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zeal for improvement had been awakened; and, 

 notwithstanding a partial failure of the crops of 

 the State, through Providential visitations, the re- 

 sources of our people are considerably increased ; 

 emigration has ceased, and immigration has com- 

 menced ; the price of lands has rapidly advanced ; 

 our schools and colleges are crowded to over- 

 flowing; so that it may probably be said with 

 truth that Virginia has now, in proportion to popu- 

 lation, more youths in a course of thorough edu- 

 cation, than any other State in the Union. Over 

 these beneficent results, in part at least to be attri- 

 buted, to the success of our Society, we have just 

 cause to rejoice. The close of another year finds 

 us on the eve of a still grander exhibition. With 

 our grounds greatly enlarged and improved, a most 

 liberal premium list, zealous preparations for an 

 extensive exhibition, and a vast throng of our en- 

 lightened farmers in attendance from every part of 

 the Commonwealth, numbering thousands beyond 

 those present on the former occasion, we have every 

 reason to expect a most brilliant and attractive 

 spectacle. With these cheering evidences in the 

 past, how can we doubt our future success. Let 

 the farmers of Virginia come up to the annual ex- 

 hibitions with their votive offerings, forgetting all 

 local and party distinctions, remembering that they 

 have a common* home and a common destiuy, and 

 cordially and harmoniously cooperating in our glo- 

 rious cause, and the beneficent effects of our labors 

 will descend to distant generations, aad our latest 

 posterity will have cause to bless the day that in- 

 augurated the Virginia State Agricultural Society. 



PAYMENTS TO THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, 



To the 2Slh of November, 1854. 



All persons who have made payments early enough to 

 be entered, and whose names do not appear in the following 

 receipt list, are requested to give immediate notice of the 

 omission, in order that the correction may be made in the 

 next issue : 



J. L. Campbell to June 1856 $3 00 



A. D. Campbell to July 1855 4 00 



James L. Ransone to November 1855 1 00 



Charles L. Christian to September 1855 1 00 



William Hocker to September 1855 2 00 



George Hocker to January 1855 1 00 



Thomas T. Bouldin to July 1856 5 00 



Thomas P. Crawford to August 1855 1 00 



William H. Campbell to January 1856 1 00 



H. Harrison to July 1855 1 00 



John J. Lackland to January 1855 1 00 



John Selden to July 1855 3 00 



S. W. Lackland to April 1855 1 00 



A. B. Duncan to July 1855 1 00 



J. M. Ragsdale to January 1856 5 00 



R. H. Mason to September 1855 1 00 



Obed Hussey to January 1855 5 00 



William P. Dickinson to November 1855 1 00 



Richard Irby (2 copies) to July 1855 2 00 



William Irby to July 1855 1 00 



J. H. Dobbin to January 1854 1 00 



Joseph L. Barrow to July 1854 1 00 



R. L. Hurt to November 1855 1 00 



H. C. Williams to July 1855 1 00 



Col. B. H. Barnes to July 1855 1 00 



Dr. Thomas H. Clagett to July 1855 1 00 



Thomas C. Reeks to September 1855 1 00 



John R. Walker to November 1855 1 00 



William Hughes to July 1854 SI 00 



Marcus Durrett to July 1854 1 00 



N. Luf borough to July 1856 4 00 



J. W. A. Saunders to January 1855 1 00 



William Morton to May 1855 1 00 



Albert McDaniel to January 1856 2 00 



Dr. A. Dold to August 1854 1 00 



Capt. R. Jennings to January 1855 6 00 



John S. Cowherd to January 1855 2 00 



Edward T. Tayloe to January 1856 2 0)3 



Vincent Phillips to January 1856 2 00 



Joseph A. Earley to November 1855 . 1 00 



W. L. Earley to January 1855 3 00 



Isaac N. Baxter to September 1855 2 00 



Henry J. Harris to July 1855 1 00 



Richard Green to November 1855 1 00 



R. A. Banks to January 1855 1 00 



J. M. Fray to July 1855 1 00 



Thomas D. Edmunds to January 1855 1 00 



Richard V. Watkins to July 1855 1 oO 



John F. Miller to January 1856 3 00 



William Maxey to January 1856 1 00 



George Johnson to November 1855 1 00 



Thomas S. Henry to September 1855 1 00 



James J. White to January 1856 4 00 



H. B. White to January 1856 1 00 



Wm. M. Hannah to January 1856 1 00 



George W. Turner to September 1855 1 00 



J. R. Mann to January 1856 1 00 



Dr. J. P. Tabb to January 1855 2 00 



J. L. Deans to January 1856 2 00 



Capt. C. Breckenridge to January 1856 1 00 



J. W. Anderson to November 1855 1 00 



H. M. Bowyer to June 1855 3 00 



Wm. E. Gaskins to January 1856 1 50 



Col. Joseph Tulley to November 1855 1 00 



R. K. Fitzhugh to July 1855 2 00 



L. W. Rose to January 1855 1 00 



John Ruff, Sr. to June 1855 2 00 



John G. Lane to November 1855 1 00 



W. H. E. Merritt to July 1855 1 00 



George W. Pettit to September 1855 1 00 



James E. Harris to September 1855 1 00 



E. B. Jones to January 1856 1 00 

 C. R. Christopher to March 1854 1 00 

 B. C. Jones to January 1856 1 00 

 Sharpe Carter to January 1855 2 00 



B. A. Donald to November 1856 2 00 

 Samuel B. Finley to July 1855 1 00 

 Sterling C. Anderson to January 1856 1 00 

 L. Campbell to January 1855 2 00 

 Ethelbert Le Grand to November 1855 1 00 

 R. H. Cunningham to June 1855 1 00 

 Jeremiah Morton to June 1855 2 00 



C. J. Meriweather to May 1855 1 00 

 George S. Ayre to January 1855 2 00 

 James B. Newman to September 1855 1 00 

 J. B. Lasley to July 1855 2 00 



F. W. Smith to January 1856 2 00 

 T. F. Nelson to November 1855 1 00 

 Dr. B. P. Morriss to September 1855 1 00 

 Harvey Handley to April 1855 1 00 

 Thomas A. Hardy to January 1855 1 00 

 Ed. H. Herbert to January 1855 1 00 

 N. A. Holeman to September 1855 3 00 

 H. II. Peck to December 1855 1 00 

 Col. George C. Robertson to September 1855 3 00 

 James S. Walrond to January 1855 1 00 

 Maj. J. B. White to July 1855 4 00 

 Col. G. Moseley to January 1855 1 00 

 George W. Bassett to January 1857 10 00 

 David La Prado to October 1855 1 00 

 James Roy Micou to January 1855 3 00 



