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hot ; and the result was double the amount 

 of stock kept on the same amount of land. 

 The proportion of turnips which could be 

 grown upon a farm, usually determined the 

 amount of stock a man might keep; and if 

 by an improvement in the system of feeding, 

 the quantity of cattle could be doubled, by 

 turning the money twice instead of once 

 within a year, the farmer would obtain dou- 

 ble the profit. But this was not the only 

 advantage; he would double the manure 

 which he made at the same time, which 

 would contribute very much to the fertility 

 of his land ; he being enabled, by the use of 

 this linseed, to return more than he took out 

 of it. The proportion of the food had other 

 important consequences in regard to manur- 

 ing the soil. The crushing of the grain and 

 seeds, by reducing them to the minutest 

 particles, made the substances of which they 

 were composed more easily assimilated to 

 the food of plants, and made it belter ma- 

 nure, because of the extreme division which 

 it had undergone. Now they would observe 

 that, by having this large additional amount 

 of manure, they would get larger crops, and 

 introduce a system which woutd go on annu- 

 ally increasing the amount of their produce, 

 and consequently the amount of their profits. 

 This would enable them to farm higher, and 

 by farming high, they would keep that place 

 which, he was sure, they now occupied in 

 the history of the world. He would like- 

 wise direct their attention to the use of lin- 



seed, and the preparation of food, as being 

 of great value in keeping working animals 

 in good condition; but on this point he would 

 not detain them by giving a special detail of 

 facts, as the same general principles applied 

 in the one case which applied in the other. 

 As he had occupied the attention of the 

 meeting at considerable length, he would 

 conclude for the present, reserving any addi- 

 tional remarks which he had to make, and 

 the replies to any questions which the com- 

 pany might think he could usefully answer, 

 until after the general discussion had ended. 

 — American Journal of Agriculture and 

 Science. 



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The following table shows the quantity of 

 Anthracite Coal sent to market from the 

 different regions in Pennsylvania, from 

 the commencement of the trade in 1820 

 to 1846, inclusive; with the annual in- 

 crease, consumption, <SfC. [From the an- 

 nual official statements published by the 

 Pottsville Miners^ Journal.] 



Coal and Iron are becoming, if indeed they have not 

 already become, the great staples of Pennsylvania . 

 and we think it needs no apology for inserting the fol- 

 lowing table, — developing as it does, such extraordina- 

 ry facts— in an Agricultural Journal.— Ed. 



