Less Land And Better Tillage

Joseph Harris, the rctired editor and 3uccessful farmer, of Roohester, N. Y., gives hÍ8 ideas of irnproved farming, ia the American Agriculturist : My plan of impiwed agricultura does not necessarily imply the production of auy more grain of any kind that we sell than we raise at present. I would siinply rai8e it ou fewer aores, and thus lesseu the expense for seed, cviltivation, harvesting, eto, ï would raise thirty bushels of wheat per acre every third year. If wa slimmer fallowed and ploughed under clover in order to produce the thirty bushels of wheat once in three years, in- stead of ten bnshels eTery year, no more produce of any kind would be raised. But my plan doe ? not contémplate such a. icsult. On my own farm I seldom suiuraer ttillow, and never plow :ndcr clover. I think I eau enrich the farn nearly as much by feeding the clover to' animáis and rrturning the manure to tho land. The animáis do iiot tako out moro thaiv, from iïvo t.o ten per cent of tho most . raluftblö oleinents of plant food from the clover. And so my plan, while it produoi is much and no more graiu to eell, adds greatly to the fartility of the land and gives an increased production oí hacf, butter, muttoa, wooi. chocas, and' poV :