Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1856-08-01
From the Baltimore sun.
Ultimate Benefits of Drought, and the
Modes ia which they net To Improve
Land.
TINTWNNIWWI " - IITHT- II
No. -, Exchange Building.

/ Il may bo consolation to those who have
/ f,lt tho influence Of the late long and pro-
trac,cd dry weather to know that droughts
are one Of the natural causes to restore the
constituents of crops and rcnoyatc cultivated
soils. Tho dminu,ion Of the mineral mat
Ter Of cultivated soils takes place from two
causs.
. lst Tho quantity Of mineral matter car
ricioiT in crop, aud not returned to tho soil
in manure.
2l. Tho mineral matter carried OF by
rain water to ,hc sea by means Of fresh va.
tcrsirnms.
These two causes, alEay' in operation,
and countcractci by nothing, would in
time render the earth barren waste, in
which no vcrlurc would quicken, AMI no
solitary plant take root. \ rational system
Of agriculture would ol,iata thc Gr,t cause
orstcriliry, by always restoring to the soil
an equivalent ror that which il taken on
by the crops but as thi. isnot done in al
cases, Providence has provided o way Of IT,
own TO countrrlc, the thrif,lrsnrs Of man,
hy in,timtins drousht a, proper periods to
bring up from the deep parts Of the earth
food on which plants might ierl when rains
should again hH. Tho manner in which
drought, cz.rcis, their beneficial influence
Is as follows:
Daring dry weather a continual oapora-
ton Of water take, place from the surface
orthc earth, which &, NOT supplied By any
from the clouds. ThccnTlmtion from the
surhc, creates q vacuum 90 Tar as water is
crnccmcl) which {. at ouco illoI by watrr
ri,in, up from the sunsoil Of the land The
water nom the sals1il isrp'acrl from the
ua1t strata below, and IN this manner Inc
circulation 1r wa,cr IN tho earth l. thc ro-
ygrs, to that which takes place in wet
weather. This progress to the surface, Of
a., water ia the earth maui'e,s iisnlG strik-
inc'y IN the drying upol springs, aud of
rivers aud streams which are supported by
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