Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-01-18
GRICULTURA
Agricultural Societies.

Agricultural Societies.
We SEQ from a number Of our State ex-
changes that steps have been taken in seve-
raj counties for the organization Of County
Agricultural Societies. Such organizations
arc already in successful operation in a few
counties. Some of the Agricultural Socie.
ties formed in years past have been reorgani-
zed Of late and started again with a fresh
impulse. 1t is gratifying to see this degree
ofinterest that has been awakened in the
subject of agricultural improvement.
Much Of the credit of this is due to the
efforts Of our State Agricultural Society, and
may be attributed in q high degree to the
great success attending their late exhibition.
A new impetus was given to the cause OF
that occasion, and its happy influences are
now apparent throughout the State. The
large number Of intelligent farmers assemb.
led ut the late State Agricultural Fair, car
rled with them to distant parts Of the State
the same eommendable spirit manifested
during the session Of the State Agricultural
Society, and we now see it exhibited in the
formation Of Agricultural Societies for their
respective counties,-a move which cannot
full to be productive Of much good to the
agricultural interest Of the State. We have
seen what a creditable show our farmers can
make at a State Fair, and it gives assurance
that to a proportionate extent they can do
credit to themselves and to their occupation
in County Fairs. The latter, we have no
doubt, will be followed by results alike bene
fcal to those attending the exhibition of the
State Agricultural Society. We hope, ere
long, to see such Societies formed and kept
up in every county of the State, and that
for each successive year we may be able to
boast Of so grand an exhibition Of the Agri-
cultural industry Of North Carolina as that
Of last October,
Tho advantages that will accrue to the
State, from a proper appreciation of her az,
Ticultural interests, are too numerous to re-
count in a brief notice of the subject. The
increased value Of our lands is a weighty
consideration. The achievement ofthat OBJ
jOet will surely follow The awakening Of adj
ditional interest in the cause Of Agriculture
In many parts of the State where this spiri
Improvement has manifested itself, tht
value of every acre of land has been greatl,
enhanced. The landed wealth of the STATE
has in many instances been moro than doub
led, while tho yield therefrom, has been in
creased to an extent that more than compan
safes for the expenses Of improvement. Th,
wealth Of the farmer has ut the same tim,
been promoted just as much, to all practica
purposes, as though so many more dollar
had been put into his pocket. His impro
vol land will bring two dollars for one, be
fore it was improved, should he see prope
TO dispose Of it--furnish him with a safe in
vOstment for his capital, and yield, perhap
n hundred per cent. over what it did in a
unimproved state.
The additional capacityof these lands t
sustain population isa consequence that mus
also greatly promote the interests Of the Stat
large. In place of our citizens emigrar
ing to the extent they have done il forme
years, they will be induced to devote tn;
labor and means to the improvement Of the
native State which has hitherto added muC
in building up other States, from the mist,
ken notion that N. C.. was two poor f
them to remain in her limits with any hoE
Of making a living, or at all events a forum
But as We before have had occasion to r
mark, it is becoming apparent to our Poop
that it is just as cheap and equally as pro-
table TO Improve the lands they have as
open out others in a new country.
Whatever may have been the opinion
former years which Induced the citizens
N. q. to abandon their own State for mo
inviting fields in the far West, they can
longer have the same force. The means a
now within their power for making their pr
sent homes as comfortable, as attractive, al
as productive as any to be found elsewher
The additional facilities for enriching the
lands by the use Of newly discovered man
res, the saving Of labor by the invention
newly improved agricultural instruction, fro
which the products Of the State can be &C
veyed cheaper and more readily to mark,
afford to ag~riculturists advantagesf that q
now being properly appreciated by the pcoT
throughout the State.
pgA- Two young gentlemen in the to,