The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-12-08

For the Western Democrat.
MBcKLENRURG AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY.

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:" The pasture and the food of plants,
First let the young Ggricotist De taught; I
Then how to sow, and ras the embryo seeos
OF every different specbs."-Dodsoy
The object of Agricultural Societies is
the mutual benefit of their members. and
the one grand object is to economaze LABOR.
Our object is to show how this may be done.
It is not done by exhibiting fine stock or
the products of the earth for premium
| for the best of each. If so, how Is II
mutual benefit! 1t is true, by it, we VIII
know where to get the best stock, or the
finest looking stock, to raise from; or the
| finest seed to raise from; but will all lana
produce alike will they require the same
kind of manure and lastly, will they re-
quire the same kind of cultivation 19en'
taking all things into consideration are
you working for the mutual benefit OF each
other! If not, why form Society 1T Is
a useless expenditure of money and time
And, in all societies, be the object what It
NAV, selfshness should not be permitted
10 enter within its portals. We will sug-
gest this plan, then, until better shall
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suggest itself:
1st. Let every member Of the society
consider himself a committee ct one to re-
mort at the annual meeting upon any e1-
neriments he has made-its success. &C.,
the nature Of the soil, the quantity OF man
ure, seed, &c, to the acre-and let the re-
port be as explicit as possible. End Let
. day he set apart for hearing and digesting
these reports. Sd Manufacturers reports
:. must show the difference between the thing
now in use and the one which he exhibits
and wherein the benefit is to be derived IL
the change.
These suggestions added to that OF ex
hibition, will be found to meet the object @
the society-that of ecnnomizing labor
The labor which terminates in the produc
IN ton of an article fitted for human use,
either employed directly about the thing
or in previous operations destined to facil
tate-perhaps essential to the possiDlht
of-the subsequent ones. In making brea'
for EXAMPLE, the labor employed directl
is that of the baker; but indirectly, is Til
Of the miller, the reaper. the sower' ii
;, plowman and the smith. We might {
+ still further back, but to our present pu
pose we need not leave the farm IL a
produce is to be used or consumed In Il
form of bread, it is from the bread tn
this equivalent must come;-the Dre'
must suffice to remunerate all these iaoo
ers, and several others. Labor is ind'
pensable to production, but has not alwa
production as its effect. There is mu
labor, and of a high order of usefulne:
of Which production is not the object. l.
Dor, then, is of two classes, viz: the pr
~ ductivc, AID the unproduetive. All lab
is unproductive which ends i'll immedla
L ENJOYMENT, without any increase OF the
cumulated stock of permanent means
:. endowment And therefore, all is OF Il
class which terminates in permant
benefit however important, provided tt
ues an increase of material products forms
part of that benefit. Unproductive may
as useful as productive labor it may
J.. more useful, even in point OF perman'
advantage, and it may be, to our purpo
absolute waste. 10 De vast, uo"cFoi
IVY liability not confined to unproduct
labor. Productive labor may equally
waste, if more of it is expended than rea
zer, conduces to production. 1t defect IN s
in laborers, or in judgment in those
direct them, cause a misapplcation OF P
ductive industry; if a farmer persevere'
ploughing with three horses and two n
when experience has shown that two hoI
: and one man are sufficient, the SURF
ed. labor, although employed for purpose
production, is wasted. To leap the
max" if we can raise fifty bushels of WI
with the same labor that we now raise
:. and not impoverish the soil to any gre
degree. the consequence is, that we
,. sell it for less, per bushel, and at the s.
time realize more profit.
eye. Then, if each member will experln
eye. upon one acre, more or less, and report
llege cording to our suggestions, we will (
see the effect; always taking into consld
ston, ton the amount of labor bestowed.
CATAWBA & c.