a..t « Terr la^e »»p would reqmve, so that th, be.eflt of lime »prea» to bo from other re«.o„. 



"1 r ±rz;tr!h;rr;*r:r;:r::".«t.,,.e u o.^,., i h..e *.,. «.p„ose. 



thf ■ tie «Perio Ihent-produciu. q.u.Utios ot Wo.tem Now Vo.k l.ad. wero ow.ng o th, ta-g 

 ^l,„t otr"..; oonLu ; .ni L the re,.on why the easte™ comties ot th. State wore Bot 



11 ] ■ i,^ f^,. ^-l.Aot -irn<< because tbev contained so little lime. 

 " !1 It^hoaeri, "hough I ha« .o.d all tho wo.-t, ou ag.ieu.tur.l ehe,»i,to. that 



Tw Jiri tt'ir ho 0*:;=': l:,:; onL .„a^spoe-,a.,v the ..r^..-.^^^, a™.ah-.e a, 

 food ?o , antTtd therefore sav that it i, u«,le» to lime laud that ha. heon exhausted of orga,„e 

 food 101 pum f ^ ^„i„,„ „,eorios are right, I do not know, 



matter by long eilt"""™ °°';, ""/f," ,,„ ^„„ „. i^^ true; that hm. in itself furnishes food for 

 Yr::ftWH»t. ep^lLurauriofthesoU^ n"s<.of 



t^i on tU'o'lMng sidphuto ot iron (green vitriol) whieh is injurious to vegetation; tie 

 lime decomposes this salt and renders It innoxious. , • „, Tln^«art 



;. iLd'no ideathat the reasonsfor applying lime to land were so many and van^^^^^^^ 

 .f n^rienltural ^cieuce alone appears to be a subject for deep study and investigation, ^or my o^ 

 tJlt^^y^^ -boJ chemistry, except .hat I read in the Genesee Far,ner and other agri- 

 eultur^l papers. I suppose the English l\u-mers are .veil posted up in rural science. 



T As a '"eral t£ng En.H.h farmers kno. less about science than we do ; nine-tenths of tlu^m 

 . . t 1. . IT ntrieultural paper at all. There are but three or four agricultural papers published 

 t t cotntrv aS tS; htriut a very limited circulation. The lowest price of an agriculture 

 paper i "fa Vear. I bfueve the Genesee Farmer has a much greater circulation than all the Eng- 

 K aVncdtuil papers put together, and I think it woidd pay some of our enterprising publishers 

 to .o1h re ana^s^^^^^ paper. England has more and abler scientific men, more 



lithv edilid .entlemen^ who give their attention to rural science, and who make expenmc. 

 Tn? ir;.- to search out the hidden principles of agriculture, than we have but ^^ ^he nun^.e 

 ana cuue > ;n^„„triou= enterorisino- farmers, we are ahead of any nation I have 



::ive. l7anvtUriTuffi en^ iu^portant is discovered, a Collins steamer will bring it across the 

 oceanin a Ht 1 ovlr a week, ^nd the electric wires will convey it from one end of tins great con^- 

 nent to the other In a few seconds. Our innumerable presses deal it out to their m.llions of road ^ 

 Td t lu i i' town and acted on here before more than a few learned mdividualsai.aw.-e of the 

 T- rn.nt Britain This is neither imagination nor exaggerati,)n : it is literal fact ^^ e know 

 affau' in Gre^t f "^^^" . jf f^\^^^^^^ the En^^lish know little or nothing of what is invented or 

 Zlt:^ I^^Zl^^t^^^ by ^e app^rance of the American Reaper in Englai^ 



mendatory remarks. 



R TTnw ,1n tbev level down banks and throw up roads, Ac. 



A l^thc wft whe lb.„ow. orlitting-ealB drawn usually with two horses tandem For a 

 distrt Uioslttla:: probabU better fii.n our luuiber-waggon.: but for a few rods, .t is an 



Tt ::/;—. ar, ^ry eon.mon there. Tbe Englishman I ha>, working ..r me was wishmg 

 a short time sinee, when I was drawing out some manure, that we had aomo tnghsh oait,. lie said 



we could do it in half tlie time. , , . 



iroi. drawing manure, and a few other purpose, carts are doubtless better than wagons; bu 



before we can Jc carts to advantage, we must have a heavier breed of farm horses, for a hght 



horse cuts a sorry figure in tho thills of a large cart. 



