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are thus strengthened. Deep hoeing is a good prac
tice as it gives a degree of fertility to the earth.
Thinning crops.—The thinning of seedling crops
(such as are designed to produce seed) is a very ne
cessary thing to be done in] time, before the young
plants have drawn cme another up too much, by
which they become weak and out of form, and some
times never do well afterwards. All plants grow
stronger, and ripen their juices better, when the air
circulates Ireely round them,|and the sun is not pre
vented from an immediate influence; an attention to
i which should be paitl from the first appearance of
plants breaking ground.
In thinning close crops, as onions, carrots, turnips,
(See., be sure they are noi left too near; for instead of
reaping a great produce, there would surely be a
less. When they stand too close, they will make
tall and large tops, but are prevented swelling in
their roots ; better to err on the wide side, for though
there are fewer plants they will be finer.
Setting out plants.—In setting out plants, bo sure
to do it as early aa may be, and always allow room
enough for this work; being thus treated, vegetables
will come forward sooner, larger, and of a superior
flavor. These advantages arc seen in all things,
but in lettuces particuhirly, which ofien have not
half the room allowed them they should.
drills will produce more than in hills. The roots of i blood and sweat into gold ; like the ancient Egypt-
A G U I C U L. T U R E.
From the Family Companion and Ladies’ Mirror.
VEGETABLE GARDEN.
Seed.—hel your seed be such as you would w’ish
to have your future crop: the best of the kind. The
largest seed of the kind, plump, and sound, is the
best, being well ripened and kept Irom injuries of
weather and insects.
Commonly speaking, new seed is to be preferred
to old, as growing more luxuriently, and coming up
surer and quicker. As to the age at which seeds
may be sown and germinate, it is uncertain, and de
pends much on hoxD they are preserved. Seeds of
cucumbers, melons, gourds. &c., which have thick
horney coverings, and the oil of the seed of a cold
nature, will continue good for ten, fifteen, or even
twenty years, unless they arc kept in a very warm
place, which W’ill exhaust the vegetable nutriment
in a twelve-month: three years for cncumbers, and
four for melons, is genei'ally thought to be best, as
they shoot more vigorously than newer seeds, and
become more fruitful.
Oily seeds whoso coats, though they are not so
hard and close as the former, yet abound with oil of
a warmer nature, w’ill continue good three or four
years, as radish, turnip, mustard, &c. Seed# of um
belliferous plants, w'hich are for the most part of a
warm nature, lose their growing faculty in one, or
at most two years, as parsely, carrots, parsnips, &c.
Peas and beans of two years old, are by some pre
ferred to new, as not likely to run to straw. Sow'-
ings should be generally perfomed on fresh dug or
stirred ground. There is a nutritious moisture in
fresh turned up soil, that causes the seed to swell
and germinate quickly, and nourislies it with proper
aliment to proceed in its growth wilh vigor, but
which is evaporated soon after from the surface.
Different seeds require different temperatures to
induce germination; and if they are put into the
ground when it is too cold, they are liable to rot.
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v;>r. be at the ne:it Superior Courts ot Cabarrus and * u n- u i i v
T -^coln. JOHN H. WHEELER, corn at perhaps 55, while the melon probably requi-
Atto. at Law.
 'harloue, Feb. 15, 1812. 50...f
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March 8. 1842.
res a heat ef 60 to 70 degrees. The common bean
will vegetate in a cold temperature; while the Lima
bean will rot in a cold or wet soil. Hence, in plant
ing, regard is to be had to the hardiness of the plant
which is to be sown.
Seeds require to be kept mi)ist (ill their roots have
got firm hold of the earth, and their leaves have ex
panded above it. To insure this, the soil must be
brought in close contact with them, and they suffi
ciently covcred. A good precaution is to tread the
freeh dug soil on the line where the seeds are to be
plantetl, which retards evaporation from below; or,
when the seeds arc covered to a sufficient depth, to
compress the earth upon them with a hoe, spade, or
board, which not only tends to retain (he moisture,
but to break the soil and to bring it in close contact
w’ith them. Seeds often fail to grow', or, having be
gun to germinate, are dried and lost, for the want of
moisture. And many small seeds with husky cover
ings, particularly flower seeds, have been declared
bad, because they have been planted without due
reference to this rule.
