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k . . .j . v \yj y 0 , + * X CHERAW GAZETTE ^ -- and," : . >. ^ *' r;.^; ' 1 PEE DEE FARMER. VOLUME IV. CIIERAW, SOUTH-CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 18, 1839. NUMBER XLIV. ;. ?? ' ' 1 . l ' I I I I ' - Me EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. T E R M S: If paid within three months, . . $3 00 If paid within threo months after the Close of the year, - 3 50 If paid within twelve months after the close of the year, - *.* 400 If not paid within that time* . . . 5 00 A company of eight new subscribers at the feanke poet office, whose names are forwarded together, and accompanied by the cash, shall bo entitled to the paper for $20; and a company of fifteen new subscribers for $30. No paper to be discontinued but at the option of tho editor till arrearages are paid. Advertisements not exceeding sixteen lines, inserted for one dollar the first time, and fifty cents, each subsequent insertion. Persons sending in advertisements are requests. .o specify the number of times they are to be ii_se<tep? otherwise they will be continued till ordered out, and charged accordingly. OThe Postage must bo paid on all comma- ' nications. . " j Experiments on manures Ac* From the Transactions of tho Essex (Mass.) Agricultural Society. The Committee Report: That thoy conskier the subject of tho making and application of manures, one of the greatest im. port a nee to ike agricultural interests. Ma nure and labor are to the farmer what capi:ai and credii are to the merchant. With them well applied, the one will add oarn to barn, the other store house to store house, till there shall be no room to contain their several wealth ; without them, they must soon suspend operations, and their farms and their ships pass into the hands of more skillful and industrious owners. Many farmers think they cannot afford to 1 purchase manure, and the price does seem disproportioned to the immediate profits; but no farmer will say that he cannot afford ' to make the most of what he has. and to 1 apply it to the best advantage. Many take ' an honest pride in being able to say, i have I raised so many hundred bushels of corn, > or so many tons of hay ; now to be able to J say I have made five hundred loads of man- < ure, is just as much a matter of boasting, * for manure will make corn, and hay, and < other valuable products, if ii be only judic. < iously applied. Put in the seed and the t manure* and the grateful soil will make you ' a liberal return. It is held to be true by * experienced farmers, thai he who doubles < the expanse of labor and manure, will in* f crease his profits and products in nearly a 1 fourfold proportion, in other words, the I man who spends half his time upon his farm, and skims over one hundred acres e of land and gleans from it fifty bushels of s corn and twenty tons of hay, if he should *i devote his whole energies to his farm, and ? improve his means of making manure, e might raise nearly two hundred bushels of < corn and eighty tons of hay. f Some have, in their natural situation and B proximity to the sea-board, greater facilties 1 for making and obtaining manure ; but < every substance of unimal and vegetable r matter can be mixed with the soil in such a > manner as to increase the fertility of the < earth ; and even the different soils may be mingled so as to produce the same effect. c The quantity of manure a farmer uses, is ?' a pretty fair criterion by which to judge his \ character. In Plymouth county, where a > premium is rewarded to the man who * makes the greatest number of loads, a most < worthy and truly respectable farmer, the * last year, reached the very enviable emi. < nence of seven hundred and ninety-eight loads;the lowest competitor claimed for ' three hundred and fifty loads, and his must f be allowed to be an improving character. William Clark, jr. of Northampton, in bis ' statement to the Hampshire, Franklin and t Hampden Agricultural Society, represents < that he keeps an average stock of eight * swine, three horses, and eight oxen and | cows; from this stock, with the skilful use ? of all his advantages, which are not superior ? to those of many of our farmers, he made < from June 1837 to June 1838, nine hun- < dred and twenty loads, an honorable monu- < meat to his intelligence and industry, which compensates in utility and solid value for what it may want in taste and splendor. Mr. Clark used for compost three hundred loads of sods and sod and two hundred and fony_9even loads of swamp muck. His yards were supplied with corn-stalks and refuse hay during the winter, and brakes and weeds in the summer, and cleared out twice during the year. It might be supposed that manure so made could p >sscss but ' little of the quickening and strengbcning principles ; but those who have visited his farm and seen his fields burdened with their heavy crops, are satisfied that Mr. Clark knows how to make manure and to apply it, and that his fields acknowledge their obligation and pay their due return. Mr. Clark, from such manure, has raised more than one thousand bushels of corn in a year. The committee award to Daniel Putnam, of Danvers, for the satisfactory experiment and the full und explicit statement made by him, a premium of twenty dollars. They recommend that Mr. Pu'nam's statement and the letter addressed by Joseph How, Esq. ofMethuen, to the commi le, be published. For the Committee, Daniel P. Kino. Tops field, Doc. 25, 1838. Intelligent Farming. We extract the following paragraph from a letter to too Editor of the Amerioan Farmer. Embarking next day at St. Michael's 1 had the pleasure to traverse Eastern Bay, one of the most beautiful sheets of water in the world, bordered by woods and fields and mansions of surpassing richness, lux I uriance and beauly?steaming along Wye i river to Wye landing and back, you see surrounded with towering poplars," Wye \ House " that anciont and celebrated seat of opulence and luxurious hospitality, and al> most within the smoke of each other's chirm | nios, you pass in full view of the elegant i residences of the younger brothers James M. and Daniel Lloyd, all splendid estates, i conducted with a skill, and yielding crops that evince beyond all question the improvements which have been made even in their yet young time and tide, and may I not add as connected with and accessary there. ^ unto, since the establishment ofyourold Amcrican Farmer?What an evidence of the effect of the application of mind to matter t f You, as I have understood, first published J but 500 copies at your own expense and without a single aufecribetv belfewnfi j 5 culture tb be an Merest, in itself, and for ft. * self, susceptible of progressi ve improvement, , and worthy of being studied. New, there are papers of great ability devoted exclusively to that greatest of human concerns, of 8 which there are not less than fifty thousand 8 impressions issued regularly?and what is c the consequence ? Children on subdivia- * ions of estates, make more than their fath- ! era did on the whole ; the current of emi- , gration to the west has been arrested, if it be not refluent, ana old states worn down c by abuse and dead of exhaustion are bccom- . ing reanima'cd and fat again, like an old ox turned into the com field. 1 i r From the Geuesee Farmer. Varieties of Indian Corn* j The following is an extract from a paper jB read before the Agricul.ural Society of _ Fredericksburgh, Virginia. {J The kind of corn cultivated, I believe to t. [>e of greater importance than is generally ^ supposed. Any Virginian whoha9 traveled northwards, must have observed thedifrerence between their crops and ours. He ^ nust have seen that the stalks diminish in ^ i ze, wnile the crop per acre, obviously in;reuses; and yet ours is notoriously the soil fQ ind climate for growing corn. I think the w iiflfcrence may be attributed to the kind of f ora cultivated, a kind which enables them ^ o plant much thicker than wc do. Here, r nost of us plant a gourd seed corn, shooting g ip a large stalk, bearing generally one, oc- ^ jasionally two ears, and not admitting thick >lanting. There, the stalk is low, is plan* ed very thick, and bears two, three, and bur small flinty ears. Not farther North ^ inn Pennsylvania, I have seen corn plantd five feet by four, with three and four . talks in the hill. Counting three stalks at his distance, mrd attowtng- itrree ears to jj tach, any given space, there, will yield sevtn or eight ears to our one; small ears certainly, but still large enough to account S or the great superiority in the product per tcre. I commenced with the old full-breed Virginia gourd-seed, and stuck to it for six tc >r eight years; but finding that on com* " non land many s'alks were too late in cur. nn or did not ear at all, determined to g< rhange my seed. My next variety was the pi 'Taliaferro white flint." This sort is touch* je d with the gourd-seed, but it is superior to tr l in having a smaller stalk, ripening earlier, qi >earing more ears, and a harder and heav- w er grain. I then tried what is called the at Alsop corn," resembling the Taliaferro in ft >ther respects, but somewhat smaller in stalk, ol ind sunertor in number of ears, often pro. ft iucing two, three and sometimes a greater h< lumber of ears. This corn I still plant* I al nade one experiment with the Maryland ti win corn, and thought it as prolific as the ? \lsop; but the grain being lighter and the tl stalk taller, it was abandoned. Last win- v er 1 purchased, in