No. 6. 



Farmer''s Magazine. 



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ing feelings unfriendly to the interests of 

 the Southern States. Very erroneous im- 

 pressions have heen propagated in regard to 

 us, by means of extracts and garbled state- 

 ments made by those who have never seen 

 our work, in which it is explicitly stated 

 from whence the article was taken. Where 

 we are personally known, we entertain no 

 fear of being in the least suspected by 

 Southern men of any desire to do the South 

 the least injustice. To show, however, what 

 little foundation really exists for accusations 

 against us, we think it proper to state, that 

 tlie article which has been complained of, 

 was written several years since, and origi- 

 nally published in the American Journal of 

 Geology, by a Snulhern mun, born and edu- 

 cated "in South Carolina, and largely inte- 

 rested in Alabama and Mississippi property, 

 in both which States he has spent much of 

 his life. 



The position sought to be maintained by 

 tliis able and unprejudiced inquirer, is, that 

 "the cultivated plants yield the greatest 

 products near the northernmost limit in 

 which they will grow." He has certainly 

 argued the point with great ingenuity and 

 plausibility, but whether his data are all in- 

 variably correct, we will not take upon our- 

 selves to assert, not wishing, at present, to 

 argue the subject. The author is abun- 

 dantly capable of taking care of himself, 

 should he feel called upon to do so. But 

 we do not think it likely that he will conde- 

 scend to notice all the communications 

 which have been, or may be made upon the 

 subject through different journals, some of 

 which are from persons possessed of marvel- 

 lous faculties for discovering treason where 

 this or any other offence was never dreamed 

 of. The question affords an interesting topic 

 for discussion in journals devoted to agricul- 

 ture and natural science. 



Editor of F. Encyclopedia. 



Philadelphia, Oct. IGth, 1843. 



Cottou Crop, «&c. 



Ingloside, Adams co., Miss., Oct. 26th, 1843. 



To THE Editor of the F. Cabinet, — 

 Sir: I write you on the eve of our Agricul- 

 tural Fall Fair — the rain falling in torrents 

 — a steady, cold, right-in-earnest sort of rain 

 — roads knee deep — and the ground so com- 

 pletely saturated with water, that even if it 

 cleared off to-night, which there is a possi- 

 bility of its doing, with frost, we could have 

 no comfort at our Fair. It is much to be 

 regretted, as there was every assurance of 

 a most interesting and very full meeting. I 

 presume we shall have a postponement for a 

 few days — long enough for the weather to 



moderate, and the roads to become good 

 again. 



December 6th. — A long interval — I found 

 this letter in my desk unfinished, and now 

 take it up to close it. 



Our P'air was postponed a few days, and 

 came oft' well — one of the most interesting 

 meetings we have ever had. I sent you full 

 reports in the "Concordia Intelligencer."* 



We have had, and still have, one of the 

 most ruinous seasons imaginable for the 

 planter. Almost incessant rains, heavy wind 

 and frequent great changes in the temper- 

 ature. We have only very recently had a 

 frost severe enough to injure the cotton, but 

 the rains and warm, close weather, had al- 

 ready wound it up. Few in this region 

 will gather over half a crop ; and those who 

 like myself, have considerable quantities of 

 cotton yet ungathefed, and who thought 

 themselves favoured, will be very little 

 benefited, as the seeds are sprouting in the 

 bowls. Where the 2,000,000 of bales are 

 to come from, which it was thought the pre- 

 sent crop would amount to, I never could 

 imagine ; and now I do not believe the crop 

 wilfreach 1600,000. 



So the editor of Carey & Lea's edition of 

 the Farmer's Encyclopedia, thinks that the 

 author of the article copied by you from that 

 Encyclopedia, on the Influence of Climate 

 on tiie Fruitfuliiess of Plants, can take care 

 of himself, if he loill condescend to do so ! 

 I, for one, must disagree with him — I think 

 it impossible for Mr. Featherstonhaugh, or 

 Dr. Emerson, or both of them, to prove one 

 half of the assertions made in the article in 

 question. 



Yours truly and respectfully, 



Thomas Affleck. 



John Belton O'Neal, states in the South- 

 ern Agriculturist, published at Charleston, 

 S. C, under date of August, 1842, that in 

 December previous, he "sowed a small quan- 

 tity of wheat for Col. Peter Hair. It was 

 sown in cotton ground. The greater part 

 of the seed was rolled in wet lime, so as to 

 encrust the seed ; as far as that extended, 

 there was not the least smut. Three or four 

 lands were sown with the seed, without being 

 rolled with lime, and they were full of smut. 

 This little experiment goes far to show, that 

 lime is an antidote to smut." 



The number of eggs imported into Eng- 

 land from various parts of the Continent, 

 for the year ending January 5th, 1839, was 

 83,74.5,723, and the gross amount of duty 

 received for the same, was £29,111. 



* This paper has not been received.— Ed. 



