Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1850-07-02
Extract from Patent Office Re-
port for 1850.

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OF Improvement is the living machinery
which elaborsres mix for nearly every
family 10 The Union. There is q reliable
account in this report. Of q dsiry Of forty
one cows kept in the Stale of New York
which Yields So2 iiI buster, cheese and
milk, cs the product OF cech COW . ysaf.
From ire returns OF the las; State census.
It Is safe 10 say that l.l00.0O0 cows are
now MIXED in that State, which are Sup
posed to yield $50 per hend. Toimprovs
these up to an average snual. product Of
S3l each, (thai is 10 one.haif wha, he
best large dairiss in the county now yield,
would add Sl2,i00.0O0 to tho income of
The citizens OF a single Stale. This gain
by the improvement Of one kind of rurs.
machinery would be equivalent 10 creating
a capital Of $500, ,0G0. 600 and placing The
money where i! would yceld over per
cent. interest in perpetueil II the 80.
oUU,Ouu OF sheep IN the United States
gave as good returns in wool for the food
consumed us lhs bes, 100000 now do. i
would add at least 60,0UODou 300 nds 70
The annual clip Of This imror,an, s,aSfes.
In one Of his letters 10 Sir John Sinclair
General Washington says. III substance,
that al the time he cn,eced It's putlIc ser
vice in tho war Of the Re,olu,ion. his
Hook (abou! ,O00} clipped five pounds of
wool per fleece. Seven years after, wher
he returned 70 Ills estate, his flock bnd g.
degenerated that it gave on average Of on
Iy two and half pounds per head, which
was the comnon yield Of Virginea sSrSp
then as il is POW,
Although tic numerous iuporia.;oi,s O.
superior sheep, cattle. horses and swine
have greatly benefited The county, il must
be admitted that much has been lost by
suffering improved animals to dete riora,e.
Every wooi-growcr should ponder well
this fact. lf23 pounds Of WOO! will pay
The whole cost ofkeeping a sheep q year, 5
pounds would pay 100 per cent, prof, oa
that cost. Washington was eminen,iy a
"book farmer" and was anxious TO gain
knowledge from the educated agricul;uris,s
Of Europe and Of his own country. Hiv
overseer believed in keeping sheep as his
father did, and was opposed 10 al! inhovs.
lions in husbaudrv.
There are now not far from e,OOO,O 900
horses and mules IN the United Stx.es.
ana II Is not too much 10 say that, is few
generations, these anainals may be i'm.
proved tuil $50 head Oh on average. II
SO the gain By this increase of muscular
power, and lis greater durability, will DO
SlSO, ,OUO,00 il we study critically the
machinery for converting grass, roots aud
grain into beef end pork, The difference is
found to be still more striking. Ii the
facts relating TO this subject wero sprest
before the people, great improvement, would
soon follow, and al classes share equally
III The profits OF more productive labor.
How CITIES EXHAUST TIN Fysr,Li-
TX OF LAND.-There has been enough
of ihe element Of bread and meat, wool and
cotton, drawn from The surface Of the earth.
sent 10 London and buried in the ground
DR. washed into the Thamos. 10 sssd and
cloth the entire population of tho Woiit
Tor century, snder wise system of Agfi-
culture and Horticulture. Down 10 This
lay. great cities have ever been The wors.
iesolaiors OF the earth. L, for this that
hey have been so frequently buried many
eel beneath the rubbish Of their idols or
'rick, store and mortar, 10 be exhurnod
u aiter years by some antiquarian Layarc.
| heir inhabitants violated the laws OF Ma
ure, which govern the health Of man and
ecure the enduring prod1ciivsness Of the
OIL. How few comprehend the fact that
Is only the elements of bread and meat,
volved during the decomposition of some
egeiables or animal substance, 10 ,ha,
olson taken INTO human lungs, and the
'aler that enters the htitisn sys.snf in
nd bring millions prema,urely TO the
raves.
why should the precious atoms OF Dot.
sh, which organized the starch in all the
our, meal, and potatoes consumed in the
ties OF the United States in tho year IS
o, be lost forever 10 the worldl Cana
IAN create new atom Of potash or Of
hosphorus when the supply fails in ths
'Il, as tail It must under our present sys.
I'm OF farm economy! Many broad des.
It in Eastern Asia once glsddened the
lsbandman with golden harvest. While
nerlca is the only country on the globe
here every human being has enough Is
II, and millions ara coming here for
'ead. how long shall we continue to i'm
'verish 30 acres in hundred of all that
Q cultivate! Both pestilbnce nhd famine
e the offspring Of ignorance. Rurdl
ience is not mere p!oy,hing for the a.
usemen, Of growing.up children. It's
new revelation of,be wisdom and good.
'ss OF Providence, human;aing powsi
hich is destined 10 elevate man an i'm.
easurebie distance above ms preseu, con-.
Ton. 10 achieve thiS result, the lieh of'
lencc must not be confined 10 colleges.
must enter aud illuminate tho dwelling
every farmer and mechanic. rht
'owledge Of tho few, no matter how pro.
md, nor how brilliant can never com
nsate for the loss sustained by neg!ssi
IL TO develop the intellect of the many.