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" THE GREATEST POSSIBLE GOOD TO THE GREATEST POSSIBLE NUMBER
VOLUME III.
the Baron Signal,
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BY TIIO MAIN MAC411 't r'j,
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IT A liberal dorms** made to those wee
'Weenies by the year.
iequ.wr.-Os Thursday t►. I4th inst.,'
as Jaques' was b.Id Ip Oshawa before Dr.
Io..pb Clark, Comas, on view of the body
of James Torrift eke* wee found deed ,. bee
owe shop. The Jay returned a verdict of
"Died through the effete of excessive
dn.kieg.-M, pithy Reporter.
Two coon m.kisg love to the daughter of
Thernieteetee, he preferred the vir:uoue
Baas to the nth oee, styes( "He would
rather h••• a man without riches, than b
richeswithout a an." •
A bronze Ninon of Bir R. Peel, at a cost y
of Two th d gni&^u, is to he erected
la Damns/haatMr. Peter Hollins, the
eeslptor of the statute of Dr. Jeph.on, et •
Leamington, has been commissioned to c
execute it.
Ten Sr. Joe.e Film -The Telegraph s
from St. John, left night. says the lose by
th• Frederietos fire is £!o,000, exclesrve
of merchaediee,_ personal property, furoi•
tare, Arc. 'the icsuraures s.neuot to •c
£19,1100: 3 or 4 thousand of which ars i•
Ileal offices; 177 families were rendered es
homeless, 89 of which were is the moat
destitute eoadition.-Globe.
GODERICII, COUNTY OF HURON, (C. W.) TIIURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1350.
AGRICULTURE.
LECTURES ON AORICULTURA
CHEMISTRY.
DY 1111101 "uUL* WI0.
We rarely appreciate li.. value of an
TWEi,'VE AND SIX PENCE
aT TOD atj 01 Tr* "fart.
NUM13I:R XLIII.
thus part of America, is our own pro- I of it, even oo the ends of drilla oat the
ietas", and in New England Is gement- diseased part. Whatever the cause of this
Is ' ly what the state of agriculture in gleet -11 dies... may be, there can be no doubt that
the u01y cure hith.rto draeov., d a hme.-
1 land probably was 10 or 90 years ago. I The Turnip crop in the east of Sci otlaod s
in some parts of Nev Brunswick they much damaged by it this year ; indeed it ap-
are very Dearly in the precise eoaditioa ' pears ler be •preadtae more and mora every
7 In which Scotland way 120 years age. ' year.- Laaaer.srir Farmer.
science t0 its slats of iufaocy. It is gene
rally impartible to foresee what awful re-
sults may flow from its practical applies.
tion. When any new discovery is brought
to bear with advantage upon industrial la-
bor, it soon acquires • popular toter'st
which closures its rapid spread ; electricety
itself had created ns lair in the of
practical Ile, uottl electro -planting and
the telegraph gave it importance to the
eyes of practical can ; sod now we know
what it bas done, our eaticepatons are al-
most boundless of what it may be made to
do -many of us, looking with confidence
to a day, notufar distant, wbim some new
discovery wilt cosvert it into a source -of
chesp and commodious motive power.
The science of chemiatry bas for ages
Immo the hand -maid of the muufacteirer in
the preparation of raw materials for useful
aid relined purposes. It is Daly lately
that her aid Ms ban sought by the produ-
cer ; and with such successful results, that
the Tight which the application of chemis-
try le agriculture has thrown upon his
operators, emends. him to convert an ex•
permeate! art into an intellectual and no -
1e sci°oce.
A Breech of knowledge, hardly a doses
ears old is its praetical npplicotioe, can
eercety be supposed to have mit with an
:tended •ppreeiation among the farming
ommuottt.e of Canada, or mote to have
eceive4 the mttestio■ of that whose time
id opportunities afford them &eilit's, for
sprain tbir eequaistanee with it.
