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Delivered beforr the :State Agricultural Society at-their meeling at Greenville, on. Wednesday, the i l th of September. JS44-by. JoiN - BELToN. O'NEAL, and. publishedin conforinity t? their resolution On lovking over..:thjs audience,. am tempted to ask'each and every one. what is -vo.ur occupation? Nine -our of ten would answr, ii is 'thai 'f tilinag the soil. Of the remaining, one tenth'; alriast eviery one, in ai grienter or-ess degree. tans.som e thing-so do' with .it:.,Of South-Caolinid therefore,Ait may-be truly1said, her-busi ness-and'life .is. A-riculture. le-t-ih mo. part of the.world,has less been done to give to heibe'.entire-hepefiis o(..!hat. businless itivhich she iseingaged. Uiil very late Iy, 'she has looied on -thbe good around her, and has heiticoutentlto wiste, initead of! enjoying it-to', 'abuse, irsfad of using it. The deserted. ad desolht-e fieles; and the groaning forests, as .they fall before the' axe, tell us too truly. that we have scarce ly ceased to be the-pioneers.of Agriculture. aSiilIsmethibg has been done tonecill the people to.. their; true.jinterestst. This: very i.Society,; mee.ting. annually for the. last. four, or five years in Columbia, and esibddying a' great deloo of practical, as well ab theoretical kniowedge,' has done much. So ifooheDistrict Societies, or ganizet throughotrt1State, and. ananu aly chleiting tile"Faitners together, and indthirigiheri-to think and'wriie about their resoective systems: of - culture, 'have' created'ah interest -and rivalry in'farmnig; which.bas. led to great and valuable re sults., This: very - meeting. intended to call outthe Farmers..of the moutitain Dis trcis. dd to give ~t .them the. henefits.of the State 9jeriluraiSociety' ad to re ceive from them. in return, that stock of itt formatiun which they possess..in relation to their local agriculture. speaks for us a- voice 'dt' to he misunderstood; that South-Carolina is at last thoroughly arou sed .to her dearest interests. Cati I add anything to the interest :of this occa pion? If I cau. duty as- well as incline. iion will pr6mpt me to do so: 'but I feaer tha.t a Lawyer and;a rJudge#.-although long dpeply, interested in JAgriculture will o eale to set before, you, the-mattersa .whhb. shoulid interest you..,inIhat lgh !Thief'tiijk'egperidced. practical Far Iner could shed. Still, as you bilesi red iti I wilt try;tri,,. treeei -ritnteh I 'wish is 'obtained;if 1 fail, the-attempt has satiSfied the claims which yiu 'have upon me, and may open the way ta some other,. better qualifhed,:and more successful 'than I may be. On an occasion like the preseni, Asi pa'rt of ihe Address with which I am charged it may be well to. consider first, briefly. two of the many popular objectioi urged to Agricultural Societic's. It is suppdied by some, that theory and practice * ar'e at war with each other; in other woids, book farming is one -thing, and real pradtical farming is another. But ihere 'is here a 'great and - abidiog mistake. fotinded .in. and growrnigtip by D)pju'!ice. Agricultu ral writers and Societies make onmetimes, it is true, mere suggestions-they are tes ted-if found' to be good, so far, great beneft ha 'lieen' confe rtp' upon the peo ple, if,'iowLever, they fail; little 'harmi has been done. : gut'in 'general, 'Agricutifore Societies do Ano rely on speculative'sug gestions- ;,Their- members are- Farmers, understatidiug perfectly their, respective, 1.ode ofcul tfre;. tach.: stried .experi% ints,, and, when .successful, .these are cmmun;cated, an 6thers arethus eucqiu oy.or.example, can anyi1ung irs'cri, be mtrie imbtrttlhan t n%iins of preventing shWift ?? A' zi:Eanyeai's - aho,' cempinubicaid 'me 1iriW spciqwhicinousisted. ins' staking':th6. 