Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-09-18
AGR1GULT URAL.
From Baltimore Amercau Farmer.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE SYSTEM Or NOR
CHAMPION Co, Va.
TI) GIe Editor eff the .4tseriees FerYs.

In the Jaly ~. of the Farmer. ,ou published an ia
tossing of the system % sarnin. practice. II
Nor HAMPTON Co., va. very minute account ~ ih.
.,ue cunatr well remember ais Nave .eas i. Mr.
Hu.ias Hlstor and upon the facts Lid be,re me ia
these articles proceed n,ir To on, friends Their.
SON UPON the farming.
| might. perhaps shrink from conienning AZ the very
outset hr shorts ghted and scOurgn. system.
not confirmed in nay views by the results ssy them
eve offer TO mylnSpectiJn andby every principle ag.i
culture. that mo1en science has developed and anrien;
an d modem practice confirmed | could. indeed, multi.
ply examples within the knowledge Of every clocer tar
in the United States TO prove them tina; whe'
small grain follows the yield is average
more than half of thai when ii fpllws clover. o.
s.ur hest wheat lands the Weld in the 6rGer case will
average eight bushels. while in the latter. it will equal
irheen bushels per acre Were the rotation such
cNhb: the Effects. there is every 70 conclui.
that corn would show the if greater difference
nt Weld if made to fdow oats wheat instead com
monty does Of succeeding clover. From whence comes
this difference, but from he fact, that the plant.
.lurng the food from the lard have int,
mediate crop OF different family. taking different
and giving time for preparation by nature of
other slppiy Of ament required by the small srains-
Can there be ans thing in the climate constituent rle
nnnts Of this land cause To be an exce
ton to thse results that follow such practice it, all o
Iher parts othe world invariably hit succeeds
lav have heard several reasons suggested for the
feet that II does not deerlOrate. Oae is The salt air.
large portion If the globe is washed by the but
have heard elsewhere Of this magical influence
Beneficial il und X!bedy is: for weeds chiefly
valuable If the presence Of the sats But
IT all the silfs in the Chesapeake collected and s
piled single field. the and would still de-
nland other kinds Of sails that found in
ter The Manatha bay bean also believed BE- great
Nv beneficial in keeping up thesa lands We have
this plant in lis perfection it springs up after The
cut, and ,es undoubtedly assist il shading the land
and eives some little vegetable but in these re
Slacls AZ well its deficiency root we doubt If
II 81,
YER. much probable cause rhsn all these. ho~
tending the support OF the land, doubles.
be found thse admirable qualts of industry in the
farmers. described by Northampton" Shey must
have necessarily much lime devote the collection
manure. and the Introduction OF lab saving machines o.
modern invention viii very much Increase ,hes ability in
iI4st But all these combined fail 10 present
s ient explanations why land thus cultivated should
Jeresiorate and am rained therefore to doubt
the ..tact." A -, indeel who reads Norihamp
ions account but must, seems 10 me. ais, Doubt
Land was, presume. the first settlement here.
elsew here held in large bodies by single individuals.
The inhabiiar.> inclined 10 emigrare" Hence
property must have become much subdvided, more ma
made and the land altogether better cultivated
But here have the result Of these modern advantages,
barrels per acre " Ill recently cleared land. which
aust be taken measure of the fertility Of the il,
pluduee VIII old fields taken up after
and grazing tr twenty Years do better than this
The aggregate yield of the maY he greater le-
cause. presume, land is cleared every year. but how
does The propuct from each farm compare years?
And why should land the Eastern shore of Maryland
produce r. l., and is barrels per acre, and that
on the Eastern shore Of Virginia only TWO Surely not
from the natural difference the soil f from the fact
the land will after fifty years Of such abuse pro
du:e anything, cannot but believe it is naturally Of
very find quality. Besides have heard Hill Garter,
The hes; farmer in Virginia. quoted as expressing
very high opinion Of lis fertility The must then
be II -dtereace of treatment have thus boldly fund
fn with the practice Of the farmers Northampton, and
they may now reasonably ask f,r better system.
B II Is far easier pint from results and general prn
cPes The existence of gross errors Than To offer plan
mat man prive unexcepon But from the of my
remarks ~ may have already perceived that siren
u'"S'y recommend the Introduction OF clover in their
l"a'oa 1t their lands be made to bring clover lei
them not DC deferred by the report of The experiment
- fasihs been once tried, upde such good manage
le" as hat aiGcd 10 BY Northampton - 1t is bu on.