Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-03-06

Florida to Long Island in the state of
New-York, will produce this plant to
advantage, greater always where the
summers are longest; for ripening in
succession, it will continue to produce
until checked by frost. When I speak
of lands on the salts, | must be UNDER
stood as meaning lands affected by salt
atmosphere, for it is perfectly UNDER
stood, that heat and cold, are not uni
formly regulated by degrees of longitude
and latitude. The moderate distance of
eight miles east from the waters the
Sassafras, has destroyed every blade in
corn field, while at this place nothing
was injured--and a few miles, say 10 or
-, equal care taken, peas and straw
berries will be week earlier upon salt
water shores.
The whole of the peninsula of Mary
land, Delaware, and Virginia, from Do
yer down TO the Capes, is all more or
less affected by vapors from the two
bays end the ocean, and will think pro-
duce good crops of Bene. The warm
river lands of Anne Arundel county, and
from thence down the Chesapeake to
the Capes, diverging further from the
rivers as you progress to the south, will
all produce Bene to advantage. The
warm, river and ocean lands of New
Jersey, which now produce such ex-
cellent crops ofnfellons and sweet pota-
toes, are entitledsto a fair experiment,
for in my opinidz, tho Bene will on
them, prove pre- Aablesrop very rich
land is not the moss tayosable, for j, may
not only run too m lh to stock instead of
seed, but it may grdw too high for chill
dren to cut and collect the seed. 1t will
require equal cultivation with corn, is
planted in drills, from two to three plants
in hill, and the hills three feet apart.
To encourage the culture of this most
valuable plant, company should be
formed in your city, which would distri-
butte the seed, and contract to purchase
for two or three years at a liberal price.
The want of machinery, and of course a
market, checked the culture in Georgia.
There is cautious reluctance in my
fellow countrymen to attempt new crops
or new modes of culliy alton. No period
could be more propitious than the pre-
sent for introducing this plant. Our
grain is of little value, while a bottle of
oil maintains its war price--offtr TO the
farmer an encouraging price, not to be
affected BY southerly 7vihd, and ] have
10 doubt, but that in few years, we
shall export oil, equal if not superior to
the best Olive. In such case, we shall
all be indebted TO the Philadelphia friend
OF the plough, for first proposing the sub
ject through the medium of your valua-
bic paper.
/ now, sir, promise through you, that
nearly the whole of the seed which Mr..
Mcqueen sends to me, shall be placed
in your hands for distribution, and as I
have already given my opinion Of the
quality of the oil, without any pretensions
to correct taste, will also send you one
bottle of the oil for your own use, and
one other bottle for the Philade phia
friend Of the plough, and if you will in
struct me, how other distributions can be
made, which may encourage the culture
OF this most valuable plant, your wishes
shall be respected.
Half bushel oil seed, carefully ma.
naged will plant thousand acres.
am your obd't serv't.
T. M. FORMAN.
J. S. SKINNER. ESQ.