ery plant has a particular constitution (if I may be allowed the 

 expression,) which requires a particular climate, soil and nutri- 

 ment, and, ifdenied either, becomes feeble, sickly, and may die. 

 Following land with a succession of crops of the same kind, may 

 eventually exhaust it of those particular qualities in which they 

 delight. A field of potatoes has been reared, of the most luxuri- 

 ant growth. In the following year the same crop continued; 

 and, though manure was abundantly supplied, it was feeble, and 

 of scarce any value. Did not the preceding planting exhaust 

 the soil of those particular qualities in which the root delights? 

 Succeeded by different seed, the increase was satisfactory. It be- 

 ing most evident, there is something in every soil particularly 

 suited to nourish certain vegetables, may not these qualities be 

 exhausted, and render a change expedient and profitable ? 



A common error we observe in husbandry is, continuing the 

 cultivation of the same field, while others, of a better soil, are 

 permitted to lie neglected. How often we see the son planting 

 and sowing year after year the same spot of ground, for no bet- 

 ter reason than that his father did before him ; while by the side 

 lie lands of a far richer soil, devoted to grazing. Old worn-out 

 lands are followed with the plough and the hoe, affording a very 

 scanty increase ; while a rich soil is neglected, because it 

 would require some labor to subdue it. The judicious farmer 

 will scarcely think of estimating the expense of sbbduing a soil 

 naturally rich and fertile, knowing he will be amply remunerat- 

 ed by the increase. 



It is believed this is a too prevalent error with our farmers: 

 they have a certain set time, in which their sowing and plant- 

 ing must be completed ; and do not pay due regard to the sea- 

 son, and the slate of their land. The husbandman should be 

 carefully observant of the opening and advance of the season, 

 and have particular respect to the state of his land in putting in 

 his seed. Is your land wet, you must wait till it acquires suffi- 

 cient warmth and dryness for the seed to vegetate. Many crops 

 have been lost from an impatience to have done sowing and 

 planting. 



We cannot refrain from expressing our gratitude to those gen- 

 tlemen who originated this society, our satisfaction in the inter- 



