New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-04-22
SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
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SCIENTIFIC FARMING
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and Mr. T60aG5.l
Villlam-You call me farmer Of the anti
quated practice. ] know not what YOU mean,
Sir. by this lingo. | have been farmer thee
forty wears, and learned the practice from my
father, and think have good right TO know
something about farming yet Go not pretend
to know more than my father, for why should Fe
:: undertake to be WiScr thru our parenss. ]
am satisfied with 80 bushels Of indian Corn to
the acre and think IL barely possible to produce
more from the best land. And with regard 10 all
your humbugerv Of book-farmlng about r'of-crop8,
draiuing &c. &c, II Is Of piece Fs1til your iei
bushels OF Corn 20 the acre
Thonas.-,Ehv should you be satisfied with 81
bushels Of Corn to the acre, when the highest
authenticated facts VIII go to prove beyond I'll
cayil, that IN many instances, and In various
parts Of the county. ~, 80, and lG0 bushels
have been produced on one acre, and IN some
instances 1872 and Earl Stimson OF >,aratoga
hos raised his 80 bushels from orc acre. bg
what YOU sneeringiy term ook.iauning. | must
remark that httle attention 90 that subject
would 5e Of grcat value TO you. not only by
enabling ;oa 10 double ?our crops, but 10 learn
the saet Importance Of roots draining, &c
iooTs-Tarnep Townsend, as Lord Townsend
The nrodGcer q ine tuunep culture INTO England.
was sncerngg called By the fools that yegetaicd IN
The precincts Of the Court, has added by that root
alone 1t is estimated, not less than sixty millions
annually TO the value OF English Agriculture
The Introduction Of the potato into general use
IS an article Of food has only cquaed the benefit
conferred by the establishment OF tn held culture
of the turnep: aud in regard TO
DRsINING LAHD.--Ihrty years since, occa-
slonal attempts were mod 10 open drains but
they were witEIou; system or skill; were PHnci-
paiIy confined 30 the worst swarnPs, and ire
qucn,lv failed to produce the desired et1cct. The
light winch Geology has thrown on the nature Of
springs and tho effect which Chemistry applied
TO Agriculture has shown must be tie result Of
stagnant water or wet soils on the cultivated
plants, has demonstrated the best method Of
draining, and lis necessity, and rendered fertile
millions OF acres that were Wholly WorthIesS DC
fore. Drantng is one OF the most valuable OF
modern Agricultural improvements.
4 ; II is gratifying to learn that those prac-
ucing on the antiquated modes have been much
reduced IN numbers since the introduction OF
Agricultural journals and the widespread ASso.
Citations to improve Agriculture. ,-.,,
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IMpRQVEMENT OF fARN-lNPLEAlENiI &c
InE PLow-In tins improvement, the advance
IN thirty years has been truly astonishing ll'ere
IS scarcely less difference between inc hea, cast
iron PIow OF the present tune ana inc clumsy
wooden ar'icle used Tor 'he purpose at tha. Pc,
Flod' 'laf' between 'la' ana '.e oiPo'i''ea
cfo'eiica s'ich ol 'lig ancient, III me e5s' 81
"oihih2 an" 'i'p Ci0c' ''u"'Vsu vi NV I''''
every man competent 10 Judge wiz ADMIT 'Il't