Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-09-19

ABBEv1LLE, THE BANNER DrsTRIcT.-A
friend has just written to member Of the
Executive Committee Of the State Agricul.
tural Society, that Abbeville, since the re-.
turn of her delegates, had subscribed FIVE
hundred dollars to the society. A, commit
tee, consisting of DR.. Barratt, Capt. Byrd
and Col. Marshall, have agreed to canvass
the district, and already the citizens of the
beautiful villages Of Greenwood, Due West
and Lowndesville, have rendered barbacues,
in order to bring the agriculturists together.
In Abbevile this great movement originated,
all her delegates to the Convention became,
life members, and now she has evidenced
her devotion to the good cause by afixing
to her banner motto of speaking dollars,
which, tells the proper tale. A district SO
noted for richness of soil, thrift of her agri.
eulturists, prodigality in her hospitality, and
whose true intelligence is evidenced by her
acts, can only be properly appreciated when
she is properly known. She has in her Dor.
ders more lovely villages, she was first to
establish the most noted private seats Of
learning in the State, and now in this great
industrial movement, she is where her enter.
prise places her, at the flag staff. When
will her sister districts " face the music and
fall into ranks 2'-South Carolinian,
LASTING EFFECT OF Bones AND ANIMAL
MAFrER.-We have seen crop Of :urnips,
by their increased luxuriousness, mark the
land where thirty years previous about one
hundred bushels of crushed bones had been
applied per acre. The Rural Nev. Yorker
says:
awe know of a field in an adjoining coun.
ty that has been cropped for thirty years,
and is now in high state of fertility. The
surrounding fields are nothing like it, and
with similar cultivation would by this time
have been utterly impoverished. The for.
mer is the site of an old Indian burying
ground, and when the country was first set.
tied, was indented with graves within six
feet of each other, all over its surface. The
dead were buried in q sitting posture, not
over two feet below the surface, and the
writer, when boy, filled his pockets many
time with beads and arrowheads, turned
by the desecrating plowshare. The half
decayed bones of the aborigines are this day
to be seen mingled with the soil, aud, sad
as it may seem, furnish food to successive
crops Of grain and grass. If the soil at any
time gave signs of impoverishment. the occu-
pant merely run the plowshare few inches
deeper, and turned up fen more Indians.
HORSES Many advocates for thorough
breds remark that they hate short.back
horses; but take it there are few who ever
saw long.backed one which was fit for
anything else but striding over half a mile
of turf, and on this account have always
avoided general length, as it is termed, in
breeding hunters; if, however, there must
be length, let it neither be 10 the spine of a
stallion, or in his legs, but horizontally, or
right through him. We then get thick
horse instead Of a long one; such are COM
pact horses, and not only calculated to car
ry weight, but take care Of themselves into
the bargain; their very formation and short
quick action enabling them not only to gal.
lop smoothly over ridge and furrow, but to
Jump like bucks, and to chuck themselves
right into the middle of the next county
when you come unawares upon doubled
bitches, or an traplike description of fence.
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