NAKED FALLOWS. 181 



Five scarifyings, with a single-horse 



implement, at Is. 8f/. per acre, £0 8 4 

 Two harrowings, at lOJ . . . 19 



£0 10 1 



that the whole charge of cultivation, under a four-course 

 system upon this plan, including rent, was — 



Tares, beans, peas, &c. per acre, £5 



Wheat, " .500 



Oats and barley, . . " . 3 13 6 

 Clover and rye-grass, . " . 2 15 



£16 8 6 



thus only amounting to a trifle more than that of the fal- 

 low upon the former plan ; that land cultivated upon his 

 farm in this manner has yielded 460 sheaves of wheat per 

 acre, whilst the average produce of the other fields did 

 not exceed 360 ; and that the difference in favor of the 

 new method amounts, upon an average — when wheat is 

 at 105. the bushel — to £350 per annum upon the cultiva- 

 tion of 100 acres." — British Husbandry. 



We have endeavored, as we proposed, to demonstrate 

 the practicability of improving the soil, of increasing its 

 products and its profits ; of thereby multiplying the means 

 of subsistence and comfort ; of rendering our farmers, 

 who must give the impress to our character as a people, 

 more intelligent, industrious, and virtuous, and our nation 

 truly independent ; we have endeavored, we say, to show, 

 that all these desirable ends may be promoted by manu- 

 ring, draining, and good tillage ; by alternating husbandry, 

 by extending the culture of root crops, and by substituting 

 fallow crops for naked fallows. We have endeavored 

 also to show, that our suggestions, in all these branches 

 of improvement, are sanctioned by the principles of sci- 

 ence, and have been amply verified in practice. If the 

 principles we have assumed be correct, and the practice 

 we recommend in conformity with the sound principles of 

 natural philosophy, then the old-fashioned farmer is ad- 

 monished thereby to change his course of practice, if 

 he would prosper in his business, — to study, to practise, 

 and to adopt the new system of husbandry, so far as his 

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