THE farmer’s manual. 
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Here, let me repeat again my former remark. La- 
bour and manure, are the basis of good farming. 
Is your farm so situated, that it may be cultivated 
upon the principles of a. general rotine of crops, (as 
before laid down,) enter immediately upon this sys- 
tem, and let this be your plan : 
1. Assign so much of your farm to the purposes of 
the plough, as you can manure well, either with plas- 
ter, or the stronger manures, as before mentioned, 
(see article Manure.) 
2. Keejj no more lands under grass, for mowing, 
than you can consume upon your farm wi'h profita- 
ble stock, unless in the neighbourhood of some large 
town, where the sale of your hay will buy you ma- 
nure. 
3. Keep no more stock upon your farm, than you 
can keep well, either by pasturage or soiling, and for 
the following reasons : 
1. Because one acre of plough land, well manured, 
will yield twice or thrice the product, as when tilled 
without manure. For instance, suppose you have 
20 acres of rye and wheat fallow-,, in a steady way. 
Put 5 acres to clover, with plaster, the first year; 
and put 5 aeres more to clo\ er the second year ; cut the 
first 5 acres of clover, and feed it upon your farm ; 
continue to feed otit your clover upon your farm, and 
pul the dung your clover has made, upon such part of 
the remaining 10 acres, as may need it most; sow 
grain as usual, and the next year, viz. the third year, 
stock down 5 aeres n.oro with clover, arid turn in the 
first five acres of clover, which you stocked down, to 
supply the place of the third 5 a( res you have iiow 
stocked driwn. 'rinis you will have 10 acres of clo- 
ver, and 10 under the plough or in grain, in a steady 
way. After one rmntion in this way, jour 10 acres 
kept under tlte plough, will yield you more grain, and 
of a better quality, than the 20 did before; continue 
this practice, and in a few rotations, tin- 10 aert s w dl 
yield you double, or treble to what the whole 20 did 
