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Excerpt from Essays on Practical Agriculture: Including His Prize Essays, Carefully Revised <p>The dense population of those countries, in which the great est improvements, in agriculture, have been made, furnish vast quantities of manure for enriching their land; and the cheap ness of labor affords great facilities for manuring and cultiva ting their soil, in the most perfect manner The high price of Agricultural products, and a steady home demand, subject to little uctuation, justifies the-great outlay of capital, which their system of agriculture requires. <p>These circumstances, together with the difference of climate, constitute some of the principle reasons why the European system of agriculture cannot be successfully adopted by the farmers of the United States. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.