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duce in one year, a sufficient supply of nitro- 

 gen for the formation of 800 pounds of wheat, 

 or 900 pounds of barley; a fact of sufficient 

 importance, it is hoped, to induce a trial at 

 least — and this trial fairly made, we have no 

 doubt of the result. 



Indeed, if all the human excrement, now 

 worse than wasted, were applied to the pur- 

 poses of agriculture, animal manure might be 

 entirely dispensed with. But if we look at 

 the subject on an extended scale, and see the 

 thousands of acres now barely cultivated at all, 

 but all of which only require manure to be ap- 

 plied to them, to enable them to yield abun- 

 dant crops ; and if we reflect on the benefits 

 all must derive from such an increase to the 

 real wealth of the country, as the cultivation 

 of these lands would induce ; and farther, that 

 the increased means thus affi)rded, would as 

 certainly induce an increased population, 

 which again in their turn, acting fully up to 

 this system, would again prove another source 

 of wealth and strength to the community, — 

 we may be enabled to estimate in some slight 

 measure, the order and arrangement that ex- 

 ists in nature, for the support of all her crea- 

 tures ; and that it is the neglect of those means, 

 which Providence in its wisdom, has placed 

 at the service of man, and not any imperfec- 

 tion in the grand scheme of the creation, 

 which has induced the impious belief by some, 

 that a redundant population may be a curse 

 instead of a blessing. 



But to return more immediately to our sub- 

 ject. Enough has been said to show that 



