New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-13
EUROPE REVISITED.-..No. XVI.

AGRICULTURE IN FRANCE--AGRICULTURAL MA
CHiNERY IN THE EXHIBITION.
Editorial Correspondence Of Ths N. 2. Tribune
PARIS, Tuesday, July IL, 1865.
A Yankee here lately said to FreDcbman:
al am amazed that your people continue to cut
"g,sss with that short, clumsy, wide bladed,
"sira' qht.babdlec, eleventh-century implement,
.when we in America have scyshes scarcely
"dearer which cut twice as fast" Why, you see"
relpor Ted Monsieur "whie you have less laber than
"you need, we have far more; so that while it is
"your study TO economic human exertion, it is
"ours to find employment for our surplus. We
"have probably twice az many laborers as we
"need" "1hen," persisted Jonathan, "your
"true course would seem to be to break your
sc,thes in two and work them at half their pres
cent length, thus adjusting your implements TO
"yOuT work, since you are cOniessedly unable 70
"fud wOrf enough for your laborers, even with
"the wreicle ed implements you now use" Mon
s,pr did rot see the matter in this light, and the
stream C conversation flowed in,o another channel
Now while otherwise sensible Frenchmeo actu-
ally leye that labor is here in excess there is at
tis hour pre- sing need of all the surplus labor of
Fruuce for the next forty years to be absorbed 10
tie proper drainage of her soil alone. For want Of
this. whole districts are submerged or turned 20
marsh for thee OF four months between Novem-
Ter ard April, Obstructirg labor loading the air
Will uDwhclesome humidity, and subJectng the
pea,SniTy To feveTs and other diseases. Thorough
a-sibi1g alone would immensely increase the an-
nuai product the wealth, and ultimately, by pro-
moth health and difusing plenty, even the popu-
laiiOn OF France
So With regard TO Flowing. 1t is not quite so
bed here as IN spain, where friend this season
saw p asants blowing with an mplement composed
Of two clumsy sticks of wood, one OF which (the
borizcntal worked its way through the earth after
the marper of a hogs snout, while the other, in
serted IN the former at a convenient angle, served
e. bsudle, being guided by the plowmaus LETT
band, while be managed the team with his right.
Will his l,lc of the good old days, the peasant
may have annoyed and irrtated rood of ground
Per dsy ia The depth OF three inches aud, MS care
is tstel Lot 70 aict in this fashion any held that
canIot be- irrigated, he may possibly, by the con
iui elton Of good luck with laborioUs culture, 90
uin half crop IL is safe guess that this cult
yfi0r, living the year round 0n black bread
npSi. ned With woah vinegar rancid oil, because
uIalle 10 I've better, cherishes a supreme con-
Temp .or all such Guackery and humbug as book
farming
The display Of ploWs in the Palace of Industry
Ilsy have already alluded TO, bit | am not Yet
Dee with a. IL Is therein perfectly demonstrate
su.t tie .YIe expenditure Of human effort aud
on Iea mus Gle which is now employed 10 disturb
q , tar.h Bdi'esenty to AL average depth Of i've
hsses would saiice, if properly directed, 90
rniyefize The same area thoroughly 10 the depth
al ten q twelve riches Increasing our annual har-
yrsts hp 1T least twenty-five per cent and afordmg
as Scrar,l eainst the evil influences Of both wet
All DIV SEASONS A few enlightened minds here
are eoiteGpia. .ut this Tesult; The great majority
81 .1Chch farmers either never tank ON tue SUD
iCot or else regard i. much as one OF our own IN
Vefefats bio Nseads--o that SORT which not only
kro~s nosh'ac hut plores in it-expends hts sub
st'tte ior Wit on any meeting OF a Farmers Cub
fl4tte lss naturally magnificent soil lPre-
kl y, 81 tirgs ccn,idered, TO that of our own
We EN- States We have much land that is
rcter at The ottset, hut ver lit le that viii hold
its OWL VA 1efance 1T rnsltreatmeut so well as this
dees Line shoC0as here IN every form-the rail
rCtd oitn cut through bills of loose chalk and
vCsy much Of fhe snbscil in this vicinit, appears
tc bes -,.ien lin estoue or gP.um, but is sail q
bsarar.ue DEL osit- proved such By the iuiairy
q shells ihrlein inbel9ed. There is not Particle
OF st,ns IN tie 81 oce soil; the rotteu gypsum il,
icr he most pat, oasly trayersed by the plOg,
Noata AZ deTfh Of ten TO twenty feet the sane
ciEhsl 'onnstior nay be found hard enough
10 quarry toto buil.iDg-stone. To reeRforce
sue st sitter the exhaustion pro
otsed DS haocr.d graiu.crops in suc'es-
tOh' - Guy isqr,site To- r,n the pl9N two
fsiee c'eier usE ], has hitherto gpnc--s process
tfsfoi.y eesN sole on ether srcunls n an tass. [
Fever Delete 0tsefSed land 80 thoroughly fortified