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VOL. XLI.
RALEIGH, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1850.
NO. 39.
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tftvidOKS Of JSTKKTInXAl. MAI'S.
THE NORTH OliOLLYI FIRMER.
From the irman Town Telegraph.
iMPRmrii NTiirk' sih.-i'p
n.i Hue imooctant auSiert most intelligent
farmers' f' ' aBlU a JauitabU and.
Agriculiural p.t rapidly arousing aiicn
tion In it, and our farmers begin to rniton and
act, and to denude themselves of llieir old and
long eherished prejudices in proportion as
the light reflected from "he paite of science
upon their th, bwomes mtf ' luminous and
well defined. As the natural fOllU!r
this, we find that the annual fair now held
mn.liiflheSl.nea for ihe nroi.lotion ol
Arricultural imorovenient, are ranii.'ly in
creasing in imerest ; a more decided anil
generous public spirit is ohiious; the animal
exhibited are more numerous and of better
quality, and far greater p iins are biken by
fanners generally lo render these important
institutions worthy of the "great interest,"
snd an honor to the bl:itrs and counties
of whose enterprise and prosperity they
pek.
In n fcrcnee to that most valuable animal,
'the rtiiKEP, the truth, of the foregoing observ a
tions is strikingly apparent. The old, coarse,
long-wool varieiie.-. though possessing value
for particular nurnoM, have alreadi nearly
become obsolete. Twenty years, ago, no fann
er aniicipaied seeing a flishley, Sdu h Down,
or Teeswaler animal at llvese tirs, uny more
than the farmer of the present day dreams of
seeing there the tjashmere goat, or the
Alpaca. I wish to be distincily understood in
tnia mailer, lor I am speaking not oi par-
licukf lotalilie. w here the spirit uf generuus
improvement ' nd emulation dates Iroirt a
period long antecedent in point of time to the
enminrnciineiit of the chro. iolosric-.it segment
- allied u) but to 4lifruiHr hv genwr
rai.
, At that tim we had no Agricultural press,
and on George III to encourage honorable
efforts. II ii I the fact is now happily far
otherwise. Though in most of the Slates
nit lt.rMln,iM I,m.1mI .Amain nltn.kst
wholly inactive upon the subject, publ
spirit and enterprise, together with au ever
restless and enlightened press, are accom
plishing much in our behalf, and will no doubt
supply in time the want uf legislative patron
, age end protection, nt least to a considerable
extent. .
.. .Awd...iiowMr...IUiiojv.M-..inu
agricultural readers are doubtless desirous uf
availing themselves of all the advantages
which science and experienee so liberally
afford In UiB enlightened in effecting the im
provement of their flocks, I beg leave to
submit the following observations by thai distinguished-
f.iend of agriculture AnTiira
Yotso iu reference to selecting sheep. In
ha first place, Mr. Y. remarks that "tle
geaeral priueiples which guided Mr. Rakk
will, in breeding a beast or a sheep for- the
botcher, explain his own stock, which is in
the highest perfection when examined with an
eye to these perfections.
M. In all hi exertions, his aim was to oIh
tava that breed, which, with a given amount of
facta, will give the most probtlle meat; that ,
hi which the pmpomon of useful meat to the
qaanuiy oi oITjI, is the greatest.
""I. Foiaui of the beast. On this plan, the i
poiats are those where the valuable joints lie:
taenwnp, die hip, the back, the rilis, and, af
ter these, the flank; but the belly, shoulder,
svaejt, legs, and head should be light; for if a
east has a disposition to fatten, and to be
hum vjr ia these, it will be found a deduction
from the more valuable points. A beast''
nerii should be square, flat, and straight, or,
if there ia any rising, it should 1 be from a
itiapoailion to fatten snd swell about the rump
ami Wp bones, and the belly should be quite
straight, for if it swells, it shows a weight iu a
baa pomt. lie prefers to have the carcass
weal anade, and showing a disposition to
fattea ia lite valuable points. So far on see-
. "J- Feeling.' Mr. Uakewilu in order to
Wide whether a beast has the right disposi
tion tn fatten, examines by feeling. His
KieBd, Mr. Ctu.tv, who has bad an infinite
BHaiber of beasts go through his hands,
aa-rees entirely with Mr. Baviwii i. in iliis
evcuiruiiance. and when with him in Norfolk
and Suffolk, was surprised to find lesn bul
locks and aheep were alwoluiely bought there
by the tyt only. So absolutely is the hand
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art in choosing either, that they both
agreed that if they must trust to the eye in
tha Ilght,of to the hand in the dark; they
Would nnt liecitatA mnanpnt in nrpferriiur lh
latter. 'I'he form rrf the bone, in sheep, is
' quite hidden, it U the hand alone that raa co
able ua lo decide whether the back is flat and
broad and free from ridge on the back bone;
or can examine, correctly, if the otherpoints
,r" ey..ldbe.sTJxe disposiiwo to tu,
ten w discoverable only by feeling.
Speaking ofthe aheep geneially, the points
lo examine are ha same as iiitheox. Flat
asaa, breadth of hack, a spreading barrel cr
ease, with flat belly, end by bo means curved
f banging. The essential ia the carcass.
Mil disposition to fallen in the carcass.
od perhaps to hare the least tallow on the
idee.
