ing, or paint, these, with a dilapidated dairy and a few wretched negro cabins constituted the improvements. considering it superior both in durability, and the ease with which it works both to man and horse. I have now a plough of this description which has been in constant use for eight years, while I have never been able to procure any other kind that will last me two years. The great objection to the M'Cormick plough, is, that it has not strength enough for our rough lands. It was my practice some years ago to break all my lands with four horses, but from the great disadvantage in turning and ploughing round the hill with four horses, I now work three horses only, which I think are as few as can possibly do the work well. This being the general condition of the farm when I became the purchaser, it was my first object to get it laid off into four fields, or shifts. Its situation not admitting of the fifth shift, I was compelled to substitute that from some other part of my land, as I am never willing to cultivate a field in corn more than once in five years. But I was compelled to depart even from this order in the first round that I took, as in all the fields there was a large proportion of the land that was not worth cultivating in corn; indeed there are small parts of two of the fields that have never been cultivated My long and constant practice has been to raise in corn yet. My rotation is, No. 1, corn, seeded every thing on the farm for its support; say horses, down with wheat, rye, or oats, and with clover hogs, cattle and sheep-I have on my different the last of March, or first of April. No. 2, fallow-farms, thirty-six head of horses; thirty-two of ed for wheat, and sowed down in clover in like which I have raised myself. I not only find it more manner the second year. No. 3, in corn, and sow-convenient to raise than to purchase, but the horses ed down in like manner. No. 4, fallowed and sow- are really more valuable; and it is much more coned down in like manner the third year. No. 5, in venient to sell a horse now and then, than to purcorn, and No. 1 in fallow. As I never fallow un-chase one, when I have not the money to pay for til after harvest, I have seldom found it necessary it. Every farmer certainly has it in his power to to sow clover in my fallow land; indeed, I have several times had my land well taken with clover after being cultivated in corn, and some of the thickest and most regular clover I had this season, was after a crop of corn. Thus you will observe each field gets two entire years rest in five, which, under a good cover of clover, and a bushel of plaster to the acre, with as much manure as the farm will produce, converting every thing susceptible of it into manure, and taking great care to get the whole on the ground before it goes through the fermentation if possible, gives a good assurance of considerable improvement. During the summer I seldom move the manure out of the stable, until the cart is ready to haul it out; and during the hot weather I prefer to have it ploughed in immediately. That part of the farm lying on the east side of the Rivanna, of which I have been in possession eight or nine years, is divided into six fields of very unequal size. Two causes render this unequal division necessary. One is, the irregular meanders of the river on one side of the farm, while it is divided in two by a public road running directly through it: the other is, the running the fences in the valleys, that horizontal ploughing may be more perfectly done; so important in our hilly lands for their improvement, and for the greater expedition and facility of ploughing deep. And I am decidedly of opinion, that our deeper ploughing is one great cause of the advancement in agricultural improvement of this county, beyond some of those adjoining. I believe there is no one among us, at this day, who is not satisfied that the deeper he ploughs, the more his land is improved. How different from the state of things twenty years ago! when, nineteen out of twenty of the old settlers thought it would ruin the land. I have been asked the question very often, if I was not afraid of injuring the land by ploughing so deep; so far from it, I am disposed to consider that a principal cause of its improvement. There is nothing in which I am more particular, than in seeing that my ploughing is well done-and my constant directions to my ploughmen are never to fear ploughing too deep, if the horses can pull the plough. I still prefer the old bar-share plough to any other I have ever used; raise his own horses. Some of the best horses I have ever owned were raised until they were fit for work, without having eaten one barrel of corn or grain of any kind. I have no doubt it will be found to be the interest of every farmer to feed all the provender he raises on the farm, to his own stock in preference to selling it; and that the farm will be much more benefited by it. I have also endeavored to manufacture as much of the clothing necessary for the use of the family, (black and white,) as possible, from materials raised on the farm; say wool, flax and hemp, the cotton yarn being purchased in preference to spinning it. I must be excused by the committee from stating any precise amount of the nett proceeds of the farm now offered for premium, having always, without distinction, blended together the crops from my different farms: nor am I able to say precisely what force I work on these farms-It is not, however, less