Washington, a small quantity of'Bladen corn/ and planted with it i rich lot of two acres. It came up and prew off well, was the tallest corn I ever e taw, averaged five or six shoots to the stalk, 0 ind promised at one time to make a great ^ jrop. But it suffered nearly twice as much Q is the rest of my corn, from the heat or j. irouth of the summer, and was broken off f, jy a wind in August, which did very little njury to the rest of the crop. It did not of si rourse fill up or ripen well, and 1 feed it to n logs. But as it certainly had more shoots han any corn I ever saw, I have saved a imall portion to plant again. If it can bo imnght down to a proper standard, retain. e ing its great number of shoots, it will prob. ^ ably turn out to be a very prolific variety. It will readily bo seen that I consider t( thicker planting thai common essential in ^ making heavy crops of corn per acre. But thick planting with a large kind, is out of the question. At the same time, it must J? be borno in mind, that as we increase the . number, wc diminish the size of the cars, and add to the labor of gathering and husking. Every judicious farmer will decide, .] trom experience, how far he can carry this t process ; and will stop as soon as he be. ^ gins to doubt whether he is paid for his ad~ % ditional labor. Dismissing all speculation t on this point, 1 believe we may safely plant any small variety of corn, at the rate of one j stalk to every ten square feet on tolerable land, which would give about 4360 stalks, * and from six to ten barrels of grain to the j c ere. I will only add, in conclusion, that ] although I have frequently been deterred by the influence which custom exercises over , the mind of every one, from planting corn as thick as I was inclined to. I have, in no , one instance, exceeded the usual rate withI out adding to the crop. WllLLlAM P. TAYLOR. , Caroline County, Va. Change of Seed Wheat-?Nothing is I we believe better established than the benefit which results from a change of seed and of breeding animals?W? are satisfied that an | exchange of these between even neighboring farmers, will always be attended with ndvantage. No matter how clean may be his own wheat or his corn, or how well grown may be his bull or his boar or his ram, a change will be followed by improvement. We give the hint without thinking it necessary to amplify or multiply proofs. Amer? Farmer. From the Maine Cultivator. Book Farming. Some people give their knowing heads a 088 of contempt at the very idea of book arming. They want none of your news>aper theories and speculations about farmng?not they! The knowledge whichhey possess, comes by intuition, wo sup.. hmo, or the equally respectable mod inteliu rest source?tradition. Their fathers knew >ow to balance the bagon old dobbin's back, >y loading one side with a stone equal in reight to the grist, on the other side, and o do they, wise souls! What good can uch wise acres derive from a book or a lewspaper? Surely none. A vaunt?all > ? I' T 1 e Abercombies and r ran Kirns, ye uouaons ind Powels, ye Cobbets and Fessenders, ye Juele and Colmans? what know ye aboat ierds and flocks, labor-saving im laments, heroical combinations, soils and manures, owing and tilling, fencing and ditching 7 i it possible that learned men should know ny thing about the best modes of husband. ft T<> be serious, however, there can be no oubt that many of the theories and specutttons which have appeared in books and eriodicals, professedly devoted to terra, ulture, have failed in point of practical uiiliI: but what then 7 Are we to cast every 1 ict aside, because it is written out by a iend to forming, and has found a place in newspaper? No reasonable man will say lis. On every thing else, people have deved benefit from reading the discoveries ad experiments of others; why should irmers alone repudiate nil information from ich a source 7 It is prejudice to do so.? here are men who have conferred great ( snefitonthe world by their agricultural , (searches. Should they not be honored ? . ut for the art of printing, how slow would 31 he progress of the various improvements at have been made 7 Let us not be so , treasonable as to indulge in this vain predice : but let us all who cultivate the earth, ake, each, what improvement he can, id then throw the common stock together, rough the medium of agricultural ( iWUaiiuw, rtJTlfie benefit of all concerned, i this way, a mutual benefit will be se_ jred, and much hard labor will often be tved, < Agricultural Papers, i Judge Price, in his Agricultural Report i the Legislature of New Jersey, remarks, As a means of improvement your Uom- | littee beg leave to recommend a more < enerol circulation and perusal ofperiodical < jbiications, expressly devoted to the ?ul?