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i. i i, .. . f . Agriculture is tlc' great art, which Covernment ought to protect, every proprietor of lands to practiceJan,i . y- V f ; every inquirer tnto nature to imjrot?ff.-JoHNSON. - ' ? V0I. I. ' EALEIOH, DECE1IBEE, 1855. 110. IX. NORTH-CAROLINA ABATOR. By TIIOS. J. LEMAY, Editor k Puo;bietoii. ' . Terms. Publish cl on tlie first uf every month, -at one DOLLAtt aykaii, in Advance, or 1,50 not paid until the ,end o f the year. r- -fc ; ' - JCy Ailrfrtisejaents, not fcxceeling twelve lines for cadi nhil . every insertion, one dollarcontaining more at the same fates. - , . From ihq Southern Cultivatorj WITEAT CULTUKE IN TIIE SOUTHERN STATES. Wb rgcQifcOICiitliat the cultivation,of Wlicat in the 8outntrri"T5tale3 meets vith such encourage ment as is likely to make it a valuable staple iu a new system 6f rotation of crops. It should be tou--sidercd in connection with planting, with the natu ral -and the Cumulative wants of the soil, as well as the almost universal desire for Wheat bread. As an article of liuman food, in. jao mrt of the world have mankind voluntarily lessened their daily con sumption, of Wheat, because' they preferred bread mado'of.the meal of maize, ice, rye, barley, oats, or any other cereal. On' the contrary, thousands of families in allelic States, to say, nothing of. the, dai ly bread of the masses' in Europe, annually consume , less meal andtnoro Wheat flour, as their rrteans en able them to consult their taste. ' On good wheat land, one can raise aj)ushel of wheat qditc asclicap-( )y, as one of corn j but such land i? not common, and pf course 100 pounds of flour costs more labor than a like quaniity of Wal; to mostprodncers. If they had all the experience and skill in growing 4 wheat winch thcyposscss in the cultivation ot corn, siiih an Increase of knowledge would enable thcra to reduce the first cost uf a bushel of wheat nearly " one-half. This valuable knowledge will be acquir ed, sooner or later, for the increasing millions aro sure to perpetuate an increasing market for this grain. - . In Dr.. Schmitz's translation of Nieburrs " Lec tures on Ancient History," max be found the follow ing remavks : (Vol. 1, p. 16) 11 Man was firsl created at Babylon ; corn wheat there grew wild; "and 4ho new race of beings there found the first necessary food, especially wheat. This tradition is tlie 'moro. vw remarkable because several, naturalists' have inado - the ol)scrvation that corn wheat docs not grow, wild in any part of the world. w I do not knrw whether by a process of improvement our garden fruits can be' derived from, wild fruit; Jt is well -known, however, that the . noble Vino Graces grow -wild in Colchi3. -Whence, then,, docs Corn come ? My opinion is that God made direct provision for man ; something was given to" all, real Wheat to ho . Asiatics, and Maize to the Amelcans." ; j We cite the above, not so much to record in these pages the "opinioti" of so ripe ft scholar and. so careful an observer as Nieburr, in reference to " tho direct provision made for man'! by his Creator, as to indicate the fact that the warm valley of the tu phratcsi if not that of the Nile, is tho earliest known habitafbf the plant under consideration. The act that Egypt has, been able to feed indefinite millions at home on wheat, and export a largo surplus tot ' three thousand, years, proves that our southern cli mate should bo at least as friendiy.tQ tCocultivaticJn and growth ofthis grain as any north of so f&r ' si . fir ? J -.f 1 l:':'
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