The Southern Planter, Vol. 21

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Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 21: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, February, 1861 Mr. James howard (of Bedford) said he subscribed fully to the opinion that the general employment of steam-power in agriculture would tend to in crease the employment of labourers. Within his own knowledge, it had in some degree extended the growth of root crops. He could refer to a case in which 85 acres of roots were grown upon land which had never before been so cropped and if they grew larger root crops, they increased the creps of corn, and 1n_ creased also the employment of labour. Looking at the increase of population in this country since the extension of steam-power in'our manufactories, be surprised to find that it took upwards of 200 years previously to the introduction of the steam-engine to gain an increase in the population of whilst since its introduction the population had increased He thought there were no more efieetual means of raising the intelligence of the farm labourer than a more general introduction of steam-power. A farmer who paid a man merely to swing a ¿ail could not afford to pay for intelligence - it was nothing more than the exercise of brute force, but to a man who paid £500 for a steam engine, a shilling per day additional would be a tri¿e in the wages of the men employed to direct that machinery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.