Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-06-04


producing puny crops, will need longer
| period.
Thus, under the most favorable cond:-
ton, in the present and Immediately APP
preaching days, the seed to make the bulk
of the great corn crop of the Northern
States for this year cannot be got in the
ground before the first month of summer
| which gives it scarcely more than ninety
days to mature. Within seventy-five days
from the 1st of June, we have had frOsts
several times which killed all late-planted
corn. Precisely the same is TO be said
of the potato, and of several other pro-
ducts, though of less Importance but on
which much dependence is placed Ger
tainly these are dark and gloomy hours.
Trade, manufactures, finance, all kinds of
business, the expectations of youth, the
incomes of the aged, and even national
prosperity, depend upon our having sun
shine during this present week-a part of
which, dark with threatening clouds, al
ready has passed away.
Still, may we not rely on the divine
promise, given when the radiant bow of
hope was set in the sky, that seed-time
and harvest always should return? When
favorable days come-as come, we may
say, they certainly will-great will be the
activity in garden and field. Through
long lines of latitude, crossing a farm
landscape more than thousand miles
wide, seed-corn will simultaneously fall
from the tubes of the planter, from mems,
boys, womens, and children's hands, in
quantity sufficient, in the aggregate, to
give bread to such a nation as old Rome
for year and day.
The lesson which this wet spring teaches
o1, 1,,1I h.. H. T.
ages, such year as this was sure to be
followed by famine and with vast popu-
lation impending, neither will we be able
to avoid famine unless we learn from
passing casualties, and avail ourselves of
the experience of the wise. The advan-
tages of deep blowing in connection with
corresponding depth of fertility are
great, but when undertaking is added,
condition of the soil is secured which
enables one to plant and to cultivate
almost regardless of protracted rain.
He who has fields so prepared is enabled
to proceed with the work of the season
nearly as uninterruptedly as though the
days had been admirably divided by
sunshine and shower; and it is not too
much to say that to him, the year will
be longer, by at least a month, than to
another. In too many instances is this
statement proving itself true either to
be denied or hidden. We would urge
upon all cultivators to make arrangements
for undertaking at least one acre, and to
demonstrate to themselves, by the bounte-
Gus yield from such limited piece of
land, how pleasant and how profitable
farming may become, whether the season
be favorable or adverse. When our farm
ers shall have adopted this method of pre-
pairing the soil. and, of course, in connec-
ton, deep culture and bountiful appli-
cation of manure, they will add to the
length of the year. Beside this, by re-
curing less ground, they will increase the
number of acres from which food can be
produced, which will be the same as to
enlarge the surface of the earth. From
such condition a reform will naturally
arise regarding limitation in landed
estate, which will give a denser popula-
ton and happier people.-Neso York 7fi.
6une, Nay 26.