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Agriculture In Liberia!

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
November
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

For the lenth (ime, the announcements of the Colonization Society, that the Col-i onists werc now goin to devoie themselves to agriculture, have proved false, and the miserable settlement still fails to raise ita own bread. The African Luminary has the following raelancholy announcernenl: Failure of CRors. - Fromsome cause, we scarcely know what, there is at present a general scarcity of the usual market producís. Stock, poultry, potatoes, cavassa and all seemed to have failed. There usually a falling off at the end of the dry season; but this year the decrease is is beyond any thing which wc have known since 1827. The rainy season is now more than onothird advanced, and si II the market is empty. Potatoes and cavassa, (the staff of life here) can be procured only in small quantities; rice there is none in the colony, and those who eannot purchaso forcign provisions, are obliged to do iba besi ihey can, and "live horse," &,c. We suspect that agricultura has been considerably neglected fora year past. There is no other plausible reason for the present lacle, because the season has been as heretofore, ifnot even more favorable. No fault of the seasons, bul nothing to cat. Horrid! And yet the reckless men who manage affairs are continually sending out more people to starve! This same paper announcea the arrival of the Union, i'rom New Orleans, with 40 emigrants. Who shall answer for these lives?