than eighteen steady hands, men and women, with the addition of four or five boatmen, during the season that boats are not running. As far as I am able, I will now proceed to give a statement of my two last crops, commencing with the field No. 3, at Franklin. The crop of 1827, was seven hundred and fifty bushels of Lawler wheat, from less than thirty acres. The house, yard, and garden, stand in the middle of the field, and must occupy more than one acre. My crop of the last year from the same farm, field No. 1, containing ninety-one acres, produced twelve hundred and fifty bushels. This crop was very much injured by the rust, none of the wheat weighing more than fifty-seven pounds to the measured bushel. Ten or twelve acres of this field also were very poor, having been entirely gullied when I purchased the land; and this was the first crop made from it. My crop of wheat, rye, and oats, from the field No. 1, on the Park farm, waswheat, four hundred and fifty bushels; rye, four hundred bushels; and, oats, five hundred bushels. This was after a very heavy crop of corn the preceding year. On this same field the present year, I have cut more than one hundred thousand weight of clover hay, from less than half the field, not having cut any except where the clover was very heavy. My constant care has been to keep every part of my land covered with clover, and I believe | February and first of March; clover, a little earlier. you will not, at this time find one acre of my land Rye, is not cultivated. not under cultivation, that is not pretty well covered with clover, nor is there a single acre of gullied or galled land that has not been brought under cultivation. I must here mention, what should perhaps more properly have been mentioned before, my plan of improving this kind of land, of which I have had a great deal to manage. I have always made it a point to haul as much of my straw back into the fields, as I could conveniently spare from the use of my stock during the winter, and to cover these galls or sores about twelve or fifteen inches deep, in return loads while thrashing. In this way I get at least one half of my wheat straw hauled back into the field, scarcely missing the time required for the operation; and I believe the straw thus spread upon land of this description will be much more beneficial than in any other 'way. My general method of manuring, which I know is different from the usual practice, and at variance with the opinions of our most judicious farmers, is to commence manuring in the poorest spot in the field, and proceeding on in this way from spot to spot until the manure is exhausted. By this mode I have got land that would not have produced any thing, in such heart, as to be ready to receive benefit from the use of clover, and plaster -otherwise, on these spots they might have been used in vain. Again, by this mode of improving, I have generally got my fields into an uniform condition of fertility. While none is rich, it is all in such heart that I seldom sow without reaping a pretty good crop. All which is respectfully submitted to the judges, by JOHN H. CRAVEN. The paper marked C, referred to in the report of the judges, being Mrs. Minor's answers to the questions propounded by the judges, were withdrawn from publication by permission of the Society, D 5th. Corn, is cultivated only on clover land, which is ploughed as early after seeding wheat as practicable, harrowed over in March, and listed horizontally five feet apart. The lists are opened with a coulter, and the corn planted as early in April as practicable, four or five grains in a hill, from two to three feet apart. As soon as the corn comes up, a coulter is run twice on each side of the row; the same operation is repeated with ploughs and the corn thinned to one stalk in the hill, as soon as its size will permit. After weeding, the whole interval between the rows is ploughed once or twice, before, or immediately after harvest. In planting, and every subsequent operation, the richest parts of the field are worked first, and generally about half laid by before harvest; immediately after which, the bushes, weeds, and grass are chopped out with hoes. 6th. Wheat is sown from five pecks to two bushels per acre, thicker on more fertile land, and that seeded later in the season. On fallowed land there is some allowance made for seed not buried by the harrow. It is not the object to sow that quantity which will bring the heaviest crop of a good year, but to make the crop less liable to be injured by the fly, frost and rust, (as it will ripen earlier when sown thick,) guarding against any material injury from too thick seeding in dry years. 7th. The purple straw wheat has been found most productive. The best grain is selected for seed, and cleared of the cockle by using a sand sieve to the fan, nearly as large as the sand board. 8th. The cradle is used entirely for gathering small grain, as being much the most expeditious; particularly, where hands are unaccustomed to the sickle. 9th. At the commencement of my operations, the average product per acre, was about two and a half barrels of corn, and seven bushels of wheat. It is now, about four or five barrels of corn, and twelve bushels of wheat. 10th. There are eleven laborers on the farm, viz: seven men, three boys, and one woman: day Answers to the questions propounded to the candi-laborers are scarcely ever employed. marle. 1st. There are nine hundred acres in my tract; about four hundred acres are cleared. 