| Show J ap interesting mig wag b facts for r th the e farmer r i C 11 41 I 1 p V wf ta take 1 lc from abong a correspondent the e new W en england 11 land fa farmer the tile fallon following 0 extract which we are sure will be per perused d with interest by our agricultural readers every practical observing tiller filler of the soil sol well understands that no guano super phate or other nitrogenous or highly el concentrated manura manures can cian restore 0 to o the soil the lost carbon which ja nas pas s supplied a succession siw of crops with the essential materials nate rials which enter into info the 14 elements lc menti of gram fruit and grass the true principle of agricultural science introduces another system natural I 1 plain and altogether dissimilar the forests forest must give lip up her store of carbon and she manufactures a large surplus annually so nicely elaborated by natures laws ag as to fix its ammonia and yet fitted for a powerful absorbent of liquid manures with power to resist decomposition until brought in contact with the ro roots of plants the swamps must yield up their store of vegetable wealth the rich inorganic materials of surrounding hills and forests to reunite with the mineral salts abo firmly fixed in the soil to be washed away by the annual rains the organic laws of the universe established by the creator for the government of all the changes and formal conditions of properties of matter whether in a crude mineral organised organized sed or detached condition are as uniform and unerring eT as the physical laws that 0 govern govern the thi rising and settin setting of the s sun bun u n As the demand for carbon carbo n to form fat muscle cellular tissue bone brain hair and other portions of the human body and at the same time keep up dpn an animal heat of 98 night and day is very great we readily see why starch is so abundant in all plants used as food for man or bea beast 8 t starch contains a large amount of carbon and the forests and swamps of fhe he old states are hoedl holding in the great bulk of carbon in store today to day ise ile we must increase the productiveness of rural labor by introducing into the present mode of farming more system in the science of vegetable physiology 01 I 1 wy every ry one knows kno vvs that new land land never subjected to vill produce in abundance all uhe the crop which that country or district is susoe susceptible tible tibie of producing t Henc hence edve eAve ve are advised et that the forests and swamps of any hilly country hold its vegetable wealth science now comes to our aid ald and teaches u us 3 how to change a cold subsoil into a aarm warm pliable productive surface soil practical experience has taught us that a good soil which produces pounds of ripe wheat plants loses but 15 pounds of I 1 its weight ge t and substance by the operation 85 pour pounds ids coming from the atmosphere 1 science reveals to us why it Is that in combustion respiration and decomposition arn art immense amount of organised organized sed matter is adissi i abed through theair oin infused fused into the plants tj by atmospheric pre pressure ssuie or gathered up by the e falling dew rains and snows returned to the earth and the roots toots bf plants and thence by capillary attraction drawn into the kernel and elaborated as food for man and beast If balso calso gives ves the agriculturist power over heat light electricity positive and negative chemical action air earth and water and enables him to grapple with repulsive elements cold subsoil water corrected by drainage mala maia malaria ri a and other negative ne active influences which have bae ba baffled 1 e d the ful fui farmer for years past now that the soil in the old states has lost its natural productiveness a thoro thorough knowledge of vegetable science is indisputably necessary to enable the tiller of the soil to compete with those who till the rich fields of the virgin west |
