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to sell for the same price and bring as much 

 rent. 



But do his positions, and the inferences 

 which may be fairly drawn from them, accord 

 with facts as they exist in nature '.' are the 

 drifting sands of the sea shore, equal in per- 

 manent fertility to the fat clays and loams of 

 a limestone valley? or the most sterile hill 

 of New England to the rich prairies of the 

 West ] That is, can each be made and kept 

 productive, at the same expense — because 

 after all we can say on the subject, that is 

 the test — the point which most concerns the 

 practical farmer, and until this can be shown, 

 it will be in vain to attempt to prove by any 

 other test, that all soils are equally good and 

 valuable. On the contrary, is there not a 

 regular gradation from the most fertile and 

 easily managed soil, to that which will 

 scarcely repay the expense of manuring and 

 cultivation. And does not the experience of 

 every practical farmer enable him, in some 

 measure, to make the distinction, although 

 the mysterious something which causes the 

 difference, cannot be detected by the analysis 

 of agricultural chemistry. 



Our author seems to be aware that the 

 principles he lays down are contrary to the 

 geological doctrines of the times, and well 

 he may be ; but he does not seem to be aware 

 that in the broad way in which they are 

 stated, they are also contrary to facts — a 

 matter of much greater consequence. That 

 they are so, or at least that they arc inappli- 

 cable to large portions of our country, I shall 

 hereafter attempt to show. S. Lewis. 



Pottsvillc, Sep. 23d, 1844. 



Improvement in South Carolina. 



The following extract is from an Address, delivered 

 by J. B. O'Neall, before the South Carolina State Agri- 

 cultural Society, in the 9th month last.— Ed. 



Look calmly on the things around you. 

 Your cotton is becoming annually a less val- 

 uable crop. Something in the cotton grow- 

 ing country must in part supply its place. 

 May not economy stand us in great stead in 

 this point of view ] And will not the culti- 

 vation of provision crops, for which the rice 

 growing country and the towns of tlie sea- 

 board will furnish a ready market, further 

 eke out our wants'! I have not a doubt, if 

 all of South Carolina above the first falls in 

 our great rivers, would become essentially 

 a farming and manufacturing country, we 

 might, in a few- years, vie with even New 

 England. To accomplish this, it is necessary 

 that the whole resources of our State should 

 be understood, as well as her industry pro- 

 perly applied. The Geological and Agricul- 



tural Survey has in part, and will, I hope, 

 fully develope them. All the region of coun- 

 try covered by York, Spartanburg, Union, 

 Laurens, Greenville, Pickens, Anderson and 

 the upper part of Abbeville, might be essen- 

 tially improved by the lime which can be 

 obtained from the immense quarries of lime- 

 stone to be found in York, Spatanbuig and 

 Laurens. To the farmers of the beautiful 

 section of Carolina to which allusion has been 

 made, the lime will afford incalculable riches, 

 when its application to soils and crops comes 

 to be properly understood. Through the Ag- 

 ricultural Survey and the Agricultural Socie- 

 ties, this information will be obtained and dis- 

 seminated. My belief is, that in the section 

 of country to which I have alluded, the lime- 

 stone existing within it, is more than enough 

 to restore its original fertility, and probably 

 to increase it tenfold. To you, then, brother 

 farmers of the Mountain Districts of South 

 Carolina, there seems to be no ordinary stim- 

 ulant to excite your industry and direct 

 your efforts to improvement. The earth 

 points to her own bosom, and tells you 

 from it to obtain that which will clothe your 

 fields with abundance, and fill yours coffers 

 with a more certain wealth than the mines 

 of Mexico or Peru. 



A Receipt for making Coffee. 



" Make a strong infusion of Mocha, or 

 Bourbon coffee; put it in a porcelain 

 bowl, sugar it properly, and add to it an 

 equal portion of boiled milk, or one third the 

 quantity of a rich cream. Surround the bowl 

 with pounded ice." Doctor Bonafous, of 

 Perpignan, recommended this beverage to 

 such persons as had lost- their appetite, or 

 who experienced general debility. This 

 agreeable epicurean, one day said to a pati- 

 ent. Dr. Roques, who was himself in the 

 profession, "study, my friend, that which is 

 good, that which pleases your palate. Try 

 to become a little _/?-i«?KZ, commence a series 

 of gastronomic experiments without infring- 

 ing a regimen. Y^ou will be the better for 

 it, and in certain circumstances you will ex- 

 ercise on sickly people inclined to govrmrm- 

 dize, an unlimited power. Breakfast, during 

 July, August, and a part of September, on 

 iced coffee, and, in winter, on woodcock soup. 

 This is a regimen with which I restored to 

 health and sense an aged canon who had 

 nearly lost all appetite, and who was disgust- 

 ed with life."- — Fruzer^s Masnzine. 



We should do quickly that which does 

 not press, in order to do slowly that which 

 does press. 



