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Animal substances, offal, and fish of every 
description are also very unprofitably applied 
to farmyard manure. The natural tendency of 
animal substances to enter into putrefactive fer- 
mentation is well known to be greater than that 
of vegetable substances. By placing them in 
the manure heap, we, in a further degree, facil- 
itate the quality in which they naturally excel, 
and the tendency of which is to rob them of 
their most valuable element, nitrogen. Judi- 
cious practice should avoid this error, by adopt- 
ing, if possible, a system having an opposite ef- 
fect. 
Lime is one of the substances which it is 
also an error to use with composts in which we 
have farmyard manure. It is equally an error 
to mix lime with any compound rich in ammo- 
nia. The tendency of lime, in all composts, is 
to promote decomposition and to waste nitro- 
gen, which escapes, by union with hydrogen, 
under the form of ammonia, which is the very 
treasure of the dung heap, and of most other 
manuring substances. — Morton's Practical Agri- 
culture. 
AGRICULTURE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.— No. 2. 
As my remarks on the above subject in the 
June number of the Agriculturist were favora- 
bly noticed by "Reviewer," with a request that 
something further might be heard from this 
quarter, I am emboldened to transmit a few 
more thoughts, which are at your disposal. 
New Hampshire is one of the smaller states 
of the Union, being about one fifth the size of 
New York or Pennsylvania, and one seventh 
the size of Virginia. It has been aptly styled 
the " Switzerland of America," being in many 
parts rugged, wild, and romantic. It is, indeed, 
a " hard state," requiring a great deal of bone, 
nerve, and sinew to subdue its rugged features 
in order to render it the pleasant abode of man. 
Nothing but perseverance and unconquerable 
determination can produce those results which 
if is our pleasure to witness, and which begin to 
excite the admiration of travellers. We have 
much to contend against. Our climate is cold, 
and the frosts of spring and autumn are some- 
times injurious to our crops; still, by prudent 
calculation, we can produce a competence. 
To begin with, we generally have health and 
elasticity, without that lassitude which prevails 
at the south and west, where, I am informed, 
they are obliged on waking to enter into a so- 
ber calculation to see if they have strength 
sufficient to rise. If we had to yawn half the 
day before we could take up our implements, 
we might well despair of obtaining a livelihood. 
We should have to sigh in autumn that the sea- 
son had passed away, and no adequate pro- 
vision made for the approach of the stern win- 
ter king. 
" Reviewer" desires that some of your south- 
ern and western farmers, who find it hard to 
live on farms of a thousand acres, might be 
informed how many could be supported on a 
farm one tenth that size, and that half rocks. 
I know not now many could be supported on 
such a farm, but I well know that multitudes 
of very large families are well supported on 
farms of that size and description, and even 
smaller ones. Let us take one of these hun- 
dred-acre farms, half rocks, and in other re- 
spects formidable and forbidding, and notice 
the modus operandi of getting a living from it. 
We must first suppose, that, by dint of many 
and many hard days' labor of man and beast, 
in digging, filling, levelling, scrubbing, drawing 
stone, and building huge walls, a suitable pro- 
portion of the farm is rendered tolerable for 
plowing ; and, when such work is once done, 
and well done, it is always done. Now for the 
product. On one of these well-managed farms 
are produced one hundred and fifty bushels of 
corn, fifty or more bushels of wheat, or their 
value in some other small grain, from three 
hundred to seven hundred bushels of potatoes, 
thirty tons of hay, sixteen hundred pounds of 
pork, seven hundred pounds of butter and 
cheese, besides wool, fruit, peas, beans, garden 
vegetables, perhaps fat cattle, &c. These sup- 
port the family, pay the taxes, wages of " help," 
and other expenses, and often leave an income 
over and above all. 
The modes of cultivation are similar to those 
of other places. Around almost every country 
dwelling you may see broods of chickens and 
other fowls, under the management of a pru- 
dent housewife or her daughters. It would do 
you good, (doubtless it has done,) to witness the 
air of honest pride and satisfaction exhibited 
by many a country dame in rearing her fine 
flock of goslings or turkeys — the hope of many 
a future comfort and luxury. Long before 
they are fit for the market, she, with her chil- 
dren, begin to rejoice in the "nice things" which 
they will purchase. 
Many of our pastures may be traversed in 
any direction, by leaping from rock to rock, with 
scarcely touching the ground ; yet, for sweet 
and tender herbage, they are not surpassed. 
Young cattle, which are turned into them in or- 
dinary flesh, are, by the autumnal equinox, 
brought out round, fat, and sleek, such as the 
most dainty epicure might fancy. 
Our marketing has been mostly done in the 
large towns of Massachusetts, but the manu- 
facturing towns, that are springing up in our 
midst, afford good markets for adjacent towns. 
Such are a few features of New-Hampshfie 
farming. Have we not the comforts of life 
though we may have to labor hard to obtain 
them ? I believe that agriculture is steadily on 
the advance, though we may never cut so great 
a figure as some other states. When we get on 
the right track, we shall surprise many a trav- 
eller. Our lands will grow better instead of 
worse. The " inexhaustible" fertility of western 
land begins to show the bad effects of cropping 
without manure. A writer in Western Reserve, 
Ohio, says: " I think they, (the farmers of Ohio,) 
might use to advantage much more, (manure,) 
than they do, as their soil grows old and has 
been pretty well used up." They will ere long 
have to. 
By industry and economy, a people may 
thrive almost anywhere. Where dissipation, 
