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teach tlie farmer the best arts of cultivation, will be evident to those 

 who have attentively considered the splendid acliievments which in 

 other departments have resulted from the application of science to 

 art. It has leveled our mountains, filled our vallies, dammed our 

 rivers, bounded our lakes, and to old ocean's wave, repeats the fiat 

 of the Almighty, "Hitherto, but no farther." Aye, it is fast circling 

 the globe with ribs of iron and nerves of steel. We live in an age 

 of wonders. Invention locks step with invention, and the improver 

 ment of to-day heralds a more remarkable one to-morrow. The press 

 throws ofi" its impressions with the rapidity of thought. The fire- 

 horse, impatient of restraint, stands ready to convey these heralds of 

 intelligence to the remotest hamlet in the land, and the mystic wire, 

 as if reproaching the sluggish power of steam, threads its way to 

 encompass the globe, and to force on with electric force, the progress, 

 and the improvement of the age. 



It is science and scientific knowledge which has secured these won- 

 derful results, and it is on this that Agriculture must depend for sim- 

 ilar improvements. 



In confirmation of this opinion we cite a few facts of undoubted au- 

 thority. ;'We have been favored by a gentleman-'' of large attainments 

 and celebrity in the various departments of science, with the results 

 of the analysis of the soil of more than one hundred farms in the State 

 of New Jersey. Some of these may not be uninteresting as felicitious 

 illustrations of the advantages of science applied to Agriculture. 

 He analyzed the soil of a field for J. J. Schofield, Morristown, on 

 Avhich he desired to raise ruta baga turnips. It was found deficient 

 of the following constituents of that crop, phosphate of lime, potash, 

 organic substances including a slight quantity of animal or nitrogen- 

 eous matter. These being supplied the result was fourteen hundred 

 bushel to the acre, as per certificate to the Legislature. He also an- 

 alyzed the soil of a field for Dr. John Woodhull, which he had appro- 

 priated to the growth of wheat, and from which he obtained on the 

 preceeding year less than fifteen bushels to the acre. After supply- 

 ing the deficient constituents, he obtained the succeeding year fifty- 

 seven bushels to the acre. Another instance was on the farm of 

 Robert Rennie, certified to before the Committee of the Legislature, 

 showing the great advantage of subsoiling and thorough cultivation. 

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