The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-09-17

# pleasanter ior II the labdts oil his han(
will be lighieued, cheered, directed an,
made efficient by the workings of his mind
He will be a thinking, reasoning man, vii
have power to compare, conlriyc, invent
r improve and perfect,-to accomplish re
h suits entirely beyond the attainment of tn
r ignorant, prejudiced, traditionary farmer
n The more his faculties are expanded an,
r exalted by knowledge, the larger will b,
the fields which his business will open up Il
:, him for observation, study and thought
and the more will he become convinced
thai farming instead Of being a mere piec,
of drudgcry, for ignorant physical labor tC
y conduct, is equal to taxing the efforts o
4 ton with his calling, can give employment
and pleasure 10 earlh's choicest spirits
The farmer who has made a beginning
in reading and observation, will be surprs-
cd to find how many subjects for further
inquiry and thought exist in the commonest
operations of husbandry. One OF his first
menls are the beat adapted tolighten labor,
: work the land and harvest the crops eff
ciently and If not,he will be apt TO under
stard their inperlectons and call for better
ones and if the manufacturer has not
yet produced them, the new demand will
prompt him 10 do SO andperLaps in a con.
versation with this improving farmer. he
will gain ideas and suggestions Of practical
Importance in his business of manufacture.
When the inquring thinking farmer is
about to plow and prepare his land for
crop, he will consider that thorough in-
version and pulverzation OF the soil il, one
of the conditions his crop requires for its
greatest protection. Wide, shallow lurrows,
turned hur'edly and imperlecty, will
therefore not satisfy him but he will see
that his land is nicely plowed, in deep,
narrow furrows, SO that the roots oil his
crop may strike deep and expand widely,
without obstruction. If the crop to be
put upon the land be corn, for instance, he
will consider it better 10 manure & cultivate
five acres thoroughly, than ten or twenty
acres superfcIally. He will mingle the
manure intimately with the soil, and re-
duce the surface to fine mellow tillh be-
fore ever a seed is deposited in the ground,
that being the best time do it cheaply and
expedIiously, and the most favorable con-
dtion for the crop To come forward rap
| idly and vigorously in the early Stage OF its
growth, overtop the weeds, and get beyond
the depredations of insects. So Of all other
crops.
l: will be a subject of deep study and
thought with him, how he may increase his
materials for fertiIizing his soil. Every waste
| vegetable substance, the muck from his low
land, and marshes, every thing that is rea-
sonably available for increasing bi, compost
heaps for improving his land and for feed
lug bis crops, will bo appropriated. Moth
ing about lis buildings that will contribute
to this purpose will be suffered to run waste
his fixtures will be calculated to save every
enriching material, the yearly accumulation
of compost under such management will be
large and abundant, hi, crops will increase.
his barns grow larger, and his purse heavier.
He will study to adapt his composts to his
soil and his crop, and his crop to his soil
and this will lead to a study of the compost
lion and characteristics of different soils. lie
will perhaps find that his own farm has dif-
| ferent sciis; and if so, he will be led to mix
them more or less, finding it the cheapest
and most profitable kind of manuring to
certain extent, and that the defects or super
tluiiies Of each are thereby corrected. He
will be particular in his inquiries as TO the
rotation Of crops for his land and markets,
and Tor getting the largest returns for his in
vestmenls, without unduly exhausing the
land. lie will understand the theory and
advantages of plowing-iu green crops, and
if they will be profitable in his condition and
mode Of husbandry, he will avail himself of
them. If he owns wei lands, where wild
improbable bushes and grapes grow, and
where it is an object to raise hay to sell or
feed to his own stock in winter, he will in-
quire as to tho cheapest and best mode of
draining it, of letting in the warmth of the
sun and the influences of the atmosphere, of
changing its texture, composition and herb
age and in a few years, n smiling meadow,
Welding great crops Of hay. will succeed the
gloomy, unwhoesome, Improbable morass.
He will not fail to observe the wonderful
effects Of irrigation, where small springs
gush from the hillside, or temporary brook,
flow over mowings and pastures. II he con-
, suits the writings of men on this subject, he
will find that this artificial watering of the
ground is largely practiced, with pro6tabl,
results, in his own country and abroad thai
: even under the clouded sky and in the hu
u mid climate of Great Britain, irrigation i.
n employed on a grand scale. II he is Yer
n mont farmer, he will not fail to observe tha
e great natural facilities exs, for the cheap ant
profitable employment of irrigation, whether
u by damming str cams and spreading their wat.
J. ers over the intervals adjoining,or by boitin.
5 up temporar, waters among the hills in ear
d ly spring, and afterwards conducting then
d to hill-sdes and spreading them along dowr
o the slopes. The most correct and advan
tageous method Of gaining the control of thu
= waters, and the proper use of them upoI
I, tie land, will be matter OF investigation ant
i thought.
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