New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-14

.be knowledge founded on neighbors experience and
.lat contained in q book II there be sny, are not
the odds altogether in favor Of that prescription ~aie9
has undergone tie wider scrutiny and been saoec'ea
10 the more rigorous criticism
Ard here let NE speak of another, who more recently
shook OF the dust of Cys PayemeHts TO spend the
LATER half Of his life farm allude TO Professor
JANIS J NAPEs whose fame as an Azrlcultur1st must
have reached very many among You 1t cannot De
MANY years-i seems 10 me but i've or Hx-slnce froi
Mspes who was extensively engaged IN Sugar REFINING
ard had heavy dealings in Sugsr-came TO dead halt
or rather A dead smash Stripped OF means AMI oil
credit he felt too old to launch san on the dangerous
sea Of Commerce, whose waves had so lately and so
deeply enaulphed him be hired bit OF land IN New
JerFey removed bis family thither and resolved 70 turn
the chemical and other scientific knowledge when nad
so little availed him a sugar-rehner- 10 account IN
the novel vocation Of farmer BE very destitute,
ard of course cot on but slowly 81 first and when ne
fret undertook lecture in illustration Of Farming az
Science, | well remember how very general was the
prejudice and derision be encountered But ne perse-
yeTed both in farming and lecturngi and he mas gOr-
ouslv succeeded I presume there were many errors
IN his earlier inculcatons there may be some yet Tor
lie is genius, and genius is too apt to leap hastily 10
sweeping conclusions from inadequate premises BUT,
vi atever biz faults the root Of the matter was IN n
ard his career has proved it, As Lecturer, an Edit
or ard as Practical Farmer, he is enrlehng the voca-
ron he has chosen and by no means lmpoVersnn9 MN
self Beginning with nothing, lie cannot have cleared
less Lsu $50 600 in the last six years, and his income
not all made BY merely talking snd writing about farm
ing but in good part by actual work For example
He ast year bought ten acres OF naturally good ou' eN
lausted and Weedy land joining him tor sou per acre
Tuyerzed and fortified it thoroughly to the depth oil
two feet planted it with cabbages close together as
ley could grow and by the sale of his first crop PAID
for tie manure, labor and land, having the latter all
clear at the years end and in far better condition than
Wien be bought it, Can any enemy of Book, farming
beat this Or is there any of them who would not like
to know exactly how this land was tertlZed and titled
even though LIE should be obliged to read It in book or
PERIODICAL
Let NE next illustrate the importance and advaut-
ages of tie careful Analysi of Soils:
friend bought, ore year ago. small farm which
had previously been under decent ordinary cultiva
ton but which il appears, had been for many years
anly fortified with Gypsum or Plaster OF Pars-an
excellent thing in Its place, and which had doubtless
done the land good service. But the new farmers
brother is a thorough Chemist, devotng much atten-
ton to Aericultue and he was invited to analyze the
soil Of this farm with view 10 its prospective and
economical improvement. Careful Analysis showed
signal deficiency of Lime, but superabundance OF
Sulphur and other ingredients of Plaster Of course,
at each successive application of Plaster the plants
took up the Lime only leaving all the residue 70 lie
inert in the soil and 80 the old farmer had for years
been feeding his soil. at the rate OF twenty to thirty
cents per busle with the requisite Lime brought rom
distance in the form of Plaster while there was far
better Line burned all around him. and for sale in
abundance at Fix cents bushel! The loss thus in
CURED may have averaged fifty dollars per annum-al
for want Of an ANALYSIS that might have cost ten to
twenty dollars Ard there are tens OF thousands to-
ia, flaming lust a. blndly as did this old farmer
Can there be any rational wonder that farmers sci.
dom grow rich by such Farming How is a wise and
udcous economy OF means to be attained II ignorance
ard waste to reap the rewards properly due only
10 intelligence and frugaty II were TO buy paper
and other materials used in ny business as careessy
and bndy az this old farmer bought manures and Ter
tilted bis land could not continue 10 PRINT newspa-
pers for single year Wiser, more prudent, more III
t,lpent publishers would underell and supplant me-
and must fail and be driven into some vocation where
ignorance beeessness and unthrt secure the rewards
designed by Providence for Intelligence industry ana
economy.
But LET us pause at that word Industry BY Indus
try We thrive is an old saw, which Is very wen IN
It's place but the truth contained in proverbs IS so
CURLY expressed that it often miseads more than u
directs Industry is indeed essential to THRIFT, ana
farmers Ike other men, often need to De rehdea VI
H. Wien note who Is overwhelmed WIN ous-
ness which calls him away from home two or three
DAYS in each week, and keeps him hanging about tne
tavern or store while his boys are at play ana nl' Po
tstoes CRYING for the hoe know whittier that farmer
il tending and can guess about how long be WIZ nave
any land 10 msnansge And think that, IN the aver
age farmers waste more hours than mechanics. lucy
have more idle time-not necessarily, but quite CUM
norIy So reqarded-throueh bad weather. severe cold
too much wet &c than falls 10 the lot OF almost any
other class and il is very easy to allure many Oh 'neI
away 10 shoot at other mems turkes when the! shou
be growing food for their own But while many waste
precious houTs quite as much through heeaiessneS
ard want of ystt as Incidence, know another cas'
VIC slave themselves out of comfort and out OF thought
by incessant excessive drudger-whO are SO ABSORBED
in obtaining the means of living that they never hO
tine TO lye-whO drive through the day so that the
bores ache and their minds oggy at night ana are
So oyervorked through the week that they car
neither worship God nor enjoy the society oil tnel
families On the Sabbath These men VIII Otter
tell YOU tLey have no time to read, when Is Jus
a. rational as for the captain of a steamship u
Mead want of time to consult his compass and cnar
or Keep a reckoning of his ships progress NO TIN
10 read DO they not find time TO plant ana SOW U
reap and now, and even 10 eat and sleep ii tney ~
then they may find time, II they WILL 10 learn no"
apply their labor to the best advantage as wei
as TO qualify themselves by rest and reireshnien
for working at all venture the assertion tnat Tue
are twenty thousand farmers in Indiana VINO Woui
have been weather. as well more useful, more re
, sneeted ard happier men this day, II they had ao
srocted p hOuIs per week from labor during al tnei
! adult life and devoted those hours to reading an
thought in part with view TO improvement IN 'nei
own vocation but in part also looking 10 hgner a.,
nobler ends than even this Some men waste the Oe
ter mart of their lives in dissipation and ideness bu
this does not excuse in others the waste Of time equa
N precious in mere animal effort TO heap up goods an
c,nfrts which We must leave behind so soon ana 10
a ever - = -.
a Il read very few old books-I hardly find tim
10 master tie best new ones but have no DOUBT VIA
lese vho do read the very Oldest reatses on Agricu
- tnre Which have survived the rayages Of time, will r
Cato or Seneca or Columella or whoever may De u
author in hand talking TO the farmers OF his day vel
4 much our arneIs are now generally talked 10 ano
e culcaiug substantially the same truths: Plow deePe
" fertze more thoroughly, cultivate less iand al
= "cultiyAte il better-such have doubt has Dee
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