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sorted to, with advantage to the agricultural interest. To us, this 

 opinion seems to correspond with the general laws of the material 

 world. God certainly intended that the face of nature should be re- 

 newed from year to year — that the hills and vallies should, at every 

 returning season, put on their beautiful garments. More than this, 

 instead of a retrogade or stationary condition, it is evidently the mind 

 of the Creator that there should be an advancement — that every suc- 

 cessive development should be more perfect than the one that pre- 

 ceded it. The glory of the latter temple must be greater than that 

 of the first. If nothing comes in to stay the natural course which 

 God has established, there will be, in the productions of each suc- 

 ceeding year, something more than the mere reiteration of the one 

 that precedes it. The appi-opriate energies which God has given to 

 all parts of his works Avill work Avith increasing and extending efficien- 

 cy, as his purposes go on. The crop that falls and decays upon the 

 earth will more than restore its exhausted strength. The history of 

 the world justifies this representation. The extracts we have made, 

 sustain it in its application to the subject before us, and the more 

 thorough the investigation and the wider the enquiry, the more per- 

 fect Avill be the conviction that God has so arranged his works in the 

 material as in the spiritual world, that there may be constant and ob- 

 servable advancement. The glory of the moon shall become as the 

 glory of the sun, and the glory of the sun as the glory of seven 

 days. 



From various statements, and from our own observation, we are of 

 the opinion that the laws of the natural world will be best met, and 

 in consequence the most encouraging results follow, by confining the 

 green crop operation to land comparatively of a sandy and loose soil, 

 and leave the clayey and stiff soils to the enriching and softening in- 

 fluence of the product of the stables and yards where the flocks are 

 folded. Many reasons present themselves to confirm us in this be- 

 lief. We shall mention only two, and leave those without enlarging 

 upon them. The first is, that vegetables will ferment much more 

 readily and powerfully in sandy and loose soils, than in those of a stiff 

 character, and therefore produce greater chemical changes, and in con- 

 sequence prepare a greater portion of nourishment for the crop that 

 may come after. The second is, they will thus bring into more ac- 

 tive operation the electrical fluid, a most powerful agent in carrying 

 forward vegetable growth. And it may be added, both of these ob- 



