New-York daily tribune., 1843-08-01

and cheers us with the llvclicst expectations OF
soon bchodng the more magnificent splendors Of
/" full-orbcd day
WILLIAM PRICE, President
A. B. HoLAprrp, lst Vice-President.
WM. McDIARMIp, ID Vce-President.
BENZ. URNEE, Treasurer
B. +. WILLIAMS, Secretary
Defects and Disadvantages growing out of
the System of Isolated Fa railies.
We will point out a few of the disadvantages
under which Agriculture now labors, and which
are alone to be attributed 20 the system of isolated
families:
l. mconvcrtibility of landed property into a
cash capital at viii and without loss
1t is almost impossible at present to sell farm
ing lands they are the most difficult kinds Of
property to dispose Of and convert into ready mo-
ncy. The owner of such property must wait for
months, often years, to find a purchaser, or else
sell at ruinous sacrifice In Association, the
land will be represented by stock, and as it will
be superiority cultivated, it will yield well and pay
good interest it will be also the safest of III
vcstments-and when the enormous profits of
stock. .jobbing, monopoly, speculation and usury
are checked, it will be the most profitable. As Il
consequence, landed stock in Association-or the
stock which represents the soil and the improve
ments upon it, will be the most sought after, and
will command at all times ready sale.
3 Want of Capital among the Agricultural
Glasses.
The floating or cash capital Of the world, and
which is to Industry what blood is TO the body,
is now mainly absorbed by commerce and stock
jobbmg. Agriculture cannot obtain the requisite
capital for making the most simple and necessary
improvements while commerce is supplied abun-
dainty and at low rates. Our Banks calcu-
lated only to aid the commercial classes and those
who live on the labor Of the Producers. But as
commerce controls the Press, and the Press, pub
lie opinion, these abuses and others are ostered
and perpetrated without opposition.
3. Neglect of Agriculture from scantiness of
profit.
Men of talent knowledge, and energy, and all
those deslrous OF ofattaining fortune, abandon agr-
culture, and engage in commerce, finance, the
law, and other unproductive occupations, which
offer easier and quicker routes to afluencc.
Agriculture languishes in the most miserable con-
dtion for the want Of capital, knowledge, and
skill. Association and Attractive Industry will
be a remedy for this evil.
A. Profits absorbed bv Commerce.
Capital and commerce absorb about onc-half Of
the product Of the labor of the Producing Glasses.
Productive Industry is the source of all wealth,
and yet every title of the wealth remains in the
hands Of those who produce it. When Will this
injustice cease
). Waste and bad management of little farms.
To prosecute agriculture successfully requires
varied practical and theoretical knowledge, abund-
ant capital and wisely planned and regularly
prosecuted Improvements. Nothing is more dis
tressng than than to see the miserable condition IN
which agriculture now is ifa high order fpracti-
cal common sense existed among our Legislators
and the influential men in society, they would see
that the most important of all questions is to de-
velopc agriculture, perfect It, and give 1t llie and
lfthey examined this question serously,th they would
soon see that it can only be done by AgricuL
tural Association. But the satisfaction of indi-
vidual ambition and plunder are the desires of the
Leaders of Society in this 10Th century OF pre-
tended advanced civilization.
g. Obstacles to cultivation and Improvements
from the danger of thefts.
How often, for example, is the planting of fruit
orchards neglected or abandoned from this cause !.
I. Quarres and lawsuits in relation to boun-
dary lines, bad titles, larcenes, respasses, break
ing down of fences, &c. &c.
All these subjects of contention grow out of the
present system of isolated families; they would
cease 20 exist entirely IN Association.
5. Complication of domestic labor, owing to
the multiplicity of separate little households; and
forced idleness, and unproductiveness of children.
How can the single OR isolated family estab-
Iish branches Of Industry suited to the strength,
tastes and capacities of children 1t is impossi-
BILE. In large Associations it could be done, and
would be the source, not only of health, strength,
and happiness to the younger age, but OF great
profit. !,
boyers.
Our present system OF Industry is apathetlc
and mercenary it must be rendered attractive,
and prosecuted by persons who are interested
both in the capital and the profits
10. Bad application of the labor of sexes and