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r c - H ' : , i s . A J A'" --' ! - V?-' - t''r ' . " O v . 4111 lilt? 1111 'Jill. mi) :iin: 1- rrF. l ; I- Agriculture it the great art, tchich even tlovfrnineiit ought 6 protect, every proprietor of landt to pr ceil: ft c: , every inquirer tnto nature to improve. Joiissoyr. 7 2js yEsa iaaiLjajs Asra jots ggffiasgau:::. vol; i." - . EAIEIGH, HOVEZIBEB, 1855. no. v::. NOltTII-CAKOLTNA ARATOH. Hy TIIOS.'j. LEMAY, Editor k Puopeietqu: , JBTkrms. Published on the first of every month, nt onk dollar a year, t advance, or $ 1,50 if not paid until the end of the yean JDT Advertisements, not exceeding twelve lines for caeii and every insertion, one dollar containing more at the same rates. yv''-' ; .. . . '. We recommend the following to the attention And careful perusal of our readers. It is eharac terized by a degree of plain, practical good sense, which unfortunately, generally too scarcer an article iu the writings of those who discuss the science of agriculture. CHEMISTRY APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE -DR. 'ANDERSON. ' MY A FARMER. The peculiarity of Dr. Anderson's style of treat ing questions connected with agriculture is, that ho is the first and only dnej of the numerous writ ers, wlnclf have passed under our notice, who ad mits that he has anything to learn from practical men. Thrspcculiarity is1 the more striking as it is the very antipodes of the 4 opinions expressed by V more than one of his predecessors.- As remarked ; v iu a', previous paper;' the' writers on agricultural . ' q cfmtiix$,Sov: ipepared with an answer to every v question proposed to them ; they knew the value " of a ; manure, or of a hitherto untried article of ;. . food, whether for man or beast : thoy kuew. by the aid of.aoalysi3, what a. soir required to malitj 1.. Anderson or nit, vrc confeti to have derived, fertile for sugar-cane or cabbage, potatoes or f :.lra treesno mntter whether the soil examined mi'rht be from Demcrara or Greenland. . As the very re verse to such ignorant presumption for we call it nothing else DV. Anderson, in his lecture dcliy- 4 ered at Glasgow, ucknowledges that he has ,qucs . tions constantly presented to him, on which bo , posscj0cs no iufonnaVion at all." In the present 5 days of quacks and quackery in matters bearing on agricultural chemistry, when the agricultural world is in a state bf nervous anxiety for inior mation, bold indeed must thai man be who makes such an acknowledgment. It is a more cutting v reproof to tbo-jC who thought they had a "solution in their laboratory,.' to every question proposed to them" than we dared to administer. Nor docs Dr. Anderson think we shall ever arrive at an ah- ; swer to these "questions " by the maiden efforts bf science. No j " we must depend for their solution on the mutual aid of science and practice 5 tto, ' J. two' must go together." ' v ; . , A correspondent of the Times criticises tnis ad dress very severely, and complains that it contains , nothing new. We uphold, on the contrary, that it i3 entirely new, but more especially in mcJesty. By the way, we are at a loss to know why tho Times should have been selected as the medium for criticising Dr. Anderson's lecture, instead of any of the numerous papers and magazines ex clusively devoted to agricultural subjects. Whether sucn an .avorral be coopumentary to 5 hi ' t: :: 1 " I v I 1 ! ' 1 ) ! 4 ! ; 1 ' 0. : ! ' J : ., ;.' to!
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