is generally applied to the former, were used on the 

 latter, the crop would be equally as large, and the land 

 would be left in far better heart. The same is true, 

 also, with regard to grass-land. Ten tons of English 

 hay, on five acres of ground, can be cut and cured, with 

 as little delay and expense as five tons on ten acres. 

 The gain in this respect, to say nothing of other ad- 

 vantages, must be apparent to all. I know of a farm, 

 in this county, consisting of but forty acres of tillage and 

 mowing, full one quarter of which, when I lately saw 

 it, was under root cultivation, and a luxuriant growth of 

 rowen covered the remainder. From this had been 

 taken, the present season, forty-five tons of English 

 hay, all of which was cut, cured and stored by three 

 men; and it was but eleven days from the time the first, 

 till the last load went into the barn. 



But suppose that your farm is a dairy-farm, consisting 

 of a large range of pasture. There are the fences and 

 the gates to be maintained, and the taxes to be paid, 

 double what they would be, on half the extent of ground. 

 And the larger the pasturage, the less likely w411 it be 

 to receive any efforts to renovate its fertility. Hence, 

 we see, throughout the county, large tracts of such land, 

 moss-grown and nearly barren, which needs only the 

 plow, and a moderate supply of manure and hay seed, 

 to bring it into good condition. But the extent of this 

 description of land discourages the attempt. I am al- 

 most inclined to the opinion, that, could many of our 

 farms be divided into halves, and one moiety lie fallow 

 for five or ten years, and the other moiety only be cul- 

 tivated and fed, we should, in the end, find our account 

 in the increased fertility of the latter, from the very fact, 

 that our resources were better husbanded, and our la- 

 bor and manure better applied. 



There is another prominent error prevalent among 

 our farmers, which operates powerfully to their injury. 

 I mean the little pains which they take to improve the 

 manure-heap, and to preserve it in the best possible con- 

 dition for use. I say nothing as to the best method of 

 applying manures — whether by plowing-in, harrowing- 



