: VOLtMK "" CIIKRAW. SOUTII-CAItOLINA TUESDAY. FEBRUARY, 14. 1843. Wl> lu 'j . , ... ./-i. M; .. Bp M< MACLEAN. ,1 weekly a* ffiree deport a f V*V| frith U addition, when not paid ifithia ( three Months, of twenty per cent per annum. * - Two now eoheeribers may toko the paper at " ftre delists, in arfeanoes and ten at twenty. a > Wm apheefihera, not receiving their papers t W.ri,.. wuh. 'Tjsirt sabeoriptieh always due in addenee. f ftpri not ffiacoatmued tossJam/ subscribers g iaalrtMl^ . j 1 : t -J i, Jfoiptfmmmti not exceeding I (lines inserted r far en# dollar the (ret time, and fifty cents eeeh U eiheedhaat time. Tot insertions at integrals of r ?#fi frdeh* 75sent*after the first.and a dollar . If the intervals are longer. Payment doe in hdaeneefer advertisements. When the nopnbar t insertions is not marked on the copy. the c ' JESTS?1' - Md .h^itu # tTTba.postage most be paid on letters to tbo r editor iod tbo bosineee of tbo office. r 1 ' ^ I '( i: -i - i ? ; i i. , iSmw 555 ' # . XCROPKAN AOBICCLTURAX. TOUR AND SCR1 si* '.n J !. ,y*y, . . 1 .'.Several gentlemen interested in the advancement of agricultural science and improveaiOnt, and of rural education, r have proposed to Mr. Henry Colman* late J Commissioner of Agricultural Survey of * Massachusetts, to visit Europe for those v objects. The plan is for'him to spend a 6 stearin England, in the examination of ' (ho Husbandry and Rural Economy of ? that country ; and a year on the conti- * neat, in the examination of French, Flem- c ish, Swiss, and German Husbandry, and especially the Agricultural or Manual f [Labor Schools and the Experimental c Farm*. * x It is thought that ouch an examination, ' a yet never undertaken by an American, r might, if well conducted, essentially con- f duce to the advancement of agricultural ' knowledge and improvement in thiscoun. ' afy, and especially aofve the cause of ru- 1 thl and practical education, which ia now exert ing. great interest throughout the ' United States. The general plan of the 1 furvey will cdhfonn to Mr. Cbimnn*s Sor- 1 jjoy oTthe. AgricultUre of Massachusetts. [J It is proposed to publish his reports in fuecess'nre numbpre. The first number J lis expected to appear by the first of Jan- ! any,>1840, pad aeon?' if practicable. ' The reat of the numbers will follow ia ;* joonrepient succession, at intervals. of two or tkrte months. -v> ,f 'Dm whole work will be compriaod in I Wight, or at moat ton numbers, of at least * 160 page* each, handsomely printed in 1 ati octavo form, stitched and covered, 1 and embellished with hdcossnry and use. ' 'fat drawings and engravings, title pages, jn? index. , 1 'the cost will he 50 cents each num. I W, to subscriber** fcrenUemen who siib. 1 Hcrilxvare understood as subscribing fur j the whole work. lj As the enterprise involves of necessity a large expense, it is ex|iected that one dollar, per Copy will be paid on snbscrib- 1 ksjg; or,-otherwise, one dollar on the do. IhWy of the first number; one on the 1 delivery of the second number; one on the ilelhrery of the fifth number ;1 one on 1 the delivery of tho seventh number; and 1 one on tho delivery of the ninth number, ' should the work be extendod to ten num. 1 K& _. ! Mr. Uolman will leave Tor Europe a* soon aa the subscription will warrant the undertaking, >1 An early return is respect folly requested xt gentlemen to whom this is sent, addressed to Henry Colman, Rochester, if. T.; td Little A Brown, Boston, Mass.; or to - Luther Tucker, Cultivator Office, Albany, N. Y. It will be eeon from the above adver> *t|eement, that the subscriber contemplates a tour in Europe for agricultural inquiry and observation. This enterprise has been commenced under tho encouragement of Dome of the moot distinguished friends and advocates of agricultural improvement in tho country ; and with a strong conviction oa his own part, after giving to it the moot maturo consideration, that 4* no manner could ho, in his humble sphere* render so essential a service to the groat cause which lie hat so long had I at heart, tho cause of an improved hut- I fcaadry, and the enlargement of the com- * Torts and the elevation of the character I end condition of the rural classes. 