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brought about, either naturally or artificially, and how it 

 is to be corrected ? 



3d. What plants, in general, require to make them grow- 

 well? 



4th. What manures ought to contain, to be generally ser- 

 viceable ; what, with a view to special purposes, they ought 

 specially to contain ; and how they are to be artificially 

 prepared ? 



But such topics are too general and indefinite to make a 

 sure impression on the mind of the practical farmer, in the 

 brief moments I have spent in enumerating them. 



I mention further, therefore, such special points as the 

 following : — 



1st. How to bring crops to earlier ripeness in late and 

 elevated districts. 



2d. How to reduce the straw producing tendency of the 

 land. 



3d. How to hasten or promote, or to push forward lag- 

 gard, yellow, and stunted vegetation. 



4th. How to strengthen the straw of your grass crops, 

 where they are liable to be laid. 



6th. How to fill the ear and make it larger, where long 

 culture or natural poverty has reduced its size. 



6th. How to improve the deficient feeding quality of 

 turnip, and other root crops, when grown on mossy land. 



7th. To quicken the organic matter in dead, deaf, or 

 peaty soils, and make it available for the nourishment of 

 plants. 



8 th. To prepare artificial manures, which shall nourish 

 any crop on any available soil. 



9th. To promote growth on slmv, and to retard it on 

 quick soils. 



10th. On newly brought up subsoils, and on trenched 

 land, what manures ought to be used, and why. 



