Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-09-07

OF crops, I0F llle eSpeclal WOrk OF sur
ring the soil deep after a rain, with the
teeth constructed about like the fiat
point of pick, and having two wheels,
one forward ana one back, to guage the
depth, would, we think, be very use
full implement. 1t has been claimed
that farmers should prepare and culh-
vate the soil; and leave all above to the
care of God. We think the farmer
should use all the powers God has given
him, not only to produce favorable con-
ditions of soil, but also of atmosphere.
The leaf Gnstead of earth and dark
ness), requires sunshine, while the root
and leaf both alike require air and
moisture, and both III nearly the same
proportion. Irrigation Will remedy an
arid soil, but is slow to remedy an arid
atmosphere.
Niagara falls completely saturates
the air at that place with yapor. In
its southeastern course, the more arid
atmosphere on the right hand and on
the left, absorbs the moisture, thus
widening in the form of partially
opened fan as it proceeds, and being
reinforced by the falls of Johnsops
creek at Medina, and at Rochester by
several cateracts and cascades, so that
the air is made more humid between
Niagara Fall. and Syracuse than in any
other district, of like dimensions, in
the northern States. Tie effect ia
quite marked. In that district, apple
and pear trees are never injured by a
low temperature. Apricots, nectsrines,
peaches, ounces and grapes are per-
fectly at home. while with u. it is only
the very hardest of their kind, OF the
last named fruits, that can be grown at
rare intervals, while apple and
pear trees are, to n great
er or less extent injured nearly
every winter. This state of things has
existed since the country first became
settled, and yet every move that has
ever been made that could affect it has
been done to make it worse. Nothing
can be done to improve the humidity
of the atmosphere on small scale. Re
storing timber to the la Is would do
Niagara, Il Medina, or "A Rochester
falls, or combination embracing all
three of them, with HoneOye falls and
Seneca falls thrown in. II the State
should offer liberal bounty, or exemp-
ton from taxation. for the planting of
valuable timber it might, in more ways
than one, be a good thing, and effect
something in the way of increasing the
timber, and with 1t the humidity of the
atmosphere. But such an undertaking
as would enlist the cooperation of
Daniel D. Tomkins and Dewitt
Clinton, with view TO vastly
increase the productive ability
Of central New York, would be to ex-
tend a system of water works across
the State through the counties of Ii
oga, Tompkins and Cayuga Have
Jets not iaiIher apart than ten rods, if
necessary throw it from coarse, flat
roses; have engines of considerable
power, and run them summer and win
ter, and day and night when there is q
clear sky and west wind. Except,
possibly, the months OF October and
November and one mouth III March
and April. III one engine would force
the water ten miles each way, it would
take ten engines and one hundred miles
of pipe to cross the State. Who doubts
the proprety or profit of irrigating
That has been tried, and il did succeed.
Moistemng the atmosphere or humec-
tating it has been tried in western
New York and it was very great sue
cess.