1836.] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



335 



There are other small matters not so intimately I John Janney, Esq. tlie following resolutions were 

 connected perhaps with success in farming as those { unanimously adopted 



we have hinted above, yet which are equally, and 

 perhaps more indispensable to the real comfort of 

 the farmer. The mode of life which a man leads 

 in his (amily — the manner in which the articles 

 he provides for the use of his family are dis- 

 posed of— the trainintj and education of the chil- 

 dren — and the taste he acquires ami cultivates, 

 may be numbered among these. Separately they 

 are too generally considered of little conseiiuence, 

 yet united as their influence is, and must be, to be 

 right in these things is very important. 



The appearance of the larni dwelling, the skill 

 shown m planning, ami the ta^te in embellishing, 

 are often ranked among the small matters of the 

 farmer. Too many seem to unaginc, that the 

 farmer has no business with any thing but the 

 plough and the hoe — that it is of no consequence 



1st. Resolved, as the sense of this meetino-, 

 That it is highly expedient and proper to aid and 

 ciicoumge the introduction and culture of silk 

 within the county of Loudoun. 



2J. Resolved, That as a means of accomplish- 

 ing this object, the Board of Overseers oi'the Poor 

 of Loudoun be, and they are hereby requested to 

 take such steps as they may deem expedient, to 

 establish a mulberry orchard, upon the poor- 

 house farm of (his county, upon such a scale as to 

 them may seem advisable and necessary. 



3d. Resolved, That the Chairman of this meet- 

 ing do forward a copy of the proceedings hereof, 

 to the President of the board of the overseers of 

 poor, with a request that he will submit them to 

 the consideration of that body. 



4th. Resolved, That the respective editors of 



whether his taste, and his moral and intellectual ; newspapers in the town of Leesburg, be request 



qualites are properly cultivated and trained, forget- 

 ting that in the farming population resides the go- 

 vernment — that they in reality make and unmake 

 governors and presidents — and that as they arc 

 \vell or ill-inli)rmed, so will their conduct be judi- 

 cious or injurious. 



Planting a tree for ornament or for use — a rose 

 bush for its fragrance and its beauty — the lilac and 

 the snowball for their agreeable appearance — the 

 bed of strawberries for the gratification of the pal- 

 ate — the training the clematis or the bitter-sweet 

 over the windows, to temper the light and refresh 

 the mind by their vivid green and waving foliage, 

 are all ranked among the small matters by many 

 farmers, and the few minutes required to accom- 

 plish all this, is deemed by such time thrown away. 

 On the contrary, we think these very things as of 

 great consequence ; every tree and shrub planted 

 adds to the value of the farm, for there are few 

 men so insensible to natural beauty as not to be 

 willing, in purchasing a farm, to pay something 

 extra for its gratification ; and no idea of agricul- 

 tural comfort can be formed, in which some, or all 

 of these things, do not make part. Wealth is 

 composed of parts of dollars — the longest life of 

 seconds — happiness of single sensations — and the 

 prosperity of" the farmer very much depends on 

 the strict observance of small matters. Dr. Frank- 

 lin's advice was to take care of the pence, and the 



cd to publish the above proceedings. 



CuTHKEKT Powell, Chairman. 

 Thomas M. Colston, Secretary. 



[Wc rejoice to see, in the above resolutions, a 

 movement on the plan which we have before recom- 

 mended, and still consider one of the safest grounds on 

 which to commence silk culture in Virginia. Each of 

 our county and town poor-house establishments fur- 

 nishes enough of land, labor, superintendence and ca- 

 pital, for this pupose. Let this most suitable direction 

 be given (and in proper manner,) to their now wasted 

 means, and poor houses might perhaps cease to be nui- 

 sances — expensive, not only of public money, but 

 of the labor and morals of tlie most destitute class of 

 society.] 



From the Farmers' Magazine of 1812. 



ON THE DIFFERENCE IN THE EFFECT OF DUNG 



UPON DIFFERENT SOILS AND UPON THE 



SAME LAND BEFORE AND AFTER IT HAS 



BEEN LIMED. 



[ The following communication is from the aged and 



venerable farmer who has been sometimes honored, 



and not undeservedly, by the name of the " Father of 



pounds, as a matter course, would take care of j Scottish Husbandry "—and it deserves attention, not 



themselves. 



G. 



From tlie Genius of Liberty. 

 SILK CULTURE PROPOSED IN LOUDOUN. 



At a meeting of sundry citizens of the county 

 of Loudoun, assembled in pursuance of notice, in 

 the Court House, on the 8th day of August, for 

 the purpose of considering the means of uitro- 

 ducing the culture of Silk in said county — on mo- 

 tion, Cuthbert Powell, Esq. was caMed to the 

 Chair, and Thomas M. Colston appointed Secre- 

 tary. 



The object of the meeting was explained by H. 

 B. Powell, Esq. in a brief and forcible manner, 

 and further supported by some striking statements 

 from the Hon. Chas. Fenton Mercer and S. B. T. 

 Caldwell, Esq. illustrating the great facility of 

 culture, and the large profits resulting therefrom. 

 When on motion of H. B. Powell, Esq. and 



only for the truth and value of the opinions it conveys, 

 but for the novelty and rareness of their appearance. 

 So far as we know, this is the only instance, before the 

 first publication of the Essay on Calcareous Manures, 

 (and this was not known until after that publication.) 

 of its being maintained by any book, or writer, that 

 natural poor soils cannot be profitably and durably en- 

 riched by dung alone, until after they have been limed. 

 The deductions from Mr. Dawson's statements accord 

 entirely with the opinions maintained in the work re- 

 ferred to, as to the effects of manure on poor soils. 



The concise memoir of Dawson, which will follow, 

 is from a later volume of the same work, (in 1815) 

 published after his death.] 



That dung produces much greater effect upon 

 good than upon bad land, when in tillage, is ge- 

 nerally known, though not so fully attended to as 

 it ought to be; but the difference in its effects upon 



