THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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n size, and if = should live long enough he 
old = ~~ its trunk, its 
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ownwards in the 
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thing like 34 cwt. of of cheese, and "30 or 40 Tbs. of ‘whey 
butter every year is, there may 
to the fie las, but ss 
farm, 
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5 tons of cheese have been exported ev 
how has that great draught upon the farm bee 
tained without fiais The m 
field helps the Grass great 
cheese I speak of; for you must ac 
remains. 
— 
esult ‘of — life which was bee 
here did it get that kept in cultivation 
markable truths in the ease of his own farm. Do 
think that all that bre ad and beef came out of the 
e av erage, over the try. should things | 
remain as they are for —— pr 8 the land will 
have yielded another such lot, i re food in point 
of bulk of t than . soil itself rag is. 
here has 2 ere will it all come from ? 
the Aari Now for the answer, 
lant made 5 of roots, and a stem wh 
not live in the soil only—the 
Almost the whole of 
the oe und with pores, -m 
holes in y" eki nth rough which it absorbs, sucks in foo 
the extremities of the roots have these pores fa 
i. 
every year ; and | matte 
anure that is app 
ly; etek it Serera supply meer 
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end 2 a rotation of erops as it does 
it contains a great deal more —— matter after a 
forest of trees has h did when 
* plant that grows en nters it— 
ts from the — but - panna from 
ain- 
not the mineral matter * the ‘ail = that make our 
0 our W 
— It cannot d 
to another. It must have the right things 2 to 
too much of on e thin ing will n 
e thing 
it, 
make 
E 
can believe 
year the soil of | 
se thing he 
it be me orka we 
we 
have abun 
plants t 
y | plants 
beginning ; | a 
1 to form * 1 gg of a trees 
at. grow n the land. e reat bull ur of 
each came not — the soil ag 
You will see, by-and-bye, no —— that it i — 
quite ere with — statement AN the farm 
should cultivate and manure. t e. his 
grow ; — N — ‘soil — 2 — the 
plant with much of its i i 
thing which is neces 
plant could not live. 
and manuring we 
sant tee ¥ it and without which the 
If the plonghing and 
to the crop, of eo 
e in cultivation. 
through, in order that aep may yield their op er 3 and 
us employment, as well as food, is provided fo 
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as 
ant has access to, the in- 
you will say, “ “Tt the w 
for a little while—on your ~~ ou 
gone—that it has b urned up; 
s 
the e of, which 8 
all the plants on the surface of the mear —_ if | weigh 
egeta 
I dare that the quantity o 
＋ 2 than the quantity 
the world was fully 
nd the 
1 1 is not 
which ‘lived i in any other ae 
to the soil from = 
pa back to the air fro 
magine a farm which should b be: a itl ‘world by itself— 
ies 
materials for their cottage and food for themselves ; and 
alone he could not saan he coul 
out of 
is known to say that 
dairy farms come out o 
from then t Now, "before “attempting to answer this 
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ion, pose 
instance. It contains e. t | form 
year an 
for an 
270 3 rote ind of 120 f or 130 acres ry y 
i which a average from 32 to 
38 — of Wheat pe racre; and besides these 4500 
0 bushels of Wheat, we sell — — probabi 
100 or Pil tons weight of beef, a —— ; that is, 
ff tera heavier by 
that weight than they . when brought o 
Some 100 or 200 bags of meal and 
live stock every — s0 > that a — 
pi 
, and 
mutton that we sell come from ? 
t comes from the 
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o |a little world by itself 
tion, i. e., their ashes 
feed 
Wheat enough 1 ign upon it, ms Borg and cattle, 
and Flax and ¢ hould flour so that 
voi eloth nd li — and bee 
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e from it ; 
baai leave mis bit of land, and it would, as I said, be 
il furnis por- 
came 7 2 
pieces, yet the world is m m 
of each kind of oi articles ag emk. the same number 
of pieces of each as 6000 years ago. 
It is —— I sa — with ‘aint is known, to suppose 
— t one particle has been created since not 
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ot the Lape owe just now by which the 
individuality and prope tinct character and exist- 
ee of 
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enc is proved, 3 ‘therefore you must be con- 
tent to baie me when I say tha — 
but any eultiva 
baek a few years, have to ac 
— articles whic 
mes =| the bulk ofa : tree, m = substance of butter, of i 
th 
ch go to make 
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ee or janl one different | 
fficient 
ator of the 4 oain 
knowledge the 
agricultural product not — in the in su 
come out of the soil in sufficient | 
| furnish future am; and we know that 1 
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Wheat? pecs pue witho 
this did not all co: 
eese or O 
so as for us to be obliged 
— of all th that 
ppt and new produce 
. n the case 
