New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-07
The Springs in 1885, Pleasna
Agricultural chemistry.
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CONGRESS HALL, Saratoga Co. Tuesday, JAY
SARATOGA Is said 10 be filing mp at least week earlier
this year than usual liz IL already about hat fu As
yet however, the sojOurners are mainly said men OF
family, who have to locate their better hsyes and
children elgbly for the season returning themselves as
business shall reQure to the heat and dust OF the cities
The fast boys not here yet in any apprecable
force. My few hours observation have not afforded any
evidence that the place is gay beyond the limits OF pro-
prety OF disspafed beyond the average Of watering
places which Saratoga is popularity held surpass On
the other hand its shady walks and groves are percept
bly, hospitable and soothing with each recurring
visit its hotel Accommodations are annually expanding
and It's waters, nauseous and revolving 20 unfamiliar
paates become rather pleasant than otherwise by con
nusd use as | can personally testify do not won
der that many quiet people Of leisure, who eschew
hops uleps crowds and fast trOtters do yet manage
TO spend a summer month quite eDduTaOly AZ Saratoga
There were not less than four public Celebrations
Of the Fourth in just the borders OF this County
two Of them traghtout Temperance principles That
/ attended on Mount Pleasant, twelve miles West,
must have collected not less than wo Thousand peO-
pie though the locality is 800 feet above the
SacOndaga and hayderOsser6s creeks, which wash re-
specyey the western and eastern bases OF the
tain with very sparse population betEeenthem Three
fourtLs Of the assemblage have Travelled from FIVE
to fifteen miles and climbed that very respectable eleva
zion PRAYER reading the Declaration Music and a
Temperance Address, made up the Celebration which
was followed by free Picnic and by p Z tAa little
villsae was a. quiet and unpOpuOus a sm, Sun
day morn No powder was burnt there duriDg the day
beyond few dozens sf Chinese crackers, and beyer
ace was imbbed required but the err sta leap
inc brightly from cold mountain spring: consequently
there nothing like quarrel or exhibition OF evil
passion during the day and the people separated aud
turned to their bones healthy happy and refreshed for
the arduous sbors of this busy season Why should
such celebrations be multiplied to the end of time
- Mount Pleasant is a striking example Of the i'm
port,uce Of Manufactures to the development of
Agricultural Until within few years past,
il had remained scarcely broken wilderness nearly ten
miles square, in the heart Of long settled and thrifty
farming region, which it embarrassed by its want OF
roads ard annoyed by the shelter afforded beasts of
prev. II vas ayOrte haunt of wolves and panthers
within the memory Of many survivors, and no sheep
safe at night within miles of il unless carefully herded
aid guarded But, some seven years ago, Glass Bottle
Mandatory was commenced on IFS summit, on "A pur-
chase OF 900 acres of heavily wooded and aud has
been kept vigorously at work through all but the sum
mer months snce aOrdDg work al good wages to some
fifty TO a hundred men, Who employed in farming
Wien the Glass Works are not in blast Thus the tim
Der of LIJ To iorty is annually swept away being
converted into dwellings into fuel for the Glass Works.
ard the land sowed with Oats or planted with Potatoes
and laid down To Grass to feed the great number of
teams required IN LdUlIng Wood, Sand, &c, aud in
bringing away the Bottles, which mainly il not
Wholly required for bottng the Mineral Waters OF this
place. coed Plank Road now connects the Glass
Works with this village; a or more of neat aud
comfortable dWeiugs-that OF the energetic manutac-
tuner scarcely disngushabe from those OF his work
men-nh subst intal barns &c, surround the factory
and liberal market is opened for the productions
ef the adjacent farming county; extensive and Vau-
able Stock Farm is being rapidly created and all where
IsnOck and CatamouLts might have reigned in savage
tOltude for ages, had the policy Of keeping work
shops il Europe and sending Food there to pay for
Wares been triumphant. IL is within the truth 20
say that ninetenhs Of the Products OF the Soil which
lave practically paid for the 100000 worth OF ilass
al 10 tain NOT hay maid fhp
cost Of transportation New York much less to Europe
And now the consumption of Wood formerly yaueless
by these Glass Works has transformed waste wilder
ness into yalua lie and productive farm Of three
hundred arabic acres All Messrs Walker aud Marcy
please allow 10 make account Of the Amaz)nias
and Cblnas which Oyerspread our own green land aud
prefer mines OF wealth as ample aud neglected as
any you will find at the Equator or the AntipOdes.
And ly the way: | have been Oiren asked this sum-
uor ~ here shall boy be- sent To learn the Chemistry
essential % Industrial pursuits especially Agriculture
You tell that Science is essential 10 the Farmer
and Manufacturer; will you tell US where il may be
acquired These questions have been obliged to
Ldfereb,y but this necessity exists no logger
have just visited the laboratory OF Prof +. l.. YOU
MANS, some four miles west Of this place where the
small but eXcellenty managed farm OF his brother be-
ginning has already been made in the way of instruction
III Chemistry sud Geology. with express reference to
Scientific Agriculture, and lev boys already study
ing, and opportunities already will very be
afforded 10 half dozen more / reOlced % learn from
Prof \. that no difficulty has been experienced in
avakine in each pupils mind lively personal interest
il tie study making il of ready qualification
AID delight The charge for board and instruction is
tut mode ate, and trust the D. this experiment.
will be such speedily mpe hundreds Of cOmpsLSnt
chemists and biologists to follow Prof Y's eXalaoie
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