Edgefield Advertiser

We extract the following from the Report of the Committee of the State Agricultural Society.

By the heat and drought of the last summer unparalleled in intensity and duration, scarcely a section of our political family escaped uninjured. In this wide spread calamity, York, Union, Spartanburg, Laurens, Fairfield, Newberry, Chester, Abbeville and Lancaster, are the chief sufferers. These districts, from the best information that the Committee have been enabled to procure, will require from our own markets respectively, 5,000, 20,000, 5,000, 40,000, 30,000, 15,000, 40,000, 40,000 and 30,000 bushels—in all 225,000 bushels of Indian corn. Lancaster will draw her supply, 50,000 bushels, from Cheraw or Camden; Abbeville, 40,000 bushels, from Hamburg; and the remaining seven districts, 155,000 bushels from Columbia. To meet the demand of the Parishes, which for a number of years have been buyers to an amount varying from 150,000, 500,000 bushels of grain, probably 400,000 bushels of corn will be necessary. The wants of the State, therefore, may be fully estimated at 625,000 bushels. As the farmers have prudently sown an unusual quantity of wheat, rye, and turnips; gotten rid of their superfluous black cattle and horses, and are favored in general with an abundance, the Committee feel assured that unless there be a failure of the wheat crop, their calculation will be found as close an approximation to the true one, as from the lights before them, can now be made.