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

large audience of ladies and gentlemen
Question: Scientific Farming.
Young Mr., BLANCHARD of Putney,
opened the discussion by relating an an
eedote to show the different results and
conclusions farmers come to in attempt
ing the same precise routine in agrlcul-
tural science. That "a doctor was call
ed upon to visit sick man who was a
shoemaker ordering muriate OF lime
4 Common SALT and he recovered. 30 the
doctor writes in his diary, gave the shoe
maker salt and cured him., afterwards
was called upon to visit a blacksmith
and gave him the same and he died, so
he added to the sentence, killed the
blacksmith Now farming conducted
upon scientific principles will be success
full. Science means knowledge, the re-
suit of which is improvement When
we look upon many Of our hill farms, or
once cultivated fields evinced by the nu-
merous old cellar holes, we say those
lands have run down, not from system
of scientific farming but the want of it.
If your lands are wet ana cold, science
{ tells you to drain it, science tells you
how to analyze your soil, how to apply
, manures, and as we are advanced in this
knowledge (becoming practical at the
o same timel so we become scientific and
: successful.
e GEO. SABIN.-Scientifc farming sell
], dom, if ever meets with defeat. Science
5 is knowledge, and when applied to agri-
d culture means that it tells US what to do,
+ and art comes in and tells how to do it
e What is sought in agriculture is to OBJ
d tain the most vegetable and animal mat
O ter from the soil, hence he must study
re his soil, the values Of manures and thei
q application, mode of tilling, facility o
a. implements, adoption of crops, consider
or ing the climate and location TO market
,e all of which enters into what may b
70 understood By scientific farming. b
" knowledge of chemistry We analyze GU
Id soils, our crops, manures, hence enable
be to make all applications scientifically
re To be a scientific farmer in full sense W
h. should also understand botany, zoology
of etymology. acknowledge is power" tn
as the utility of science vas first applied
70. England's barren soil but few yea
,st since by few individuals, then ate
m wards her government assisted in analy
EN- ing her SOIL aud by the application
Oh science her once worn out lands hay
.ift been reclaimed and rendered one Of IL
most fertile spots on the globe. 1t
= only about 40 years since we began
make any improvement in agricultur
Some say scientific farming does not a
5he ply to US, there is not wealth enough, Of
.ge condition is such we don't practice
er- That condition might be ameliorated
knowledge Of theories from books al
lio, papers, increase of capital by curtaiiil
d our area of real estate, using the mon
oat for the sale Of one-half to improve t
,ng residenceupon scientific principles, the
res by producing more than the whole. :
| once read of man who married
Loot his daughter giving her one-half of
90 real estate and he soon found that the
,osi- naming he made to produce more tn
~ the whole in time he married anotl
nan daughter giving her one half Of the
mainder, and he soon found that
The quarter produced more than the VIII
bar when he owned it. And l recollect
, "a report of the committee sent out by
"a Of club to take statistics upon agricnlt
] he IN TINS farish' shoWed InaI seVeiai Ia
which had been divided into three {
four had increased in productiveness IL
-. to FIVE hundred per cent. these res
~ border upon what might be called SC
- tifc farming, which individuals and
!, "n ;. tions ought to be encouraged in.
hose Mr.. CLAY, JR.-Scientifc farm
m What is science? knowledge;
and when applied to agriculture, means
cessful practical results 10 the tiIling
outstanding of the soil. True almost
cry 100 acres, shows a depopulat
I.c much of our lands are not what
ming W. 80: ~ - - = i
e was 10y ~
be these homesteads have been desc
49, for spots more fertile by nature where
entifc farming will reap greater res
Now we can reap benefits from agr
tural books and papers by their the
40 "a and with judgment put into pra
ny would result in scientific farming. A
nom it is true some with capitsl who ha
he,' experience from the city perhaps, ST
: nfs' inthe enterprise governed by book XII
i'e''iu edge with Httleor no judgment have
Sc al ed. Butt think their failure coul
Will be laid to scientific farming.
Mr.. PALMER of Putney-What
part entifc farming? say man shout
chlnch alize his soil, and when the compo
helds is ascertained and he understand
from analysis of the crop to be raised, b
,e has plication can be scientific, hence