Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-06-09
VITO.

marks on the foregoing article:
"EDGEcoMB IMPRoy ENEMA BRIGHT DAY DAw-
MING UPON NORTH CARoLINA-Our readers will
thank tor calling their special attention to the
perience of intelligent and successful Edgeconb
farmer the plain and unpretending, yet hgkly ill.,
teresting and valuable communication of ''Vito" in
this number of the Arator We hesitate not to say,
extraVagant as the opinion may appear to the una
wakened and lethargic, this communication alone
will add millions to the wealth of North Carolina.
1t at the right crisis emanaes from the right
source, and gives the right information. Thousands
of farmers already aroused every part of the State
to lively of the absolute necessity of mprov-
ing, hestatng and hating between doubts as to
its practicabty and ignorance of the safe methods
OF advancement 1t comes to their anxously inqui-
ring minds with the power of demonstration, and
they can hesitate no longer, but will cast away at
once all their doubts and ndecison, and enter, with
Confidence, energy and perseverance, upon the tried
and plainly marked pathway to Improvement and
prosperity. The information given shows that our
old worn out lands need only to be replenished with
the materials Astounding on their premises, to be
converted from dreary and sterile wastes into cheer
tul and fruitful fields and farms every side-that
the diigent and careful collection and application of
these means, by every farmer will lead to these
and certain results: it will insure increased crops
more than paying for the trouble and expense Of i'm
proUiny-giOing abundance for cOnsunap ion on the
farm, Led0tng u handsome surplus for meaqEet-and
enhancing the money 0Gtue Of the land MORE THAN
SIX PER CENT EVERY YEAR. These well at
tested facts brought out by the experience of
North Caroti'aG fITnler and shO1oing not ohat c0n
but UhGt has been and Is still being done in North
CaroItna cannot fail to open the eyes of our people,
when they come to be generally known, and give
an impulse to the cause of agriculture that will set
the whole State in motion. We hope every news
paper in the State will publish this valuable commu-
ncaton, and call attention to it. for the information
ofther readers They and their children after them
will be thankful for the favor 1t will be seen that
20 worn out lands, in six years, reclaimed and
made highly productive without lime, without marl
and wlthouta cents expenditure for foreign ma
nures OF any kind, except small quantity of gyp-
sum. farm that produced, in lS4S with hands,
only five bags of cotton and Just corn enough for a
support, produced. in 1854, with seven hands 6ftv-
tive bags of cotton and two hundred barrels of corn
And the great secret of this result is toroah drain
eng, deep ploaoing, and compost acknowledgements
the hands of every farmer in North Carolina.
These facts given by the most reliable author
ity; and we strongly tempted to publish the name
OF the author, though he has modesty written
an assumed signature. We will say, however, that
from his high character, man of honor and as
skutui and successful farmer, the most implicit re-
ance may be placed in his statements We shall not
hesitate to mention his name and show his letter to
any person who may call at our Office desiring it.
Inc whole revenue of the State Agricultural Socie-
W coNd not be better appropriated than as a COM
pensation to him f he could be induced do itl to
Tasei through every county and neighborhood in the
otate, 70 give to every farmer in its borders tae
one now 70 increase the productveness of his lands
Witnln the snort space offs years, than three
fold. he mas practically solved problem of more