TO CORRESPONDENTS. JUDICIOUS PREMIUM, &C. 335 



TO CORRE.t'PON'DENT.'?. 



Our " FricnJ " in Richmond has put us to the trouble of looking back to see how it could be 



that we had used the phrase '• one L ;" and we are glad to find that he is mistaken. The 



language is, that a passenger in the stage answered that the farm belonged to a Mr. L. It is quite 

 obvious that anything but disrespect was meant. 



The Address did not come to hand. We should, doubtlcs.s, be much graliliod and edified in 

 reading it. The well-known talents of the author give a.ssurance of that ; but we arc compelled 

 to forego the publication of addresses generally, for there are as many delivered and offered as 

 would fill the whole journal. We have been long desirous of publishing an extract, at least, from 

 one of the ablest and most useful, in a practical view, that we have seen for many a day, by 

 Fka.vkli.s' Minor, Esq. If we have publiabod our own, it was in no spirit of vanity, but because 

 we have taken occasion of these invitations to deliver addresses to say only what we had desired, 

 and, with little variation of language, should have said editorially, in any event. 



We have an Address, sent expressly for original publication in The Fau.vikrs' Libkarv, de 

 livcred lately at Woodville, Mississippi. The style is captivating and beautiful, and we should 

 be unaffectedly gratified in publishing as we have been in perusing it; but, after all, it is but an 

 exhortation, in glowing and eloijuent language, to the farmers of that region, to contemplate the 

 various proiluctions of Xaturc, and to learn from them to diversify their crops — to lessen the quan- 

 tity of cotton, and to make more of other things. As a beautiful specimen of composition, the 

 friend who sent it cannot more admire it than we do; but the (jucstion is. whellier we can yield 

 pix precious pages to its insertion. 



The source of our deepest and most frequent mortification is the reluctan<:,o with which we lay 

 aside so many admirable addresses, and so much of other matter, that we would gladly spread 

 before our readers. Several have been lately delivered in South Carolina, that we should like 

 much to see — one especially, recommending the culture of ihe olive, and which, we suppose, will 

 have been published in the Southern Cultivator, but it is our misfortune lately not to receive that 

 very able paper. When we can't publish an address, we must endeavor to make extracts. Dr. 

 Bayne's is an excellent one — but were that published it might be ascribed to improper considera- 

 tions. 



A .lUDICIOUS PREMIUM.— The flighl;uid aiid Agricultural Society of Scotland have 

 offered a premium of a silver medal to the beat shee^-shearer, in each of the disti-icts in 

 which llie Society's or local premiums for sheep are in operation. There is nothing ia 

 which there is more of what is called sleight-of-hand than in sheep-shearing. The whole 

 economy of sheep husbandry is little understood iuid badly Ibllowed in a greac portion of 

 the United States. How msmy sheep will an expert shepherd shear iu a day ? How would 

 this operation be accomplished in case of veiy large flocks, say flocks of 10,000. which some 

 have contemplated in Te.vas and elsewhere ? 



t^* We entreat our friends throughout the coiuitry to opes) and encom-age discussion on 

 the rights of Agriculture, above all interests, to instruction out of the public means. Let 

 discussion be opened in the local papers, and memorials gotten up to the Legislatures of 

 States — more especially is this the duty of Agricu/lural Clubs and Societies and Insti- 

 tutes. Now let us see whether any heed will be paid to this matter of plain, obvious, and 

 almost incalculable importance. As we have elsewhere !<aid, if a man's son unluckily fall 

 and break his leg, lie employs the best surgical aid to have it set right and straight. Is it 

 not equally the dntj of us all to do what we can to keep the minds of the rising generatioa 

 of cultivators of the soil from all the feeblene.>s and defonnitj- which can be prevented by 

 instruction in the arts and sciences that may enligliten them in the prosecution of the pursuit 

 by which they are to Uve or starve : 

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