Farmers' gazette, and Cheraw advertiser. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1839-1843, January 13, 1841, Image 1
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AVrWiAJ^.,
From the Boston Cultivator.
Potatoes,?C a r rots,?T i it .n i rs,?
Manures.
To the Editor of the Cultivator ;
Mr. Backminister,?Sir: Perhaps voa
will recollect, in a communication some
twelve months since, I promised to give
you the result of another experiment, respecting
the manner of planting potatoes.
Last year I satisfied myself, that I could
not plant too large potatoes, and that it
was decidedly lielter to plant large potatoes
whole, than to cut them in pieces;
but I tried the experiment with the common
early white potatoes. This past
season wishing to plant the host kinds,
and hearing much about the Rohan, I purchased
a few barrels, and directed my
men to plant a certain piece of land wilh
them, and as they were large I directed
k nm nut nnn n/ktotno i n om* !> Lilt I *?
% IIV 114 IV VilV JiVUUVV^ 4 1 J 11111* All
about two days, after they were planted, I
was informed that If I let whole potatoes
remain in the hill they would all run to
vines; wishing to get something besides
vines, for our labor, I had all but one row
.dug up and cut into small pieces and
planted again. When they lirst came
in sight, and for a number of weeks, the
row of whole potatoes looked much the
best; but when we harvested them we
could not tell this row from the others In
the vines, nor was there much difference
in the amount of potatoes apparently ; I
did not compare by weight. In another ,
place, however, I tried the experiment
with the Rohans fairly; I prepared the
ground as nearly alike us I could, and
then planted, and raised as follows, viz :
Five hills, one potato in a lull produced
17 lbs.
Five hills, half a potato, cut into four '
pieces, in each hill 14 0 4 lbs.
Five hills', one fourth of a pot; t <, cul j
into four pieces, in each hill 14 1-1 Ihs.
We perceive here that the IiilU j?lantevl J
with the whole poiatot s pro lured the!
greatest crop. I should not wonder however,
if it had h en host heretofore to cu;
the Rohan, as it has been inclined to run
much to vines; but that potatoeis undergoing
a change, as the long red has;
mine this year are quite good for the
table, much better, 1 think than the
same kind were last year. They had not
very large vines; they yielded very well
just about the same as the long reds,
from 12 to 1G hills to the bushel. Permit
me here to say that I think the long
reds and Rohans the surest kinds for an
abundant crop, especially in a dry season;
their roots spread wider ant! perhaps run
deeper than most kinds of potatoes.?
fo? t 'i r* *II
I nis year wiiiic .some ci niv ncignoors
dig from thirty to fifty hills of other kinds
for a bushel, and on land we should suppose,
better adapted to them, and as well
manured, mine by the field, turned out
as I stated above. I am convinced, Mr.
Editor, that you were correct when you
lately stated that the long red was the
best potato, the year round, that we raised
and that potatoes do best on grass ground
ploughed up in the autumn ; it was en
land managed in tins way that I raised
my largest potatoes this year. I planted
a small piece ofRohans where, the ground
had been planted four or live years, and
did not have half the crop I had on the
new land. Now for another subject if
you are not already weary. You have
often told us, in your excellent Cultivator,
that you wanted the experience of others;
well sir, I have had some sad experience
this season ; I will relate it to you, Imping
some may profit hv it.
The past season 1 sowed about two
onA o Kelt* nr?rrw a!"/.armfo Kilt a: it U'tK
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quite dry weather, the seed not conic up
very well, and many of the young carrots
died after they were up; so much so, that
I had about half of my ticld ploughed up
and sowed with rutu baga ; these came
up and looked very well. After the plants
were largcjenough to transplant, on a
pleasant day, (the day after a fine rain
however,) I set a number of men to trans,
planting; thinning out the rows sowed,
and setting out among the carrots, where
I did not plough for ruta bagas. It vas
so hot that the plants soon wilted down,
pnd I feared that many of them would
die; however they soon brightened up
$nd did .well, producing a good crop. In
1
ciikTw
| ?i few days after the first were set out, we
I liud quite a rainv morning; hut about
110011 the clouds began to break away,
* % ? ? r (kll
I and as 1 had uhout tnree-iouruio uu
I acre of my carrot ground still to fill ujj
with ruta bagas, I supposed that afternoon
! would he an excellent time to finish the
I job; I therefore called in a number ol
my neighbors to help. I think there
| were nine or ten men and bovs engaged
in pulling up and setting out throughout
! the afternoon. It ruined some during
i the afternoon, enough to keep the plan s
! wet all the time. The men calculated
i that they set out ifearly 20,000 plants,
' and as it was so wet and favorable a time
they expec.cd, and I d.d too, that I should
, have a host of turnips from these plants.