The keeping aheep on most of die upland
and hilly farms of ihta country, ia generally
Paking, lucrative buaines. If selected
b reference to their ineawrrsibi J or Wool
Inducing properties, and with a well digest-
ed system of breeding ind management, these
' animals are rarely debilitated by disease? it it
principally owing to neglect and carelessness
thai Uiev sicken. By most farmers the winter
management of the sheep is deemed a matter
of trivial importance, whereas the reverse of
the proposition is true: If sheep are housed
in large numbers in confintdand poorly ven
tilated enclosures, with in inadequate supply
of pure water, and with poorer food, the legi
timate consequence is premature debility, dis
ease, and death. At the period of producing
their young, the most assiduous attention
should, be accorded to the dams. They should
be provided with warm quarters, well littered
and ventilated, and supplied with food of a
generous and etrrngilicmng description.
1 he young, when dropped, should he carefully
looked afler, and food calculated lo invigorate
the system, and to produce a healthy and vigor
ous action of the lactescent organs, be liberally
supplied to the dams.
- In the summer, snd during those months
when they are permitted to run at large, they
require to be carefully watched, esiecially
when depastured in large flocks. The free
use of salt is highly beneficial, or a mtiture
of salt and ashes, and if the forage i shortened
by drought, or of an uiigcuial or innutri
tions order, the deficiency should he sup
plied by daily feeds of grain, roots, or by soil
ing. As a general rule, however, it is injudicious
1 10 rrowJ ,l"m together in
large numbers,
i,e" " PM"" rH"gp are m-
io lesser divisions, and lo appropriate to
a certain number an allmted space,. WV
doing, many unpleasant contingencies f
obviated. Si. oiler, eten in summer, is es
sential often times lo the sheep. During
this period, showers are ollen experienced.
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duces disease and even dcalh. -
One error, and a icry essential one, in the
practice of fanners, I will here notice. Afler
incurring a heavy expense in purchasing
valuable animals, many proceed as if they
supposed they had actually accomplished ail
that is necessary. Instead of providing good
and secure pastures in which the animals
may find abundant and nutritious herbage
during their range, and isolation from other
flocks, they turn them into ihe highway to
he Crossed by breeds ol interior- traits, and
emasculated lii!t'UTved I'rpin a. lack .of.
timely and proper food. The cnusrquenc--of
this insane procedure is, that lltey are dis
appointed ihe animals to eagerly sought
lor and purchased at- perhaps an exorbitant
p rice, fad lo real iso their ex peetatiofls, and all
subsequent etlorts at improvement in thatue
parrmenr. nrFprHTtiaturelyandforcverrTnoiinc-jTSIhS
i.eii. i ins is necessarily an injury 10 me com
munity; ii tends lo induce skepticism and unbe
lief as in the legit imate meril and feasibility of
the eiitcrprtsn, and thereby to discourage all
tauduabte efforts on the part of many who would
otherwise have embraced an eartjropportunity
Lojissisttby tlicir own pjgtattiiiilf kaiiiile antlia.
fluence, the advancement of so good a cause. .
Suggcilioni in Hi lotion to the Seeding oj
Wheal Oi Drilling.
Mode of seeding and putting in. If sown
broadcast we would prefer ploughing, orcullt
'iiMmcSr&XSf'WV"Tat tiifire'T
than 3 inches deep: to beaftcrwards harrowed
arid rolled. Either of these methods more ef
fectually cover the seed, than wheu done with
the harrow, and by placing the seed deeper,
serve measurably to protect the roots of die plant
from the effects of frost.
.grilling the wheal in by . a juachine we I
think a better plan than eitlter of the above
ones ; and for the following, among other rea
sons: 1, It requires th less seed lo set an acre of
wheat when drilled in, than when broadcast
ed, it requiring but 5 peeks by the former mode
and 8 pecks by the latter, if well done--a sav
ing of 75 bushels in a hundred acre field, is,
therefore, effected.
2. The seed are more equally and eligibly
distributed, as regards space and depth, than
can pnssihly be done by hand, however skil
fully performed.
3. By drilling, the labor of forming the
drill, dropping ihe seed, covering and rolling,
is perluruieU at oue and the same tune . thus
saving the labor and expense of these separate
operations, which are indispensably necessary
to be perlormeu, whenever wheat may be
ploughed in, put in with the cultivator, or har
rowed in.
4. By the drilling machine, a slight ridire is
raised on either side of ihe drill, which, to ils
extern, protects the roots of ihe plants from
ihe injurious ctlcctsol cold and wet, the slight
elevation acting as a barrier against the wind
aUtl-venler.
5. Should the roois of the plants be up
rooted by the contraction and expansion of
cold and heal, the earth forming the ridges
sctUe down on them, and thus afford a tolera
ble fair protection, rendering it an easy opera
tion in spring, when the frost is out of the
ground, and the earth settled and dry enough,
to replace the roots, by passing the roller over
ihe field, an operation of infinite service, and
wntch hould never be omitted.
6. The space bctwen the drills, fives free
circulation lo the light and air, matter of great
moment in the plant in the course ol lis
growth thereby letting in "the light of the sun
and the meliorating power of the atmosphere.
nose kintHf fbntienrcs cannot lie too hifhlr
appreciated; hesjdes which, it opens a direct
channel fof the feviving action of ihe dews'ad
milling ihem at once on to the esrlby to lie
there absorbed and taken up aa food lor" the
growing plants.
