Noiliiiig is more certain than thai continual cropping witiio-ut manure deprives the soil ol" its fi'rtility. Ii if^ ecjuaily certain, that IfTiility may be preserved or restored, l)y giving to the earili animal or veixetable manure equivalent to the mat- ter taken li'nm it; and that a [jcrpetual lerlility is not, in itseli; incompatible, with an uninterrupted succession of crops. The Chinese, it is said, smile at the idea that land needs rest, as it" like animals, il had a sense of fatigue. Their soil does not need rest, because an industrious use is made of every teriilizing particle, that can contri- bute towards replacino; what has been drawn fi-om it. And this is the more practicable with them, as almost the whole of what is grown on the fiirms is consumed within them.
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