Mobile register and journal., 1845-01-07

The following admirable remarks on the policy and duty of those engaged in the cultivation of cot ton, are taken from the COismbus 7imss. We com. mend them to the attention oi our planters: Every who has raised bag of cotton for mar ket, knows thai the price depends upon the supply 1 and demand. The demand has always been not on- ly steady, but progressive. But lhe supply has far ou,strpped II. Every planter knows too, that if n small crop IS made in the country, he gets as much money for it, in the augmented prce, he does for
 heavy onei besides saving the great increase of ex | pense the purchase of extra bagging and rope and of tune and laIor in picking, cleaning and pack ing he overplus WhIch might be de.oed 10 the im- enen of his lands, 10 theraisng of an abundance of proHlslons and to other equally profitable branch- es fagricuiute tobacco, Tor instance, sugar in l the proper attitudes.
 IL could be easily shewn how excessive cotton planting is gradually but surely sapping the wealth and energies of the favored agrcuura regions of the south. The system is in violation of every principle of prudent and judicous husbandry. man enters with his force upon virgin soil. The work of des- truction begins at The forest is "deadened," the waste timber heaped together and committed to the flames, and the cotton seed will sprout the mur1erous plough begins It's work of destruction Of the soI cotton Is put in the first year, and the cond year, the third, the fourth, and indefinitely, without rest, until every fertile quality ofthe soil has been exhausted, and the wide clearing IS turned out dead and sterile sand bank When this point is reached, another onslaught beg ns upon forest, and that is run through the same speedy course of rum The consequences ui ihis system. both mora and physical, a,e deplorabe. In the first place, a planter never settled. His whole mind s bent on making cotton, he regards his farm, which ought 10 be his homestead, only d place of temporary so- journ, to be abandoned for d new home, soon as he has rayished the earth o the treasures of fertility, which he dreams of preserving by care, or res- torug bv manure His improvements arc of the most temporary and shackllng kind, the permanent fixture for the comfort, heat, and happiness of his family thought of He has to bny his gran his meat and everything he consumes, and the end of hs whole mistaken policy is, that while he almnst lives the life of wandering Arab, and gives time for ihe growth of the virtues oi domestic life, good neigh borhood and loyal citizenship, which flourish msst in the higher civilization of n permanent attachment from generation 10 generation, to particular soil while, in addition this disservice to the moral we'll being oi hS family and country, worked by his plan of agriculture, he also contributes by murdeiing the so to diminish the aggregate of the value and future prosperity oi his country yet after all these evils, he fails al last in ihe end he has in view, that ot get ting more money for more cotton-and he ith modification and disappointment the price go down from and 10 to and csnts tlie effects of his rniuous system.
 Can anything be plainer, than the course which ihe wisdom of experience suggestsl lt IS obviously, lo plant less and to farm moretu husband the ener- gies oi his ands-to make bis fences, his houses and his outhouses, substantial md permanent, 10 raise stock ofall kinds-to improve the breed of his hogs, his caile his horses; 10 nuke his plantation place of verdant fruitlnlness, smiling with green fields of grain, we'll filled barns and rich daries. In short conduct his business, as ii he ex ected live and die ihe spot of his improvement, and his children and their children after them. ThIs is wi isdom this is civilization; this is interest; this s patriotism
 The evil IS to be cured by an instructed rub: opinion. It IS perfectly clear, that if the crop of l845 should be equal To that of the present year, wIth the immense uncunsulned supply on hand that the Planters will not be able gel back he price of their bdgging and rope, next winter. tiere con sijeratlon far more powerful, To cheek production, lhun all the combinations in lLe world These things always better regulated by natural laws. When the Planter finds that he cannot sell his cotton for even 2 or 5 cents pound. he will very shorten the supply. We believe that that point is ,each- ed. If the South desires in and for the year lS45 throw away it's capital and labor let il make another crop of 2,400 900 bales.