- ! ct ofagriculture. 7 here are, in our coun y several of these, which have justly ac- i lired a h'gh reputation for the ability with hich they are conducted. They collect I id embody a large amount of useful in? i trmation, which cannot be acquired in any i ther mode. They would afford to the irmet the means of occupying his leisure ours both pleasantly and profitably, and Imost amply repay all the cost of ieir procurement Very few, it is believi after a fair trial, would willingly forego ie company of these quiet, yet instructive, isitere." Profitable Breed of Swine. A few weeks since we gave, from the [ennebeck Journal, the dimensions of an xtraordinary pig of the Bedford breed, wned by Mr. J. W. Haynes, of Haliowell, laine. By a communication of Mr. H. n the advantages of this breed of swine, itely published in the Maine Parmer, and *>m which we moke the following extracts, re perceive that the pig alluded to has been laughtered. His dressed weight, at nine lonthsold, was three hundred and two >ounds! The manner of keeping and fat* ening this pig will be found below. After giving some extructs to shew the stimation in which this breed is held in lassachusetts and elsewhere, Mr. H. says, 1 Since i have had them 1 have found them - C.U.. ..?>tnin 1K0 ronnrulinn crivt>n tn them JIUIIy ?U9Mim i.n, . up.u. R. y breeders in Massachusetts. They arc ery small boned in proportion to the size? [uiet, easily fattened, do much better on > aw food than any other kind, and obtain a pod size at an early age. Zancsville Gazette. " I have crossed the pure Bedford with he half Bedford and half Mackey, making he progeny three fourths Bedford and one ourth Mackey, and found very little advantage from the crossing. One of these pigs wintered last winter on eight pounds of aw mangel wurtzel per day, and she kept n good condition, and brought a litter often >igs in April ; u few weeks previous to >vhich I fed her on the slops from the house. Nine of the pigs lived and made fine hogs. Dur.ngthe summer she lived principally upon grass, with a few raw potatoes, and in October she had another litter of thirteen pigs, four of which, however, owning to an accident, died. She was then kept for a while on boiled pumpkins, oats, peas, and barley meal. Since then she hns lived en? tirely on raw ruta baga and mangel wurtzel, at the rate of about twelve pounds per day, and is now in good condition. u I killed one ofllie pigs, which was seven eighths Bedford, one eighth Mackey, I when nine months old, that weighed three i n hundred and two pounds. He was fed on p the slops from the house during the summer b ?nd the tost two months he was fed on meal w and com. When I commenced feeding him on m a! lie ate about two quarts per tl day ; but after five or six weeks ho wqjuld g not eat more than one quart per day. He b gave the most meat in proportion to the tl bone, of any hog, I ever killed, and I think b was the cheapest raised. Others who keep P this bre d have made the same statement, to There was one of the puro Bedford killed fr in tlje neighbourhood, fourteen months old, p< that weighed three hundred and eighty, live si pounds, and another, ten months old, that rn weighed four hundred and twenty pounds, aj neither oLwhich had any extra keeping." vi fry 7^ - w. hawbs.m ai Agricultural CoBTentl?B of S.Carolina. <*J We rejoice to see that an agricultural w convention for the state of South Carc':na, is to be held in November next. If zeal- w. ously and efficiently carried through, there :)u is no initiatory measure more likely to ren- th der service to the declining agricultural and sti general interests of South Carolina ; and no th state in tr?o confederacy needs such aid of more, or is better fitted, by the offered in bounties of nature, to profit by the first of efforts, and what we hope may bo the con- bu sequences of the action, of a properly op- wi erating agricultural convention. In refer., ho ring to (lie means for resuscitatiug, and de giving new and heretofore unknown vigor ev to the soil of this state, (or at least a large rn< portion of it.) we aliude principally, though co net exclusively to her immense and as yet wi untouched and profitless b^ds of fossil shells, or marl, which alone would serve, if judici- ?n Dusly and properly availed of, in a few years pit to increase the gross products fourfold, and an the net product ten or twenty-fold, of all the gr region underlaid with this calcareous depos. a I ite. And we firmly believe that this im- tb mense amount of improvement, and of crea- an :ed wealtii, might be secured, by an outlay Tl )f annual expense not groa'er than the ac. ba ual cost of removol annually incurred by to he thousands of emigrants* from South ha Carolina, who are continually deserting ier