New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-04
NENT lSEISON.

The potato crop is mostly in cellars; millions
of bushels OF corn have, since the month came
in, been husked and cribbed. Apples that were
not picked before the cold snap of October 20
and a are good only for CIDER the pastures
are giving scant bites, and the sound of the
ax now and then echoes from the leailess
wood Forethought and forecast, more than
mere industry, distinguish the thrifty farmer;
and while the turkey for Thanksgiving Dinner
is eating his last quart of corn, we will con-
slider the agricultural prospect for 1870.
First of all, let every farmer study the rela-
ton of his farm to great centcrs of consump-
ton and great lines of communication. What
is wisdom for the farmer on the Western Re-
serve may be folly for his brother on hill in
Connecticut. The Western man may see his
way to nothing more clearly than an increase
of his cows, wider pastures, and more capa-
ciOus milk-cans. I'm n general way, we believe
the advice is safe to every man whose surface
is natural to grass to increase his stock, and
decrease the number of plowed acres.
All the dairy regions are CHEEKY, and hun
dreds of men who rented COW farms on shares
are handling larger sums this Fall than ever
lined their pocket books while they held plow.
Grain farming and stock raising are year by
year moving-as the Star of Empire takes its
way-westward. And this progress is one from
which there will be no relapse. SO long as
steam engines can with few dollars worth of
coal drag a long train Of freght-cars from the
head waters of the Mississippi to the SUBMITS
of the Alleghanies, so long cur chief articles Of
food will come from the Prairie States-so long
we shall carve sirlOins that were fattened on
the Yellowstone, and grind wheat that grew in
the Valley of San Joaquin, or by the Red River
of the North.
The brightest faces in the country are found
in cotton fields. The crop may fall little
short of three million bales, but it will sell
for as much as six millions would have real
lied before the war. OF course there will be
large crop planted in the Spring, as large
probably as was ever put into the American
soil Grain will be neglected for cotton, and
all the fertilizers that stimulate this plant will
be actively demanded.
Meanwhile what can be said OF wOol-gTOwing
and of the fruit business, of participating and
the future of sorgO, and ramie, and the steam
plowl No visitor of the great Fair OF the
American Institute, that has just finished a
brilliant career of two months, failed to be
convinced that our wooden industry is taking on
vigorous second growth. For reasons that
need not be fully developed here, the fine
woods are less demanded than they were; but
for all grades of combng wool there is an ac-
tive and a growing call We say to the East
ern farmer TO dot'his hills with big Southdowns
and Cotswolds-animas that will give him
long, bright, clear fleece and when they come to
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favored chops and sadde-pieces. AS to fruit,
we say to every owner of an acre of soil, Be-
come an orchardist, plant, prune, kill worms,
graft set out vines. There is no danger of
Cutting the market. Apples are by no means
abundant. Pears have this year yielded
handsome income, and peach growers have no
reason for complaint. Besides, the taste for all
fruits grows yearly. Hundreds eat grapes by
the pound, who, few years ago, did not know
whether they should swallow the skin OF the