Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-12-24
frRoM rnE DOsroN PALLADIUM.

VII! pe positive III such cases.
FROM THE BUsToN PALLADIUM.
~ TIE Culture ~ Rice IN Neir England,
LIVERY interval OF war she id he filed up by
e%ertiohS in agriculture, that noble art which
gives mau the ONLY riches he can call his own
Some parts of our extensive country are so
fertile, that is, so full OF the natural food of
certain plants, as 10 need scarcely any labor
beyond that of gathering them. But that strip
OF the United States which borders ON the
ocean, and may be called the me camille re gion,
is comparatively sterile and would be "A drea-
~ spot without the aid Of commerce on one
hand, and of agriculture on the other
Agriculture, or the art of forcing the earth
to produce plants for the food of man and beast
more copious!y than what il would without his
IdOor, is noble employment, and gratifying
TO lie pride of man; for here he acts the part
OF second creator, or agent of IL bomiiful
Providence, who only requires of him muscular
labor and thankful heart, in return for his
i0Gti, ms health his innocence, and his safety.
III mas been justly remarked in Your paper
That IN the pastyear more farming tools Of new
ana improved patterns, have been brought
before the public, and more eXertions i'm agri.
culture made. than at any period since the set
temenl OF our country Every new kind of
grain that has been introduced is OF great con
sequence. OF what vast Importance has the.
introduction of the potato the wheat and Tile
ice, been TO onr land And what serious rea
cons nave we Tor improving The quality of our
ht S. 10 tue oals OF Britain aud IIeland
e have imblbed notion HAT Rice can ONLY
ne raised IN hot climates and there oniy i'm
S"amps and niarshy grounds the region of
everlasting levers yet we believe that il can
be raised In the middle Slatos aud some paris
OF New England This il not matter OF upin-
iop merely; II Is the result OF trials in c,ines
as cold and as dry ours.
There IS kind OF upland or mountain rice
(the CtSzd Mntcd,) tiat viii grow IN high
grounds without any more water than the
common raIns and have no dOubt bat what
u would grow Disadvantage in several paris of
New England.
When the Russian embassy returned over
lahd rom Persia, tsey brought amongst other
vegetable productions some OF this OJ,vz0 JIuti
ca,or upland rice. The ambassador rave some
OF IT to the learned and benevolent DIR. De
Cairo, at Vienna, who raised as good rice f,o.,
ii there as was tile rice he soWed. The Dr.
Sent small! portion Of il 10 me some or 10
years ago and urged me to make trial of il I'm
New England. ! sowed half what he sent me
~ small pot and sent the other to President
JEFFERSON win The history oft. | was induced
tO II from an idea usgested by Dr. De Caro-
that Dr. Jefferson had received some of tbis
KING OF rice from Cochin China, and that il
h",i pFospereG IN his hands. There fore wrote
10 iin' on the subject, aad received the follow
ing satisfactory Answer. | shall venture wita
nefereIce TO remark here, hat President lief
ieisoh hardly gave this new species of Grain
!diI iridi at Philadelphia. A. il grows i'm eli
mates e' like our own ~ Europe, why not give il
iair and thorough trial hpTe2 Rice is a more
universal plant than wheat-it is thouelt IN
constitute the food of two thirds of mankind
we ourselves remember when.it was reueraiIy
DeheVeu, That wheat would not grow any
where ia Massachusetts. Bat The fpltoyin.r
letter expresses more on The subject tbauI can
write. " W
Cambridge, Nor 25, 1918.
THE LETTER.
Washington Dec I.
DEAR SIR--iu IN Ito.
benevolent Dr.. de Caro- on the Subiect of tie
Upland or Mountain Rice, Oryza Mntics. /
VIII stale To You what k,iow OF it, FIRST he
came lniotned OF the existence Of Rice which
wonld grow IN uplands withoutany more water
thaii tie common rains, by re.dine hook of
~. de FoNoIe, who had been governor of tle
Isle OF France, who mentions IL as growing
mere, and all along The coast OF Africa, sue
ceSSluly, and having been introduced from
COchih ChIna: j was at the time (l7Sl l7Syj
~ france, and there happening TO be there
fFince Of Cochin China, on his travels ami
then returning home, obtained his promise fo
Se"i me SOHe never received il. however
dhu MERTON II only as II NAV have been sent
ahd iurnjshed the ground for the insujries of
~ De Cdrro, respecting my receiving il from,
ChIna. Nhtu at Hdvfe on INV return fro,v
france, found there Captain Nathaniel Get
Jug, WAC was on the ensuing suriuo In ,n ms,
voyage to titc coast of Africa. / enSs,ed
bIm TO enquire for this. He was there imst
diitF lbe harvest, procured and sent mo a oo
gallon edNk Ct II. II arrived in time the si,su-
liis sprinS to be sOwn. / divided it between
TIE agricultural Society Of Charleston. and
some, private gentlemen Of Georgia, recon-.
mending It 10 their care, in the hope, which
h"u induced me to obtain il, that IL ID answered
as wen as tie swamp Rice, il might rid them
81 uat source of their summer diseases. Moth.
ihS came to the trials in South Carolina, bnt
DeihS carried into the upper billy part, of
NeoIPid, u succeeded there perfectly. has
spread over the country, aud il is now com
monty cultivated. Still, however, for family
use enemy, as they cannot make il for sale in
competition with the Rice OF the Swamps-
he FORMER part of these details is written
from memory, tie papers being at Monticello
w"ch WOuid enable me 40 particulariserxactlv
the daie OF times ard places. The latter part
II from the late Mr.. Baldwin. one of those
"bOh engaged in the distribuiiOn Of the seed
~ 1'O'gid and who, ~ dis annual attendance
OF congress, gave me, from time to time. the
history OI us progress IL has got from Ceor
ga INTO kentucky. where Il j. cultivated by
many individuals for family u.e I cultivated
u TWO or three yens al Monticello, aud had
IoOd crops, a. did my neigliboTs, bat noi hav.
ihS cohVtncnccs iOr huskiuv %. we declined
~ tiied some OF IL in u pot while itv,.,! in
tf'ddeirhla aHd gave seed 10 Mr. Barha,, -
- Pf"anced inxuliani pi.flts Will as both. unt
y" AtSd Nor do believe IL will ripeu la lie
'N'teu States a. iaf s0ith as Pinlsdelubii. -
""sihess a'sd ag iAdi,pOslu0a tor ssu,, Js,s