The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
RATES OF ADvERTTsTwo
FORCES USED IN AcRIcULrURr.

Mr.; ); G. Morton, 10 paper read be-
lore The London Society of arts, remarks;
agriculture is experiencing the truth
taught in the history of all other manu-
tactures-that machinery is, in the long
run, the best friend Of the laborer. This
truth is taught even more impressively by
q review OF agriculture than by the case
OF any single farm. Here are twenty-ope
millions OF people, producers and COM
sumers' living on this island, England,
Scotland and Wales as WIRE on : great
arm which We may, by the help of such
sUattisucs as We possess, describes IS
nearly 10000 arabic acres, and prob
aDiy nearly as much grass, employing as
Iarm labor, indoor and out, about, 9lO,-
OOo men and 10000 women, besides
100000 lads aud 10000 girls, or, avsrag-
ing them BY their probable wages, as has
been done before, let US say equal in all 10
!, 5oo,OO horses, of which probably 8oO,-
600 are strictly for farm purposes. We
are annually inVenting and manufacturing
labor saving machines at an extraordinary
rate, and every year at least 200 horses
are added to the agricultural steam power
of the county, certainly displacing doth
animals and men 10 some extent. We
have taken the fail out of the hand Of
the laborer, and the reapinghook in goiug
on many farm be no longer walks be-
tween the headles 70 the plough he no
longer sows the seed he does but por-
ton of the hoeing and the harvesting and
yet, so far from being able to dispense
with his assistance, he is more in demand
than ever.
within the past ten years upwards of
10000 horse power has been added to the
forces used in agriculture in steam alone in
Great Rri;an. In the harvest of 1859 in
Great Britain 1000 reaping machines were,
probably at work. capable of cutting more
in day than 10000 able bodied labouers
and yet labor during all this period was in
demand, and wages, instead Of decreasing.
advanced.
"That the services of the agricultural
laborer will more and more require the
combination OF skill with more force, and
that larger numbed of well-qualified men
Is being and will be needed, seems plain.
That horse power will be displaced by
steam at least two fifths. ] believe and
in this direction there is scope enough for
many years to come for all our agricul-
tural mechanics. Furthermore, it is plain
that if we can take a cansiderabler proper
ton of the mere labor of the farm out Of
the hands of the laborer, and put it into
the hands of steam power for it's PERFORM
ance, there is an enormous amount of
saving to be made in the cost Of agricul-
tural production. 1t is plain that it is
mere folly in the laborer TO think that. as
regards the mere labor of the land, he can
compete with either steam power or with
horse power. Strength of body is desir-
abe, and sinew hardened by long practice
in hard labor has a considerable market
able value. for that, however hardly it
may sound, is the aspect of the matter in
which the interest of the Iaborsr most d.
rectIy appears but it is plain that for
sheer lift and the mere putting forth Of
uutiring steam, must grind the soul out of
anybody that shall pretend to competition
with them. 1t is the cultivation not so
much of mere strength of body as of skill
and intelligence that the safety of the la
borer lies, and in his capability of educa-
ton he is perfectly secure" 60. We