1 He hois had the greatest satisfaction in 1 finding so cheerful and liberal a cooperation in his enterprise, not merely of ] personal friends, but of gentlemen in va- i riewis parts of the country, upon whose a kindness he had no claim, from an avowed r conviction of tho great utility of the un- r dortaking if it can be well executed.? i The Massachusetts Society for promoting a agriculture, with that signal liberality t and intelligence by which thoir measures n have nlwttya been directed, have sub. r ?cril?ed for one hundred copies of the Ro- p jK>rts, intending them for distribution in o agricultural premiums, or otherwise. The t Worcester County Agricultural Society n of Massachusetts, which niny justly claim \ the character ol' a pattern society in its t ?al and the practical wisdom of it* men- si urea for agricultural improvement* have ci ppropriated tiro hundred dollars from its unde for the same object. ThflRasex is bounty Agricultural Society, Mass., 91 invp, aa in the former oase, distinctly l?i ind emphatically approved the object by I) lioir resolutions, and added the more sub. c< tantial encouragement of a subscription nn or twenty-five copies, with the efeprcs- w ion of their regret that, on ncc&irit of "ai stent draft* uj>on their fhnda, they were ti inable to dt'morc. The Berkshire Agicultural Society in Massachusetts, at an e; nformat meeting of the Board of True- Jo\ ees, have likewise pledged their liberal A o-operation, which will be confirmed at A heir regular meeting. The Ontario Ag- st icultural Society, N. Y.. besides passing v< osolutions highly commendatory of the h roje?<, have followed In the footvtops of tfi he Worcester Agricultural Society.? F Chose are all the agricultural societies in ei he country before Which the subject has, ei is vet, been brought. c< A single public spirited individual in ei he county of 8cnecn, Judge Sackett, has jc rmde himself personally responsible for ,d< me hundred copies of the Reports, for ci bat society and county. Another indi- it idual, near Boston, whose patronage of u ivery good eatcrprise is well known, and shorn Heaven seems to have blessed with d realth only that he might do good with jc t, has made a subscription for one hun. tl Ired copies. Another individual, equally c listinguishcd through a long life for his tl mblic spirit, has Vubscribed for fifty I] copies. Thirteen individuals have sub- p icribcd for twenty-five copies each ; five, a or ten each; and many for five and lesser lumbers. Indeed, the subscription has u scarcely been presented to an individual ti vho has refused his aid, or hesitated as c o the utility of the ptojecl; and embraces ii nany of the host names in the country. s The subscriber would do great injustice a o his own grateful feelings, if he did not n tcknowledge in these subscriptions, much e >f persons! kindness and confidence, tea- o imonials of regard and good will which tl te cannot too highly estimate; but at t< he same time, he is equally hn|Vpy in ij Knowing that nothing of this sort wbuld p tave been done, were hot the object itoclf c ?f acknowledged public utility. t It may be said that English or Europe. ii in agriculture cannot be adapted to our e ^ndition. A difference in climate, in ? toil, in tho price of, or facility ofprocur- r ' I-I 1 ? >iig moor, tnu in various circumstances a which are obvious, must, or course, mate- v rially affect the agriculture of each counlry|; hut, at the same time, there itust be v much that is gonoral which is equally ap- v dicable to both. In countries whdre the v agricultural art has been carried to so f [jreat a degree of perfection as in 'Eng. t land and some parts of the continent, t there h^ust be a great deal to be loarnod, ti which cannot fail to be highly instxi^tivo a &nd useful. If it be said that this c^n be n learned (tens books, we can only reply h that it is books upon this subject, which t we design to put into the hands pf our s farmers; and with this difference 3 The i recounts we have had of foreign agri- J :ulture have been, in most instances, g from foreigners thomselves. (n such c eases, it is to be expected, from their long familiarity tyith their own course of hus- \ bnndry, that many things would escnpe i notice or not be deemed worthy of ohscr- c ration, and yet in tlremselves quite im- t portnnt, which would at onco strike the | notice of a stranger ; and it is our object < to enable the American farmer to look at > foreign agriculture with American eyes. \ Bat many improvements are now going >n, in England in particular, of the high. I jst importance, in some respects vastly r 'educing the expenses of cultivation ; in * lomo, more than doubling the crops.? ? The process of sub-soil ploughing and 1 inder-ground draining, the practice ef Irrigation, the introduction of n variety >f new manures?manures of a portable, :oncontrntcd, and most active