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

Instead of practical matter under this
head in our present number, we extract
from the Farmer & Gardener of Baltimore,
part of memorial "of farmers, planters
and those friendly to tine pursuits of Agrl-
culture" to the General Assembly of Mary
land. The memorial, after depicting the
low state of Agriculture in Maryland, and
insisting upon the necessity of improve.
ment to prevent the drain OF population by
emigration, continues:
At period like the present, when the
Golfers OF the State are full-when with
laudable and just ambition she is generous.
lv engaged in promoting great objects of
internal Improvement, your memorlailsts
cannot believe for moment, that you will
withhold your coun;enance and support
from the agricultural COMMUNICATIONS that
community which is at tnce the pride and
Strength OF Maryland. And they therefore
pray, that Your honors viii make such ap-
preparations, as will set on foot,
1st. An agricultural school and pattern
farm.
2dly. A general State Agricultural So
ciery, to BE- formed by delegates from coun-
~ establishments.
3dly. County Agricultural Societies, TO
be voluntarily formed.
4,hlv. That the State should grant boun-
ties to those engaging TO cerialn e&tents IN
the culture of the Mulberry, making OF Silk,
and in the culture Of the Sugar Beet, and
the manufacture of Sugar theretronl-and
5thly. That the State should appoint an
Agent to collect and prepare all available
information, relative to the last branch OF
industry, and that the expense of publication
should be borne by the State; which when
published, 10 be circulated gratuitously for
the benefit of the people of Maryland.
Another plan suggests itself to your me-
morialists, the which they submit in all due
respect to the superior judgement OF your
honors, leaving it to your wisdom 10 adopt
either, or to frame some other suitable plan,
calculated to answer tue proposed end, us
TO YOU NAV seem most fit and proper.
4 pattern Farm and School for each
county, or districts to be laid off by law.
At these establishments the students or ap-
prentices. in addition to the usual avoca-
tons of the farm and school, should manu-
fac.ure the implements Of husbandry for
their own use.
The capital to be raised by subscription
to an incorporated joint stock company, by
the inhabitants of the several counties or
districts, which should not exceed one
thousand dollars for each thousand white
inhabitants, and in no county should the
capital exceed thirty thousand dollars.
The stockholders afier ten thousand dollars
shall have been subscribed in such county,
or district, to meet and choose eli 5ht mana
gers. and annually thereafter to make a
similar election. The State 10 choose four
managers, making in all twelve managers
to each incorporated company. These
managers to select headman or superin-
tendant, and all necessary assistants 10 car
nv on the farm,--and also to appoint pro-
fessor and such assistant tutors as may be
required.
The managers thus to be appointed,
should meet monthly and give such direc-
tons and Instructions as might be called ior
bv the interests of the institution.
At these schools students might be ad-
mitted, or apprentices taken, in such mum.
bers as might be though: proper, who should
regularly serve until twenty lone years OF
age, and be governed by the same obliga-
tons and laws as now obtain in cases OF
other apprentices. -,
When anv such school or farm shall
have been organized and put into practical
operation, and the sum of len thousand dol
lars actually paid in, on legal notification
10 that effect, being made known to the
State treasurer, he should be authorised TO
paw into the hands of the treasurer Of such
association, sum ofmoncv equal in amount
to the interest of the capital thus raised by
such county or district or in event of a
larger capital being raised, that he should
pay such sum as would be equivalent to the
interest thereon, which interest should be
paid annually or semI-annuaIly.
The sum or sums Of money thus to be
be raised by the counties or districts, to be
exclusively appropriated to the objects con-
nected with the establishments respectively.
Periodical accounts of all expenditures
10 be made to the State treasurer, to be by
him laid before the Legislature at their an.
nual sessions.
All profits arising from such establish
ments to be bienniaIly divided among the
several stockholders, and the property of
such interpretations TO be exempt from tax
alton, either to TIE State or the county in
which they may be respectively located.