Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-06-04
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DIR. RALDWIN,S THEROY.

14ks 4Sk41NU4N'S II
We ,,ce,., d, sumo lime since, letter
f. IN Dr. Baldwin. in which he seems iolt
take exception to our remarks on his theo- |
ry in the January No. OF the Farmer, and
Geems 1t strange that we should have
hesitated 10 publish bis views as given
some years since in another agricultural
journal. One moments reflection should
,nVince the DR.. that l. is notour prov.
ince To discuss every theory that may
lind it's way ito the public prints. We
must be permitted to be the best judges
Ut the manner OF conducting our journal.
aud therefore have had no wish " open
a controversy upon this subje ct any more
than we would with MIR. Cumstock. on
his terra eultu,e theory. or upon the long
disputed question, does wheat Turn to
chess and many others which have.
from time to time, been mooted by the
press.
In regard to a remark which DR.. 3.
takes acception to, that the subject had
been pressed upnn us in an " anomalous
manner" we would say, that it vas not in
tended for him, and our language. we
think, does not bear him out in appro-
aprropriating it to himself. -.-
With these remaks VT present the fol.
lowing from the Plow Loom and Anvil,
Of l849, or 1850, the Doctor deeming it
but Justice TO him, that we should give
his theory in his own language. We
hope it may have been by this time fully
tested, so that the landholders are able
to determine for themselves. whether the
raw material is better and, more profit.
- ~ ~ ,iu ct. I'D artinl. hoI
is, the shade to be better than the manure"
from, The PO,o. Loom. and AnvI
We give place with pleasure to The in
closed com mupicatiOn from Doc or Bald
win. Should the theory it maintains BE-
finally established, the discovery will be
very striking epoch in the agricultural
annals. no has not observed in the
midst Of the poor, ST old fields. luxuriant
growt' Of grass coming up through its
branches, where bush lies covering the
ground? While We should like 10 know
" hat the scitnt tic have 10 say on this
theory, We have understood that the
plain practical farmers in the valley, now
bell, We that they can make their lands
rich BY shading them with nything &C
cnrdlngly they ale covering them with
brush. stIpw or clover, finding, as it is
said, the raw material better and more
profitable, than the manufactured article,
Irat is tile shade To be better than the ma
Mure.
W1NcuEsTER, September.
DEAR SIR Il submit for the consider
alton OF your agricultural readers a few
plain prop ositions. II you possess any
facts. which create q doubt Of truth
OF any one Of them. | shall be pleas
ed TO see them stated in our journal.
PROPOSE ion LIST. OF the various chang
rs which vegetable and animal substan>
ces undergo. during their decomposition.
the product If one only which has prov
ed 10 be the aliment of plants is the res
idue Of putretac'iOn.
I'd. Each change is distinct and pc
culIar chemical process, differig not only
in the circumstances requisite to produce
it. but also in the nature aud chemical
composition Of each product.
Sd. The value OF each product depends
very mate rialy, upon the attention paid
TO the cirCums ances necessary 10 gener-
a'e each Ptculiar process. This is kno wn
to be true With regard 10 the Vinous and
with rgald TO every other.
4Lh. That cool, dark, close and
damp location, with a contact of air is in
dispensable TO the generation Ct the pu.
treIactive process. All organic substan-
ces, experience this change only when
thus lot Rted.
5:h. No substance whatsoever will
undergo the pu.refacIive process. when
exposed TO Leaf, light and flee circuls-
ton of mir.
oh. That decay, or eremacausis, is q
distinct chemical process, differing es-
sentially from the putrefactiVe, in the
circumstances which produce it, as well
as in the quality and quantity of the pro-
duct, which is invariably destitute OF fer.
tilizing virtues.
7th. Pulrefactiun may be considered
the ultimate result OF vegetable and ami
NAL decOmpokiIiOns !; because it forms
the only product incapable of any other
chemical change, and is consequently in.
dtstructihle.
b. That the eXcrement of animals is
not manure. Like the bodies OF animals,
it never bee, mes the food Of plants until
sui jecL to putretaction.
9th. The value OF the manure mate
rally depends upon The perfection of the
purefaclive process that is the strength
or ferIilizing qualities of the manure may
always be estimated by the density and
duration OF the shade to which it has
been suhject.
lOth. That the surface Of the earth
will readily undergo the putrefsctive pro-
cess. il IuvGrabiy located. that is. il dense
ly shaded. which oil necessity implies a
cool. dark. close and damp location.
18th. That the fertility impaired to the
en,tn hr AEu.i. thai is mamma mazda Of