Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
A WORD WITH FARMERS.

There is seeming assumption in man of one
vocation trying to tell others how to do their own
business, which often deers people from giving
good and needed advice. An Editor may fairly
claim exemption from this mistaken modesty; and
we, having spent our early years at work on farm
and regarded Agriculture with deep interest ever
since, claim special right TO speak plainly to the
farming community. Bear with us then, few mo-
ments, farming friends.
Taking hasty trip TO Saratoga some weeks
since we were struck with two three aspects of
the Country. One was the severe suffering from
drouth on the rich intervaes of the Hudson river,
especially above Troy. There were hundreds of
acres OF gentlysoping land, devoted to garden
and tillnge, burnt up by drouth, as though a fire
mad run through It, and not yielding third
OF a lair crop. Yet right beside that parched in
terVa' ran noble river sufficient to drench the
whoie daiiy without sensible diminution of its
waers while the plain was crossed almost every
mile by stream coming down from the hills to
swell the rivers current How can it be that the
owners OF these fertile acres suffer themselves to
De Invested OF half the reward of their toll as often
as every other year for want of Irrigation? How
easy II would be for science and skill to provide
ior the thorough mOistenng of those intervalcs a
pleasure, either by dammng the streams as they
issue from the hills and carrying their waters along
ihe bases to be ditfused over the plain, by draw
ing supplies, by of windmills or steam, from
The Hudson itself! But nothing of the sort is done
-lne eartn ls lett 10 parch and Its vegetation to
wither. The mere loss in the quantity of product
is but an item; the vegetables there cultivated
would have commanded double the price if hasten
eu Forward TOR early consumption, while Saratoga
ana all the inland towns were full of pleasure seek.
ing travellers, than they did when ultimately fit for
;, ING @ole That they would have been far more
Wiz viz ana paiatable also, if abundanty SUPPL I'd
WIN WAFER need not be urged
IRRIGATION AND DEEP pLousyINa. - rbese ,,us,
pc generally adopted in our country W. hinSI"
ioio" our Dr'tish ancestors in neglectng tho Co.
mer without rejecting that sunshine ;s T. .no ~.
England as rain is here. As to Deem pin,n;' e ~
science, all practice, all authority, recom"g an
and yet threefourths of our farmers perss, 10 s
ming their land from five to eight inches Sao
or not half what is required. We saw field of,ap,,
held OF corn which will not yield ten bushels to
the acre, land poor stuff at that which might have
been put up to twenty by Deep Flowing alone
VI course, one year would not exhibit all the ben
eht OF this culture; though even the FIRST wear. \
a dry one, would show its decided advantage bu,
let land have time to get used to Deep Flowing
ana Il VIII tell you plainly how it reshes the treat
!nent. And the man who plows deep is pretty aol
70 put something else into the soil as well as IRON
ne VIII have muck and peat from his swamp-boea
"" M noble compost heap near his barn.
we near farmers complain and most truly. tina,
sieS sa , make nothing by their business this
WINE I,ey are paving taxes, keeping up fences
anu PGinaPs paying mortgage-interest, on twice al