New-York tribune., 1868-10-31
TIE HARVESr or TIE YEAR.

Our harvests, notwithstanding most unfayorable
Spring season. are bouutiful than IN any recent
year. We do not mean that the grand aggregate
alone is larger, but that the yield IN detail
wide extent Of country, with of course eXcop-
tions due 10 local nfences, such peculiarly of
soil is a full average. which shows that industrious
aDplication has been united with favorable
logical influences Let one, however. take ~ for
granted that next yCar. aud IN the years following,
an impoverished soil rs at all likely 10 yield as boun-
tifully 1t has done this year even though other
conditions should be favorable. Perhaps the present
abundance IS due as much 10 successive years Oi
comparative baIrenness as 10 any other cause TcI-
haps the crops Were nOuTlshcd 10y fertility acculnu-
lated fOm the atmosphere and another fruitful sea
son may require Ia the future another series OF
deficient years The truth undoubtedly IS that the
generous Summer showers and the extreme heat
have developed fertilizers which IN ordinary
seasons would have laid dormant and that where
cultivation has been without ski dram hls
been made upon the soil which must be marked
by deficiency hereafter Our country Is SO large ana
interests and occupations are so varied that any
statement regarding abundant barycsts viii be met
by many with dissent because IN their particular
ease il has not been realized, while Others wonder
that bread shOuld he so dear ana ai INSCRIPTIONS oi
food be 50 difficult 10 obtain. While the season WAS
favorable for most kinds of small grain, and n pafcu-
lar for cOrn the growth OF potatoes was l3icc1 30
much that on most Of the wet Clays they roted badly
and they are scarce at least as dear IN the
great markets as in any former period. barrel ot
tine potatoes Is worth much ~ barrel OF apples
notwithstanding the cuilure oi the lubeiS as h9ie
general and thorough this year than ever before he
taught tins respect tNat lOI grow llS pp
tato,s on any soil which j. not naturally porous. and
such is limited undertaking Is an absolute ncces-
sitv and when ground shall be 50 prepared Tor TINS
crop that the yield may be certain IN wet aud hot
seasons, II VIII be prepared for the growth oi every
other production and in particular Tor wheat ~ dfY,
backward. and otherwise unfdvoIable ones. FlWt-
growers through large part OF the country lament
unfayOiablc season, ana apples are u"coiNioH
scarce with the great majority OF farmers. Ahd YET
in some sections the crop is bountiG ana ihe pilc9s
are no higher than in recent years oi abundance III
il 10 be noted that although only IN limited scctohs
have orchards borne this year, sill IN comparison
with the whole country, the yield Is so large tat
the aggregate supply ~ nearly "a great as was the
case ten or fifteen years ago, When the crop was
generally good through the whole country. IL
would seem easy 70 grow pears taxing one look at
some heavily loaded pear orchards but th5 lflt IS
i'm comparison with apples exceedingly dear; indeed
| dear without any comparison ana yet perhaps;
not less than million OF dollars nave been invested
i'm the purchase Of pear trees; they nave geuelay
had fine cultivation, but only lew ma the invest
! ment profitable. The time has come when tho truth
il impressing itself with great force on the MINDS oil
fruit growers, that their business requires great
deal OF study not only with regard to treatment and
the needs and pecullarltles OF sol, Du' ,eo neo
of latitude and longitude, and the influences which
| larger smaller bodies OF water have upon tIecS
| and the growth and maturity OF Hult fOr ~ Is 10
| be obseryed that this has been done by limited
| number Of individuals and committee with the most
marked success. and the day has arrived or II is I'M
mediatey approaching, when the Ignorant ana caro-
less cultyatOr will not be able 10 compete with the
| man who Is sklful and educated Tor lie does not
| discriminate, nor does no understand, except lhit
| for some reason unknown. he continually fails In
short we have entered upon an age OF sharp compc
titon in horticulture. and so far from the condition
being less favorable TO the undscpllned man, IL W
with each year. grow still more unfayOrabe' ana III
tbe end all such will by natural causes be crowded
ont and in a manner, annlhilated. go
The same condition of things ~ obtaining WIN re-
gard 10 agriculture although the operation - slower
iunsmuch AS the business Is of much greater maRn
rude Witha soil growing poorer, and IN cohpet-
tiOn with farmers who are continually improving
fIan
eTto and he must arouse himself for renewed enoits
If poss e LET acre Of heavy Land land Dc nnfgi m
drained that he NAV be convinced that 30 cannot DC
more nrofitably invested. Them let every source
from which manure can be made on the larln DC con-
sdcred and lot whatever is secured be placed where
II viii not leach and large portion oft fertility he
lost 1t intended that each farm s5Gnia Dd CONAN nrn
dncfiye for il is impossible that system by which
one farm robs another can be sustained in das sno.
fr ge are entering an age Of IDEAS and when this
hall I've done through the whole country even better
harvests than those of the present VIII DE ganereu