in her decay, to seek more fer ile lands of n the new southwestern states. This de- thi daration will probably be deemed ridicul- ?o jusly extravagant. Nevertheless it is our se< irm belief, founded unon large experiment of ind very extensive observation of the use co >f calcareous manures in the similar region av >f lower Virginia?though applied there as to ^vary insufficiently, and generally inju- be iiCiously, in almost every case. Where w< narling begins, emigration ceases. We are of lot among the adventurous class of specui- *e< ltors, or of those who are willing to ex- by zhange a certain benefit in hand, for the fir ".hance of a much greater one in prospect, rni Vet?if it were possible to try the chance ?u ?wo would not hesitate to exchange all the pr possessions that we have yet acquired, and to 3ur labor for the next twenty years, for the pc one-hundredth part of the netprofix which ad Carolina alone wohld gain by theju- 01 dicious, economical, and general use of ? marl, after the mode, and in accordance ti with the theorecticul views, which we have or tried so vainly (or at least with such limited af influence,) to impress upon the great ogrL rij cultural public. Farmers' Register. w 8ILK CUL'IIJRE. 1,1 ? ar From the Journalof the American Silk Society. w SILK CULTURE,?THE PAST AND PRESENT. If the business of silk making be practi cable in this country, why have all our at, se tempts to introduce it heretoforefailed !* gf Toe above is the essential oil of a!! tho argumrnts used by the very few opponents of iU the silk cause in this couniry; and we design {r answering the question with such facts and arguments as will, we hope, convince ul! , persons that the failure of the silk business T heretofore, is fairly attributable to other causes than its impracticability or unpro* fitabloness. The grand cause of all failures hereto- 0 fore, was the want of a judicious provision ^ of mulberry trees, before attempting to feed worms. Wo have always heretofore begun J1' at the wrong end of the business. We e have procured a supply of eggs, hatched n< worms, and erected filatures, before we w planted mulberry trees, depending upon the nntive mulberry of the wild woods for a sup- n< ply of food for the worms ; and the conse. ? quenco was, as might well have been ex. \ pected, a complete and entire failure. In J - ?? - . r f m M_ ? 177U, wnen a society was lormea in rnuadelphia, composed of three hundred and tr forty Jive of the most respectable g? n lemen * of that city, with the governor (John Penn,) al at their head, the first thing they did was to * publish'Directions for the breeding and man- S agement of Silk Worms ;* and the next thing * was the erection of n filature for reeling 6 silk. From al! we can learn, they expec- n - u 1- c .1 O ted to depend upon me wna wouus iur me supply of mulberry leaves. It is true, they j* published a letter from Dr. Franklin, in which ho urges them to encourage the plan* * ting of mulberry trees. 4 If,' says the Doc* n tor, 4 some provision were made by the as- ? sembly,for promoting the growth of mul- 11 berry trees in all parts of the province, the Jculture of silk might afterwards follow easily; ? for he great discouragement to the breeding G worms at first, is the difficulty of getting leaves, and the being obliged to go far for * them.' To this sentence of true Franklin- ? ian common sense, the society appended the following note; * It was thought that 9 the intention would be more effectually an* c 8 we red by giving the premiums and boun. F ties on the silk raised, than on the trees t planted ; for the experience of a neighbour- c j fag government shews, that a bounty on t ill!berry trees, though it may make people lant, yet it does not necessarily follow, that ccause they have trees, they will raise silk orras.' Now a greater blunder than is it forth in this note was never made; and >e experience of the very * neighbouring overnment,' (Connecticut,) to thin day ears testimony to the wisdom of the policy, lat first encouraged the planting of muL erry trees. For a few years the people of ennsylvonia struggled along, making a w pounds of silk from leaves, gathered om the forests at a cost of labor and expose, greater than the ^ros* proceeds of the ties of the silk produced. Some few planted lulberry trees; but too few in number for ay profitable purpose; and when the re>luiioo broke out, the silk business was tandoned and forgotten. But in this Neighboring government,' (Conoectteut,) here the planting of trees wts encouraged / bounties and premiums, the silk business as never abandoned. Though the revotion gave our forefathers enough to do in e tented field, their wives and daughters ill kept the indus'rious insect at work ; for e trees were planted, and the