The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-01-04
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don't ut all wonder at your skcpticism;
there are too many ngricul,uris,s Of
the same stamp. But did You acv.
CT hear OF a building of one story be.
ing converted into three, four six? Mr..
5. says that is a totally different If
fair. No, it amt either, Mr.. s.; Tie
cases are exactly parallel. II there is
amy difference at all, tits onSthc side of
the agriculturist. Besides, it is Il
secret WORTH knowing. Listen, and
we will tell you.
Here Mr.. Shallowiicld waved his
hand quite skcpiica!ly)
6. I. Stewart, Esq. says the Ohio
Farmer, in a rcccn, address before the
Ohio Agricultural Society, thus speaks
on this important subject:
"Many farmers who are DESTROYING
the productivcncss of their farms by
shallow work, rs they find that their
crops are diminishing, think only. of
extending their area by adding acres
Of surface, as if they supposed that
their titlc-dccds only gave them
right to six inches deep. of earth. II
they will take those deeds, study
their meaning, and apply thc lesson to
their fields, they will soon realize, in
thrcefold crops, the fact that the law
has given them three farms where
they supposed they had but one; in
other words, that the subso;l, brought
up and combined with the top soil, ard
enriched with the atmosphere inl!u-
cnces aud those other elements which
agricultural science will teach them
to apply to their ground, will increase
tlrcciold the measure of their produc.
tivcncss.
''To show TO what extent the frrtili.
ty of the soil can be Increased, refer to
y. statement in the last Patent OF,
flee report.
';ln The year 1850 there were nine
competitors for the premium corn crop
oi Kentucky, each of whom cultivated
ten acres. Their average crop was
about -? bushels per acre. at this
time the average crop Of wheat rcr
acre in the ha'vcs,s Of Great Britain.
on Il soil cultivated for centuries. is
about double that produced on the
virgin soil Of Ohio. Why is this?
Simply because the British farmers
are educated men. and apply work
wiscly y: they pay back to the earth what
they borrow from her; they cmdcavor
:. by every means in their power to
enrich their ground, and in return it
cnrichcs theln.-4f our farmers, instead
oflaboriu& to double their acres, would
cndcavor to double their crops, they
would find it saving of time and
toll, and nii increase ofrroiits.
'Mlnny Of them n"vcr ,h;nk &c
digging ten inches into the soil unless
they have dreamed about il crock of
gold hid. .in the earth; but if they
would set t,about the work Of digging in
4 earnest, every man would imd his
c'ock ofgold without the aid 0: dreams
and divinaton.
"Wc have great advantage over
the British farmers in the fact that our
farmers nearly all hold the lands which
they cultivate in tcc-simple, while in
England they are chiefly tenants, hiring
the lands Of the nobility. paying en-,
ormons rents TO the prnprictors, be.
sides heavy taxes to the Govern.
mcnt. Taxes here arc comparative.
lv light. and our farmers here are
their OWE landlords. Hence they have
cen able to pay thrcrio!l wages for
labor TO those paid in Europc, pay The
cost OF transportation and Vet IN.
dcrscll the British farmers in .,,c;r
own market"
The summary of the above is
Just this; plow a little deeper; pay back
honorably to Mother Earth What von
borrow from hcr-which is 10 more
than jnS'-and by all means ucour.
knowledge. The British farmers ar.
said to be educated mem" il They
were not. they could no, possibly raise
on land cultivated for centuries double,
the crops produced on our virgin soil"
and that in the teeth Of cno.rn.,s
rents and heavy faxes" 1t is knowl
edge, then, that is The grca, cul,iva
tor, after all: with !olliSh iruoronce
aud stolid indifference we can do no
thing; and we hope to see ere long an
agricultural proiessorshp established
IN every college throughout the length
! and breadth Of our land.
why, indeed, should the American
farmer be behind the ':cdncatcd" any.
where? lie has, generally speaking.
neither high rents nor taxes to impcdc
his progress, and shall he allow him.
self to be outdonc by those who arc
thus shackelcd! There is a ::crock of
gold" under every mans farm. and,
if every agriculturist would only think
so, we have no doubt he would go
little deeper than "tcn inches" and
assnredly he would frd it. Our great
rankin recommended that very thing
upwards o! a century ago
'.plow deep willie sluggarls sleep.
ana you shall have corn 10 sell md In keen