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em of tillage instead of deteriorating iu quality and 

 becoming in ft few years entirely worthless, would increase not only 

 In productiveness, but in the cash value of the land itself, and 

 instead of killing the hen that lays the golden il would pre- 



B its vitality lor an indefinite number of years. A double object 

 is tL 5 lined by this mode of agriculture. Better crops are 



produced by cultivating less land, and the amount of farm labor is 

 ibly diminished, which is an offset in the expense account. 

 Under this system, manure making must become one of the princi- 

 pal business oi the farm, and all the refuse and rubbish of the house- 

 hold might be preserved for this purpose, and if the agriculturist 

 makes it his study, having for its object to return to the land, from 

 which he obtains his crops, a greater proportion of fertilizing mate- 

 than preceding crops have taken up and permanently with- 

 m irom t be may rest assured, that his outlay of capital 



and labor will be fully compensated by enhancing the general cash 

 his lands, and reaping a more abundant harvest from a 

 Her area of ground. What the upland farmer principally needs 

 is to introduce system into his farming operations. He ought to 

 determine what area of ground he will use for farming purposes, and 

 area should be in proportion to the number of hands he can 

 command under the most favorable circumstances. He should then 

 lay off his grounds in lots composed of a certain number of acres. 

 His object should then be to study the advantages derived from the 

 tion of crops, following, and sowing his grounds in clover, grass, 

 or beans to prepare his lands for a plentiful crop. The object of his 

 plauting operations should be not merely to draw the greatest: 

 amount of production with the least amount of labor, but to im- 

 prove his lands, to embellish his plantation, and to use all his avail- 

 able capital for this purpose. To accomplish this most effectually, it 

 would be indispensably necessary to sow and plant in abundance 

 everything required for his support and that of his family. He must 

 ivate corn, wheat, oats, and hay to supply him with bread and 

 i for his work animals and live stock. He must raise stock of 

 ry kind to furnish him his annual supply of meat. He must cul- 

 tirate vegetables and fruit to replenish his table with the luxuries of 

 intry home. When all this is abundantly provided for beyond 

 any contingency of rain or sunshine, it would be prudent husbandry 