feeding ' the worms naturally folio wed. But even Connecticut there were not a sufficiency mulberry orchards planted to make the isiness much ot a public interest* and it ?s pursued as a domes ic branch of house* ii?J economy* and on the simplest and rust principles. Even in this way* how?r, it was a very profitable adjunct of doestic economy, adding to the family in. me an hundred dollars or so, annually* thout increasing the expenses at all. In eorgia, it was managed somewhat differfly. A few mulb -rry orchards were mted; but the population was so sparse* d the difficulty of procuring hands so eat* that the business was abandoned after few years. The same causes produced 0 same effects in all subs'-quent attempts* d particularly in that of 18124 to 1832.? he writer of this was in the heat of (he tile of that period* even in ihe front rank 3ugh a private 'in the line.' We fought rd to get the people to plant mulberry < jcs. The first smtence that the writer this ever published on the subject, was s?'The first object of attention to a pern contemplating the culture of silk is, to cure an abundant and convenient supply mulberry leaves, without which he, of ursc, can do nothing.' But all was of no ail. People were continually sending to 2 writer for silk worm eggs?not for mulrry trees; sometimes* it ts true, they Hdd send to btin for five dollars worth silk worm eggs, and as many mulberry 3d as would feed the silk worms produced the eggs! But tlie idea that they must st plant mulberry orchards* and by that sans 'secure an abundant and convenient pply of mulberry leaves, could not be imessed upon their minds. The people of e United States are a thorough go a-head ople; but* unfortunately* they do not lopt the whole of the excellent precept of ir old and eccentric friend, David Crockett -th?'y do not * first see they are right ien go-a-head but they go-a-head first id then, after experiencing all sorts of dis~ ipointmont, look about to see if they are ght!' Heretofore, we have begun to raise orms first, before we had leaves to feed am; now we are raising trebs first?we e beginning right* and the result will be, e shall certainly 'go a.head' m the silk isiness. We are continually asked, 'is not the prent trade in moms multicaulis trees a mere teculatiou ? Will not those engaged in it, >th as buyers and sellers, back out, as soon 1 they have made uil they can with their ees?' Whatever the motives of the dealers in ees mav be, mutters not: we know that ie effect of their operations will be to plant lulterry orchard* all over the country, and iat is all we care for. If they can contrive i m?ke fortunes out of so great a good jnf rred upon the country, all the tetter ir them. All we certainly know is, that retefore we could not enlist the money inrest in the silk business; we therefore had o mulberry orchards planted, and the conjqwnce was failure ; now we have the loney interest deeply involved in the busi. ess, mulberry orchards are in progress all vcr the country, and success to the filk usiness is certain; because money is the reat motive power of human enterprise. Whatever may be the result of the trade in ces, whether failure or fortune attend it ritheach individual, matters not to the cause t all?the money each person has ventured ill have produced its quota of trees in the ountry, and the trees will be here ready to irnish food for the silk worms. Not a sin. Ie tree that is produced will be annihilated; j ot a single iree can ue appropntuvu io 017 ther purpose; if traders in the tree toil, and ecome bankrupt, and their stock of trees e sold for the benefit of creditors, the trees -ill remain to the country, and silk will be tade from them, and the country will be nriched by them. So, whether the trade 1 trees be or be not a matter of mere spe. ulation, and whether the present dealers aek out or not, is of no consequence to the i bbat cause. 'But,' say some cavillers, *you are doing \otking but raising and selling trees; we fanl to see you making silk, if you can.' This is the effervescence of the go-ahead pirit of our people noticed above. They :annot wait for tho ond, as in the natural irogress of things, but must have the effect efore the cause be fuiriy in operation. The inly obstacle the writer of these commen. arics fears at this time, as likely to impede "?... . , .. 