The Hillsborough recorder., 1846-02-12

f+N- - AAthAsnA 10 liils pfsllch Oi /
hnshsndry. i
Tie ray and rye srass are ihe same !
plant. Il will not answer in this latitude, |
aud ! 1hink not in yours; the growth is |
small aud our summer dIOughls nearly an- !
nlhIls,s II. The timothy AMI cocks. foot /
are proper 10 mix with el0vers for pas |
tores. aud the luceme il beyond every
thing else, IL applied to soiling-on one ].
acre. with the aid "f five acres Of very |
lean pasture, Kept seven COWS and four |
oxen fun the 2Olh May 10 the Ist Of
August. snd they were well kept cut
the Third crop for hay. and there will be .
foutIh to feed off. J. BuEL.
LEwIs SiNpERs, near Client, ny.
The following excellent remarks are
frnm the pen of ,ile lion. Andrew Steven
snn, one of the Vice Presidents Of vir-
giuia Stale Agricultural Society, extracted
from a Z. cent letter addressed by him TO
the Editor uf the Farmers Library. and
do honor To his discernment and patriot
ism: .3mtricdn Farmer.
Or the importance Of Agriculture, in
physical. moral. u. p, liIical point of view,
I need say little to you. II. with the
wisesi. the richest, and the most power-
lnl nation, Agricultural pursuits have ever
been rs ermed the most honorable, as well
as the most useful employmenis Of man,
how much more should this be the case in
ac0untry like ours, where the Insliiuli ms.
Government, and the People. depend so
essentially upon their successful opera
. lion. Indeed, Providence seems to have
decided for Us the great question Of pre-
ference, so long agllated by political eco-
nomlsis. We are and must continue. if
we EXPECT 10 remain free and prosperous,
empIrncaTIy al .TgricniiTm rcupie.
And does not sell.inlerest, as well rs pa
/ iriotism, combine to stimulate us 10 the
. impros emeni Of our system Of hOsbandry!
What nation has ever existed celebrated
for its advancement in civilization and he
arts, in which the marked encouragement
Of Agriculture has not been admitted !
And yet. what country or earth SO deep
! ly interested in its success, has shown less
attention to il than our own! The spirit
uf improvement has moi only been SUI
fered TO languish, but its essential and Vi
ial Interests have been shamelully neglect.
ed. Who can witness, my dear sir, iihont
modification. the stream of emigration from
The whole of our Atlantic border 10 the
Western portions of our Union How
many persons now We Iaily see selling
their farms at low prices and relinquisll-
ing their blrlh-places and friends 10 settle
in the Ich vallies of the West, from a
supposed inability 10 support themselves
on their poor exhausted lands. Is not
this the result Of gross mismanagement
aud continued perseverance in the old
aud wre,clled system OF cultivation! How
D., long are we to lie doomed TO this state Of
things! And are we never 10 profit from
the experience of other nations! Whilst
in Great Britain nine-tenihs of Tie lands
are leased TO tenants who pay from 80 to
GO sh,llngs sterling per acre. and find
every thing for husbandry, they can even
on these terms grow rich; yet we, (at least
at the Souih.) without tithes or heavy
taxation, and with numerous laborers, can
barely make out TO support ourselves from
the products of our estates. have seen
il stated very recently on the authority Of
some eminent British statisi, that to sup
PLY the United Kingdom Of Great Britain
with the article Of wheat alone, would
take the employmen, If The whole British
NAVY; and to bring all their Agricultural
Products, as now enjoyed, would take the
navy of the whole werld. To ascertain
this, il would only be necessary TO take
the average consumption of each inhahi-
tant, and multiply The annual amount by
the whole number Of the population.
England, rs you know, has been called a
garden spot, and such it may be justly re-
gart.ed, when. with territory not larger
than tha, of New York or Virginia, i, can
support population nearly equal TO that
of the whole United States. 1t is alane by
skill and industry that they resist the dam
r ger If excessive population pressing upon
the means Of subsistence, and thus enable
: them to supply an increasing population
not only with the same but much better
description of food from the same dis
iricls ofcountry. Now, TO what is all
this attributed, but to superior productive
ness, occasioned by superior cultivation
and the additional fact, that they cultivate
no more land than they can m,0iure ana
, Improve. II was. think, the Lord Lei
) ces,er Mr.. Coke who once said that the
/ great and prevailing error in English Ag
:. ricullure was what he called over-plough'
, ing, and having more land under tlllage