property made large crops for a st r>es of' years in 
succession. 
The manuring of old fields with a view to 
fTieir renovation* forms an essentia! portion of 
their cultivation, and to which little attention 
was formerly bestowed. As I before observed, 
when new lands were abundant, the moment a 
field began to show symptoms of age. it was 
th town up, to give place to a new plantation ; 
but, in late years, since the scarcity, indeed, the 
total want of woodland, has been so severely ex¬ 
perienced, it has been deemed expedient to re' 
sort to manuring and nursing of the old fields. 
And since the application of guano has been 
tried, and its powers as a renovator to the soil 
made known, planters have expended some care 
and attention, and applied their skill to the 
regeneration of old properties. Bat as the Guano 
is a very expensive manure (considering its 
carriage to high properties) and as its proper- 
lies do not prove to he of so durable a nature, 
as was anticipated, it has occurred to me that 
a cheaper and more efficacious manure might be 
obtained by ordinary means on plantations ; such 
as the penning of slock, and obtaining their 
excrement, the saving of the Coffee pulp and 
of the fan trash. A combination of the proper¬ 
ties of the three manures, proves a most ef¬ 
fectual renovator to a declining soil; a fact 
which is to be evidenced in the richness and 
luxuriance of the trees, whenever the Coffee 
pulp or trash ha*' been washed about their roots 
by the rains. I have repeatedly tried this 
manure on old fields under my own superinteu- 
danee, and applied it after this manner.—Every 
laborer takes a hoe wiih him to the fieid, and 
