LOW LANDS. 



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who are determined to make trial of our mode of treat- 

 ing these lands. We beg of all our brother farmers to 

 make the trial of at least one acre each. We know 

 what will be the result, for we have been practising on 

 this plan for years. We bring our low lands directly 

 into grass from grass, without going through with the 

 very unprofitable process of planting such lands with 

 corn or potatoes. 



We have formerly said much on this subject, but we 

 think it must not yet be dropped ; and, especially, as 

 we have very many new patrons who wish to know 

 our views in full on a system of seeding lands to grass 

 which never has been extensively practised in any part 

 of the world. 



Any farmer may try a single acre without fear of 

 ruin, for he may plough it in a day, and one more day 

 will serve to carry on his manure and seed it to grass. 

 If he dare not venture so far out of the common course 

 of husbandry, let him try one fourth of an acre, and 

 finish up the business in half a day. 



Every farmer of fifty acres has some land too low to 

 be planted. Every one has lands which he cannot 

 make so productive as he would wish. If we pursue 

 the system of planting each field before we lay it to 

 grass, the process requires so much manure we cannot 

 do justice to all our fields: some must lie nearly un- 

 productive, merely for want of due attention. 



In general, the time to plough is when there is 

 something on the ground that, may be turned in green. 

 This is the cheapest, the easiest, the safest mode of 

 enriching our worn-out fields. By adopting this plan 

 we can easily make all our tillage-lands fertile. We 

 can go through each field with such rapidity that the 

 whole farm may feel the benefit of our presence. By 

 ploughing in a green crop of rowen at this time, but 

 very little manure is required in addition for an acre, 

 and we are thus enabled to seed down four acres for 

 one for the next season's mowing. 



