THE RURAL SOCRATES. 12^ 



v/ho has herein rendered agriculture the raofl eiTential 

 fcrvice. 



It is by this fort of means, then, that our fkilful culti- 

 vator is enabled annually to increafe his number of cat- 

 tle, and confequcntly his manure ; which promifcs him 

 in future a circle of fertility and blelling always enlarg- 

 ing itfelf. He gradually applies cattle of his own breed- 

 ing for this purpofe, which yields him a confiderable 

 profit ; as he is able to fell every year a certain number 

 of fat oxen. 



Thus our Kliyogg remains true to his principles and 

 thus thefe principles are always juftified by a compleat 

 fuccefs. I have never fcen io happy an ifTae fo flriking- 

 ]y refulting from a judicious plan, as in the cafe of our 

 wife cultivator. All 



ing to exert icfelf on the furface. — Mr. Muller limits the quznticj' of 

 gypfum to be fpread upon a rasafure of land [journal, joorneaux] of i8c< 

 perches freckoiiirg the perch at 12 f^er of the Rhine,) to 8 iirnri ; of 

 which each contains 16 pots. A larger quantity would become rather 

 hurtful, than falutary. — The greateft care muft be taken to fpread this 

 powder befors tlie grafs or grain begins to (hoot. Upon meadows there- 

 fore, it rauil be fpread at the melting of the fnow ; that hj at the end of 

 February or beginning of March ; and upon fields of grain as fobn a-s thefs 

 are fown. — A laborer having ignorr-nily ihrown ic upon his meadows after 

 thefhooring of the grafs, loft four of his oxen; a gypfc:oa8Correftion,which 

 obftruf^ed digeftiort, being found in their inteftines. — I: muft be beaten io. 

 the firlt inftance in a great trough, with iron hammers, into pieces not ex- 

 ceeding the fize of 9n egg. It ij then reduced to powder in the fa me 

 manner that apples are prtfled to make cyder, and by the very fame 

 pppararus. It ia no! rpqoi(iie that the powder {hould be made very fine j 

 f.ieces of gypfum of the Ciii of a pea o: bean being quickly difTulvedp 

 when fpread on the ground, ' 



Such is the fubftance of the mpmcir of Mr, Meyer. — The Abbe Ro- 

 zler hag placed another nnemoir on this fubjes^ in his Journal deFhyJiqm 

 {u IV, July.) This lad tueraoir confirms that of this clergyman of Kiip- 

 icrrell. F. 



This manure Is no where perhaps better known at prefent, thao in foroe 

 of the United States ; as will be found on confulting what has been faid 

 by Judge Peters, Mr. Robert Morris, Dr. Mitchill, Mr, B^rdley, ani 

 others, OQ the fubjeu^, E» 



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