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county of Norfolk ; a county, however, which he 

 had not the pleasure to visit. Its soil, he understood, 

 is light, a little inclined to sand, or light loam. Such 

 soils are not unfavorable to roots. Here is the place 

 of the remarkable cultivation and distinguished im- 

 provements of that eminent cultivator, Mr. Coke, 

 now Earl of Leicester.* In these lands, he under- 

 stood, a common rotation is turnips, barley, clover, 

 wheat. These lands resemble much of the land in 

 our county of Plymouth ; and the sandy lands to be 

 found in the vicinity of the Connecticut and Merri- 

 mack rivers. The cultivation of green crops in New 

 England deserves attention. There is no incapaci- 

 ty in our soil ; and there are no circumstances unfa- 

 vorable to their production. What would be the best 

 kind of succulent vegetables to be cultivated, whether 

 turnips, or carrots, he was not prepared to say. But no 

 attempts within his knowledge had been made among 

 us of a systematic agriculture ; and until we enter up- 

 on some regular rotation of crops, and our husband- 

 ry becomes more systematic, no distinguished success 

 can be looked for. As to our soil, as had been re- 

 marked, there is no inherent incapacity for the pro- 

 duction of any of the common crops. We could 

 raise wheat in Massachusetts. The average crop in 

 England is twenty-six bushels to the acre. From his 

 own farm, and it was comparatively a thin and poor 

 soil, he had obtained this summer seventy-six bushels 

 of wheat upon three acres of land. It is not, there- 

 fore, any want of capability in the soil ; but the im- 



* He has increased the rental of his farms by his improvements, from twenty-five 

 to two hundred thousand dollars a year. H. C 



