yOlitll-CAIlOLIKi.: IIEr. 1KST1TCTI0KS, HER FAHM
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! IA2CUFACTUr.es, AND
vjSirctli. -tartuta gwto.
- . notice. ' -X;
W'pi&goxs.who have not aid for the first Vt!mnc
of the u Arator' will please remember that the sub
scription year closed with the March number. And
when they recollect that " timet ere hard" and that
protisions cannot be obtained, without QuUmighly
Dollar; Hiave no tloubt but that they will send in
the Cash immediately.
I am not prematura in the conjecture that in ten
years more, the wines of Georgia will meet those of
France and our Atlantic ports, and soon thereafter
they will make.. good the completion by going to
European markcU; bo that vhat has jus$ been
achieved by her flower mills awl farmers, will also
be effected by her vineyards and wine presses.
Why may not North Carolina rival Georgia?
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF TIIH n::;viLLE
vtcouNTY ageicuetui: M i;ouim
Thomas J. ' , '!:air;.un, Col. William It.
White, Willi :A;.vcil, N. E. Can ady, Wiley
Perry," E hvardlL Lyon, John Eullock,
Jcfi , W ilium E. Wychc, II. II. 11 urwell, Jas.
F. , i. V,'. Wychc, John 31. BullockV Jhn J.
f. J, Panics E. Daniel John C. Taylor, Lhtlcbury
. tunc, Dr. John R. Hicks, S. S. "Royster, T. L. Wil
liams, Col. P. E. A; Jones, Hartwell Hargrove, S. S.
Cooper, D. P. Paschall, Arch'd. Davi3, William jA.
Han is, John S. Burwell, Dr. J ames A. Russell John
II, Webb; Dr. D. L. Cole, T. R; Lyon, Carter Waller,
Allen C. Cozart, John Mann, Dr. James I.AVorthanT,
William Clements, W. L. Allen, J. Ill Daris, Jamc3
B. Hobgood, A. W. Vcnable, H. K; Taylor, Thomas
Miller, II. T Watkins, II. P; Ilughos, William A.
.i'fln T IT Hninov. A. TC Rnrtrpll. '.TM.-Pftschnll '
JDr. A. C. Harris, and 1. W. Gregory.
Five members including the Cliairman,-constitute of everv Southern farmer,) our planters might not
a quorum for transacting business. j only preserve their lands in fertility, but would, from
A. C. HARMS, Secretary. I the outset, fill their corn-cribs and smoke-houses,
and cotton-pens, to bursting. This system will havo
HORIZONTAL DITCHING SOUTHERN LAND
MURDER. : '
Editors or the American. VAniinii: In travpl-'
ling recently from .' Columbus, Mississippi, to Rich
mond, Va., through Alabama, Georgia, South and
North Carolina, I was struck with the hill-side ditch
es which I observed on -thousands. of rolling planta
tions in Alabama nud Georgia, to prevent the wash
ing of their loose soils, and which was in fact, al
most the only commendable feature which I observ
ed in the ; mrdcrcn rnculturc of the .planting
Ju.t thin!:, Messrs Editorr, of lr.:::::.j
:..;cts of fertile soil, exhausted and thrown out cf
cullirmiou," in many places washed into gullies, and
covered with yellow boom sedge, beautifully vane
gated with the green foliage of upstart pinc3, before
they nre cleared of their original growth the old .
dead trccs standing yet quite thick upon the ground!
What possible apology can these vandal land-murderers
offer to posterity for the destruction of their
rich inheritance, when, by good plowing, with two
mule plows, instead of scratching the surface with a
one-mule scarifier ; by horizontal ditching, to pre
vent the washing of undulating lands; by sowing
rye and oat pastures for their .stock; by always
sowing their t-ornfickU broadcast with the Southern
Pea, at the last plowing; and by preparing their
lands by pea-fallows, for their wheat crops, as re
commended by that great farmer, E. Ruflin, in bis
Agricultural Essay, (vriiich ought to be in the hands
Tnn Vine and tiid Wine op Georgia. The Au
gusta Constitutionalist publishes , a .letter from the
Hon. Mark A. Cooper, giving an account of a re
cent visit to the Yinevards of Dr. Anderson and oth
ers, 6f Wilkqs. these vineyards,' ftc says, Iwcrc
planted from the slip, in the spring of !Sp3, and now
produces grnpe3 of the most admirable quality.-
Each vine ha3 on an aSrcragc, of 45 clusters of the
very largest, size, the flavor- surpases anything
have known. The vineyard was an experiment, of
one-fourth of an acre, with a setting of 450 vines
per quarter, or 1,000 to the ucrc Pwipg to dry
ether.only 30, lired and are in bearing. . .
to be adopted, sooner or later, or the Southern coun
try the cotton growing region, I mean will be cxv
haustcd and depopulated.
I havo a friend, a young planter in Mississippi,
who is etcrmined to preserve the fertility of his
land by the means I have indicated, and still keep
everything fat about him ; raise his own stock and
grain, and send to his commission merchant every
year,at least five.balcs of cotton, to the hand. Somo
of his land is quite steep, and, requires ditching. to
prevent it from washing. He will therefore be very
much obliged to you,Mcssrs. Editors, or to any ot
your correspondent?, rvho will he kind enough to
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