Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-10-29
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~ We clip the following from a
speech made BY Horace Greeley ut the
Agricultural Fair at Marysville, Cal:
7 irht GySrhgcrroS " r1S fhpsR. -
When | look over this State, SO m agni.
ficently timbered, SO gloriously provided
with one of the FIRST necessities of human
Acknowledgements for framing
our dwellings,, for the creation Of fences,
for half the wants Of our race, and see
how it is slashed, slaughtered, wasted. as
it is dopssh, Jour bwet socasisa among
your foot hills-l see the day is not dis
tapt when these people will travel many
weary miles to seek for wood, now being
wasted at their doors. zee the day 10
sot far Of when timber, which, by little
providence, might be saved around you
nay, which would be if men would think
Of any time but tho present--will be en-
tirely gone. reccollect that on the site
where the city Of Burlington, the princi-
pal place in the State Of. Vermont, now
stands less than fifty years ago, people
were cutting it off, and sending it to Eng.
land by way Of Canada. Long ago, they
were buying it from Canada, and are do
ing it to.day-having wasted all their
own--buyine it, may be, at ten times the
cost they sold it for. 1t is the way of all
new countries, first to destroy the timber,
and then seek painfully 10 replace it by
some means or other. This is one calam
iythas Cslifornis must now guard against.
pEEr PLowisG vs.. lRRIGAri6N. -
With few remarks on the soil will
conclude, for do not mean TO speak long
As am not well enough. In the first
plaee, 1 rejoice 10 hail beginning, just
and good beginning, Of = knowledgeof the
fact that there is q better way to moisten
your la1d than by irrigation-that is, by
snsninE u up " The full depth Of The sch
In my judgment. the full depth Of the
ioil ought to be cultivated. / believe IA
large portion, including the rocky. thin
soil the unfertile land, ought to be left IN
he slats Of naturc-allowed to grow tim.
bef and grass-but never plowed at ALL
Butthis lsbel:erc To-day that nine tenths
Of salath soil in California that ever
ought TO be plowed, can be rendered sufi
GENTLY moist by being plowed Just deep
enough. n-yr7z oon Q
That idea | do not fnd universally con,
sidered here. ] saw few days ago, Ut
Oakland. on farm, great crop of corn,
on the intervale as it is called here, not
on bottom LAND, where there were streams
IVA. fur back on . ridge Of lsud-laDd
abupdsntly irrigated BY deep blowing
The owner commenced by blowing very
deep-shen -soiling, and his land il
moist enough to grow any frat Or grain
oneasth. He has large crops this Sum
mer, Of corn-beside youLg crop, just
starting With which to supply green corn
to the market, of San Francisco next fall.
THIS, I believe, may be done almost any
shefeF TSppmence ',s this faFmef Id
Plow your land very deep, then sub soil,
then replow it two Dr. three times SO as to
" hsvsesy. Repiovf itnefslpn;
tn Nay, shdsfes YOU need not touch i az
terward. No we.ds'will grow here the
soil is PERFECTLY lightsed tisble, and you
may simply leave it alone until . great
crop Of cogais ready ,o,bs harvested. !
believe that may be .doas on almost all of
he level land Of CaliiorniA. tisaa god
thing 70 have water. Water is well en-
ough for certain purposes. should like
10 $3.50 every farm have good artesian
well on il But il is not a good thing to
be eteraally watering. AZ 4 g.. .,,,s.. ...
ssr.rtsF tas,s sg"oit !. excellent Ha1a1t sfsse
70 have giants strength but it tyrrsnnous
- use It like giant" 'es
1 have frequently seen men destroying
their fruit trees, demoraliziug them, rem.
dsring them certain to decay, certain to
bear poorer fruit, and all by this over
much sternsl applica;ionlof water. Let
the farmer have water; let him cover bis
gsaaS hsds lsi.A il il be plsssss; ,st him
~kef MS pasture lands, but beware Of
touching your plants. No water for your
plants .and grains. But, fellow. citisens,
ny soice fails to reach this vast assem.-
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= AaRICUDTuRs 4 PROGRESSIVE ART.
What would wish, in q word, to say to
ne farmers 1.-The men Of California--is
this: Understand that Agriculture is q
progressive art, and that we are nov 10
it's Infancy, When l look over The Aastsra,
xds yls ccstinens and copsxiss lkSw
much has been written and said of the
great progress We have msde-and doubt
less we have made grea. progress n the
last two hundred ,ears-and l remember
thas on the day when the MayHower 6rst
landed her precious cargo on Plymouth
Rock, the whole soil OF the American
continent would probably have produced
twAntJ Il tashsls of wheat 10 the acre;
and when ! know that now not ten, not
more than ten, is the average crop in The
Atlantic States, ! say there has been
progress Toward destruction, 10. pssctice,
dnd tL4t thaa progress is likely 10 Ia ion
unless arrested by the contradictions Of
science, by knowledge, and . continued
struggle toward perfection. We are in
d1ager Of resting quiet in sloyenly, care.
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