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destroy somewhere else, leaving the old plantation to grow up 

 again to worthless forest trees. I hope this subject will be con- 

 tinued and more fully discussed at our meeting next Tuesday, as 

 it is one that we should all think more about ; we should think 

 that however much an individual may increase in wealth, if in 

 doing so he destroys the soil so that all future generations must 

 starve, his increase of crops and wealth is an injury instead of a 

 blessing to the body politic. The chairman asked if we could not 

 devise some plan to bring back the rich soil from the bottom of 

 the rivers to the land 7 We should rather devise a system of til- 

 lage that will prevent the land from washing away. It should 

 be a rule in all hilly countries that every slope should ahvays be 

 plowed level — no matter how long or how crooked the rows are ; 

 let them wind round the hill and always plow by the plum and 

 level. When it is necessary, put in side-hill ditches to carry of 

 all the water and save all wasli and loss of the soil I move that 

 the present question be continued, and that the subject of a bet- 

 ter system of agricultural education to be introduced into our 

 common schools be also discussed. 



Mr. Solon Robinson would like to discuss the question, "Ought 

 all farm products to be sold by the pound 1" 



Mr. Wagoner said that the true union of all the proper ele- 

 ments of soil by true cultivation, reminded him of our glorious 

 national line " United we stand, divided we fall. He that takes 

 the food from his ox soon loses the labor of the ox. He who 

 ruins his land, scrapes off all vegetation, and leaves it all bare to 

 a burning sun, does likewise. 



Mr. Solon Robinson — We are cursed with a parcel of old anti- 

 quated notions in agriculture which prevent us from doing what 

 we should do and can do forthwith — that is, raise twice as much 

 on an acre as we now do. 



Chairman — The remarks of Mr. Waring to-day are excellent, 

 and very suggestive; they are worthy of and require deep con- 

 sideration. Our lands lessening its yield fearfully ! We might 

 tremble for our lives ere long if that be so and no preventives 