2d. It is divided into five fields, from sixty to one hundred acres each, 3d. The fields are cultivated regularly in corn, wheat, and clover: except that a part of the larger fields is put in tobacco; and about half the field intended for fallow, is left unploughed. 11th. The number of work horses is five, and almost exclusively for the plough; of oxen, six, used for hauling with the cart or wagon. These have been all raised on the farm, and two of the work horses: also, four saddle horses of fine blood, which promise more profit than any other stock. 12th. The horses are fed on clover hay, corn and oats ground, or not, according to circumstances, and cut oats straw; oxen on the same, with top fodder or shucks, but depend principally on grazing in summer. 4th. The fallowing for wheat is done after har- 13th. The McCormick plough is preferred as dovest; about the 20th of September, the land is har-ing the best work, of the lightest draught, easiest rowed over, the wheat sown, and harrowed in by kept in order, and cheapest in the end. Rodes' hill the first of October: when the seeding in corn land side plough is used on steep land, where we cannot commences. This is prepared by cutting off the get around the hill, and for single horses, Carey stalks and removing them, and running a single ploughs with a long wing and no mould-board. horse plough once, immediately in the row, which ploughs up the corn stubble. A large harrow is then run across the rows to level the surface, the wheat sown and put in with little Carey ploughs: a harrow or bush completes the operation, which, generally terminates by the last of October. Oats are sown on corn land about the last of 14th. The horned cattle are 33 in number, 6 work oxen, 5 milch cows, a bull, 20 young cattle and two horses: more than should be on the farm. 15th. Hogs and pigs on the farm amount to 60 at this time, about 25 of which are for pork this fall. They are kept on the field intended for corn all the winter, and until the corn is planted, then E I hope in this commmunication to embrace all the questions propounded by the committee of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, to the candidates for the premium offered for the best cultivated farm. turned in the woods until the clover blooms, when they are put on it, and remain until the wheat is removed from the fields, where they enjoy the advantage of gleaning until the rains in September, when they are again placed in the field intended for corn. They are fed partially with corn all the year, except when in the grain fields, and are prevented from rooting in the summer, by cutting off I purchased the farm on which I reside in the the ends of their noses. Of sheep the number is year 1810. It had been cultivated previous to that 48. They are kept during the early part of winter time according to the three-shift ruinous system, on the field intended for corn, and when they com- and had been closely grazed, and large crops of mence having lambs, removed into the standing corn yearly tended on it. These causes, each in pasture, or put on clover more than one year old, itself destructive, had rendered some parts of the where they remain until the field intended for graz-sides so impoverished, as to be thrown out as unfit farm gullied, and a considerable portion of it being is in bloom, when they are put into it, and removed with the other stock into the grain field. for cultivation. Its yield at that time was not But they are not suffered on any account to remain more than about an average of three barrels of on the young clover in the fall, winter, or early corn, and from eight to ten bushels of wheat per part of spring, as they would entirely destroy it by acre. I had then much to learn, and at once eating out the bud. adopted the five shift system, which gives a rota16th. The horned cattle are penned during sum-tion of wheat, corn, wheat, clover, clover, and mer on some poor spot, (if convenient) in the field to be cultivated the same, or ensuing year. The bench fences used by Mr. Rogers are certainly a great improvement: but not yet adopted. 17th. The wheat straw from about 1000 bushels of wheat, most of the corn stalks from about 250 barrels of corn, and all the other forage including about 30 tons of clover hay, are converted into manure in the stable, and permanent farm pens. The quantity has not been ascertained. Most of it is applied on tobacco land, the balance on the poor spots when ploughed for wheat, oats or corn. It is considered most judiciously used where applied to wheat or oats, for the improvement of land. 18th. My experience has confirmed the general opinion of the utility of plaster of Paris, particularly when sown on clover, in March or April about one bushel per acre, or used with seed corn in planting. 19th. From 20 to 40 tons of clover hay are cut on the farm, averaging from one to three tons, per acre. The process of curing is to suffer it to remain in swath about 24 hours, when wainrows are formed by turning two swaths together; after six or eight hours sun it is put up in very small cocks, and in a day or more is ready for the rick, which is covered with wheat straw about a foot thick, this is confined by small poles tied together at the ends, and placed across the top about three feet apart. As the clover hay will not stand wet weather in cocks, it is all important to have it secured in ricks as soon as possible. When to be used a part of the rick is cut off with a hay-knife, an instrument indispensable to every farmer. 