THE AltATOH.
pudiate tho principle of.acri6cing Carolina's hills
.for Florida' hammocks, oc Louisiana's bajrous, sole-
purses, w.o by. no means condemn those heads of
families who emigrate southward end westward to
obtain tho means . of settling their children around
poscatome monopoly ui"xviujj vuhuh, wubu
equally .averse to the exclusive cmuvaiion orsmau i
grain ana raising jsiuck. , Mcu uwsiisa Wu
tion; and no. one more .than tho other should re
Ccivc it. ( .: "'-t ; ; ; V.,,
7- Our Ejstcm then is to 'divide, the plantation into
three parts, a third for cotton, a third for corn, and
tho remaining third for oats, -wheat, rye 0 barley
- and potatoes.' As 6on as the wheat, oats, and rye
bushel peas per acre, plow all in immediately, ana In
tho fall just beforo frost, bury under .with a two
horse plow, Tines and peas. The second ycar'put
cotton upon this land, corn where cotton grew' the
first year, and grain where tue corn was. jluc uuru
' year succeed tho small grain again with cotton, the
. cotton with corn, and the corn again with small
. grain. Tho fourth year begins the rotation again.
In this triennial system of rotating crops the same
, land produces the same crop only every fourth year,
hence allowing time for the accumulation in the soil
of those nutritive ingredients required for each spc-
cific crop. Another very material aovaniage oi mis
system, wo think, consists in diminishing the area of
your cotton crop, and increasing tnat of your smau
grain without diminishing the value of your income,
while it improves the land, and affords more time for
making manure. Everybody knows that, a large
cotton crop per hand requires the labor of the hands
from January till Christmas ; but the above system
allows time for harvesting the summer crops, sowing
the pea crop and making manure enough to apply
to one-third of tho land cultivated.
In making manure we venturo it as our opinion,
founded only upon judgment, that compost heaps,
on the Bomar principle for instance, are not econo
my. The stable, cow houso and pen, pig-pen, chick-
cn-coop, horse-lotj and temple, are the places to
mako manure, and will afford, properly managed, as
. touch as the planter has time to haul out at the re
quired season of tho year. "The manure made, wc
may bo asked, how and to what will you apply it in
your biennial system? In this we havo system too,
and will readily explain it. . 7 '
First, it will bo seen tho cotton succeeds the grain
tubble and pea crop plowed in j this then must suf
fice each year for cotton. On ourweat, &c.v we
sow all tho cotton seed avo can save," if It should be
tilfr bushels per acre.
we apply all tho manure wo can make, fresh froa
tho stable, cow-house, 'or ariywhernwe can get It. "
This manuring,' aided thenextycar by .tho cotton 4,
ppt. nnnnftllv !neri.ipft thft trliMLirrnVii: Anil enhm '
sequently wo havo annually a heavier crop of peas
and pea . vinc3 to bury In, in the fall for tho next
year's crop" of cotton. In, the corn, we plant peas
for seed and food for milch-cows and negroes In tha
n e.uoTe sometimes, ucuu juiu, luai, "your crop.
of corn will fire, and bhrn up from this application
or manure j" well sometimes oura does v fire," and
so does aircornr but our observation is' that, wbcro
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one stalk Yl fifes", from being heated by the manure.
ten stalks did of poverty. Poor land and bad,tnan-
agcmsnt, such as plowing when, too w'ct; or plowing
too close ana too aeep in me aavaneea stage ortiio
crop, wui aa ten loia more injory to corn tlian twiCQ
the amount of manure generally applied '
f Mr. Editor, thosg who are "Continually harping on
tue idea, that wo plant too much cotton, aro uhcr
those, who pursue this identical system, or. do not
plant at alL This latter class advjbcate gcnerallv tho"
establishment q( Southern madufaci6Hc3' ; wantiho
South to become a world within herself grow her.
own tea, drink Southern coffee, cat her own sugar, in
fine, prohibit the importation of everything ;exotic
because we have a country tho most favored under
Heaven. All this is to, usarrant humbuggcry, and .
to this class we would like to address.a word, but ai
it would involve many other questions, particularly
that of slavery, wo must forbear; and concludcVMr.
Editor, with an opology fof occupying so much'tlmo
ana space m giving you our views on a Bimpxeiuo
Important subject-riSfeMA Carolina Agrkulluriil.
AIITIFICI AL UND PERUVIAN GUAKO.
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TuKttn is very little use, wo conceive, of our plant
er and farmers making any. moro cflbrtsto obtain
Peruvian guano at a lower price than that at which
it is now selling i A letter befpro us, by J. Y.Dp -Osma,
the Minister of the Peruvian Government ot
Peruvian Government conducts tho guano trade with
foreign countries on Its own account and risk; and
regulates and establishes tho prico of this fertilizer,
andthat it finds It diQcult to supply the demand fdr ;
it at 5tf pr tunIt Is also stated that !only about'
nnrf-fanrth flf'the snnnlv la consumpd'in i' VnUorl
States, and that. if a cheaper fertilizer Cnhs ob
tained anywhere else, our farmers aro not compcllc4
to purchase of Peru. . Ve, Indeed, cannot blamo.
that goxcrnment for obtaining the highest prices it
I possibly can for gnano j our farmers dp tho very, ,
And to tht corn in the drill; same ith thejr- products. But cannot as g0o4 a