BULLKXIN 11 9- August, 1S96. 



Cornell University— Agricultural Experiment Station, 



ITHACA, N. Y. 

 HORTICULTURAL DIVISION. 



THE TEXTURE OF THE SOIL. 



" Men of the greatest I^earuiug have spent their Time in contriving In- 

 struments to measure the immense Distance of the Stars, and in finding 

 out the Dimensions, and even Weight of the Planets: They thinli it more 

 eligible to study the Art of plowing the Sea with Ships, than of Tilling the 

 Land with Ploughs; they bestow the utmost of their Sliill, learnedly, to 

 prevent the natural Use of all the Elements for Destruction of their own 

 Species, by the bloody Art of War. Some waste their whole Lives in 

 studying how to arm Death with new Engines of Horror, and inventing an 

 infinite Variety of Slaughter; but think it beneath Men of Learning (who 

 only are capable of doing it) to employ their learned Labours in the Inven- 

 tion of new (or even improving the old) Instruments for increa.sing of 

 Bread." — Jethro Tull. . 



By L. H. Bailey. 



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