The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-09-05
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IMPROVE YOUR LANDS.

efn IN IS sOUIe eight or ten years ago, oui
ii has lost none, oil It's interest, or lis apph.
cabi!;;y 10 modes of cultivation among our
Planters. Weihink se recognise in it the
pen of our most intelligent and practical
culiiva,ors; one " no has done more by pre-.
cept and example to advance the interests
Of agricultural and horticultural industry
than any man in the State.
Ito produce the greatest quantity posi-
bic OF any article or articles, from given
quantity Of land, and in the process Of pro.
duction to increase the fertility Of the soil
IN grea, degree, is the acme Of agricul
tural pursuits II may be fairly advanced
that to cultivate large surface OF land,
and by the mode Of cultivation, for a small
production, and with grea, destruction of
the productive properties Of the soil, must
be the acme Of absurdity.
Ii there is any available process, tha; by
the additional expense Of one bali OF the
additional production, will add one hundred
per cent. 10 the product OF labor bestowed
on land, the process ought to be adopted
for interests sake bu, If the one fourth left
is added TO the increase OF the productive
quality given to the land, II then claims
from every rational being who culllvates
the soil, an immediate attention. Il is as.
tonIshing, that The land wearing out so ra.
pldIy, as we often see il, does not s,arke
every cutvaor, who ~ but one degree re-.
moved from 40 IDIOT. II the people Of the
northern part of the United States, were TO
GO as honestly to work In the destruction Of
their land, in their mode OF cultivation az
We do, we should soon hear melancholy
news Of their situation, in lieu Of that agri.
cultural prosperity which their land and
labor secures Them.
When farmer in tha. section Of the
Uaion sits down on a tract ufland previous
~ worn out BY some squatter, (lof The breed
IS not worn out there, nor viii II be, as long
they hear Of Taxas,) ai,b not a Zoo, to
clear he feels 40 great uneasiness. lie
can ten by his mode Of proceeding almost
precisely the increase Of crops he vii &c,
and the time i, viii require TO get his land
INTO heart, for the production Of seventy
or eighty bushels Of corn to the acre and
although he lives in the midst OF a thick set
tied country, with not one d tie available
means Of ierilizing his land. which we
Soulherners have around US, he is easy,
While we should think Of no other resource
Than Arab like 20 move TO a " new range.
But The Northern f1rmer who cannot wor.
Snip cotton for is not found amongst bis
household gods, i he Is a ldicious cutiva-
tor, be goes with all his energies into pro.
VISION crops-io The production Of every ar.
tlcle; to this way his situation will adm!
him % expect rationaily remuneration for
BIS labor, for 10 this course he secures the
thing called manure, ol The best kind, and
- securing that, be fad. the key 10 agri
cultural success. Tbs fact allows him to
settle, aud he hnds he Is not compelled
10 ran away from his laud every ten years
which mas been running away during lha,
period from him, he gives it,hrs,arl
But # there IS any process Of cultivation
IN the pursuit Of which Tho improvement Of
the soil viii pay for the extra labor, and
give TO the laborlng man the whole extra
crop, must repea, there must be idiotgn
~ not awaiting ourselves Of it.
Now, in culiiyaling land, we know that
there is positive expenditure Of capital,
animals and gear, carriages, and provisions
and labor. lfone half Of most Of these can
be made TO produce the same result that the
whole usually produce, there is then pos
tive saving ofcaPiial, wear, tear, provisions
and labor, Of one half.
Tor instance, sly twenty acres is made
to produce the same amount that ffiv usu.
ally does, and that enc man and ono horse
IS employed 10 the cultivation the capital
expended % one man and ono horse, a set
Of gears, seed for twenty five acres, saving
Of the production, cleaning clearing, fenc.
ing, and keeping up the enclosure, &C.,
DC, ls actually saved.
And If the planter resources enable him
TO work the fifty acres as It ought to be, I
and to obtain the production for his labor
that he ought TO obtain, the conclusion +,
doubly conclusive IN favor Of lhe better or
more productive system. For IN spite or'
ignorance. Intentional o. real, il remaius