Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-10-16

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substantial and your orchards fourishing.
But you ask me how this would be brought
about !? The answer is obvious. You
would have more time 10 devote 10 i'm,
provement than you. now have. Il In "a
course of crops, such as have recorn-
mended, a part of The Spring, Summer,
and small part of The FallfswouId be
necessary for their cullure.. Four FIVE, tor
possibly six months ofeyery year would
be unemployed in your crops, and would
be devoted to improvement. Every man
will be able TO form some opinion Of what
he could thus accomplish. Bul this is not
all the advantage which you CHI; expect.
Land sci in g ass or cultivated in grain
does not require one -halfthe laborwhich a
grain and cotton crop demands. But
the motley whence is thetio come? is:ihe
question in every mind. From your surplus,
corn, wheat. oats, rye, barley and hayi
from your pork aud bdcon, which you
would have 10 spare.saas the result ofplenty
wherewiIh raise, feed and fatten, large
stocks 81 hogs; from your rcattle, horses
mules and sheep raised and fed BY your
grain and grass I! Let your practical,
Farmers, many of whom. ] am proud to:
See at this meeting. compare the RESULTS of
a grain and grass growing crop, with one
Of grain and cotton, aud The result will be
25 fnot so per cent. in favor the former.
Will you still persist n old habits, and not
atleast make trial ofthat, which although
perhaps new toyou, yet comes thus recon-
:mended :? 80 .,:t 80.
To bring about such results here. and to
approximate as near as maybe in every
other part Of the State, how important are
Agricultural Societies They are your
lights. . They point you 10 the good; they
warn you of that which is bad: they tell
you no,0,, as they have often done before.
tha, true independence is to be found in The
abundance resulting from your farms.
Raise, nl5 tonntrymen,; everywhere in.
South Carolina, your own hogs, sheep,'
cattle, -horses and mules-clolhe. your own
households by the domestic wheel and
loom-manufacture your own shoes
supply your own tables with flour, potatoes
butter aud cheese ofyour own crops, herds
and dairy, and you can bid defiance to all
the tariffs in the world. How much we
are tributary, by our own negligence aud
want of thrift, to the Eastern States, has
been lately pointed out most clearly by a
gentleman ~thuso zuat in ttIerause 0rnts
country, as well as Agriculture, has not
been and will not be surpassed. From his
essays you will learn with anazement the
immense sums annually paid out for butter
cheese, brooms, shoes, potatoes and onions
all Of which we could easily manufacture
or produce at home. Well may we COM
plain Of our burdens under such circum.
stances. A part Of them however, we
have but 10 will should cease, and like The
Pilgrims burden at the foot Of The cross,
they will roll off and sink forever from our
view. 4: -. -,
The time is now at hand when every
South Carolinian must prepare for the
deadly struggle, which it is 10 be feared is
soon 10 take place. The institution of
slavery, whether wise or not, it is madness
mus to discuss with men who .'seeing will
rot see, and hearing will not hear!" 1t is
here. so interlUoven a0itk evsry part Of soei.
ETY., and so essential to life itse!t, that its,
destruction ,could be ours. It's eristence
and continuance depend upon our agricul.
iure. 1s long az slaue labor is yatuabLe,
SO long ariA SLAVE property be cherished.
The instant 1t ceases. to be so ii a0iN be
thro,Un aside. Look therefore calmly OH
The things around you. Your cotton is
becoming annually less valuable crop.
Something in the cotton growing country
must in part supply its place. May not
The economy, which | have already sug-
gesled on this point ofview? Aud will
NOT the cultivation of provision crops for.
which the rice growing country and the
towns of the seaboard will furnish a ready
market, further eke out our wants have
no doubt, if all. Of South Carolina above
the first falls 10 our great rivers. would be-
come essentially farming and manufac-
turing country, that we might, in a few
years, vie with even New England. To
accomplish this, il is necessary that he
whole resources Of our State should Be un-
derstood. as:well as: her industry properly
applied. The Geological and Agricultural
Survey has in part, and will I hope, fully
develope lhelng All the region, of country
covered by York, Sparlanburg, Union,
Laurens, Greenyille, :Pickens, Anderson,
and the upper. par, ofAbbeville, might be
essentially improved by the Lime which
can be obtained from the immense quar-,
ries of Limestone TO be found in York,
Spartanburg and Laufens.. To the far.
mers Of the beautiful section Of Carolinia 10
which allusionF has been made, the Lime
will afford incalculable riicbesi,' when its ap-l
plicaion to soils and crops comes TO be
properly understood. Through the Agri-
Cultural Survey and the Agricultural So.
cieties, this information will be obtained.
and disseminated. My belief is, that i'd
the section of country to which / have al
luded, the Limestone existing within it, is
more than enough 10 restore lis original
fertility. and probably to increase il tenfold.
TO You, u,ifien, brother Farmers of the Noun.