The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-07-11

4 the production OF beer and mutton,
from pasturage, and q great variety
of miscellaneous products, the cur
renoy value of the agricultural pro-
ductions Of this one State, in that
year, was far greater ths ! the money.
returns Of any cotton c,op ever pro-
duced in this country; and the gold
value of such products would be
greater than the gold value of half
the cotton crop of 1860, the largest
ever made in the United States.
The grand results are not due to
any superiority of soil or climate,
above our own, but to q properly
directed and diversified system of
labor, and TO superior agricultural
implements and farm economy. The
aggregate product of varied agricul-
tural labors must always exceed in
value the yield of any one staple,
however vast and well organized may
be the system of labor applied to it,
for marked success in the produc-
tion of that one will lessen its price,
by an undue increase of the supply
over the demand.
The introduction of improved i'm
plements of husbandry, is matter
of vital Importance to the farming
interests of the State. With the aid
of proper machinery, and the proper
use of fertilizers, our farmers will be
enabled to cultivate larger area of
land. and To cultivate it more tho
roughly, than, under the former sys-
tenn, they cultivated q very limited
amount.
These considerations become all
the more important, in view of the
fact, that, in South Carolina, there
are 4,O00,O 900 acres of land improved.
while there are nearly $4,000, 900
acres unimproved. The recent dis
covery of vast beds of phosphates of
lime on the banks of the Ashley,
near Charleston, will enable us to
enrich our worn-out lands with that
most valuable fertilizer, at q compar-
atively small cost. Large shipments
of this fertilizer are now being made
from Charleston to Northern ports.
and which might be manufactured
here, and sold cheaply to enrich the
poor land of our own State.
| AGRIC ULTURAL COLLEGE.
I invite your attention to section
nine, article ten, of the Constitution,
which directs the General Assembly
to provide for the establishment of
an agricultural college, upon the
basis set forth in an Act of Congress
of July 2, 1862, providing for the
endowment of agricultural colleges
in the several States. The Act pro-
vides that each State and Territory
shall receive 10000 acres of public
land scrip for each Senator and Rep
resentative that it may have in
Congress. Under its provisions,
South Carolina will be entitled to
1, 125 pieces, of 16O acres each, rep
resenting 100000 acres of public
land, worth in the market, at pre-
sent, about one dollar per acre, OR
S1S0,00O.
This scrip may be located in any
State or Territory having public
lands subject to sale, ut one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre. The
Act also provides that the money
arising from the sale of such scrip
"shall be invested by the State in
public stocks, at not less than five
per cent. interest, and tho interest
shall be appropriated for the estab.
lishment of at least one college,
where the leading object shall be,
without excluding scientific and
classical studies or military tactics, to
teach such branches as are related to
agriculture and the mechanic arts
Iwould also invite your attention
to the general Act of Congress of
1864, donating 100000 acres of pub.
lie land to each State, in aid of inter-
nal improvements. Other States
have, under the authority of Con-
gress, applied that donation to edu-
cational objects, and I suggest that
you memorialize Congress to extend
the same privilege to this State.
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND
EMIGRATION.
A celebrated statesman has OBJ
served, that agriculture feeds us;
in great measure il clothes us; with
out it we could not have manufac-
lures. and We should not have COM
merce; they will stand together, but
they will stand together like pillars,
the largest in the centre, and that is
agriculture. Agriculture is, indeed,
the life of nation, its very existence
depending upon the annual produc-
ton of its soil. In view of the vital
Importance of this subject, and of
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