20th. The clover seed necessary for the farm, is cut with grass scythes. 21st. No other resources have been resorted to for the improvement of the farm than those it has furnished, except two or three tons of plaster used annually. 224. In the management of negroes, the principles have been to unite humanity with discipline, and combine rewards with punishments. The details have been entrusted to an overseer. From 70,000 to 80,000 hills of tobacco are cultivated on the farm, the greater portion on new ground W. H. MERIWETHER. pursued it for some time without the success in improvement desired. Experience taught me its disadvantages, and proved it to be a very slow way of improving, although every effort was made to raise all the manure possible, and to apply it in the most judicious way. The three successive crops of wheat, corn, wheat, produced too great exhaustion; the last wheat crop reducing the land almost back to the state it was in, previous to the turning in the clover and manure for the first wheat crop, besides the constant liability to washing on high land, arising from leaving the land after the first wheat crop, light, naked, or only covered with a thin stubble. For these reasons I abandoned it and have since adopted and pursued the six shift system, which gives the rotation of corn, wheat, clover, clover, [wheat, clover?] the improvement on this plan has been rapid, far superior to what it was with five shifts. The advantage of manures is clearly discovered and encourages to greater diligence in procuring and applying them. I now, as formerly, but more cheerfully, make all possible use of them. All the corn stalks, part of the straw, and all the other rough produce of the farm are converted into manure in my farm pens, which are situated near the barn and furnished with permanent shelters of plank, having a stream of water running through them in troughs. The area of each pen, is levelled and elevated a little on the borders, so as to retain as much of the liquid as possible. Of the quantity raised I can form no estimate. It is almost exclusively applied to the poorer spots of the field which I fallow for wheat, immediately before the land is ploughed, and very regularly distributed. I use plaster freely, a proof of the high estimation in which I hold it; sow it early in the spring at the rate of from four to five pecks per acre on clover, and roll all my seed corn with as much as can be made to adhere. With the aid of plaster, I make as much clover hay as I think necessary for the use of the farm, say from 50 to land to cover and improve it. The close grazing 100 tons, the balance is suffered to remain on the practised by many farmers is destructive of imfrom plaster. How can it be otherwise, when the provement and counteracts the benefit derived land after the application, yielded a generous return, has its whole crop of grass or clover either cut or grazed off-a crop which would materially benefit the land by laying on it, Indeed, 'consi small harrow to be run lengthwise on the lists, which are afterwards opened with a shovel plough, and corn dropped four or five grains together, from three to three and a half feet apart. The intervals are then broken up as deep as possible with the coulter; they remain in this condition until the clover growing in them blossoms. The clover is hindered from flourishing by the coultering, and almost effectually secures the corn from destruction by the worm; that insect feeding on the clover until the corn is out of danger of its depredations. As soon as the corn is of suitable size, it is thinned to two stalks in a place, and weeded with a hoe, or sometimes a small iron rake is used soon after a furrow is run, with a two horse plough, on each side of the list, throwing the earth to the corn, and weeded with the hoe. When the clover is in bloom, as stated above, the whole of the intervals are broken up with a two horse plough, turning the clover as well under as possible. It is then run over with a cultivator or harrow: it may be necessary to run the cultivator over again just before or after harvest to keep it clean for seeding. der it as well to dispense with plaster altogether, as to have its good effects destroyed by a plan so ruinous. My clover is cut when a portion of the heads commence turning brown, is cured in the usual way, and stacked in ricks thatched with straw, or put in houses. A large quantity of my straw is hauled and spread (generally on stubble fields) so thinly as not to check the growth of vegetation, and regularly on the poorest parts of the fields. This I consider to be so valuable a mode of improving, that I might be justitied in using very strong terms in speaking of its importance. It forms an admirable cover for the land-it protects the young clover, encourages and fosters the growth of all kinds of vegetables. I also improve much by penning my stock on the poorest parts of my fields. The mode of penning is, I suppose somewhat new. I have poles cut and bushed of about six inches diameter and 18 or 20 feet long. In each of these, two legs are inserted on one side and three on the other, so as to form a kind of bench, four and a half feet high. On the side of three legs, laths sawed about three by one inch are nailed to the legs about a foot apart. The benches thus I have been thus particular as I think it very prepared are put end to end, three or four or more important that