's~~nJ gasglution of. blue;stone, in tlhe iraz~q~o~zof jblue sone to,'eve~ry. rrn : k seabled me. to-say tot i liraSc'ietyythat it' hiftni$ iffidtf "tsin'ut 'iid int 'Mpoi~rthiiadeittbicrhat been'spread; thsopnghotithini.grainngr'oiings communi, tiggty1UOnaEarmer-.bas been-there ,essent benefted. . Again, in Agri egnxermns in mao;. ers' e aaaje tojhe difl& rertils * v arios men. and illo'ds r ~ eorts. givea t thriprit tdnly' profitring by' Wetht ... bnealin even~ by his snork Fes ofi-Jractical-re stilta 'ill b ~ ove-oneclass of tb many aPlanter, wrhose uY~ cation maynot have been um er's 'i is use-" less for mne'to ~ e uer of an Ag nor sperak neithpr. wrte nrspea ben fbh eleghanee of eiuditiN 71h the prati-* cal liif 6PIrte~ isi beuo'ifulIlJ pintke dmhaight~exerne plekofi1~theiffWi Mresidfatopthe Siatei AgricultUfsJ(S$$fty.; addsjmauy clhas Qthe dielulessof sne34 Ij flejer.Buti iisis no~ ced-o everg tr. e ~os. ,?th e1ne bie more Iow rvt fov'thiemeeiturp'ose - leveryfthing' 'wbieb'-can~bh' 1R4 S,~~udga. iY~.!nade:p uf ant ssorme...greiJer, enma: asenntwmudle down in thn drippings which' -fill from thersfmmit Of the 1able -Rocki. We- waint ihe'experi core of every one, in the' culture of i crop.' whatever it' may' be. Frialn- thai which ie.considi-rs .impoi-tant- to' his-sue. cess, we will -find,:sonething benefi-ial to others. ' Let no:ude'sn ppose. thai he can; not tell,. or comnmt to paper, a plain 'state ment of whatever he. donsidersi mattiial to his success 'sa Fiainer.' I know-that every one* 'who taisi 'the' gift .orpeeci 'or who can write a letter.ca6--do it. ! Foi'he who-understands a matterchn- makoit be underst'ood by adol her. In the Socie tyo ofwhich I am a :nember '(ihe-New berry' Agricultural Society, "imany ofnur most valuable -reports corrib -fre u nprac tised writibrs, plutinFarmel,:titlers'orthe soiL, who themseldes-atn'e me: periods of their:lives. bave been 'ac'custo-dted to! hold Ithe hauolieof-ie plougli. B uit'iti otalone' in- the reportsiof the Societ,'that>-. metrrl ber's usefuliess is seeh.- 'Eyeuroyxbibitoid of practiedl suceess 'in- crogpi Yjisi4g stock, qr adding to the health'ando' nfort-of: his slaves, is-of as, muci, "'ud petha ps more importance than tharhich isritten.: It teaches by example itt sayto-each and dilk if - have -succeeded,' vou can succeed by'-the.:-same- means. :.TRY.' H aving disposed ol'these objections, I -come'aow to set before youwthe dlatws'"fAgriculta'-' ral societies and Agriculture. Meeli'ngssuch-as thii, with ant hibi;, tio'w of-stock, i maoufradfurese atnd--crops, are other iesults 'from Ajricultiral Socie eties. - What: ef'eet' they will -hate,"a' year.qr two he'ice till better sedable -yrd to.answer_ thut owv.- in- general, they will excite-ernulatios anmong tho Farmers; every one will try '# surpass liig neijlibor; This' spirit. hTeads to improventetail -Upon improvement,-, and 9 whtole section - f coumirv' %till put in a new face. Where barrenhesss existed; fertility -will be fitrad -where wasteful habits' df -armin gwere common,.morePrudence. :ill take their placed. . In al'ooT rotog eohntry; from: ihe.thauntains ta-the' fit.lands of the sea board..bat inorb wawtefuliumpoverising itjle of-Agiicultuie could lo' adojkqdthan glbughiug up and downhehbls? Yetthat has been the univershl 'habit ;t itit of late years. 'The .coysequence *is', -that lhe' state is sdarred alliover witll Wgulies,:and 'he wrrsted- hill.sides. hald -and;-.ibairn; stand 'efore us,.our reroach:'add pu'nish-' mni .. -Cultiviiiioti in drills,. ard ehori'zon-,. tRal ptoughmig. ror .ploughing 'round-ithe iills, cori-ect this; evil.,rA."irekrialtiSoa TeTes-aer-tntrenans 65T - communicating this:in(orma tion,- and: incitig -FarMers to try it. - na 'hasty' irip to Asheville,-in itt June last. I twas delighted to-see-ithe improvements inti AgriculIture. which had taken place- in Buncombe, .in . the last four years. . One farm, within! foiirmffcs of Ashevifle, pr6sented what is not common it' this coutitry, a mountain knob, plouhed: horiionialiv from - liase to summit,' and smillitgl-incorn and grass.