Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-05-10
UTILITY or AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

A national society, for promoting agri-
cultural improvement, was about being or
ganiz d at our last daes, in Great Britain.
through the active influence O. Earl Spen-
Ger, the Duke of Richmond, and other dis.
,inguished landhoIders. There already ex.
ISIS Central Society of Agricul ure. which
may in some measure be termed national
institution. The rapid improvement OF
Scotch husbanJry, under the lnvl goratng
influence of he Highland Agricultural So.
cieiy, is operating as powerful stimulus 10
the formation of Il similar society in Eng-
land. The Editor Of the{ London) Farmers
Magazine, speaks thus of the matter -
''Atten,ion is at length aroused" says the
editor, "to the remarkable progress which
agriculture has made in Scotland. and to
the rents cheerfuIly paid by the lenar's there,
although laboring under the disadvantage
of a more inhosphabc climate Tint the
Scotch are better farmers than the English
generally. that theyPay higher rents, and
that their system OF farming is improving
daily, are facts at last unequivocaly, though
reluctantly admitted; and the question is
very naturally asked. how has this been ef:
tected! How is 1t that our northern bre:l.
scn, laboring under acknowledged disadsan.
tages, have beaten US in the race? The
answer is by reducing the practice of, and
improvements effected by, the mos! talented
and sklllful agrcuIturiS:s, 10 writing, there.
by establishing agriculture as science, and
again dltfusing such information speedily
and widely am 'ngst the farmers. The ef-
fective attainment of both objecIs may be
mainly, if moi altogether, ascribed to the ex-
ert ons Of the Highland Agricul ural Socle.
ty. We have been always so deeply I'M
pressed with the high value of this society,
that we have never failed to hold il up as a
model 10 all other agricultural societies. A
like opinion of its utility is rapidly spread.
ing, as well as desire to become better
acquainted with the system of management
adopted by the Scotch agrculturlss."
The editor con,inues-"An agricultural
society has been formed IN Paris, which
communicates with more than 200 local so
cieties in different parts of France. and has
correspondents in every part ofthe kingdom,
besides more than fifty correspondents IN
almost every part ofthe world. Now local
societies are in course oi formation daily,
ploughing ma ches are introduced, Il steam
plough has been invented; and agricultural
schools are established in different parts OF
France. The French possess several ex.
perimental farms. and the propriety of es.
tabIishing agricultural colleges, for the in.
struction of youth, is strongly urged by the
best practical writer's of the day. At Pc
tersburgh and Moscow, agricultural colleges
are established. In Prussia. the king espe.
eially patrorizes agriculture, and The acade.
my al Frankfort, upon the estate called Moe.
gelin, under the superintendence Of NJ.
Thaer. the most scientific a yriculturistin the
world, is well known live plume ourselves
upon our superior knowledge, and regard
with indifference the exertous made by our
neighbors, we shall by and by discover TO
our disgrace and shame, and loss, that as in
the case of the Scotch agriculturis's, we
shall have TO 60 abroad for information" =
and, ve may add, for BREAD!