(J3 BQARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



animals annually slaughtered in Saxony, amounts, on an approximative calcu- 

 lation, to one hundred thousand hundred weight, and half this quantity, if 

 not still more, is imported from the immediately adjacent countries. If, on a 

 moderate assumption, tiie total produce from one hundred weight of hone- 

 dust is estimated at two Saxon bushels* of rye, the quantity of this sul)stance 

 that is yearly consumed in Saxony, leads to an increased yield of three hun- 

 dred thousand busheh." 



He fui'tlier remarks, that 



" Complaints are often heard, that by the consumption of English cotton 

 fabrics in Germany, thousands of English laborers are supported by German 

 money. Germany has done far more ; for nearly half a century it has given 

 grain to English laborers by the exportation of German bones and German oil 

 cake. According to trustworthy information, the producs of English fields 

 since the importation of bones and oilcake has been doubled. The revivifying 

 power which has been lost to our father-land by this exportation of manures, 

 would assuredly have been preserved to it, if during this period the importance 

 to agriculture of the constituents contained in bones and oil cake had been 

 clearly understood in Germany. This is the triumph of intelligence, that it 

 makes powers serviceable which remain neglected and useless where intelligence 

 is wanting." 



Not only should the above-named items of saving be effected in 

 the matter of manures, but every other possible source should be 

 made to contribute what it can, and the whole should be preserved with 

 care, and by means of barn cellers or sheds be protected from the sun, 

 air, and especially from rains, which dissolve and carry off the most 

 valuable portions, the very life of it. The farmer is con&tautly en- 

 gaged in obtaining from his soil products, every one of which carries 

 away from it certain elements of fertility, lie should be just as 

 constantly busied to rctilrn to the soil, in some form or other, an 

 equivalent at least, and more than an equivalent, if he aims at higher 

 productiveness. Good husbandry implies the faithful husbanding 

 and use of every thing which will add bread and meat to his store, 

 and his success will in great measure be parallel to his diligence 

 and attention thereto. 



I am here again reminded of the marine manures Avhich our State 

 possesses in larger abundance than any other in the Union, and 

 upon which some observations were made in the last report, by the 



*The Saxon bushel is larger than ours, being no less than one hundred and sixty 

 lbs. 



