The Moniteur contains a very long report by Decaze, which is
published, as having been approved of by the king on the state
of agriculture in France. It appears from this document that
the fostering care of the government is steadily, and in most
instances, successfully, exercised in promoting every branch of
cultivation adapted to the French soil and climate. One branch,
that of the culture of the beet root, which it was supposed would
have languished on the restoration of the sugar colonies, is stated
to be gradually but firmly extending itself, and its encouragement
is recommended to the government, among other considerations, on
the special ground on which it was originally introduced, that of
rendering France independent of foreign supplies of sugar in a
period of war. It has been affirmed, that those who manufacture
into sugar beet root, raised on their own farms, realized a profit
of 25 per cent.; and on the supposition that a quantity were raised
adequate to supply the total consumption of sugar in France, it is
said that the refuse of the beet root would of itself suffice to
fatten for the market annually 120,000 head of cattle.--There are
now about twenty beet root sugar refineries in full activity.
GEORGETOWN, (S.C.) April 20.
_An Agricultural Prize worth winning._--We are informed by a
gentleman from Stateburg, that fourteen or more members of the
Claremont Agricultural Society, of that neighbourhood, have agreed
to plant, each an acre of ground in corn, to be manured and
cultivated at pleasure.--The planter producing the most neat corn
to the acre, (as a reward for his superiour farming) is to receive
the produce of every other acre. The land to be planted must be high
land, and have been cleared at least five years. A committee of five
members were appointed to approve of the land, to superintend the
gathering and measuring the corn, and to report to the Society at
its meeting in the fall, when we will be able to inform our readers
of the successful planter, and the neat product of each acre.