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instead of being as they now are, about seventeen million of 

 dollars, would have been one hundred and twenty million 

 of dollars. 



Let us boldly face the fact : Our country has drawn out of the 

 earth three-fourths of the vegetable matter it contained within 

 reach of the plough. If we suck our mother to death we must 

 die ourselves. Though she is reduced to a skeleton, let us not 

 despair J she is indulgent, and if we return to the duties revealed 

 by the consecjuences of their inlraction, to be prescribed by God, 

 and demonstrated by the same consequences to comport with our 

 interest, she will yet yield us milk. We must restore to the 

 earth its vegetable matter before it can restore to us bountiful 

 crops. Forbear, oh, forbear, matricide ! not for futurity, not for 

 Ood's sake, but for your own sake. The labor necessary to kill 

 the remnant of life in your hands will suffice to revive them, 

 and give plenty and happiness. 



Deep Ploughing. — It is at enmity with shallow ploughing, be- 

 cause it admits atmospherical manure into the earth by water and 

 air to it; it accords with deep ploughing because it enables the 

 earth to absorb more atmospherical manure through the two 

 great vehicles, air and water, and because it buries deeper the ma- 

 nure deposited on the earth, inhaling thus more and exhaling 

 less. 



Pumpkins, by means of shading the earth with their leaves, 

 are good for the land. 



G urney ism — Meigs . 



Same subject continued — Statistics of Agriculture. 



The Club then adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary 



