Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-08-22

anu pfactlcaDle Suggestion VI NO boiSuooIe o,
and from the citizens of other parts of the
State. We must see and hear how our citi-
zens are restoring our worn.out lands-the
improvements they are making upon their
stocks of mules, hogs, cattle and sheep
what great increase in the yield of their
crop, by judicious selection Of seeds--the
mode and manner of planting and tilling
their land-and lastly, to see the great i'm.
proyement that are daily being made in ag.
ricutural implements. When our people
see and hear these things for themselves,
there will be spirit of inquiry awakened
in the breast of every one, and the echo will
fly from the mountain to the seaboard. We
will stand by the old Palmetto Stated Our
sons will no longer seek the god Of nam.
mon, in the fertile lands of the southwest !;
but an attachment and zeal will be engen.
dered in the bosom of each for our homes
and the land of our birth, that will never die
as long as this spirit Of inquiry and emula.
ton is kept alive. When we take into con:
sideration the natural advantages we enjoy,
our great system of railroad inter.communi-
cation, by which is daily developed the bid.
den resources of our State-our easy access
to one of the best and cheapest markets on
the Atlantic-the comforts of life and health
we enjoy in the middle and upper districts,
and then contrast them with the low wa.
ters in the western rivers-the cholera, the
yellow fever and mosquitoes which scourge
the Invest, we will then be convinced
that our homes in South Carolina are more
durable, and our land will yield us great nett
income over the lands in the southwest.
The question then, suggests itself, how
are the energies of our people to be awaken.
ed upon the all.important subject of agricul.
tural improvement! We answer, it can be
done by the establishment of a State Agri.
cultural Society, aided and assisted by dis.
trict societies-by collecting useful facts and
instructive opinions, which are known to
numerous individual farmers, the embodying
such useful information, and difusing it
throughout the Stately the annual e1hibi.
ton Of the agricultural, mechanical, artistic
and domestic productions of our citizens.
At these fairs our people will be brough in
contact with each other-.expression of opin.
ions will be elected, inquiry will be set on
foot, and our people will return from each
annual festival with new ideas, and in fixed
determination to turn over new leaf in
agricultural improvement. Ta encourage
US in the establishment of State Agricutu..
raj Society, we have but to cast our eyes to
our sister States, Virginia, Maryland; North
Carolina and Georgia, and see what
State Agricultural Societies have done in
giving new impulse to the energies Of
their people; their old fields have been re.
claimed, expatriation of their sons has in
great measure ceased, and they now linger
on the fatherland, tied by kindred and hal.
lowed associations. We feel that something
should be done to arrest the deterioration Of
our land, and the exPatriaton Of our ener.
getic sons from our proud old State, made
glorious by the brilliant achievements of the
sages and patriots that have gone before US.
Your Committee, therefore, without ex.
pressing any opinion as to the management
and working of the Society, for they con-
cede that to be the appropriate duty Of the
Executive Committee, beg leave to submit
the following resolutions, for consideration
Of the Convention:
RESOLVED, That State Agricultural So.
ciety be formed.
RESOLVED, That the State. Agricultural
Society shall consist of individual members,
upon their paying an annual subscription Of
two dollars, or twenty-five dollars for life
membership.
RESOLVED, That committee Of five be
appointed by the President, to draft suita-
BILE Constitution, that they proceed forthwith
to the discharge of their duties, and report
the same at the earliest practicable moment
for ratification by the Convention now IN
session.
Resolved, That if suitable arrangements
can be made with the citizens of Columbia,
this Committee recommend that the Society
be established at this place.
All which is respectfully submitted.
F. MARSHALL, Chairman.