The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-07-03

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other more Southern regions. The renson
ef this is, that at the South the beams of
DIE sun, being more intense, destroy the
rital principle when the lands arc cleared
ip, before II sufficient vegetable covering
San, grow up for their protection, which
vegetable covering is the result of that law
IN the economy Of the earth and in as
much as the irritation of the sun is greater
NJ tropical regions, this law is called into
greater rcGuisltion, which accounts for the
oiage being more dense and lnxuriant /;
but even here wlicrc the wood is cleared
for the purpose OF agriculture, and the sun
allowed TO hcain on the naked surface OF
the earth for few summers, as is tho case
in the Southern States, the land becomes
sterile, and il is no hard task to point ont
large bodies OF such lands, called old fields,
that are utterly unfit for agricultural pur-
poses; hut at the North there arc no such
old fields. The sun, there, il sccnis. is
Just hot enough 10 produce that degree Of
irritation necessary for the growth OF veg
etablc matter. When the forest is cut
away, in the South, the sun DESTROYS the
land before anohcr can grow up for its
protection but in the North, it is different.
the land retains It's fertility; and the irri
'aton OF the sun is not SO great, as to cali
into action that law Of sclf-prcscrvation, or
that function OF the earth (Which argues the
existence. Of living principc) hy which
vegetation has its growth, for the object OF
protecting ,l'c earth against the blirht,ng
heat OF the sun. -
Atthe North, grass and weeds do not
grow up so rapidly. nor rahkly, as at the
South, or in tropical climates; the reason
Is evident enough; it is natures salutary
iav---thc law by which the grass and
weeds grow, aSerts It's powers in propor-
fiot. tp the irritation OF HE SUMS rays or,
lSshe garth. We're a piece oof laid stripped
lSlt all is vegetable ,ena,, perfectly clean,
Gcs
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issverS hot, this fan; Womb &c -dcSt inytd,
perhaps in one Sutnincr; hut ~ Ts1TTrt'
throw up what little covering ,hat Il Ia hcr
| power, such rs grass, &c, and the proba
bil'ty is, that it would last two or more
| Summers, Then cover this land cn,ircl,
| by dense growth OF broad-lcaf trees, ant
in a shor, limo all its vital powers are re.
stored 10 its original state.
The farmer thinks that it is the litter
dccaycd on his lands when thrown out for Z
few years, that improves them; he is mis-
;akcn. Il is the shade Of the straw, grass
weeds, trees and so forth, that grow up
and protect ts surface from the sun.
wi,hcring heat, and no, The decay OF vegc.
table lhattcr.
Thus il the existence OF such law i,
the muser0! economy, like that which j!
known 10 exist in regard to the vcgctabl,
and animal economy, lie established, i
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