; When we gathered the roots from the
field I think we had the enormous amount
: of about one bushel, and not more, from
: all the last lot set out ? The plants look!
ed very well for a few days, hut soon
began to die; and some, that lived to
grow to a considerable size, rotted after,
wards in the gronnd, while those which
'were set out in fair weather did well. I
| have not told the whole story yet Mr. Edl
itor; in pulling the plants, to set out, we
j took them from the most thrifty rows;
j and we came near destroying all wc left
| in the rows; and in fact they seemed to
have the same disorder that these had,
which were set out; many of them did
die, and all we touched appeared blasted.
VVe of course concluded the cause was
working among them when the leaves
were wet. Please inform me if I am
correct in my conclusion ; and if so, what
kind of weather and what time of the day
are best for transplanting the various
: plants we sometimes wish to transplant ?
i As Uncle Sam will charge no more for a
i full sheet than for one half full I will pro;
pose one more question before I close my
communication, and that is,?Joes the
richness of the various manures and composts,
with which we enrich our land, naturally
settle into the earth, or does it
rise and evaporate ? Experience and
practice, I know are actually of more
| value than theory; hut it appears to me
there is much depending on a correct understanding
of toe answer of this question
in agriculture. Wc often hear it
said that we must not plough our manure
i in too deep, if we do we shall never hear
from it, it will settle into the earth. IT
so why is not the substratum the richest ?
Yours Respectful I v,
MARSHALL S. RICE.
Newton Centre, Dec.!), 1810.
TIIR OHIO EVER-BEARING RASPBERRY.
' Stern?biennis!, woody, round, red*
with a whitish bloom, strong but pendulous,
very branchy, round and rather prick'
!y; prickles, hooked irregular and scattcr;
ed; leaf, oppositely pinnate, with a large
terminating lcafet; leafets acutely pointed,
o\atc, accumulate, sharply serrulate,
I downy and white beneath, dark green
j above; stalks, long and prickly; flowers.
' in clusters, erect; flower stalks long and
: prickly; calyx, segments 5 or 0, long acI
cuminatc, irregular; fruit, purple, numerj
ous, in clusters; seeds numerous and prom|
inent. lean find no notice of it in any
botanical work.
; Mr. Longwortb, who, next to the
Shakers at Union Village, was the first to
! appreciate and grow this valuable plant,
has opportunely handed mc a few remarks
| on the subject, part of which 1 will quote
! in preference to what I had myself prepared.
lie says: 41 first met with the
, ever-hearing raspberry in October, 183*2,
i when driven to the interior by the choli
era. It was first found about fifteen
i years ago, in the S'ate ofOhio, near the
i
, lakes. The fruit is very superior in fla'
vor. and most resembles the native annual
Iwnrimr rn>'!ilu ri\. hilt it is llllicll
larger, finer flavored and more fleshv.?
At my table, when set down with White
Antwerp, almost an equal number of
those who partake of both, give the former
the preference. It produces an
i abundant crop of fruit, from the wood of
the preceding year, a little earlier than
any other rasnberry. The old wood thee
A ?r
ceases to bear, and dies before fall, and
the succeeding crops through the season
J are from the new wood, which also pro|
duces the abundant June crop of the following
year. It never throws up suckers
but it is increased by the end of the new
I wood, which early in September takes ti
| rapid growth, droops over, and eacl:
i throws out from three to six small shoots
j the points of each of which take root inij
mediately on their reaching the ground,
II sent some to my sister in New Jersey?
their summers are cooler than ours, anc
I with them they bear better than with me
during the heal of summer.'
