New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-09

finding II, ga, 70 tho WE'LL after many years Oh OK
empton; and sometimes it o1mes from ron" .rooe
CROWN int, the water and decaying; and some
worms work their way in and decs, and ocsasonaiV
rats mice or other pssts burrow IN the wal anu IN
juIe TIE wafer And not unfreqnenty now Vem !"
water finds its way into an old vel ana ma en'hy
changes the character Of the water. Generally Wen
ismproved BY cles ing, but we bave known the con-
irary In well OF own, in the pap-rock dlstnct
north tf New York City, the quality the water was
materially injured by substituting pump in pa OF
bucket The reason was obvious. The water ~as
seven or eight feet Deep aud the bucket drew il from
the turfsce and the pump from the bottom and then
we found strong ulphur tssfe and smell Clearing
it out did good the ~sfer at The bottom wss de-
cdedly different from the top. The only remedy, and
continue the Of the pump which WA iron and cost
". and extremely convenient Cis 10 one of Gay 81
Weste force pumpsvery valuable for farm use), the
only remedy was TO attach euta-Perchs pipe to the
bottom of the iron pipe and float so that it would
alwsyr draw the water from the surface at whatever
hight Is may be in the well BY the fluctuations OF the
seasons.
Where wells are injured by surface wster, resort
shoud be had at once to the most thorough draining
Law te or stone drains Eve or SIX feet deep, 80 az 10
eut of al leaking into The we'll If injured BY trees-
which bv the BY should never bs get near wen-dig
dep trench 30 as 10 cut Oft all the roots ana nn tnSt
trench with coarse gravel ttif mass OF clay. that
will not be attractive to the roots Remove all that
Won can from the wall and earth near the well and
time win cure the water Sometimes, to get nd OF
roots insects oher pess, il will pay cost 70 IN val
the we'll and build il anew Fill in charcoal cindsrs
or ober sweet substances; and sometimes il viii be
well to lay portion Of the top wall in cemeot mortar
IL Il recommended In all cases where well water be-
comes upraatable to agtaie it freely, and very often
II drawn with q bucket. get man at work pushing
the bucket do deep and drawing it up full and pour
ing Il back again 80 as 10 fs in the water till is al
thoroughly mixed and all the stones wahed, and then
when it settles clear again viii probably be found as
good as ever.
This plan of agitatpg the water may also be applied
to cisterns to good advantage.
WoRs-our LAMBS The editor Of The South Caro-
Ina Farmer and Planter Gays: IL has just come 10
this point-we must 90 down blu, or g. West we
can't lay here any longer AID live by planting with
ont Improvement" Let that truth be treasured by
every farmer who reads this paragraph 1t hafact
for farmers and one that must not be ignored. II IL
equally true in all the Son hern, or cottongrowing
States sc it s in South Carolina. 1t s just as true IN
corn and WI eat grow ing Virginia Marylsnd Delaware
Pennsylvania and New-Jersey. And Il s full OF truth
az applied 10 Ne~-York and all the New-EngIand
States. The farmers can't stay there any longer
without Improvement That TO- they cannot stay with
ont seeing their hand deterora'e year by year. ss 1t
truly has ever since il denuded Of its natural for
est growth. ls it necessary? Cannot land be caiti
waited all indefinite numSer Of yeire aud yield good
crops to the cutya'or without ceteriOra ion Thn is
the grsatet the mostimpoant question tina an Amer-
can farmer can put TO himself or his nsigheor. we
hope that be has lsa'ned before this, from what we
have said that we do not believe in the necessity of de-
terioration Of land from cultivation. The preventive
deep dsntegraon, unde'draniug rotation of crops.
including one grown especially for manure, and rector
ing al TIE msnuria portions Of the crop 70 the coil
principally in the form Of surfsee manurins and tith-
ing tie products sald of Of the farm TO buy foreign
fertilizer Then will the farm sOpport in comfort for
ever the family Of ts poseessor, and give hm an an
pusl income to lay up lay out in improvements tend
ing 10 beautfy and add it's value, while they miui'
ter TO the epoyments Of the occupsns and when they
grow too ruu erous for the there will be plus
in store to enable the excess in the population "to go
West Al present the excess is crowded out Of the
paterpsl home because to stay ia TO stay and arve
to sarve because the fertility Of thai home has dete
ricrated and in its present dton is insufficient to
support Sc large population it did "wben the lad
was pew" Why should il ever grow old Simply
because this is the truth as we find it in The Rural
Ner. Yorker:
affirm that not one acre in ten Of cur cultivated
farms ges s gle load of of any kind except
the occasional droppngs of cattle that are pastured up
On I'll as often as year in ten. II the devastating
| hordes'-caled farmers Ii modern hmes-hsd not
| hid fertile 'West' TO overrun and make desolste,
there would have been famine in this land before now
that ali the corn in Egypt could not repair.
cit il my solemn conviction that there is not COLO
enough in Chrs'endom aud Pagandom combined 70 re-
store the coil Of North America TO its original fertility
In humanity name say to farmsr stop and consider
Take one acre Of poor land and make II rish oy the
cheapest process you cal devlse, and tell me what
costs YOU! Buy guano ST $50 tun ashes n IL cent?
bushel lime at Is cents charcoal at cents probably
the cheapest Of ALL bones at what they cost you good
barn. yard al 20 cents load. and draw it; fer
tze poor acre and make good for thirty bushels OF
| wheat and tel me the cost. You Will wish you had
more money by the time you have fer1lzed hundred
| acres.
OF tell Won, gentlemen, the annual depreciation Of
your grain farms, in particular, is fghtful and ap
paling circumstance. II s easier TO stop the mischief
| than 10 repair it."
None of the most common prescrp ions for restoring
fertility i'll answer the purpose, which are based upon
rest and rotation" such is understood generally
| by Southern planters. For instance, one says 70
another
A." That field of cotton looks badly, Squire CT
band stand, Ell 2"
Squire C.-"Yes. I've run it in cotton little too
long Fact is haven't land enough open for my force
must clear more, that can seed down and rest
| some"
Seed down and rest--the stereotype phrase Of the
| country And what IL seeding down and rest
Taking crop of wheat or oats FROM soil already
| exhausted by bad culture, then throwing down the
fence and turning every living thing in the neighbor
hood upon it. 10 eat it OF and tramp over until plant
| ing time round agaia.