Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-06-20
RUTLAND HERALD
MONDAY, JUNE IT, 1867
Agriculture in the United states.


our English friends ~ TO the successful
cultivation of Asriculture In the United !
States, for the reason, that ours, in their |
estimation is a superficial system, and |
high farming involves high prices, and |
that the system of cultivation which Is |
proftshle in Great Britain, would not be |
remunrrauve in the UI",d States and |
on: soil = constantly beln- impoverished |
on account of the superficial method OF
its cultivation.
In one view of the subject, the theory
of our transatlantic friends may be true
tn q certain ,Xtent. Yet we should take
into consideration the fact that, in the
Agricultural AREA of the country for every
two acres Of the improved land there
are three acres of land connected there
with not unfer cultivation, while the
GROSS aggregate of uncultivated territory
fertile and waste, swells to | 1866, 1863, Sl2.
This fact gives color to the agriculture
of the United States. Land is abundant,
and cheap, while labor is scarce and high,
even In the older settled States there is
much land that can be purchased at ex'
tremey low rates and by the Free
Homestead Law, every citizen OF the
United States, or any foreigner who shall
declare his intention OF becoming citi-
zen, can have q farm of 100 acres without
charge. Aud the lands which are
offered on these easy terms, 10 actual
settlers are as good as any in the world.
Under such circumstances it is evil
dent the system of agriculture which Is
practiced In some older and more densely
populated countries where labor IS
abundant and the anA mostly under
cultivation, cannot a. general rule, be
adopted at present in this country. 1t
has been said that American agriculture
Is half a century behind that Of Great
Britain. In one sense, perhaps this Is
true Our land is not as thoroughly
under drained, MANFRED and cultivated
as that Of England, Scotland or Bel
GUM but we can produce bushel OF
wheat at much less cost than the most
scientific farmer of England by the best
approved method of cultivation, even II
he paid uUthiug for the use Of his land.
We do not contend lor q superficial sys-
tenn of agriculture, but we ask that those
who censure our farmers for not cult
waiting and enrichDg their lands more
thoroughly, should take into considera-
ton the circumstances which have sur
nj far n
high prices and the system Of cultiva-
ton and manuring which is profitable
in Great Britain, would not in our pres
ent condition prove remunerative here.
American agriculture is in transi-
ton state, In the older sections OF the
country there is much land that has
been exhausted of its original fertility.
10 those sections the Uln system OF farm
ing, which was simply to raise all the
grain that the land would produce, is no
longer profitable. But yet some farmers
with that aversion To change for which
they are every where prOverOlal, are slow
to adopt all luletil&rnt system OF rota
ton and cling to their old ways. One
of England's abest agricultural writers,
In new work recently issued, remarks,
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