As soon as the plants are firmly rooted, the more
the earth is stirred about thera the better. This fa
cilitates the preparation of the vegetable food in the
soil, and greatly promotes grow^th.
M'ecding.—Weeding in time is ameterial thing in
culture, and stirring the ground about Jilants, as al
so earthing up w'here necessary, must be attended
to. Breaking up the surface will keep the sod in
health ; for when it lies in a hard-bound state, en
riching showers run off', and the salubrious air can
not enter. Weeds exhaust the strength of the
ground, and if they are sufl^ered to seed and sow
themselves, may truly be called garden sins. The
ha*id and hoe are the instruments for weeding.
E^i&sing, where the spade can go between the
rows of fiiq plants, is a good method of destroying
weeds; and ae. it cuts off the straggling fibres of
roots, thev strike feesh in numerous new shoots, and
Rx.tracl9 from an Address delivered before the (»rernville
(S. C.) Agricultural Society, by B. F. Pebhv, Esq.
1 FIRST SETTLERS.
\ The first settlers of a country are apt to leave the
impress of their character on every thing around
them. It has beea so in the settlement of the upper
I part of South Carolina- The whole country was
! a dense forast, the ‘“settler had to cut down and de -
I stroy the timber, as fast as possible to cultivate the
I soil. The earth w'as fresh and rich, producing
abundantly, and ihe only obstacle in getting a pro
ductive field was tne timber growing on it. No one
thought of manuring. There w'as no necessity for
it, and very little ability to do so. All domestic an
imals were permitted to roam at largo, in tlie forest
both summer and winter. As soon as one field was a
little worn, another was clcarod, rich and producing
abundantly. This habit of clearing and wearing
out the soil commeaced at first through necessity,
was continued through conv'enionce, and adopted
by the second generation through habit and educa
tion. The son had never seen his father maaure his
fields, and hardly knew’ that such a thing was ever
done! Ill the oouroo time tijo bcst Boil has been
cleared and worn out. The owner disheartened
and poor, has gone to the Southwest, We must
follow his example or change our system of agri
culture.
WEARING OUT SOILS.
It is an idea conceived in profound ignorancc, (hat
the BOil of a country must necessarily wear out, or
become less fertile by looij continued cultivation.—
Wilh proper care and judicious culture, the soil, in
stead of wearing out, must necessarily improve.
How is it in England, in France, in Germany and
I lay? A portion of those countries has been in
cultivation for centuries. Instead of becoming less
fertile, they produce more abundantly than they did
an hundred or thousand years since. This has
been eft'ected by manures, rotation of crops, judi
cious culture and good management. It is easier to
manure a field than it is to clear one, and when ma
nured, will produce more and is more easily cultiva
ted. Every farmer knows the difterence between
ploughing in a fresh field, filled with stumps and
roots, and ploughing one where he encounters none
of those obstacles.
MANURING.
Let no one say his resources will not p3rmit him
to manure his lands. Every farmer can make ma
nure enough in the course of the year to manure
one third of his land in cultivation. Let him save
his cornstalks and straw, gather leaves in the woods
and preserve all the litter of his barn. Let him
scatter this in his stablea, his horse lots, his cow
pens and his hog pens. When this litter has been
sufficiently trampled and saturated with manure, it
should be removed and placed in heaps, protected
from rain and sun. If permitted to remain exposed
to the weather, in an open lot, its strength w’ill be ab
sorbed by the earth and carried off ny the atmos
phere.
There is much to be considered too in the appli
cation of mannres. This should always be m drills.
The advantages are that one fourth will be suffi
cient, and you can pkint the second year on the same
ridge. When manures are applied broadcast they
do comparatively little good, and arc much sooner
exhausted.
MODE OF CULTURE.
Inseparably connected w'ith manuring, is the
mode of cultivation to be adopted by the farmer.