- Such an cx ample, on the highway,- could 'not. I was *ure, fail to'create a spirit of emulaiori, highly, favorable to Buncoinho. Audin this expectation, 1- was riot deceived. Every .where, it seemed oi'tme,Rhe-had stripped herself to struvgle- fort lieprize-'. the biksing. of skillful . Agricutture on-thi poor land of the niountains;' and-in parit she has already received it. - Can you not my countrymen, in' like mannier strive, atnd-iu like nianne'r succeed ? If you rve' the stillto'fry:I k'aow':-ybu dati and will. .-Associations.of. men for all purpoies arenessentiah- 'Without -society, man colid- itot;exist. . In the very" morning or creatiozr;God- declared, "it is'161 good that man should be~ alone :' he 'therefore: 'provided'an help'meet for him, in lovely, smilling; erring; suffering, 'yet 'faithfl-and: augdlie' womain. -'This principle of help, thus reeontzed and 'pointed odu; as no cessary to man itt the 'beginnaing,a hits des; cended-toi htiro ver sinee, not ornly tn the blissful relation'of'hutsband land wifer but also in ali the other various relattons of lifer Separale aetion selddm aeccompltshes: mu-h'. -Co'mbined: action. ts irt'esisibid. These t'enarks-will ' be :better undlerstod by platio-menlfram alfew pt'..actillus' trationsel f one Fiarmar,' in-some retired section 'of coutry wfpui-ues' me"nuvse:: of h'ushandrywhich- makes his'lace:blonouni likce'tde rose,.wyhat .does :he -abcoiplish? He'blessea~himself and: hta -.familyli but 'as to thd commninty, I :could say of shim in poetic lananage,-Full' m'any sa rose'' hioc-ms "to' blusth urseen,' or waste rits fraginde 'on the ;desert asir.'' U-Ldt him, huvdever, become a emdber of ad Agti. cultui-al society, and hiaspueceussneiamipe and their era.mple, will-he sgen known'&r followed by' hundreds. In the'lperformance of any work, wheni mac-h tis to-bie seco'm plished;e numbet's! are sought and'ohtaned, as ~The meatns of acomplis hing -it prompt ly and easily.' Ifa -Faimer -has his logs to roliga house Lto' buildt or hir wheat'to cotghis:neightbo-s are.ealled in to md' amli thatwhioWi his'ow'd force -could otely have accompiahef with'a reat rexpense' of i her anud time. is the work of a day' 'last~ so illwith an Apiculturai Soetety. Indi vidual :improvetnoit hbas *been efor nadre: than iau hundred years in the field, and hasecomsphihed but little. .Associations' for Agricultural improvetneots are, eoar pavittvely ape~kting;:of recent' ortgin,ahtd yet they cronbids thle lan'd.wihliall- th6e hodora'suneceedfduhb'tibiliy. ( A Soci ety mIuDsatrict gather9 to the people to the wvork, points-outahat..which is -to be niished in a few years.'' Fprmersi, too, iave fewer channels of infori reti - tive t6 their plarticular bun' 4 1an any others. Politics, Lii eraturead ..Temperance. have, ,through papers, nitings, and -other sour.ces, con tinual rills. which, united together, iike up hie fajity streams which lfow t"brough bar land,go make, it ever'yiere. glad. Bt13 untiecently, Farmer's Associations and meetss were,few and far between., N'o. nd hep it is true, an Ag icuhtural paer pe dzl or.aduress, found its wai into. the' Iids 'o fsome euterprising Far mer,*who a ri. piofited by it...; Later. lyhyeobioing Agricult; rp with TeM 'perance, ik3 ihe columns.of the Temper args ..vdgate, Agriculturirll nformation has . found. IVas irough. many a house, wiihere it o;)1rwise wouldnoadhsex thId an lirea ot, and has ex ed: irestamongdhe yeormanry -the.counatry which never bfore existed. SotIoo, teDisirict Agriciltufal Socia-'. ties pave . eted..;th'e people together; h ave by adresses;epqritis, and exhib.ions of stocle. ingres'ed .themni thecause; have made ihem onscjpus dfthpir power. proud oftheier ,bus .ess;an,d sho .n th6m,both by prrecept an. exampemhow it could; be mpde bentriand better ypar after year. In .the ptysuit of anobject and eud such 'as, ours, evrything which will excite in ihvidtis~ .tefecsiti is properly resorted to. Hence prpu-ms.are offered, not so much for, shear vaie, as.the evidence ofrsuccess. The public.rendition of these, .accompn ied Ayi . 