The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-06-07
AGRICULTURAL.
:. ADDRESS
Dclinc-ed before the IYuteree Agricultural So.
cicty Ut their lust anniversary,
Fly DIR. EDWARD VI. BOYkIN.
ADDRESS
Published at the requcs' of the Society,"

addresses you, should take the professors chair,
to enIightcn the dark corners of that course
which the most of you have travelled Tor so long
time. As general rule it is true, and needs
mol the skill of the logician to prove it, that no
man shon!d attempt the calculation of any sub.
ject of which he must be practically ignorant:
and above all others, that Of agriculture, in
which absolute theory, Qheory nr'estcd by
pFaclicc) avaiIs so little. But Il few 'ortr III
explanation ofthe apparent paradox cf''tr posi-,
! ton.
Mankind are divided into TWO great classes;
The few, whom experience, just appreciation OF
OF ,ha, .~.,sSry nave lived so long in, have
given the power of indicating the course TO be
! followed in the various pursuits of i!!e-and o
supporting and directing, the stumbling begin
ner OIL an untrird road The other, and by far
the greater portion are the seekers, not the
givrrs ol'IigAr, who, having no experience, their
minds having established no prcccdeuts of &C.
what manner most legilimatey to exp"nd the
sleeping force they feel themselves SO full OF.
This in the class represent, whose cause ]
aow plead to you, distinctly understanding, that
our motto is wanted to know" BE it your duty
then, mos, sapieut fathers in agriculture, to an.
swrr TO our call.
Every mans experience IN planting VIII
readily show him, that simple AS il may appear,
both to rive and to receive information, in the
hour OF his need, he fluids it not he may call
spirits from the vasty deep. but will they an
swcr him! He goes 10 one in whom he has
unboundrd confidence, and asks u rule of ac-
ion. by which to govern himself he gets ii;
meeting another, who fills a. high Il place in
his estimation, he pronouuds his doctrine to him,
and is told Il, once, that ruin will be the result
Of such treatment; when doctors differ, who
shall dare decided" In despairinr hesitation, he e.
tween his first love and his la>t he probably
adop,s a trimming course, little from each,
and upon the principle lha, bad plan is bet.
ter than no plan at all; failure is the cunse.
nusncc.
Such being the case, and the experience OF
all, will think, prove it, is it not important
that there should be sumc fixed standard, some
hiyh book of reference, into which all facts that
can he arrived at, should be collected, aud set
down after being through!y tested, by being
submitted to tie severest ordeal that Judge.
men, and experience NAV suggest!
Every nursuil IN which man has been en-.
gagged. is marked at its very outset (wth the
cyccp,inn of arricuI,ure,) by coalition Of the
narries mutually Interested, fer the purpose of
gaining, hy i combined action, the fullest play
of their utmost power, and wha, has been the re.
sui whcn this has been the case! unvaryIng,
triumphant Success. When Europe. during the
middle ages. was one wide: battle nehl, the guild
hro oh,lhond Of Flanders, OF Lnmhardy aud Flo.
renee, drove the shuttle and piled the various
mercantile and mechanic arts, each after lis
own kind. holding themselves by the strength
Of a r,i;nly combination, above and beyond H.:
man Of lhr sword who t!Iundercd not at their
gates, but who sought in gentle accents al
their hands, 4 portion OF the produce OF that
labor, without which their own great game OF
war. ND MT be played. :Singly, as inJivid-
nails. they would have en- swept before the
torrent; as hut another peasant ,ran,plcd be.
meath the iron foot Of The soldier; but Is 4 bro
rhrr of his craft! one If an order Srra! III num-
brr<. a"l mighty in mechanic skill, the simple
rustic. became guardian spirit of his aye; Il
con.cryo.or of,hr m!der grni ofpcace, where
all else WAS war and dcsual;on.
ArricY,,,irr, since man WAS first condemned
to win his bread thereby, has, until lac years,
undergone bat little change, and the only as;
signab!r cause has been ike iact that when all
other pursuits were ioslcrrd, and protected by
4 banded strength, it has been left To lis own
nna,ed progress. As though the seed had To
be planted, aad straight the earth would yield
its Increase: but docks and lhis;lrs grew as well,
and i, WAS soon felt that hi;tIi's $ interference
vas necessary. and in accordance with mai
ncc.ssi,v. he has inlrrl,rrd with varied sue
.rs<, and in varied sort, to increase the fruit.
tinrss of the common m":her. From the
rouuh stick, with which Mohcmm"d Pasha :
f;llah, Scraprs through his cotton field, amid
the mud o,'ihr Nile, the same instrument used
in th, same land, as fur as history treads into
H. H.. ,;.,,- ,r Lama, ,un h,rk IN iL.f Duriruf