The fifth year the field is permitted to rest in pasture. The consequence of this system is that we always have.

One field in corn, " " " oats and barley, " " " wheat, " " " clover and timothy, " " " nasture.

So that every fifth year the land returns to the same crop; the advantage of this system is, that by giving two spring ploughings for the corn and oats and barley erops, and one in the fall succeeding the spring ploughing,, when the field is pot in wheat, the soil is thoroughly pulverized and weeds exterminated.

In breaking up new soil, it is proper to put fifty to one hundred bushels of oyster-shell or stone lime to the acre, and ten to twenty bushels of bone-dust thoroughly pulverized, which in practice is found to be more efficacious than bones dissolved in acid. The manure of the farm is also composted, spread, and ploughed in.

To many there may be nothing entirely new in all this, but we write and publish for others who are new to the business of farming, and who have seen more of the routine of the counting-house than of the field; they may here read the experiences of a practical man turning his acres to good and profitable account, a merchant ploughing the ocean at the same time with his clipper ships, banking in town for others, and in various ways contributing to the good of his fellow men.

On this farm there is a peach orchard of forty acres, the sales from which, is one year, have produced 2000 dollars; cherries to the amount of 609 dollars have been sold in one season to Baltimore middle-men.

One of Mr. Lurman's excellent rules is " strict justice to man and beast;" all are treated thus, and with a certain degree of liberality; the hands are thus his attached friends.

And now for Mr. Lurman's calculations of the profits made by a gentleman farmer: -

500 acres of land, of which in wood, and pleasure-grounds, orchards, etc., 100 acres, at &100 per acre. . . .. $50,000

The division of 400 acres arable land in fire fields of 80 acres each, and the rotation of crops, as follows: -

Break up a sod in the autumn and winter: first year, corn; second year, oats or barley, or both; break up in the autumn, harrow and seed, third year, wheat; sow clow or timothy; fourth year, in clover; fifth, pasture.

This system will insure a clean wheat crop, but requires manures, and will then annually improve the land.

The following is Mr. Lurman's estimate of the cost and returns of his wheat crop, which, it must be observed, furnishes the annual profit of his farm: -

60 tons or straw, at 910 per ton, is equal to Harvesting, threshing, and hauling the whole crop.

The above system of cultivation is arranged for land which requires to be cleansed and brought up in fertility, and being the homestead of a family; in fact, what the English call a carse farm. The 100 acres set aside for orchards, truck patches, paddock, pasture lots, etc, may produce, in fruit sales, a large revenue, say from 1,500 to 2,000 dollars, when the access to market is easy. This is a result which entirely depends on the personal attention of the proprietor.

On this farm a large family is also supported in elegance and luxury, with horses, etc., in ample abundance for all. The example is one which we deem it useful to exhibit to our readers, and, in doing so, we might enter upon a contrast of the independence, the good, cheerful wholesomeness, in all senses, of such a life of active usefulness, and the hum-drum routine of the plodding merchant, the mere distributor of cotton bales, or manufactured fabrics.* The one is a man, with open hand and open heart, careering over his own acres, in health and hearty enjoyment, and with a distinct individuality; the other, often a man also, but man in confinement, and deprived of fresh air, fresh thoughts, and that intercourse with nature which, is his birthright, and without which, it seems to us, he too frequently dwindles away till there is little left of him. Where so well as in the country, can we find the pursuit of tastes which result in making "a little world of the family home, where truthfulness, beauty, and order, have the largest dominion".

What is the reason of the difference between the smile with which the mere dealer in money or in cotton meets his family, and the genial air of the farmer or horticulturist among his home circle? The money or cotton dealer's topic, on which his mind most dwells, is not a congenial one with his wife and children, while the pursuits of the cultivator and improver are interesting to all; they can all participate in what is going on, feel a sympathy in progress, and enjoy the products of labor done under their own eye. The relish is, somehow or other, a very different affair.

We would exhort the young to cultivate those pursuits which will be no incumbrance under the pressure of business, or of adverse circumstances, but which will constitute the highest ornament of their prosperous days, and the most delightful companions of their leisure. Among such pursuits, we should undoubtedly place agriculture and horticulture as the first, as a resource in age and prosperity, no less than in adversity; when such knowledge may be turned to profitable account, they have no rivals.

In a future article, descriptive of "Country Places" around Baltimore, we shall give an account of the horticultural improvements of this beautiful place, which contains one of the best collections of evergreens, ornamental shrubbery, and extensive dressed walks within our knowledge.

* "When Croesus, in Herodotus, suggested to Gyrus the means of making his Lydian subjects harmless for warlike purposes, he advised him to teach them to sing, and to dance, and to open retail shops, as the surest of all methods for destroying their pristine manliness." - Blackwood's Magazine, April, 1856.