9hn addrei as that which the Vfefidnt ihis'Society usually delivers. is an honor pf which the stcjessful.ought to be, and-always.will be.proud. But its usefuliness--dpes .not, stop here; it arouses, the spirit of emulation. in- others,. and blestes the .ountry wiih fne stock, fue crops and hbantiful farms. The ainug, or semi-annual.meetings of Agripulturqj1 Socieiies, with..their at ten dant exoilitpns of fine Stock, good don9ies tic manufactures, and excellent specimen's ofgrairandcqtton, are calculated to desply. interebt,,not only- us, the members, but'Also. ~the c~ppli uktidudes 'i tis be drawn togethit, egAh-mieetmg increasing the suc ceedingr ape .,The Agricultural meeiings df 'New ork.(u Ily support, this asseriion. That.ofhe t.Fall; whie.called togeth.. er' A ucbalent, ofenterprise and uc ce's'. frortlie bosom of the. State, and from the 'o"tr'ies' - of the old thirteen. Massa d 1nd.i -uiS outhi arlinai hn im. epse-.c difmiiizen, men; women and climtgarduango' ntr aitrioek, &6Yveryihing else te exliibi. proclaims,,in a voico .ro be .heard throughout o.ur broad land,. that. in New York the people have made Agriculture and. Agricultural im provemnent.what ii ought to be, their prin cipal.object. Cati it not be so here ?-Could we .klega about politics, and more about crop'e, Iavefewei slump speeches and bar becues twashed dowen .with strong di ink; more agricultural addresses, meetings. and. barbecues washed .down with coldwater, think you not, my cosUtrymeni that in afew years ..we ,4hould be an abundantly wiser, 8f more prosperous and happier people than we are now? To my mind it is clear tthat' ivejshould! Suceh agticultural meetings as this. will do mich to'accomplish so desira ble anobject. We meet, from every quar ter of -the State, to become acquainted with .one-another.as Farmers, to think, to write, do'talk. to hear about, and to stirone anoter up to improvem'ent- ir Agticulture. It is, I hope, to be the parent of many other such meetings in other parts of the Slate, until al.1 tier people, everywhere, will.. devote- themnselves .tp' h'er greaiest good: For South Carolina seems to be plailiy devoted. by- her .local position. to three great istaples, rice,-cotton grain and grass. Nraiiy, of th'esa diff'erent pt'oduete can he grown upon the same; lands. Bit the swamps of the lower gointry are more es pecially suited to ric; while, the region in which~ we'- now assemble, lying..*west. of a, line..on the latitude of-ILaurens. Court: Hlouse, ought- to he essentiallyitgrainl and. Mass growjuig communif'.The interven-. ing ..cdantry. between the t wo design'ated gectons of the..Stte..is.a cotton country; tot usually .prodsdinag more grain, than is neess'sary for i'e iensumption of theth habitants. flyini'tteution to-the' plasin n dicatidi of nature, 'how. n'nch timeless' 1lab'r is expended! The'atieimpr to raise ctioiN.,as a crori, above 'th'eus' is reallv and trulj a' poor 'enniensdifdd to the tins-. inian. 