The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-09-20
mPOraRtio PIaRicTs---AnOtLeF Letfe
'f'i mon, the State Geoiorist.d


nc which this may be done in the ease ofeotta
la as compared with other crops and n
y danger threatening their pursuit fron, IN
II, illuspry advantages beld ont TO thelu hv n
M manufacturers Of cotton seed oil IN the citit,
ns an inducement for the sale OF thpir capits
lt stock OF fertility in the shape of cotton see,
m The data have given will suffice TO conviuo
any thinking maH that the bargain as usuaI
II ~ made Is most rninous one to the planter
,r ~ much So that, ware this mode OF dlsposinl
Of the cotton seed crop 10 become general
Is and the expectation OF the oil-cake 10 b,
. continued as heretofore, the cotton oultur,
must languish, and finally disappear from
S the South as that of hemp aud tobacco il
ri gradually retiring from what once were the
= best lands Of Kentucky and Virginia; and
y as grain culture has almost vanished from
! New England--Only much faster.
now desire to address a few words TO
J those who, on the contrary, are beginning to
despair Of the agricultural future Of the
State, in view of the rapid exhaustion of
even our best soils, outside oftho Mississippi
Bottom while within that bottom (spite Of
the shoTt'liNed experience of some boaStful
"two-hale-peracreN panteTs) tho Same cate
threatens all lands not now overilowed, and
iriH ALL, whenever the levee system shall
have been so perfected us to preclude from
them the annual oyerhuws. Tint this can
be done, the United States Surveys have
now clearly demonstrated; that il ,riH be |
DONE who that knows American energy can |
| doubt But SO sure as il is done, ifthere is |
any virtue in experience, the valley and |
! delta of the Mississippi will fall under the
same general law as those ofthe Nile and all |
other rivers in the world The fertilzng
ingredients formerly supplied by the annual
overflow, must now los drawn from other
sources, SO soon as the accumulated supply
iseXhausted. With the unparalleled system
Of waste now prevailing, this epoch will in
many regions arrive before the generation
who built the levees shall have passed away.
&, But this circumstances should not by any
means be considered as initiating against
the building of the levees For even sup
posing that the latter were necessarily to .
exclude the overflow for all time to come. c
We know that there is no legitimate reason !:
why soils of such resources as those of the
bottom should ever be exhausted They f
need only be cultivated with a view, not
only TO the greatest immediate profit, but q
also TO the prospect of their being occupied n
by future generations, without reducing the
latter to the starveling condition of tho in v
habltants of what once were the richest dis ~
trcts Of the old world, now reduced TO
on potatoes or figs, in consequence >
)fa long continued system Of agricultural n
Dllage From the once fruitful valleys of :
.. eIs.a 70 hanus En1' the same irfati9nat
,sSo'i,l naS poon ioiloMeu ~ siin,iar dlsas-
.;" ,rosailis owing 10 whl9h' tae posses =,
w W ',ino iSiqllu ~ tne Iaelie mlght' T.
inder existing circumstances, form more W
legitimate c1sus bcili between the agricultu. y
ally bankrupt nations of Europe, than all pi
he possible transfers of provinces from one :.
lespotism to the other. ......f s..tf ="
Strangely enough, as we turn eastward
rom worn-ont Persia, we find a more correct
~ II Z.
'n"oUoo VI aSiiIuIIuie pIeVaihng even W
~ W Usluo n''i tie
~ sVerite pi'''eausoi inner ASIA as
~ l'leei "itl,lcial ohliia' 100 whele so MANY ~
III 'lo Jis. tne reverse Oh What' accord
" W o'ii iueSo .nos siouiu pei inc same Is al
ioIo vi less INC case III agrleulture' dense nj
l.a Vvnssatlly increasing popuiatloh mas y
MY peSi s'o'lllsNeu On tpe same area Tor IN
no''sanuS vi years. let satisfactory as is NJ
IlS Is ss "s compared WIN tlat OF our
cnacd fra HaJ ias ~, Ne UpSu risalel ne at
art of their Industry and custons Rnt u
N ms mass on n LITTLE farther 10 the IittIsj :,
Inpire Of Japan. sealed liz from, Mi comrnsr. al
iaf intercourse for ages and what do VIZ lin,I2 to
soil comparatively sterile, forming scarce IN
alf the area of the country, but bearing the
lIne good average crops now as it did cen a.
iries ago and Sustaining a dense popnla- err
on, by far the most refined of eastern ma to
ms. having made considerable progress in oil
the arts eager and capable of learning -
ON MS all that we know and practice, and ia ~
lpable also, of teaching us not few things. 10
oremost among this latter, u most rational an
stem of AgricuituFe; Droyad to Inc sneb hy.l On
5 results, and coinciding in all It's essential p
atures with that to which the researches /.
! modern science have led rational hgficnl- OF
ralsts in the 0ccident !; but which here ha
JUS far, has failed o.strike root in populaf m
.r. ID 44a.fI'l.
The Japanese import no guano; so Gar MS 50
lown they use no mari, green sand plaster sa
siiperphosphate neither do they raise mi
tile for the sake of manure for tine 10
mple reason that tkeyrhaye no use for ~
eat, and employ their few cattle only as ~
asts of burden. In this as in other re- XII
ects they are most emphatiehlly SELF. wi
liant and independent. qu H'f1rf III,
If Ue, with the additional resources aiyenl -
by science. would hut adopt the main fea. lll'
res Of the Japanese system. modifyina. las to
I easily nhght) some Of the details to suit vo
r. habits and pniudices---what garden ar,
! might make of our land .,,..l eelf 49,
But this, for the present, is utopian
ouGh we do put M with fitting hoops and
bnf L refrain, Butt will add that while in Al,
e endwe wilIinevitably be driven 10 aaout eiis
G Japanese system. that "eyjl day viii No
deferred fhe longer. the more wehnsI,and -
G existing resources Of the soil, by return. S''