Max 21, 1859. 
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om 1d. to 2d. per lb. be deduced from a knowledge of agricultural principles ; devoted to the fundamental princi 
and th at, suc ch. bei ing! the e case, the question Proposed at der t would be but E — e A 
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ma never been known to fail where — rly a 
n as 0. 
he popu ular remedy in these parts is, to put 
— of other questions with regard to these p prin- 
ib s have been solved. The . question pea osed is, in- 
dee 
subject. 'These subjects have been followed in ma y 
" e a 
ini nsiances 2 Meg i men more with é pet to cond 
to 
obtain E results from the 
sadi evident v g 
d solved, but unti 11 1 
ppli p ‘once under. 
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E quantit ty o 
]k, which answers wel 
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asd 8 a w. 
got rid of in in 2 butter which I sent u, and 
oug 
is bn but its Are can hardly be said to 
extend to the cheese and depre The writer ER 
h so far as the milk 
eet zi evil in the 
ilk, i 
unanswered or 5 80. 
H 
Ts x wes diet Qe 9 rules, founded upon 
cations | of them which go pe incen — me 
, 
a practice —— has been more or less successful, 1 
ad 
century. 
Now, there is no industrial occu upation the success or 
in all agricultural nam — — opted. And in 
many in — thes rules har tablished with 
Md. f A th 
failures of whic ha are more influenced by the operation 
ft vesti- 
rovince of science to invi 
that d 
The] erm ien Polos "er up for years wit tha meri a 
degree of su y men who have cared meh ona 
inal be t 
1 +h a 
culture. The farmer, then, 
may 
about such "principles ; “and this success 
kee art to the hi oe — of pi 
n he 
mA Yr 
as — of the method by w they we m 
‘ucted. Iti is also tam true, — before by Mime bear u 
oceani 
ie currents, the 
ay: 
w how the 2 “of a 
y le 
— ‘et winds, unt 4 the laws of storm s, ships 
For | shor 
— io tha mee and commerce flou vished, 
as stran ded on 
evening, on Swedes, I beg 
to i and 
readers that the oniy precaution adopted i that the | o 
e bei 
cream, befor placed 
ry an unknown 8 or 
1 k, hundreds of 
nform you 
in the churn, shoul ld stand 
raised to the vers werd 
dious opera 
qui 
off upon those who patroniso 4 
+ A by 
thers rode smoothly onwards unharmed. Yet 
withstan nding this success, no one doubts the ted 
1 y be 
principles, 2 thee can 
prea iated by a cultivated 
such as 
only be understood and a 
intelligence and an enlightened understan ning sa 
1+ 
benefit that have vd — — the imm ense ex- 
e b t 
of 65° Fahr. This prevents a tedious o 77 — that har been y the mar itime ieultural 
— and, with ordinary € Ten in t UY y. y the | populations until we have suitable agricultural schools 
but made will never taste of Turni This is tl ical fi that and colleges at which the work of education shall be 
whole: —— of destroying r^ —— of Turnips i in 2 — 3 purely, empirical are —.— 3 in commen nced in n you uth. Here in Ee. herea greater 
butter; an experience of a dozen years in a large dairy the hands of  empirieists; whenever ei ircumstances are has been bro to bear upon agri- 
may be relied on. t bet iab mes cultural pectic sro broth N ‘ther yos 1 the, word 
E — ou collect so man ons of cream before with. e nome in ntirely ine licable and are liable ve nd agriculture degree ion 
E i Fer e e 3 Sue ch s systems | st rpassing t d ny other part vá kA 7 it has, 
into th to begin with, and churn when the usu however, ye 2. ari in ord vail itself of 
cont is ie “Quercus” is the authority for and défi of the persons by whom they are deve-| all the nivantages to s derived Noes he MAY of its 
t ‘had it from a trie nd of his One — ey — — d the use of lime as — i in. 
1 ge q y of ‘the quality the |iniversal panacea for all s e land; an other find ve have been arr this subject. upon the 
3 
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— 
only object to be derived 
spoonful of it to every ewe sation of — as iti is 
* 
d o the philosopher's stone, — is to fill the farmer's 
1 en from da ily e experience, is to Tet your cows | pocket with almighty dollars, On the other hand, 
have ps immediately after being could Tu satisfactory evidence that each “and 
muked, r time: ry one these everal systems had failed under 
10, "8. RS" a for the cause of n butter t 
being bad both in texture and — 
el Wurzel and Beans, 
into i ge Fel 
mix th — ui straw: 
the plani 
crushed, e iie 
perhaps would not be a 
few Swed 
ry utensils, but cream churn 
y cows 8 me last — — on Mangel Wurzel cut 
a (Moody, F 
ed wit 1 
week. The butter mi in flavour, but crum 
the spring ; I was able 
— —— venient — — 
the efficacy of which : 
"m 
n 
f agri daun ‘Sipe 
other —— thing that experi —— has proved to 
ive a satisfactory result in limited circumstances, is 
— t — or wood a 
ashes es, or Y organic matter, or 0 cal salts, or — — 
8 consider the ect of agricultural 
When 
ee we s shall find that one P] the great t advan- 
tages o of the ndy of Mos uem principles i in 3 
be 
s fed o 
with serapulons 
uld find instances enough in e ee 
Maryland, and Virginia, of the farmers | coming t 
tion of the masses of the x M ulation. Iti 
fact that = —M €— of England, Ger. 