In conclusion, I mav remark, that w<
can procure a few hundreds for those wish
J ing to possess them, by application, if b)
letter, post paid, at our office.-? Weslcri
Farmer. t. a.
The American Farmer, on the authori
j ty of respectable farmers publishes th<
follow ing remedies for the diseases speci
! fled.
To cure the Cholic in Horses.?Mak<
j and give him a drench composed of a tabl<
J spoon full of strong mustard, dissolved ii
'& <UMMul?lW
lW.SOUrH-CAKOI.INA,
i. n black bottle of water. Having pre:
i scribed and described the drench, how is
,! it mi st convc niently administered? Raise
, the horse's head high in the air, and give
( thedo.se from a junk or black bottle. For
this purpose every farmer should have a
bottle at hand, (always kept in one and
. the same place, and so with many other
things) the neck of which, to prevent its
breaking in the horse's mouth, should be
well seized or wrapped round with twine.
If it be uncertain when the horse was taken,
as in that case there will be danger of in
UU.U...UI.V/.I, V/.. U..-?WTV1J VI l.iV.
brca he a vein immediately. The remedy
here described, is said to be immediate and
infal i >le. How apt most farmers are to
wait until tl.c case occurs, and life and
death hang 0:1 the issue of tire moment
before they inquire about, the cure?and f
how many there are who do not keep on I
hand the ingredients to fill up the simplest
prescription. Be it then remembered
from this time forth?a table spoon full of
mu&tard for the worst eholic, and furthermore?keep
always at hand a black bottle
?strong mustard?sulpher?glauber salts
?and phlemes to bleed with. To make
j the horse swallow, when his head is thus
J elevated, instead of choking him or squcez- j
! ing his gullet or windpipe, from which in- j
! Hammation may supervene, give him a !
smart slap ou the lips, with the open '
hand.
P. S. Some prudent farmers, keep at j
hand, with which to give drenches most \
conveniently, a well shaped cows-futrn, i
with the little end sawed and smoothed '
off; through that pour down the dose from i
the bottle.
Good medicine for Hogs.?When your :
hogs get sick, you know not of what, give
them years of com, first dipped in tar, and ;
then rolled in sulphur. 'Tis ten to one but it i
arrests the disease, and this we gathered
in the course of the same familiar fireside j
chat, from the same gentleman who gave
the prescription for the cholic in horses?
His remedy for
Sheep villi foul Noses.?Make a small
mop, by wrapping a rag about the end of j
a slick?dip this in tar, taking up as much
I as will adhere to it?roll this around in 1
salt, and then thrusting it into the sheep's
mouth, hold it there until he is forced to i
withdraw and swallow the tar and salt, |
and your sheep will soon get good health 1
and clean noses. Try it, and if it sue- j
:u : ?
Cfl*U, \ UU Will Sitv il is wuiiu u sauaic wi
mutton, as good as Mr. Lloyd or Major
Mcrccr, or N. Martin or Gov. Stevens
ever sent to market. Now gentle reader,
we have taught you, as we have been
taught, at one short sitting, how to burn
lime, how to cure a horse's cholic, how to
cure a hog's quinsy, and how to clean a
sheep's nose?and so we wish you good
health, and a merry Christmas!
KENTUCKY PRODUCT*:
Fat Cattle.?We published last week
j the weight of a lot of hogs raised by Dr. j
I S. 1). Martin, of Clarke co., the average
of which was 700.41bs. We have the
pleasure this week of recording the depar
ttire tor market, ot another sample ot iventucky
products. On Monday last our attenlion
was attracted by a crowd assembled
on Cheap-side which we found to be
admiring a lot of fine cattle. On enquiry
we found .h jy had been purchased for the
Cincinnatti market by Mr. Jas. Bvrns,
from Mr. It. Allan, of Jessamine. They
were fattened by Mr. Allan. We estimated
their weights as ranging from 2500 to
SOOOlbs. Wc find them estimated at
3500 to 4000lbs. by Mr. Finnell of the Intelligencer.
