The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1850-07-24

hardly De eAtIa'uga"'o ssy '1' "
of Ohio, Indiana. Michigan, Illinois. and Wis
cousin. expor, q million tons OF bresdstuiis
and provisions. where they import one ton OIL
he atoms drawn from their virgin rolls, 10
form agricultural products. Can !. te SAID
in truth. tina, a million tons Of bread and mea
arc produced from noihiag3 Will II be con-
tended ,bal the earth within the reach OF good
ploughing contains en- unlimited mount oil
he precise things consumed to make the plants
whose orgsn,c ard inorganic clements aye
taken from the soil, and never restored II
his DO true, then oil fer,il yrs are rot only
unnecessary, bu, absolutely worthless. This
cannot be go; for lands that seventy years ago
produced from twenty-five to thirty FIVE bash.
sls Of wheat in the State OF New York, nov
yield only from six to nine bushels per acre
and 10 all the old planting States the results
of exhaustion are sill more extensive aud sill
more disastrous.
A lack OF mental culture and discipline is
the mos, serious impcdinent TO the dti@sion
of agricultural science among tho mass OF
farmers. Its language 10 to them an unknown
tongue. Hence tho mos, sublime truths IN
the economy of nature are shu, ou, from The
popular understanding. Il is feared that lbs
will ever be tho case until schools designed
10 teach those branches Of learning, which
the practical farmer greatly needs, bot does
not possess, arc established and maintained
,hroug bout tho United States. 81 long as
70 refuse to plan, tho seed, 1t is fully TO OK.
pee, . rich ha,yes, OF knowledge.
We over estimate the value Of mere phys-
cal strength, like tina, Of he OK or mule, ard
under es,mn,e the intrinsic worth OF cultisa.
ted, we'll developed reason in practical ogr
culture. No inconslderabs degree Of mental
culture mus, precede oil scienufc 'illase and
husbandry. An osk is not ma'ured from an
acorn in q day, nor 10 year; nor IS l, posi-
Bile to form, in a single generation, an uni'er.
sally educated und highly improved race Of
men. Such Improvements to be general, and
fixed in people as distinguished feature IN
their character, must be deeply impressed on
several successive generations.
Asa class, farmers have few advantage.
for being we'll informed in The rapid progress
now making IN the economical improvement
of soils cultivated plants, and domestic animals.
This lack of opportunity Is serious m's'or.
tune, and leads 10 this pr tactical result: With
5 900 900 fam lsborers 700 600 in The
siavshold.na. and . 900 600 in the Fee States
American sgrcGllurlsis 80 misdIrer, this
immense power Of production, that The injury
done to lO0. 900 900 qcres Of land is nearly
'qpal 10 oil the aggregate net prcfs on The
whole rural industry Of the country.
To illustrate az important fact, as well as
principle, lie, us suppose thai farmer produces
crops worth 81 900 aud hey cost him ncldd.
ing all expenses Tor labor, ~ear Of Implements
interest on capital, &c, $3.50 Noninaly
: he has profit Of $3.50 bu, i, of'en happen.
that. # lie undertakes 10 replace IN his cult.
waited fields us much Of pota,h, soda, maguesia,
phosphorus, soluble silica, and other element.
Of crops, as both lllla.e and cropping bad 10
moved, II will cos, him sl75 or 5000 to ef.
Zee, sh., purpose. II is only by consuming
tho natural fertility Of tho laDd that lie has
real zed any pn6i.
10 a national point Of view, oil labor That
ifnpoveti-hes tho soil Is worse than li.foa n
away. No fact iG tbs SCIENCE OF political
economy ~ more important than ,hi-. To
reduce field, which, in lts virgin state, pro.
duced forty bushels Of corn per aero down 10
tsen,y in ten yeas aud thea cultivate 1t forty
years, and harvest only t~enty bushels per
acre in place Of forty Is 90 ral 10 loss OF four
hundred bushels Of corn per acre IN the az.
, gresaie. OF half the diminished product wlh
f out any equivalent whatever. Thu, 10 ,m
poveIish land is 10 nuher the muscles OF bath
man and beast employed 10 lis ulIage. iiu
. man toll 10 often praised Tor being highly pro.
4 duc,iy., When, had The = hole truth been kuo Il
!, II would be- seen to have been remarkably
!. destructive. Labor never creates q particle
j. Of new matter by p'cushIng deep or shallaw
but il frequently places he elements Of srap
!, cotton and provisions, boy ond he reach Of al
;. scientific farmers who may 1--we hereafter, ane
b ind the soil wanting IL The raw material ioi
3 making human food aud falmen.