New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-13

srposrg ersin.crops 10 fever dangers Of smut,
rnst sc. and breeding far fewer insects than
does ours. 20 that there were some power In
America adequate and resolved TO protect those
best friends Of farmers-the birds-sgs,nst the
murderous instincts Of every young rafisn VINO
can shoulder musketD 1 have seidom seen
finer Wheat than grows profusely around fars,
and think this region ought TO average more
bashels TO the acre in the course Of century than
any Fart Of the United States.
But French genius and talent do not tend 10 the
soil. must have already observed tnst tne Iu-
"perial" School Of Agriculture az Grignon,
though twenty-eight years cid, with iov ac.es OF
capital land choice stock and well adapted build
ipes. enters on its twenty year with barely
sesentr pupils. A kindred testimony is waited
from q Reform School in the western part OF
the country. To this school young reprobates are
sent from the adjacent cities and made adopts IN
Agriculture as a just punishment for their sins
and its last official report boasts that the school
has been conducted with such wisdom and success
that orer half Of its GRADUATES hare enlisted in the
Armgi There's climax for you
The Agricultural Department Of the Exhlbi-
ton contains little by which intelligent farm
ers could be instructed Samples Of choice Wheat,
Oats, Peas, Beans, &c, are very well in such
show, and may stimulate some cultivators to try
TO equal them, but do not tell them how the thing
is 10 be done. | have already incidentally spoken
of the Plows other than English as an i-fayored
lct-tLose of France only less irrational than some
competitors from other portions OF the Continent.
/ Judge one from Norway will take any premium
which may be awarded to the worst The chief
anxiety Of the contriyers would seem TO be, that
each shall be thoroughly guarded, at whatever
cost, against running too deep into the ground,
though to that excess they manifest not the
slightest inclination. IL is very plain that the
makers of these Flows believe all the earth which
lies more than six inches from sunshine very
noxiOus to growing plants-as some OF IT may be
while it remains unsunDed and unstlrred since
cTea OIL but If So that seems TO me very urgent
reason for turning il up to day light and giving 1t
chance to amend. do not perceive steam-piOW
among the novelties exhibited but we shall not
have to wait many Year, longer for that. Many OF
the newer harrOws evince respect for the truth
(Which / believe has already commended itself TO
the approval of most enlightened cutivators In
Anerica) that the pointed. wedge-sbaped tooth is
radically vicious, tending to compact the soil which
il tries to pulyerize and loosen. Harrow teeth
based on the principle of the pillow and the cult
vator, cutting easily, lifting and turning over all
the soil that they disturb, are evidently coming
into fashion.
Draining begins to fix the attention of the judi
cous few il France; cheap treatise on its import
ance and processes has Just appeared from the
pen of enc of the Professors at Grignon, and
tOlerable sample of tiledraln is laid down In the
Agricultural Exhibition. Unlike those to which
am accustomed, in this drain an independent
collar or broad ring (say three inches wide loosely
covers each junction of the tile, not so much to
prevent their filling up with earth as to keep one
from sinking below or rising above the other
so as to stop the flow Of water. The material is
of course that of the tile. should think this col
lar needless where the ground is firm and the tile
well laid and Intellectual elsewherci but 1t is said
- To- .,aNh fknan shA
have tiled il.
Prof John Wilson, well.known in America, as
sures me that the tile-laying machine, of which
only drawings and descriptions, so far as | am
aware, have reached our country, is commenting
itself TO the Judgment of British imprOvers. This
machine, now worked with movable steam instead
of h, TsepOwer takes up its position at one side OF
the field TO be drained, and commences the first
drain at the point opposite on the other, slowly
drawing thence to itself chain, to which is at
tached an apparatus which cuts amere crease from
the surface downward to the required depth, at
which it make hole barely larger than the tiles,
which closely follow on string, being firmly at
tached to the perforating apparatus, and paid out
from the starting-pOint just as fast as required
Thus each foot of the drain is perfected the minute
after il is begun, while the labor OF throwing out
and placing several cubic feet OF earth for every
foot of drain is obyiated. Obviously this would
the latter this mode of cutting would tend to give
frInness to the earth Immediately surrounding the
drain at least for a tine 1 shall try to see ma
chine of this sort at work in England and wish
some extensive, thrifty, wealthy, improving land
owner 10 America would import or construct one.
On the broad praTies the fertile interyales OF
Western New-l ork, it ought to work well.
1t is unsafe TO condemn what you do not fully
comprehend, but many of the European contriv.
So hV hnrs
seem absolutely puere compared with those
known in our country. so the machines for thrash
ing and cleaning grain here exhibited seem gen-
ealy such as we have for the last twenty or thirty
years been superseding by better, and some OF
EN- clnmsly made aud in bad condition, as If
they Lad be, brought here from an old lumber
room, without cleaning. This is not what one ex-
poets or is accustomed 10 see IN Paris. On the
wnole, do not believe any decided impulse will
be given TO Agricultural Improvement In France
by the Exhibition, though in nothing Except gov
ernment) has France more pressing need OF prog
ress.
YET let me not close without a tribute TO the
enlightened few in and near Paris who are making
most spirited efforts for such improvement, re-
psrdless of the flouts and sorry Jokes whereSith
stubborn Ignorance is ever set on to oppose such
efforts At the head of these laborers tor human
good place the working members OF the Society
founded here last Winter under the auspices OF the
philosopher ST. Haire which has for its object the
domestication of animals hitherto useless 10 man,
and the introduction TO France OF those which
have been proved useful in remote regions, but
have not yet been natuTalized here. Che attempt
now being made BY our Government TO introduce
tie Camel and the Dromedary {" the wild, scarcely
Ieoped region which separates Missouri from Cali
forIia is tar narrower, but of the same nature
with this) The scclimation OF Plants also
is likewise 20 be vigorously prosecuted, and learn
il already gives promise of mpOrtaLt and not dis