INDIAN CORN. 547 



would cany off the laud i>4 lbs. of inorganic 

 matter, consiBiiug of 



Potash and soda-.THC 



Lime 7 



Magnesia 9-2 



Phoephoric acid ... 27- 1 



Silica ■ 04 



Total lbs. 54 



According to this analysis of Letellier, the 

 ash of the maize corn consists almost entirely 

 of the pho8phate8 of potash, soda, mid mag- 

 ncBia. 



We will take an early opportunity of presenting some otlicr views of the value 

 of the Indian corn and other crops, not so much that anything we may say will 

 be new or important in itself, as to impress on the cultivators of the soil the im- 

 pregnable ground on which they stand, and the claim it gives them, we will not 

 say to sue for, but to demand, a corresponding provision, in the laws of the 

 land, for enlightening and benefiting their pursuit, as far and in full proportion 

 as the Government undertakes to act at all for the protection and benefit of 

 other interests, by surveys. Tariffs and Schools. If Congress can lay out 8 or 

 80,000 dollars, or one dollar, for maintaining military scfiools in which are 

 taught all the sciences and foreign living languages, it can do the same for the 

 art and business of Agriculture. If it can appropriate $3,000 for collecting and 

 disseminating agricultural knowledge in the shape of essays and statistics, it can 

 do the same for having information diffused in schools and by lectures. Let our 

 military schools be maintained and the country filled, as now, with officers qual- 

 ified to take command and drill the volunteers in case of war. This will alto- 

 gether, as experience shows, supersede the necessity of keeping up large armies. 

 Our military, since the war with England, has cost us about $500,000,000 ! Let 

 four millions a year, or the proceeds of the public lands, be taken from or added 

 to our military appropriations, and with that, in ten years, Ave might have pro- 

 \*ided for every country school in the United Slates teachers as well qualified to 

 give instruction in agricultural chemistry, botany, geology, natural history, 

 road making, bridge building, rural architecture and surveying and mechanics, 

 as the Cadets at West Point are now prepared to give instruction in the art of 

 war. What military operations derive in the field from scientific direction, 

 Agriculture is deriving now from scientific direction in England and Scotland ; 

 and so it ought and so it u'ill do in this couniry. The cultivators of the soil, 

 who contribute four-fifths of the national wealth, have a right to demand this 

 more useful appropriation of their funds ; and what is more, they are gonior to 

 do it ; and the day is coming when no man will be considered a worthy member 

 of an Agricultural Society, or of a legislative body, who does not heartily assist 

 in this glorious work. There is not another class on earth who would not, be- 

 fore now, have been represented in Congress by men who would not dare "ive 

 one dollar for military surveys and maps and drawings and schools, without ex- 

 acting as much for surveys and instruction in Agriculture ! But, thank God ! 

 who times all things for the best, the time is coming when justice and honor 

 will be done to the plow as well as the sword. Will not the general press of 

 the couniry give its aid and comfort to the good cause ? 



C^ From every part of Ulster tlie middling and small class of farmers ai-t> leaving in 

 hundreds for the purpose of seeking a future home on the other side of the Atlantic. The 

 English and Scotch steamers carry out with them, weekly, immense numbers for Liverpool 

 and Glasgow, the impatience to quit Ireland Ijeing so gieat that should a vessel not be 

 re;uly to sail inmiediately fi-om Derry for America, lliey set out wath all possible speed for 

 the above ports. We have l)een informed that within the last three weeks fully fifteen 

 hundred persons liave embarked at Portrush, the steamers on ai-riving there being srarcdy 

 able to take all the passengers ofieriiig. [Loudonderiy (Ireland) Sentinel. 



