Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-11-13

CoTToN.-Some OF tae Southern papers
arc discussing and Recommending scheme
fore nhancing the valdecfc cotton. The plan
is to form a company with a capital of $780,.
100000, to receive dlthe-cotton produced
in the United State and sell it, guaranteeing
to the owner eleven cents:a pound and with.
holding it from the nafket whenever twill
not bring that price. The Southern Press
comments thus upondhe,scheme:
Thcs project is utterly visionary and i'm.
practicable. attempt would break any
such company,lfs.it eoHldt be formed, and
would;utimately injme thepricc Of cotton
instead of advancing IL ssS
"The production offs ffsscbtton is like that OF
everything else. It is;;or will be limited by
the compensationit for the capital and
skill invested. And nosaeyice has ever yet
been found to secure asdefnite profit to any
business. 1t would be as wiscto attempt
to regulate the seasons and to insure against
the Army worm, rainy weather, and early
frosts. :
"There is n prevalent but mistaken notion
that the price of sissregulated in Eng
land by the bank or manufactures, or specu-
lators. The thing is impossible. The price
is regulated by the demand for the manufac-
turcd fabric all over thesiworld; and such is
the extent of that denand,,an of the huctua-
tions which result from 5the, vicissitudes of
nations, that the price Of fScotton is the very
thing that 20 power can regulate.
Such is the extent, utility, and necessity of
cotton clothing, that the Increased demand is
almost the measure Of the natural increase
and progressive civilization, of the world and
neither is quite so rapidas the natural in
crease of slaves. AS for{cotton lands, they
are yet sufficiently Abundant to warrant a
supply of cotton cqaul toSthe probable con-
tinuance Of modern civilization. ."-Caroli-
nian.
BERMUDA GRAss-In the Natchez region
Bermuda grass is Abundant Phere appears
to be but little cause to- doubt that it was
first introduced, or at I'LL events its value
pointed out, and the plant disseminated by
the late William Dumbaspf, the Forest, the
father of the late DR.. Dhmbar-a most ex-
celent, useful, public spirited and far-secing
man. If affords abundant: pasture through
the heat of summer, whenE6ther grasses dry
up. 1t binds the levees aHdSthe embankments
of railroads where formadseycn of almost
pure sand. 1t checks apsl gradually fills up
those enormous gullies; sich are SO readily
formed in our hilly connts and irable: soil
and sub-soi It cansbe made cover lands
too much worm .ofi table cultivation;
brining them IN n year or two into1a cond-
ton by which they will yield greater nett
return in fine wool from the cotton plant.
1t protects our roads from washing, and in
by ways, comparatively, travelled, it renders
farther working of them almost unncccssa-
ry, if properly worked before the grass is
set. 1t forms mcdows unequallcd in yield
and value by any others of which we have
either seen, read or heard a single cut Weld
ing five tons, of dry hay, preceded and follow
ed by other cuts, each cf fully half that guam
tilv and that too under but indifferent man.
agement. 1t is our only available but most
excellent means of covering an open lawn or
yard with pretty green sward, forms q
pleasant walk, if kept closely mown; supports
terraces, however steep if not actually per-
pendicular and gives fresh pleasant and
rural appearance to our villages, which we
rarely see in the South, where this grass
does not exist-Thos. Affieck, esq. of Missis-
cinni