character, tre matters exciting great attention, and >f wluch, besides the information obtained r Vom foreign agricultural periodicals, a nucli more is doubtless to be lenrnt from t >ersonsl inquiry and observation. The 8 >roduct of wheat has been in manv Darts c + I | >f Great Britain actually doubled by im- 1 Mroved modos of culture. What can be nore important than to know precisely v ind fully what these modes can be ? The quality of the dairy products of c England, and of some parts of the conti. { lent, are universully admitted to bo much p luperior to our own in general, nnd^n g nost markets in tho world, they command t i higher price. It must be a grent gain, r f by any exact information to bo obtained t thread, our dairy produce* as most cerainly can l*o done, can be brought into 1 in equal competition with others. The 8 tew Tariff law? of England, now pro- P losing to open English ports to mnny of " >ur agricultural products, especially in o ho articles of cured provisions, it is obvi- ^ usly of high imporlunco to loam precise- c y in what form they mny bo best sent in. j, o their markets, since the success of such t| lipments must materially depend on tl rcumsUnce. The production or sijk in this count destined to lie, or. is capable of \ wring a most important and profital ruqch of rural industry. It is obvioi r of great moment to learn the wh< >ur*o of treatment of the worms and t innngement of the filatures in Countr here the nrl .has.been longest pursu nd carried to a high degree of peirfi on. %ll i tl Much discussion has boon had in.? gricultural conventions, on the subjt r establishing Experimental Farms a gricultural or Manual Labor Scboa s vet. no such establishments enn lid to exist among us but in a limited Bry qualified degree. In Europe th live existed for some time j and unc 16 pdironngo of the Government ranee, and, we believe, in pamo bi r States of Europe, they have be itablished on a liberal soft!? ? ?n(* * surse of education pursued is big!)!)' rstiflc and enlarged. If for no other < ict th^n to ascertain with exactness a utail, the condition and success of th< slablishments, the subscriber feels tt i his mission he may render a most va ble service to the country.- , r But were nothing else gained than 1 rawing of public attontion to these si icts, and stimulating and encouragi lat awakened zeal in the cause of ag ultural improvement, which is now r iroughout tho country, und conseque j quickening our own efforts for our ? regress, no small benefit to the indivii 1 and public must accrue. The subscriber might much enlai pon this subject, but be would not ti so soverely the indulgence of his rei rs. Tho expenses of the enterprise rig of necessity vary great, it is indispi able that be should procure a large si cription. Sufficient subscriptions hi lot yet been made perfectly to secure I xpenses; but the confident expectat f completing such a number, warra he subscriber in saying that he desij o leave In the coining spring. Iii I Bean time, he respectfully asks of th ersonal friends and the friends of aj ulture, throughout the country,.dispo o favor the project, t> transmit th inmos to him at an early date. Pi rtasters are at liberty to do this free xpenso; and aby individual precurin lumber of names and becoming reap ihle for their payment, shall rcceiv ery liberal commission. The nmounl of a sulwcription it is ious, when it is considered that th vill bo two or three years to pay it in ery small. It may be four?it may ivo dollars, according to the numl>ei he reports issued in the course of t imo. No advance is desired whore indcrsigned is potHnownto tho indivi A making a subscription; or whore tny reason there is a reluctance in mnk uch advance. The reports will ho s o all the large cities, where there iubscril>ers,and delivered without chat inless where ordered to be sent by m VTter the first of March ensuing, the e toriber may be addressed by mail or t irwise at Boston, Massachusetts. , OCT* The subscriber has already >roraise from many friends, of lettcri ntroduction to their friends in Engl< >r on the continent; and he begs lo o sny, that he shnll feel himself nnrti nrly honored and obliged by any let >f introduction to any gentleman \ vould welcome his mission or in i vny assist its objects, or otherwise rcn lim any office of civility or kindm [lis objects being wholly public, he 1 inxiously avail himself of every adv age and facility of intercourse and lervation with intelligent and respect# K>rsone abroad. HENRY COLMAN Rochester, Jan. 2, 184*. VALUK OP PLASTBR. The subjoined extract Horn a comi licntion, which appeared in the laRt M lachuselts Ploughman, speaks in j orms of the value of Plaster as a mnni ind as the experience of the writer :onl? in rnaiiltft willi ? ?? ?? vui VIVII) w O ^IV nsortion.?Am. Farmer. 