56 AMERICAN HUSBANDRY. 



On a farm of 913 acres of good barley land. 



'he olci tritem, t'udrr he in pmH or 



two crop* and * (allow. alirrtnn i)t en>. 



Produce in cattle ./ 210 f 1008 II'Ji'j-* 



Produce in gram . 894- 4291 20 2030- 9.744 



Gross produce . . 1104 529920 327915,73920 



Expenses of cul- 

 tivation .... 537 2577 60 1051 5,044 30 



Nett produce . . 567 2721 60 222810,694 40 



The last line comprises rent, profit, interest on 

 capital, tithes and taxes of any description, the ob- 

 ject being simply to show the comparative results of 

 the two systems of cultivation. The system is not 

 founded on speculative views, but on extensive and 

 accurate observation during a long series of years 

 by a man well acquainted with the practical business 

 of agriculture. Indeed, I may observe in passing, 

 that there is no work in the English language to be 

 compared with Von Thaer's, so far as my knowl- 

 edge extends. I am not surprised at the low esti- 

 mation of works on agriculture among practical 

 farmers. Instead of containing, as they ought to 

 do, a digest of all that is necessary to be known by 

 a single competent hand, such works consist, for the 

 most part, of loose collections of suggestions, spec- 

 ulations, experiments, and observations ; correct 

 and incorrect, authenticated and unauthenticated ; 

 thrown together apparently almost at random, with- 

 out order or discrimination. 



It will be seen, on comparing Von Thaer's num- 

 bers, that his estimate of the expenses and produce 

 on the two systems of cultivation respectively is in 

 round numbers as follows : On the improved system 

 the expenses of cultivation is double ; the gross pro- 

 duce is triple ; the nett produce is quadruple. 



This statement, however, being expressed in so 

 general and abstract a form, and resting, as it does, 

 on the authority of an unknown author, is not likely, 



