Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-03-17

agricultural IMPROVEMENTS The growing in
crest every where perreptibe, and the signal i'm
provenenls now making in every department of
rural industry, we cannot but regard as suspicious
omcns oil an approaching period Of great national
prosperity. More than three fourihs of The pro-
ductve industry OF the Tinted states is engaged
IN cnlllvntug the soil. Our confidence that gen.
ernl prosperity will soon be OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the pesent shade of Locotocolsm shall blight
every thing-s based upon the fact that The rural
industry OF this broad Republic is now being made
vasisy more productive in ns legitimate results
Than ct any former period. We are happy TO see
that this increase Of productiyene>s is not confn-
ed 10 the Northern, Middle, Western States;
bnt is likely TO benefit, in equal, ii not grealer
degree, The cotton growing region of the South.
by the skfu application Of science to the cul-
tire OF the cotoD-plant DR.. Cloud, of Alabama,
has succeeded in growing four times the quantity
| OF cotton on an acre OF ground TINT is usually
made in that country while the article obtained
is greatly SUPERIOR and worth some 20 per cent.
more per pound than the average staple. DIR. =.
IS publishing in the Albany CuuvatOr mn account
OF the process by which he is able to produce
such important results. His new system of cul-
ture-high manuring aud rotation Of crops are its
essential elementsls exciting great interest at the
South. DR.. Z. harvests with great certainty 5000
pounds OF cotton from each acre in cultivation,
which is worth IN these times cents per pound
giving him $3.50 as the annual product OF an acre
OF land. The land cultivated by Dr. Z. was while
in the stnte of nature, extremely poor aud sterile.
| The wool growing business Of the Eastern and
Western portions of the Union is receiving much
attention. aud is found to he susceptible ut being
made vastly more profitable Than is generally sup
posed. Mr. Reybod, u WOO. grower in the State
OF Delaware, has flock of 1000 Leicester sheep,
from which he clipped 5000 pounds OF good wool
last season. This important result has been pro-
duced mainly by the aid of physiology, ludlclous-
" applied TO the breeding Of this valuable domes-
tic animal
MIR. Reybold csn sell hs wool at the low Price
of 20 cents pound and then realize from his
flock annual income Of $1,000 SuPpo'e it
will take 5000 of this sum, aud the whole value
of the increase of the flock 10 deiray the expense
of their keep, then each sheep nets It's owner q
clear profit of one dollar year. Sheep husband
ny must and will flourish in this land OF bOundless
pastures.
Mr.. Young Of Kentucky has grown The past
season 100 bushels of corn on one acre oil grouhd /;
aud his crop for several years past has seldom la-
len below, even in bad seasons. lao bushels u she
acre. This statement is copied from Ihe'Loulsvillc
Journal, and its correctness not TO be ques'
toned where Mr.. Young is known and his meth
cd Of culture we'll understood. In this compara-
lively cold and unpropitions climate, the N. Y.
Stale Agricultural Society on the 10th ut granted
to Mr.. Samuel Phelps, OF Ira, Cayuga county, a
premium OF Sl2 for having grown 1872 bushels of
corn on acre.
he expense OF producing these large crops is
often less, in long run, than what is necessary 10
obtain one fourth of the amount The old sys.
lem Of skinning and starving land Ivy continuous
cropping, soon reduces the occupant to the neces-
sity Of abandoning it or starving himself. W hile
agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable ply
slology, and other kindred sciences are doing so
much TO augment the produciveness of the soil,
scientific mechansts are constantly supplying the
husbandman with valuable labor.sayins machines
by which the cost Of culIlvang any given guam
tity OF land is greatly diminished 1t is in this
way TINT our agricultural interest is now begin
ning to realize double gam in It's profts-an I'M
mense gain in The aggregate product, aud an equa
gain by cheapenmg the cost OF production. Should
he coming season he favorable to rural employ
ments, our farmers must not expects third gain
; or the benefit of additional prices Tor their sur.
plus produce. Those who sell wheat at 90 cents
n bushel which six years since would have brought
them 81 20 a bushel, can now make us much, Of
more money, by growing Two bushels oil the same
(, land and at the same cost which then produced
r hut one. The same remark will apply to the cul
, ture of cotton, corn, tobacco and hemp and ,c
the making of pork and heet.-Buf. Com. .4du.