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plants, from which to choose, are rye, spelts, barley, 
potatoes, turnips(1) lupins, Indian corn, clover, san- 
foin, and many of the pasture grasses. In loams, 
(which are nearly an equal mixture of sand, clay 
and decomposed vegetables) the choice of plants is 
much enlarged ; embracing what is more peculiarly 
proper for both sand and clay, and having, besides, 
the following plants from which to select: Rice, 
millet, sorqum (African millet) lucern, indigo, cot- 
ton, hops, tobacco, madder, hemp, flax, &c. &c. The 
following cases will sufficiently illustrate the princi- 
ples on which they rest, viz: Never to select for a 
crop, plants not adapted to the soil ; and never, in 
any soil, to permit two crops of the same species, or 
kind, to follow each other. 
2d. Of ihe rotation best adapted to our own soil, me- 
ridian and markets. 
Previously to entering upon this subject, it may 
not be amiss to glance at the practice hitherto pre- 
valent among us. What this was, in 1801, may be 
seen in the answer of an English gentleman and tra- 
veller, (Mr. Strickland,) to certain queries of the 
British board of agriculture, in relation to the state 
of husbandry here. After remarking that. New- 
England was not a corn country, and had little, to do 
with the plough, and that New-York was then, and 
would continue to be, the granary of America, he 
proceeds to divert his British readers with the fol- 
_ (1) We here speak of the white turnip. The Ruta Baga, or Swedish turnip, is 
elassed by French agriculturists among the products of strong substantial clay soils: 
Inthe next section we shall speak of the culture of some particular plants, and among 
these, of the Swedish turnip. 