4,In passing through Pennsylvni vhicli I frequontly did, I hoard much t if tho benefits of Plaster of Paris ; n pi nany of tho farmers, I was told, we :omo fifty miles to Philadelphia, in imo of Inst war, and give twenty doll icr ton for Piaster, and let their man ;o down the stream rather than to lu he trouble to cart it on their Innds. 1 tot speak of this as approving of it, f< hirik every farmer ought to makons mi nanure us possible. I was told tho x he Dutch farmers used it there wni ow clovor and put one or two bushels 1. lU ? >?mm iu uiu iivru nnu plough in llio r nd sow wheat. I was informed in F imoro Hint a great donl of land on astern shoro of Maryland which I een worn out by mining tobacco i orn had boon reclaimed by tho use luster. Having got my ideas mo rnic lie first thing I did after 1 got a piece : , ?? "*r'~?-"~ Ilia Iqnd was to try if. a ltd in thrcfl Weeks i altai 1 applied'it. On examination I ;fy thought aa the Qur and I think I can safely say there is not ?qt another piecoof land in fown that prodund ces more feed, it has frequently beon la. plaatored since, and occasionally ashes be have boon applied as a top-dressing.? or The manure the cattle have dropped has qj every year been gathered up and put into the manure heap, so that it hns no other dressing but plaster and ashes except the urtne from the cattle. Well, being so well pleased with the *n result of this small experiment I tried it a . l?rge scale on my farm with as favorable Cl* results. On mr.oy places three bushels of )b- poster would make more grass grow than nd twenty of manure. I fenced off ?se nine acres thai had been fed very close mt by shpup for;a numbor of years; this was lu- the highest part where the sliccp bad generally lain through the nights; this was [jq piacfioruu at ine rate ot three bushels to jjj. the acre; the next season it pastured < n from May to September twelve cows, ?t prj the rate of three-fourths of an acre to a tow, and they had as much feed as they 1 e tould eat. and on a great part of it we n could havo mowed a good crop in hav wn time. lu- From this limo.ponplo began to use plaster; considerably, and found a very 'g? great benefit from it; many of the old pas?sk turcs which were covered over with moss ad- were converted into beautiful fields of clohe ver ; but strange to tell, just on the eve on. when our pastures began to ho elulhed l(|). with a beautiful vcrduro and our farms lvo bid fair to produce double what they wcro jjie wont to do, there was a story got up by ion *>m6 R0,,,,?P which spread like wild-fire, that this plaster which had produced such wonderful effucts was not what it was 5n" cracked up to bo ; that it would ruin (ho l'tc land if we continued to use it; if it did ?*p not happen in our day it would in our ln* children*'; that it would run our land all cd out and our children would bccomo begicir gars. Now as this story, liko other bug>at beard, had hud its day, I find they are beof ginnlitg very modcrdtely to use it again, gl I ftepo that no farmer win rest satisfied on. until fie' has given it a fair trial; the 0 a expense is very trifling ; at present I believo it can be bought for two dollars per A ton ; that it won't coat more than twenty^ five cents per bushel, three bushels per . t acre, which is a grout plenty; that the *,s expense of manuring an ncre is seventy. 7** five cents, which will pay but a small part rs/" of tho c.vpcnso of carting on any other hp* kind of manure if you had it given to you. fjf? Wherever the plaster will do any good it du- ought to ho applied ; and tho only wny I for know of is to try it. On some land it will iog do no good I am confident. I had a cut large piece of plain on my farm, on which are I could not 8oc tho least benefit from it; .?c this was a deep black loam and rather *:? moist; as soon as I went from this plain, iu|il over hills it worked wonders. a Yours with respect, Retvj. Wherlkr. lev....:~l? 1- " ? , Jl U' lllfOL'IMiHIi i/a/la r J for two or three years. To twenty loads uch of this I added forty loads of yard manure, VHy and had it well mixed. In the spring it , (o was ploughed seven inches deep, and left i of until the inirldlo of Juno, when tho ma. rnp mire was hauled on nnd ovenly spread, !al. which covered all except nbout throethe quarters of an acre, on which was put six iind I loads of tho factory refuse, without any I I vunl .???...? - ,(lii j -- ? .... v. i iiu |>ieco was then of ploughed and harrowed, thoroughly mixted, '"K tho anil and manure. It wan then j of thrown into ridges twenty-seven inches u . 