nd vegetable deposits
available for the improvement of farming lands, in the Union. In
addition to these, there are extraneous resources, the ocean with
its fish, its shells, its sea-weeds, and its fertilizing salts,
which will yield an incalculable amount of bread and meat. In the
subsoil and the atmosphere, every agriculturist has resources which
are not duly appreciated by one in a thousand.

As a general rule, the soil must be _deepened_ before it can be
permanently improved. One acre of soil 12 inches deep is worth more
to make money from, by cultivating it, than four acres 6 inches in
depth. Thus, admit that a soil 6 inches deep will produce 14 bushels
of wheat, and that 12 bushels will pay all expenses and give 2 for
profit. Four acres of this land will yield a net income of only 8
bushels. Now double the depth of the soil and the crop: making the
latter 28 bushels, instead of 14 per acre, and the former 12 inches
deep, in the place of 6. Fifteen bushels instead of twelve, will now
pay all annual expenses, and leave a net profit not of _two_ but of
_thirteen_ bushels per acre. If small crops will pay expenses, large
ones will make a fortune; provided the farmer knows how to enrich
his land in the most economical way. It is quite as easy to pay too
dear for improving lands, as to lose money at any other business
whatever.

The first thing for the operator to do is to acquire all the
knowledge within his reach, from the experience of others who have
done for their soils what he proposes to accomplish for his. Twenty
or fifty dollars, invested in the best agricultural works in the
English language, may save him thousands in the end, and double his
profits in two years. The Agricultural Journals of the United States
abound in information most useful to the practical farmer: and the
back volumes, if collected and bound, will form a library of great
value.

_Rotation of Crops in connexion with Wheat Culture_.--A system of
tillage and rotation which will pay best in one locality, or on one
quality of soil, and in a particular climate, will be found not at
all adapted to other localities, different soils and latitudes.
Hence, no rule can be laid down that will meet the peculiar
exigencies of a farming country so extensive as the thirty States
east of the Rocky Mountains. T