Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-01-01

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in Heaven, and refuse 10 gQ Tiers
untli soms plan could be devised u
diminish IL, as 20 tell me that this
soil is too rich, and requires sxhans-
ton 10 a certain extent IN order 10
make Il more perfectly subserve the
interests Of our people, Take that
young man who possesses the most
powerful physical organisation IN
the Community. Pat him 20 hard
work, aud work him day amer day,
aud night after night without eehs'
ing, and all tho time at precisely the
same kind OF work, GiTe him
neither rest nor anything TO sustain
his sinking energies, and perhaps
before you arc aware, you have 90
completely exhausted his physical
organisation ~ 10 place complete
rceupera,ion' forever beyond his
power.
No sane man woald think of re-
qulring such q thing Of his fellow
man or oven Of his dumb brute; and
yet such is tho mode prneticcd by
nino-tonths OF our people in regard
10 tho soil which they arc pretend
ing TO cultivate. They do hot reflect
on the analogy which exists be-
tween the laws which govern the
different Kingdoms and which in
some respects apply TO tho soil.
As already hinted at, men arc
aeersa 10 Improvement where mn.
ture has done much for them, aud
you will find those countries, a. n
general thing, behind in its onward
march.
Many farmers in this country arc
avcrse IN tho complication Of decayed
animal or vegetable matter to the
soil because they believe that, es-
pecially in the very dry seasons we
sometimes have here, vegetation oi
all kinds would wilt and die from
its effects. This however depends
entirely on the kind of decnycd mat
ter used. / told you it's effects were
various, and it therefore follows that
while the applications ofsomo kinds
would have a tendency to dsy out
the ground, the application ofothors
would have the opposite tendency
and thus would aid tho soil in retain
ing the moisture. Ifyou will there
fore cultivate your farms in strict
accordance with those fixed and
scientific principles, old Sol may
pour his uninterrupted, fiery rays
on your farms from clustering March
till chilly November without the
interposition of a single cloud, and
vet yous uscanamake q good crop. And
on the other hand, though it should
rain twice as much as ever before
in our time you can do the same
thing 'i'f it"'
Ignorance perhaps Of these causes
and effects led tho people of Mis-
souri,, forty years ago, whenovu
there was such an accumulation OF
manure about their barns as TO make
their approach inconvcnient, to re-
move those barns TO another place
or build new ones. They would not
begin to risk the manure on their
lands becauscthey believed it would
ruin them. Experience however
taught thetii that they were indulg
ing in a very grave error, and now
they husband every particle Of il
almost like they would gold dust
Perhaps the same idea leads the peo
pie of this region to have n grand
illumination annually by lighting
a thousand confagrations, burning
their straw; and thus giving to the
country tho appearance of Indian
summer before the beginning o
dog days. Experience is q grea
teacher, but ho is often too slow ane
his changes generally too exorbii
tant. ~'.' ~ d,
Another object Of Associations Q
this character is to improve tli'
country in mechanical point 0
view. srr, Yt,e,a7s
,N7o5xt 70 tie Study Of Agriculture
this should most engage the atten
ton Of our race. This is said to b.
a science (which Investigates tn,
laws and effects offorce and motion.
Notwithstanding this science il
much better understood than th'
foregoing, yet in its present condi
ton it ID susceptible Of great i'm
provement. Those who pursu'
these two avocations seem to b
mutually dependent on each other
The only difference is that Will
the former may possibly exist with
! out the mechanic, the latter coul'
not existwithouf the former. Hence
as soon as men began TO till Ath
ground IL became necessity for theI
to have implements to operate with
] So soon as mankind BECOME 60 nu
mcrous as to make it inconvenicn
to removeafrom place 10 place 70
the purpose. of subsisting on th
spontaneous productions of th
j, earth; and when agriculture wa
confined to the rudcst kind ofhort
culture, even then they had CORES
pondingly made implements to ops
rate with.
The science ofmechanica is, there
fore of as high antiquity as that {
agriculture, and improved mue