182 CAUSE OP DEFECTIVE RESULTS. 



4th. Because of the want of enough labour to use properly both 

 calcareous and putrescent manures, the collecting and applying of 

 the latter were greatly neglected as long as there was full employ- 

 ment in and need for marling. 



5th. The adoption of cotton culture, for five years, occupied for 

 that crop and for that time the best land of the farm, and some- 

 times the whole of the very good land, and took all the prepared 

 putrescent manure, to the great diminution of other crops ; while 

 this culture caused (by its clean and continual tillage) more wast- 

 ing of soil, and more detriment to general fertilization, than grain 

 and clover husbandry. 



6th. The general bad practical management, and want of economy 

 in details, which, I have to confess, have attended all my business, 

 and throughout my life, of course injuriously affected this import- 

 ant branch of my farming ; though in a less degree, because it was, 

 as much as possible, kept under my personal and close attention. 



7th. In 1827, my residence was removed from my farm, and my 

 personal attention much decreased ; and some years later was en- 

 .tirely withdrawn. 



To what extent all these drawbacks to full success operated, ag 

 well as the actual degree of success achieved, may be inferred from 

 the tabular statement of the crops made, both before and since 

 marling, and from 1813 to 1851. The much greater increase of 

 production obtained in later years on the Coggins Point farm was 

 mainly owing to the adoption of a better rotation of crops, includ- 

 ing clover-fallow for wheat, and to the residence, and personal and 

 judicious direction of my eldest son, who since the beginning of 

 1839 has been the occupant of the farm (and more lately the sole 

 proprietor), and, throughout this time, the sole director of its cul- 

 tivation and general management. Until this change of direction 

 occurred, the actual measure of productive power in the land, 

 which had been created by the marling, was not known. A large 

 share of this power, before dormant and concealed, was now brought 

 for the first time into action, and made apparent. The like condi- 

 tions of residence, attentive supervision, and a better system of 

 rotation, in my own case, also greatly hastened and increased the 

 success of my later marling labours (resumed after a long diversion 

 of my efforts to different objects), in a new locality, and under 

 very difficult and also very different circumstances from those of 

 my earlier farming. These recent labours, and the results, will 

 again be brought forward. 



The following general statement of the then condition of the 

 farm was published in 1842. The still later and much greater 

 productiveness will appear in the annexed table of crops, which 

 will be now extended so as to include the latest obtained. 



The many and extensive old galled parts of sloping land, 



