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39 S. Cultivator 1 (1881)

handle is hein.slavery/socultva0039 and id is 1 raw text is: ansI ~i ~ agoj J1ai4. FORJ~ THE FLANTATIO% THE GARDEIN ALND THE FAILY CIRCLE. YOL IIIII; ATLANTA 9A, JAiNUARY, 1881, No. 1. SE0 COVE POP CONTENTS, TEBMS, fe. CONSTITUTION PUB. CO., W. L. JONES, Editor. ~gricallaral glepartment. THOUGHTS FOR THE MONTH. The farm year coincides pretty closely with the civil or legal, and the beginning of a new stute year, affords a natural and convenient occasion to examine what progress has been made and in what directions the indications point for the future. During the last fifteen years very great changes have taken place in our agriculture-changes both practical and eoretical. We have entered upon a new era. Itisdawn began before the war, when Mr. David Dickson and a few others in the South firmly grasped the idea that soils-were impoverished ly the exhaustion, not of all, but of a few of their ingredients, and that these could be eaply and proftably procured and applied in commercial articles, the supplies of which twere abundant, and the bulk is so small as to it of feady application to the soil. The struction of slavery gave a: great impulse to he iew idea, because labor became a cash com- ity, and in absence of compulsory process, AA a very dear one; and the necessity of supple- menting it by fertilizers and by labor-saving implements, forced itself upon the attention of farmers. The views and practices of Mr. Dick- son, published in this journal, in form of let- J ters, during the years 1867-68, gave shape and form to the new policy, and awakened a won- derful degree of thinking and experimenting among the farmers of the South. So great was the interest developed, that the circulation of the CuzrvAvon increased in twelve months from under three thousand to over fourteen thousand copies, and we found it necessary to issue a separate edition of the Letters'? them- selves. Encouraged and stimulated by fresh hopes, the farmers seized the new idea and pushed it, in many instances, wildly, extrava- gaptly, and ruinously. The proper conditions under which concentrated chemical fertilizers should be applied, the best paying quantities, the best combinations and proportions--these points had not been yet fully settled, and there was, in the very nature of things, much grop- ing in the dark. That many.mistakes should be made was natural and to be expected. The history of this movement resembles that of all great discoveries. The discovery of a great principle or law is followed for many years with an unfolding of its bearings or practical applications. Theoretical suggestions have to be verified by trials, by facts, by experiment and experience. Time is *quisite for this; in agriculture a.long time, !Jecause it takes a4J least a year to make an experiment. For the last ten years this work has been going on; Digitized from Best Copy Available V %FIJ

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