The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1851-05-22
SCIENTIFIC AGRlCCLTl RE.

Frof. Marcs, Of New Jersey, in his
Working Far,nci for April, thus
bears testimony e. the effects OF
science IN improving the Agriculture
O.! that State:
! "WthIn the las. three years We
! have visited many farm. in New Jcr.
scy, and somc of the owners Il these
tarms sen. certificates of results to
Trenton. Ga, represented tho. un'
der our advice he hal added The mis-.
sing constituents to bis sol, at M cx
rcnsc oi only $i,l2 y per acre,
mIh proper til|aSc, and produced, in
consequence, the following crops: -
Corn. l2S bushc, Ior acre, where
iormcly, with much larger oxrcrai
lures ior manurcS, bat thirty bushels
of shcled corn had hccl p,oluccl.
Potatoes SO bushels rcr acre.
Mansold'wurtAcl. II tg,s per acre,
and other crclS III proportion. An
other Ga member Of the House Of As
'cmhly) represented that on piece
Of ground IN Pas5aic Co.. which had
been considered OF very inferior qual
ity, and unworthy of cultivation for
cora, hc had raised, by add n the
nIsSInt constituents of soil, under our
advertisement, lbs bushels Of corn
per acre, and that his crop of long
orange carrots, averaged 600 bushels
per acre. and that the expenses OF
fertilization were less than for the or.
dnary method by barnyard mannr.
Ing.
"Ano.hcr farmer, from Monmouth
, Co., represented that by the use of
the subsojl plough, under a recon
mcld4tion contained IN one Of our
| cturcs, on a field Of 20 acr $, and
b the APPLICATION Of dccompo,cd bo.
on another field Of similar silc, be
had increased his corn crop on each
from 20 to - PER cent.
"Ancthcr farmer. Of Freehold, re.
presented that he raised between 1,
O00 and 1000 cabbaLcs on half an
acre, and at the prices at which hc
had made sales, the returns were at
the rate Of frcm 500 to $500 per
acre. This hnl was thrown in
10 garden heart at one operation and
the land left in 80 improved a condi-
ton after the cabbage crop, as to be
benefited for future crops m)rc than
the whole cost Of fertilizers use for
cabbascs.
MANY other farmers reported
large crops resulting from our advice
aud from some neighborhoods large
numbers signed statements that the
, whole crop Of the township had been
materially increased by our efforts.
1t was also shown to the legislature,
that we have taken the first premium
for our market GARDEN from the A.
mcrlcan Institute, and that we had
raigcd 1900 bushels Of parsnils, 900
do. of carrots, 500 do. Of ruta haga
turnip' per acre, and other crops in
proportion, but all these facts couId
not avail, in causing The Senate 10 ap.
prol riatc SUN only equal to the nee,
: cssary expenses Of a State Asricul-
| turcst durins the delivery Of five lee
lures in each County i'll the State.
"We asserted, with the fear Of con
e tradiction, tha, in 10 case where We
were furnished viii, an anal ISIS Of the
, soil, had We failed ia Increasing the
, income Of the owner more than one.
; thirl, and this, too, after having ad,
yis ii, under such circumstances, more
, than one hundred farmers in New
= Jersey.
, "Somc members cor,l MT believe
that We bad discovered % much that
was new as to enable us to liollcc
! such results, and they we're right
,, We DO not claim any slcl credit, but
sim, y that wc have put in practice
what is vel, known to the few among
the many. We often hear Of large
crols raised by mdiyilua's, whose
rcilllbors produced no such results.
t IN such cases we visited the growers,
= and Gul out, if practicable, their
, methods, manure, &c, and then, by
: an analysis Of the soil, conn arcl with
that Of the crop, arc enabled to ad.
wise others 80 as 10 enable them b.