The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-01

to mill. Here you nave to call on math
ematics to make the gearing, on hydraul
les to tell you the nature and power o
water for the wheels, on mechanics t.
execute the work, and on mineralogy t.
tell you the right kind of rock to make
;he mill-stones. This is not all yet
Before you can make the meal into
bread there is the mineralogist to find
he ore, the chemist 10 compound prop.
,r crucible to melt it. the metallurgist To
melt it, mathematics to prepare foun-
Try, and mechanics 10 make the oven to
'ake your bread. Now, you will per.
eive that each one of these sciences is q
lecree which God has made and partic.
Ilarly adapted to a designed end ; and
5 they are all intended for our instruc-
Jon and benefit, i. would seem that
7ery farmer would be benefited Just in
'oportion to his knowledge of them.
1 do not wish to he understood, how
cr, as intending to say that all these
sences must be understood before man
raise corn or cotton. No, there is a
gat deal we learn from observation and
e.erience. This is a valuable part of a
faey's knowledge. The soil so varies
ilnr county you cannot find any two
a9ning farms with soil exactly alike,
an even in every single farm there is
sor red land, some sandy, and may be
son bottom. Here each farmer must
leai by observation and experience
viii kind of land is best suited to a
parular crop. Thea he must learn by
tri3hat kind of ploS is best suited to
his'il, and each kind of plant, how
oftend when to ploH, and how to suit
his rk so as to adapsit to the seasons.
Wearu, too, by woetul experience that
if y'plant corn in tile same field for
longne, without putting back the food
the Q, has taken out, the product gets
poor and poorer, aud the corn will
prettmuch all rot. All these things
and my more might be mentioned
whicinust be learned by observation
and eerience. As l mentioned above,
sciens tell US that oGr kind Creator
has ped in the earth fourteen elements
as foofor plants, and that every plant
that gys must take up its proportion
OF eve ono of these elements or the
seed itoduces will not germinate. l
mean elements the lime, sulphur, pot
ash, mlesia, phosphorus, &C., as these
elemen are named. Now, our obser-
vation | convince us that if we keep
lifting dipper after diprer of water
from all pail, we vii! come to the
bottomI time. So if we continue TO
plant ihe same field and put nothing
back ththe plant has taken out, that
field " in time become not worth
planting Different plants feed on diff
ferent eleuts-that is, they take differ
ent proEions, some more of one and
less of aher. Observation has taught
us that we plant that same field in
some od grain it will do better, and
thus we We learned that rotation in
our cropsill keep our land in better
heart, as say. Here science and our
obseryatisct together Still, it won't
DO to sta all the time satisfied with
what leahg we have got. We must
make pross if we expect to improve
in farmini Hold fast b what we have
learned, study to Sci more.
We haNcard that "a man NJ adc 200
bushels ofrn to the acre, another two
bales of cN;, another made 43 bushels
of wheat 6e acre. These are exam
plies for ahaim at; md to suct iced we
must stud,fnd out how they did it,
and do llkse, not forgetting that the
more lntlrs we become with the laws
our Creathas made for our use, the
better wNill be able to realize their
benefit. .c
In wha'avc said my object is first
to try an'oP Pusc the minds of farmers
OF the no bat scientific farming is a
humbug, r }xt to encourage belief
generallytnp be only true way to make
progress II ing is to study the laws
which K 5ator has made to rcgu-
late ana En ESbe growth of all plants.
Now IT, you that what l have
SAID las Iman to back it, I will |
give yon 4 tract from Won Hum
boldfs Cos whose authority no one
will questic reads his works. He |
says: "Thot.tes which take noac,ive |
part III tseneral industrial MOVIE
ments' and h, choice and preparation |
OF natural ia ahces, or in the apple h.
tion of meidi and chemistry, alRd |
among whois| activity is not apu,Ie.
ciated by "@s' Of society, will ipfal0- |
llbly see thfrdspcrity diminish, jus y |
in prop"rtlo a ljoinilg States bccomes
strengtheneSds invigGated under theA
general inalh tlf arts md sciences"
If by whah;sve written the preiu. \
dice to sclen q Agriculture among our
people shall iy degrs be softened,
and the cnerafe our legislators shall
in any degreeqkic to increased
eXertlon to oy&de al institution
where scicntlt:riNculturt be taught
to all, then 'hA se gai.d as much,
and even moreanS ] ha, hoped for.
r. F. S.
TOMATO CAb,I AS no is the time