Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-09

dry time the oats were growing down al n
ter water, hence they got a long deep =
root aud when the rains came, they had D
n root sufficient to mature bountiful Il
crop. Well, l thought / had become b
scientific, so next spring, plowed in my !
oats to get their roots down deep, and it
was rainy season, they had no root, III
pened early, and il was a failure, so my I
accepted science failed. Now the world
is full of advertised medicines, pills, nos
trums, plasters for the human body, Of
ten proclaimed as possessing great heal
ing properties, now is it too much to
say that no medicine will heal Nature
never allows one neighbor to over-reach
into another neighbours province. To
heal implies motion, to heal also implies
life-giving current, circulating medi-
cine. To illustrate, you may set scion
this winter, you may do it with skill, APP
plying the wax most perfectly, but there
is no healing process going on because
no circulation, no motion dormant, you
have put it in condition. So it is with
medicine, for instance plaster, 1t is a con-
dition to facilitate healing. Scientific
farming then would be a condition to ia
cilitate nature.
MYRoN WARD-Scientif farming Is
not a failure. believe toscientihc farm
! ing belong all the improved farm nipple
ments, the mower and the tedder are but
the fruit of scientific investigation and
by their use the results OF science are
E facilitated. So with foreign fertilizers
! know by experience that phosphate APP
}. piled to certain soils is invaluable, ano
t. the solving of this problem to know
J. where, when and how to use it TO secure
+ and increase the crop, is scientific inves-
v tigation, and when put in practice Is sci
If enti6c farming. / am aware that men
,f from the city have entered the country
r. and took up farming upon system that
t, would not pay, and have made failure
,e of it, but it could not have been scienut-
II ic. if so they erred in the kind of pro-
lr duction for their location and markell
"a Now the high price of labor calls forth
v. mind into scientific research, in the pro
re duction of tools. Look at Holbrook
v who has labored for years in producing
he pillow particularly the forming of the
to mould board upon scientific principles
.rs This is one of the auxilliares to scientit
sr. ic farming, agricultural books and pa
". pers are another, all aiming to help thu
of weak and enlighten the ignorant. Suci
We the results of scientific farming judicious
he Iy managed never fails.
is Mr.. CLAY-The science of agricul
to ture is in its infancy, what has it done
re. Fifty years ago our fathers told US Ties
ap- lands would not support US, and right a
,ur this critical moment science came along
it, analized the soil, made proper apPlica
by ton of fertilizers, and efforts were crowr
nd ed with increased results. Science make
ing no mistakes, for it is knowledge method
ley icalIy digested and arranged. The tim
the is coming when we shall better unde
ere stand our business. We ought to Ell
Sir, courage scientific farming. Curtail OF
off acres, and work from the standpoint
his science that we may increase our pop
re- Iation by its results.
han J. B. MoRsE-To be a scientific tarr
her er a man must have knowledge of me
re- and things, must be educated scientifca
the ". To be a lawyer he should have
1ole perfect knowledge of jurisprudence. v
the all aspire TO be equal or surpass o
this neighbor, now, to be scientific in agricl
ture ture, we should understand botany, {
rms ograpby, chemistry, &c. then we can U
and hesitatingIy proceed with our bnsine
hree with warranted success and an opp
suits tunity is given young men at the prese
Glen time to completely educate themsel'
ma for the position of scientific farmer,
is a four years term at our Agricultu
,ing. Colleges, where they not only learn
and science OF agriculture practicaliy'
suc. they learn to love the farm, saving ma
and a young man from debauchery and ri
: az found in CITY life. SEC
ton,
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