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BABfiHS WS1SIY X •V1IA&
AGRICULTURE.
If wo arc to estimate the importance of
any substance of human cognizance by ei¬
ther tho number of men engaged in its
pursuit, or dependent upon its results,
or gauge it by the commercial or intrinsic
Value of the products developed by it, we
taust class agriculture os tho first and most
important of human avocations. If wc
take another standard of estimation, the
aesthetic or moral, we must acknowledge
that its pursuit tends, iu ah cminent^de*
gree, to the development of the highest
as well as the more homely virtues. In an
intellectual point of view, while it may not
produce that delicate finish which is the
accompaniment of Hollos-letters, the arts
and sciences; while it may not sharpen or
refine the intellect like the profession of
law or medicine—yet it imparts to the
understanding a breadth and vigor, an in¬
sight and strength which more than com¬
pensate for any deficiency of delicacy or
sensibility. It develops masculine vigor¬
ous sense. It produces the sort of men
who carry the world upon their shoulders
—the men who do not only support it
with the bread and meat of daily life, but
who furnish to the conduct of its affairs a
pabulum as wholesome, as necessary aud
as
In the earliest authentic history of man,
Wa find the progenitors of our race placed
in a garden of fruits and flowers. So far
as wc can gather from the succinct state-*
wonts of the Bible, they were horticultu
ralista and florists.
The patriarchs to whom were confided
the “oracles of God,” pursued as an avo¬
cation the two great branches of agricul¬
ture, pastoral or agricultural. They were
“tillers of the ground” or “keepers of
flocks.” Agriculture has the whole field
Of development. Mankind arc fed and
sustained by it. Without it the world
would return to a barren wilderness, and
men to the condition of the savage. It is
the broad base of the pyramid, rooted
deep in the so^ on which rests tho super¬
structure of our civilization. The first
steps of emergence from a state of barba¬
rism aro the planting of seed, its culture
and its harvesting. One of the most
marked evidences of the highest civiliza¬
tion consists in the adaptation of fertilizers
*and tillage that will produce the greatest
amount and finest character of products of
the soil to the acre, whether of fruits or
cereals, vegetables, or the products which
are used in tho manufacture of textile fab¬
rics.
It may bo asserted that the scientific
development of what may bo called
orn agriculture in England and in this
oountry, may be dated from the year 1802,
when the great chemist, Sir Humphrey
Davy, commenced bis analysis of soils and
manures. Previous to this day, while
•hero wore many honorable names of men
$httso labors awakened a spirit of inquiry
and improvement, and paved the way for
tho application of science to agriculture,
and who should not be forgotten among
the benefactors of the race—yet the results
of,his labors mark the broad line ofdis
tinction between mediaeval empiricism and
modern science. It will thus be seen that,
what may be strictly defined scientific ag
riculture dates only from the beginning
of this century. Wc find scientific agri¬
culture dates only from the beginning of
this century. We find that sub soiling ro¬
tation of crops, tho plowing in of green
rbanurea, the use of bird’s excrement as &
fertilizer, and a variety of agricultural im¬
plements adapted to the peculiar soil or
purpose to be effected, were known and
practic&d by the G reeks and Romans. Wc
will find* that the art of irrigation was most
thoroughly understood by the Saracen
donquerora of Spain in the middle ages,
and many monuments arc extant of their
skill and labor. In what, theu, consists
the peculiar distinction of modern agri¬
culture ? Wc may answer, in tho appli¬
cation of chemistry to the analysis of the
soil, its researches into vegetable physiol¬
ogy, and its determination of the most ap¬
propriate manures for the various soils aud
plants; also though in a secondary degree
in the improvement of agricultural imple¬
ments for the cultivation of the crops, and
theii harvesting and preparation for use.
It should not be forgotten that a Board of
Agriculture was the means of employment
of Sir Humphrey Davy from 1802 to 1813.
A very striking advantage of the mod¬
erns over the ancients consists in the ap¬
plication of machinery in the preparation
of the products of-the soil fer the market.
Wind and water power, and their mighty
successor, steam, has been harnessed to
the mill and to the plow, and its gigantic
force has accomplished in a day the work
of a hundred men. The preparation of*
the crops for the market by the ancients
was almost eutiroly by hand. The water
wheel was not used till about one hun¬
dred years after Christ, amf wind mills
came into use in the eleventh century.
