Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-02-26

r. 8. We are requested by VIM Niko1 Esq
10 presep, tho sincere thanks OF the family.
10 those citizens who, with such ready des-
patch, few to their add
CONSTITUTION, &c.--The recent numerous
,ru,irtes ior the constitution and bylaws OF
state Agricultural and Mechanics Association
have induced IA TO re.publish :these doeu-
nen.c they win b. found to-day on our first
p"ce, and VIC trust such papers in the country
Ar have not already done so, will now inBert
the same IN their columns for the edliication
Of thor readers. Let us further hope, too,
that the papers in the state, generally, will
virgo home upon the agricultural and producA
,ng com immunity, the high Importance, at the
present day, of meeting aften together, and in
terchanglng views. opinions and facts touching
their various pursuits and the pursuits which
may be a~dvan,ageously introduced into L.ouisis-
ana. It has been eug-cstcd-and we think the
idea exceilent-that each senatorial district in
the state. form a society auxiliary to the state
association. When the officers FIR the current
year were elected, thirteen vice presidents
were chosen, (oue from each senatorial dis
trict.) under the express design that they
should exercise their PERSONAL influence IN
their respective districts, for thn organisation
of sub-societcs. Though sosno .of the parish
es, by calling out all their RESOURCES NIGH
- rs-y -naprsthbte fair5 all could not
do it. Some are yot too sparceI populated to
accomplish individually, and ina manner cal
culated to eustain the interest OF tho andertak.
my, a work Of this nature. Yet each OF the
districts could do ii, and the bringing together
OF two or more parishes, would engsndsr a
xpiri, Of rivalry and compcti,ioSl which, we'll
directed, must produce the haEpiest results.
These societies should be organized imtnedi-
aiely, and ehculd hold their fairs in the early
part Of summer, or fall. We think the fall.
when the crops are harvested, Fay November.
n season preferable 10 all others, in-as. much
a. each parish or district, by bringing its pro-
ducts together, could arrive at proper conclu-
sions respecting the articles most worthy Of
exhibition at the state assembly. Hereafter
there can be no doubt that our state fair will
Frcsent a spectacle OF intense interest. Al
most every man who visited she last, went
home resolved to do something fox the next +;
resolved to have something sosshow; resolved
to compete with his neighbora in a strife at
a,ea m f,,,,l,hla ana p,triot;~ Ipo ara nor
~eonaliy acquainted with numbers who have
already, anim2lls in keeping fer that occasion
Others arc laying CT piece Of land for pota-
tees, or corn, or oats, or GOTTEN, or sugar. or
sorrcother particular productpf ;rc field or gar
den, whichland is to be cultivated with peculiar
caro- and attention, and the produce to be re-
ported, and a specimen thereof exhibited at
the fair. We say we know planters who arc
doing this, and We call on all every one in the
state, to do likewise. 1t is thus, ana thus
alone, that we can discover the real worth Of
our soil, and Of what it is capable when all its
resources are brought into o~flecsual operation;
il il thus we may discover the capacity of our
climate and soil for productions not at present
cultivated in this region; and thus may the
PLANTER discover better means of cultivation
than arc now employed BY him, and that one
hundred acres well-tilled, will yield him more,
with lar less expense, than two hundred titled
IN the usual manner.
The writer OF this is practical farmer, and
speaks advisedly when he tells the reader that
there ia as much science. and as much profit,
toe, in nursing the land as in nursing a crop.
Perhaps the reader knows this az well as the
writer if so, his own knowledge confirms our
words. 1t is our settled conviction that the
force and capital employed in agriculture in
this state, might, under more scientific d.
r~ection. be made 20 produce double what they
now do--and thai. toe, withoet increasing one
ioss the present labor Or expense. Let intel
lisent planters try this. and trey win sec that
We are correct; let them report the success
Of their Efforts To this paaer and to the Asso-
citation, with their mcthcd of cultivation and
they will soan have the pleasure of seeing
aheir worthy example initiated and improved
.rrar, to the great advantage Of the state
iErrEHs on sLAvE9Y.-Dr. Cartwright, Of
Ns,chsz is publishing a series of letters on
the origin, nature, and appropriate s ere OF
lie black race. According to his theory,