Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-08-23

nications.
From the Southern AgricuIturist,
Agricultural Convention.
Mr.. Edlior,-In tho May number Of
your periodical, there is brief editorial,
wherein you observe thatyou are requested
"by several Agricultural Societies, to in.
vise the planters Of the several Parishes (and
Districts too ! suppose) of this State, and
Of ourdifferent Agricultural Societies. to ap-
point delegates to meet in Convention, at
Columbia, during the first week Of the ses.
sion of our Legislature, to take into consid.
eralion the agricultural condition Of our
State, and to present to the Legislature
such memorial US will bring prominently
TO their view the necessity of enac,ing Ger
tain laws for the advancement the same -
and one ofyour correspondents, A Rea.
dsr.' has catered warmly into anadvocacy
of the measure. We all agree, no doubt,
as to the objects contemplated, and | pre-
sumo there is little or no difference as TO
the means necessary 10 accomplishing the
end, but ifby discussion any information
can be elected which would facilitate the op-
eralons Of the Convention, it should not bo
withheld. Under this impression, and with
the hope of drawing out some writer better
fitted 10 the task, forward you this com.
municaiion.
Some ten or twelve years since, the Agri.
cultural Society Of ofSouti..C Carolina was orga.
nizsd, and like the Mammoth Society - for
the advancement of learning" was to have
worked miracles; but to unliken this and
many other bantlings, before it acquired
that age which would enable It 10 leave the
cradle It was destined 10 sleep /" the sleep
of DEATH" .....
The second step in the State, have
heard of, TO procure Legislation, in aid of ngri:
culture, was the petition of the Monticello
Planters Society in 1887. suggesting the
benefits that would result from an agricul-
tural survey of the State; from the intro
ductlon of agricultural school books into the
common schools OF the country; from the
establishment of an agricultural professor
ship in the South Carolina College and
from agricultural societies and Libraries.
That petition embodied arguments shelving
in detail the advantages that would follow
the adoption of all or any of these plans,
and sustained itself in the contrast it held
I'D of the more laudable action of other
States OF the confederacy in connexion with
this subiect, designed as tho document, was,
throughout and altogether, to meet IN ad.
vance the extraordinary question so often
propoupded by legislators-whas can be
done J
The fate of that memorial is recorded in
the Southern Agriculturist vol. XII, No. 5.
Its destiny was quite as remarkable, It not
more so than the next move on the chess
board. In 1888, the Beaufort Agricultur-
al Society, the Monticello Planters Society,
and sundry citizens of Marion District, pre-.
sented their several petitions aud unless
greatly err, on motion to that effect, they
were ali laid on The table as undeservng
the consideration of the high public fune.
t,onaries, the political magnates who crowd
our representative chamber. The Chief
Magistrate, however, in his message Of
November 9th, 1883, i. appears, had re-
commended q geological survey ofthe State,
and suddenly members resolve that /. is IN
affair of grea. moment. When the year
before an agricultural survey was prayed
for by the planters, which, besides embrac.
ing The agricultural statistics Of the com.
monwealth also included an examination
into lis geological and miueralogical resour.
ces, the representatives then acted as sifto dis
cuss such petition was an unnecessary
consumption of time but when, in 1888,
the Executive suggests the propriety Of a
mere geological surrey, "a change comes
DER the spirit of their Dreams" and the
thing must not be overlooked. According.
ly the Committee on Agriculture, to whom
this portion Of the message was assigned
after some delibera,ion, submitted favora
bic report, and now take the occasion tc
say that the resolutions appended to thei
Report were in every way worthy the Chair.
man. whose zeal in the cause of agriculture
is equalIed by many, but surpassed by few
The Report and Resolutions Of this Commit
tee were not pressed, for obvious reasons
though as understand are to be called uE
in December for such action ns repr sen
tatives may deem advisable. Now, from
this exhibit of facts, It certainly shows ex
ceeding great perseverance on the part o
the Monticello Planters Society. tina: il
March last they should have passed reso
luton, TO be found in your Journal, vol. xi.
No. 4, whereby Committee is constitutes
ITO present again in Dncember the mem
orial presented ut the las. session of th'