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causes have already begun to operate 1 Do we get 

 as much wheat per acre on such lands as we did 

 twenty years ago ? 1 f not, to what cause shall we at- 

 tribute the falling oft"] One of the most important 

 questions a farmer can ask himself is, How shall 

 this reduction of crops be arrested where it has al- 

 ready commenced, and prevented where it does not 

 yet exist ? 



CHAPTER XII. 



Address of the Hon Judge Buel, delivered before the Agricul- 

 tural and Horticultural Societies of New-Haven County, 

 September 25, 1839. 



I APPEAR here, gentlemen, by invitation, to address 

 you on the cultivation of the soil, which it is the ob- 

 ject of the associations here convened to promote 

 improvement in. I have been prompted in the un- 

 dertaking rather by a desire to render a service, 

 than from any confidence in my ability to perform 

 one ; and, in the few remarks I have to offer, shall 

 need much of your indulgence for imperfections in 

 style and deficiency in matter. 



Agriculture and Horticulture are intimately related 

 to each other. They both depend upon the soil, and 

 the animals and plants which it nurtures, for sup- 

 port, for profit, and for pleasure. They both admin- 

 ister and are indispensable to our wants and com- 

 forts. They are governed in their operations by the 

 same natural laws. Agriculture has cognizance of 

 the farm, which supplies our principal wants ; Hor- 

 ticulture of the garden, which administers to our 

 more refined appetites, to our health, and to the ra- 

 tional pleasures of the mind. The one gives us 

 bread and meat, and the materials for our clothing; 

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