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are desirous of realizing something more from their 

 occupation than a naked return of the amount ex- 

 pended. 



The farmer who is so sparing of his manure that 

 he can get but thirty bushels of corn from an acre, 

 gets barely enough to pay him for the expense of 

 cultivation, and in addition to this, by the ordinary 

 method of ploughing, his field, at each successive 

 rotation, is deteriorating, his crops becoming less, 

 and in a few years he finds he must abandon his ex- 

 hausted and worn out fields to seek a subsistence for 

 himself and family in some other business, or in 

 some other region, where the hand of man has been 

 less wasteful of the bounties of nature. 



Instead then of his scanty manuring of ten cart 

 loads to the acre, which will give him but thirty 

 bushels of corn, let him apply thirty loads. This 

 additional twenty loads, at the usual price of 

 manure in this part of the country, will cost him 

 thirty dollars. But he now, instead of thirty bushels 

 of corn, gets sixty bushels, and the increased 

 quantity of stover will more than pay for the excess 

 of labor required in cultivating and harvesting the 

 large crop over that of the small one. He has then 

 added thirty bushels of corn to his crop by means of 

 the tw^enty loads of manure, which at the usual price 

 of one dollar per bushel, pays him in the first crop 

 for his extra outlay. His acre of land, is laid to 

 grass after taking off the corn, and the effect of his 

 twenty loads of additional manuring, will be to give 

 him, at the lowest estimate, three additional tons of 

 hay in the first three years of mowing it, worth fif- 

 teen dollars a ton standing in the field. Now look 

 at the result. His thirty dollars expended for extra 

 manuring was paid for in the first year's crop, and 

 at the end of three years more, he will have receiv- 

 ed forty five dollars profit on his outlay of thirty dol- 

 lars ; and in addition to this, his land is improved, 

 and in much better condition for a second rotation. 

 There is no delusion in this. It is a practical result^ 



