AMERICAN HUSBANDRY. 



CHAPTER I. 



NEW HUSBANDRY. 



Introduction. Manuring. Draining. Good Tillage. Alterna- 

 ting Crops. Root Culture. Fallow Crops. Rules and Sugges- 

 tions in Husbandry. Comparative Profits of the Old and New 

 Husbandry. 



To no one individual is the agricultural public of 

 this country more indebted for correct opinions on 

 the important subject of Improved Husbandry than 

 to Judge BUEL ; and his influence in bringing the sys- 

 vem into repute was deservedly the greater, as the 

 principles he advocated in his writings were most 

 happily illustrated and enforced by his practice. 

 These opinions and principles are imbodied in the 

 following chapter; and prepared, as the subject- 

 matter was by him, for the purpose to which it is 

 now applied, they may be considered as the result of 

 his settled convictions and his matured experience. 

 The principal features that distinguish the New from 

 the Old Husbandry are here made sufficiently appa- 

 rent ; and the theory is not more beautifully in ac- 

 cordance with nature, than the results are found to 

 be beneficial to the agriculturist. 

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