Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-06-26
From the Southern Planter.
IMPROVEMENT IN AGRICULTURE.

IMPROVEMENT IN AGRICULTURE.
That Improvements in agriculture bear so
small proportion to the importance of the
art, has excited the establishment of man
kind. Much of this phenomenon is attri-
butable to the ignorance and prejudice aris-
Ing from the isolated condition of its vota-
res. Nothing so polishes the intellect of
man, as the constant attrition with his fell
low-men, and nothing is so productive of
narrow-mnded prejudice and ignorant con-
celt, as the seclusion and separation from
his craftsmen, in which the farmer too often
INDUCES. Agricultural clubs and neighbour
hood associations are doing much to remedy
this great evil and the consequences that
flow from it. Such has been the effect of
this narrow-minded bigotry, that heretofore
it was difficult to induce a farmer to read
anything addressed to him upon the subject
of his profession. He, forsooth, was so wise
that nobody could teach him anything!-
Thus it was that of the few discoveries made
in this most difficult Of the arts, many no
doubt have been entirely lost, and Of those
that have been published, hundreds lie as
hidden stores of knowledge in musty vol
umes, which the ignorance and the conceit
of those for whom they were written have
rendered unavailable to mankind. Thank
God, better state of things is beginning to
exist. Farmers have made the notable dis
covery, that through the great art of print
ing, the knowledge and experience of one
man may be conveyed to another. The
talent of the world is now turned to this
important subject; Investigations are insti-
tuted, results and suggestions are published
and printed, because agricultural books are
noaU purchased and read by agriculturists
But it is wonderful to find, as we frequently
do, that some startling truth just announced
to the world, which makes two blades Of
grass to grow where only one grew before,
is but the resuscitation of discovery made
and published centuries ago.
This train of thought has been excited
Immediately by finding in the ''Farmer and
Mechanic" the following extract upon the
EFFICACY OF sTEEPING-A "NEw' DIS
covERY-A. D. IT'S.
We extract from the copy of Agricola's
Husbandry in our possession, the following
letter:
"Mr. Leonard Herman, Pastor of Maszel,
in the Principally of Oelsbernstad in Silesia,
among other Curiosities, wrote me an Ac-
coust in what manner Grains of Seed NAV
be mase to grow very suddenly; these are
his words: In the Name of God, shall
mere communicate sincerely, and, according
to my best hn>wledge, the way we ought
10 urea! C0Tn' ano specially Wheat, to have
dy Land, not doubting,hut if the CoSow;nn
Method be obserV'd with,slt anv view l ri
Avarice, but only to the Glora> Of God. and
the Service of the Poor, or for vour OWN r
Use, or that of those who have littleSronnd
you may attain your End with UtiIitS>and
Pleasure. To this Purpose you must, wlie..
Seed time comes on,
~. Make good Lyo, 10 the Quantity of
the eighth part,efa Bushel.
92 tTothe above] for every Bushel, [of
seed put an eighth part of a Bushel of Bay
berries boil'd, and squeezed into the Lye.