Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-12-24
.AGRICULTURE.

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.AGRICULTURE.
Tie improvement. in chs are uo~ly
-soxretfi.e. Tia agent he's presailea Oh
f.yerai Of ! the tovns, Wso h;d g
4.ult.d l,e!ands in their nj 5,hbsufhood by
u tue, to iettle out in villages 'i,s pfae-
ice is incrcaing, and all ot them 1encs
heir fields. There has been demand
sais, isaton for p.oughs, and 70 have pee''
Ipsd out ot;thofe ient by the Secretary
Of War, and so OF them arc N u'e' by
indiaos. '''1 -:
There is nutlsry Of peach trees: IN the
Lower Creeks, and one has been iateljy
Fefab,i.hed among tie Upper Greeks,
and the Indians begin to accept OF, and
10 plant them. Nearly 5000 have been
ra;fed and difribu,ed free the arrival u
the agent.
The nurleries are increafSd, and will be
kept up 10 the demand; they are hitherto
+aiied BY the agent ard his aii;tan,s, with.
out any expence to the agency. Ccstois
RATED in seye;a al places, but.in fnallquan
titles, by Indians; il docs well ,hroughog
The agency. The green feed isin genera
lfe, and well fuited to the northern ha'.
Of the agency; and the ifa-i iland cotton,
rom two iucceflye experiments, pron'ne5 !
70 do wei! en- the fouthe:h hail; ioa COZ
Ton has been fcnt te ra:!set. FAX does
veil the n->tieaion will be cultivate
in feyerai piaces-1 here IS. Biuoh Ihi
lwamp land fire for X, and ii,.s isafty cry
III the fe4iol tor its grown, Nneas,
barley, rye ard oats, have ace:i ;a'Ic,
duced and fairly tried the thres hs.' d"
we'll, but the lfrings being generally dr..
oats have failed. The cary WIeie an
brown wheat is r:pehy the middle Q. May
Apple-trees, srspe-vules, raiberrles, al
the roots, heybs ana vegetables utuai.
cultivated in good gardens, have lately
,,sen introduced, and they all thrive
veil.
MANUFACTURES.
The preient lpr!ng tie ,agcn,. has deli
vered to Indian women 100 pair cot
ton cards, and So ip,nning wiecis !; there
is eight looms in the nation, iour O.
hem wrought BY I:dian or halt bteee
women, and he remainder by white W.
rnco. There IL z woman employed a.
an afIinans, to teach Ind;ae women to
fsin and weave. aa,d tie agent Ia, az
,oiassd, "a temporary ,afliitAm, a Young
Eagiiaaman,, jlon, manutatte,Y N,
Stockport, in England, who cah MAKE
looms and fpiunins wheels, ard every
thiug apperta'ning to them, add he ur :
derlfands weaving. He will, IN few
DAYS, have ninth loom iet up at the
reiidcnce OF the agent. The womea nave
;h:sfpring adopted this part OF the plan
with ip;rit, and have promiied TO foliow
the directions of the agent with exatti-
tude. Three Indian women, Of one "a.
mily, whs have been fpinning for two
Fears only, have clothed Their: Ives we'll,
and have acquired fome hogs and cattle,
are proud of the exertions they have
made, and are, by their condaef, fiji.
.nulus TO their couutrylwoHen. One OF
the looms and two Of the fpinring' wheels
in ule were made by an Indian chief, for
his own family.
The chiefs, who were apprehenGve at
srst that if their women could clothe and
find ,hemfslves by their own e1srtions,'
would become independent of the de.
graded fate Of coanexion between them,
nave had proofs that the link is more Arm,
m proportion as the women are more
afefal, and occupied in doneGic con-
Germs. Ias
Oil of hickory nut and aeofRs was in
ule, in Email quantities, among the In.
.iians, as an article Of food. In the
year 1877, the agent. finding that the
hickory trees were mixed through the
waving land and abourded on ,he fats,
made an effort 10 encourage this manu-
taetsre he offered thres-tourihs Of a
dollar quart for che, oil that ihould be
7nade thar year Of hickory nut, and coue
rocure few bottles only. In 1898 h
received S, gallons IL 1899 he pur-,
mated 20 gallons. and the lsit w:n,e:
be fixed the price. a, enc dollar per gallon,
and the manolsttnre ks. been increAfet