corn should be cultivated on clover, according to the number of stock penned, and and not on stubble land. Independent of other placed so as to form a square, the laths nailed on, advantages, such as prevention from washing and being on the outside. The area of the pen is then exhaustion, after the land has been well covered covered with straw. The convenience of this pen with clover and two or three crops well seeded, and will readily be discovered, as the pens require turned in, there will be no more necessity of sowing, moving every eight or ten days. Two men and a Corn land cultivated in this way will be a good boy may easily raise the benches and alter their preparation for a wheat crop, and will yield nearly position in 15 or 20 minutes. If it is necessary to as much as that on fallow. My time of sowing move them to a distance, the two legs on one side wheat is from the 20th of September, to the 15th (having been put in without wedging) may easily of October. The preparation is made by breaking be taken out, the benches put in a wagon and up the ground after harvest with a three horse conveyed to the spot selected, when the legs may plough, (the coulter is used when the ground has soon be replaced, and the benches set up. One of been rendered hard by dry weather) then harrowthe benches is about eight feet long, so as to be ing, sowing the wheat, and harrowing it in, promore easily moved than the rest, in order to form vided there be moisture enough, otherwise, a convenient entrance into the pen. The above ploughing it in with small ploughs. The greater mentioned rotation and use of manure, with the part of my corn land is sown in wheat, the balance mode of cultivation, soon to be described, have generally in rye. This is done if the ground is produced all the results ascertained; some idea of foul, by first breaking it up with a two horse which may be formed by stating that the waste plough and harrowing in the grain, or if not foul, land has all been reclaimed, there is not a gully or by ploughing it in with the one horse plough. I gullied spot to be seen, and a yield safely calcu- sow but few oats, and those on corn land the last lated on, of from six to eight barrels of corn, and of February or first of March, clover seed about from 20 to 25 bushels of wheat, per acre, on an the same time. It may be as well to remark here average. Cloverton, (the farm on which I reside,) that I consider the white flint and purple straw contains about 800 acres nearly all enclosed, 300 wheat most productive, and that I have always woods and 500 cleared; the cleared land is divided been very particular in selecting the best of the into six fields averaging about 80 acres each, vary-product of each crop for seed. Also, that in seing a little in size-there are besides a few grass curing the wheat crop, I have about half of it cut lots. The mode of cultivation is as follows-my with the sickle, on account of not being able to corn is planted from the 5th to the 15th of April work to advantage where it is rank. Even where on clover land, not closely grazed. The prepara- it is rank and standing up, my hands having been tion is made in the fall or before the winter sets in, well practised, secure nearly as much in a day as by first laying off rows with a coulter, six feet apart, they can with the cradle. The laborers employed then running a coulter furrow on each side of the on my farm amount to twelve men, two boys and rows laid off, so as to have three furrows together, two women, except a few small boys which render to be covered by a list-this should be done very as yet but little service. I seldom ever hire, even deep in order to have the ground well broke; then in time of harvest, any day laborers. In addition with a large two or three horse plough a furrow is to this force, I work six mules, four horses and run on each side of the three coulter furrows, bare-eight oxen; two riding horses are also used. All ly making them meet: there will then be three the resources for its improvement, have been fursurfaces thrown together where the corn is to be planted, and a good portion of vegetable matter covered, which fermenting about the time the young corn gets above the ground adds materially to its vigor and growth. In the spring I cause a nished by my farm, with the application of this force-a force which has expended a considerable portion of its time and labor in clearing up and improving a small farm purchased some years ago on an adjacent mountain, and which is intended | and long experience have convinced me that those for a grazing farm. prejudices are ill-founded; and that taking ten or fifteen years together, independent of the improvement, much greater profits will be realized by the seven, than the six shifts. My confidence in this plan is such, that nothing now will ever induce an abandonment of it: unless the blue-grass should increase so as to injure the wheat and clover very materially. Tofeed and clothe my laboring hands well-to keep them in good, dry and comfortable houses, warm in winter, and airy in summer-to be careful not to have them exposed in bad weather-I consider to be the dictate not only of humanity, but of the strictest economy. I hope this remark will be attended to. Working negroes in wet and very cold weather, affording them low, contracted huts argues to say nothing worse, a defective judgement, and a narrow and mistaken policy. Those who pursue this plan will find their hands A GLANCE AT THE