'The' behaitiful rollidg lands aidd lee t'd ynwti this rang6 ofi'n iddoil cultivated ini grain aid, 'bkWth ddinfore'c~ooitha h'ou'se hold waito *nay dhitndb,f olld'adiwnth?' labod&affthW year with'a if sq~ual re ward.N Idi onef. v'6izWthus, fellow ctiaesel,. p~"n ~ ome to your, hands fri'~thd" I iri~oh the stock icle: yi 6itd bl&"~ ad read~ tha. eog jdag & ildi e to realize lrriin gi-ii nf cittin And tid wiat' a chang'~Pourd lie effected all~ arounind gen. Ha9ef mules, cattle, shieep. hogs; .itd bacoif in'abundane~dilli', bitter, cheek'e, honey a'd~ the wheat talke at every house -each family well elothed in the winfer angummeer .frolrg t'bia fi~ece an~d" 'ctii iSf'ivrn fam pun hawl 'ove sit hom'e! Wuld you niot thq indeed l'i -'isppy aIn' ideendentt If eempf!f blessings of (xod can ev~a' muk a petople'contented, 6 ots hvold be tat hap yrfot..' Bitthe acdats f suc a- oreof fai'ming edncofie:fbsadig6wbidtndergo ct~dal ch ard~ly eased by bi~hll thdatilr ' O Tbd ent a sene of fullin apillated buildings & fences and.perishin orchaids,anoid your buildings, &g..ivinld b sulstantial and your orchards.iloufishing But you ask me how, this would be brough about? . - The answer s obviois. Yo would have more. time to devote to.im provement than you. now. have.:1 course of crops, such aps. xJave A mended, a part of.ile'Sprin 4 RMvr and, a. srall part of ;he .Fl 01d. necessary for tbeir culiure. F66 aego posiblysix;.:months .of ever~yggrwouli be.ineriildyed Id yotirhropg and wouka be devoted to improvement. Every mat will: be able to formporie opinion of wha he could thus aedinplis h Buthis:js n all the advantage whi&,ydu~iginixpei Land -set : In-g issiorudliivated in grii d6ei:6t- require on-iihathe li Itii'hicht grain . pud cotton .demardsBa the mopey whencel tiatoteorge'? is-the q~uestion ini every mind ~romyour surpluu corn, :wheat, oats, yi barieya'd hay firouii.yjur pork andi bcon which yot would have to sparealithkesj,1t ofrplentq wherewith;:to raisk, feed anid ifatten, larg itocks df bogs; fronyuatt.e, horses mnu!e:sIind sheept rised and f40bg;ypui grain :and grass ! Let-yourtpractical Farmers,- many-of whom I afi proud tc iec at this meeting, cornyiet.t4ili S-grain and grass groving crop,'with one if,, groA:nd tot ton,it andghere'u lt% will *be Z5 if oot 50 perfdent. in faiprtof the. former Will you still persist in -old libdits, and nol at least make a trial of thatt*hic6althougl perhaps~new to'you, yet comea thus recoim nended 1 To bring -about.such. resulisfiere.. and ti approximato as near as may. be, in- ever3 3ther part of the State, how impoilant-arf Agricultural Societies !-They ..are yout lights.,-They point.you to the good-ttlej warn.you of that which.is bad: they .tel youanow,. as they have often done. l(e0re that irue independence is to be found-in tlh abundance resulting. from your.:.farmff Raise, n$-.ountrymen,:.everywhere im South Carolina, your own hogs, sheep eattle,-hurses and mules-clothe your owE households by' the domestic wheel anc loom-manufacture your own shoes supply-your own tables with flour, potatoet butter and cheese of your own crops, herdi and dairy, and you can bid.defiance to al the tariff's in the word. How much wi are tributary, by our own negligence ani want..of .thrift, to-the Eastern States, ha! been lately pointed out Nrost clearly by i gmI*ian--Who2. -o-in-reause-or1ti country, is well as Agriculture, tas' no been *and wil n6t be surpassed. From hi essays you stilt Tearn with aivazement the immense sums annually paid out for buttei cheese, brooms, shoes, potatoes and ouion! all of which lie could easily manufacture or produce at home. .Well may we com plain of our burdens under such circum lances. A part of them however, w4 have but to will should cease, and like th< Pilgrim's burden at the foot of the cros they will roll off and sink forever from'e vieW. . . .. The time 'is now at haud when everl South Carolinian must prepare for tho deadly struggle, which it is to be feared i! soon'to take - place. The institution o slavery, whether wise or not, it is madnesi in us to discuss witir nen. who-"ieeing wil not see, and hearing will not