'i /ijuni'-U' * A ft :J; U , apart, lite tame M for tba carrots: tops 1 flattened with the roller, and seed depoat- 1 ted with the drill, (Boment's,) oo the l?th of Jane. -n ? On th?t purl of the field where the yard \ manure was applied* the.plants made their < appearance on the fourth day after sow* i ing, while on that part where the refuse of I the glue factory was put* they showed | very few plants until the tenth dev, and c then they were sickly in appearance, and f grew so tardily that tho flea devoured j them about as fast as they made their appearance. In fact, we were obliged to ( transplant to fill up vacancies, on the i whole three-quarters of an acre?showing most conclusively that the ruta bagas i require a quick and active manure to give t thorn an early start to get them nut of > the way of their greatest enemy* the tur nip flen or beetle. On the ldth of July, the cultivator was ion liplwcnn tlm lU*v?, HIIU IllUJr won) thinned with the hoe in the umo manner ( as the carrots, leaving the plants from ( eight to (en inches apart in the drills. In ^ August, the cultivator was again run ^ through them, and they were hoed at inter* vals when convonicnt. Nothing moro " was done to them until we commencod pulling in November. The crop meat* ured 2,355 bushels. I will here remnrk, that whon the salt fish was used the year previous, it wns strikingly visible, at some , distance ; the tops being of a darker hue, higher, and more vigorous, and they con- . tinucd so through the summer, and on ( raising wc found them thicker and longer ( in tho neck and smaller in tho bulb, ?how- ( ing that salt will increase the top at the , cxponse of tho bottom. j The greater jmrt of the crop was stowed in a cellar?the rcmaindor was put in heaps, in the field, for feeding my owes j when they have lambs in tho spring. The ( heaps are made in the following manner, | which I never know to fail, whon they . were properly attended to. A trench six feet wide, of any length required, nnd one foot deep, is dug in a dry situation, generally on a knoll ; the roota are thrown ' into litis trench and piled up in the form of a roof. A coat of straight straw of from eight to ten inches in thickness, is put on in such a position as to conduct the water off, if any should reach it.? | Earth is now thrown on by digging a trench around the heap, boginning at the bottom and going around until the whole is covered. The earth will press the straw which prevents its running through to the roots. A coat of ten or twelve inches in this climato is sufficient fur our common winters. The trench will preyqnt the water from getting into the heap. There is more danger of getting the eovering too thick than too thin. I have suffered more from heat than frost. After the earth is nut nn. it nhrn.M >? r..11 ? _i ? ( , .. . ?!.* A genTieroan ^ ungulofij*1?* ind great qualitiea, teUa w, tUt ana wndy aeil, he haa found liaae ? powerful ertilizer. A poor field put in naii ijidM 10 bushels?followed by oeU. arop aght ?succeeded by wheatr-yield #?<>-?aaW ban (he aoed? limed, and neat Wap?ganp 10 bushols to the acre, Experience baa aught him the great value few* k .Maid, jspocinlly when uaed in combiUatian iadtit i amall quantity of lime, Kaflpa a email force especially oaaigned to the anUoialinn r?f marsh mud, weeds, lea va, maaldifraaa tho woods, dtc., and ia amply an laysaaa ted for it?cannot too highly raMMbad the use of marsh mud?haa eorbrsd sebrral acres with brushcood* Tho fertilising effect very obvious, and t hi aba poor and may be reclaimed Uy o novavingy brushwood, very apoedily, and wffhfMK* aconomy as to tho labor and tho mamr is very careful lobar# all brush MtlM|a snoogh for firo wood, oven Ihu pvnning ?f lis orchards, reserved ftfij# apwnd tma the most exhausted portions of hia lamLi From Mim LtsUf* Mmthi, \ FEMALE HEALTH AND WWfT. ' By Mrt. A. Wei**, } cosmetics ako oLBAMLTWaaii ^ *,iS Acids and Spirituous Compositions Many of the pretended coareptios **1 t?y general perfumers, andby A number of ignorant pereoM wham# {jfofr selves chemists^ are comppmd tf AfOma una spirits; and very froqqoojly fay** nolhin* but rfp^r or ifbtfM pfrm scented. Even caudoC^a^m^ vaunted and pyo^yu^ i few unimportant irowlty >>!^4jwPiy water, Hungary water, w[myei