No. 9. 



Editorial Notices. 



295 



"The progress of improvement in agriculture," says 

 the Commissioner, " though gradual, is yet steady. The 

 importance of this branch of industry, is beginning 

 to be more and more appreciated. The whole country 

 is more or less interested in it, as it furnishes, besides 

 what is consumed at home, at least three-fourths of 

 all the exports of the United States." The feel inn-, 

 with reference to the silk culture, is said to be settling 

 down on a more assured basis. "While some, remem- 

 bering only the days of the morns multicaulis specula- 

 tion, smile, and turn with incredulity from its very 

 mention, others have learned to discriminate between 

 the solid and the imacinary, and are realizing, if not 

 the golden dreams of past years, at least a fair profit," 

 from which they are indisposed to be turned aside, even 

 by the ridicule of their neighbours. 



Very favourable results are reported from different 

 quarters, of imperfect experiments made for the pur- 

 pose of ascertaining, whether, sugar could really be 

 made with any probability of profit, from the corn- 

 stalk. Indeed Professor Mapes, of New York, throws 

 out an idea of the possibility, that the corn-stalk may 

 eventually prove superior even to the sugar cane ! But 

 this we trust, need not alarm the great possessor of 

 the Louisiana cane-brake. 



The importance of the manufacture of lard oil, too, 

 and the various purposes to which it is applied, claim 

 an interesting notice in the Report. Some calcula- 

 tions that are given in relation to this subject, show 

 that we are hardly aware of its magnitude. To the 

 West, particularly, where hogs may be raised almost 

 without limit, and with very little expense, it would 

 seem as if the new purposes to which lard is to be ap- 

 propriated, may open a demand for it, of such an ex- 

 tent, as we have now no idea of. A single firm in St. 

 Louis, has worked up, in four months, more than 

 18,000 bushels of castor beans, yielding nearly as many 

 gallons of oil, worth $50 per barrel. It appears among 

 the possibilities of our day, that should a market be 

 opened to us, the export of oil, pork, and lard, may 

 become equal to that of cotton, our heaviest staple. 



Thus, it would seem — to use the language of our 

 brother editor, of the Farmer's Register, — " as one great 

 production of our country declines in value, it is con- 

 fidently anticipated that others, the culture of which 

 is equally practicable, and no less profitable, will be 

 gradually introduced." We know not how better to 

 conclude these remarks, than in the language of the 

 Commissioner: "That country which produces beef 

 and pork to most advantage, and especially if wheat 

 is also added, must excel in Agricultural profits." 



Bv a private letter from Petersburg, Va., of the 14th 

 nit;, we learn that "our friend, E. RufKn," late editor 

 of the Farmer's Register, " is in South Carolina, ac- 

 tively engaged in the duties of his appointment. No 

 situation could suit him better; for he is a warm ad- 

 mirer of that State, and the chief object of the agri- 

 cultural Survey, is to develope its marl resources. He 

 will doubtless confer great benefits on the South, by 

 the energy and completeness with which he will dis- 

 charge his duties. Every thing connected with marl, 

 has irresistible attractions for him." 



We gather from the Southern Agriculturist, that on 



the Cooper— the Ashley, and indeed on nearly all the 

 rivers of the State, and far in the interior, inexhausti- 

 ble beds of marl have been, or will be discovered. And 

 in a letter from Edmund Riifiin to the editor of the 

 Charleston Mercury, he shows his opinion of the value 

 of the South Carolina marl, by recommending an im- 

 mediate and free use of it by the farmers. He says, 

 "every acre marled this year, will, by its effects shown, 

 probably induce the marling of 20 the next, and 100 the 

 year after." Indeed we shall be disappointed if the 

 use of marl in the Southern States, does not open a 

 new era in Southern agriculture. 



" HISTORY OF THE GREAT REFORMATION 

 Of the sixteenth century, in Germany, Switzerland, 

 etc., by J. H. Merle D'Aubigne, President of the 

 Theological School at Geneva, and member of the 

 ' Societe Evangelique.' Published by James M. Camp- 

 bell, 98 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia," in one vol. 

 octavo., and at the very low price of one dollar, in 

 fancy cloth. 



This volume, which has been handed us by the pub- 

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 tractive, within the last few days. 



To achieve great results by imperceptible means, is 

 one law of the Divine Economy; and our author has 

 brought before us a strong illustration of this truth, 

 in the gradual, but almost unperceived workings of 

 those great principles of the Reformation, which he 

 has traced, we believe, with great fidelity, and cer- 

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 tion t<, the reader. While we feel disposed to demur 

 a little at the impression left upon the mind in rela- 

 tion to the character of Erasmus,— and particularly 

 that part of it which leads us to believe that " in him, 

 Christianity was second to learning," we are delighted 

 with the writer's description of the life and character, 

 and labours of Luther. It cannot fail to rivet the at- 

 tention, when once the subject is got hold of: "the 

 high priest of Christendom, as he speaks from the bal- 

 cony of his Basilica," is not a personage of higher im- 

 port, than "the monk of Wittemberg," who is ope- 

 rating in the heart, and amidst the forests of Ger- 

 many. 



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