New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-29

cranbcrries, and small rough patches for producing
seeds arc highly h bnsines o veahe cult1Te
Is not only profitable branch OF agriculture hut II is
he largely Increased Vegetables are luxury. Many
Local markets are but poorly supped-so poorly that
none but the rich purchase good vegetable gar
great Of our people are destroying their lives ana
making life burden while it does last by negectng
vegetable diet and oOufnng themselves TO salt meats
and nprcpared bread. Let al farmers located near
Ter Of profit. Let an jewellers on the soil OF the United
states adopt liberal vegetable diet as better
safeguard against disease than even the dfahage on au
or the ventilation Of our dwellings, special farming for
profit special farming for health, aud scientific rules
The Importance Of definite laws great promise Of
modern agricultural education. cannot bc oVerlooked
something more than mere experiment and tradition,
and something better than that uncertainty which hangs
over every who enters upon the cultivation OF the
earth and is obliged % grope I'm the dark until he can
prepare h, own light We al know how difficult il is to
iN agriculture as science The skies and the seasons
are not 20 De controlled But there should he some def
mite and established rules 10y which every man can he
guided urter any sky aud IN al seasons We are sun an
VOWED Ia endless debate We listen u silent admiration
the results Of scientific investigation. The chemist
Us the stractur Of our animals; the b9ahst 1ulelds 20
as the 0rdcrs oil or panis and we lr oS o
agriculture, ten me II You can single point SO nfmly
settled a. 90 hc universally accepted For instance
long and careful investigation has satisfied many
That the use ~ green cOrnstalks, commonly known
foddercorn and generally fed TO dairy cows during
"a few dry weeks an summer is not only
useless far rs the dairy is concerned, but
animation Of the fodder tself-a crude, ndigestble
nutrition, substance-wOuld show any one, ii would
tie animal, themselves tel their own story, both in
their condition and at the milk pail. And yet ii has
been foud impossible 10 Introduce mllet or Hungarian
grass either almost good June or Fall feed
Wherever the experiment is tried, millet usually tr
umphs but without trying me experiment an alvocalt
OF green corn fodder VIII st find followers, because the
question is dthatable, and no statement armed with
SuIhcient authority has yet been made.
The hest mode Of feeding cattle, young and Old f0l
debated y a. II had not been discussed for nearly
half century: There are those who believe that young
animals snded for the dairy injured by being fed
ON sSuatiug uleaginOus grius-corn and cotton seed
"a Oh cake They think that the actea organs are dis
created at Tie expense t Of the dairy qualities There IS
every reason To believe from careful experiments that
this Is IN accordance with the best laws OF animal physi
oOe and as nearly can be ascertaned large numbers
81 cows are annually ruined 10y such articles Of food.
but DO law yet accepted the matter and the debate
between the cotton seed men and the anticottOn seed
men as warm a. that between the advocates and the
opponents Of Papal Iufalliblity.
We would suppose that the value OF root crops would
have been definitely ascertained 10y this time But we
are grayoy told to-day that swedeS and mangolds con
tain 20 per cent OF water and must therefore be almost
useless One farmer exhibits hi, horses young old
lu the Spring which have been Wntered on Swedes and
English hay strong vigorous, healthy, free from bem
se ready Ion work and fresh 10 enter the toll Of
summer hut still the opponent shakes his head Another
farmer brings out his herd of cows in the spring evidently
IN better health for the daily feed they had
during The Winter but the farmer who has roots and
Whose cattle announce that he had none still adheres
less crop one herd Of thrves and reaches good
while being mied through the Winter a g% bepd
fed on grain and ocake fails early and bears its condi
OcDttt sOte Oh III every cluD III tue
land
The precise value of muck knows to this day.
IIe peaty deposits al muck-nO matter what may be
fer various constituents. "Muck is manure" says
IL is nothing but absorbent" says another good 10
use on sandy lands sand clay lands 1t is bad
economy magnify and dilute your manure heaps with
ST. one teacher tells us: another has made sand-ml
blossom as the rose with IL, and with him il Is uni
Now, there is rule for the Use of
muck Will man tell what it isl WIZ the heated |
debate on muck never cease
On the the location Of orchards on the selection OF ami
mails adapted 70 any given locality; on the construction
OF frame buildings what lands to drain and what not
and how to DRAIN the of fertilizers the cutting
and curing OF hay; the feeding Of animals no man
advance theory whether II be the result OF expert
Juent and observation not, without meeting Jealous
and eager antagonist.
Now az IL t. the settlement Of such questions these
upon principles well established that were Lord Ba
con alive ne would longer know his agricultural
books that education in practical agriculture should be
especially applied. The process may be long one but
here can be no d. ub that Il he completed. Make
an Agricultural College the receptacle into which all
Corded by them, may be proved; make ii the point
.,ather and from which all sound deductions shall be
sent forth result OF careful, scientific investigation,
nd we shall elevate at the character OF our agr
cultural books, and arrive long TO laws as DEFINITE as
.uan can apply 20 the evidences OF agriculture
The address closed with high commentator OF the
fleets OF the agricultural forces Of the country and the
progress may st make by aYailing itself OF the high
est agricultural education