Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-06-03
AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURIsTs.

the body and members are mutually oePeh-
dent, and recprocally useful to each other,
the body can exist without the members;
The farmer can supply his necessities, and
most of his reasonable wants within the
circle of his family, he can feed and clothe
himself: but his wants are enlarged, and his
ability to crafty them increased, in proper
ton to the profits of his labor. II, through
ignorance or slotl, he produces only what is
necessary for the sustenance of his house
hold, he can buy neither OF the merchant,
the manufacturer, nor the mechanlc-nor
contribute to the support OF the learned
professions; or, if he buys, he cannot pay.
But, if his produce is double what is re-
quircd for the consumption Of the family,
the surplus half may he employed for the
benefit of the other classes-in purchasing
from them the comforts and elegancics OF
life. The other classes, on contrariwse,
cannot thrive as such, without the aid OF
the farmer: he furnishes the raw materials
for the manufacturer; he feeds the mcchan,
ic, and freights the bark Of commerce; and
is, besides, the principle customer to them
all.
The head can do no more than the hands.
The animal strength of the OK and the
horse would effect no useful purpose, with
out the contrivancc and direction OF man.
In many countries on the old continent,
where the cultivator is debased by igno-
rance and despotism, the awkward, ill.con-
trived implements of the primitive ages are
still in use There is not 4 manufacturing
employment, nor mechanical art, but has
been abridged in its manipulations, and had
its fabrics improved in quality, and reduced
in price, by the aid Of modern science. We
say modern science, because some branches
are but beginning to develope their pract-
cal advantages to useful labor. We verify
believe that science can do more, and will
do more, in the coming thirty years to i'm
prove the condition of agriculture, than has
been effected in the last three centuries.
An intelligent head is deemed of more im-
portance, and commands higher compen-
sation in many of our large establishments,
than half dozen mere siuewy arms. Mind
is the great lever that moves the material
world-the master spirit that civilizes man,
and multiplies his comforts and enioyments.
We acquire knowlcdg sc in our business me!
chancaly, but slowly. The acquisition
may be accelerated and augmented to an
amazing extent, by the experience and teach
ines of men who have made natural and
chemical science their study and employ
ment for life. There is another considera.
ton which renders the improvement of the
mind, of public benefit; ignorance bcgcts
Incidence, and Incidence begets vice. If
we would, therefore, inculcatc virtue, we
must foster industry: andif we would make
industry respectable and desirable, VIC must
throw light upon its paths, and secure for it
a mcrited reward.
1t results as a consequence, that the i'm
provement Of our agriculture is OF the first
Importance to every class of our popula-
ton; and that this Improvement can in no
wise receive such efficient aid, as by in
structng the youth who are hereafter to
manage its concerns, as we'll in the science,
as in the practice Of their business.
WATER. MELON BUrrER-A corrcspon.
dent of the Prairie Farmer presents the
following method of using watcr-melous:
9" | endeavor every year to raise a good
watermelon patch. They are a healthy
and delightful fruit, think. cultivate the
ice rind variety; plant early in May, and
again towards the close of the month, so
that they may come in succession. When
they commence ripenng we commence
eating, and use them freely during the hot
weather When the weather becomes cool
in September, we send quantity of them
to the house, split them open, with 4 spoon
scrape out the pul ps into /; cullendcr, and
strain the water into vessels. We boil it in
an non vessel down to syrup, then put in
apples or peaches, like making apple butter,
and boil slowly, until the fruit is well cook
ed, then spice to taste, and you have some
thing that most of people will prefer to
apple butter, or any kind of preserves Or
the syrup may be boiled without fruit, down
to molasses, which will be found to be as
fine us the best sugar house molasscs. We
have made Of fall as much rs ten gallons
of the apple butter, if may call it, and
molasses, which has kept until May in n
fine condition"
A New PA1Nr.-Water lime (hydraulic
ccmen1 mixed in the same way with oil rs
Blake's Ohio paint, or any Of the several
mineral paints lately brought into use, has
lately been discovered to be equal to any
other substance ever used for painting walls
roofs, floors, fences, or any other work,
while in point of economy it is us one to
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