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V TftnAWLTOlt: sor 1 cmb. child's dress, lira. R. A. Hamilton, Granville, V. dip. 1 cmb. child's dress, Mrs. T. G. Kittrell, Gran- 1 sliirt vest, Mrs. W. P. Hartcn, Granville, ' 1 1 " - : " Miss Bettie White, " 1 2 shirts, Mrs..W. H. Weaver, " . 2 1 tancypaper basket, Miss P. E, Yancy, Gran ville, , . :":: v: ': li 2 boxes wax flowers, Miss M. A. Rcid,- " I 2 fire screens, Mrs. Dr. Lewis, " 1 2 oil paintings, 1 Crayon, 1 Pastel, Graves & "Wilcox, Warrcnton, . . ' 5 2 oil paintings, Miss M. A. Farish, Oxford, 3 2 Grecian paintings, Miss H. E. Thompson, Oxford. g 2nd dip. : , Discretionary Premiums 1 fancy work table, Mrs. A. C. Harris, Granv'le,-1 1 wiro safe, W. L. Ellington, Henderson, 2 .2 " C. Burnet, 1 1 lot of tin ware, Jas. Furgus on, Henderson, 2 One Essay on the best mode of the cultivation of Corn, Dr. S. G. Ward, Warren, 2 Tho committee on plows not being able to de cide betweenHho two exhibitors awarded the pre miums to each. : The stars indicate the" Arator or Cultivator, as an additional premium. Though persons receiv ing more thau two prcminms so marked, are roj quired to take but one copy of each, and will bo paid the remainder in money. They will be for warded from the office of publication, as soon as we can ascertain the address of persons entitled to them and the number of copies 'required. Pre niiums paid on application or order. Thos. J Blacks all. Treasurer, Henderson; A. C. Harris, Ch'mn. pro temn Executive Committee, Killing Hogs :ix Oldeit Time. The Romans were-notoriously foud of pork. So they studied evcrv artistic method to improve its flavor or add to its delicacy. A living pig was taken, made to swallow vinegar, a great variety of herbs, all boiL- ed together, and then immediately whipped to death 1 and roasted forthwith. The Normans had .a still more barbarous method of killing piggy, in order to render his flesh more palatable. Their, mode of. killing was peculiarly savage. They, thrust a red hot spit through the body of the pig, and'suflered it to die without bleeding. Even if by this method the flesh was made tender, tho re tention of the blood changed its color, and dispos ed it to' more upcedyputrefaction. . NANKIN OR SHANGHAI SHEEP FAST - BREEDING. ' . Theodore Smith, in the Progressive Farmer, says: ;r:'-v-'V"-- - - -..' " On the 13th of September last, or a little moro than ten months ago, I bought four sheep of tho Naukin breed all ewes from a ship that arrived from Canton. They had been on ship-board about . ICO days. I sent them to my farm, Norwalk Island-, Connecticut, for tho purpose of trying sheep raising in a small way. It may be proper to stato that I had no other sheep before these bough t none afterward nobody gave mo any they wcro all I had. In the course of thrco weeks I lost five (remember I had originally but four) and had eleven left, and now I count as many as twentyeix, " Now this story may savor a little of Munchau sen, and unless I explain, will hardly be credited for the truth. The increase of course is the ques tion beforo us. The ewes each had threo lambs, making them sixteen, old and young 5 but one of the ewes was hurt in transporting her to the island, and she died in the act of parturition, with all her. issue, and one other lamb died also, leaving eight lambs and three old ewe's j theso I wintered, and now, both old and young are coming in again, four havi ng done so. -From this second crop, so far, one has two lambs, another has four; still another four ; and one bac five lambs j and when they all shall havchad lambs, which will bo in two or thrco weeks, I shall have as many as thirty-five or forty, all from three sheep in ten or eleven months; and although it may seem.incrcdible, in tho short space of two years, at that-rate, I must have (supposing I parted with none,) ,at least five hundred. Can. Pennsylvania beat this ? I should state another remarkable fact in relation to them, that has oc curred sjhco I saw you: i. ., tho ewes havo with in two weeks gone to tho buck again, and will have lambs again, say by next Christmas, or thrco times in fifteen months." ... ; Small Farms. Wo desire to impress on the common-sense reasoning of every man, tho para mount importance of having no more land in cul ture than can be well cultivated. By no means attempt to manage more than you can manago well. Be a FARMER, not a mere earth scraper, lazily scratching up sufficient earth to destroy tho face ofjhe soil, and throw seed away, or you will always have t'j scratch hard for a living. But make your farm a source of pride, and it will sure lv become a source of profit. Make tho object 16 j be not to have maVy, but RICH acres- - " .-ii ,..,-
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