As large beeves or even laro
D
ger may have been and may again be produced,
but fuller ones we do not expect to
behold. Every point accessible to the organs
of secretion seemed to us to be loaded
with fat. If friend Hooper of the Western
Farmer, can find them out, we ask him
to take a look at these cattle, thev certainly
take the palm from any tlnng Kentucky
has sent to that market yet.
Kentucky Farmer.
From the Kentucky Farmer
,1 had some pigs taken with the thumps
! !a-t spring. The disease showed itself at
:; first only when the pigs had taken some
' I exercise. It is in appearance, very simt#
! lar to the same disease in the horse. Afj
1 tor being thus effected for some time, in
! those, to whom the disease proved fatal
I the thumping became constant.
I killed one that had it very badly for
purpose of ascertaining the nature of the
' disease. Upon opening him I found the
hag that surrounds the heart, (the peri
, ardcum,) attached to the covering of the
reast bone and ribs on the inside (the
' ' pleura ) in the whole extent where they
i came in contact. The heart was very
^ much enlarged, and the substance of it
j not as firm as usual, in a healthy animal.
The lungs were attached very firmly to
' the ribs. The substance of the lungs was
? also very much diseased with scrofulous
] tumors in them.
r Fiom the appearance it was evident that
the disease had been caused by violent inflammation.
I had very little hope that
any remedy would be successful; but as
. it was recommended by one of my neigh?
bors, I mixed such portions of tar with
their food as they would eat, adding also
some flour of sulphur and noarly all that
; eat of it got well. One continued to
b i thump until he was fattened and killed
b this fall. He did not fattenas kindly as
i the others that had never had the maladv ;
i
mwmmwmmi
WEDNESDAY, JAMIS
but was tolerably fat. I was from home
when he was killed, had thereby deprived
of the opportunity of examining him when
he was opened..
I attribute this disease, in my pigs, to
the changeable weather wc had in the
spring, an unusual fatness in the pigs attacked
with it, predisposing them to inflammatory
diseases.
Souie of my neighbors with whom I
have conversed attribute it to dust, which
the pigs get into their lungs in their sleeping
places. This no doubt would have a
tendency to irritate the lungs and may be
one cause. But exposure to great changes
whereby they take cold, is no doubt the
chief cause.
S. D. Martin.
Near Colbt/ville, Ky. Dec, 12, 1840.
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SEASONABLE HINTS.
Tiie follow ing cxlruct from Col. Macerone's
4 Seasonable Hints,' appeared in the
Mechanics Magazine, dated February 3,
1833. After stating the utility of sheep
skin clothing for persons whose employment
renders it necessary that they should
be much out of doors, &c, he says:? I
will not conclude without inviting the attcntion
of your readers to a cheap and easy
method of preserving their feet from wet
and their boots from wear. I have only
had three pair of boots for the last six
years, (no shoes;) and I think that I shall
not require any others for the next six [
years to come ! The reason is, that I
treat them in the following manner:?I
put a pound of tallow and half a pound
rosin into a pot on the fire ; when melted
and mixed, 1 warm the boots, and apply the
hot stuff with a painters brush, until neith
er the sole nor upper leathors will suck in
any more. If it is desired that the boots
should immediately take a polish, dissolve
an ounce of bees' wax in an %unce of
bees' wax in an ounce of spirits of turpentine,
to which add a teaspoon full of lampblack.
A day or two after the boots have
been treated with the tallow and rosin,
rub over them the wax in turpentine, but
not before the fire. Thus the exterior
| will have a coat of wax alone, and shine
like a mirror. Tallow, or any other grease.
miwiil nml rots the stichilil? as
uutunaa iumvu, ? d
well us the leather ; but the rosin gives it
J an antisceptic quality which preserves the
whole. Hoots or shoes should be so large
| as to admit of wearing in them cork soles,
i Cork is so bad a conductor of heat, that
with it in the boot, the feet arc always
warm on the coldest stone floor.?Kxch.
