90 YALE AGRICULTURAL LECTURES. 



tivator of the soil. The first error in New England is in keep- 

 ing the accounts too loosely. Not one farmer in ten knows 

 what it costs to raise a cow or a crop of corn. In England an 

 exact account is kept with every field. Another error is the 

 want of economy in modes of farming. Two things are re 

 quired for successful farming intelligence and capital. "Ex 

 periment," says Liebig, " is a question put to nature, and the 

 result is her answer." Two things, labor and manure, are also 

 necessary for a large return. It has been said that the requi 

 sites for success are three : First, manure ; second, manure / and 

 third, MANURE. The real profits of the farm arise from the cir 

 culating capital. An English farmer who had just leased a 

 farm for $8,000, spent $50,000 for stock, tools, seeds, &c. A 

 farmer can't afford to own bank stock, for he wants the money 

 in his business. All the manure that -is requisite should be the 

 product of the farm. Dr. Dana, of Lowell, ascertained that 

 each cow gives, when housed, seven cords of manure annually, 

 and when mixed with two cords swamp muck or peat to one of 

 manure, would give 21 cords of dressing equal to that of the 

 barn-yard. It is worth from $5 to $8 per cord. The milk the 

 same cow would give would be worth at the outside $65.76, 

 while the manure would be worth from $105 to $168, and this 

 is usually lost. Mr. Quincy then drew a parallel between the 

 wealthy merchant and the successful farmer, making the aver 

 age life of the latter double that of the former, and he also 

 carrying out more fully the designs of the Creator, and finding 

 health and happiness the truer recompense. He closed with 

 an eloquent tribute to the worth of the American Farmer, and 

 his value now, as in Revolutionary days, to our common re 

 public. 



