Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-08-13

things can be of no possible use to the practica
farmer! Who cares to know what there is it
a kernel of corn, or a sound, mealy potato
These things can be made out of nothing, ont,
,cork hara enough, A gallon of human sweat
spread evenly over an acre of land, is bette
than all the agricultural science in the world
because it can be sold any day in August fol
Jyty cents!
If it were not for the indifference of farmers
!, to the spread of agricultural knowledge, rural
industry would rise at once fifty per cent. in
productiveness and value. SO long as the tiers
Of the earth shall work twelve or fifteen hours
in twenty-four, to make something out of moth.
ing, the balance Of the world will give them but
a precious little for their service. And why
should they? II a farmer gives as much labor
for one bushel of corn or wheat as he should for
three, ought he not to exchange his badly d.
rected industry, by giving three days work for
one with those that study their business, and
make every hours work tell to best advantage
We cannot blind our reasoning faculties, aud
then plead ignorance of the things that form our
annual crops, as reason why we should have
more than the market value for our pro-
duce. There is no alternative but to lessen the
hard work now expended in growing all our
agricultural staples, by the aid of knowledge.
II we cruelty withhold this knowledge from our
sons, we indirectly give a bond that they shall
be the hewers of wood and drawers of water for
the better informed and that, too at the smallest
wages, all their days.
Kind reader. if you have a son. and believe
with us, that the study of the laws of Nature
will do him no harm, purchase for him Mr..
James Il. W. Johnston's Lectures on Az
ricultura Chemistry" latest edition, which will
cost you but 81 25. Let him buy, as soon as
he has thoroughly studied Johnston, Boussin-
Ia, ID 4, Il. ,,.;1
dollar and quarter more. These invaluable
works should be in every common-school library
in the State. We commend them to the atten-
ton of all teachers of young men in academies
and other semnaries.
There is scarcely ten farmers in the whole
State (of Newly ork) that feed all their cultiva-
ted plants, including fruit trees, grape-vnes and
strawberries, as they should be fed. The same
is true, TO some extent in regard to feeding, with
the most appropriate and economical food, all
domestic animals. How important, as well as
interesting, is the study of the organic structure
of all the living things kept on the farm These
organized vegetable and animal beings possess
many organs, and each organ has its peculiar
office to perform.
Do we work wHh or against the purpose Of
nature, in our treatment of these vital functions
Are we sure that we obtain the largest possible
crops of peas, potatoes and corn, from any given
amount of land and labor or the largest return
in good pork, for the corn, peas, and potatoes,
consumed by our swine? How is it in regard
to the production Of grass, carrots, beets beef,
butter, cheese and wool /? Whose wool, worth
thirty cents a pound, cost him the least money
in land and labor! Whose cheese and butter
yield him the largest profit or compensation for
his industry! When we export 1000 tons of
cheese to England this fall, how much truly