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gold. The digging however, so enriched the ,,,il 

 that they were fully compensated for their .!! 

 pointnient. and became wealthy fr,, m the im-r. 

 produce of their farm. 



Farmers will find, on experiment, that they have 

 gold buried in their soil, if they will l,ut 

 enough to obtain it. The law -ives a man the . 

 ership of the soil for an indefinite dUance fr-.m the 

 surface, but few seem to realize that there i> tm,,tl,. ,- 

 fann below the one they are cultivating, whirh is 

 quite as valuable as the one on the surface, if it 

 but properly worked. 



Fall plotr'nuj. especially for heavy lands, is the 

 best means of securing the action of the froal 

 winter to pulverize the soil. If it be a stiff clay, it 

 will be well to throw the up-soil in high ridges i bv 

 ridging and back-furrowing,) so a- i expose the 

 largest possible amount of surface to the five/ing and 

 thawing of winter. This, with the rotting of the 

 sod, (which is thus made ready for the feeding 

 of plants,) makes the effects of fall plowing alm't 

 universally beneficial. The earlier the plowi; 

 done, the more thoroughly the sod is rotted and pre- 

 pared for the nutrition of the crop of the next year. 



The great improvement of the age in the mechan- 

 ical branch of agriculture, has been made in England, 

 during the past ten or twelve years, in the application 

 of the steam-engine to the work of cultivating the 

 soil. It would be beyond the snpe of a Dimple 

 elementary book like this to enter fully into a de- 

 scription of the machinery by which this work is 



