New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-10
AGRICULTURE ADVANCING.


aTbe world does move" Even that most eon'erva-
tive cls,. the Farmers. are gradually wearing of or
outgrowng their repugnanee 70 INNOVATION aDo ialins
into the current Witness these facts;
l. There is not now bag Of GGan0 70 be bought In
the market of this great focus Of Importation and
Trade
9. There is not a bag Of Phosphate Of Lime 10 be
bought here at any price
3. There is not bag Of Prof AsPess super FA0''
yka to be had except BY those who had ordered long
ago though the manufacture has long been extensively
(snd we presume prohtsb y prosecuted
4 There il not and Or months has not been. load
Of Draining Tie TO be had in near our City though
there are 10 manufactures within ies hours Of Us;
I and,
:. There are some ten TO twenty firms in the City
ENGAGED in the sale of Agricultural Implements Seeds
Plants, Fertilizers &c 60 Farmers, aud all Of them
/ that know how to do business must be making money.
We learned ncidenty few days since that the sales Of
one of these firms smount 70 $250,OOO per annum,
which the profits cannot well fall short of $4,000.
s. There are some forty to fifty Periodicals printed in
the United States which treat mainly Of Agriculture,
Horticulture and the auxiliary sciences Some of these
are very poor, being valued mainly Advertising me
diums for the Seed and Implement Stores with which
they are connected yet defy any farmer whose crops
are worth $500 per annum who knows how to read and
has as much brains average horse TO take and read
even the poorest Of them without receiving therefrOm
good deal more than his moneys worth. Should he
blindly and unrefectingy follow all the suggestions OF
some Of them he will Of be led into some blum
ders and losses bur then he will not only farm
great deal better than his grandfather did but secure
far greater crops He win profit nne times in ten by
doing as his paper advises.
The WorkiHg Farmer, edited BY Prof J. J. MARS,
We rank first among strictly Agricultural issues II
is tbree.cOumn quartO Of 81 pages issued on the LIST
Of each month at 143 FultOnst. (near Broadway at
81 per II might be even better than It Is, aud
with fifty thousand subscribers would be made so for
it ought 20 engross nearly the whole time OF its Editor
and be twice large it is, or issued twice month
the present size. II s most useful work as II IS,
however and its Editor stands in the front rank of the
public benefactOrs Of day who are rapidly raising
Agriculture to the rank OF the scientific elevated
and profitable among human pursuits. There are some
other Agricultural writer's of rper experience aud
cooler judgment than Prof Mspes, but not one OF
loiter genius or a reader keener intuition, more
practical knowledge of Chemistry aud Geology as hand
maids of Agriculture We estimate that there are at
losing from So to 800 each per through their
neglect to take The Working Farmer or some other
good periodical devoted to Farming.
There is class of weekly papers growing rapidly in
public favor which make Agriculture and Horticulture
their basis bat devote considerable space also to such
general intelligence they suppose will be acceptable
to Farmers At the head of this class stand The Amer
lean AgriouLor, by r. L. Allen & Co, Of this City
The Country Gentleman by L. Tucker, Albany; and
The Rural Nec- Yorker. by d. d. T. Moore, Rochester
all issued weekly at 81 per annum. The first is pre-
eminent in its of the Cattle Horse aud other
Markets of our city, wherein Farmers specially
interested the second 1--WE believe, for have not
read carefully deyOtes much attention TO Horticdl
ure and the poetica and ornamental departments
of Husbandry; while The Rural Nelc- Yorker is well
posted in every thing relating TO Fruit &c. On the
whole the paper very much to taste, aud we are
glad to hear that good many thousand people concur
with us in that liking
There several other Farming periodicals Of which
We intend to speak after shall have found time to
read them thoroughly during the coming summer
From the date of the enlargement of our Weekly next
September intend to have department Of Agricul-
tura Intelligence in The Tribune conducted BY gentle
Of known capacity for the work. and giving synop
sis Ofeyery thing transprng that may interest instruct
farmers within the line of their vocation. We do not
propose this a substitute for Agricultural papers, but
as Indictment to obtain and peruse them We cannot
and will not try to print One-quarter OF the discoveries,
scientific adaptations andyaluable suggestions with refer
ence to Agricultural Improvement which are continually
transpirng We can give but an idea and a taste of
them sufficient impel our readerske Oliver TEst to
want some more and to look where it may be
/ found
/ The Connecticut VALLEY Farmer and Mechanic is the
last issue in the agricultural line Il edited by
Hon.Wm B. Calhoun and issued monthly at Springfield,
Mass by Samuel Bowes & Co for so cents ger annum
IL is good that wish there were more of IT, aud be-
lieve grave mistake was made in not making il at
least tHce as large and charging 81 year If the
farmers Of the Connecticut Valley would grudge 81
year for good farming periodical, then we only
say that they are very poor yield for rich soil
We copy from No. for May now before US, ao article
on Flax and Flax Culture which We trust will be gen.
orally read The subject is of the deepest Importance
to the Industry and Political Economy Of our coun-
try, each year henceorth will more plainly demon
strate This article fails take account of many iu-
Provements in Fisx-DressiOg, Spinning and Weaving
Machinery recently invented perfected aud so seems
TO give exaggerated importance 20 the invention of
Mr.. Clemens of Springfield; but Time viii set thai
right With all its defects the essay is one of decid a
value
BY the way We observe in this paper that Mr.
Elisha VI Bradley Of Ontario Co, n. Y, who obtained
one of the three premiums Of our State Society for the