Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-09-03


1900 lbs. Sugar at cts. S294.oO d
800 lbs. Molasscs, at cts. $500 "a
10000 lbs. Cake, at mills, 5000 I
$4,000 e
Expense Of cultivatng the root t
and extracting the sugar, 10000 e
Nett profit, $4,000 {
In ascertaining the nett profit in the fore
going statement, it will be seen we have de-
Quoted SlOs, for the expense of cultivating
the root and extracting the sugar This is a
very liberal allowance. and probably, some
thing like double the amount of the :tual
cost. OF the expense of cutivating the root
every farmer can make accurate calculations
for himself, and with regard to the cost of
manufac turing the sugar, it will depend mate /
rally upon the cost of fuel consumed in the ,
process of evaporation and machinery and
fixtures employed. In sections of the coun-
try where fuel is scarce. and consequently
high, it cannot exceed the deduction we have
made; and in places where it is procured at
cheap rates it will fall much below our esti-
mate.
/ We have other statements OF profit. which.
..,ss.ti witt, the process of manutac turing,
we intend to give hereafter, and in the mean
time would ask farmers to throw away one
half of the nett profit in our statement, which
will bring them to our starting point, $3.50,
and then look about and see if they can de-
vote portion OF their land to a more profta-
bic crop-always excepting the culture of
si!k.-[Silk Culturist.]
THE PRODUCTIVE POWER OF LAND.
l Few Farmers in this country, are aware
f of the immense productive power ofland per-
: fectIy cultivated. The notion that large
: farms are indispensable to agricultural ope-
rations always prevails in new countries
? where lands are cheap and cultivation imper-
4 feet; but as country progresses in age, and
lands advance in price, it is discovered that
K the product ard profit of a farm depend more
upon its cultivation, than the number of a
: ores it contains. At the first settlements of
this country, by civilized men it was will
.derness, and lands were purchased Of the ma
tives, for articles of clothing and ornaments
> of trifing amount.-This induced our ances-
!, tors to make themselves proprietors of large
y tracts of wild land without reference to theil
:! ability to cultivate them. The consequence
y was, a low standard of hushandry. But a.
: these extensive tracts were afterwards divi
q ded and sub-divided; as the increase of pop
n ulation and exigencios Of families required, i
~ began to rise and has been slowly prugres
: sing until it has arrived 1t its present stat,
OUt WHICH IS very idI ITCtl WIldl Al Was III
- old world long before the christian era.
" 1t is supposed that agriculture has neve
\. :, been in a more f1ourishIng condition, and cu
:, tivation carried on nearer perfection than
= was in ancient Rome five hundred years be
=. =, fore Christ. The principal assignable reaso
- for the agricultural prosperity of Rome, wa
Is the size of farms which were circunscribe
r. within very narrow limits. The farm {
al Manlius GURUS Dentalus, one of the grea
est Roman Farmers, consisted of but 70,
he and a half English acres. He was three time
OF chosen consul, the highest ordinary office
IN. the state. and fer q time commandments
OF of the Roman army, and yet he derived q
nd his substance from his farm. For his sple
Id did victory over Phyrreus he was oifers
OF more land by the government; but he declI
VS. ed it, assigning as reason, that should
oil even aspire to more wealth and possessi(
ted than be already had he should become
Wn ambitious, and consequently a dangero
ex- man to the liberties OF his countrymea. Tn
rye celebrated Roman Farmer Cincinnatus, abo
whom so much is said OF mis- being called fro
be the plough to the command of the Rom
to army, had only two and quarter scres
sta land. His original farm contained seven
,er- gera, about four and half of which he h
t it been compelled to dispose Of to raise mon
not topav the debts Of an improvident son.
on But nothing viii better illustrate the
lem portance of perfect cultivation, and the !;
lese tonishingly productive power of land unde1
tifc than the story of Paridius, Roman vi
nor dresser. He had a vineyard and two dan,
ome tiers. AT the marriage OF the eldest, he all
He ted her one third of the vineyard as her p
the ton. and, astonishing as it may seem,succe
an ed in making the same crop from two thr
ltle- which he had formerly made from the who
een At the marriage of the other daughter, he
ere; portioned TO her one half the remainder. a
next vet his crop was undmInished.
and We are not among the number who belle
ms IL necessary for our young agricu.turlsts,
Ivedi penetrate the western wilderness for the ?