New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-14
! ssrMNrErsss Assasfcur.lry.RE.

generally depend solely upon her Efforts, and das
dain to call TO their MD those auxiliaries which
stern necessity has Taught those cf The mere mg-
gard regions at the North the advantage OF nsing.
Experience has began IN impress upon the agricni5
turists at the South, However, the necessity OF
adopting different policy However generous
nature may he successive draughts made year
after year without cuasing, will eventually exhaust
her capacity for giving and thus we ind, in many
of the older Of the Southern States, numbers of
worn Dit fields which, though at one time pro-
| dacing their rich crops of corn and cotton, are
now barren and sightless- melancholy proofs Of
4 ignorant and vicious systems Of culture.
1t ii perhaps true, as general proposition, that
there Has been made during the last century, less
progress in agriculture than any other extensive
branch VI human industry. But In the preceding
| twenty years vast strides have been made; and
\ new that human energy II directed to this field we
4 may expect to see as great changes in the method
Of culsating the earth as We have Witnessedin the
means Of locomotion during the past haf century,
| Science and mechanical ingenuity are both EN-
| pfoyed now upon our fields. And the discoveries
and inventions that are daily being made known,
must quickly revolntionize al our Old methods
4 of planting, tiiling and gathering crops. Steam
i pIows patent mowers, h0rserakes, ETC., etc.,
already give different appearance to q well kept
! farm And i'll Europe and lit the North, the man
who does NOT keep wen up to The latest improve
ments ia laborsaving machinery, finds it impossible
to compete with his neighbors who do. If he mows
his wheat by hand, and Tins clears OF two OF three
acres day, he cannot sell it so cheaply as the
farmer who nses of Mel ormick machines, and
sweeps on tIreshes, wiHnows and bags the crop of
two hundred acres in q day. As with the inven-
tons iii machinery. 10 it's necessary to keep up
with the discoveries in chemistry applicable to
agriculture. The value and effect Of the different
kinds of malaures, mineral and animal, must be
familiar to the successful farmer Of to day, at the
North and in Europe. Hence agriculture Is begin
ming to assume rank among the & learned profes.
sions,n and men Intending to follow the business
are regularly educated for it, as in law medicine.
While this Ii tile fact In Europe, and in some of
| the Northern and Middle States, the South, which
Il essentially IN agricultural section, and whose
products outvalue those of any other pays little
attention to the application Of science to culture,
| hut generally goes in the same mechanical way
Of planting, filling and gathering her crops, that
has characterized her people for quarter Of
century. Is it not clear that there must be i'm
Eprovement IN this respect, and that our people,
who depend 80 entirely upon the productiYeness Of
the soil for their power and wealth, must begin to
learn what that soil requires to continue it in its
pristine sigor. we must enter the field Of investi
cation and study with agricuturists in other parts
of tie world and learn to obey the laws Of nature
in our tillage, as science shall reveal them to u.s.
WE must hare onr Agricultural Colleges and
schools, and must bring up our boys to follow the
business that Heaven has destined them for, not as
mere machines, but with full knowledge and nm
aerstanding Of all ifs requirements. In this way
alone the yield of the great staples Of the South
could be much increased, without further expendi-
tllre for land Or slaves: and plantations, in
stead of gradually wearing out by culture, become
more fruitful and valuable each successive year.
Science and knowledge have done as much for
other countries why could they not do the same
for the South
DR. HALE.-As our friend DIR. Hale, the learned
and eloquent professor Of electro biology, is about
To start ON u tour Iii Alabama ana South Carolina,
where unknown and suspicious strangers are some
times subjected to the application oil tar, feathers
and raHhide, we would say to the good people of
those States that they need not suspect him Of be-
ing a John Brown abolitionst, engaged in mischief
under the garb of science, for he was born and
raised !, alittlc further South than can be done
in either of those Sfatesto-wt: in the good city
OF New Orleans Therefore they can let their
reslnOus, plumOse and yaccocutcular instruments
Ut cOudign vengeance rest in pickle for a more
nroDer snbiect and nrenare fl he entertained nd
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ieas were last winter during u course OF the DOC
tors Illustrative lectures, which were continued |
for many weeks.
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HyAE0tt0n Planters and Factors will please |
notice thai have landing ii invoice of onr
IMPROVED EAGLE COTTON GINS and are again prepared
d fill taeir orders
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keeping stock on sale In this ciy and hundreds of
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