"TT Drilling is said, by une offhe Tt, one
ofthe most enlightened, and one of the most
enthusiastic farmers in the county, to render
wheat less liable to rutl. He does not assign
the reason, but we presume theory of the thing
to be this: that, owing lo the free admission
of sun and air between the drills, the plants
do not. aufler. aa much ititm u)eraiMiiidanee
of walcr, as do those sown broadcast, and, a
consequence, vegetation goes on more regular
ly; plants, therefore, are not so liable to be
forced into an absorption of art excess bf sap.
and by thu means escape the evils which"
would Ke consequ -Tit upon an exuberance of
that fluid ; the vessels of the stalks avoid
disruption, do exudation takes place, to that
should the close, murky weather, whiclt so
favors''' the pararslie plants, or fungus, to
which the rust is referred, occur, the stalks re
maining w hole, and there being no weeping.
out ofthe sap, iro lodgments sb be -made by
theparasttie tribe I and they are wafted wajr i
' without doing harm, by the current of air pass
ing through the spaces of tlx drills for the
erhcacy of this we do not answer.
So much for theory; and now let us see
what that sterling, strong-minded fanner, of
Wheatland, Delaware, says, with regard to
the results of its practical operatiou. In a W
ler to the Commissioner of Patents, Major
John Jones, says:
"W hen 1 commenced drilling, and for two
or threcyears, 1 was ridiculed by my neighbors;
some would advise me tu lake the implement
home, break ii up, Hid cook'my dinner with it,"
Smart neighbors these!
"1, however, disregarded iheir jeers, and
rsrsevered. And now the best evidence; that
cau possibly bring forward in support of the
drill, over the broadcast system, is the lac I
i that all my neighbors adopted the drill for
sowing their w heat, and most other small 13 or 20 acres thickly. This will render the
grain; and that we have, three or four drill-! clover exceedingly valuable to Southern plan
builders besides II. W. Pcnnock, the in-! tors. From a lot of 9 acres af good clover, he
ventorofthe improved drills, all of w hom
cwild not supply ihe demands for New Castle
cjuniy the past season. 1 think I am war-
ranted in saying, lhat three-fourths of all the
j wheat that will be grown in .New Uaslle coun-
ly the next year, will be from land sown with
the drill. One of the great adianfci e of
the drill over the broadcast is, that they ran
be coijitrueU'd for sowing the concentrated
manures, guano, poudretle, bone-dust, 4c I
have one lol of 100 acres, upon which 1 sow-
' ed at the s une tune with my wheal, Al
leen tons ol gu.ino: on a part of which I sow-j
4"801T pftun3C'a1iUoiTiepar J
poll
per acre."
The yield of additional straw on
the drill-
ed acre, 12 per cent.
The yield of additional wheal on the drilled
acre, per crm. (
ouch ficis.miuirc no comment Ihey writ
heir own history , ; .
I line ol seeding. We have ever been the !
advocate of earl)' sowing; and rrmwrhsTanrfi
ing the oft repealed attacks uf the llessian-lly,
to which early sown wheat plains are subject.
we remain unshaken in our belief of Ihe pro-
prieiv of the practice. It is not our purpose
to designate the day on which wheat should
be sown ; hut merely to urge, that it should
. be gol in as early in this month as possible;'
-and lo express ihe hope, that when done, it
may be well done, as the manner of putting
, in a crop, exerts a powerful imltience over its
product.
Water furrows.-
So soon as you have finish
ed seeding, run y,uuc..wator furrows, and pass
the roller cross wise over them.
Quantity of Seed per acre. Ifiowh broad
cast, it will require 8 pecks per acre; if by
drill, 5 pecks, per acre, will be ample; ta frrall
uy uiiiiiu, . jinna ,ji atn-u mil ur Rami oil,
each acre; a matter of considerable mrtmenf
economical fanner; hes?3cs which, oiit
ol the many experiments made to lest the rela
tive productiveness of the sysurms, the results
are signally in favor of pulling in wheat by the
drilling machine.
t.
IRON FOU APPLE THEES.
- A eorresyowdent of tlwArharry "Cn M raTSf ,
writing from Fredericksburg, Vn., says:
A friertd who has a large orchard of It.iw
le's Jannett apple, has ten trees upon each
corner of the orchard which always, produce
fruit a third larger, and flavor so much supe
rior, that it was supposed by all who saw and
aie'tfi'e apple thaTiliey were"a i'aiiperior varie-
ty of the Jannct. I his spnng 1 exam
ined the soil, and found that a vein of iron
ore passed under the ten trees, so near die sur
face that it had been -plowed and worked
up with the soil. A variety of ti e large blue
plum growing upon the same ground, is also
yey.fiuej-.wlMle.grafts :takett;lriu. the samtyt
plum trees. and worked upon the stocks grown
on different soil, prove worthless. .
GRAPE CULTURE.
About five years ago a gentleman planted
three and a half acres in grapes, on his own
land, a lew miles below Cincinnati, and last
year he made 2500 gallons of wine. This
wine he sold for for l 28 and 91 50 per
gallon; and after paying expenses of manu
facture, the tliretf and a half acres of vines
gave him a net profit 'of $300! Five hundred
gallons to an acre is not an uncommon yield;
any thing less than 300 or 400 gallons is con
sidered a very small one. All kinds ofgrapes
are cultivated for the table, and as experiments:
bul the grape relied upon lor winu, and most
ly cultivated, js ihe Catawba.
ALMO.NDS.
In Georgia almonds have been cultivated
with success;-and there is now, or was in
1840, in the garden of a gentleman near Ma
con, Ga., a large tree, fifteen or twenty feel
high, which has borne in,.ny bushels of fine
almonds. The tree much resembles the
peach tree bul is taller, and Ihe fruit, while
growing U readily mistaken for the peaeh.
Halt, limer.
SUBSTITUTE FOU RINGING SWINE.
