The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-10-20
RUR.sL ECONOMY:
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From the Farmsrs' R.gisier.

a NEED FOR AGRICULTURAL EXPERT
MENTS-CoTToN INSECTS.
Extracts from an ADDRESS on Agrieulfure, de
lirersd before the Alabama State AgricHlfa
raj Society, on 7th Dec. 1871. BY the Rer
| Dr. Manly.
I Experiments for The improvement OF Az
riculiure, as they require. when conducted
to the best advantage, considerable surplu,
wealth, much time, patience, and accuracy
and the highest qualities Of intelligence
and a., when successful, the issue in the
most moneu,ous results, are worthy the
FIRST efforts of genius, and the highest aspi
ralons Of patriotism.
No Improvements are made without ex
periments. Ii Is true, they are not abso
utely confined TO tho nch. There is even
an advantage, when practical men Of lImi.
ted means, who live by tho returns of their
labor, can be induced 10 try them. These
will always make them on PLAZA IN which
allure vii! not be injurious, and success
will be universally beuefcial because The
poorest may copy oat the processes aud
realize the results. But u is duty spe
clally incumbent on planters Of subslan
,al Independence. Some experiments. Of
course viii be failures, and 50, b are able 10
hazard something. The fear Of Leing
though. visionary, may deter men from
course Of experimenting. Aud What If The
impu,allon should actually be made This
's what has happened to every individual
Who has devoted himself TO the enlargement
Of the boundaries Of Knowledge. But even
visionary schemers are a more deserving
class Of men than those who will attempt no
improvement. For from the results - Inch
they reach, though useless 10 themselves,
wise and practical men will derive impoftan,
hints aud thus, incidentally, they do good
ab'lo, as they never sci out 10 get rich,
their failure IS Tie less DISAPPOINTMENT to
them, and they need not our pity.
! must not be met here, by the insane
oulcry against s. book farming, aGd against
science as useless 10 agriculture. | wish
not TO argue the question on general prin
clpies, With thus class OF directors, ! wall /.
advert to facts too stubborn to be over
lhFown,-io facts, too near the cotton
planters interests and feelings to be d.sre
gardrd, or overlooked. /
Every planter kDoas something OF the .
depfedailons Of the lice the ht,le IA 4
sect that preys upon the cotton when yer, 4
young, 10 the spriug. Another familiar
enemy 10 the worm that peiloratcs the boil
IN August. Eilher Of these IS sufficiently
injurious alone aud sometimes they are
both IN their seasons, propagaled aud car I
red through their Transformations IN the i
same field.
VIII any planter present consider cor 1
himself what average deduction from the /
cotton crop Of Alabaua should be made, I
arising from these two capscsl We kno~
That, IN some seasons, the loss amounts to
ball the crop Of Alabama, Introduced by the
Expectations Of these lnscctsl he aver
age crop nov, - about 100000 bales,
worth at leas, Sl0,500 600 suppose It
one fourth, the average annual
loss would then be over 81 800 600 THIS
ear has been much less Destructive than
many years are, perhaps less than the aver.
ige OF years. And yet a single planter OF
Perry County told me, few da,s ago, thai
% this very year they hal DESTROYED lot
nm, al The least calculation, 400 900 lbs.
i seed cotton worth ss,0U0 Science, II !
true may cost something, bot ignorance
osis much more We bear much oil The
nrdens OF education. Bul here ~ clear !.
nhuaI contribution 10 ignorance. Of s.. 600 =
ron ono mao and az the planters W the
fale have contributed IN Ike proportion.
Science spires The liberal, the una,u
* but ignorance is oil compie beading, in. = !,
xofable, and reslstlcss. y
Nos, suppose tia, any foreign enemy +"
weeping our coast, or any savage loo Turk. "
g on our frontier, should annually levy :
1nIrlbul'on, by open iufcc, or secret VIC
nee, equal TO the depredalions Of The IN 4
'cts, how would this lie entertained p '
Though but few persons comparaityely
ere interested, every man 10 tie State
ould oe ready TO fly TO sfms,-the whole =
over OF the general government would be n
used 10 resistance; and neither land or 10
a would furnish hiding places so remote uh
obscure, nor ioftfesses so impfegnabIe.
10 shelter the argressors, from merited
ogesnce. Millions Oh millions would be -
WISHED, and lie pfolusely devoted, IN the II
tI'o'ic effort 10 arrest The depreciation. nb
bu1 here IS depreciation, that goes on N,
'm year 10 year, laying taxes without ls'
T consent TO On amount not OIL, indfC. pa.
ne bm dbsotaiefy incredible, upon The =, :,
'"se body OF the southern planners. and ms
rough them upon the whole union and an,
the whole booy 81 them, tho hlah,p,nd pei
aud chisafous, tho keen and caculai,po. r..
bold, restless, md indomiiable topetb
'ameIy pocket the uGfoul The co,os. VI
; ana almost irresistible power Of Great v
lla'n could not collect from our CcoLle
ONES IN 70, polity Tax Of 3 pence q
100 on imported tea, levied without their IN
Iset But hers Is the riches, produc n
on tbe lace, or ia the bowels of the
ID, eut oil sometimes by hall; and ,b.. n
best body Of men that ever lived ON - Il,
cd, d'scomtiited, reduced 10 abieet snh -