New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-06
Of our needless and exhaus,ing cultivation Whicn
calls loudly for reform. e.,

Am !
ready 10 produce it sim and he is poor farmer
Who having produced q good crop Of TINS slalto
oue year. cannot produce better crop 81 10,
next year If the last crop has exhausted NE Ien.
Of some element or property required 20 Ie'vv,
Wheat. Science should tell 10 how most Ieadil! a.
cheaply 10 replace that element ana 'his -
we mean by Scientific Farming. -
Farmers like other mcn-Inore than ihosV o'hei
men-need a knowledge of Nature ana her unIhahe-
ing laws. 1t is the glory OF our age lna. suon mn
as Iiebg devote their talents ana acqulreiAeh's ~
teaching them. a.. homo g O,
Itsbon named Mech, who made and sold cheap
ro1or- sirens. Having grown rich IN tins calling,
NJ Nechi removed 20 the country ana DOueht OF
hired large farm. where he resolved to give ialT
trial 70 the most advanced theories OF chemists and
biologists who essayed to shed light onAgrculture
lie has done so for some twenty years, and Win
SIGNAL success. His crops are the largest III al
England, and his profits correspond with them.
As a sample Of his methodist! his abundant
fertilizers, whether purchased or made on the iaIin
are converted into liquids and dlfused over MS
fields by means of pumps and pipes. In thlS way,
they are not only far more effective, but thcy are
applied lust when the growing plants need eitner
sistenance or moisture and yet, am assured tLe
composing and distribution OF hls terihlIeis eos's
NJ Meehi but penny per load. Ana this Is o,lc
result like many others, of his hdehty TO lhe
conviction that The best way of doing anything
is. in the long run. the most profitable
Whoever has journcyed through Upper ltaly-
the valley of the Po-must have had his attention
arrested by the general prevalence OF lrrigauoh'
Most of the land YOU see is irrigated; and nearly
ali of This PRODUCES immensely. Probably, the
water Systematically applied TO the surface more
than doubles the natural crop. VINO ever saw cN-
tensive and systematic irrigation on the A'laH'le
slope of this continent Yet we have millions %
acres far more easily irrigated man Lohpa.uii "nu
whose irrigation cOud be quite as pront"o! It.
sor,od fo When will IL be
A word as 10 our Mineral resources. W c are now
producing somewhat less than 500 ,OOo OF Go9
and Silver per annum from our mines WIN
is more than the annual product OF the "holc
world forty years ago-probaby more man was
produced in the palmiest days of south Amer
lean and Mexican gold-mininc. Yet, large as
the amount is, il rs not beginning
That il will be trehled within the next ten years
provided our great Pacific Railroad shall meantime
be completed, few will doubt who have any ac-
ouaiutance with the facts trust the attention Of
the Institute will be given TO this vast ana growing
interest-that we shall be able in some way 10 ara
it's development-and that in time the most com
plete and instructive cabinet of American Minerals
In existence will be that of the American Institute.
would have specimens of the Precious Metals
from every locality; but not Of these only. There
sbould be some place where the chemist, the pros
pcctor the mine-owner, the metallurgst, cohid
compare critically the iron ore OF Lake Chalnplaln
with that of Western Connecticut and that OF
l.Hh
agree and wherein they differ. In the first great
Worlds Exposition of Products et London, Fol,
was not asked for specimens If California Goid;
but the most eminent authority IN Br1tSh theology
asked me for samples Of our Lake superior iron
then newly discoyered-and was able, on my re-
turn 10 obtain and send them.
This Institute should possess and preserve COM
plete collection of Agricultural lmpcmenis-past
as well as present-showing the progress maze
from age 20 age and from year 10 year. ltwoud be
~. asfH hos pf
the two last centuries with those of our fathers and
with our own; the mere comparison might suggest
some Of the Improvements of the future.
This Institute, in addition 10 its annual Fairs,
should maintain perpetual far-that rs con-
tinuous exhibition of implements, Machines, H.
ventions, &c. Such an exhibition would afford q
place of evening resort for our mechanics and ap-
prentices which could not fail TO prove instructive
and profitable. .
Need | add that the American Institute should
have an edihce and home Of its own-one worthy
of its character ard hisoryl should feel ashamed
if some 10 whom ] have spoken elsewhere OF
this Institute should come here and find II III a
hired corner Of building devoted TO many and va.
nous uses. Their impression OF our standing ana
influence in New-York would do US great injustice.
/ This Institute needs editce of its own, large
enough to contain all that Il ought 10 exhibit and
leave room for the transaction of It's business and
such a structure we shall vet have if We place the
necessity for il fairly before the rich and public
spirited citizens Of NewYoIk. And this trust We
are about TO do.
| do not ask nor care what property the Institute
now has though know II has some; for am
confident that more will come when We show that
II is needed and will be useiully employed. Even
though We should be obliged 10 resort 70 the JOINT
stock policy, and give every one stock for his sub
scription, still say the ediice must and VIII Dc
had.
But let us have building that will fifty embody
and show forth the American Institute. And, 10
! begin with let us invite competition for design
plan, as 10 secure one before the close of ths
year Then let tins BE- submitted 10 our Ciiy's rch
and noble men. saving, " This is what need and
must have: and if One Million Dollars should be
required, i am confident that even so much could
be found; but, If not let US build wing If the edl-
fee need and then say To men of wealth, " The
completion Of our Institute waits On your gener-
! Osity.'
Our country eminently needs the general diffusion
ofuseful practical knOwleds e-suoh knowledge as II
1 is our aim to dispense. " hen we CONSIDER what
such knowledge has already achievcd-hOw locali-
ties like that wherein Salt Lake City now stands,
which, few years since, would not grow peek Of
grain TO the acre, do now, by the aid Of lrriga-
ton, produces in abundance every grain and fruit
/ Of the temperate zOne-whcn we reflect that there
are hundreds Of such places still lying waste and
useless and that all our National Industry IS
equally nfantile or chaotic, we must feel that the
! dissemination Of Useful knowledge IL among the
nObest achievements Of Man.
Within one hundred miles of this City, there lie
hundreds OF thousands OF OF Deep rich soil
have contributed very little yet to the comfort
and sustenance Of Man. Seaside marshes inland
swamps and boys, the sandy plains of New-Jersey
and Long lsland-all or most of these may be
proftably wrested from chaos and made subservient
TO Mans subsistence and enjoyment BY scientific
and systematic effort. They now breed but pesti-
lence and noisome insects; they will yet afford en-
ployment and sustenance to many thousands Of
men.