If two of the tendons that erect and support
the run of nose is cut across, about an inch
and a half from the extremity, it effectually
destroys their ability lo root. It is best per
formed wheii" two 'tir three months old, but
we see no trouble in performing the operation
at any sge, by using a sharp knife, and cut'
ting down to ilia bone, which has a very thin
covering.
The usual manner of ringing is an unsale
operation, as well as a barbarous one, as
they oft n give way, and the first notjse you
have is the disfiguring and injury don toMlic
fields by plowing them aip in a very htlggiiih
manner.
This operation is don with no prejudice
J to the animal, and very little sunVriiig 5not
hall so much, il you can juuge Dy tneir musia,
a in the ordinary method ol twisted wire.
Froa the Southern Christian Advocftte,
A NEW AND VALUABLE CLOVER
, FOU THE SOUTH.
During the past spring I was much interet-
cd tocMwiMH .. a -net epecies of Clover,
whrcb is raised hy two geuuemcn tn tne vi
cinity of Falkland, Ala. This clover when
growing, before blon!iing, resembles the
red clover in some res pec is, but in other it i
entirely different, 'I'he blossom is yellow,
and the seed resembles a bean in shape,
though.it is but little larger than the seed of tin
red clover, and is contained in a very singular
burr, which i about the size of a large pea.
Again, this grass, roots and all, dies annually;
yet the same piece of land treed never be sown
but once, as the seed produced in very
great ioundJtvc. and comes up very freely
and surely every autumn. Aain,jujtU eu-
ii rely a Fall and Wilder grass It commen
ces growing in October, and grows on ninety
through the while winter, affording the finest
pasturage, and continue to grow well, if pas-
iiirru, unm ine isi oi may: annul mis time
the seed begins to ripen, and the grass grad
ually dies, and leaves the ground thickly cov
ered with the dead branches and seed: When
the cool Fall rains and dews renirn, it then re
appears, and grows as before stated.
I have said it yields an abundant crop of
seed ; indeed, the quantity ot seed is so arrest.
that this is a striking and very important pe
culiarity. From my own observations, and
from what one ofthe gentleman above allud
ed to has tulil me, I am well satisfied thai it
will yield, on good land, at least 80 bushels.
probably 100 bushels of seed in the burr per
acre, and this will be amply sufficient to so
will raise seed enough to sow 100 acres of
cutum land, and ihus ei-cure a rich sward of
grass to rovei the land during the winter, and
j protect it from washing rains, and atford him
i the best pasture in the world. This is not
mere fancv, for its growth on fair land is
luxuriant as 1 ever saw of the red clover, on
the finest lands in Virginia or Kentucky, I
carefully examined a lol of this clover, which
was closely grazed lo the 1st of M .reh lasl
and about the 1st of May a great many of its
branches were four feet long, I have often
admired ihe luxuriant pastureji an4.ni,edy,ya
but I think I never
saw a better crop of grass in all my life than
that was.
Any person who may be desirous or getting
further information about this grass, can obtain
iltfi writing to Dr. II. L. Keunoii.or Mr. J
IW Snedeeur, ratkland, Ala. Ihe tellers
rslioulil .be post paid, as Una . j .wjJiouI ilitsit
knowledge.
f My apology fof Iroiibtihg ""you " with this
communication (if one is needed) is this.
I was brought up in agricultural pursuits, in
the rich and beautiful alley of the Ohio, where
the fertility of their lands is easily increased
an hundred fold, by judicious system of graee
iiur. and ever since 1 became a citizen of the
South I have regretted to see her richest lands
rapidly wasting away without the hope of fu
ture improvements; and I desire, as a sincere
lover ol my adopted home, to call the atten
tion of planters to the above named grass, be
cause I firmly believe it can he made incalcu
lably valuable to the whole planting interest of
the South. i.
Falkland, Alula., July, 12, 1830,
J-;. HONEY.
Honey is, according lo Mr. Millon, who
has lately published a treatise on bees in
England, a universal specific ; and among its"
other valuable properties, he declares that
it prevents consumption, and-vtates that that
destroyer of human life is not known where
honey is regularly taken as an article of
food. Those who have less faith in the
specific, may perhaps attribute- the cause
"to difference of cliiiiale rather than llis hon
ey. The Italian singers it Is said are great
ly .Indebted to honey ; but their practice is
to sharpen it with a few drops of acid,
though they sometimes take it in a pure
suite-
THE GUANO MARKET.
The Baltimore Price Current of Saturday
thus quotes guano:
There is none in importers' hands, either of
Peruvian or Patagoniani We quote sales
from dcaleiS,of Peruvian, which is scarce, at
00 per 2000 lbs., and for Patogonian, 38 to
4)40 per ItWH demand good
The American of the lutk says:
GUANO.
The scarcity of this much valued fertilizer
has been a subject of regret to the farmers of
this vicinity, who are very desirous of using ii
in pulling in iheir wheat crops. We are hnp
py lo state that two vessels from Peru arrived
at this port on Monday, and. one yesterday,
bringing in all about M00 to 1.600 tons of
Peruvian Guano, which is the kind most in
request at present. The names ofthe vessels
are the barques John Mayo and JennvLind,
and ship Icomum. They all come direct from
the Chincha Islands, and are consiged to Sam
uel K. George, Esq. j -
THE COTTON TRADE.
Mr. George G. Henry, a well known bro
ker of Mobile, has recently issued au interest
ing circular, in which he emliodies an array of
statistics concerning the production and con
sumption of Cotton, and deduces the conclu
sion, "(hat consumption is at present outstrip
ping the production, and that great consequent
advantage in the regulation of prices must en
sue to the American grower and "dealer."