Tho seoood era of modern agriculture
dates from the great work of Professor
Liebig, ou “organic chemistry.’ Among
the original and striking-propositions of
this writer, based on careful analysis and
confirmed by universal adoption, wo would, 1
by way of illustration select the following:
He observes, “That to manure an acre of
land with forty pounds of bone dust is
sufficient to supply three crops of wheat,
clover, potatoes, turnips, etc., with phos¬
phates ; but the form in which they are
restored to the soil does not appear to be
a matter of indifference, for the more fine¬
ly the bones art: reduced to powder, and
the more ifttrtnately they are mixed with
the Soil the more easily they are assimila
ted. The most easy and practical mode
of effecting their division, is to pour over
the bones in the state of fine powder, half
0 f their weight of sulphuric acid diluted
w ith three or four pints of water." We
are also indebted to him for the discovery
and use of the mineral phosphates.
In fact, tho great impetus given to the
study of soils and manurialsubstanoes, the
development of the hidden principles of
vegetable life, the revelation of those se¬
crets of nature by which she olothes the
earth with verdure and supplies food to
man, must be traced mainly to the re¬
searches of this great German chemist.—
He has been succeeded by a host of fol¬
lowers, and the laboratory of nature where
her inmost forces ferment and combine,
has been explored by the bold genius of
modern investigation, ner innermost sc»
crets her intangible essences have been
evolved and the laws determined by which
they may be applied to give a deeper col¬
or to the grass, or greater size to the veg¬
etable, a more delicious flavor to the fruit,
and a more varied and delicate painting
to the flower.
Thus the purposes of the great Father
are bereg carried out, till the whole earth
shall become a smiling garden, a fit habi¬
tation of a higher, intellectual, physical
and spiritual development.
As an illustrative evidence of modern
improvement, it is estimated that the
wheat per acre, throughout England, is
four times as great as in the beginning of
the century. But it is not only necessa¬
ry that the student should elicit the meth¬
ods by which two blades shall be made to
grow where one grew before; that knowl¬
edge must be spread among the people,
with such authority and under such aus¬
pices aS’Will induce them to adopt what
arc liable to be stigmatized as the innova«
tions of “book farming.”
The conservatism of the rural popula¬
tion is the sheet anchor of nations. But,
like other virtues it may be carried to an
excess.
Of tbc many illustrations of the prejudi¬
ces of farmers which lasted from year to
year* and descended from father to son, I
g’ ve two > the one in ancieot the
other in modfern times—1 quote from Col¬
umella, a distinguished writer on agricul¬
ture, in tho better days of the Roman Em¬
pire : “After oxen got through plowing
and come home heated and tired, they
must have a little wine poured down their
throats, and after being fed a little, led out
to drink, the boy must whistlo to rnako
them.”
A modern illustration of this excessive
conservatism is found in the great difficul¬
ty experienced in introducing the iron
plow. Sir Robert Peel; in 1835, presen¬
ted two iron plows to a farmers’ club.—
Sonic time afterwards he found that the
use of the old wooden plow had been re¬
sumed. Upon bis inquiring as to the
cause, he received for answer • “Sir wc
have tried the iron, and bo of one mind,
that they make the weeds grow.”
A prejudice of the like oharaoter existed
against the first iron plow patented in
America by Charles Newbold, in 1797,
who speut thirty thousand dollars endeav¬
oring to introduce his invention, and was
obliged declaring to abandon “that the the attempt—tho plows far¬
mers iron pois¬
oned the soil and prevented the growth
of crops.”
One of the special purposes of agricul¬
tural societies should be the determina¬
tion, by experiment aud comparison, of
the best and cheapest manure for the va¬
rious soils and crops. Among the impor¬
ted and domestic fertilizers their number
and claims have become so great, and are
supported and urged by such high author¬
ity, that the farmer may well be puzsled
in his selection. What authority, at the
same time competent and entirely disiter
ested, shall determine for him what is
best suited for his' purpose ? Not the
merchant, for while he i& interested in the
sale of manure he has on hand, he is not
generally particularly familiar with all the
points bearing on tho question. Not his
neighbor, for it is notorious that, owiu» ma^
to a different, constitution of soils, tbs
nure which is highly beneficial to one
farm may have no effect upon a coutieu
ous ouc. It requires chemical analysis,
combined with tho observation and care
ful discrimination of the results of many
applications of the manure under varied
circumstances to determine what may piw
cisely suit a farm of a special location aud
peculiar The arable constituents of soil.
lands of tbc West terminate
at longitude 97°, about one hundred'miles
vrest of the great bend of the Missouri
Rive*, where Kansas and Leavenworth
City, worth are situated The City of Leaven
'ia about one thousand feet above ,
the level of the sea, and the land rises from ‘
this point to ihe base of the first range *of |
the Rocky Mountains, at an average rate t
of ascent of about five feet to the mile,'
gradually ascending from one thousand to
five thousand feet elevation. This great
AaierioAi platau is sandy, uowooded and
covered with but a sparse growth of grass.
