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KENEWAL OF BEDS. 



any. One hundred and twenty-five bushels oughi to 

 be only an ordinary crop, and $1,000 the product of 

 an}^ fair acre of land. 



We have often had small plots of ground produce in 

 the ratio of twice that amount. 



A writer in 1 854 in the May number of the Albany 

 Cultivator, from the old soil of \Yest Haven, Connec- 

 ticut, certifies to having realized $215 from the sales of 

 strawberries from 25 rods of ground, or at the rate of 

 $1,800 per acre! 



In Hovey's Magazine, 1852, it is stated that Mr. 

 Gore, of Maine, raised on a bed 11 by 43 feet at the rate 

 of full 300 bushels per acre. How long in common 

 fairness ought men to enjoy the stewardship of our 

 choice land that is capable of producing such results, 

 when they only equal one-thirteenth part of that 

 amount! We would not dispossess them of their 

 rights, but we beg of them to place the occupation of 

 the land by sale or otherwise in more capable and eflS.- 

 cient hands. 



RENEWAL OF BEDS, 



This should be done once in three or four years, 

 and the same ground should be planted with corn or 

 potatoes for one season, and receive an application of 

 lime, ashes, and salt, as advised in the article on the 