The Augusta Chronicle, in connection witu
the circular remarks: - . -----
"We are of opinion that the time is at hand
when a litile junta of spinners in Liverpool!
and Manchester will no longer be permitted
to control! the price of the World's great'
commercial commodity presenting that anion-,
aly in trade of the buyer alone, regulating,
through a series of years, the price of that
which lie desires lo purchase and must have.
The power exists on this side the Atlantic,
and should be exercised, to fix the price
of the staple, and bring tho purchasers to the
door of the grower. Heretofore the planter has
in effect sent his cotton to Liverpool, and beg
ged the privilege of saying to the Cotton
I Kt&, W hat will you give for my Cotton?
"The balanco is turned, and if the planters
of the South wdl but exercise a tilde sound
discretion, and compare the production with,
the consumption. thi'V jnv.have ll' eonsilmrJ
era at theirdoor asking, trhat ao you aemana
for your Cotton, Mr. Planter? '
Parsr kvation or Pcarxixs through the great
er part ol the winter, if sound and well ripen
ed, is easily attained, bv stowinir them, in a
mow ol ary nay or straw, or placing on a oarai"
n
d
loor and rjfi&witri fW'&.''nf?S!,''$
!ry eclief will freuuonuy ' keep" (Jicta " sound;
but these are usually too moist for this pur-'
pose. ' They ought occasionally to ho looked
after, and any showing evidence of incipient
decsy, should be immediately used... All the
partially ripe, small, and imperfect should be
fed soon after taking from the field.
From the American Agrienlturist,
FATTENING ilOGS. i.
Fob several yean, I have paid some attum.
lion ttTaU,qiug..hj
thrive much lasieruu corn and aweet potatoes,
or oo peas and sweet potatoes, than Uiey will
on any one of these alone. 1 am well aalisfi-, Falser in his Agencies forthat purpose in! ber well enough when sua was one of low
ed, sleo, that they will fallen much faster on several principal cities in the Union by I most promising bodies about here. , Hut hat
boiled and raw bod mixed, tlian they will on . whirh merchants, traders, and all others wish. I father was fool eiiouvh to aJta a snmr.
The year before last. I turned my hoes into
a potato patch, and every evening fed them
w iih corn. ' L' ndet this treatment, the old hogs
soon got very fat; but in the lot there were ten
long legged pigs not a year old, which, at the
lime 1 killed the old ones, were in as . good
order for running races, perhaps, as hogs could
b put in forjhal niirposKt jkpairidof
making them lat enough for bacon; but as I
did not wish lo keep them another y ear, I de
termined to try what effect cooked fond
would have on tiiem, as I was well convinced
that they could not be made fat on raw com
and potatoes; and with this view, 1 put them
into a close pen, with sufficient pine straw in
it to keep Ihe hogs from the dirt. I theu boil
ed sweel potatoes until they would mash up
freely, into which 1 stirred corn meal until
the whole liecaine muh; and afler feeding them
on this, until they appeared satisfied, I gave
them raw potatoes, and sometimes turtiipi,
with the lops on. I nder this treatment, thy
fa tu ned faster than 1 had ever seen hugs lie
lore.. In two weeks alur 1 put litem mto the
close pen, ihey were lat enough lor any ue,
fatter than ihey ever could have been m ule on
corn at that age, or on any one kind of food.
Hogs osightnever to be pntoti a floor of plank,
nor rails, il pine straw can be had: because
Ihey cannot be made comfortable on a floor of
pKuudAll l pen Iwo feet dw:p wrtrrprne4tffrreT,-a eynnriirriyprr;
straw, and whi n it becomes Mil, put in wore
straw. Iu this way, the hugs cau bp made
comfortable, and no 'part of the in. mo re lost.
A. E. ERNEST.
Macon, Ga., July, 1850.
ti.
SELECTION Or8EEJCORN.
Th mouth seed eofe ehotjM'b eehscteil.
Il can only be well doiieHawrfe field, by gutli
cring those can with "siii
ond ripe, and taken I mm stalks which have
two or more well tilled ears lo each. In this
way, the best varieties of com in cultivation
have been obtained. ft '
AfUriTALTOMATO RECIPE.
The following has been handtul to us as the
recipe of a good house wife, for preserving or
curing" tomatoes so effectually thai they may
be brought "Ut ut any lime between the sea
sons "good as Jiew," with precisely the
same flavor uf the original article. Get sound
tomatoes puul tiiu u, aud pre para just the- sauiu
as for cooking; squeeze them as fine as
possible, ptit them into a kettle, bring them
to a boil, season with pepper and salt; then
putolirm. instone jugs, fciken directly from
water in which thev, (the jugs.) have been
boiled. Seal the jugs immediately, and keep j
mem, in a jjwiu coui piaee. iu.
TO MAKE HENS LAY.
'JThc SoHth Ciiroliti inn say s a neighbor slaves
that hog's lard is the licet thing that he can
find to mix with the dough he .gives to his
JjAOfc-. 11 aAjjUlwi uut cut ot'.tkis-firt a large
as! a walnut, will set a hen to laying immedi
ately after she hat been broken tip Jruut -sitting,
and that, by feeding them with the fat
occasionally, bis hens continue laying through
the whole winter. lb.
-THE PKKSS,
ESSAY ON ADVERTISING.
In tho view of the writer, the advantages of
Advertising are more important that has been
usually supposed. They are, to Ilia mind,
three-fold
Fiisi They benefit the person advertising.