Breaking Steers.?Several modes of
breaking steers have been stated in your
valuable paper?some of which I should
not wholly approve ; hut with your permission,
I will give one of my ideas on
this subject. %
When these useful animals are old enougli
for the yoke, place them in a stable,
side by side, with a small quantity of hav
before them, and confine thorn with ropes.
In this position they can be handled at
pleasure. Then place a yoke upon them,
and directly in their rear fasten a strong
? n
hook or staple ; to this attach a chain and
fasten to the yoke with sufficient length, so
that by pulling, they can barely reach their
fcod. In this position they will soon
learn to pull, and- become familiar with
the yoke. When taken from the stuble,
put them before a sled, and you will find
them ready to draw any reasonable load
von may put behind them. You have
nothing to do but to guide them in the ordinary
way breaking steers. I. B. I.
Ncirfane Niagara co., 1H40.
New Gen. Far.
White Rerksiurks.
?? i :~~ i
The question nus Ucjuii iui^cu, nucuiui
| there are Bcrkshires of the true breed of
J white color, as well as black or spotted.?
| It has been seen that the Messrs. Shcp|
herd have made, through the agency of
Mr. Eches, of Barton Park, Derby, England,
several importations of white Berkshires?(See
American Farmer of the lOili
June and 2'id July, 1340.*) Since these
publications we have seen a letter to a
gentleman of Baltimoie from Henry Adair,
j Esn., of Upton Castle, Teniplepafrick, in
which he says a sow is "out of the other
sow, by a thorough bred white Berkshire
boar"?thus shewing that in England and
Ireland, the Btykshires are not confined
to one color?VVhitk or black, or black
ami white, lluil Ls the question ! So that
the war rage between the faction of the
white and the faction of the black, as between
those of the white and red roses,
and to those who would arrive at the most
accurate conclusion as to their respective
merits, we would recommend to try both!
or, if not, let them get of the "Bellies," or
"Improved Ulsters," which are not spotted,
but half black, half white?There
j were four sows and a boar of this breed,
j just then arrived, toT. B. Skinner, 3Ir.
I Murdoch of Ireland, exhibited at the late
I Cattle Show and Fair at Ellicot's Mills?
I and wc venture to say that no hogs were
j ever more admired. All who were there
j seemed to admit that beyond these, hog's
flesh could not well go ! The oldest sow
sent in by Mr. Murdoch on his own acj
count was bought by Mr. George Law at
SI 10. The boar and three sows sent to
j T. B. Skinner were sent for exhibition
i and not for sale. They would have sold
;
* It seems that Mr. Etches' white Berkshire
boar took the firat premium at Liverpool
agricultural show in Oct. 19^9.
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NUMBER 9.
it will secure it from the action of both
tire and rain. In a most violent fire, wood
thus saturated may be corbonated,but will
never blaze.
If desirable, a most agreeable color can
be given to the preparation by adding a
small quantity of red or yellow ochre.
It might also be useful for your to mention
in your paper, especially at this season
of high winds, that a handful or two
of sulphur thrown on the tire when a chimney
is burning out, will almost inatanteom*
lv nvtinirtii<ih Hip (linmnQ _ RufTitln n.
success and management as a farmer the
only failure we saw was in his crop of the
sugar beet, the rows had been made toe
close together, so that they could not be
properly tended, and were consequently
small. The rows ought to be at leasl
three feet apart. I fear too they have
suffered from the frost, Mr. M. having
been of the opinion that a slight frost
would not injure them. This is not the
case?a very little frost is hurtful, anything
of a freeze, we have found a serious
injury, in fact rendering them almost useless.
I spent an hour or two amongst hia
Durhams and Bcrkshircs and must say a
word of them. 44Fredericks'* portrait
speaks, for him, but the calves of his get
hay still more in his favor. Majestic out
of Florida, though yet but a calf, is a beautiful
creature. His clean, well-set-on
head, carried erect like his sire's?his lively,
yet gentle eye?his width of hack and
full chest and chine, projecting breast and
clean limbs, his large and well formed hip
and quarters, his size and cclor, all mark
his breeding and purity ofbloo 1?we mu*t
insist on his owner giving us portraits of
44 Florida and her calf Majestic." But
we cannot go over all?sutfioe it, if we
may give a preference to any, on so short
observation, when all were fine, we would
name Lady Ann, Adelaide, and Muantia.
they will be bard to beat. His last importation
was just beginning to pick up;
I- I 1-1 1 .1- t\t iZ - .4.
