New-York daily tribune., 1861-03-06
Nsp1lork Daily @ibn,te
TALKS WITH PROF. WENTz. Iii.
Correspondence Of The N. y. Tribune.

farmhouse yards IN Germany-the great manure
hespl Here ii is in deep basin some 70 feet by ~,
paved and lined with stone and brick so as to save all
he LIQUIDS 1t lie not under cover. cistern, silh
loeper, Is Immediately adjoining, into which the
manure heap drains and projecting from THIS iS OrV
hg pump with section hose and conducting nose con
Meeting with fourinch lead pipe which passes undeI
tbe tool-house and opens in the kitchen garden 10
mis- hose NAV be attached and thus by the action Of
~. rumn lloud manure be applied the plants The
xrslnage from the court rain from the roofs, &c, is
not conducted into the manure bed but by conduit
under the toohouse into open csern in the garden,
giving water for plants far superior TO the pump water
seueray used In the toolhouse McCOrmick's reaper,
Or one much like it, manufactured al AK Ia Chapee,
was an old acquaintance; an English machine for
planting wheat in drills which the Professor holds 10
be the best method and the like offered nothing TO
make note upon.
The fodder-cutter for the Ulex Europaeus lie note
worthy only for the iron rollers with Jagged teeth
hrouQh which the plant must pass, and 10 when 20
powerful G leverage can be applied as thoroughly TO
srush the thcrns The instrument for tearing horse
shestnus TO pieces is an English machine for roots.
heavy solid cylinder foot perhaps in diameter, has
great number of triangular teeth nearly in form of the
latter reversed A smaller iron roller has heavy
hread like screw running round IT, and in these in
serstices the teeth Of the cylinder play 1t makes truly
tearing work Of the chestnuts. took occasion TO re-
move doubt as to the Professors mode Of preserving
his fodder II this: As soon as the cheStnus are all
m he sets man TO work with ths machine, and after
being torn in pieces they thoroughly dried and can
be kept in barrels boxes bags, &C.. in any dry place
The plows, although far behind ours, were much su'
pcrior to that which see in universal use In Germany
You can find perfectly correct picture of the common
German pow in the "Cosmograpbie' Of Sebastian
Minister, one copy Of which is at Cambridge, in the
College library, printed think, in 1898 another copy
Is at Yale College, printed few years later speci-
men Of German progress in general in all that belongs
10 the lRboring classes
VisitOr.--I am surprised that American pows
snd 80 little way here; believe that and one
horse with our best American plows, can do more
work than three men and four horses with this old
uschiue ION thinking II over must deduct about so
per ceut OF this statement fear Besides, our pows
20 much deeper. Your fields not plowed more than
sax inches deep and for subsoi blowing have never
heard Of it here.
Prof W.-Say 5opr, the powing Of our peasants
seldom smore than that. The difficulty in the way Of
Introducing your farming tools is in the character Of our
peasants As their fathers did so they do.
Visi.or.-Wly not obtain them for youF own work
80 that at least your aborers would become used to
heml
Prot. W.-For the simple reason that we could get
no laborers If we undertook to compel them to learn
new ways and use new tools, not one would work
for
Visitor-As look upon the clumsy, il-nade, IN
practical tools hanging upon the walls here, that dicu-
lous scyte hat thick iron hoe that abominable snt-
stine for shovel it seems to hardly possible but
that could the peasants collection Of Ameii-
can TOOLS in which we century ahead Of you, it
would be sufficient. An ordinary days work for an
American mower is twice that which one Of your peas
snts accompishes in the came time, and the man does
not labor so hard either.
Prof W-One Of my strongest wishes is that either
IN our Institution or in Cologne Bonn sor Of mu-
senm Of agricultural implements might be formed but
she importance Of this is felt in quarters whence the
funds for such purpose might be obtained.
THE Professor here entered into the details Of plan
for publicly trying implements and machines,
which lie is desirous of seeing in operation here. 1
Pass it over as being not required in latitude and
longitude
V,s,lor-I conceive another cause for the German
baekwardness in the matter of tools TO be far more
powerful than the mere prejudiees OF the peasants
Prof Wand that isl
Visitor-The inconceyable stupidity Of Prussia,
NNA'NA
tries of tie continent in upholdng the middle of the
nineteenth century, the old superanuated ridiculous
system Of guilds and companies.
Prot. Wand how sol
Visitor-simply thus: No man is allowed to make
Ak hoe, shovel, or anything else hardly who has
not passed his regular apprenticeship, wrought out his
masterpiece for examination, and been admitted
master by Committee Of Examiners. These exam
liners have become masters in tie same manner; and
their examiners hkewfe, and 30 backward TO the mid
die ages. They naturally find nothing good which
differs from their mode Of doing it. And necessary
consequence the plow If Sebastian Munster is tie pow
of the last Textbook Agriculture written for your
students. Throw open all trades to free competition,
and viii become at once the interest Of every manu-
Escurer of iron not only TO make all sorts Of improve
menis bat by of public trials liberal advertising
and thousand other ways which they would devise to
make these improvements known. In that case
might hope some time to see a decent American AK
scythe, shovel, hoe, and broom within tie limits Of
pld Germany.
Tee cow-stall Ike the other buildings is Of brick.
At is not as is COMMON with Us, part Of barn. but
elen, airy light little building parlor for the
deception Of company 1t is arranged for "A head-23
cows and bis Honor, the bull-plaeed in two rOws
tc:ng each other-the TONS being snbdiyided into two
Of six cattle each by the passage. They feed from
barge stone iroughs, elevated about two feet The
brick floor between tie rows Of troughs Is elevated,
becoming the table on which their food may be spread
and swept clean into their stone dishes. The number
oxen, and few heifers.
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