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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



[September 



appear to great advantage in contrast with 

 most of the Republicans. 



Greeley to Senator Wilson. 



Remarks. — We publish the foregoing en- 

 dorsement of the agricultural press, by Horace 

 Greeley, not because within the line of our 

 calling, but because we believe it. It has 

 been a well settled conviction of our minds 

 for a long time, that the agricultural press of 

 the country, with its weekly and monthly is- 

 sues, teaming with all that is suggestive, in- 

 structive, or useful, opening as it does a 

 ready channel of inquiry between all the 

 reading farmers of the State or nation, be- 

 comes a more direct and efficient agent of 

 thought, action, and progress than any other 

 one or a dozen instrumentalities that can be 

 mentioned. 



Still, we are aware that it is an opinion 

 not generally entertained. We have often 

 heard Governors in their messages, and law- 

 yers in their agricultural addresses, talk 

 learnedly of other great agencies, in the way 

 of agricultural schools, &c, &c, that were 

 advancing the agricultural world, and at the 

 same time wholly ignore the great agricultu- 

 ral press of the country, as entirely as if it 

 did not exist at all. All very natural, to be 

 sure, as such men seldom read anything but 

 political papers, still they are employed as 

 expounders in agriculture, not because they 

 know anything about it, but merely because 

 they can talk, (so can a parrot, if some one 

 will put the uprds into its mouth.) 



The agricultural journals, as a whole, are 

 but poorly sustained. We do not believe that 

 one-third of them pay their publishers one 

 penny for their labours. True, a few, at a 

 favourable location, with good luck, or great 

 talents, pictorial illustrations, or chip-trap, 

 get up a large circulation, and, possibly, make 

 something out of it ; but the great mass, 

 whistle as they may to keep up their courage, 

 are making but a small fortune for old age. 

 The legal advertising, often so profitable for 

 political papers, they know nothing about. 

 True, some very generous county agricultu- 

 ral society will occasionally put them on 

 sparingly as premiums, provided they can 

 get them at cost oj a little less, but thick- 

 headed, penurious farmers, (and there are lots 

 of them,) who have to take them instead of 

 some ragged dollar bill, not unfrequently 

 deem themselves very badly used. 



Agricultural journals that are worthy of 

 their high mission, should be sustained to a 

 much greater extent than they are by the 

 agricultural societies, and in the way of pre- 

 miums, it would operate as a double benefit ; 

 first, by putting such reading in the hands of 

 many men and their families as would not 

 have the liberality to subscribe for it. Sec- 

 ondly, such patronage upon an ordinary lib- 

 eral plan, would in some measure sustain and 



warrant the publication of good and useful 

 journals. The School Journal of our State 

 has a subscription list of five thousand, or 

 thereabouts, from the treasury, which sustains 

 it; but, alas! for too many of our agricultu- 

 ral papers, what its tardy subscribers do not 

 pay, must be lost by the publisher or cheated 

 out of his printer. Will those who believe 

 with Horace Greeley in the usefulness and 

 high mission of agricultural journals, think of 

 these things, and do what they can in their 

 day and generation, for a worthy but a suffer- 

 ing cause ? 



The Talent of Success. 



Every man must patiently abide his time. 

 He must wait. Not in listless idleness, not in 

 useless pastime, not in querulous dejection, 

 but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavor, 

 always willing, fulfilling and accomplishing 

 his task, " that when the occasion comes he 

 may be equal to the occasion. " The talent of 

 success is nothing more than doing what you 

 can do well, without a thought of fame. If it 

 comes at all, it will come because it is not sought 

 after. It is a very distressing and troublesome 

 ambition which cares so much about fame, 

 about what the world says of us, to be always 

 looking in the face of others for approval — to 

 be always shouting to hear the echoes of our 

 own voices. — Longfellow. 



[circular.] 

 American Pomological Society. 



The Eighth Session of this Institution 

 will be held in the city of Philadelphia, com- 

 mencing on the 21th of September next, at 

 10 o'clock, A. M>j and will be continued for 

 several days. 



This Society, the first National Institution 

 for the promotion of Pomological Science, 

 was organized in the year 1848. Its ses- 

 sions, have brought together the most distin- 

 guished cultivators of our country; its trans- 

 actions have embodied their various resear- 

 ches and ripest experience, and its Catalogue 

 of Fruits has become the acknowledged 

 standard of American Pomology. 



Its example has created a general taste for 

 this science, inspired promologists with great- 

 er zeal, and called into existence many kin- 

 dred associations. Its progress has been re- 

 markable and gratifying, but it still has a 

 great work to perform. Its general cata-' 

 logue should, from time to time, be enlarged 

 and perfected, and local catalogues formed, 

 embracing the fruits adapted to each State 

 and Territory of the Union. The last of 

 these suggestions was made by the Chair, 



