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their capacious crops with bench-nuts, ard 9TH
er food, multiply in indefinite millions, and are
happy so long as nature feeds them Squirrels
have their "slore-houses" like merchants, and
work industriously in autumn 20 fill them, and
when full they wax as fat as aldermen, propa-
gate and rejoice n plenty so long as " BLASTS
To build cities out OF the proceeds of desolated
continents at any time during the last FIVE thou
sand years, would seem 20 demand small wit and
less science. "R. s." wants no agricultural
schools or colleges, no additional means for
teaching the true principle Of rural and political
economy. Human knowledge Of the mmutable
laws Of the Creator, affecting mans destiny in
This world, is so perfect, that no government,
either State or National, should think Of found
ing one more educational institution! He does
not deny That it Is proper to foster Che study Of
all other sciences but such as have direct BEAR
ingon agriculture, the Improvement of domestic
animals, AM OF the fruits which contribgle SO
much to the health and comfort of all civilized
Communities. This is something gained. Is it
not passing strange that educated men, who per-
ccive so clearly that acknowledge is power" are
utterly incapable Of seeing that ignorance is
icsaAness.
Is-h1s always seem TO me that Youth de-
signed for the profession of agriculture, should
be able TO use all the elements Of fertility, of
heat and sunshine, as well as water, atmosphere
&c air, and earthly minerals to the best advan-
tage. To do this, he must be acquainted with
the known powers of both vegetable and animal
vitality, as they exist in the living beings which
he win labor through life to multiply. Know
ing the daily wants Of all growing plants and an
imals, he can provide for the same in the most
economical way. Their indispensable food is
his riches, and the basis Of all national wealth.
There is no necessity Of impoverishing Ameri-
oil AID
crop OF COTTON, tobacco and grain, cost more la
hsr per pound to produce it. Ignorance is the
parent of this national loss, which falls far
heavier on trade and Commerce than on the till
ers Of the earth. II poor land gives but half a
crop of cotton, the planter gets two prices for it
per pound, while factors lose half their commits
sions, shippers half their freight, merchants and
manufacturers half their stocks, and consumers
half their allowance Of cotton yarns, prints and
plain cloths. o. I'll men, the producer is least
interested in having cheap grain, provisions,
wool and cotton, y sose market price is insepa-
. rably connected wi i the continued fruitfulness
Of cultivated land. CIR. s." says, 'let the cob
Ter stick TO his last rs though the productive
power Of the soil did not concern every human
being, who has a mouth toofeed and a back to
clothe. In twenty years from thisotime, there
will be ten millions OF farm laborers constantly
atwork, digging from the sod every atom that
goes to scr:n cotton, grain and provisions, 10 DE
wasted at home, or sent to market, but never to
be returned to the ground whence it was taken.
In this operation, agriculturists will pillow deep
and use lime, and demand moreJailroads; canals,
lake harbors, and Improvement OF rivers. The
CATIONS goose lays eggs OF pure gold, and she
must be killed in the least possible time. What
has posterity done for us, that we should forbear
TO impoverish one acre of land between New
NJ i 1og 81, 3
each square foot Of earth contains an ounce of
pure potash within two feet ofothe Surface,
which is available by tillage for the growth Of
crops, have not the wisest and the smartest peo-
ople infhe world, a perfect right TO extract this
alkali, and throw eycryb poued OF it INTO New
York and Boston harbors, in night soil? Adj
nit there are thousand other cities and9villa-
ges in the Unien Which have an equal right to
cast into rivers and lakes, the raw material of
crops, and that there is no lack OF railroads to
transport agricultural staples to the places of
consumption; how many yearsowill it require to
remove all the potash within two feet of the
surface, provided always that we farmers are
Industrious, use the needful lime, subsoil, and
drain where necessary, confess desire to
see the end of this business, in which agricultu-
rists, mechanics, manufacturers, merchants, and
all other classes, are equally engaged. An all
wise God has denied man power to annihilate a
single atom of matter; but he has not prevented
him from making vast deserts IN eastern Asia,
where golden harvests once reiOiced the hearts
alike ofreapers or the denizens of magnificent
ocities. "A degree of injury to arated land (which
il took the primitive Asiatics century to in
flict, we can accomplish in ten years, by oul
vastly superior knowledge of mechanical and
agricultural science. Having whole continent
TO impoyersh, sve are beyond comparisons the
eli % a.
has ever seen. Our economical theory is, that
the raw material for making cotton tobacco
grain, grass and roots, costs nothing, and i;
WORTH little? This is the fundamental error
Of American agriculture--the basis Of our ma.
tional extravaganza and folly. There is,as lit.
tie difficulty in accdmulIiing the elements o.
food and clothing. both in the soil and out of it
as there is in saving cask Of potash or of gu
ano. When 100 pounds Of manure will produce
300 of wheat, or GOO Of corn why not husband
the fertilizer, and thereby prove tl3t American
husband-men know something of husbaad-ry?
But if the products Of the soil pass out of The
possession OF the farmer il is not he, but tn,
consumer, whooshould husband the elements O
fertility. We farmers can, do nothing in thu
way Of correcting the evil without the co-ope
ration Of all that dwell in cities and villages
Your political economy wages successful wal
upon our farm economy and il we are denieC
beth municipal and Legislative aid, the great worl
OF land-killing must 60 or Cor ages TO come. Til
laye is performed not for The cutiyatorsalone anC
COED hiisbandry claims, & has right to claim, III,
effective friendship of all that in any way par
tieipate in its invaluable fruits Deny il VIII,
will, it is o weglrty truth, nevertheless, tina
such reasonable friendship it has never had.
ar S." should know that his principles "le
the cobler stick TO his last, is incompatible VIZ
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