Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-12-23
For THE WHic
To Messrs Ripes of Campbell .STor,i, Of Hanous,


To .Messrs Rpes If CampbeU. hror,;, oe f5,no,s,.
aud Miller Of Po,Dhafan.
Genflemen'-I observe in The procoed;pos ,f o..
Legislature hat resolution has been adopted Gin
sfructiDg the Committee of Agriculture to enquire
whether any. and If any. what assures are neccssa.
rv to promote the agricultural into of this Com
monweatf; and the Committee have Jeave IN reno,t
nv bill ar otherwise"
Permit me, gentlemen, To implore Won IN n,e vorr
best Influence and all your talents to procure tho in
ser''on 81 clause IN tn" cont emplated BILL 10 compel
every owner of stock tn confine his horses coyrs
hogs and sheep upon his own lands either by small
or large enclosures, may suit his inclina. ions.
but ef tho penalty for failing do So be either for
TEXTURE OF INC stock or the value thereof-at any rates.
alter the Cd offence. This will ''promote the cause
OF agriculture" and thr improvement of our lands
more than any other thing the Legislature can de-
vise thew were to continue in session six years. in
stead OF SIX months pray you to reflect upon the
subect-brng to vour rccollections tho circnms,on
cos which have, within The last twenty years. orodu
ced contentious and hatred. qrarreng and fighting in
your neghhorhoods, and you will find ! verify be-
evo that the depredaons of ock lie at the founda-
ton OF five sxhs Of those dsa greements What is so
well calculated 10 make hate his neighbor ms to
lie in his bed night reflect hat his nciphbor
may NJ that moment be DESTROYING the crop for which
he has been toiing nine months ofthc year -and how
often do we rise of morning and find our fears Of
such destruction realized by The fact need not tell
you. gentlemen, that such law would he beneficial
10 the poor-you must know II, f you have ever nj
ven one hours attention to the sutherland If Won
never have pray Won now to do 1t. verify believe
such law would reduce the poor rates TO almost
nothing IN less than ten ycars-and that there would
not BE- man or woman in the State. who would not.
IN tn" end npolanl your Efforts upon this all ;mDor
fnnt mnHer-tor. rest assured, without such n Iav
extending It's provisions from the Blue Ridge oF
mount ans 20 the Eastern boundary Of the STAFF mr.
ut Toast to the head Of tide water middle Virginia will
become poor despsed country-all your To;l roads
since navigation, and canal schemes to he contra
~ notwithstanding Such law is worth them all
II 10 The enclosing system ESQ much insisted on BY all
nroh"rn writer's on agrcnurc upon the largest scale:
O. whnt Is still more desirable, its benefits will be pen,
raj; and we shall obtain that benefit bv vast saving
OF money and labor Col. TAYLOR some 90 vcnrs
ago. calculated the expense Of cutting down timber
hauling 1t into rails, and putting upon dead fencos,
ns equal on very large farm To one tenth of nil tho
labor bestowed upon the cultivation cf that farm IF
u ~ Tuc IN relation to largc farm. it il doublv so
upon small ono, as every arithmpiician knows il
only requires double the number of rails TO enclose
Tour acres OF land that requires 10 enclose one mere
consequently the small farmer ia NJ twice as much
EXPENSE. as he fnrmor who has double that quantity
OF land moan double the expense. in proper ion TO
the quantity Of land cultivated and enclosed
PETER STONER.