FARMING OF ALBEMARLE. in good weather confined by diseases, which have originated from exposure in bad. JOHN ROGERS. For the Farmers' Register. The pressure of unexpected private business I prefer mules to horses, when they can be got of good size; considering them longer lived, much having a few days ago required my immediate hardier, and requiring much less food; particularly presence in Albemarle, I gave the small portion of time afforded by so hurried a visit, to a very grain. My horses as well as mules are principal-hasty view of some of the farms in that interestfy fed on clover hay for rack food; on ground rye, ing region. Had my engagements permitted, it mixed with rye straw, or clover hay cut at all feed- would have been to me both gratifying and ining times, except in the morning, with about four structive to have devoted as many days to this exor five ears of corn previously soaked 24 hours in amination, as in fact I was able to give of hours: brine. The oxen in summer are chiefly fed on but my business compelled my return homeward grass or hay; at twelve o'clock in the day, they to be as speedy, as the visit was sudden and unhave a good feed of chopped grain with cut straw foreseen. Under these circumstances, it would be or hay; in the winter, short corn with hay or top most prudent to refrain from offering to the public fodder. My sheep, about forty in number, are seldom fed, having good pasturage; about the time any of the imperfect impressions received during of yearning and when there is snow, they have to take the opposite course, with the hope that the some meal and blade fodder. My hogs are kept deficiencies may be excused, and (if merely to supduring the winter and spring in a woodland pasture ply the evident deficiencies, and to correct my misuntil the clover blooms, when, their noses being takes,) that some of the farmers of the South West cut, they are turned into the clover field and fed Mountains may be induced to furnish to the Farwith one or two ears of corn each per day; after mers' Register a better and more full account of harvest they are turned into the grain fields, where the remarkable soil and excellent farming of that they remain until those fields are gleaned, when region. There is no part of Virginia which prethey are again turned into the clover fields. sents to the eye of a stranger such a combination so short and hurried a view. But I am induced With respect to ploughs, I use the M'Cormick, of beauty, fertility, and peculiar qualities, as the Carey, and Barshare. I think them all good. I would prefer the M'Cormick, if it had more eleva-range of "red land:”—and yet from all this rich tion in the throat, so as to avoid choaking in rank clover. My average crops are about 3000 bushels of wheat, 500 barrels of corn, 3 or 400 bushels of rye and 4 or 5 hogsheads of tobacco. The amount of sales from my farm in 1827, was about three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in 1828, four thousand five hundred dollars. and extensive district, embracing so many good farmers, and intelligent, well educated, and public made to the Farmers' Register relating to the husspirited men, not one communication has been bandry and characteristic features of this region. hope this state of things will not be permitted to have some effect in stimulating to action those continue, and that even my humble effort will who can render in this way so much more import I ant service. The variety of particulars necessarily embraced in this communication, has deterred me from enIt would have better directed my inquiries if I larging as much on some of them as I could wish. could have previously seen the reports of the preI am unwilling to be tedious, and shall therefore mium farms, published in 1829, by the Agriculturefrain from giving so fully as otherwise I might, ral Society of Albemarle:* but I could not obtain my views, even if they could be of any avail, on the advantages and disadvantages of the different a copy until the moment of my departure homeshifts and rotations of crops in general use. I be-ward. It has since been read with a degree of interest much heightened by my having lately lieve there is much to be said on this subject; I will, however add, that, having lately purchased a farm as is this report, it has one defect, which is very seen some of the farms described. But valuable adjoining to Cloverton, containing near 300 acres a considerable part of which is cleared, I shall liarities of the soil, &c. are described as slightly generally found in all similar papers. The pecuchange to the seven shift system, believing that preferable to the six. The latter plan allowing the as if every reader was previously well informed in first clover crop to stand only one year before it is that respect: and though the want of such details turned in for wheat; whereas the former allows it may not be felt by the residents of that region, it to stand two years, which ought always to be the would serve to destroy the principal value of the case, and the rotation will then be corn, wheat, clo-report to strangers. On this account, my remarks ver, clover, wheat, clover, clover. I know there will be principally directed to those peculiarities of are objections to such a number of shifts, arising from the impression of too great a portion of land lying out of cultivation; but the strictest attention The report referred to, is that which precedes this communication, in this No. of the Farmers' Register. |