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have made hard farms good ones, are rich. I do not 

 find that tliey were born rich, nor that they have mar- 

 ried rich wives^ but some how or other, they have grown 

 rich ; and I know not how to account for it, but on the 

 supposition that this making good land out of poor, 

 and then raising crops on it, is a pretty well-paid busi- 

 ness. I think it is so — that the man who snakes a poor 

 farm better^ is better paid for his trouble than the one who 

 makes a good farm poorer. His satisfaction, if he ever 

 reflects on his doings, must certainly be greater. 



435. On another part of this farm was supposed to 

 be a heavy clay soil, too refractory to work with re- 

 munerating results ; and, side by side, as not unfre- 

 quently happens, a light sandy loam, unequal to the 

 trust of retaining the manures committed to it. Now, 

 if the owner should be tempted to go with his team 

 and work for other people, at $2 a day, it may be 

 wise ; he may need the ready pay — we suppose he 

 knows his own business ; — but let him remember that 

 a day's work with his team, in carrying back and forth, 

 from one of these soils to the other, would be likely 

 to bring him much more than $2 a day in the end. 



ROTATION OF CROPS. 



436. The prevailing system of rotation in England 

 is what is called the Norfolk system. It is a foui 

 years' course — turnips, barley, clover, wheat, and then 

 the same over. This is adapted to light soils — those 

 called barley rsoils. It is considered that the turnip, 

 crop, eaten off by sheep, prepares t|ie ground for bar. 



