Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-09-06


among other sales Of trees.
Mr.. l.. /. Cox, Of Baltimore, sold $4,000
averaging 3 10 feet at 40 cents (over IL l-2
cents per foot) the roo! thrown in payment in
full made on signing the contract Mr.. Carter
Harrison 80 miles from Richmond, sold 500
from Last springs cuttings at $l,l6 each,cash
down. Al Chester,own, Md. a sale OF 90O
roots was made at $500. At Westchester,
Pa. sale of $4,000 trees at 10 cents per foot.
Advertisers of trees do no: commonly, yet,
state their prices. There are, however, some
exceptions; large lot is advertised in the
National Intelligencer, and another in the Rich.
mond Enquirer, each at 2 cents the bud, a lot in
Raleigh at the same price, ono in Fayetteville
at cent and half and one in Prince George's
county Va. at from three quarters Of cent to a
cent. These are all the recent advertisements in
which we see the prices stated, and in all, except
the last the time for taking the prices named 10
limited to about the close of the present month.
Prices have, been gradually rising since the first
sales in the early part ofsummer, notwithstand-
ing the depression in the money market. Efforts
have been made to keep them down by a few
persons who contracted last year to deliver trees
the present season at 10 or IL CENTS and who in
consequence of the failure Of their cuttings to
grow are obliged TO buy at present pricas to
fulfil TER engagements. But they might as
we'll attempt to keep down the tides of the oc 'an
by the pressure of their hands. The article is
now so extensively difFused that nothing but the
extent of tho demand can materially affect the
| price. In some aspects Of the matter it might,
perhaps, be desirab to see the price lower but,
upon tho whole, tho benefit a cruing to the
| country from the high prices exceeds the injury,
! If indeed injury there be at all. The high
prices stimulate production, while they draw ten
times the attention to the subject which it would
yet, otherwise attract and the moro it is looked
into by men of enterprise and reflection, the moro
rapidly will the trees be bought aud the silk
culture extend, as experience abundantly proves.
Besides, the highest prices are so low compared
with the profits Of the silk culture that no judi.
cious purchaser can lose BY them. Indeed there
is no other investment which farmer or planter
can make with the same prospect Of good prohti
and this is the very, the only consideration that
keeps up the price. If, therefore the rapid in'
crease of the productive wealth Of the country,
and the saving of the more than twenty millions
of money now sent annually abroad fol the pur.
chase of silks would be an advantage, the high
price of Morus Mullicaulis is certainly, upon the
who'e, no disadvantage. It Injuries none, while
it benefits many directly, and the whole country
indirectly. Il is not like the Fictitious and
temporary value sometimes put upon articles
like "tree corn" little known and less valued
where they are known. Ed. CH GAEL
An article in the National Gazette after quo
ting the published sales of Morus Multicaulis
for last week, adds as follows.
From the foregoing it will be seen that
the sales of trees reported in q single week
exceed 10000, and hat pr'ces nre contin.
ually advancing. in the face Of pressure
for money severe enough to depress the
price of both -four and cotton. The selling
season is moreover not half gone, yet at
least one. quarter OF all lhe.trees IN the coun.
try have been sold, some of Them two or
three times. At this time last year, no one
thought OF buying trees but now, before
they are half grown, and before the purcha.
ser can tell wha, size the trees he is buying
will attain 10, the demand at home and at
the Yves, is rapidly taking the stock off the
growers hands.
The naked fact is this the people Of this
country have become so thoroughly salts
fled Of the great profit to be realized by
growing silk. that the mighty movement 10
that direction, which is now urging on all
classes TO embark in it, cannot be reprcssed
until our whole country is uxurant with
mulberry trees and the day is fast approa.
ching when, in advertising farm for sale,
it will be as indispensable recommend.
alton to it to say that il contains FIVE, ten,
or twenty acres of Mul,icaulis trees, as that
it contains as many of meadow or wood.
land. We import $25,OO0.000 of silk
every year; if we pay for it in raw silk, as
We first exported our raw cotton, It will
require tvo thousand millions Of MulIicaulis
trees to produce that quantity Of silk-and
they must be good trees also. When We
pay in raw silk for our importations of the
manufactured article, we have the markets
ofFrance and England open to u.s.. They
alone import annually nine millions Of
pounds of raw silk. If silk then, be SO
great a staple ofEurope, nothing but the Ia.
zlncss of Americans prevents US making It
staple with US, and The reader knows we'll
that we are no, lazy people. We have
now the steam power, the cotton power,
the tobacco power, and a multitude ofoth.
er powers, all a6ording their respective a.