tit 
many, and France constitute 
the population, ndeed, to sng characterise them as 
ignorant. does not convey f the com- 
4} 
only a week. 
me) Turnip-cutter, and | 
to do next. Empiricism had well-nigh left A —— 
xm dd 
moral and mental Serre of the English farm 
he 
how er is the subject of remark with every y for oreigner 
char butter 
Nee s |W 
add Rape to the abov. e Tod, 
=i ate e, and | o 
a day to ench cow, 3 
eriti with à 
es, and a ‘sprinkling at times of Carrots, all cut 
m di rt, and . ovine chaff. 
think 
o tra averses the country. With ter, to occupy 
duties of i he farm, he 
— salts, and guano. 
Not very — 2 since one z v 88 results 
ö 
p t of our 1 al 
the state of vegetation. — — 
the most incontestable — e that 
rs out a wearied existence, 5 thinkin only of those 
duties in connegtion. with the pittance he receives r 
a means of 
ily necessities. "or principles and prac- 
s 1 fe perform what he does, and 
why 
mnection between one part of his labour an 
in the zodiac, and 
some had afforded 
— planted in the wrong “sign” would — i de which might constitute a theme upon which 
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and that corn 
me 
er 
[ud 
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ae 
= 
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c 
E 
b I 
have used Beans, but find them neither so — nor so 
eap as cake. 
twi a 
(To be continued). 
THEORY OF A 
Bv 
GRICULTURE. 
Dr. Evan PocnH. 
(See pages 
LETTER III.—TRE Best MEANS 
TH 
223, 319). 
T 
or R 
E reed PROFIT. 
— T to consider i is 
ital Mond 
under otis plan some 
sub-planetary eben exhibit certain pecu uliari 
Empiricism had no doubt about the tli 5 its 
conclusions ; it did not hesitate to answer such a Ae 
tion as that at the head of this i bebe = yes e con 
fidence that ignorance ‘ons coul 
alchymist with his — losopher's s stone pes ib pet- 
experime - fro which 1 moder: chemistr Ty would 
or 
| shri pai : : 
tice wou ld boldiy —.— upon ground where science Our common schoo course, which has as “the refer on 
— st invariably the ars, and the only 
that is ask 
by the aed farmer. He too often 
cares little about look king after if he can but 
41994 
empiric is confident because he 
ng. 
seen nan are he Ate to know," 
d since it is t his Toad 
or | between the individual 1 ings be: pen 
not how i us the liter may be, 5 
patible one phase of his m may have been wit with 
to agriculture as to the er of the moon, 
inly p aliv 
The trusts 
senses rather than to his understanding. Like the Po 
on - 
"hos when the 
ital dly di Animals that v were 6 tore because a more intelligent labourer, he know: 
1 
. 
In or grater Gtd least in the Free States) teas we 
have sect cg class, the fath eus d eigen athers 
and the children 
of hoi been, grand- 
children of Mao will Per mply labourers, without any 
capital, this EE stultification does not exist, but 
ve 1 
n there the of oS oim: ral inte igati — 
our “hired me Ea the result of a mental 
MA devo ted 2 d pio foreign to that of their 
da 
aily av satione than to these. At the termination of 
When. the study of agricultural c Sie of 
science in gen neral as applied to schon shall have 
8 it is still sufficient to “know” that hi 
The man of science, on - ral hand, is ever ready 
ses to what manure 
— 0 — e what kind of iasbandry shoul 
adopted in order to give satisfac alte ar nd then to 
ne a. ah 4 1 an d the 
e 0 seniti c 
sideration of the relations between the manure — or 
followed 
and 
the elect produ ced. 
ses if he cannot bring 
it into harmony with his understanding. Isola pos fa x 
to him have no value. „Facts mportant o 
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re only i Ben 
rJ 41 4 
our farm s, th o tof 
to our 
- | the scaffolding of a eee 
e civilised w 
gebe ded communi- 
| ties, and et such eeh is i brought about, we cannot 
ed. 
| hope that such clearness can be attain 
prineip les. d full 
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ld will nev 
transcendant gti v which £ 
e | or indeed 
S become o of tittle 
to do cultural 
e parti 
ions by which the immortal Newton satisfied himself 
that 
a —— 
caring anything about wh 
= be so a i the object 
show that no such 
— results, 5 
he gets them. And it sha = 
of t € present. article 
e uy 
as the square of the distance. 
Panes once understood, a 
becomes a 8 cng in the d 
facts, d in the control of causes. 
ey, or raise the 
crop at the least ex ies 
e E 
Practical 
rule can be given, except it 
ELA ich have contributed 
greatness of the present owe 
it of their development 2 
ce. 
that transe 
- | the idea of universal een ee but it a never care 
— the of the observa- | con: 
the gravitating force -—— directly as the mass | si 
