1058 MHE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE _ Lomma 
ne in Which they are wholl unconcerned, and look longer capable of a higher yield without an increase of; them the power to furnish her longer 
sube ^ the farara their effective elements by the introduction of manures | manure, then she will not be richer thea o 
As physicians who in the apparent signs of a young | from abroad. means of redler: corn and meat, but will fa 
man s bloomin, g he alth discern the fatal worm which oM BY the ee, of guano and bones the farmer | time forth become ee: poorer in these 
t of such By means of theimpor — of guano and 
th 134 ns get the pure system of stall or | population has, Smau. in i of the i 
is the true and gen uine robber production of corn and meat, increased j ina : 
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hending the range of the E raise the Bir. the homemade 1 rian 
voice of warning. system. 1 onsequence of his restoring in nt this 
rtion of those very "same | tation of manures, and this population v will n 
It is true that ie — n tillage ad the fields, sun- | and bones but a very small po 
shine, and timely ra pn the iie ard conditions, | elements of seeds and of fodder which had been with- | the a of gl Sta " their natural mand for fy 
perceptible to all a va gud Moin bab. pene me 3 from his fields by centuries of crc their not m it desirable Born: the b 
ngs tly with out effect u on e^ produetiveness of the products are wonderfully incre min ents eiin e — the s poly ol £ food be 
d, easy of perception p^ instituted with special reference to "this en six by means of exterminating "n revolutions 
— senses are present “in the . and these are the differ ent parts o f the king dom of Saxony shinee that whi ich ae ined of food has always pr 
elements which serve for nourishment, for the produc- | ea i part r by means of wasti 
tion of roots, leaves, and seeds, and whie h are present 150 y of Wheat, 400 Ib. of Potatoes, and 280 Ib. of 8 or jw emigra tion em . dh en 
in the soil always i in pr p quantity, in proportion beso ore than the same sized piece of ground|reflect that the time has arriv 
to the mass of the soil it itlob ee and from this it may be calculated how view in m rd to the causes ist 
* These Menit: are p^ p ^ pulat à A very little reflection will 
duets of the field—in the corn or in * reds "i tl i tat £100,000 t that tl — 
animals nouri ished by these products, and daily experi- | or 2,000,000 ewt., of guano. by at and comprehensive natural law, 
" Thee -— of guano and, bones should have taught ee um e duration, bars or dim 
a certain series of harvests to produce t e real cause of the 88 of his a natural phenomenon ari Si n the retu 
belle: it it 2 have tanght him in what a condition n | tion, inerease, or r di imin aut ion ofi its conditions, 
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“A child can comprohe nd that t 5 cireum- 
ces a ve eld, i 
T. ve fi in order to remain v bs 
ve, Or even eim simply productive, | must have the x the. sienta of the guano whieh he has 5 orted maintenance and increase of the pop ; and 
ts which of meat and products i "his field into the | easy to see that a violation of this natural law m 
that 0 conditions | cities were recovered and brought into a form LL ; exert upon all these relations a pernicious influence xd 
can t aside in no oth j 
fectly restored; the aggregate of the 
must remain in order to produce the aggregate re: ma woal admit of their being Cen to his fields ev wa! 
" that a well, however deep it may be, 1 * receives yea of i n, known that cert 
supply of water, must in the end become empty, it an understanding of this, however, the ing circumstances work deleteriously upon the 
its water is xps e: Sal ait. not yet come, for, as his forefathers believed th that if it can be foreseen that their conti 
* Our fie lds a e like this well of water. For centuries | the soil of their fields was vertu ble, so the farmer | bring — the ruin of agri i 
th f the present day believes that the introduction of single one of all the means whie 
tion of the crops ren been taken from the soil in those | manures from abroad will Quee no end. It is much this deleterious influence d made it less se 
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crops, and that, too, without being restored. It has|s impler, he thi nks, to buy guano and Was Bench to 
only nre been ascertained how small a supply of | collect thei nts d and, if Pia rtility to our 7 pns 
these elements the soil really has. A beginning has|a lack of the former should. ever arise, it wil ‘then, a and improvement of the p d 
been made to restore to the fields es losses which they | ti ime eno ugh to think of f | things, can be o S 
sustain through the annual harve ther a nation should not summon up all her 
from external sources —_— con ne ing the . —.— and fatal. lectual and material resource 
elements. Only a very few of the better Aona Ik it is perceived that no country can perpetually | fundamental conditions of her welfare, 
farmers perceive the necessity of Tor restoration, and supply another with corn, then must it be still easier to It has been maintai 
those of them who have the means have zealousl ly 1 ts out of 
I am not 
endeavoured to increase the ee of these elements country must cease still earlier, since there exportation | impracticable. am 
in their fields; but by far the greater part of them diminishes the production corn and meat in that which stand in its way. 
