The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-24
"Now, Mr.. Hopkins" said William Jones

"Now, Mr.. Hopkins" said William Jones
who was constant reader of all the period
ical literature of farming, show IS 1t that
the English farmer can afford to ransack
every remote island and dig into every mine
for fertiizing material, like guano and
potash, If they are 80 thin and fleeting? An
English farmer generally knows what he
Is about"
$50 he does, replied Mr. Hopkins "but
he does not import these materials for ap-
plication unaded to his land He uses
them to combine with more bulky and less
active materials, In order TO bring his plants
forward with the morelrapidity. Seldom
| does he use guano or potash salts alone.
| He resorts to straw, woody stems, leaves,
weeds, bean stalks, all vegetable refuse
which is prepared by fermentation in one
way or another for application to the land
| he uses oil-cake, the residue of the starch
| factory and the glue factory, scraps, and
| the refuse of skin, hair. horn and tendons;
| the refuse of the tallow-melter, shell mud
| from the sea-shore, and all animal excre-
mcnts, and these he combines with each
other or makes them basis for some of
the imported fertilizers to which have
alluded Fertilization IN England is al
most as economically carried on as it is in
Japan, and almost as thoroughly. And
the English farmer exercises all his ingcn-
uity to avoid the loss of any refuse ma
terial which being returned to the soil may
| bring forth Il reward many fold in form
of profitable crop"
"And so an English merchant undertook
to carry on farm by steam, and filled the
soil with iron pipes, to convey liquid man
ure, and pumped the precious liquor over
his acres with steam engine, and built
great tanks to receive every form of tie
caying matter which could be dissolved and
distributed. Did all this pay, too :" said
the schoo-master, who had evidently been
reading Mr.. Mechi's book in addition to
the regular college course, and had learned
more OF the fam at Tip,ree than he had
of his fathers in New Hampshire.
a doubt about that" replied Mr.. Hop
kins, who had always had the fear of MIR.
Mechi before his eyes. ''lf such work car
! be carried on probably in England, it is
because labor is so cheap there that, as com
pared with America, it hardly enters int
the account. Such an overweight artiH
cial process may succeed for a time, but il
must come to an end Not one man in Q
thousand could conduct it even for one
day. And when Mr.. Mechi pauses. think
no more can take pand carry on his work
| don't believe it pays him and ii it does
it certainly will pay nobody else.
WISE REMARK AND ADJOURNMENT
BY this time Mr.. Hopkins and thu
schoolmaster had got little beyond thei
own depth, for they began TO talk abou
Liebig and Boussingault, aud the school
E master, fresh from the laboratory at Dart
l mouth was floundering about in carboni
acid and chlorine, and oxide of iron ant
oxide of manganese, and alumnia, until tn
two learned gentlemen had got very far be
. You'd the depth of the club, and had 81
d fenced everybody but themselves.
\ Captain Glass, who was again avisitor il
d the town, and had been invited to be pres
h ent, now broke in and brought matter
$ back to their comprehensive level. Eyes,
d said he, knowledge is good thing it /
3 a great thing; it's like baked halibut-th
4 more you eat the more you want" No
, body could deny this, and SO the club I'D
journcd.