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prepare tlie land. It would often happen that one 

 dollar's worth of just what the land required for a 

 particular crop, would benefit that crop as much as 

 ten dollars worth of manure thrown on at random. 

 And although special manures, containing just what a 

 particular crop might require, and no more, would not - 

 permanently enrich the soil ; yet, by producing good 

 crops for the time, these crops would produce manure, 

 and so furnish the means of enriching the land perma- 

 nently. 



IMPORTANCE OP MANURES. 



283. Good farming always tends to better ; and on 

 no point is this more strikingly true, than in the care 

 and application of manures. A load of manure well 

 applied, not only produces a greater crop this year, 

 but that extra crop produces more manure next year, 

 and that extra manure produces a greater crop the 

 year after, and so on indefinitely. 



284. When speaking of lands, in another section, I 

 ghall have occasion to touch upon several kinds of 

 manure, as better adapted than others to particular 

 descriptions of land. If there should be some repeti- 

 tion, I should regret it the less from the fact that the 

 subject of manures is the most important to which the 

 farmer's attention can be drawn. If he manage this 

 part of his concerns well, a foundation is laid for suc- 

 cess throughout ; if he fail here, he will fail through- 

 out. 



