The Southern Planter and Farmer, Vol. 2: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture and the Mining, Mechanic and Household Arts; November, 1868 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Southern Planter and Farmer, Vol. 2: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture and the Mining, Mechanic and Household Arts; November, 1868Gentlemen, -i will now proceed, by your leave, to submit some thoughts on the subject of. Reclaiming our worn lands by other means than putrescent manures. Not with the hope of enlightening your minds by advancing anything new, or with which you are not already familiar, but of eliciting your Opinions, and especially your experience, as to the means of most certainly and cheaply, if not the most speedily, accomplishing the object. There are but few, if any, theories in agriculture, which it is important for us to know, that are not easily comprehended, or about which there is a differ ence-of Opinion. But so many and so various are the conditions and incidents attendant on the successful applications Of these theo ries, the nonobservance Of any one of which may result in failure and disappointment, as to call for the exercise of the
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