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Might be advantageously pursued, and the students required by 

 turns to labour one or two days or half days every week, with 

 an experienced husbandman and gardener, who should be select- 

 ed to manage a farm connected with the institution. Such a 

 seminary, well endowed and properly managed, would furnisii 

 more useful instructers for town schools in agricultural districts 

 than can now be obtained. It would answer all the purposes 

 of a pattern-farm, rapidly disseminate knowledge of the greatest 

 improvements in the art, and produce the most accomplished 

 farmers and useful citizens. 



Another cause of the slow progress that has been made in the 

 art of husbandry is the small profit which farmers generally re- 

 alize from their labours. This has hitherto induced many of 

 our most enterprising citizens to seek more lucrative business^ 

 and tended to discourage those who have continued to cultivate 

 the soil. To render agriculture, therefore, more profitable, as 

 well as more honourable, is a primary object with agricultural 

 societies. How can this be accomplished ? By practising, 

 among other things, on the following fundamental principles of 

 husbandry. 



1. Cultivate no more land than can be thoroughly plough- 

 ed, well manured at once, and kept free from weeds. 



2. Never keep land many years under the same crops. 



3. Never lay land into grass, except it be well prepared, 

 and in a very rich condition. 



Suppose for example you possess a field of arable land, con- 

 taining" eight acres ; how can it be most advantageously man- 

 aged? According to the author who lays down the foregoing 

 rules, plough up annually, in autumn, two acres. Let it be 

 cross ploughed, harrowed, highly mannted, planted with corn or 

 potatoes, and well tended the following spring and summer. In 

 the spring next following, plough it twice, and sow it with grain 

 and clover. In this way, by keeping the land in rotation, one 

 year under Indian com or potatoes, one year under English 

 grain, and two years under clover, it would produce the most 

 abundant crops, and be contitiually growing better, as the large 

 'ap roots of the clover especially would greatly ameliorate and 

 'Enrich the soil. After going through this routine several times, 



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