New-York tribune., 1872-09-13

taken. Very little OF III Would reacn tnat des-
tinaton, as the thirsty earth would drink it up by
She wav / estimate that of the total area of this
State 10000 acres Immediately, 100000 ultimately
mi ght thus be irrigated at an average cost OF 81
per acre and with an average increase OF their an
nual product by at least 80 per acre, or an interest
on the investment of % per cent There are doubt
less gold mines in Utah or Colorado, as there posi-
bly, may be diamond mines IN Arizona, that wOnld
nav better interest than this, but should prefer
not TO designate them. In fact, | do not know
another enterprise which seems to me so certain TO
yield large profit as that OIL OF irTvgat,ng v 'he NIL
Almost any one who has on his farm even the
tinest streainlet with considerable fall in It. may
experiment in irrigation on a snaii scale as nave
ceedinp further. You do not need an engineer; II
you had one, he could not make the water run up
hill whereas it will run down-hll az your solicita-
ton as readily as though you were the best engineer
on earth If YOU try to make 1t run uphill 1t VIII
prove obstinate; respect Nature ana her laws anu
you will find her trusty servant ana 1rlend. your
own observation will soon tell you where you can
most easily dam Your stream rs to save consider
able body of water in Spring and In rainy weather,
in order TO have it ready for apphcauon when
needed and how you can lead 1t OIL 80 as TO rrigate
the largest area at moderate cost Begin by lril-
gazing two three acres, and you VIII soon DE sat
ised that you can afford to do more ana stlll more,
until all your land which lies lower nan the ngnesJ
point at which you can fill reservoir shau be oo-
casonally refreshed by the yiyiiying appliance
Irrigation necessarily fertilizes IL saves TO fac
land much of the nourishing juices tnat would natur-
olly pass off especalv in times of thaw food, to
be sGuandeIed upon rivers, BAYS, and The ocean. L
doubt that any amply irrigated held ls less ierte
less productive, to-day than 1t was OH the morning
of creation.
Ultimately. we shall supplement the flow of our
streams by digging wells on the highest point IN
large swale or plain and placing seu;aetng wind
mill over each shall set il To pumping up water by
night aud by day when wind serves lhlo SHALLOW
reservoir by its side whence, after beug thoroughly
warmed by the sun, 1t Will be graduaiS ufaWn away
TO irrigate the field or fields lying below Were this
done wherever IL could be TO pr0t Ile annual pro-
duct of ten thousand farms in tins State might be
doubled at a cost far below the price at WHICH thef
/ was looking through Virginia some years ago, in
n time of general drouth and saw held OF perhaps
ten acres of Corn parching ana whitening III lh6
July sun. brook large enough 70 run a small
prist-mill came brawling and foaming down from
the adjacent hills passed through the center OF that
corn-feld al a depression of few feet below Its
average surface aud fell into the river at ls lower
side. / am entirely confident that SSVO lndlclousX
snent would have suiced TO lrrlgate at iedst nan
of that cOrn-feld, doubling its annua product,
whether of Grain or Grass, hehcelorWaiu uIii Ilne
shall be no more. Yet the owner went ON poWlng
four five inches deep from year 10 year, growing
half crop when rains were abundant and season.
able, with next TO no crop at an %leit 70 summers
ment of Heayen-pOssibly TO be aVerted py i3Stlhg
and prayer-when a six weeks dr0uth dehled MN
any Corn Whatever may be Thought OF slfh the9l-
Ocy, that husbandry was simply abomna9le. The
PRAYER of faith which would have saved that corn
crop must have been uttered with axes spades, ana
shOvels.
IT. Eorests-The green which gave this State her
beautiful name was that Of her primitive forests
regret that they palpably grow smaller ana lighter
Not that trees were not made to he CUT doWn ana
forests TO give place to cultivated helds know
tbev were, and rejoice III the dspehsatlOn. But
between the clearing away of forests to give place
TO fruitful fields and happy homes on the one hand,
and destroying all forests that fields can no longer
he fruitful nor homes happy there Is VIDE space;
and the necessity which impeed our pioneer ances-
TORS to destroy trees as a lite-work mas rendered
their descendants indiscriminate ard reckless In
forest determination. Our fathers found trees
in their way, and cut them out OF 1t by whole
sale: we 90 on doing as they did when their reason
for il no longer u.s. Judge that Vermont has
this dav not only far less timber but smaller area
devoted TO growing it, than she should have that
her fields are becoming more arid, her streams
scantor and more capricous, because OF the dearth
of trees Many a dairy farmer has SAID, Away
with the woodsl can buy my fuel with the grass
I can cut on the ground they now coyer'-which IS
n grave mistake. Every farmer should have from 10
to 25 per cent of his acres covered with forest ana
will average more grass, year by year. than II the
owner had stripped his land bare of trees. Keep
the crests of his ridges the sides of his ravnes well
covered with timber and he Will cut more grass
from 30 acres thus shielded from the drying up of its
springs and slopes than if he had his whole 100 acres
denuded of trees and devoted to grass This Is one
of the few in which part Is greater than the
whole.
reeerye their woods: they should study 10 improve
them. They ought long since to have begun TO re-
place the glorious pine forests which they so mady
annihilated they ought TO realize that 100 acres OF
Beach Red Oak, HemlOck, White Birch, &C., &c,
are worth far less than those same acres covered
with White Ash, Black Walnut Hickory, Chestnut
,ocust and White Pine, would be. And the cost OF
transforming comparatively worthless into a rela-
tiyev choice and precols forest Is far less, save IN
time, than is generallysupposed Keep planting the
better species as you cut ont the worse, ana your
forest viii gradually become worth $500 per acre
where it is now worth but $50. No man who has
been educated up to a perception that appe-rees
ought to be grated should have lived TO tins day
of the ruth that forests, at least in
well settled communities, should be made to grow
mainly choice timber instead Of the inferior or IN
hold that systemdic Tree-Plantng is already in
order in VermOnt-hat thousands of her farms
should have of their crests and sleeper hull
sides planted with Hickory, Locust; White Oak,
White Pine, &c, Sc, Immediately. GIVE your
seeds or young trees fair start, fence out your
cattle and they will Iced little care or labor And
you will not have to Vat thirty or forty years for
some return for your investment as IS commonly
supposed. Within slxyears, you may begin to cut
ont hOop-poles, and, by cutting these at the
right time you may lave at least two new ones
start from almost ever stump, and grow lar more
rapidly and yigOrOuslythan from the seed. Belleye
me- there are few so SAFE and productive methods OF
investing money for Jour children as by buying
forests of young timbersO situated as TO be exempt
from danger by fire. and by planting and caring for
trees.
II is my conviction tfnt far more labor than has
ever yet been bestowed on the soil OF TINS state
might he thus applied with proft-that the reclama-
tion of wet lands by unlerdraining the subsoiling
of fields where clay or lam would thus be mingled
with sand or gravel, the application OF tertlllzefs
especially of Gypsum, to hills, and to heavy
claws of freshly burned, unslaked Lime especi-
ally of that portion unally rejected by, builders
would be generously rquited by more bounteous
harvests. | hold that Vermont may wisely proier
TO many of her industrious sons inducements to stay
at home which should outweigh their indictments to
seek homes elsewhere. But these propositions L
barely suggest leaving their consideration to the IN
tellgent and forehandd yeomanry of this State
Should they respectively decide that they can
afford to drain bogs, ad plant pees, and subsoll,
own little farm, she willhave at least Half Million
people at the taking of the next Federal census IN
1850. For though she may never grow gram SO lux
IN the Great Wes she has still advantages