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the carts, which do all the manuring and carting on the 

 farm. 



Your next question is, what has been my rotation of 

 crops, and mode of cultivating, since I have used this 

 manure ? 



Since I began to use the marl, and bend my attention 

 to improvement by manure, I have cultivated only corn 

 and wheat, sowing my ground in clover, and using the 

 plaster. Instead of cultivating all my ground in cora ? 

 and sowing wheat on it as heretofore, I divided my cul- 

 tivation into two parts of fifty acres each, putting one 

 part into corn, which I was able to accomplish manuring 

 time enough for the corn, and making a fallow of the 

 other part, manuring as much of it as I could accomplish 

 before the time for sowing wheat ; and disregarding, in 

 a degree, all smaller crops, which I could not attend to, 

 as an object, without increasing my number of hands , 

 and interfering with the main business. I went on in this 

 manner, till I found I could easily accomplish manuring 

 one hundred acres and upwards, per annum : having got 

 my ground to that state that I can risk making a crop 

 without manure, I am now about discarding fallow, be- 

 ing able to manure my whole hundred acres time enough 

 for cropping in the spring, by beginning to manure for 

 the next year as soon as the spring manuring is finished. 

 I shall in future have no wheat in fallow, but sow it after 

 corn and other crops, from which I am satisfied I can 

 make more from my ground than by naked fallow, which 

 I always considered unprofitable, though you made more 

 wheat, except for the advantage of having more time to 

 manure. The standing annual force on my farm is eight 

 hands (men) with one hired by the month : of these hands 



