Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-11-07

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Farming, like all other things, and perhaps more ,ban
other things, is in revolution We once knew ii much
about growing co potatoes and grass as our fare neigh
bon; but we have glanced at enough of the sepnce -
its modern improvements feel that all we kue i u
little worth, and that in attempting 10 write aLons farm
now we are more likely p got laughed than az eissd
no matter Farming has become scoace II ias ,cr
es 10 grow wheat his land. be sends wheat 70 An
be Analysed that he may find Of what il is com, ~. m!
rather looks into modern work chemistry, yx reads
it there lie then sends sample Of earth from hs Icf hs
chemist to ascertain Of atinsedienss the soil
and whatever Of the component parts suited for we
found nit he procures and spreads upon his land A field
have abundance all the ingredients for the production
q wheat bat one and yet be able produce wheat BY
science, the Gshams have discovered the appalling fact that
butter and beef in the grass and the fruits that the COW
is only tho manufacturer and that they, like the transmitting
priest auo butter and beef and yet eat butter and beef all
the while The farmer who has science will perhaps at
cost add those ingredients of which there are already
enough But that will cause crop grow This ac-
counts for the fact which is often scsurpng that manure
which has produced great crops soil has no good Of
feet at oil on another scientific farmer knows little Of poor
land All land is good to him, for will produce well If only
furnished with the proper ingredients So land that would
only produce very poor crop has been made produce
large crop by spreading upon one two deficient in
gradients These ingredients are Them to be found
in almost all subsancesime Of oyster Shells ashes even Of
anthracite COAL charcoal DUST fshbones &c. Every thing
composed Of Ingredients which had for the repro
ducon Of ITSELF and many other things Fruit trees cease to
bear often because they have exhausted the soil Of or two
of the ingredients which compose their fruit Give them but
these and they will at return production. pear
may grow soil which has all the qualities neces-
to constitute pears and can more make pears with
out the necessary ingredients than the aetes could mako
bricks without straw One crop exhass set of ingred
ens and another to extent different and far
learn the fact without knowing the cause Perhaps that
the crop should not be grown for successive years the
land. Yet there difficulty in growing the same
crop Unfortunately if only the exhausted ingredients
supplied
great deal has been learned about the mode and time of
cutting and curing hay and grain Grass which, while lying
out to be thoroughly dried perhaps may get repeatedly wet
makes much better hay with much less drying preserved
with bushel Of salt ton. Salt is often cheaper than
hay, that the farmer makes profit by putting it in,
while the labor Of curing much diminished and the good
qualities of the hay much increased Wheat cut in the milk
has been found 1o weigh eight pounds bushel
than when left to pen the usual time, and still
increased in weight So farmers have, perhaps, been
suffering great loss for ages by cutting their grain at too late
The application Of science to agriculture has developed
wonders in the capabilities Of the ground which have lain
from the creation unobserved Men asonhed when they
what boundess blessings the Creator has spread thick
around, and how slow the has been observing them
They have spent century after century shedding each
others blood in creating and spreading poisonous surpcrs
tons, and in every possible way destroying that good
Despsng the blessings Of creation and Providence, they
have sought their happiness in the empoyments Of end
and if the malice of could but have had way the
would long since have been extinct and the earth would have
rolled the end of its course UNEMPLOYED and
useless Science shows the capacities of the earth have
hardly begun be developed and the human family hardly
begun exist either numbers individual enjoyment
Evidently sort Of conception has been formed in the minds
of than very few of the swarming millions which this
earth capable of sustaining in luxurious plenty Land and
labor have been brought gnorany together that nothing
almost has been the product The meager snted crops
which have poorly repaid the labors Of the farmer have
exhibited the measure of mans Ignorance rather than of
carths barrcnncss. We opening upon when
every field viii be scientific laboratory most interesting in
operations every noble feeling The change will operate
compensate the farmers the great markets for the
petition they endure from the cheapness of Western land In
proportion the quantity of crops is increased the value
of proximity market is increased II the crop of wheat
doubled per acre, the expense Of transportation per
would be doubled and this would go enhance value of
land market to the amount of the capital upon which
this saving would pay the interest But when
fruits and vegetables which decay rapidly, injured by
much travelling, of great bulk compared with their
value then have another element Of value for land
to markets. sfH4s%&
We indebted for most of these Suggestions to Mr. Pe,
whose fruits vegetables, and grains attracted much attention
at the late Fair We do not, however, to make Mr..
PeI responsible for any bunders which have committed
in repeating from memory little outline of the very inter-
csng Of half hour which had with him.
We do suppose that these things interesting
to every body they but they will perhaps set
some of readers upon track which will bring them TO
more thorough and exact information. ~