The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1870-10-26
tural thrift will be taught by the
farmers of this comfy

farmers of this county.
Your example is uf inestimable
value to the Southern States, alive
as they are to day will, agricnltur.
al activity, mental and muscular,
aud earnest in efforts to adapt their
husbandry to the new circum
stances which imperatively de-
mand change in modes and pro.
cesses, in variety of crops and in.
crease of industries, and especially
in adopting labor. saving expedi.
ents and machines, and acquiring
the mastery of The science Of farm
improvements and renovation. No
longer should the planter be mi.
gratory, wasting field af;er field,
and seeking new soils to devastate.
Incorporation must take the rlace
ofdestruction, and convenient farm
buildings, roads, and other i'm. +.
! Provements will follow, and serve
to foster local attachments and love
ofhome, and TO increase the gen.
eral wealth and advance refine.
ment, and promote the highest
type of civilization.
Using their advantage of eli
mate and soil, of diversifying 40.
rlcultural industry, tho South may
yet produce the value ofa hundred
million dollars, aaoao imported, and
increase, the Industries OF the coun.
try, the estimated value of which
1t would be impossible now to
compute. -
Our nation is entering upon a
new era. With immigration, it is
daily becoming moro a necessity
OF our condition that new indus.
tries should be inangurated, AMI
new products grown, new pro.
ccsses of utilization attempted.
We are paying tens of millions
OF dollars annually for fibers, oils.
fruits, and other ailments, mcdi.
clpes and dyes, which can readily
pe produced here, thus keeping
oar treasure at home, ard giving
rural labor a variety and range
which will serve better than trades
unions or any expedients of com.
6'nation to keep up the price and
improve the condition of the labor
er. not alone the laborer upon the
farm, but the worker i'm all the arts
OF mechanism and fabrication.
1t is my earnest desire and de.
liberate purpose, in my official ca
pacity, and through the Depart.
ment OF the government over which
have been called to preside, to
cooperate with you, and with the
friends of rural progress every.
where, in oil efforts tending to the
advancement of q scientific, sys.
.feInatic. rational and practical sys.
TEN of agriculture, suited to our
peculiar wants and circumstances.
The Department of Agriculture
is establishing relations with all or.
ganlzed rep, esentatives of agricul.
tnre, whether governmental or
otherwise, making exchanges of
seeds, plants. and publications; it
is searching through the world for
new and valuable plants to accli.
inatize, new varieties of cereals to
test, and, when proved valuable,
to distribute. 1t is stated OH com.
pctent local authority that hun.
dreds of thousands of bushels of
oats are now grown in single
Western State from seed distri6u.
ted a few years ago, greatly excel.
ling the common seed in produc.
iiseness and in quality. Similar
facts, showing an increase of mil.
hons of dollars in the production
vi the country, through the direct
agency of the Department. are fiji.
ed in its arcl.ives. ''H77i 80
The Department embraces i'm its
work the collection and dissemina
fion of statistics and. practical in
formation; chemical analyses of
whatever will throw new lightup-
on the mooted questions Of pro
gressive agriculture experimental
horticulture, with illustrations of
landscape gardening and rural
adornment entomology, with its
myriad forms of life, either favor.
able or inimical to vegetation bot
any, with a continental field but
partially worked, and promising
rich rewards. These and other
objects Of effort are ever before us,
and | believe our working corps
are. not entirely devoid of apprecia-
ton Of the importance of efficient
service, and are making q good de-
gree of progress in the great work.
In conclusion, allow me to ex.
press the pleasure I feel in greet
ing again my old friends; in wit.
Messing the evidence of your skill
and industry, your taste and judg.
meDt, your comfortable houses and
your improving farms. Yon have
made desert to bloom as rose :