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

W keep WeeuB ana grass down and stil
the soil mako corn grow. Well, wher
you have corn ripe and shelled and sent
to mill. Here you have to call on math.
ematics to make the gearing, on hydraul.
les to tell you tie nature and power OF
water for the wheels, on mechanics to
execute the work, and on mineralogy to
tell you the right kind of rock to make
the mill-stones. This is not ell yet.
Before you can mako the meal into
bread there is the mineralogist to fiud
the ore, the chemist to compound prop
er crucible 70 melt it, the metallurgist 10
smelt it, mathematics to prepare q four
dry, and mechanics to make the oven Il
lake your bread. Now, you will perl
reive that each one of these sciences is a
decree which God has made and partic-
|ularly adapted to a designed end; and
Us they are all intended for our instruc-
gSon and benefit, it would seem that
srery farmer would be benefited just in
Foportion 70 his knowledge of them.
l do not wish to be understood, how
ger, as intending to say that all these
sFences must be understood before man
cfn raise corn or cotton. No, there is q
gftat deal we learn from observation and
experience. This is valuable part of a
fafaer's knowledge. The soil so varies
instur county you cannot find any two
adjoining farms with soil exactly alike,
anq even in every single farm there is
sonei red land, some sandy, and may be
sonst bottom. Here each farmer must
leap by observation and experience
whin kind of land is best suited to q
parEiular crop. Then he must learn by
triaSWhat kind of plow is best suited to
his foil, and each kind of plant, how
oftepand ~hen to plow, and how to suit
his Erk SO as to adapt it to the seasons.
Weearn, too, by woeful experience that
if yE plant corn in the same field for
Longtime, without putting back the food
the Snn has taken out, the product gets
ffca:ITS; aud poorer, and the corn will
pret& much all rot. all these things
and Eany more might be mentioned
which must be learned by observation
and dperience. As mentioned above,
scienllis tell us that our kind Creator
has HsReG in the earth fourteen elements
as fofafor plants, and that every plant
that &fms must take up its proportion
of even one of these elements or the
eeed iAsednces will not g=E.ninate.
mean 9!elements the lime, sulphur, pot
ash, nIapesia, phosphorus, &C., as these
elemeSh are named. Now, our ohser-
yationS5al convince us that if we keel,
lifting dipper aftor dipper of water
from Gull pail, we sill come to the
bottouf77i. time. 30 if we continue to
plant se same field and put nothing
back sthe plant has taken out, that
field in time become not worth
planti1 Different plants feed on diff
ferent fAents-that is, they take differ.
ent pro4saions, some more of one and
less o; hhs- Observation has taught
is that live plant that same field in
some @ o4, grain it will do better, and
thus we i've learned that rotation in
our crol keep our land in better
heart, am say. Here science and our
observatAact together. Still, it won't
do to St. all the time satisfied with
what leS3tng We have got. We must
make prgfsss if we expect to improve
in farniEs: Hold fast to what we have
learned, stady to get more.
We Heard that a man made 200
bushsis ern to the acre, another tyso
bales of Ion, another made 43 bushels
OF wheat sahe acre. These are exam
pies for fslo aim at; aud to succeed We
must stuIRs find out how they did it,
and do isise, not forgetting that the
more int lze We become with the lava
our CreS& has made for our use, the
better will be able TO realize .Le;.
benefit. =
In whS have said my object is first
to try ans dabuse the minds of farmers
OF the nosS9that scientific farming is q
humbug, Anext to encourage belief
generally IS the only true way to make
progress iealing is to study the laws
which lCreator has made to regu-
late and i sye the growth of all plants.
Now, e aow you that what I have
said has tise man to back it, I will
give yoU extract from Won Hum
boidps Co.'s whose authority no one
|, will questiS hat reads his works. He
says: ih0'E@Ates Vhich take noactive
part in th general industrial move
ments, and &the choice and preparation
Of natural ssances, pr in the applica-
tic of me aaics AMI chemistry, and
among whofsAis actidty is not appre-
, ciated by oil sases of society, viii infal-
: libby see the prosperity diminish, just
, in proportioi i adjoining States become
| strengthened lad invig grated under the
! general infusasa of arts ind sciences"
If by Wnnt have w1Ften the preju-
: dice to scientks agriculhre among our
people shall ii my degrS be softened,
and the enersS of our lRislators shall
! in any degree quickenA to increased
r exeEticn to FFoyide aE Institution
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