In consequence of this economy, there is no deterioration of annual averages of their crops to be recorded, as in some of our prairie States, which have been boasting of the natural and inexhaustible fertility of their soil even with the record of retrograde statistics before their eyes.

The grain and root crops are very heavy; and a large business is done in growing turnip seed for the world in some sections of this fen country.

A large proportion of the quantity we import comes from these low lands.
Our host of the Four-Hundred-Acre Farm took us over his productive occupation, which was in a very high state of cultivation.

The wheat was yellowing to harvest, and promised a yield of forty-two bushels to the acre.

The oats were very heavy, and the root crops looked well, especially a field of mangel-wurzel.