1n its serty stage of development the
twice of Agricultural Chemistry was .e-
oosstrily very imperfect, and often much
isundwrtood. A too unguents expuls-
ion of the megait.de of its promised re -
It., while still ite Ibis imperfect state, led
much disappointment, which had the ef-
t of mreati•g a retest prejudice in the
idds of many preetfeal mon,-oeitb•r wa
until mat•nste drawn from •xpe►tment
0firmt.g, er modifying the progoostiea
ens or theory, were moulded into a ration
apnea ofAgricolt.ie, that the visionary
hopes of multitedes became sobered down
e • proper thew .f the actual good to b.
•blainsd,-en event which bee taken place
dnrtni the lest 4 or 5 years. What Chem•
leery has already done for Agriculture is
immense : what she may yet do is incalcu-
lable. /fled now that a clear insight into
the relationship is established, the difficulty
of preosntieg a popular view of the subject
has alm•et vanished.
Very strong prejediees exist among
ferment apiast book farming, prejudices
which have arisen from drsappoirted hopes,
and minims loss is following arbitrary rules.
Agrieeltssl science is no system of hook -
farming -it preesot• so prescribed rules to
be Implicitly obeyed. 1t portrays in .fm -
pie langnege, devoid of technicalities, the
r why formers plough, drain, ranee,
and retat• their crops ; It show■ brew re -
repeated stopping without manure must
inevitably ruin for a time the most fertile
soil : and it establishes tench an intimate re-
lationship between the soil and the kind of
veeetab'e growing upon it, that every farm-
er may frame fur himself a rational system
of he•beedry se varied a the soil he may
chance to cultivate. it has been oceastoo.
ally urged by some, who •peak from supe•
nonce acgnir.d in • very contracted sphere
that Canadian farmers io possession of a
fertile soil, do not require the aid of a scien-
tific system of agriculture. Bich an ob-
jection, rarely advanced, it is true, may be
dismissed by a reference to the present de-
teriorated condition of malty fertile regions,
and to that growing desire whieh *very
intelligent farmer exhibits to make himself
acquainted with the rational of agricultural
processes -as well to to abs invariable sue -
ecu attending tbe'.eq.ir,mant o! snob ie-
fors•tts•. A.Mher objectfen to Ib gore -
rid diffusion is said to be found in the dr.
ces nteee.s by whish Canadian farmers w
frgesntly serreeeied--.distance from mar-
kets, tb• high prime( labour, the low price
.f 'redeem .ad of bed, .11 oesdeeteg b
feet*, s'teem of he.b••dry directly op -
Need 1. rational views. Agrt.wttwwl
eebne• le replete with'ngge.IMeb 'i1M8'1
of whew* may he "served. sod ile my, N wet
tined • invisemsdtiee, ►ojsetell i N MAO
ftsetf to ewer eanialltthe of yeeatlty'Rjr -
e•Ntasey W wterewor eatoelati.i $ ens
tbatip.me of i1. smgMmMilme Lilo not sin.
mmnerrliv.t sem T_. -mi to SIM elf s
1mMw.l system Inv that aM11 w►11(y.....
1111( ..petal .f dtmislshtitt S11dltes et ro-
tten M geser.l thrwgbo t the older sat-
es portions of Ibre Provisos 1 N fes bete
trig null tempt► mpg to Nowt MOW ori.
lho /Nom of XINii .Tool( y hr0NN11
to pith � pit llrw11 w.yles e1 ewn dem.
omrodyWoes
ser
Tlaroattous Lo.. or Lirn.-We Tarn to
by the telegraph from New York last night -.
that a trewead as loss of life has takes tee
plus at Coataatiuopl•. The leen/ace- et
roost is that the Cordaro Puska, • Turkish 11
hoes( battle ship, was blown up at Con- est
• tanttnsple on the tSrd ins!., when 1000
pintoes on board were kilkd.-.iG4.6r. ti
at
Ricgl•to HOURS -A writsein the .g&s-
•rico• Farmer, g!rea the following as hie
mode of br*akr.g homes of the vile and tet
dangerous b.bit sf k•cking. He says, "I
attack ort end ens strong line to the hind
pestes of the berme lit take it forward
through tha leap, fastened to the trace, at
the et lead the horse, sed attach the other
end of the line tie the bridle; a line attached
thus at each side of the horse, if left suffi-
ciently long to just *sable him 10 make a
step, will at every kick he may make oper-
ales se severely epos his mouth as to cease
bum vary soon to give it up as • bad
job.