Third To the community at large. '
1st. That the business of AdveriisingeXlon
sively, as it is now conducted, js not in a pe
cuniary sense advantageous lo the owner of
goods who wishes to dispose of them, and a-
vaila himself of this medium to it known, is
indeed a reflection upon the shrcwednese of
the business world, which results in other re
spects will not justify, Tits writer dot-snot
doubt that the business of Advertising in litis
country (and particu larly in New England
and the Middle States,) has nearly, if not quite,
i t i i.... . fi'L- . ...
uounieu 111 llic last leu yearn. i uo reason is
obvious. Those who have done il have found
their account in so doing, ll has yielded an ad
ditional profit, by widening die circle ofcustoin
ersaniitliiiseiiabling them u run off a larger
quantity of good, in a given time. This point is
worthy of a moment's consideration. A mer
chant may say, 1 have a fresh lot of goods
ny run of custom is established 1 shall cer
tainly sell them why should I advertise!
There orr somo who reason thus. But they
stand as certainly in their own light as though
they kept Iheir stores open but kill' the basi
I less hours. True, their old customers may
continue to trade with them! hut, ever new
customer that is drawn in by the advertise
ment issued, assists to dispose ol the stock in
so much less lime than before so that, if by
availing themselves of the advertising medium
they sell their stuck in half or three-fourths
the time they otherwise would, the additional
profit is increased on the increased snle in a
much large ratio. The sale of die first h ill
was attended wilh eeruiiu necessary-expenses
of rents, clerks,' &c.t but thn portion sold in
addition had lo bear but a small per ccntage
of the neo;ssary expenses of the sumi, . The
rents, the clerks, the incidentals were nearly
the same as formerly, but the goods were sold
in half the time, and the profits thus increased.
Tliut AdoertMne inakei biuintu, it a fact
to welt (itublhkrd at to teaoi no room for
doubt. It is the testimony of all experience.
How are advantages offered by the advertiser,
to be extensively known, except through the
universal. mcih.u!lu.jioy cojisuit:slbjf, li Jiie.
MEWSPAPBRI .
A judicious system of Advertising has ziven
that large class of businessmen who have been
so sensible as to avail themselves of it, an ad
vantage ove those who do not follow it that
cannot be surmounted except by the adoption
i'm "pq uiuue w .u. i nririitir
ahiea the hilsioess oi to proclaim what' he
has M dispose or, llfroughoui the landj ilia ol
a eonsequence to disHMe of it more rapidly
than his neighbor whois not put up lo the times
in this respect. Aud thus selling rapidly, lie
turn his money oliener and can sell lower
than Uiat neighbor, and yet make as mucli
money a kc an as hk sells moue eootw in die
same lime. The maxim of a "nimble sixpence
bring worth more than a sluggish shilling." is
never more clearly illustrated than in the ben
efits as shown in Advertising. These advan-
.lageaare bovumiee; more md rrmre aparenlj t
am happy to say, undr the excellent system
of Advertising now well perlrcu-d by Mr.
me puniic ear, may nave ineir Advertising
done at established rales, with but slicht trou
ble to themselves: A system too, which is fast
gaining the confidence of ihe public, and
which must ultimately do an immense busi
ness. :
I now come to my 2d proposition, that Ad
vertising lienrhls the purchaser the great con
lumiiig puhJicu netnitf
con vice the candid mind of this truth. The
newspaper, at the pressent day, is not consult
ed only for ci ents that are transpiring - all
over the world, or hir interesting essays, or in
structive and pleasant reading. It is ron.ulted
as eagerly in regard to buying aud selling in
regard to the wants of the community, or its
redundaiici as for any other matter of infor
mation:." The advantage is reciprocal. I
have an article to ae'l some one (perhaps
many.) are in want of that very article. They
patiently await the issue of that map of "mov
ing incidents by flood and field,'.' the newspa
per, and there find, w hat weeks of personal,
anxious injury might have otherwise failed to
disdosr, that thu artiete-thev want, tfieTihip;
ihe house, Ihe goods, are with me. A hall doz
en lines, a trifling sum expended, have saved
that purchaser the trouble thai otherwise
would have ensued, and of days' ttino lost.
Both parlira are pleased and benefited the
medium of exchange paeses from one to the
so indispensable has this system become, that
a business community of the most mode t size,
would lie almost thrown into chaos, if it were
broken up, jMcn consult I lit morning sheet
and hioro business is dune through hints
gathered from that, than by all oilier hints put
together. That sheet has become as indis
pensable arjhr Icrlger, und tt ntr it Implicit-'
iy studied abd. heeded, by the mercantile com-
mwilty. -
The 3d proposition, that Advertising is of
advantage lo the community at large, irreyvrect
ive of buyer or seller Ins one which, ifeustuUl-
f d by proof, will much commend the buirm-si
lo the public upprouaUon, in a, higher sense
than it has often been viewed, and give a dig
nity to the transaction above the mere sum of
dollars and eenta involved.
To sustain the important position I assume,
I must allude, for a moment, lo thu value lo the
community, uf a will conducted newspaper.
. ..... i i ,
il is ioo laie 10 question una ana lew uo so.
