44 Importance of correct Vegetable Analysis; [July, 



■which our hilly country has over a flat or prairie country, is its 

 furnishing sites for hundreds of villages, all of which are small 

 market towns, at which the produce of a wide region is consumed; 

 where pork and beef, mutton and veal, corn, oats and potatoes, 

 fruits of all kinds, in fine where all products, from a pickled cu- 

 cumber to the stall fed ox, finds a ready cash sale, or a mutually 

 profitable barter for the mechanic's skill and labor. In a commu- 

 nity which we have now in view, composed of industrious and 

 enlightened members, of mechanics and farmers, those who bring 

 up from the bowels of the earth the raw material, and the farmer 

 who supplies food and clothing, there is no occasion to fear western 

 competition. It is only in our great markets, and in our great 

 staples, that western competition affects the value of the products 

 of the soil. The New-York and New-England farmers derive 

 their profits from many productions, instead of one great staple, 

 and the aggregate profits of a farm which produces butter and 

 cheese, pork and beef, corn and potatoes, poultry, eggs and fruit, 

 hay and oats, none of which have distant competitors, are equal 

 in a series of years to the profits arising from the great western 

 staples, of which wheat and flour are the principal, though wool, 

 corn and pork are highly important. 



IMPORTANCE OF CORRECT VEGETABLE ANALYSIS; 

 DUTIES OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES, ETC. 



BY DR. N. S. DAVIS, BINGHAMTON. 



If a mechanic should attempt to construct a building without 

 knowinsf of what it should be made, he would be ridiculed for his 

 folly. If the chemist should mix in his crucible two substances, 

 the composition of which he knew nothing, it is evident that he 

 could know nothing of the results that might follow. So, if the 

 farmer places his seed in the soil without knowing the composition 

 of either the soil or the plant he wishes to have spring therefrom, 

 how shall he be able to calculate with certainty the result? True, 

 he may have seen his father or neighbors raise similar crops from 

 the same soil, and may, therefore, infer that he can do the same. 



