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SOW half a bushel more of rye : the plough may go a 

 little deeper than on the first ploughing, say one inch 

 deeper each year, until we get a soil seven inches ia 

 depth. Thus we would spend five days for sixty 

 bushels of wheat, instead of twenty-five days for sixty 

 bushels of corn. 



Then, instead of putting all our green manure on 

 corn and potato land, we would save the coarsest of it, 

 and, with that mixed with peat muck., soil from the 

 roadside, soil in the fieldside, where iJt had accumu- 

 lated, and with any other vegetable or animal matter, 

 make a compost heap, to be ready for use by the last of 

 August. By the aid of this heap we would renovate 

 not less than half a dozen acres of this grass-land, 

 which has lain too long without ploughing, and pre- 

 pare it for the next year for grass. 



The process, is simple and easy : plough well, lay 

 the furrow flat, roll down close, so that the harrow 

 shall not tear it up, put a dozen loads of this compost 

 to the acre, harrow lengthwise of the furrow, then a 

 little diagonally, so as to mix the manure in thorough- 

 ly, and seed down with one peck of herds-grass and 

 one bushel of red-top to the acre. In the winter, some 

 clover-seed- may be sown on the snow. 



In this manner we would proceed until \ye had gone 

 overall the plough-land, and got it into good grass; 

 and thus we would have, with that which was in hoed 

 crops, nine or ten acres of new-sowed mow-land each 

 year ; and, when we had been through the lots, we 

 would begin again, and one half the manure at first 

 used would be sufficient for this second course ; for 

 the old sods would be rotten, and aid the new appli- 

 ance : thus twice the number of acres may be reno- 

 vated each year in this second course. Or, if only six 

 acres were taken in hand each year, they may be made 

 twice as rich as in the first course ; and every renewal 

 of this process will make the land richer, because grass 

 is not an exhauster. 



