New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-06-12

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Agriculture Tn the State of New Fork.
From the Buffalo Com. Advertiser
There are few facts appertaining tosshe great
Agricultural interest of the Empire State, winch
should command the serious consideration OF ev-
ery one interested in her prosperity In their last
report the Canal Commissioners state IN substance
.that in comparing the amount of wheat and
-four delivered at tidc-watcr in 1886 with 1912,
there has been falling off in the produce OF tins
State of tpenty.f ce thousand fans; while the ~
crease Of those articles from the Western States
has been one hundred thousand tons"
There are now brought to this city, some weeks,
nearly million pounds of butter, destined 10 an
Eastern market. The effect Of this vast surplus
has been to reduce the price of fresh table butter
10 seven cents a pound. Pork, lard and beef
brought down from the two thousand miles of
Lake coast penetrated at almost every inlet by a
canal stretching across to the navigable waters
tributary to the Mississippi, are pouring IN upon
the farmers Of New York IN equal abundance
AS vet they have had but gentle sprinkle of
that mighty deluge which they are soon TO cXpe-
renee Our "Grand Canal" has now been IN
successful operation eighteen years; during which
period the most entcrprlslng and industrious sons
OF New x rk and New England have been con-
stantly emigrating Westward They have found
boundlcss praries, ready for the piow, which they
have purchased at $ % an acre; and they
competing most successfully with their fathers
and grandsires in supplying the markets of their
native towns with bread stufs and provisions
Under such circumstances what are the farmers
of New-Yorl 10 do, that they may prevent the
large depreciation in the value of their property,
restore the dmnution of $4,000 tons of their
wheat and flour sent to market on the Eric Canal,
and make butter ut good profit at seven cents
pound Let no cultlvator of the soil IN the En-
pre- State flatcr himself that this fearful compc-
tition is not to be augmented by all the advan-
tages of cheap.nawgauon,u ntiring industry, great
skill, abundant capital, and every aid necessary
to obtain the largest product from vast territory
of SURPRISING fertility.
From much reflection upon this subject we arc
confident there is but one course to be taken by
the agrculturists of New York by which they
can maintain, even for quarter OF century, the
present productiveness, or market value of their
farms. Land may be worth $50 per acre to pas
fure COWS and make butter at ii cents per pound
when it would not be worth So TO make butter
at Z cents pound. The remedy for the existing
and prospective evil, which VIC propose, Is, So 10
improve each acre OF pasture and meadow land
that it will keep two COWS instead of one or four
instead of two; and so TO Improve the milking
qualities of this valuable animal that instead OF
giving on an average only 10 quarts of milk per
day, and making pounds of buttcrper week the
same amount of food will yield Il pounds of hut
Ter and 20 quarts of milk.
Instead of harvesting % bushels of wheat and
30 bushels of corn from an acre, they must con.
trivc 10 reap 10 bushels of the former and 60 OF
IL,
present average AS means that will accom-
plish this important result we have for years urged
upon the people and their Legislators the import
ance of establishing in every County in the State
at least one efficient Agricultural School, in
switch both the art and science of husban,ry
shall be taught in practical and thorough man.
ner. AS practical demonstration OF what may
be done under the system Of instruction and
economy which we recommends we ask The farm.
er's attention TO the following statement, which
As copied from the British Farmers Magazine for
January, 1913:
Perhaps the most successful example of the
capabilities of land, under proper manag cement,
In Ireland, and OF the immense crops which can
he raised, may DC seen on the National Model
FARM under the Board of Education, at GlaS-
nevin, near publin. This farm, strictly conduct
ed on the improved system of grccn-croppin.
and housc-fHc6ing, contains 81 statute acres, and
there were kept on it, during the year, - head
OF cattle and ) horses Ii supplies, on an aver
age, 30 persons during the Year with farm pro-
duce, such as milk, batter, potatoes, and vescta-
blcs of various kinds and furnishes the farming
establishment, with pork, besides 4 number o!
private families with the above articles. \ con-
siderable quantity Of vegetables are carried TO
market. and al kinds of gram, which rs abund,
ant. There is at present crop OF oats upon the
farm, the produce of ,25 British acres. II is Sc
cured IN eight stacks, and it is estimated by the
best judges TO be oqua! 10 the average produce of
80 acres. Itstood perfectly close upon the ground,
average 6,o j feet in hight, the mead and ear
corresponding The o;h,r crops-potatocs, tuy-
neps Italian rye-grass, &c.-oi like quality.
The manager conducts the farm on his own
nccoant-oays Gl57 IS. Sd. psr annum, of rent,
besides other expenses amounting IN all 10 up
ward CT .f400 per year; and We are informed,
and believe, tha, he realizes very handsome an
nual sum from it beside. he ahors and manages
it almost exclusively br 9 number Of boys asn-
cultural pupils and teachers, who arc there II
training in the science and practice of Agricu-
ture. AS test of what land is capable OF pro-
ducing. when hroash, 10 Its highest po;nt, there
are few examples 50 appropriate as we have IN tins
particular instance; there are. perhaps, mors
crops raised, more cattle kept and fed, more hu,
suan beings supplied with the common necessaries