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gives conclufive evidence ;" and hi^own experience 

 eflablifhes its title to the third.* His principal ma- 

 terial for manure, is the ofFal of Indian corn. But 

 his fyflem of hufbandry embraces many contributo- 

 ry articles, among which clover and gypfum [plaifter 

 of Paris] are confpicuous. Tobacco, wheat, Indian 

 corn, in that order of fucceflion, and all without 

 manuring, had formerly exhaufted the lands in Vir- 

 ginia and Maryland ; fo that ten bufhels of corn to 

 the acre was probably a full average crop.f By his 

 admirable fyftem. Col. Taylor has reftored much of 

 his land to fuch a degree of fertility, that within the 

 laft four or five years, '* one field of two hundred 

 acres produced a crop of Indian corn averaging fifty 

 bufhels an acre." But he alfo raifes great quantities 

 of wheat. Mentioning Indian corn and wheat, he 

 fays — "No two crops can be fo exadlly fitted for 

 advancing a good fyftem of agriculture." 



The late Chancellor Livingfton of New- York, alfo 

 a diftinguifhed agriculturift, in an addrefs to the Ag- 

 ricultural Society of that ftate, in which he compared 

 the advantages of agriculture in Great Britain and 

 in the United States, pronounced (as Col. Taylor 

 has fince done) that Britain poffeffes no plant for a 

 fallow crop, equal to Indian corn. But to this point, 

 and to the general excellence of Indian corn, I add 

 the teftimony of an Englilhman, of an enlightened 

 mind, and who has devoted a long life to the ftudy 

 and practice of agriculture. I mean the well known 

 Arthur Young. He has been for fome years fecrc- 

 tary to the Englifh Board of Agriculture. 



*^ Col. Taylor's Arator, titles, Manure and Indian Corn. 



t Wilhin fifteen years I saw some small fields, as I approached the city of 

 Washington, which some of my fellow travellers, practical farmers, estimat* 

 ed at only five bushek to an acre. 



