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to keep up and add to the fertility of his soil; he has done 
every thing in the right time and in the right manner, and every 
year he has his pay for it. 
The other has farmed more acres perhaps, but on the make- 
do principle, he has hurried over the preparation and culture 
of the soil, and with all his ambition has been more ready to 
make a show of acres than of full cribs and granaries. He, 
too, has had his reward, and if not “sold out” is anxious to, 
and go further west, where “ little labor on much land ” is the 
watchword. 
Proper rotation of crops is another essential requisite to 
good husbandry; growing only those kinds of grain, grasses, 
roots and fruits which are the most suitable, nutritious and the 
most productive. 
As manuring may be compared to the steam engine that pro¬ 
pels the vessel, rotation of crops is the rudder which guides it 
in its progress. 
Suppose a good coating of manure is applied, or the land 
is new, and a crop of corn or wheat is taken off. These crops 
will carry away a large part of the phosphates. In most cases 
therefore, a second crop of the same kind would not be so good 
as the first, and the third would be still less. There yet remains 
however, considerable quantities of other substance, which the 
grain crops did not so particularly require, such as potash and 
soda. With this a good crop of potatoes, turnips or beets may 
be obtained, and after this there is still enough lime to produce 
an excellent crop of hay. If the ground be seeded down with 
another crop of grain of a lighter character than wheat, as barley 
or spring rye, and that seeded with clover and orchard grass, 
sowing on for manure one bushel of plaster per acre, to be 
mown one year, fed the next, and the following a heavy growth 
turned under,—thus would the land again be fitted for a wheat 
crop, which should not be raised but once in every seven years 
from the same field. 
Another very essential requisite is, to change your seed grain 
—procuring it from a more northern latitude, and from a differ- 