11 _ I the silk business, is the beginning to urakd siHPloo soon. The country is not supplied with mulberry trees?not an hundredth part of the number wanted to supply the* country will be produced this year. The consequence will be, the prices of trees will induce people to sell, and thus to defer planting permanent orchards. Hence, all the worms raised this year, or the major part at least, roust be fed on the native mulberry from the woods at a cost more than equal to the value of the silk produced. This will* or at least may serve to disappoint many* and to disgust others. But when ihe country shall bo well supplied with trees, and tha price of them consequently reduced so that there wiU bo no objeat in soiling, Ibon'may the culture of silk be ecpected to *go ahead.' la another paper, however* in this present number, we have made a condensed statement of the coooooertsu now feeding in many- The factsset forth, we feel ftisuted, will satisfy any reasonable person . V/ ?U_ i ui? we are mating sua even now, 10 tut extent that very few have heretofore sup* posed possible* Another reason why we can succeed, though our predecessors failed, and one, too, greater than all others, is to be found in the advantages we possess in the moras mulricaulis. They had not this invaluable tree. They were obliged to wait five td eight years for their white mulberry trees to grow large enough to afioid leaves fof thoir worms. It is not too much to bo wondered at that our peculiar people were discouraged by the very distant prospect this afforded them cfprofit. We can plant our moras muliicaulis trees one year and make more silk from an aere of .hem the next, than can generally be mad* from an acre of white mulberry trees eight years old. Besides, it is less labour and expense to produce ten acres of moras multicaulis trees than one of white mulberry.?* These facts, which every one ncaoainted with the business knows full welt, have caused trees to be compsrativeiy and appa* rently very high prices. A tree costs say one dollar; well, the purchaser cuts it up, and in six months he wilt have at least tea and not improbably thirty trees, equal every way to the one he had' purchased. Thof for one dollar, and not two hours labour, he has obtained, say fifteen first rate trees.-* Now apply the same test to the white mul* berry, the tree used in Europe for silk worms, and with which we have heretofore fuiled. Suppose you only have to pay tea cents for it, you must plant it and cultivate it five or six years before you can use it f and even then it will be only one tree still $ tor you cannot multiply it as you can the moras multtcaulis. But suppose you soar an ounce of white mulberry seed, that will cost one dollar, and you obtain $ 000 trees from it; still it will be six or eight years be* fore they are fit to afford leaves; and 2fl that same time you might have produced 100,000 trees from the single moras multie caulis tree that cost one dollar. Therefore, in the moras multicaulis we have a great and powerful influence, that will, even though all other advantages were absent, insure success to the great cause. G.B.a j From tho Raleivh /N. CM Remata*. Extract of a letter from Buckingham Court House, to a gentleman in Richmond, Va. The Rev. Jesse S Armistead, of Buck* ingham, county, lias sold 500.000 buds of the Morus Multicaulis, to be delivered this full, at two cents a bud. Mr. John Morris of the same county, has sold 300,000 buds in lots of 100,000. Capt. Saml. Branch of Campbell, has also sold 110,000 buds at the same price?a good many smaller sales have been effected at the same price, viz* four cents a cutting or two cents a bud, MrCharles A. Scott of Buckingham, has we understand, been offered eleven cents a tree for 200,000 trees, delivered in the fall of 1840. . In an article on the silk culture copied la our last from the National Gazette, a typographical error occurred. Instead of30,00fy the numbei1 of trees stated to have been sold the week proceeding, it should hav9 been 300,000. So large a proportion of our readers?* we dare say a full third of the whole number?are interested in one way or other in the progress of the silk culture, that we have supposed wo could not fill so much space more acceptably than by transferring to our columns the article on that subject which we copy to-day from a paper pub I shed in the heart or the silk-manutactunng region. Nat. Intelligencer. The article referred to by the Nationat Intelligencer, in the above paragraph, is a detail of the proceedings ofa meeting of the Philadelphia county Silk Society, from which we copy the following extended par* agraphs; Mr. Physick stated, among other things* the complete success which bad attended his efforts to produce superior silk from tbe leaf of the Morus Multic&ulis tree. A aim order forever to put to rest the doubt and fear expressed of the adaptation of this tree to the silk culture, he read several certify catts from tbe principal tailors in PMUdei? phia, expressive of their opinion, on a trial, of the character of sewing silk produced by worms fed on the leaf of this tree in this cot coonery. Ho exhibited^ at the same time, specimen of the *i!k, and also specimens of