New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-10

have gore on, year sfsr year. carrying away the
produce Of the land without giving anything back TO
Il il compensation for the organic aud inorE anc ee
meLts which lave eonstinted ile Tod oil Tie ,snIs
they have removed. The result has beer everywhere
The same. The crops have steadily de.enor1ed IN
quantity and quality. Experience mas shown tue eN-
p. ctston Of undminshBg prpductveness in n-S so!,
10 after how fertile 10 be gross delus'or Scsnce
explains the cause of the deterioration. Vegetables,
Ike aninals ale developed BY Of The food they
Consume. The former draw their srs,en.Doe direcuy
from the earth. Every crop reduces the quantity OF
food the earth contains, sud diDnishes me c'hdl.oh
of s fertility apc after a certain period the cspaci,y
of the earth 10 produce the same crop ceases. In
other words, the supply It food which tue crop re-
quires for lie production becomes exhausted.
"There IL But or more Of guarding against this re-
cult ard that il by restoring to the esrtn inc sano
amount Of organic and inorganic matters witch nave
entered into TIE orgsrzsion OF the crops removed.
This the universal law of compensation IN every de-
psItment of physical life. Chemical analysis SHOWS
that plants contain the same princ'pa Ingredients IN
very different proportions. IL shows, aiso inst SOILS,
apparently similar, vary essentially in their chemical
G. mponeLts, aud that while Is better adapted TO
wbesf, another contains in more suitable proportions
the mineral substances required by other grams IL
the cause Of the deterioration Of the vhescrop IN ths
State could be sscertsiped il is probable il would be
found ths, the soil which has been cultivated pos
sesses 10 a reduced proportion, one or moro OF the
mineral substances essential to the growth OF that
era n ard that if the deficiency were supplied, the soil
Precisely So Mr. Dix and why won't you see
that the renovation you urge is scarcely possible
ard will never take place under the policy you
advocate Every bushel OF Wheat or Corn or
barrel Of Flour or Meal or tierce of Beef or Pork
we send abroad taxes away portion of the Phos-
pilates and other precious elements of fertile soil
which are 30 easily exhausted aud 50 hardly and
rarely restored. We have exported to Europe In
these forms, and in those OF Potash and Tobacco,
Hundreds of Millions worth of our essential
National wealth, whereof not one per cent. Is
returned to US in our Imports Every year sees our
Western praries exhausted of Millions worth OF
thase indispensable elements which cross the ocean
never 10 return. No country ever did, and none
ever will, maintain it's fertility while exporting
heavily Of Grain and Meat from year to year. Bat
"psnt the Manufactured by the side of the farmer"
and this fatal tendency to exhaustion of the soil
will be arrested In the shape of ordinary msnures,
bore.dus', wooden waste, potash, &c, &c Mil
lions worth Of fer!ilizing substances will every
year be hsuled away from our factory villages aud
employed to enrich the adjacent farms. Mr. Dix
sees the Importance of the end, but rejects the
only practicable means Of obtaining it. Idly will
be talk Of the Importance of preventing the ex-
haustion of our soils while he advocates the policy
which makes such exhaustion inevitable.