DltlCK UOtirM illlll II1U SUVV WlUtU, US 11131 Ull
tlio list. 11 is improved Byfihld, I am rath,
or inclined to think, will please the grcal
majority of those wish to procure breeder.*
for their own use, fully as well as any,
Some of them come as near perfection oi
form in a hog as I can well imagine?
Success, say we, to all such enterprising
farmers as Mr. Mahard ! When we con
sidcr the extent of his other business it
the city, the wonder is'that he can attend a
all to his farm which nevertheless, may b<
a pattern to those who devote their whol
attention to farming.? Western Farmer.
T. A.
Useful Recipe.
I send you below, Messrs Editors, a re
cipe for making a composition which wil
render wood entirely incombustible. I
is very simply prepared, and quite easy o
application, being used the same as paint
with an ordinary brush. A geod coat o
it applied to the floor underneath stove
would be an excellent precaution.
Take a quant ty of water, proportione
to the surface of wood you may wish t
cover and add to it as much potash a
A ft, nrmn Wknn tfm n?*i
. Cn.ll lie uiaouittu iuwviui ?? iii^ tic*
tor will dissolve no more potash, stir int
tho solution, 1st, a quantity of Hour past
of the consistency of common painters
size 2nd, a safficient quantity of pure cla;
to render it of the consistency of cream.
When the clay is well mixed apply th
preparation as before directed tQ the wood
r
mcrcial Advertiser.
EYTtt VORDIXARY SECERTiON OF XILg
Milk is one of the most important sub*
stances in nature, and the only ana Uut
can be named intended for food and for
nothing else. The laws which govern its
secretion arc very well understood, and
their general regularity well established ;
yet there are some singular aberrations
from these laws which are worthy of notice.
One of these aberration is the fora-i
ishing of milk by males; uf which several
well authenticated instances are on record*
Every general reader is acquainted with
the history given by Humboldt of the In-,
dian at the missions on the Apure, in South
America, who after the death of his wife,
nourished her young babo from his own
breast, and succeeded in rearing it a strong
and healthy child. A airolnr ease has
occured in the vicinity <rt Sepasupoi, id
Russia, as given in one of the London
Medical Journals, in which a father who
lost his wife, succeeded in rearing hisohild
with milk derived, most unexpectedly at
first, from his own breast. The chik) wa*
for the purpose of quieting it, at first and
a secretion of milk soon took place sutivi
cient to satisfy their wants.
Another instance of this unnatural to*,
cretion, as it may be termed, occurred
not long since in Prussia, in the case of a
grandmother of 73 years of age, who had
borne no children for somo fifteen yeara,
but whose daughter dying, left a little
child, which she took it upon heraolf ta
rear, and to q-iiet daring the night, allowed
the child to place its lips to her shrivelled
' and shrunken breast. To her surprise,
' the milk soon appeared, and the child found
' nourishment unto old enough to wean*
' This singular deviation from the ordinf
ary course of nature in the production of
! milk has been observed in animals. A
i few years since a farmer in western New
. York wishing to wean some calves, turn
ed them from the cows to & distant field
, where were several young cattle, among
, which was a two year old heifer, that had
, never borne a calf. Going to look at
I them in a few days he found the heifer,
and one of the calves by themselves, and
* ^ l- :J: j , ,i |
10 nis surprise uiscoveruu umi 1110 uwwi *
udder had become much enlarged, and exhibited
every sigh of containing milk.
That such was the case, was demonstrated
hv the calfs sucking soon alter, and by
the heifer's continuing to give milk for
some time after she and her adopted pro.
tegee were separated.
