AGRICULTURAL.

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NATURAL FERTILITY OF WESTERN LANDS

 DETERIORATION FROM CULTIVATION, Sc.

 The west is justly famed for it's fertility. The alluvial banks of the Ohio, with its tri- butaries the Musbingum, Seioto, Miami and Wabash. as we'll as many other portions of the great valley of the Mississippi are pro- bably unequaled for richness ,sand the luxu- rance of their productions. by any portion of the globe. The citizen of the northern and less fertile sections of our country, on on passing through these rich yales in the midst of summer, and for the first time be- holding the eXuberant vegitaon which there springs almost spontaneously from the earth, IS struck with astonishmentl From some points, his eve rests with admiration on the dark-green corn-felds, stretching for miles before him, and embracing at single glance thousands of acres Neither is his. wonder lessened as he views the stately magnifieence of the plant itself. The corn which the strau- ger here sees. is not the dwarfsh thing which he or his farthers may have cultivated oil the rocky hills of New-England, but q larger ya- riety of that sSiing of eegetalleS.n whose top most leaf is higher, perhaps, than the walls of his own dwelling Here may he seen i from 100 to 400 acres and sometimes even GOO or zoo acres of corn, belonging to q sin ole individual, from 100 to 300 head o cattle, and 100 to 800 hogs being annually fattened from the produce of a single farm

 But the extraordinary productive power O these lands, appears to the best advantage when the length of time to which they have been subjected to an exhausting cultivation Ma tottc Fa,, as examples Mir. r. Reuick, a distinguish. ed farmer near Chilicothe, Ohio, has cultiva ted corn near forty years successfully, on his farm, and has obtained an drerags of siHl busheis per acre--no manure having eyerbeer applied.

 The crop of corn for which the Musking um Go. (O.) Ag. Society gave the premium last year, was grown by Mr. Hosea Wood ruff, near Zanesville. The land on which ii grew, had been cultivated without manure twenty-eight years-twenty-s years of which it had been in corn. There were fifteen acre; nthc lot, and Mir w had about 50 acres of near. ly equal product. The crop was cut and pu up in shocks of as nearly equal size as prac- ticable-a portion of the shocks, which il was thought would show about an average of the yield, were husked and measured and assuming this as an average, the product was ninety-nine bushels per acre.

 Other instances IS remarkable might be given, but these will answer our purpose.

 From a cnrsory glance, the idea might ht entertained, that all circumstances most happi ly conspire to render this, of all other regions the most desirable to the agriculturist. Bu by more minute examination, t will be seer -that in this case, as in most others of sim liar nature, the advantages and disadvantage are so nicely balanced, as to leave no caus' for charging nature with partiality in the be stowment of her favors. As Goldsmith, (witl a little variation. has said.