Inspection of Mr. Foster's Farm. 30$ 



the plants above the till, is attended with the 

 inconvenience of the crop ripening unequally, 

 and when lodged in the furrows, its having no 

 chance of rising. We saw a field extremely 

 well fallowed and ready for sowing, which might 

 then have been accomplished had not the rain 

 of the preceding night precluded the attempt; 

 and when the advanced period of the season is 

 taken into consideration, it is not improbable 

 that the sowing of it may be retarded till the 

 succeeding spring. 



The production of profitable green crops on 

 such a soil, if not impracticable, must be pre- 

 carious. I was somewhat surprised at the great 

 number of acres dedicated to potatoes, which 

 long since have appeared to me an exhausting 

 crop, and injurious to good husbandry in all 

 situations, as it requires so large a portion of 

 manure without making any return ; but on a 

 poor soil baneful to the cultivator. The artificial 

 sown grasses had not a promising appearance. 



Beside the difficulties inseparable from the 

 management of so ungenial a soil, Mr. Foster 

 has to supply manure to a very extensive 

 kitchen garden, from the quantity he is able to 

 collect from the farm ; this necessarily deprives 

 it of much of the dung to which it is fairly 