In a late number of a foreign agriculture
al paper we find the following singular instance
of this deviation in the case of tbe
sheep. " Mr. Seamen Beale, of Tenterrien,
has a wether sheep (a two years old)
which has for some time past sucklod a
lamb. The lamb was often seen apparently
sucking the sheep, but it was not supposed
that it derived any nourishment
from its efforts. However, on shearing
the wether, it was found to be otherwise,
and that a stream of milk could be produced
from him equal to that from a ewe."
, A wag at our elbow has hinted that if
this power of producing milk from tbe
breast is universal in man old backelors,
* whom all must admit are now useless
might, by administering to the necessities
of the unfortunates in our orphan asyltmss,
in this way do the state some service.?
[Albany Cultivator.
From the Southern Cabinet.
account of orange parish.
, We have obtained from a friend, the
. following account of Orange Parish ; and
t we solicit from other gentlemen, similar
> accounts of the various sections of coun>
try in which they resides.
Ed. So. Cabinet.
The north-west part of this Parish was
' attached to Lexington judicial District
in 1830, but as an election District, it ia
| still entire. It is fifty-five miles long,
and its greatest breadth about thirty miles
^ ?hounded on the North by Lexington,
West by the Soutli-Edisto river which
separates it from Barnwell, South by St.
George's Parish, uud East by St. Matthew's.
Surf<ice.?A line running nearly East
II and West one mile below Orangeburgh
* Village, separates the rolling from the
f level lands. To the North of this coun'
try is elevated and broken, and abruptly
risest in one mile, forty-three feet;
s whereas, below this line it is nearly level*
j the average elevation for ten miles not
0 exceeding five feet per mile, aud inters
spersed with ponds and bays.
Soil?-May be considered in three claso
scs:
e 1. The swamps contiguous to the riven
5' and creeks.
v 2. The broken lands above the Village.
? 3. The level lands below.
5 la these arc other varieties modified by '
f
Y 13, 1841.
at a very high figure. Seven pair of
their first produce were engaged on the
spot at $25 the pair?at that price notice
is hereby given that orders may be engaged,
to be delivered in Baltimore, to
the agent of the applicant on board of a
Steamboat, with food and fixtures for
transportation.?American Farmer.
A HAMILTON COUNTY (oilio) FARM.
I rode out with Mr. Mahard to his firm,
a few evenings ago, to sec it and his fine
stock, and have rarely spent a more pleasant
day. The land is admirably adapted
for a stock farm, and its capabil ities have
been worked out and all brought to bear,
or are in the course of being midc a available.
It is sufficiently level, yet rolling
and remarkably well watched. Mr. M.
has gone to work in the right way beginning
with a good barn, good fences and
good roads?his barn and stables, hog
pens <fcc. are rather close to the dwelling
house to please the taste of many, but not
too much so where the farmer intends
that every thing shall be well attended to,
under his own eye. Everything is arranged
upon the most approved principles;
every hog can be put in a separate pen
if necessary ; each of his cattle a scperate
stall, with a passage along the whole front
of them direct from the cutting and steaming
house, in which are two large set boi
. 1 i i i r* i c _ xi
lers witn nogsnoaus ior souring ioou ior me
hogs cooling troughs, &c., and one of
Green's patent straw cutters, through
which not only the straw and hay on the
farm is passed, but all the corn fodder,
stalks, husks and all. Mr. M. has promised
us a statement of the actual economy
and advantage of this mode of
feeding. Thdung hill is a drain
of his stable?the* most valuable part
of the manure, though too frequently
hallow basin, so made as to receive all the
wasted. This he can carry over his clover
field at pleasure, by means of a drain,
so as to irrigare it with the wash of the
dunghill?he hopes thus to be able, nexl
season, to test the advantage of soiling.
I was much pleased with the order and
Mp:itnoss in every denartment. of the farm.
()i:e slack of last year's oats I saw, sc
carefully thatched, that I doubt much ol
there being a single damaged head in it!
?IIow unfortunately rare do we find thi>
in the west! Men labor all summer making
crops, yet are unwilling (o bestow the
most ordinary care in saving them. Wc
cannnt iln mnrr> than hint.nt Mr. Mahardb