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Handbook ™ 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AGRICULTURAL INTERMITTENT 
FEVER. 
J. M. THORBUKN & CO., 
15 John Street 
BEflMttHi New York. 
PROFESSOR W. W. TRACY. 
Most of my readers know by unpleasant 
experience what fever and ague or intermit¬ 
tent fever is, and that it exhibits itself in at¬ 
tacks of fever or excessive vital action occur¬ 
ring at regular intervals and alternating with 
a reaction of vital depression aud chills. They 
know, too, that the universal remedy is a 
tonic, which is most efficacious if taken in 
small doses, but persistently and at regular in¬ 
tervals. Now, this human disease has a per¬ 
fect counterpart attacking agriculture as an 
art, for from its earliest history until now 
there have been times when the whole agricul¬ 
tural world has been at fever heat over some 
particular crop or method of culture as being 
the great secret of success, only to be followed 
by a period in which that particular crop or 
method of culture is entirely neglected. By 
way of illustration, I mentionroot-pruuing re¬ 
cently enthusiastically claimed to be the im¬ 
portant thing in cultivation, but which was 
advocated 200 years ago and has been alter¬ 
nately extolled and neglected ever since. 
Soiling and the use of special forage crops 
were advocated in the time of Columella, and 
have had their periods of fever and of chills 
until the subject is again brought to the front 
by the present craze for ensilage. Every one is 
familiar with the alternate dearth aud super¬ 
abundance of hops, and of many other special 
crops. Another form of the disease having a 
shm ter period is seen in the enthusiasm and 
determination to do bettor farming engen¬ 
dered by the Autumnal fairs and the Winter 
gatherings, followed by the neglect of the 
study aud practice of the best methods during 
the reactionary chill induced by the press of 
work of Spring and Summer. 
It needs but a slight acquaintance with the 
history or the present condition of agriculture 
to see that this fluctuation has done and is do¬ 
ing more to retard healthy growth than all 
other causes combined. What is the remedy? 
Simply the tonic of a more thorough knowl¬ 
edge of, and keeping more constantly in mind 
the experience of the past. In this respect our 
agricultural papers are doing a work of ines¬ 
timable value. Even granting (which I am 
not willing to do) that they rarely contain a 
thought or idea which may not be found in 
some published book, still they give it to us in 
“small doses at regular intervals,” in which 
form it will be takeu and used when our books 
would lie dusty and neglected upon our shelves. 
For the truth of this I appeal to the experi¬ 
ence of the reader. Has it not been some 
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