Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-02-21

To your memorialists ii appears most
evident, that such Institutions are loudly
called for by the hest Interests of the State
and they feel confident that your honors
will coincide with them in the opinion, that
the period has arrived when it is imperous-
ly necessary that something must be done:
They conceive that by the establishment OF
those schools and pattern farms invaluable
benefits will ensue to the agricultural COM
munity and to the State at large; they be,
lieve that by judicious arrangement ana
economy IN their organization, and IN the
manner of carrying them on, no other bur.
then will fall upon the State than the first
outlay, should you adopt the first p Ian sug-
gested-and III the event of your fixing on
the second, that nothing farther than the
specified interest money will be annually
required. as it appears plain to your me-
morialists, that the labor of the farm could,
and would be performed, in the adoption
Of either plan, by the students or apPrentl.
ces.
1t appears also to your memorlalists high
ly proper, that in these establishments there
should be engaged, lst, competent and
intelligent farmer: Cd, lecturer upon
Chemistry, as applicable to the business of
husbandry: Sd, a gardener skilled in the
proper culture ofthe Mulberry: 4th, person
thoroughly acquainted with the manage
ment Of Silk-worms and the conversion of
the cocoons into sewing Silk, and another
acquainted with the beet culture and the
mode of making Sugar from that root.
The organization ofthe Agricultural So.
cietiss, which your men,orialists propose,
could not be onerous to the State treasu-
ries; because the outlay would be restrict.
ed by the interest Of those who should be
members of them. In Massachusetts, with
the view of stimulating agriculturists to
form such associations, the State has gen
erouslv enacted, that for every dollar sub.
scribed by each of It's members, she will
give like sum. The aggregate amount
thus collected is, periodically, distributed in
premums-some 10 the owner Of the best
cultivated farm, of given dimensions; others
for the greatest quantity of corn raised upon
a certain number Of acres. So also, the
wheat and rye grower, the raiser Of the
best crop Of potatoes; the breeder Of the
best horse, cow or hog; the owner Of The
COW, feed considered, which yields the
greatest quaniiiy Of milk and butter in a
year; the person who raises the greatest
number Of Mulberry trees, and ihc raiser OF
the most silk, have each and all their induce
ment, in the shape Of bounlies ahd preml-
ums, to animate them in the noble contest
agricultural rivalry. Your memoriaIIsls
would further state, that they are informed,
that while the annual bur,hen upon he trea-
sury Of the State of Massachusetts is com.
paratively small, compared with The mag
nitude of the good effected, the happest re-
suits have been produced. Each indvidu-
al there, engaged IN the pursuits Of husbou.
drv, feels himself called upon by that emo.
bling sentment--moral obligation-to ex-
eel his neighbor,--and thus, by The excite.
ment of spirit Of rivalry, virtuous in lis
conception, and holy in its objects and
prosecution, have the legislature produced
feeling and pride, whose benefits are to
be seen in the frui fulress of a comparative
" barren soil, and the prosperity and hap
pincss of The people.
With ibis exposition of their views, your
memoriaIis;s res especially ask your Honora.
BILE BODY, to take the subjects treated of in
this memorial. into your serious and dispas.
siona consideration, and 10 grant them
such relief as to you may seem meet and
proper, and they as in dury bound will ever
pray.