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increases our crops. A regular and constant succession of good average crops, 

 which enrich slowly but surely, is certainly preferable to a brief period of bril- 

 liant crops, followed by exhaustion of the soil. 



And while, in this respect, each one must be left to judge, and act according 

 to, the stringency of his own particular case ; yet let him recollect that the time 

 will surely come, when he will have to yield obedience to the inexorable law, 

 that 110 hind can be permanently fertile, unless ice restore to it, regularly, the 

 mineral ingredients which our crops have -withdrawn. 



