2191. Plow deep.—Let a farmer examine the extent and depth to which the roots of grain, in a loose and favorable soil, will spread, and he will cease to wonder at the failure of a crop where the subsoil has never been stirred by the plow.
2192. Green vegetables, when put under the soil and submitted to the process of decomposition, are efficacious in restoring exhausted soils.
2193. Fertilizing.—Buckwheat and clover are striking instances of this power in green crops to fertilize soils, and both have been extensively used for this purpose.
2194. Agriculture is worthy the most liberal patronage of our governments, state and national; it ought to be enlightened by a better (and thorough) education of the agricultural class.
2195. Three Pillars of the State.—Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, stand together; but they stand together like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the centre, and that largest is agriculture.