Liberty advocate., 1845-05-10
SCALE OF TERI Ms


To ndace some effort among the friends of ag.
ricuNural improvement, IN obtaining subscri.
bers, announce the following scale of terms
Single subscribers, as before SO per annum: o.
two subscribers for So.
Clubs, or individuals, paying any one of the
following sums, shall receive the annexed num-
Der of copies for one year, provided the copies
all go to one address;
$40 entite to 5 copies $50 entitle to % copies
$50 Is " 500 " 60 !"
PostnIastcys, local agents, obtaining sub
scrbers and mmitt:ng above, shall be enti
tied to all the advantages offered
! Please to remit through the Postmastcrs, as
| they are authorized by law to remit to publishers,
free of postage.
A reply to this post paid) is desired as early
as possible in December, that may make my
arrangements without delay.
Where funds cannot conveniently be trans,
mittted, please to send drafts on New Orleans
Vicksburg or Natchez, payable on the first Jan
uary next.
pledge my word-which pledge not lightly
that, if sufficient encouragement be not atfor
Ided, by the first of January, le45, to sustain mt
' in entering upon the improvement herein propo
r sed, then shall return every draft and every
dollar, received in consequence of this Prospec
tus. Those who do not know me may think my
lpth1t lltSulllClCllI SCtuIllI lbT Intll 10 dU
5 vance upon, and therefore take the liberty Of
referring, as touching my integrity, to all The
gentlemen, in each county of the state, who ser
we'd in either House Of the legislature during
: the sessions of 1S39-'40 and 'l2-to the Facul
ties of Oakland, Mississippi and Centenary Col
Ileges-and to most of the members Of the Synoc
of Mississippi.
If one thousand new subscribers can be OBJ
tanned, shall adopt the proposed arrangemsn t.
and wish to ascertain by the middle of Decem
ber
PRIZES FOR ESSAYS.
thereby offer as Premiums, SIX SILVER
CUPS, with appropriate inscriptions-one OF
the six to be awarded, respectively, to the au
thors of the 0est essays on the following subjects
respectively, Zach author to be resident of Mis-
: sissipp, viz;
=, l. The Cotton Plantation. Its management,
$ with reference to crops of inferior Importance,
and the proper proportions of land and labor de.
voted oeach--including field pasturage--rota.
5 tion of crops and pasture-artiicial grasses.
0 2. What crop shall supplant cotton on planta.
tions Of inferior qualities, when cotton shall be-
, come too low to be cultivated on such planta
tions-wbat new crops to be introduced if any.
z 3. Sheep as adapted to Mississippi.
4. The Garden and the Orchard-comparson
Of the soil and climate of Mississippi with those
IoI more HpIlutTH SldleS' III TC GFt0Cg 10 inc pro-
= duction of vegetables and garden fruits-togeth-
er with the best methods Of managing the vari-
GUS orchard fruits adapted to Mississippi, and Of
accimattng the more difficult genera
B. Analyses of soils and plants-and sugges
tions of methods of analyses within the means
of Mississppans discussing also the proprcty oil
a geological, and agricultural survey of the state
by legislative authority.
; o. Manufactures and the Mechanic Arts, es.
tablished within the bounds of the state impor-
tant to the agricultural interest
The premiums to be awarded by a committee
Iofthirteen agricultural gentlemen. to whom
shall commit all the essays ror adjudication, bv
such subdivisions of labor among themselves a.
they may agree upon--the successful essays to
be at the disposal of the Editorsof the Farmer
The essays to be forwarded to me, free of post
Iagc, by the first of March next--accompanied by
a scaled envelope, enclosing the authors name
! In connection with the foregoing, | intended
to submit an Address-setting forth reasons
why an agricultural paper should be sustained
IN the South West; but leave that duty, to be
better performed by the many public.sptyilec
gentlemen whom tins Prospectus may reach .-
entreating all, who feel the magnitude of the
cause, to mount their hsrses forthwith, and