hear!" It i. kere. so interwoven with evtrij part of soei ty, and so essential to am itselJ, Ital itl destructibn toodid b ours. its extistenc and continuance depeitd updn our agricul ture.: .s lon'g as slave labor is valuable sd long will slave property bdierishid The instant it cease' to be, so it twill b& thrown aside.' nook therefore -calmj bt he things around you. Your cation ii becoming annually a leas.iraiuable crop Something in the tottob' growing countj must to part supply its .plaide: Jay no ihe economy, which I have alrread sug 1ested on this point of' view ? And wil n'or th'6 dutiifation of provision crops, f6i which' the 'rice-growing' counrijani' the towns of rhe seaboard will furnish a .read3 market, further" eke out ou'r ants!i 1 have no doubt, if all dif Souti Carolikae above ile firsi falls ik'o'ur great- rived..woiild'be monie essentially a farniing--'end manufie juring country, that. we mlght, in a fen years, vie with even New Ebyland. ' accomnplish thts, tt is nrecessary that ha tyhole 'resources of' our Star'e should b'e un detstdis5*ell at her'industry -properly applid..' The G'd'ot'ogical and Agricultura Survey has in part, and wil r hope,'fully develops !hen. Ml I5 thegeibbof country covered b'g York,-S'partanbur', - tnion [aareniGreenville, Ptekens, 'Ande'rson sdf the' uyper parrt: iof A bbeville, inight ba issentially I'mproved by thp.Lidel whicli ean-bie obtaiied fromt' the immense iar ris of Limieston2'6 h6' be :fond tn York' Sparta~ijingand iLauYe'd.. To the far' rnr of the bautiful' sesition o Cairli which illudeion'bas beetis nodfalte imaie .illriifoid incalculable ibs,'when its ap' rticatioii to' soils atrd crops comes to' be froperly uiadkersto'. T'hioig~h (the 'Agi jiettural Survey atd the Agricultualdso reties this information'will'be obtained and dtssemtuated. My belief ts,- that ill .he sectioifl f counti-y to wt'hicl' I have al uded, the Limsesto'ne existing within ii -oi-e thani e'ongtr to restore its arginal 'eftility, and probably to'inc'rea'se ttenfold: toguti thens brothaer Farmftrs of the Mono ain Distracts of South Carolina, .there edims-to b'e- 'oordinar 'stimuilant-to.:e :its youriudst and sireet your efforts, ic mnorovement. Theendath Ipoinat'ohi ne'n bolsom, and iells yon front if to ohtalr liat whlich "ill clotlie -our' esieti dore''erfamn wealth "i6 16i67 wicts then old:Pondiston;-the-ecirlicst'fd Most successifica ui -2T k indeyt M .190pct *y rip f CN i; k- ,f m t deebt Ca GF~sleair nr ~b~SEaeiWhejiedudi~ fl eliu .g ts .existijnep forarp tes, when oce arprirmda and eting o p. gethere'an and s ilspervereito .rep r ainment of hiimost ,auablejresj jt a'. apisanspierworthy of4Ijrll ,nl ~h I everya*bibe' i he tqsu Ir.atn iglad to-see the*pope' spi .sba.i ai adyoqr -Agricultural _octy g I og to-day ith theiState!.Society,;in ng - Preinium points out t be' ingof what is to be~glorious day for reeriyille1 Glorious !:ecause its wilyconir.egreater blessings upon -herw-orthy poulation. The people ofthe cotron-groiving Dis:I tricts between' Ljaurios Court Housedadi Orangeburg, havenot the same mianiof" fertilizing t:heir lands: till in -jdfiids cultivation, -the applicatiob of saidal' .sd vegetdble ianurei theicart dol'muc'if tb'; resti-e'thieiexhlausted wasies? The.ass Ysit of cotto ndthe coito'n plant 'iosh~m, I att told, that -he food pculiar to its irimnsut and- growthis the phosp&zte off. linidiand'.th i-this caa, in a grpai6 oet le'ss degree; be pptld 'oi eveiy ilatatinbb' burning tMe bones, which-are east-aday'as an Incumbrance, and'applying'small naa ities or thie ashes to each plant.! This, be - yond all'question, 'deserves the attentio br out Agricultural Societiea' all 'of-which : should unite l iieu1esii rofessof n-Ileor. to give to the public his chemical analysis of cotton and the cotton-plang