And here let me notice a fatal error with most far
mers in the country—an attempt to cultivate too
much land. It is infinitely better to cultivate on e
half and do it well. This too w’ill enable the far
mer to manure better. Mr. Loudon mentions a sto
ry illustrative of this truth. A father had three
daughters, between whom he intended to divide
equally hia farm. The eldest married and receiv
ed her portion. On the remaining two thirds he
made more than he did on the w^hole. The second
daughter married and received one half of the re
maining two thirds. The father still found no dim
inution in the amount o f his crop.
HORIZONTAL PLOUGHING.
The most of our lands in Greenville District a r«
undulating, and the soil has been swept off by
ploughing up and down the hi Us. No good farmer
should think of ploughing h.is fields but one way.
Horizontal ploughing must in all cases be adopted
It preserves the land from washing, it is easier for
the ploughman, easier for the horse, better for the
corn, enables the gro und to retain its moisture long
er and cnn It better ploughed. Corn planted iu
the corn in one direction being unbroken, cause it
to stand a drought mtich better.
CORN.
The only advantage in ploughing corn at all, is
to destroy the grass and keep the ground loose, so
that the roots may easily find their w ay through it.
It is obvious that the plant cannot be benefitted by
destroying the source of its sustenance. The inju
ry from breaking the roots of a plant may, howev
er, be counterbalanced by the loosening of the soil
But every farmer should be very careful not to break
the roots of his corn too often—if he does he im
pedes his crop. The best farmers in this District
never plough their corn more than once. T hey
break up the ground effectually in the spring and
plant in ridges. As soon as the grass begins to
make its appearance, they run a harrow twice in
each row. This tears the grass to pieces and throw's
the clods in the middle furrow. They next run a
bulltongue on each side ot the corn. This stirs the
ground when the young roots are forming and ex
poses them, in some measure, to the vk^armth of the
sun. The middle of the row is not (ouched. The
next they give the corn a good ploughing, and if
It requires any further work, they do it with the har
row. By this system of culture, more than oik; third
ot the labor, ordinarily bestowed on the corn crop, is
saved, and a better crop is the product.
ROTATION OF CROPS.
A rotation of crops should never be neglected by
the farmer. Nature points out the mode of culture.
If oak land is cut down and, after being in cultiva
tion for a number of years, ia turned out, a grov/th
of pine will spring up. If pine land be cultivated
and turned out, there will spring up a growth of
some other trees. This is seen every dyy in pass
ing through our country, and should tcach the far
mers a lesson as to the necessity of a rotation in
their crops. The richest soil requires a change as
well as that which ia poorer. It will not answer
even in highly manured garden, to plant the
same vegetable for a succession of years on the
same bed. The roots of one species of plants ex
haust all the peculiar qualities of the soil calculated
to nourish that species. But those qualities cfilcu-
lated to nourish other plants are not exhausted. It
is like the student reading a book. His mind may
become fatigued with one work from many hours
ians, we will pawn the very bones of our fathers,
but not one dolllar wiil we pay, not one cent, not
one mill of debt conceived in fraud, sqamleredin in
iquity, and now' threatened to be extorted at the
point of foreign bayonets! We cry for iNIississip-
! For our homes and firesides.” This is a de
reading. He throws it down and takes up another,
which he reads with inlerest.r Lord Hale used to
relieve his mind after long and continued study, in
his profession, by reading “ Arabian Knights’ En
tertainments.”
ORCHARDS.
Every farmer in tii;s part of South Carolina
should have a good orchard. It will cost but littlo
and nothing can add more to the pleasure of a fam
ily. It is reality a luxury to have at all seasons of
the year, fruit of some kind or other, for eating,
cooking, preseserving, «&c. Independent of this, it
is a source of profit to the farmer. AVith his apples
and peaches, in the summer, he may feed his hogs,
or he way distill them.
GATES AND BARNS.
