Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-07

manure lust mentioned. Since bone dust
has come into general use, the turnep
crop has been increased in many instan- (
ces, ten-fold, and in few less than four or
foe fold, and the effect has been equally
surprising upon the succeeding crops OF
grain, on the same land. This is the tes-
timony OF practical men, we'll acquainted
with all the circumstances, and they have
no doubt that the soil will 60 on progress
lively improving, and requiring a less
quantity of bones, annually, from its in
creased fertility and power 1t answers
best on light chalky soil. A single tar
mer in Lincolnshire, is said to have gen.
erally about 600 acres dressed, almost en-
tirelY with bone manure, furnishing vast
supply of food for cattle, and of common
manure for other lands, and is fitting
those on which it is sown for bearing the
most luxuliant crops OF wheat and bar
/ ley.
In Scotland, the use Of bone manure is
still more recent, but scarceI v less produc-
tive. In the Lothians, in Berwickshire,
and in fact, every where, 1t is working
wonders. Being so light and easily trans
ported, compared with any other kind Of
man1re, many a rugged and tIl'y tract IS
feniIizrd by it, which must otherwise
have remained in a state Of nature. 10
pulverize the bones, mills are constructed
in the vicinity OF all the large towns, and
besides what their own markets furnish,
large quantities Of bone dust are imported
by the Scotch farmers.
am almost ashamed to offer your rea-
ders this brief and meagre sketch of the
present state of British agriculture; but
neither time nor space, will permit me to
enlarge. There are limits no doubt be-
yond which Improvements in cultivating
the soil, cannot be carried. But there is
no reason to think, that these limits have
yet been approached, even in the most
productive districts Of England and Scot
land-for the science Of agriculture never
advanced more rapidly than it has done
within the last few years; or rather,
should say, were | entitled to speak with
!, any authority on the subject, it seems to be
almost in its infancy. Who that looks a
the astonishing improvements Of the last
fifty years, both in the science and the Art
, of husbandry-who that recollects how
, lately the potatoe, that most rich nutri
tious and productive ofall our larinacious
esculents, has been brought into genera
use, who that considers what inexhausti-
bic sources Of nutrition and fertility and
wealth, the turnep and other green crop;
have so recently become in Britain, will
undertake 10 say, that other vegetables
, still more nutritious and productive, may
{ not yet be introduced and brought unde
. general cultivation2 Who can tell, wha
z new substances scientific and practica
5 agricuturlsts may yet find, possessing fa
} higher fertlizing virtues, than any nov
v in use, or VIVA. combinations and mixtures
D chemistry may furnish, so cheap and 81
: abundant, as 10 put new aspect Of fertli
e ty upon lands already most productive
C Who, in looking at he best acre in al
It England, would venture TO say, that it cal
v never, by any possible Improvements an,
# discoveries, be made more productiv
: OF human subsistence that it now is p
II Who knows, but that a hundred, or
h thousand years hence, it may yield fou
t, fold? Who, in short, can even conjec
IS ture, what amazing undeveIoped agricu
1t tural resources vet lie hidden in land:
y which have hitherto been regarded a
2, scarcely worth filling at all? For my
h self, do,uot deem it at all extravagant /
# predict, that in the millennium, if not be
&c fore, the single island of Great Britai
of will produce food enough for popult
ID ton of fifty millions; nor, that whe
e, swords shall be beaten into pIoughshare
as and spears into pruning hooks, and il
Iy stead of the thorn shall come up the fl
ed tree, and instead Of the briar shall com
r, up the myrrh-tree, the present territory (
a the United States will pour the boon
o, plenty, into the laps of thousand miuiO
g. OF inhabitants! Yours, sincerely.
a