The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-03
rHE DAILY DISPATCH.
.oNDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, is54.

pIcrII.TliRAL SURVEY OF A COUNTY, OR
ANY OTHER AGRICULTURAL lSTkiCIo h
SECTION OF VIRGINIA.
Genera, features and character Of the country IN
Ss.s..,,., ex,sns and natural ply steal charac.
,ers and divisions illustrated by map OF small
Q Surface and face of the country, and divcrsities
OF elevation and exposure
4 Climate and especially any peculiarities thereof,
4 Geological characters of different parts, SO far
as known
s. Useful minerals. and especially such As are, or
may be, valuable ae manures.
8. Water. in reference 70 uses Of navigation Rii
CATION propeiling machinery, &c.
T. Market towns, and manner OF, or faeiheS TOT
transportation OF products
]. Glasses and kinds OF soil, and OF snosoi, !" NC
designated (when extensively on the map.
2 Quantities OF arabic land OF meadow tnot SUI
jected TO ordinary tilage or fotation Sl erops1
of wood land, swamp or marsh, anu oenei "as.e
or unproductive lands.
3 Sizes of farms, usual or unusual .
4 The usual crops, of large and OF small culture.
q. Manner and depth of ploughing, and prepare
tioH for aud tillage, and general management oil
crops
T. Expense OF cultivation.
3. Agricultural products proper to be made In the
locality, and which are brought from other places,
and the extent of such supplies.
mi General market prices Of lands, past and pre-
seat. and causes of rise or fall in prices. Rats
OF rent.
". Drainage and En5ankmsnts.
/. OF tide marshes. and swamps.
g OF swamp or other low and wet lands, higher
than the tide.
s. Drainage Of arabic. or high and arm lands, TOR
either surface water or springs, and by either
open or covered drains. l--~..
y haplemsn" and Machines for agricultural cpe
rafi0as.
III Fencing aud Enclosing.
Kinds and costs OF fencing.
e. Advantages and disad vantages OF the separate
closing Of each field, or each farm, compared
to dispensing with either both-and instead,
con6ning live stock to enclosed pastures, or herd
ing them, especially in reference to hogs.
VI. Grass hasbdadrg, grazing, and green or rege'
table maaariRg crops.
I. Natural Meadows ON moist ground.
o Artificial Tor sown) grasses on permanent mea-
dows or pastures.
g. Artificial grasses, peas, or other green or forage
crops alternated with tage crops on arabic land.
4 Moving and hay
5. Crops Of grass. peas or weeds, lett TO manure
the land on which they grew.
VII Lire Stock. ..
I. Teams or animals for labor.
g Animals reared and kept for their products, or
fattened for sale or home consumption, and their
management
3 Animals purchased from abroad. and general
cost thereof.
Comparative profits of hogs confined to enclosed
PASTURES, OF 10 sues, anu tHObt Thugiug al
TX. Dairy management and products.
l. Products consumed or sold.
9. Supplies of butter and cheese from abroad.
Y. Manares.
l. Coward and stable manure, and other stock
supplies. Collection and choice of materials
preparation application, and effects. Fernented
uniermented manures.
9 Straw, leaves, or other unmixed vegetable mat
tiers, unrotted when applied.
3. Peat marsh or swamp mud, as manure.
4. Fossil shells or mari.
5. Lime.
6. Any supply of carbonate OF lime from other
T. Wood ashes-coal ashes.
8. Bone dust, orphosphate of lime in other mate
rails.
Q. Gypsum.
H. Any earths containing fertelizing ingredients,
and fit for manures.
IL Any other neutral Salts or materials containing
them useful for manuring.
II. Composts of different manuring materials
NJ. Orchards and their products, PineyaTds, Pe-
getable Gardens supplying products for safe
generally aud extensively.
Nj. Woodland.
J. General description of the growth Of different
kinds of lands.
q Uses and value of timber and other products.
s. Proportion OF farms necessary to be kept under
a. Disadvantages and cost of excess of woodland
to agriculture.
XIII. Old and bad practices, and neso or recently
introduced processes or Improved practices an dg-
rtcalture
XIP. Notices suggestions of ae,c or neglected re-
sources for agricultural Improvement
Ky. Obstacles to agricultural Improvement and
profit
l. Obstacles opposed by natural and unavoidable
circumstances.
=. Obstacles caused by erroneous governmental
policy, or by omission of proper legislation
Obstacles caused by individual action, or neg
MI Uahealthiness of residents, ccused bg climate
and condition Of the c0u1lfry and its agriculture
l. Local sources of malaria their extent operation
ana degrees OF maligni'y-such as rapid streams
sometimes overlooking the bordering land-tide
water marshes, fresh or salt-swamps, whether
III their natural state Or when under culture--mil
Ponds ana the passage of transient and irregu
'st nooas OF ireSh water over salt marshes.
accumulation OF purifying matters, amin al and
vegetable, III towns, their Injurious effects on
nealth' and tn .1neans Of rendering them nnox
ioas ana useful as materials for manure
D. increase or decrease and greater or less extent
and vruit;nce of malarious diseases, in past time
and now, and the supposed causes of change
a. MeanA Ut removing or diminishing the causes
OF such diseases, within the reach of indi yidual
proprietors, and such means as cennot be used
without governmental interposition, and COM
pulsory direction.
XVII Any other subjects here indicated, actich
may De connected soith the agriculture or econo
my Of The county or other locality treated Of and
" nh'ch the discussion Doula be useful in aid Of
improvement.
The following recipe for making a modern re-
public, which we ind in a recent California paper
is not a bad hit:
Take half a hundred seedy vagabonds, with no.
lining but lite apiece to lose, bag OF bread and
bacon, one caved in" lawyer, pistols and whisky
"a hofHm one strong minded woman, two yards
Of red and white bunting, to be well shaken In the
Interior OF small fishing smack for ten DAYS. from
whence eject upon the shores of bowling wilder
ness, Season with DEGREES of bombast and fustian.
prociamations and balderdash and the article will
be found to be genuine, though preparation hard
to swallow. -'N'
Mr.. Richard c. Thompson. tor several wears cen.
nected with ''The Plough. the Loom and the An
VIII" died in Philadelphia on Thursday morning
I asst.
QUICK OF APPKHENSIoN.-Aw woman WAS arrai
gned 10 the Police Court this morning charged with
being common drunkard, but in the most cont.
dent tone and manner imaginable entered her pIes
~ Not Guilty" Thereupon some half dozen of.
fcers were sworn, when as if horrifed at the mr.
ray of Witnesses agsinst her, the defandant cried
Gut. 90 Lord take 1t back I'm guilty =, and
vAro vad har