It is said that a good farmer may always be
known by his gates and fences. There is, no doubt,
truth in the remark. If you see good gates and
fences on a farm, you are very apt to see good barns,
stables and shelter for cattle. These are unerring
signs of a good farmer. The time saved in pass
ing through gates, instead of pulling down bars and
fences, will amount to many days in the course of a
year. If you have good fences your crop is secure
from the depredation of animals, which in some ca- i
ses, amounts to an almost entire destruction of it.—
Besides this, there is no time lost in hunting and guar-
ding your fields. If you have good barns, your fod
der, hay, straw and shucks are saved from the de
struction of the w’eather, and coutain more nourish
ment for your cattle and horses. Good stables and
shelters are absolutely essential. Without them you
cannot expect to keep your stock in good kelter.—
When sheltered and protected from the cold and
rain, less food will answer all domestic animals.
SELLING CORN.
A most fatal error into which many of our farmers
have fallen i n this District, is that of selling their
corn instead of raising live stock. This custom is
general on the Saludas, where they should com
pete w'ith the farmers of Tennessee and Kentucky
horses, hogs and neat cattle. The amount of mo
ney carried out of Greenville District every year by
the purchase of horses, hogs and cattle, is at least
ten or fifteen thousand dollars ! Tobacco, Irish po
tatoes, apples, cabbage, &c., amount to no inconsid
erable sum. This is all a dead loss to the district,
and might be saved, if farmers would turn their at
tention to raising and growing these thing.
cisive talking upon this point.—Public Ldger.
We see the following article going the rounds
of the Whigs papers :
Repudiatioji.—The Bufl’alo Commercial Adver
tiser, speaking ot this last in the train of political
experiments, says: “The poorest, most miserable
of the South Amercan States—never sunk so low,
or showed itself so utterly lost lo all sense of honor
and self-respect, as to repudiate its debts. Their
revolutions have been as frequent as their earth-
qaakes, one usurper has succeeded another, univer
sal anarch}, has repeatedly threatened to destroy
all forms of government, yet the obligation to pa^
their debts has never for a moment beeti disputed.’’
That is not all; they did nothing else to secure
the rights or advance the interests of the peopU-.
Despotic governmeiils very seldom do anything by
which the people aie to be relieved from ihtir bur
thens. The rulers never dispute tho obligiUion to
pay their public debt ?o long as they can grind out
of the people the money to pay the interest. Why
should they ? They have none of it to pay; th -y
borrow the money and sptnd it; but wiien the ti.iu*
comes to pay it, all cotncs out of the people; it is
too convenient »i mode of wringing money ouc
them to bo willingly abandoned. A public debt is
their meat and drink ; as long as they pay the in
terest, they can borrov/ again. It might sometimes
be very inconvenient for them to raise at once from
a starving population, mt3ney enougVi to suppb/
their extravagance; but this dilii'.*u]ty can bn very
easily obvialcd by borrowing monc y on interest and
mortgaging the labor and sweat; nay. even the
bread of unborn generations, ibr t'lo p-iyment of
the interest; they spend it in foli}’- or extravagance,
or in the gratification of a wicked uuibitioij, and
then preacli to the people who arc starving them
selves and iheir children to pay their tax. s, about
national faith and national honor. No; it v'-ouid b»
a most foolish thing for them to re^lI^u to p:iy a pu
blic debt; it would destroy tiieir means jt spm '
ingthe labor of generation.^ to come. Milhous
the miserable population of Great Hiitain a.“e
starving, because they ji ive boon laboring t j r .:y
the interest of a debt contract* d by theiuicrs
their ancestors, lo enabl'? them tv) curry out
wicked and ambitous piojecrs ag linst tiie rights i-.n 1
jiborties of the balance of tho world.
Mr. Looi'loJ fojncil'luo og'a. HkiI th ’’rr
was not a minute of the twcniy-four hours, thp.t the
British drum was iiot heard siMindiiinr
revellee in some quarter of the gi^'b-v Their
great men may boast, that tlie s;jn ce.ases
shine upon some fccne of iiiitisii rapine und t.jw-
bery, but the fruit of it is, that liio pi.opie at iiorr^
are bound dow^n beneath a load of debt, wli!-
must grind tbeni from geneiijtion lo g' nerati;,;-,
’till the day of judgement, unites they should kj*.'
up and reluse to pay it, which we i.opeand believe
they will do at no distant day.
