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cannot be profitably grown. If the first attempt fail, indicating a 

 want in the soil or incongenial climate, early sowing and an applica- 

 tion of the mineral constituents of the wheat plant, which can be 

 cheaply made, will make success a certainty. The farmer, before 

 adopting the line of husbandry to be pursued, and the crops to be 

 sold from the farm, should know precisely what effect that culture 

 and the deportation of those crops will have upon his farm, that he 

 may guard against its deterioration. If the wants of his market in- 

 duce him to engage in vegetable culture, and he sells potatoes, cab- 

 bage, onions, and the varied products of the market garden, he should 

 know that he is rapidly exporting the potash of his soil, and in no 

 small amount the lime and magnesia. And if he would be able to 

 keep his land in condition to continually produce such crops, he 

 must continually supply the loss. If milk is taken as his market 

 product, he should be aware that in this article he is sending away a 

 concentration of all the finest, best elements of the soil's fertility, 

 both mineral and nitrogenous, and the land won't long bear the 

 drain, without losing its power to produce those fine succulent grasses 

 necessary to produce milk. If he make cheese, it is but little better, 

 and the exported material must be supplied Avith some sort of fertil- 

 izer. If butter is his chosen product for sale, and his skimmed milk 

 is consumed at home, he has little care to take about depleting his 

 soil, but must watch with closest scrutiny the process of manufactu- 

 ring his product, feed judiciously and kindly care for his stock, while 

 he grows as rich as the golden balls he sends to market. For this 

 crop takes almost nothing of the mineral elements of fertility from 

 the soil, but is composed chiefly of carbon, which the acid of the air 

 will supply to the herbage of his fields without thought or care of him. 

 If, owing to circumstances, he chooses to enter the lists and com- 

 pete in the beef market with the western farmer, let him purchase of 

 that farmer or somebody else, mature animals, not to grow, but simply 

 to fatten upon his pastures, or in his stalls, and his profit will come 

 quickly and in satisfactory amount, and he takes from his land little 

 else but carbon in the fat he puts on the carcass purchased. If his 

 taste and his farm incline him to try his skill and intelligence in 

 growing stock, let him select some one of our thorough-bred breeds, and 

 rear for a live market (and here, at the present time, is one of our 

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