Tft fact is admitted itt ils .-broadest, aetiae i-
this land of newspapers and readers. 'Who
does not avail himself of this medium : of in
telligence? 'I'he laborer and the employer
the mechanic aud the capitalist-ldte mereliant
and die mau who Tivea oil his inleiest all ac
knowledge ihe power of the newspaper jiress
anffcoitsuUlts cotiiufniTroiif flay to day with
iucrtascd zeal. Tha influence of the news
paper is immense in iliis country, and no one
who is a lover of rational liberty and a Repub
lican form of government, can wish it less
Whds the press is free aa now, tvrannv or op-
-nrenio'tt Tfatl WfeT ' overeoine our national
manhood, J he glory of tins land, which is
u radiaung the w hole earth, eanoot be d i mmed,
And ycl lew newspapers in this country can
live and become strong, without devoting a
portion of llicir co'utnns to Ivcrtuemenuj.
The rate of newspapers is so low among as
'thaHhe-iiii'rc suliw;rfoioir-pric-wrtTrm
oilier aid, will not sustnn diem. The ablest,
most permanent, und most iulluential papers in
this country arc those mat are enabled, ny
yielding a portion of Uieir columns to adver
iiietueuts to put a quota of the income front
that source on to the paper itself for its im
provement devoting that expense to it which
ierrurimm
The writer's observation iu this respect has
been ot long conltnuance, and the lact baa com
mended, itself to bun very many limes in the
last twenty years, iu tho rise and fall of news
papers. - -I .
If then the newspaper n so indispensable as
the guardian of our liberties addressing Itself
lo thousands where Die living voice can reach
but hundreds-how valuable is any mode by
which it obtains strength aud permanency.
How important a duty it becomes to sustain
it. How few tii ink that, in the communica
tions they make thiough the columns of a news
paper which iu expense is bul trilling and re.
lurtra with tenfold interest to Ilia advertiser
bow lew indeed diiuk, that besides this pecuni
ary advantage growing out of their liberal
views, is the higher, nobler one, ol
strengthening ihei.newspaper of tljpir choice
of giving ha widercirciilation,iirnl more pow
er to Its elforts of speeding tt with more cer
tainty and ellieiency into the family circle:
thus laying the foundation in die youthful
members ul'lhoae circles, by jinpcrcrpliblerdoj
grees for good men and women elrengthening
the. patriotism and virtue or nil, and blessing
the state with ihosBrirlcsl jewels, good citt-
jtens! And yet, out of well digested ays
tern of Advertising, springs, IcgiUmately, such
advantages na these; growing as they spread,
till tit good tlioy do Iwcomej iintnense, ua-al-
eulable. , lie is not wise, either in a worldly.
nioral, or social rente, with so great results
springing from such a line of business con
duct, who is not the ocxr.jtors r Aran or a
juuiciora sYstca or aovkktisino.
" Palmer' IlegUler,
t aTun o7 a j n e viTivir. it . "' '
A 1'rartiral Story, J'truMnlli Tuhl
Pleasant day this noighbor Gaskill," said
tins farmer lo another, coining Into the barn of
the latter, who was engaged in separating the
chaff from ihe Wheat crop, by the meiui of a
fan. . , ...
Very fine day, friend Alton any uewsf'
returned Ihe-individual addressed.
N othiiig of importance! have ciillrd over
In see if you wouldn't join Cariienter and my
self intaking the paper tl.is year. The price
w only ta.aO." ...
Aouiiiic cheap that you ilun t want re-
hirned Gankill, in a positive toncf "1 don't be
lieve ill newspapers: I never heard of una do-
wg-any good; nd notriinj; (Sin tie got'oot oft
them unit! n; reartitirottglli ,:T.hy wotrtit Oa;
Be goou Kir a rent il a paper came every we;
com hill.". . ,- .-
"Hut think, neighbor Gaskill, how much iu
(urination your gals would get if they had a
fresh newspaper every week, filled with all
the latest intelligence. The time they would
spend in reading, would be nothing to what
ther would cam." v-t - z
And what would they gaijv, I wond-r! get
their heads filled with nouscnsu al stones,
-Look at&iLl S Plackj is'utshea line specimen
of your newspaper reading g.i!? Not worth
to her father three ptimkin seeds. Ircnti m-
Aay n could see a change in Sally 1 tsha-
began to spruce up and look smart. First
came a bow on her Sunday-bonnet, and ihen
gloves logo to meeting. Alter thai, she must
be scut to school again, and that at the very
lime wheu she began to be worth something
about home. And now she ha got a forty
piano, and a fellow Co toes every weuk to teach
Then vou won't join us, oeiirhbort ' Mr.
Alton aaid, avoiding a useless reply to Uaa ,
kill. - - - - , - -ft
"O no! that I will not, Mo.iey, thrown
away on newspapers ia worse than wasted. I ,
never heard of iheir doirg any good., Too
lime spent in reading a newspaper every weak
would be enough lo ratsea hundred bushels of
IKiiatoea. Your newspaper, in toy opinion,
is a dear bargain at any price," . .. .
Mr. Alton changed lli subject, and sooa
left neighbor Gaskill to his luneies. , . . ,;
About titn-e inuntlis ulWrwarda, however,
they sgaiti met, as they had frequently dona)
during die intermediate time. . .
'Have you sold your wheat yet!" as'.sj'
Mr, Alton. , .. m 0;' .. i;t .',.(. :(i.
"V ia I sold it day heforo yestcrday.l,'.
