; 

 other upon the same ground, a 

 termined is the order in whi till t kinds 



should follow each oilier. 



All plants which are cultivated, and whii 

 carried from the ground wh 



tend to render the soil less productive, or, in the 

 language of fanners, to exhaust it. 



But plants which are suffered to >r which 



are consumed by animals on the ground on which 

 they grow, do not exhaust the soil. On the con- 

 trary, the decay of the stei 



plants, either naturally, or by the consuming of 

 them by animals, lends to add 

 sing organic matters to the soil which form one of 

 the elements of its fertility. Thi maybe 



imperceptible and slow, but ii is that which Nature 

 herself employs to form the I juished 



from what has been term 



Sometimes this proce 

 by the singular natural pru\ ision, of ; i 

 of the decomposing vegeti 

 which itself re ists 



with this exception, the ten he decay ol 



vegetables upon the sui ace is 

 matters of the soil. 



This is well understood in the 

 culturists. When the productive powers of a soil 

 have been exhausted by cultivation and the 

 ing away of its produce from the surface, h i.< laid 

 down to herbage, in which future vege- 



tation which it produces tends, by its decoi 

 tion upon the surface, to renovate the pro 

 powers of the soil. Land in thi said to 



rest. 



When land, however, has been empoverished 

 by successive crops, and has become full of weeds, 

 the laying it down to rest in that state is a 

 with less beneficial consequences than when the 

 soil has been previously cleaned of injurious weeds. 

 and fertilized by good culture. In the former case, 

 the process of renovation is slow, if perceptible at 

 all; the useless plants increase, and not those 

 which are beneficial and afford food to pasturing 

 animals. Land, when properly laid down to 

 therefore, tends to recover its wasted powers of 

 production. Land not properly laid down! 

 of this healing property, and may be more full of 

 weeds and no richer when ploughed up 

 altera time, than when first laid down. Under 

 good management, however, the laying down of 

 cultivated land to grass and other herl 

 to be consumed upon the ground, is a mean of 

 resting the soil, and renovating iis powers of pro- 

 duction; and this mode of recruiting an exb 

 eoil being always at the command of the farmer, 

 its application is important in practice. It is to be 

 observed also that the poorer soils require this spe- 

 cies of rest and renovation more than those, which 

 are naturally productive. 



The experience of husbandmen from the ei i 



times has shown, that the same kinds of plants 

 cannot be advantageously c 



ion. The tend 1o 



■ more sub- 



ly upon 



rule w hich tonus 



tion of 



■ 



: in immei 



ar ex- 



s shall recur al as dis- 



1s of the course as circumstances will 



All hi oduce is carried 



off the ground which produce s them, may be said 

 to exha >\\ neon winch they grow. But 



■ soil in the same 

 degree; lor a is seen to be 



more em] id than alter others. 



And not only do dille ies of plants ex- 



haust the soil m a greater or li - than others, 



but the i i according to the differ- 



ent peri which the plant is re- 



moved from the ground. 



When the herbaceous plant is suffered to ma- 

 ture its seeds, it exhausts the soil more than when 

 ii is removed b; fore i ■ ■ i i . d. All 



. , v. hen cut in their 

 green state, that is, before they have matured 

 their seeds, exhaust the soil less than when 

 liia'm until they have ripened 



. 

 of tl 



of plai it belongs; but 



the turnip, when allowed to remain upon the 



, until it has ri] ened it Is, is one of the 



r plants that is cultivated amongst 



[he rape and others. 



the larger or smaller 



quantity of manure which the tion of 



them affords, are more or less useful in maintain- 



I" the farm. 



a a herbaceous plant is suffered to mature its 



I . hen any pi Is is carried 



off the farm, the plant affords, when consumed by 



. a smaller return of manure to the farm 



than ii plant had been cut down before 



it had matured its seeds, and been in that state. 



consumed by animals. Thus it is with the turnip 



plant referred to. This plant is with us sown be- 



Ibre midsummer. In the first season it forms a 



napifbrm root, and puts forth a large system of 



, Early in the following season it puts forth 



a long stem, which bears flowers, and the seeds 



rally matured about midsummer. If this 



is removed in the first stage of its growth, 



it has put forth its large leaves and 



bulb, and is I imed by animals, 



if manure; but if it re- 



: I ate of its growth- l 



sumption of i I leaves i 



any manure. TJ of the root 



ng nutrition 

 to the flower-stem, the flowers, and the seeds. 

 It is beyond a qi in order to 1 



i its entire maturity, by the perfecting 

 . ■ ' f the nutritive" matter of 



I 

 only to its I When crops of 



plants, then fore, a bred to rive at ma 



they are 



