Litchfield enquirer., 1829-03-19

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 Mortality among Ee0ckes.-I remem- Der the time, nearly forty years ago, when I could boast nearly as many varieties of the peach ; even said I would faiteO or fced hogs on the yellow clingstones. There has been since that time lameniable re- verse. Thespeach trees of that plantation and of the neighboring region have, been doomed to finger and perish The dis ease has been considered by Mr. Prince as contagious, and coumunica,ed by nor bid flowers; and by MI. Adriance, as eau sed by malign intIiiepce shed upon the peach tree by the Lomhardy poplar. Oth- CT discreet observers have ascribed the
 mortality to the ravages ofthe insect Ege-, TiG eritioSG, ilIfesting the trunk between air and earth, at the point where the as- cending and descending caudex uni!e.- Some again think there is an epidemic in- tlnence, which has not yet reached the end Of,its destructive term. invading tlse health and destroying the lifb of the peach tree. Whefher the e'mortalily is owing to either of these causes, or to any other, it is quite a calamity in tho fkgions around New York, and every place where it's visitation extends. The most approved rules a. gainst the disorder, seem to be these; to raise trees from the seed; to cull ou, the best varieties of natufh growth; to destroy disordered trees. and to plant new fre- qaentiy. say once in I've or other term of years, according o3circumstances.- F. Farmer.
 N Lnaasd0ted Lands ef tke Mississippi.
 The Commissioner of the General Land Officeha made report to the House of Representatives in compliance with a resolution of that body directing the Sec- ratary ofthe Treasury to 'communicate to the house any information in his possess sion, showing the quantity and queiity of the public lands in the state of Louisiana which are rendered. unfit for cultivation from the inundations ofthe Mississippi, the value ofsaid lands when reclaimed, and the probable cost of reclaiming them." Many interesting facts are stated G, a field open ed for profitable application at some pe- .riodo or other of the national finances, should it be finally settled that the government has the power of applying its energies to internal improvements. Whether at this time with immense tracts of wild and uncul- tivated lands in possession of the govern ment and fer sale,i can be deemed judicious to commerce so stupendous project as that of retaining four million of acres ol inundated lands, may be questionable. But that it will be done at some future day we have no doubt. In favour of immediate attention to the subject, it may perhaps be said that comparatively small part of the public lands are suited to the growth of the sugar cane; production ofimmense value, and which the rich, h,alluvial-inundated lands of the Mississippi are finally calculated to produce. Consequently such lands, when reclaimed, (and about 400, 900 acres have been, by individual enterprise are worth 100 dollars per acre. It is stated that the Mississippi is the muddiest river in the world, and deposits its muddy particles with great rapidity it's waters hold in so- lution not less than one sixteenth part of their bulk of alluvian matter. An inunda- ton of sixteen inches depth over a tract of level land, when drawn off, will leave one inch depth of alluvian matter---a process which by means of dikes and entertainments can be repeated at pleasure at high water, which must render the lands of Louisiania inexhaustibly fertile. The body of land already reclaimed is stated to be the most productive of any lands in the U. States, and will be in a very short period, if it is not at present, as productive as any other known tract of country of equal extent.
 The alluvial plain of Louisiania, like that of Egypt has been created by the de- pOsites from the waters of immense and overfowing rivers; and like the plain of E. gypt once no doubt inundated like the lands of the Mississippi, the latter can be reclaimed by the labor and ingenuity of man, and rendered the garden of the world, capable of sustaining population of two millions and half of human souls. The depth of the Mississippi is from 12O to 200 feet, which immense volume of wa-
 ter is hurried to its various outlets into the
 Gulf of Mexico witl great rapidity, and its divided channels lesened to very mode-
 rate depth. The Fan proposed for les- sening the inundatiOn ofthe public lands, embraces the idea oiremOviDg the obstruc- tions to the discharge of the water, and fa- cilitating by every possible means their