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per statute acre. As to green crops, 30 tons of turnips, 

 3 tons of clover, and from 8 to 10 of potatoes, per statute 

 acre, may confidently be relied on. In favorable sea- 

 sons, the crops are still more abundant." Professor 

 Lowe gives the average products of Scotch husbandry 

 somewhat lower than the above. It is to be remem- 

 bered, that, sixty years ago, the average was probably 

 not one quarter as much as it is now. 



Loudon states the average product of wheat in Eng- 

 land, at 24, 28, and 32 bushels per acre — mean average 

 26 bushels. 



The preceding references are made to old-settled 

 countries — to lands which have been under culture for 

 many centuries — to lands which were once worn out by 

 bad husbandry, but which have been renovated and ren- 

 dered highly productive by the new system. 



In 1790, General Washington, in a letter to Arthur 

 Young, computed the average crop in Pennsylvania, 

 then one of the best wheat-growing States, as follows : — 

 wheat 15 bushels, rye 20, barley 25, oats 30, Indian 

 corn 25, potatoes 75. Mr. Strickland, who resided in 

 Maryland about forty years ago, in a report which he 

 made to the British Board of Agriculture, gave the aver- 

 age product of our wheat crop at 12 bushels the acre, 

 and of Dutchess county, then, as now, our best cultiva- 

 ted county, at 16 bushels. 



Bordley, about the period we are referring to, stated 

 the average yield of Indian corn, on the Eastern Shore 

 of Maryland, at 15 bushels per acre. 



These quotations are sufficient to show, that in our 

 old-improved districts, the crops do not in any wise com- 

 pare with those grown in Flanders, Scotland, and Eng- 

 land, — and this difference in product is owing entirely to 

 the different modes of managing the soil ; for wherever 

 the new system has had a fair trial among us, it has been 

 as successful as it has been in Europe. 



We will illustrate still further the difference between 

 the two systems, by stating the products, or their value, 

 on the same lands, under the old and under the new sys- 

 tems of husbandry. 



