Excerpt from The Southern Planter and Farmer, Vol. 38: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural Affairs; January-July 1877 We have in our Genesee region, in central New York, a country where the soil is of remarkable natural fertility, and, after the first few years of cultivation, the farmers fell into a routine which enables them to take off wheat crops every third year, right along, with great uniformity. The uniformity is great, at least so far as it depends upon the feeding power of the soil. Accidents, like the rust, the midge, or something of that sort may come in and destroy their crops occasionally, but the feeding power of those soils remains, as a cer tain quantity, and will probably so continue for a great length-of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.