Enquiries into thea of these reales a take the oref
o the Montreal Company to
inform us that they are the natural tease- Swansea. W. believe that the Mioesoto
quences of the system or farming pursued. will aim be the first craft of the burden
Where little attention is paid to • jadleioe• etemmooly understood to constitute a asnbi
rotation of crops, to outface draining, to to pap from Lake Hhres to the reeks
Oth.r craft have had the honour of making
manuring, to the de.truetien of wade and the first voyage• from Lake Ontario and
the 'election of seed, -iii • word to as Erie. Huron has its turn now, and doubt -
careful a management as circumstances lies Lakes Superior aad Michigan u itl
+ill permit of all farming operations,-esa come in due course. We say the .lfindoto
be th• the first, because we mill hope so ;
we bo surprised that the average of Canada's but she has met with an unfortunate acct
staple product, wheat, is less than ens -kali dent that may possibly snot01 the voyage
the average of England and many parts of •e o now. It appears that she took the
continental Europe. ground at the entrance of the Lachine Ca-
nal, and received so much injury that it has
The local experience of every farmer in been necessary to keep one pump going
ever since. The Captain took measures
to have • surrey immediately on his arrival;
but up to yesterday afternoon, he had found
it impomuble to prawns competent survey-
ors. The consequence of the accident may
be either that she will discharge in Mootre-
•I or Quebec and be detained till Spring ;
or that, being put ashore, the mischief may
be repaired, and the ship again enabled to
proceed. The Mieesote is scbooner.ngg.d
of 260 tone register ; but capable of carry.
ing 400 tone of cargo. Elbe is only half -
loaded With ore, and sow draws 8
feet 6 ince" of water. She took nineteen
days to come from the Brute Mines to
Montreal, including eight days' detention,
on account of the breach in the Cornwall
Coal, and the want of tog boats. The
Captain thinks that the •rer•ge will not ex.'
ceed about ten days, when everything is in
order. If something like these expecte•
twos should be realized, the whole voyage
from these distant- inland ports to England
will occupy about forty days. We regret
exceedingly that the lateness of the season,
and the untoward circumstance. in the
Lachine Canal, should have exposed this
essay .to the risk of facture. We hope,
however, that our friend the skipper, may
yet b. in time for Toho- Bull's Christmas
beef and piedding.-.yontreal Herald.
Go as lar west ss you like. and as hr Lana Hutton Orf, -The first cargo of
far south es yen like the same gement this ore seer shipped for an European port
de°c-uption sppliee lo tbi whet.."- is now lying ID the Casal Basin on board
the.Hiaesof0, which our readers will remem-
Prn(esssr Johnston.]
bar was one el the two vessels engaged
the country will afford bim abundant ilius-
tratiom of the difference in the resoles pro-
duced by good and bad farming. There is
not an old settled Township in the Pro-
vince, which does not furnish many instan-
ces of intelligent aad well-informed men,
annually reaping double, and sometimes
treble the average amonot of produce from
tbeir farms, their neighbors are vainly es-
deavoring to obtain. These snecessful re.
pulls do not necessarily flow from the acci-
deltal possession of more fertile soil°, bot
rather from careful industry 'regulated by
experience and well applied informstioo.-
Bue sericulture! information obtained by
experiw•e alone, is limited in its applica-
tion ; its rates becomes materially lessened
wiles the circumstances under whieh it was
acquired are charged. A farmer who sec.
coeds well by dist of long practice, upon •
clay roil,' is at fault when the scene of his
°panties• is changed to one of a sandy na-
ture.
Agricultural Chemistry by descending to
elementary principle', enables a farmer to
build op a system of husbandry adapted to
• every kind of soil, and every earlety of alt-
o