NATURE OF SOILS.
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All sands are hot and dry--all clays cold
and wet; and, therefore, the manuring san
dy lands with clay, or clay lands with sand,
is best, for this changes the nature OF the
land itself; whereas dung, and other substan-
ces, afford only an inferior and temporary
improvement. Mixed soils, which incline
to the clayey kind, are best for corn and
pulse. But 1t is not the natural soil only
that the farmer ought to consider, but the
depth of il. and what is Immediately under
meath it. For if the richest soil is only Sc
ven o. eight inches deep, aud lies on a cold
wet clay or stone, it will not b. 50 fruitful as
leaner soils that lie on better under STRAIT
um. Gravel is, perhaps, the best under
stratum to make the land prolific.


The best loans, and natural earths, arc
of bright brown or hazely colaur. Hence,
they are called hazel leans. They cut
smooth and tolerahle easy, without ctiHginh
to the spade or plough share; are ,iTAt, III
able, and fall into small clods without cda ~
ping or cracking in dry weather ui turning
into mortar when wet. Dark grey, and rus
set mould, are accounted the next best
The VOL St of all arc the light and dark ash
colour. The goodness OF land may also be
very well judged of by the smell and touch.
The best emits a fresh pleasant scent On be-
us hNS " lSi'HSiNNl hPt NoINAlilll aitNt
rain; and being just proportion Of sand and
clay intimately blended, will not stick much
10 the fingers on handling But all soils,
however good may be impoverished, and e
ven worn ont, By successive crops without
rest, especially if the ploughings are not
very frequently repeated before the seed is
4 suwn.


| IT we examine tracts of land " ich have
not been cultivated, we find nature has adapt
ed different kinds of plants to most Of the
distnguishable varieties of SOILS; and altho'
some belonging TO one, may from some
cause or other be found on lands of differ
ent quality, they seldom thrive, or perfect
their seeds, so as to become general, The
great care OF the farmer ought, therefore,
to be, by proper niHtnrcs, 10 reduce his
land to that state and temperament IN which
the extremes of hot and cold, wet and dry
are best corrected By each other; to give
them every possible advantage flowing from,
the benign influence Of sun and air; to adopt
such plants as thev afford in this state thc
greatest nouriShment TO; and 10 renew thcil
fertility by q judicious allowance of the NOS,
proper manurcs. Where these things art
done, there are few spots 50 untiitndi; te
cultivation as not to repay his expeHs 5 and
laJour with plentlful increase. But y tNput
these, the best tracts of land will in time Gc-
come barren waste, or produce htt.t hui


weeds.