New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-20

souno, hoo-Weo, VI ssie 9uatte1 ofeo, OF Chnoo1-
or Norman, or Cleveland bay mare, or clever
Morssn, let him breed 70 just such THOROUGHBRED
tor.e - s described sbove, and be cannot fail 20 do
xen. But il he have blind, or spawned, OF ring
boned, or broken wipded mare by no means let him
breed from Der at sll-lea,t Of al to high bred
Xnd hiehpriced stalbon-for there is little or no
hope that the product will ever repsy the price Of
The rtallion's service. In the same manner, if he
ssye highly. bred or thoroughbred mara of small
size, hight of bone, leggy, or in any way deficient in
form. le. him .vod breeding her 10 eoarse-bred
horse in the hope Of giving the progeny the bone of
he .ire and preserving to it the blood of the dam
The reverse will be the case. The blood of the dan
will be de:eriorsted or lost, and the bone will not
be ssined. The odds are decidedly that the colt
viii be unsypmetrical in some way, cross made
and out Of proportion. Symmetry and harmony to
. certain extent are absolutely indispensable on
both sire and dams side to the production Of SYM
metrical and harmonious foals. Thus far we have
dealt only with general principles Of breeding; we
may beresfter, believing the subject TO be Of great
and daily increasing importance, go farther into tae
subject, and descend from seneralties into particu
lars, touching On particular strains Of blood which
should be chosen or avoided with the reasons why,
by the intelligent American breeder
THE GOLD MINES OF LONG ISLAND.
Is 1t not singular that so many gold hunters should
have gone 10 California from this city without an ink
irg of the truth that richer mines exist upon Long
leland right at the threshold of NewYork City, which
might have been made to develop their riches with
less digging than those of the Gold State ON the Pa
eifc7 As these mines still undeveloped we will
point out their locality and mode Of working in hope
that some Gold Hill Company" viii be organized to
bring out their riches. 1t is generally known that the
soil of this island is sandy though not that it is aurf
erous. It msy may not be, sccorng az it worked
The soil !. light and easily TILED, almost beyond COM
parison with any other similar large tract In the United
States II is soil that pays for artificial fertilization
better than any that lies convenient to good mar
ket, and yet taken as whole body, it is the worst
titled and the people the poorett, where they might
be the richest, if they only knew of the gold mines
that We do lying within their reach. Many farm
has been, within year or two, purposely turned
out to grow running blackberry vines because they
will grow upon the worn.Out fields without manure,
and afford pay for the use of the land that viii
not grow grain without fertilization, and that the
owner could not afford to give it, in his opinion. But
this opinion it is very mistaken one.
One of the things most lacking in this sol appears 10
be potash and such other properties az we obtain nom
the use of wood ashes and hence immense quantities
have been imported from the asheres 10 the Interior OF
the State after having been lsached Of all the potash
obtsnable in the manufacture Of that article Forest
leaves too are gathered by farmers and applied to the
soil to good advantage Both ashes and leaves are ex-
penive applications for the amount Of fertility pro-
duced and asher becoming very limited in quantity.
Witt out fertilizer the land must lie idle and worth
less With cheap and easy meals Of manurng this
easily worked soil, the whole face Of Long Island
vould be better off than if it were surferous.
Is there an easy method of developing this gold We
say. Yes, there is. There are unworked mines upon
Long Island richer In deposits than any placer in Cali
fornis. We viii point out one, which We select not
because it is the richest only one but because il is
most convenient for parties to visit who are disposed
to verify our assertion It is only of many, gener
ally similarly situated upon the highest land on the
island This ore lies just east Of the new Reservoir,
between that and the Cypress Hills Cemetery There,
upon the very top Of that hill is basin Of perhaps
more than ten acres filled than forty feet In depth
with very rich deposit Of peat-a purely vegetable
ass-ar richer in equal bulk, in potash and fertizng
materials than leaves of oak trees such as are gathered
for manure, and probably worth as much, bushel fer
bushel, as the leached ashes brought from Western
New.York and Canada, particularly since dealers
practice sdueration to such an extent and yet this
immense golden deposA hes idle, worthless unproduc
tive while the thousands of acres upon the plain below
are unproductive for want Of dressing Of this same
rich fertilizer.
It n not our purpose 10 90 into . geological
examination, nor even to inquire how these almost
ine1haustsble mines were deposited or formed where
they are now found on the back bone" of the
island; it 10 sufficient that they are there, and
that the material is of the richest character. In
fact that in the basin the Reservoir s so rich 10
vegetable fber that lump Of it simply compressed in
the hands and dried and burnt forms almost IS large
snd firm piece Of charcoal ss piece of wood OF the
same size. OF course the ashes Of such fuel would
readily be understood by all purchasers and users of
ashes to possess more value than any that they can
buy. An who have tried peat or swamp muck, prop
erly prepared by dsintegrating with salt end lime
or by usirg it in compost or o. an aosoroer OF nqua
manure and gases in the stable, know its value as .
fertilizer; aad many more viii know and approve it,
these mines are ever worked as they might be TO the
immense advantage Of the workers, and still more 70
the users of the product.
The mine alluded TO is so situated that svery mex
pensive drain would entirely free it from water. Tne
ridge between the basin and the plain is but few rods
wide; the cut would not be over forty feet deep to
reach the surface Of the water which would then most
probably cut it's own channel 70 the bottom Of the de-
posit the depth of which is unknown, but has been
probed to the depth Of forty feet.
Moreover, many other deposits are 70 situated
that they can be drained, and the peat carried by
short track to the Long Island Railroad, and thus
cbesply disseminated throughout region most in need