The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-14
HoYT 8 CO., Proprietors.

AS3t4tI q CS}., EFOpflSoOi
Meeting OF Che South Carolina Agricultural
-. and Mechanical Society.
The State Agricultural and Mechanical So
ciety convened in the Court House IN Columbia
on tuesday night, November 5. President Ha-
good called the Society to order and delivered
the following address:
GENTLEMEN AND FELLow-MEMBERs OF
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL AND MEcHANI-
cAL. .SocIETY :s,. 1t will be seen by the Ireasu-
rers, report, which will be laid before you, that
the income from our last Fair was St, 5,578 3d.
OF this. amount, s., ,41O.9l was paid tor the ,ex-
penses of the Fairs $SO0.65 was paid Tor Al Inn, a.
proyemenss on the Fair Grounds and $3.50
upon a note in bankAleaving balance OF
S16.79 in the Treasury. The note in bank, it
will be remembered, was given by the Execu-
tive Committee TO raise an amount sufficient TO
cover the difference between the receipts and
expenditpres of our second Fair. There is due
of this date upon that note, including interest,
the sum Of $S97. s,.''s -; y.
aThe income Of the Society mp to this time
has been derived exclusively from its Fairs
and upon the first three hald it is, therefore, In
debt, though TO no considerable extent. :! can
add nothing to the urgency with which 1 have
heretofore recommended you to put your affairs
upon more assured basis.
Iregret to report that the scheme of Joint
Stock Company, auxiliary to the Society, has
not already been perfected. at our last meet
ing, Mr.. Hope, from the committee appointed
to solicit subscriptions, reported at that time
9l2 shares, of $40 each, subscribed, in addition
to the xI0 shares previously reported by the
Secretary: and. on motion of Mr.. Wallace, the
Secretary was ordered to canvass the State for
further subscriptions. In the discharge OF this
duty, during the past summer, that officer did
not iIiset with success commensurate with his
efforts. Astle scheme now stands, some SIS, 600
have been subscribed, of which no part has
been paid in and S., 600 have been subscribed
and paid n;by three gentlemen, to whom refer
ence will be more particularly made. If the
unpaid subscriptions are made good, the sum
of S1808e is secured, which, though not as
much as could be desired, is yet sufficient to
add stability to the Society, and greatly extend
its usefulness = An spathy in this matter
seems 10 have settled upon the minds OF MEM
bers;f and the Society should at once bring it to
q successful conclusion, or, abandoning 1t, de-
wise some other method of securing Its object.
I must confess that, 70 my mind, no other plan
commends itself so forcibly IS that of the Joint
Stock Auxiliary Association 1T respectfully
recommended that this subject have priority in
your deliberations, and the hope is entertained
that before you adjourn, the Association will
be successfully organized.
The. auspices of our Society were extended
in 1870 30 the Land and immigration Company
of South Carolina, private enterprise, which
depended for raising The funds to carry out its
purpose, upon series of drawings and concerts
at the Academy of Music in Charleston. The
company proposed by these means 10 raise
100000, and pledged themselves to devote the
entire proceeds less 900, to the immediate
introduction of actual settlers into the State
The SiH,Oe0, if successful, they were to devote
to-a subscription to your Joint Stock Auxiliary
Association These drawings and concerts have
been had since your last meeting; and, upon
their conclusion, was notified by the company
that the scheme had not realized their expecta-
tions. and that they were, therefore, not able
to subscribe more than $5 600 to the auxiliary
stock. This amount received from them, and
now hold OF deposit at interest III bank In
Charleston. It is the subscription OF the three
gentlemen, previously referred to, as paid in.
Before passing from the subject of the status
of our Society, it is suggested that you consider
the propriety of applying to the Legislature
for State aid in carrying out our objects. South
Carolina is probably more exclusively agricui-
tural in the pursuits of her people than any
other State in the Union, and is among the few
perhaps the only one-in which the State
Agricultural Society receives no appropriation
from the State treasury. 1t is true that the
taxpayer and the land -holder-that portion OF
the agricultural class which this Society chiefly
rspresents--haye little influence in her coun-
cifs i: but there is human wisdom IN the Scrip
turai injunction to muzzle not the OK tnat
treadeth out the corn, which may commend IT.
l., nd
scrnpie to receive for its sustenance some small
mart of the fruit of its own labor. The dopa-
ffon of the Federal Government in behalf OF
agricultue has been: disposed of in this State
so as, to inure exclusively to the educational
benefit of one-haf Of our population. Surely
IT ;s not unreasonable to ask that the State,
from her own resources, should give some aid
tel ahat other halfof the people, who SO largely
repfesent>the intelligence and capital embarked
in practical farming. This matter has not be-
fore been introduced into your deliberations,
and. perhaps, has been judiciously avoided.-
But the scope and object of our Society, and Its
entire segregation from politics, has now been
developed in its history; and new State Gov
ernment has come into power processing mo, more
catholic regard for the general welfare WITH
the subject properly presented, they can hardly
refuse some recognition OF our efforts In tnas
Il were yell, also, to consider whether our
Society, IS ct present conducted, is fulfilling
4he measure Of Its usefulness. Our annual
meeting is merely supplemental to the holding
of Fair. useful in itself as an exposition o. OF
the industries of the State, and valuable as an
occasion of the social reunion of the people.
The opportunity of this general gathering has
been seized upon by other organizations.mer-
itorious, it is true-to have their meetings
and after fatiguing day at the Fair Grounds, |,
members ss are matter. sssab bs2ed to is 1oaS sHs Sisy give
an annortunity of discharging the obligations
elsewhere % eyacted. The consequence is that
tbs merest requirements of actual business are
met. mel and though most valuable agricultural
papers are annually published in our proceed,
ings, the majority of them have been adopted