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that amount of capital to the wealth of the country. The 

 individual wealth of citizens has no beneficial tendency upon 

 the people of the nation, the contrary being the general effect. 

 To the general prosperity alone can we attribute national 

 greatness. 



When our small farmers become impressed with the neces- 

 sity of cultivating their lands properly, and tilling them like 

 gardens, they will soon render themselves independent of the 

 fluctuations of the markets and the times, and to all such we 

 say, take your poorest acres, manure at least one, and, if you 

 can, every one, plough deep, and bestow as much labor on one- 

 half the number of acres you now cultivate as you do upon 

 all, and before a young man grows old, he will own a farm 

 which will be a credit to his industry, and a rich legacy to 

 his children. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



WM. SUMMER, Chairman. 

 Pomaria, S. C. 



SECTION VI. EEPORT TO THE UNION (S. C.) AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY ON COTTON. 



THE Committee on Cotton beg leave to make the following 

 report : That the cultivation of cotton has so long engaged 

 the attention of the country aided by all the sagacity of in- 

 terest as one of the leading staples of the State, that it would 

 be very difficult to advance anything new or instructive ; but 

 that the remarks which they propose to make, must neces- 

 sarily be general and trite. They would remark in the first 

 instance, on the importance of procuring the best seed. Ex- 

 perience has established the fact, that the quality of any 

 article of produce may be improved by care in the selection 