Its great altitude, unsheltered by trees or ^ i
mountains, gives, an unimpeded *
sweep to
-»
the winds of winter, which howl over a
waste of snow and ice. It is subject in
which summer the to long continued drouth, during
grass beoomes so parched that
it will burn Wh'eh fire is set to it. Only
the river bottoms of the large rivers can
be cultivated, and they require a system
of irrigation which is laborious ind ex¬
pensive. Nine tenths of the soil is only
fit for pasturage, and can sustain but a
sparse tion, therefore population. The limit of immigra¬
to the culti ratable lands of
the West has been already attained. Its
lands are higher in the market than in the
fields of the South, with a finer climate, a
better soil, and greater accessibility, and a
much larger area unsettled. The impor¬
tance of this immigration is manifold. It
brings labor for the farm and the work
shop, special skill in the industrial arts,
gold for the purchase of land and the pro¬
ducts of manufacture. The immediate
result will be the rapid increase of every
product of industiy.
To be weak is to be dependent with in¬
dividuals and with nations. Immigration
will give us strength, both of numbers and
wealth. With strength, will come politi¬
cal influence and recognition, and the re¬
spect of Federal and State Governments.
In the census report of 1864, it appears
that the total number of immigrants to
the United States, from the year 1819 to
1860, was 4,000,000. Of this the num¬
ber absorbed by the Northern and West¬
ern States was 86 per cent., and by the
Southern but 13 per cent. In round num
bers, while the South received about 500,
000, the North had an accession of 3,500,
000. Each immigrant brought on *■> a.
erage per head 3100 in gold. This made
the increase of wealth to the South 352,
000,000, and to the North 3350,000,000.
In the year 1870 it is estimated that
•>- r 'i u?
Will be 42,000,000, of which we Will have
but 12,000,000, and the North 30,000,000.
With such a vast and continueing dispro
portion of population, mU9t it not have on
ly been a question of time as to how soon
the more powerful section would force up
on the weaker, political dogmas, which
had assumed the vehemence of religious
as well as |dW hU I» the trying
circumstances m which we are placed, we
should snatch every ray of consolation
and apply every consolation of philosophy
which we can glean from our aisasters.—
A genuine ground of congratulation may
be lound in the fact that this dispropor
tion of acquisition I think of foreign it labor be must
hereafter cease. may safely
predicted, that withina
amount West, if will flow exertion to tho Soufy is made than (he
There proper is for on our
part. room a vast increase.
The State of Massachusetts contains about
160 inhabitants to the square mile, with
a der comparatively inclement unproductive soil, and un
an sky. The Southern
States are capable of supporting a larger
population thickly per square mile. If Georgia
were as settled as Massachusetts,
she would have a population of over
9,000,000. Belgium, If she were as densely popu
lxted as she would contain
25,000,000 inhabitants. objections by small
Hut we are met with a
but highly respectable class, who do not
want an adulteration of our blood with a
foreign or northern clement. This is the
doctrine of stagnation and political death.
If it were possible to earry it out, it
would entail eternal weakness and depeud *
ence. Were it practicable to build a Chi¬
nese wall of exclusiow aloog the
frontier and seaboard of the Southern
States, in twenty-one years the population
of the North and West Would number
about 60,000,000, the white population of
the South about 8,000,000, exclusive of
Kentucky, Missouri and. Maryland. The
fears of the highly respectable reactionary
class are really unfounded. Transplant
Northern men to the soil of the South,
and will they not have as keen a sense of
their interest in latitude 30 to 35, as in
latitude 40 ? Hoes not our interest be¬
come theirs in all matters of legislative
and material progress ? A striking illus
tration of the influence of Southern asso¬
ciation upon Northern men, is found in
tbc fact that two of her great representa¬
tive men, names honored in every South¬
ern household—John A. Quitman and
SargcntS Prentis—were born and bred to
manhood in the North, before they emi¬
grated South, the York. one front Maine aud the
other from New
And in a more cosmopolitan view of
the question the mixture of bloods produ¬
ces great races. The Great English na¬
tion, the Romans of the nineteenth ecutury,
have a greater admixture of blood than
any race in Europe, least of all should we
object to the German element. The An¬
glo Saxon is of Teutonic decent, and the
breadth, solidity and homely sense, at the
basis of the English character, is derived
from the German. The highest offices of
the government have been held by Irish¬
men or their descendants, aud all our
great works illustrate the importance of
their labor.
T . , to , look . with . , feelings - of
“
.... ia * affection upon the past of the South,
**** , ot * c h »™frous, refined, hospitable,
rtlhar elcmont3 happy people. But the pe
of civilisation, under whose
P Mfisur ? “ was produced and fostered,
^ ave d^PP^rcd* never to return. The
tics w h,ch 1)00,1(1 thc ? lave 10 his master
are . The rich productions of
the ioil > *hich formerly enabled us to be
larisb * Q d generous in our expenditures,
D0W re 9 uite careful husbandry to secure
8U PP 0rt - Economy has become a synonym
for honesty.