and.his-oh" serrations upon that which -is essential in? the soil to its growth. Such an- act koin. his part will add another (o ihe many -clairns of usefdlness. which he has on thi XSite - If to this ,de shall fortdnatet id,' throng. tI eAgricultdral Societies, a cbr rkectanalYsis ofour's'oils, and sorer hintisas to thetkind of crops best adapted herio. I have'no doubt that we have-the ngd ithin d.ur rea'ch; ofrecaitning.ir hausted lands in the cotton istric'ts above Oraneirge ;Tle Mr pldation' ofthe C6w PeO a anos has bien sugested. gnd will, "appliedstee' as Well with us as 'ihi cive in 6ores Noitfern 'and Westei i d hi so'wn broadcasi and* turped u erhl green. it wil furnis a fine m 'ori(i r 'i unfroN every plantatit~gmbd#y.. ever, a little industry, will a9te rot woods the allutia de~osits,ithe cowpe and stables a suppij of manure- whichw' do more to iepay labor than tat be ond in felling the forest, rid. preparing forie for cnlture. Here the-advice addiencour agetnent of Agricpltal Societies.decomcs all impoitant, and .hee their. utility has been so often tested, that it can be only necessary to refer you to the Districts and sections of country. where they have 1:ongest eWsted, for the evidence in their favor.' The country from Orangeburg to the seaboard, in her ineihaastible beds of Mar,, has :hat which will make 'hr lands' more productive than they ever have been? Hom nuch thereis to encoorage.us, in every section of the State,.is apparent from even these hasty remark'.'.. To yand. kee.enterprise could a richer field be open-, ed Canpot, will noi South -Ca'rolinians enter upon, possess and enjoy 'the good which is there own, and *hich lies open. and inviting befoie theth.?. It is true, it requires labor, perseverance.iad- intelli gence; but success challenges and,demiads these every where. T'he. Clergyman, tle Lawyer the -Phisician, the Aerchaik 'andi tIre lechianic tast.:hute:.hese requisites to succeed; and still, sthitk usall of these prof.essions may he foundaa s.'acessfuls - in ainy oth'er-par. ollied world IWhyi may not the Farme heretfcceedd 1He can--he may, and he will ! %is only tor -will and determinu' to be laborios, idius tri'odt and perseveridgi in agricuriural iha pr'ovement, andl you'. will'be successfi. - Aly fellow ciliensidewre let us makthe, resolVe, tjaat let Qthe?: Qa ke ajf0 will spare ao' pai ns.'toimprore ~k fr i hieritance wohich God Aaa gitikti. -Ikis t~ b'e observed lii .'griculture, as'lifevery thing else;'snccess' does not depend onaa single effort, many an -experiment mpt 'be-tried again. Even success can he tm proved ! This s'uceesfu -a'n'd acive ej ter'prise does n'ot more thap .su~c t o male. such' an one.: Dukes * .eve4y.~ otheg-odeupation' successfullye ilowed~ d every day'ss imprdverr~entad dauces' 'flrnis fresjriincend'ive% to'oilher -and grea. ter efforts to fuirther improve and sned - ''~"~ No higher ple'asure, nor moresunocent~,~---- ~' and healthful pur'sit cean h'e eiipceiye')' -.& thair that. ,of the Fatier ff his .opt~ e~~' -hands hold not dhe iitgh, yet in suei tending,-in. witn'essing,.the successful friZ.j of enfergy, industry arid entelrinseimos, - serving the contigued- -blessing- of s-' '-' time adharves," and thie nro in-his rich ikts of annual ai'dai finds enough.to makle hili hedrt sing ..-.. joy,:and his .badi 6een. in adoring gaz4 tude. to the Kiny'.of'kings. - No pursuit can elaim a htghlerentaquity thatu thar of thb:. nsbarnaman-;-it is hoary withib fasei:aes:'t isindesed coeval with man islfs "When ihe moruin~ .~ stars s'ang-togeter,' .and all the :son fo God shouted'ribE joy,' thea banther - b~usinesstof'Agtdulture. -4 ~Ifhin wdi'' dam, the' l -ifPatriaehatrnantrt nji;and the-eitiungf thi i; sorldF' tlids-654n tff 4'i nnnfalrlinas. 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