The Mississipppi State Boyds.—The Legisla
ture of Mississippi have solemnly repudiated the five
millions of bonds sold by the commissioners of the
Mississippi Union Bank to Nicholas Biddle, on the _ _
18th of August, 1838, and declare that the same tcrest, so long as the burthen falls upon all; it will
National faith and Nationai honor, foi soolb ! \vc
should like lo know W’hat obligation, either of iaith
or of honor, rests upon the starving pi asant of Kng-
land and Ireland, to pay the four thousand
of dollars of public debt of the Briti;:>h tii
ment. What benefit did he derive from it ‘ Whu^t
part of the money did he gd i Wno consulted k::s
wishes or his interest in contracting the debt, or iu
spending the money ^ h is true, be never receiv
ed a farthing of the money; none of it was appro
priated to relieve him tVom any burthen, or to pro
mote his happiness, or lo add to his comfort; yet
national faiih and national honor require that tho
bread should be taken out of the mouths of his
children by taxation ; to pay the interest of the debt.
It may be that debts are sometimes contracted by
the rulers of a countr}’^, which the people ought t^
feel bound to pay ; but it is very seldom, so seldom
indeed, that it would be much nearer justice to say
that none should be paid, than that all should. For
oursel/es, we do rejoice from the bottom of our
hearts, that fears are entertained, that the States of
this Union will not pay the debts that their rulers
have contracted; we are glad that the State of
Mississippi has refused to pay hers; not that we
entertained much hopes that they will not ultimate
ly be paid; compmations w'ill be formed between
the wealthy men of the indebted States; the State
bonds will be bought up for little or nothing by
them; they will get themselves and iheir friends
into the Legislature^f a system of bribery and cor
ruption wiil be gotten up, by which they will be
recognised as permanent debts, and the people will
be regularly taxed to pay the interest, by which
the bonds will be raised at once to par, the holders
will become immensely w’ealthy, and the people
will belong to them and their heirs, executors, ad-
rninistaators and assigns, in fee simple forever.
The interest of the public dvbt of Great Britain
would not be paid for a single day, if it belonged
to foreigners? It is only by havmg one part of a
people bought up and interested in keeping the ba
lance in slavery, that such enormities can be prac
tised.
This will be the case wilh the State Stocks; they
will be of no value while in the hands of persons
out of the State, because no Legislature will dare to
impose upon the people taxes enough to pay the in-
were sold illegally, fraudulently and uuconstitution-
sionally. They say, however, the holders of those
bonds may have every legal and eqiiitable remedy
for collecting the amount paid on said bonds; they
are invited to pursue the remedy aftbrded by the
laws and the Constitution against the Mississippi
Union Bank, and against all and every person ren
dered liable either in law or equity for the debts of
said bank. We suppose now that there will be one
universal howl among the stockjobbing interests
against the dishonesty of Mississippi, because she
wiil not permit gambling legislators to set aside her
Constitution and law's. That Mississippi would
pay her debts we have before declared our firm
conviction, and this belief is confirmed by the de
clarations of the the papers of that Sate. Mhe Free
Trader, in speaking on this subject, says; ‘‘We
acknowledge our just liabilites; we wdll pay other
heavy responsibilities by taxatioft by the c'jiyjtgo of
onl}' be when the enemies get into the camp, when
men have a personal interest in it, that it will be
done.
People talk about the disgrace and infamy of re
pudiating State debts! and who are they? those
who talk most loudly about it, and are most horri
fied at the idea, are those who have contracted debts
themselves, who owe the mechanic for his labor,
the merchant for his goods, and who have by their
extravagance and profligacy, ruined their friends
who have been security for them, and who are cla
morous for a law of Congress, by which they shall
be able to repudiate their individual debts. They
consider it wonderful honest that they should repu
diate their debts which they contracted themselves,
and thus cheat the honest laborer out of the pro
ceeds of his toil, but it is disgraceful and dishonest be
yond endurance that a people should refuse to pay
a debt which they never cnmracted. from ^’hich
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