The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-06-07

only way any thing can be hoped, from planters
seldom or never combining in their efforts, that
question does not arise. When he has cxpen.
deo his labor in producing that which he is
obliged to have, he has maie good investment,
fisking nothing, even If such proceeding rea.
ched no farther, produced no ulterior effect IN
enhancing the value of The great staple. Nu'
merous have been the statements, and voluml-
nous the calculations, showing the large amount
paid nv the planter for bacon, mules, horses,
&c., and when il is rccolleced that cotton was
3 made with toll, and reaped with care, to pro-
duce the means wherewh 10 purchase those
imported articles, which toll and care properly
employed, might have produced The articles
themselves, and that cotton was so mnch Heau
weight thrown upon return, already SINKING
in amount, the proceeding seems monStro"s IN
the. extreme: allowing the west to be more con-
genial to the growth and developement OF these
necessary wants Of the planter, still the thing
can ba done Eere, and It is worth a calculation
at least, to see. il, taking every thing into consI
deration, it cannot be done cheaper than BY
purchase.
All men are liable from natural attach.
ment to associations Of the past to follow blind
ly still, the necessities Of past position. The
time. has been, when, with cotton at 30 cents 1t
would have been folly to have lost the precious
uannents by stopping in career promising 40
F., rich reward TO the active, to cultivate any
8 contingency: every thing else was cheap while
: cotton wore web of golden tissue, tor the
planter a; least; he was then justified hy the
circumstances Of the case, but the tide has t'ir'
ned; and was it not the part OF the wise man 10
trim his sails in accordance with the backward
!. cbIs aud when five cents came, to act accofd-
inelY, but il was not so-habit was all-power'
fal, and doub, if among the regular planters
through all that gloumy period, one acre OF cot.
ton less was planted, or mule bought; ne who
bought corn before continued to buy, and his
argument continued to be-, it | get less tor my
cotton must make the more of it. Small Tar
mers, the makers Of three or four bags. may
have gone to something else, bt no man who
owned gin house, made one revolution OF It's
wheelless. ;.
As regards the quantity Of land under cult.
yaton for given result, putting it in The TORN OF
a question, may not that quantity be lcSsened
greatly. and still the yield he the same! Many
,tbiags enter into the calculation; the ability to
,obtaiu.. ..manures, and the exact manner OF apply.
ing rhas which is made, to the greatest adSan .
aage, whether an hundred wagon loads should
90 upon five, or twenty five acres, or where e1'
actly the doctrine of quantity, vs.. quality meet
on middle ground, and can be made materially
5 10 assist in s,Ibserving The ends of the planter;
they are an,agonising principles in nature, and
yet by the solution OF this question:, could De
made ta draw together, tightening labor, and
iuoreasing production. 1t is question that
every man has his opinion about, anu 'hese
sFopnions will run over most extended scale Oh
{ discrepancy, even among the most experienced;
yet il can be answered To traction; not as q
theory but as fixed fact, according to the i'm
m,table laws, Of elemental combination the
soil, the seed, and manures being taken into
consideration. :.
1t is generally conceded, that too much land IS
kept under cultivation, in proportion to the iah'r
expended upon them. to produce the haPP'st
results. II should not be matter OF opinion;
that which is resolvabIe into pure and absolute
fact; it is all very well to argue points, that can
never be settled, for all parties can, let what
will turn up. remain satisfied with their own
opinions. Travel ny balloon, animal magnet.
ism. any subject upon which much can he said,
and little or nothing proven-argument forever;
for il is all that can he done in the premises, but
when the result is sure, and unvarying, as the
combination of an acid, and an alkali, then
reason indicates that the question should be set
tled.
May not the iamc question also arise with
reference to the formation Of manures, shcth'
er an ENORMOUS mass in bulk is not generated
with great labor, which is for the most part in
erta This is 4 question of great Importance,
for the difference between nanurng cotton
ulaatxtion and 4 farm where tie &C real and grass
crops alone are planted lies in the difficulty OF
getting material for the absorption even ot ami
NAL manurcs in many locations, and where
most convenient, of finding time, in the all. ab.
sorbing pursuit Of cotton making, for hauling
in, and hauling out, so that any thing that
would tend to remove this difficulty would Of
course add greatly to the improvement OF lands.
This sn,j.et. the concentrating the active
principles Of manures, has excited great atten.
ton wherever scientific agriculture is at all
praelised; and from its Importance, has altrac.
sed the powers Of the first living chemists, in eve
ry par, of tho world. The Chinese. a pains.
stalking people in the extreme. have, in this re-.
spect, gone ahead of the more stirring nations of
the wesi; having country groaning beneath a
population variously Estimated at from three t"
Eve hundred millions, they have been Obliged 10
1nicken rhe soil in every way conceivable.
Their great philosopher, CoSFUscIUs, laid it
down as a fundamental maxim, that nothing
should be done by machinery that the hand of
man could accomplish; hence their marvelo
manual deSlsrily; hence the ability Of a sterile
country, to support the living swarms upon it;
they eldom or never emigrate, they are too
cowardly ever to he killed To any great extent
Z, ,yar. their climate is genial, and they in.