The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-09-02
AGRICULTURAL.


EXPERIMENT IN FARxING.-The value of a.
enee TO agriculture Is well set forth In the nj.
lowing description Of the Experimental Fsru
OF Professor MaPes, in this vicinity, which /.
furnished the National Intelligence bv = Vs,r
\ ork eorresPOndent.-N. Y. TrI6HRe
Science is gradually making lis way to III.
farmhouse, and lending its powerful am i'm
Portant aid to agricultural pursuits. Asania-
cehtNe 10 Others 10 ego and do Likewise" IWT
Stale very briefly what practical chemist /,
now doing in this vicinity in e. detrimental farm
ing Professor Mapes, for many wears p,st
resident in this city, and well known as a 200
chemist and scientific man, concluded I,si An
TO turn has attention 10 agriculture. For this
purpose he purchased a small farm Of abOsi
forty acres in New Jersey, between two and
'hfee miles southwest Of Newark. He Is nov
IN the midst OF his trst season, and yesterday
went out 70 MS place in company with some Of
the members OF the American Institute. IA -.
what sort Of a start he had made in his new mar
suit. The result was highly gratifying. and
left the impression that this little experimsnt,I
iarm will help TO give valuable stimulus 70 the
agriculture OF the country. The basis OF bis
SOL Is principally a disintegraled sandstone,
with mixture OF clay. The farm had been oc-
euPied for some years past By mechanic who
had paid but little attention TO Il, and was in 8
low state Of cultivation, thus making il fair
held to test the results Of chemical farming.
On our arrival, We were seated awhile in the
Professors snug ParlOr, where he gave Us a gea-
eral account OF the farm, the nature Of the sou,
The sources and the mode Of procuring, prepar-
ing, and applying manures, the effects Of Sari-
Gus chemical action in the composition Of ma
nnres and their influence upon vegetation. 10
short, II was an admirable chemical lecture az
d IL n a..
farm 10 see what he had done, and what he was
preparing to do. At the barn We found two
Jokes OF the handsomest and most powerful
working oxen have ever seen.
where did you find such eattle'''
called man TO my aid who was a mrs; rate
Judge OF animals, and told him to 20 out and
look for them, directing him TO bring me TAO
pairs Of the best oxen he could find between
New York and Bangor, regardless Of the en-
Pense."
The result was that he brought back these cat
tie at about $500 yoke, and cheap enough at
ts, SAD the Professor one pair weighed
held TO see them plough, and the ease with
which they took the PlOughs through the sol
seemed more ike the work Of powerful steam
engine than Of animal power. The FIRST yoke
cut a furrow sixteen inches in depth The next
followed with the sub-sOil plough in the sane
iurrow, cutting and loosening the earth sixteen
inches below the first furrow. The Professor
says deep Ploughing Is very important for large
crops some Of the ploughing is thirty-sR
inches deep. His system Of preparing and APP
'iying manures is scientific and important, and,
aaging from present appearances, he will pro-
luce remarkable results. The science Of a sue
,ession Of crops in the same season, without
The soil, is Of vast Importance
he 70 al. r Ia
hall take of, this season, eight hu ndred bushels
'f potatoes, three thousand Ave hundred cab
Dages, and six hsndred bashels of turnips, which
must be worth five or six hundred dollars al the
owest market prices. His crop Of cabbages this
season he calculates at eighty thousand heads.
lie has new variety Of potato, which he calls
ne nutmeg potato, Of which be expects 70 raise
his season eighteen hundred bushels, which
will be disposed Of for seed at one dollar bush
H. lie calculates that he viii have a hundred
md twenty thousand nutmeg melons for market
his season, which certainly ought to average
Two cents apiece, and at that price, they would
FIELD twenty-foar hundred dollars There Is on
he farm great variety Of other vegetables and
;roPs TO which make no reference.
Unlike most farmers, he does not leave strip
u waste along by The side Of his fences, buteul-
ivates every inch snug to The fence. Against
'aeh post in the fence be sets out fruit tree,
md midway between the posts a grape vine,
which, as IL runs and spreads, viii rest On tho
ence- In this way he will soon have three
allies Of grape vines and frnit on ground when
ordinary farmers would let run 10 waste he
'ses his farm Ike giant machine Of wonder
al powers, II properly and scientifically hand
3D. lie employs upon Il about twenty HANDS,
at says In high stale Of cultivation It weaid
i've employment to eighty.