know nothing of such restoration. They think that co M ry i in 80 ra pid propor tio s tha t th if the engineer 
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is anything left, and that it will be time enough iti i considered that a pound of mà contains i in its 
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They do not of ie ad know how large their of 60 Ibs. of Wheat, that the — a. have become do not doubt that a g 
stock on hand i ane er e they aware that when the capable by the importation of bones of|telligence in union wit 
it tin a series of | England which has ren 
kı t that tthey rs than they eg uve 3 without this things of much greater apparen 
“The | ftl 1 ts is e x about oyt the | d then we ca — of the immense loss of|forward with deep concern to the 
^ Of all tl elds have sustained by the | sewerage question, for, if this E roan 
doli . in pum 3 in the shape of of many Nane thousand tons of Great Britain without zoya 
re carried gis ne cities, and m con ee bones s hich have | .gone from Germany o England. It culture we can sear hope 
nothin 1g, 0 r as good as nothin ng, returns to the fields, will! 1 conti the 8 
It is clear that if t lements we ected d have been brought to that point th * Permit me to add still à few words in relati 
ay lds, these Rak she dd po si tmd have been able to supply the leading men of the Times of the same 
then n the] po Wer 880 Nau every year to the cities demand of her own population for corn js many the one side of this question is 
the biin e quantity of corn and meat; and it is equ ac, | parts of Germany, from which formerly large —— 
clear that if the fields do not ra back these | of bones eene Apt rte — — has now —— e to not quite a correct view of 1 
wall st i my oer The mis 
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elements agriculture ed grad em ease, Inr red | be the case t must be at de higher itself to 
to the utility of roo of the ‘sewerage of towns’ | price p py prise in n the form of 855 in order fallen arises from confounding 
as manures no farm reely an intelli times. | State with t that of its pen 
has any 5 but | as y^ their necessity opinions are “The exportat ion — bones for so man In the natural sciences we know n 
ermany w: agri- | —of 
“Many à in of the opinion that corn, meat, and pecia had less E pls of the real — of their their geologica ation, the 
manure are wares, which, like other —— can be pur- business than the Euglish, believing, as — id, that whether the soil contains the natural condition 
chased in the market; that with the demand the price 2 and 4 d esie doctrines contradictory to subsistence of man and 2 
may, perhaps, rise, but this will also stimulate the pro- other e fundamentally different estas, conditions are abun — tber int 
. duction, ard that all turns upon aving the means to mi. that tliey n mut trast, not in the laws of nature, but | circumstances do not hin eir 
hase, and so long as England — coal and iron she n recei va ungs hav now chan ged — — better, cannot be exterminated. The most 
can exchange the products of her industry for the corn alt ) wa e desired, for | rob a land of the conditions which. Md has 
meat, and manure which she ^ not. In thi th 1 understand | nor 
I think ik would be wise not to be too confident of the ad alue * — nts f tans for preservin — the| Countri 
future, for the time may, perhaps, come, even in half a present fertility of their — (not e speak of the|sustaining a lar; aper 
_ century, ot t not ont e of those ose countries upon whose resto ora tio on of their former fi aerem or if ddr all | influences, which in their unhind 
n will be able to sup- — à | i il i 
Tings 
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he MN dien: of ground is —9 — in his gus and et. ions of f productiveness except one, 
try. It ceases duce corn e prices bones have become so high in — NAHE, 
ee: e dikes which m: 
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the corn-growing countries | ere the English farmer with this to him so ipdis- not te] dale dm a — manner 
Parc * for 10 15 pro- eae brc the answer would produce — h- of the Africa: s pro! 
ay no longer |m is so far robbed all} against the — * the d 
às at [ne €— ier . — — the inhabited 3 : f the pa that the * with a barren sand; and if 
d ; 1 rope|of superphosphate can on is hope th the que to him, h 
2 ws United States of North America great efforts phosphate of lime of the mineral kingdom. ta * ‘of acl e aak 
respect independent of I hav been assured that in 20 permanent maintenance ofa great 
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land, a ing in e m the onl f 
ly way of keeping | to 25 "diens if t 
* the corn prices in these countries so as to r repay the t " "n ers proportion as 4. therto, there will not remain I know that the prophets o of future evil 
u merica enough to freight a ship. i eir ow? 
as In the the 99 States - population increases a — | however, suppose its My — cie et inse M — — lave cam furis m 
vem iin Si o than other countries, while t or 50 years, or longer; then what will be just con 
cor pro : im up upon ths — under cultivation bas the — a England when the supply of guano and 15 than m tha ibat, if if the ie Beten P" 
m" Sinclar did eS | bones is exhau secure the natural condition’ tions of the p 
not one countries “This is one of the t of all —if th ‘elds — 
ve reduced corn for other lands have remained | If the common “sewe: mede sir: — — fertility of em — — animse thi 1 
ii rendering vi has contributed her full | imported — guano — deity make their way | will at no eder rom ceas yiel a ua 
ndering unproductive — v lands into. "the sewers of the cities, which, like a bottomless | -— = seen Poo — does not box 
have for f e to d 
of the English ae and after a series of | years the land nights pen Land In 
fade 
with 
as old vti: robbed Sardinia, Sicily, he 
— be 
sposi ia coast of their fert 
civilised coun importation of ¢ guano and bo menced; and Believe Sir, 
part a certain Eit. dle: m 3 shall have robbed the c ‘the cultivated lands of | ped Vox — inc J. 
so narrow that our fields are no| Europe e o complete and taken from | Hall, Kelvedon, Essex." 
