Mobile register and journal., 1845-03-05

The committee charged with the duty of present . ing to this convention the condition of the planting interest Of the State, and proposing some plans comnendaIory of the course that planters should pursne beg to present the following facts and ,nendations thereoD and the ground work of future improvement they recommend the formation of a State Agricultural Society with auxiliary Societies m the different counties.
 | Experience in other States has shown in the im- provemeni of agriculture, the great advantages de- rivable from associations. Agricultural Sorietes have given character and energy to efort, and have tended by the acquisition of information in the var ous branches of domestic industry and its circulation in the form of periodicals tracts and essays, 10 tighten the great body of the farmers upon all the l subjects most interesting to them. Your committee would therefore recommend that this convention take the necessary steps for the formation of State Agr | cultural Association Your committee have been in- formed that such association has either been form ed or is in progress of formation In either the steps taken by the convention will serve to revive and strengthen, materially to aid it. Perhaps the judicous method of proceeding on the part of this convention. will be to appoint committee to corres- pond with influential individuals in every county of the Stale and through them to obtain signatures for membt rship. This committee to report its proceed ings to the executive committee at Tuscaloosa before the first of November next.
 A State association of thls character, with auxil- iary societies formed in every county would concen trate great energy and effort, and ultimately obtain
 
 lo2ica Survey of the State. The information acquir- ed upon all the of husbandry, npon mineral ogcal resources, upon the adaptations of soil and climate, and objects of culture, freely dfused, would prepare planters for what necessarily arise,
 greater diversity in the application of labor and of agricultural pursuits. Whenever the planters of our State shall turn from the engrossng culture of cotton diversified application of agricultural la- bor, ihe necessity may arise for more extended in iroduction of the mechanic arts. which will most na- 6faI inn haau asfnf and provide in abundance the means and comforts of subsistence. No intelligent mind will fail 10 recog- mise in such change of the icutura aspect of State, moral and a social culture, which, becoming source of pride as well as pleasure, will tend to create attachment to the soil, to fix wealth perma- nenliy among us, and put stop to that heavy drain upon our resources, arising from aosenteeism in- furious to the whole southern country Education likewise will feel the genial influence and become an | important Aauxary the great work of increasing the happiness and prosperity of the people. We may look to agricultural associations as the germ of fl- lure progress and improvement-a starting point in the career of change much required and called for both by the exgency of the times and the condition of the people.
 Their next recommendation will be on the culture of cotton. They regard all attempts 10 limit the cultivation of cotton to given number of acres, or to given time for ts gathering mpractcsbe. Agricultural associations however numerous and how ever digo"t, would be unable to carry it into nseiul effect. To those who would not enter iato The general agreement, or who having entered, would be aithless in its performance, it would operate as a benefit and be premium on their labor. We be- ieve the present price of cotton be neither acc,- dental nor temporary, but that it proceeds from the iact that more labor and more land in suitable cli- mates in the world is app jed than the wants of mankind require, and that the kind oi labor applied to its cultivation cannot be very easily transferred other channels of production The price of from to cents the pound may be regarded the fixed price Onn uduan han ,hn.. prices il will stimulate the production in India and other countries, and pay for its freight its Eno- pean market of consumption. fiji be then true that the production has over reached consumption and the present price IS as much may be reasonably ca leu. lated on, II presents the strong necessity of finding out new channels for the application of our labor and Tor the increase oi the consumption of cotton. The following are some of the most prominent means of doing so.
 The first point will be to plant only what cotton we can gather and send to market in nery ood order and apply the rest of our labor to larger crops and raising all the meat we possibly want, and to inc cultivation of wheat as far as our own wants and to all lhe smaller articles of family consumption Though many profess to do this and think that they have done so, they have been n;e in their calcu lalions of just what would answer their probable wants, and their nice cuat ions result in inc necessity of applying pat of their cotton crop to the purchase of corn and meat The person to whom this remark is not felt as rebuke. has been very prudent planter.
 The next and probably most important matter to which field labor may be applied, is manufactories, which ma, and ought to be of our own wagons, pioughs, eather &c., &c but that to which atten- tion is more particularly called, is the manufacture of cotton into the coarser fabrics. There are throughout the State in he falls of rivers and s other water courses fine water powers, and If steam preferred the motive power, cheap, | ,bundant and convenient fuel. The health of situa- lions commanding these advanis ges is generally good The charge is about l censts pound to place cot on in factory in any of the Eastern States, and ere not half cent. contract can now be entered n.o to place the cotton Tn the factory and the