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COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
times in clean water ; then soak it six to ten hours in a strong 
salt brine, with consistency to float a potatoe ; then stir it in 
fine lime, or ashes, or plaster, to dry it for sowing ; this sowed 
and thoroughly harrowed in, on deep, rich land, will be as cer¬ 
tain as any known business transaction, to bring a large, thrifty 
yield of beautiful wheat, free—ninety-nine times out of a hun¬ 
dred—from rust, smut, or insects. And then the foul stuff, 
from the mill and the brine, should all be carefully gathered up 
and cooked before being fed out, that none of it will get back 
to the land, and there grow and go to seed, to multiply the 
pests, so as again to befoul the land. 
The second —restoring the soil—can be accomplished in sev¬ 
eral ways, all more or less cheap and convenient. But what— 
it is believed—are the three cheapest and most practicable 
modes—consequently most advisable modes, for the farmers of 
this State, are : 
First— deeper plowing, or subsoiling ; 
Second— liberal manuring ; 
Third— rotation in crops. 
These, with several incidental, or resultant processes, will— 
either of them to a certain extent— restore worn-out lands ; 
improve them, and preserve them from running down, if faith¬ 
fully and uniformly practiced. 
ROTATION OF CROPS. 
The normal condition of all things in Nature , is transition; 
everything in nature, must continually undergo change and de¬ 
cay; which again, as constantly supplies the requisite materials, 
and is followed by new growths , and new forms. 
Another well established, all-pervading fact to be kept in 
mind, is—that different plants take from the earth various in¬ 
gredients in different proportions; some plants exhausting the 
soil rapidly of one kind of substance, and others of another; 
while the soii contains some of these requisite substances in 
much larger quantities than it does of others. 
