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farm any faster than he sees the way clear for a 

 certam and compensating profit in the end ; and this 

 end may be more or less remote, according to the 

 means at his convenient command. With these lim- 

 itations and restrictions, the point to be aimed at, is 

 the greatest possible production from year to year. 



The earth is a kind, faithful, and generous mother, 

 and she will repay and reward any investment of 

 labor or capital, which is made in accordance with 

 these principles. Particular seasons, from drought, 

 or other causes, may disappoint the expectations, or 

 defeat the plans of the husbandman ; but I speak of 

 the cultivation of a course of years ; and affirm, that 

 the farmer should make from year to year the great- 

 est possible drafts from the earth, always having 

 reference to income or profit, immediate or eventual, 

 and the improvement and amelioration of his farm. 

 In this way, the productive power of a farm, by ju- 

 dicious and efficient husbandry, may be indefinitely 

 extended. Production, properly applied and ex- 

 pended, increases the power of production, so that 

 it would be difficult to prescribe the limit, beyond 

 which production might not be carried. 



I am not now speaking in reference to modes of 

 husbandry or cultivation, unsuited to the circum- 

 stances, wants or condition of the county. I have 

 no reference to modern English agriculture, as dis- 

 tinguished from our own. We all know that the 

 agricultural productions of that country have been 

 amazingly increased within the last twenty or thirty 

 years, but by modes of cultivation in part, which 

 would not be suited to the circumstances existing 

 among ourselves. I refer to what has been done, 

 and is now doing by some of the practical farmers 

 among ourselves with eminent success — and with 

 great pecuniary advantage. The cry of the farmer 

 should be perpetual, give, give, GIVE, taking care 

 himself to return more strength and nutriment, in 

 the form of manures, than have been exhausted by 

 his crops, in this manner preparing the way for a 

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