AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM. 



©MNIS FERET OMNIA TELLUS. VIRG. 



Vol. l.J Georgetown, Ca. Sept. 26, 1810. [No. 7. 



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;QUBBLES addressed to the EDiTOB OP T0E AGKiOlTLTUBAI, HVSBVM. 



Query 1. Arc your Citizens, Planters and Farmers, 

 ijufliciently aware of the importance of savings, makinsj 

 and using manures ? It may be laid down as a general 

 principle, that every mode of cultivation which does not 

 employ these great fertilizers, will ultimately impover- 

 ish the land, render the crops smaller and smaller, make 

 the cultivator move on the descending scale, and turn his 

 farm into a sinking fund. On the other hand, where ma- 

 nures are largely applied, and the lands judiciously cul- 

 tivated, they become more and more productive every 

 year, and the cultivator goes on increasing his property 

 like the accumulations of compound interest, in a bad 

 mode of cultivation, the crops are eventually diminished, 

 while the expences continue much the same, or arc per- 

 liaps increased, until the latter entirely swallow up the 

 former. But in an ameliorating culture, the produce 

 continually increases, while the capital (that is the quan- 

 tity of land) continues the same, the labour and expen- 

 ces become less and less in proportion to the produce, 

 and the clear gains of course greater and greater. 

 What a contrast between the two modes ! How vast the 

 difference both to the individual and the country ! 



Query 2. Is the value of Ashes, especially of leached 

 ashes, as a manure well understood? I have known 8 

 Cents a bushel given for dra\yn ashes, by experienced 

 farmers, and they declare it to be at that price a cheap 

 manure. It requires but little labour in carting and put- 

 ting it Qii tire land^ to what an equally efficacious quantity 



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