Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-09-14
Scientific Farming.

Scientific Farming.
A correspondent of the National Intelhgencer
gives the following account cf fsome-e4periments
made in Farming bv Professor NAPEs, which we
have an idea will be interesting to some of our ag-
ricultural readers. The Professors farmis near
Newark. New JersaY, and contains only forty a.
cres. The 1nteIgencer's correspondent, who
went to pay the place visit; says
son our arrival we were seated awhile in the
Professors snug parlor. where he gave us gen.
eral account of the farm the nature of the soil the
sources and the mode of procuring, preparing and
applying manures, the effect of various chemical
action in the composition ofmanures, and their in
fuence upon vegetation. In short, it was an ad
mirable chemical lecture applied to agriculture.
He then took US over the farm to see what he had
done and what he was preparing to do. AT the
barn we found two yoke of the handsomest and
most powerful working oxen have ever seen.
'Where did you find such cattle Z"
:" called man to my aid who was first tats
judge of animals, and told him to 60 out and look
foi Them, directing him to bring me two pairs Of
the best oxen he could find between New York
and Bangor, regardless of the expense"
The result was that he brought back these cat
lie at about two hundred dollars yoke, g and
cheap enough at that !" said ths Professor. One
pair weighed about $500 pounds. We then went
Tito the field to see them plough, and the ea3e
with which they took the plough through, the soil
semed more like the work Of powerful steam
engine than of animal power. The first yoke cut
furrow sixteen inches in depth. The next yoke
followed with the subsoil plough in the same fur
row, cutting and loosenng the earth sixteen inches
below the first furrow. The Professor says deep
ploughing is very important fer large crops.-
Some of his poughing is thirty-six deep. His
system of preparing and applying manures is sci
entifc and important, and judging from present
appearances he will produce remarkable results:
The science of succession of crops in the same
season, without impovershing the soil is of vast
importance. The Professor says that from sin
gle acre he shall take off this season eight hundred
bushels OF potatoes, three thousand FIVE hundred
cabbages, and six hundred bushels Of turnips !;
which must be worth FIVE or six hundred dollars
at the lowest market prices His crop Of cabba-
ges this season he calculates at eighty thousand
heads. He has new variety of potato which
he calls the nutmeg potato, of which he expects to
raise this season eighteen hundred bushels, which
will be disposed of for seed at one dollar bushel.
He calculates that he will have hundred and
twenty thousand nutmeg melons for market this
season, which certainly ought to average two
cents apiece, and at that price they would yield
ty-four hundred dollars. There is on the farm
great variety of other vegetables and crops to
which make reference.
Unlike most farmers. he does not leave strip
Of waste land along by the side Of the fences, but
cultivates every inch snug to the fence. Against
each post IN the fence he sets out fruit tree, and
midway between the posts a grapevine, which,
as il runs and spreads, will rest on the fence In
this way he will soon have three miles of grape
vines and fruit trees on ground which ordinary
farmers would let run to waste. He uses his farm
like great machine Of wonderful powers, if pro-
perly and scientifically handled He employs
upon it about twenty hands. but says in higli
state of cultivation it wonld give employment to
eighty
Goldsmith says, in that sweet poem, the De-
serted Village @
." A time there was ere England's griefs began,
When every rod of ground maintained its man.
But think PROFESSOR NAPEs ii in fair way of
proving that in this country rod of ground may
be made TO maintain quite number of men and
hope he will do much to convince our farmers
that scientific farming is of more Importance TO
them than great numbers of acres."0o 5s8
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