The true Democrat., 1855-03-21
PROSPECTS oE \ MEXICAN FARMERS FOR 185

PROSPECT IS OE A MEXICAN FARMERS FOR 1S00 There never has been a brighter prospect opened for any class of citizens than looms ul before the farmers of the United States for the coming, and probably many successive seasons Three of the leading commercial nations o1 Europe, and fourth-a second-rate power embracing over 2OO,OOO,OOO people, are enga- cd in mortal combat, striving, by every possible means. to reduce the products and resources of each other, and render them unavailing for their own use or that of neighboring nations. AL ready they have shut up the interior of con- tinent. that has hitherto supplied no nconsider- able share of the European demand for wheat and other breadstuttS. The immeasurably ex- tended and fertile plains of Austria and south- ern Russia are herm etically sealed against the export of single cargo of the staff of life, and they may thus remain to the close of the pre- sent European war. In addition to the compre- hensve hostilities that now prevail abroad, Austria assumes the attitude of "the fretful porcupine." She stands bristliug with 5OO,OOO sabres and bayonets; and on the dawn of spring it would not be surprising to find all Europe marshaled on one side or the other of this hes tile fray.
 It is inevitable, in the withdrawl of the inn mense amount of human labor from the cultiva- tion of the soil, which these operations insure that every article of consumption must continue, at very high prices, if they do not exceed the present exorbitant rates. Almost every eat able, flesh, grain, and vegetables are worth nearly double their average rates, and this, too, when manufactured and other articles of neces- sity are unusually cheap, and probably below their customary value. Thus while the farmer is getting twice ss much for his crops as he has been accustomed to, he is paying less for every necessary article required for his conSump- ton.
 Labor IS the only exception to the advanta- ges the farmer has now in his hands, and this he may reduce to the most inconsderable point, by the introduction and use of the many labor saving machines, invented and perfected within these late years for his especial benefit.
 He may now blow and harrow with vastly better implements; he may plant his corn and other seeds, or SOW his gran With the most per- feet and accurate seed sewers; he may cultivate his crops with implements adapted to every conceivable purpose; he may cut his grass with a moving machine, and his grain with reaper and rake both with revolving rake; he may thresh and winnow his grain and shell his corn bv machinery; all these and innumerable othel operations about his farm he may accomplish by horse or steam power, With slight Superln- tcndence and aid ofhuman intellect and labor thus placing it in his power to become, in { great degree, independent of increased wages Let no man complain, then, of high-priced la- Dor till he has first supplied himselfwith every lahor-savlng machine he can possibly use witt advantage on his farm.
 But the advantages we predict for our agr. culturlsts can be realized only by the inteligen and the industrious. If you don't raise the crops, you will surely not be paid for them Sc vigorously to work at once, and prepare you field as soon as the frost will permit provide your manures and if you have not enough al ready to give an ample dressing to all your cul tivated acres, procure them elsewhere; ashes plaster, guano, bone-dust, superphosphate o lime, and whatever your own experience 0 that ofyour neighbor indicates as best suited t your proposed crops, and which can be readil