"lluw much did you gel lor ill" . ,
"Ei8ht-fiv conts." . , r . , : . - ,;
"No uiore! Why, I thought every one knew,
that the price had advanced to ntnety-tiva-
'errr.lo"whom'rj'ttsa tettf
"To Wakeful, the storekeeper in R '
He met me day beforo veaU-.-iiay, aud asket' -
me if I had auld my crop yeu I aaid I hail
not. lie then oliered tu take it at etghtv-hvw
cents, tlie market prioc; and 1 said he might
as welt have It, as there was doubtless lilil
chancn of in 'tteiiig. Yesterday he sent over;
his' wagiba Slid Uiuk "it' away -'"C ..iiT5
"'I'lns win hardly fail in Wakeful. He
Naflio lo Uwalao, ajidoffurcd tr buy my crop
at eighty-livi, llut i had just received my
newspaper, in which I saw that in oonsequeitirss -of
aeeouiivs froul Europe of a short crop, grant
had gone up. 1 asked him ninety-five, which,
afler some haggling, he consented to give."- 1
'lid he pay ytrn nuiety-.livel ,'excUitmed .
Gaskill, itj surprae aud chagrin,- i ' . - ' :
"lie certainly Utd." , i J
" Too bad! N better than downright ohent- -
ing, to take such aahainef.il ad vantaju ofinau'r
ignorance."' ,. ,.- . -,, -.i
"Uerumiy, WaRelul cannot be justtbed irt
his comlucV'. refilled Mr. Alloti.--lnsnot rijrbi
fer one man to take advantage ol another man '
ignorance, and get his gootU for less than Iheyi
are worth. Hut does not any man deserve to
suff.-r who remains wilfully tgnomnl, iu a
world wfieri he knows" there rd "alway a
nough ready ttl JtHil tliemstlvea of hut ujno
ranoet Had you been willing to 1 eiend
(2,50 for the use of a newspaper fora whole?
year, you would have saved in the single tfein
of your jvheat crop alone, fourteen dollara!
just diink of that. Mr Wakeful takes the new-,
ijJtinsrjbJxy.U alwaya-
prepared to maita good bargains with somo.
halt dozen other around here, who have not.
fwit enough to provide themselves with tlie)
only stir avenue ol information on all subject
tlio newspaper." ,
"Have you sold your potathes?" asked Caot
kilt, wilh some couoern in hi voice, . ,
0 rwrrotyetir-Wakefbl ha been making
Die oilers Cor the lasl ten days. - Hut fiom tlitt, -.
prices they are' bringing in Philadelphia, I
uu well satisfied they are about 30 cents here,
About thirty! Why, I sold lo Wakeful fut
about twenty-six cuius.".,,: . 4
A great dunce yon were, if I uust speak;
so plainly! hejiffureif me'J cent, .for 400 .
liUahets,' 'But I declined iinj I was right. '
They are worth 30 uday and at that puce ( -am
going lo sell," ; , : . .
"Uu'i it loo bad!" ejaculated the ntorufiedj '
farmer, walking backwards and forwatda, inv '
patiently. "There are literally sunk is)
the sea. .That Wakeful ha cheated ova moat
Outrageously ," .... .- , ...
"And all because yon were too close to take.
newspaper, I should call that saving at tlie
spigot, and letting out at tlie hunjholu, uwigh..
bor GaakUU'V ,-
"I should think il was indeed. . This very
day I'll scud off money for newspaper! aud
if any one gala ahead of me again he'U have,,
to be wide awake, 1 can tell hnu.'' -,
"Have you heard of Sally mack! ukei)
Mr. Alum. alter a brief sileuue. , ' ,
: "No. .What stflsarr - .. I
kfc!h loaves home lo-morrw, snd goes ta
R ." , - .. , . . ,.,
Indi-ed! , What fort"
kllr father takes die ncwapapcx, youj
imw. .
Yas
And has given her a good education." . .
v-So they a.iy but 1 sould never see that it,
has done any good for her, except to niaks Iwr
good for Bottling." " v : - ,v - ...j --
"Wot quits so bad a thaVxIricnd Gnskillv
Dm to proceed; two weeks ago, Mr. lilack
saw an advertiatnuent in Ilia .paper for young;
lady to leach muaus and some other branulies
is ills seminary at' R ..11a showed it la
Sally, snd she asked hi in to ride over and see
about it. . He did ao, then returned for Hally,'
aud went back again- 'I'he trustees of tum,
seminary liked her very much, and engageit
her at tlie salary ol V1UU a year. J o inor-
row site gut'i to take charge of her respyclivo .
classes," ,,,; ,.T;. , , .(...,. '.',-) t
Von cannot, surely, be in earnest!" former
Gaskill said, with look of profound asiuuish, -iiitnt,.'
... .....
"It's every word true." replied Mr. Alton..
And now you will hirdtyeay llut newspa- i
per is tuur at any price, or that the reading of
them has spoiled SeJIy Ulack," . . . s
-tjWI Hfced upon tlut Bud, fx uiay .
moiuWab J lieu rauung hj iiad, lie hall ejac
uuited with a sigh: , , ( - 7
fll I haven t been a Confounded fool, I came
plaguey near it! Hut! will 08 a I out no longer. ,
I'll mbsKribe lor a nnwspaper to morrow sco
if i don'tr--; --:---"r:,:- .
inXT3,TJ.VCf)KBi:SFOXDESTS.
1. VVhcn you take an article to an Editor,
expecting him to tell you directly itbethcr he
will or won't print iuyou might better take
along a horsew hip, li mit, he will be apt to
enusider it more reasonable and proper that
your article should wait ils turn tor perusal
aud judgement than that he should putaside tlie
work pressing upon him in order to suit your
convenience. , .
3. It is not TeasonaWe to send an article to i
an Editor, without iituiiating whither he shall
transmit in case he does not print it, and jj '
Oand lit h'lunt a wrek or a;ore aftirwanl. U
ia far easier fur you to keep Vcopy of any
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