Let us in our Heart of hearts cherish
the memory of our ancestry and vindicate
their fame;. but let us also imitate them
manhood. Let us act as the worthy sons
of heroic sires. They would, scorn us if
we folded our arms smid. the wsecks which
surround that us, sud only sighed for a “Past
cannet come again. Let us catch
the full inspiration of the present, and de
build termine with this strong and willing hands to
History up glorioua heritage of freeuicn.
Let rings that with our gallant determined dead*.—
us prove we can be
and energetic in fields of peaeefal labor as'
on the field of battle .—General Wm. S
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Morvell House.
T JL* VNCHBURG, Va. A J HOLT &BRO.
may 1-5- Proprietors.
FURNITURE
or ALL DESCRIPTIONS, AT
PLATT brothers,
(Formerly C. A. Platt & Co.,)
214 Broad St. Augusta, Ga.,
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\\J IS have and are constantly roceiving tlis
ff best assortment of FURNITURE that,
has ever been in this market, consisting, of
Rosewood and Mahogany Parlor Suits,
Chamber Suits, Cottage Suits.
Bedsteads, Chairs, Sofas, Tele-Tetc,
Centre Tables, Bureaus, Sideboards, Extension
Tables, of all lengths.
We particularly call the attention of purchas¬
ers to our SOLID WALNUT CHAMBER
SUITS for Beauty, Durability and Cheapness,
OUR MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT
Is still in operation. Special orders, will be
promptly attended to. Repairs done in ail its
branches.
UPHOL8TKR1NG DEPARTMENT.
HAIR CLOTH, ENAMELED CLOTH, REPS’,
TERRY and SPRINGS, and all articles .suita¬
ble for Manufacturers, which we offer at Low
Prices.
WINDOW SHADES
style ,4 lf\rge and stock pattern, of WINDOW from the SHADES, Cheapest of/every the
Finest, with all New tp
the Style Fixtures.
UNDERTAKER’S DEPARTMENT.
Superintended by a competent man. COFFINS
of all Descriptions and Quality, METALIC
CASES and CASKETS of the .most improved
styles, furnished at all hours during the
Day or Night.
Umjertakers can be supplied with all kinds
Trimmers. may 2—ly
W .II .WARREN, A .J.LANK, J.W. WALLACE
Augusta, Hancock Co, Augusta,
Wiirreii. Lane & €o.
(Successors to W Henry Warren & Co.)
Oiottoii D 1 actors,
WA It A 11 OUSE A N V
ommission Merchants,
185 and 177 Broad Street,
AUGUSTA, GEC’ GIA; ,
CASH ADVANCES t made on shipments of
Cotton to New York and Liverpool
We are agents for Georgia and South Caro
inn for the celebrated
Kettlewell’s
Obcr’s PlioHfiliate
and tho ARROW TIE and Patent Iron B»nd?
for Bailing Cotton.
The interests of the firm will be re pre¬
sented in Hancock county by J. CLARENCE
SIMMONS, Esq., of Sparta. W., L.
aug 1G 3 m
NEW GOODS!
i
COthern & Watkins,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE AND FANCY
AND
GROCERIES,
e L 0 T H I j\ G
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Etc.
HARDWIRE. CUTLER!.
Crockery and Glassware?
Saddles & Bridies.
IVOODWABSL,
Tobacco, Segars,&c*
T-T
LAMPS S LAMP CHUMS.
fPOGETJlElt wiih all otlie#’articles usually
A kept in this market.
Our stock js constantly recruited by the ar¬
rival of. FRESH GOODS, direct from the bcsl
market.
Wc will sell as cheap for CASH as any house
can afford to f COTHERN & WATKINS.
may 7—tf Sparta, Gu.
THE SECOND VOLUME.
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IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
A.T SPARTA
AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY
cco ted to Politics, Notes, Agriculture, Ac.'
Term* y per annum,
ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
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jgSgr arc prepared to execute orders' for 1
all binds eff v
PLAIN JOB PKINTINGv
AT SHORT NOTICE.
Premium Wood Type..
J. G. COOLEY’S
PKIATEKs warehouse
75 Fulton street, New \ urk.
JfctT’J Yood ^ Type oj Every Detcription*^$}
Specimen Book and Price List on applies'
(i on as above, or to Geo P Rowell & Co, Ad
vertising Agents, 40 Park Row, New York.
Jarrntt’s Hotel-* Petersburg, Va.
T^HIL F BROWN, Proprietor, located at the
Xf depot, Only first class he*c!in thcciiy