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getting too much and the third plowing takes place, 

 followed this time by the subsoil plow if time will 

 permit. I have always found it best in breaking in 

 new ground, to crop with Potatoes, Corn, or late Cab- 

 bages the first season, unless by preparation in early 

 fall it has acquired the proper mellow state necessary 

 for crops of garden vegetables or small fruits ; but it 

 rarely happens that any amount of labor or manur- 

 ing can so prepare the ground the first season as to 

 bring it to that high degree of tilth necessary for 

 growing garden vegetables as they should be grown, 

 and any attempt to do so will result in a meagre 

 crop, which will not pay at least in such districts 

 as New York, where there is always abundance of 

 products of the first quality. It must not be expected 

 that the crops of Potatoes, etc., will give much profit 

 for this unusual outlay in preparation and manure, 

 for they certainly will not, and the beginner must be 

 content to wait for his profits until the second sea- 

 son. These are certain to be realized if these prep- 

 arations have been properly made. Hence will be seen 

 the necessity for capital in this business, for the re- 

 turns, though highly remunerative, are not always 

 quick. 



