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THE -ABATOR 729 from wool , &c; and present value of ni creaso giving 'the figures for ever i tem amounts to 137,37; costing noth ing, iii the raising, hut a little nay in winter : and grateful attention to the an imals. ; Ilcre is an annual income of nearly one hundred por cent, upon a small lnvestinent in an old ahd wclltrietl pursuit. Look at ye stingy, lazy, hide hound, one-idea six per cent financiers; look at it ye ever-on-thc-stretch seekers and runners aftor new things ye dupes of morus multicaulis, rescue grass, and sorghum suere manias; look at ye sim ple headed-owners of small farms, who think it would he a capital thing for farmers with a little more means to add sheep to their domestic animals, hut it would n't benefit you! Look it, I say, and see how easily all farmers, from the neatest to the least, can, hy a small in- vestmentj.proportioncd to their circum stances, oven down to twenty dollars, add to his stock a source of euro and certain comfort aswcll as profit. I do not here, sir, speak of raising sheep as a main husincss though that can no doubt ho done, in some sections of tho State, as successfully as any where in the world but my object is simply to urge upon our people general ly to adopt sheep of good blood as a part of the live stock of their farms; and I do this with the settled, convic tion of years that it will handsomelyrc pay the little additional outlay, expense and care attending it. They will ulti mately come to it; "and whoever is fore most ni the race will reap the richest reward. As a verv good protection from tho carnivorous appetites of dogs, the sheep may be kept with the cattle, and it is easy to train them to this. I saw , a sheep feeding on the common, on en tering your city recently, when a mis chievous urchin, passing, set his dog on -it, and I expected soon to sec the timid xmd helpless creature cruelly torn ; but it galloped up to a cow a few paces off, mid running first one sideand then the other, eluded the dog, who was afraid to venture too hear the range of the pro . tectinL' animal's horns. Tnis furnished ment'and protection which cattle will extend, tasliecp I I liope those who have experience in this wiiolo matter, in North Carolina, will- give it to the public through your paper. EOE. ' N For tho Arator. CULTURE OF COTTON. Cotton, planted at a propitious time, and well put in, will be up v in ten to twelve days. Its subsequent manage ment requires practical skill an diligent attention. When first beginning to come up, it does great good to. run a small harrow, 15 to 18 inches wide be hind, with teeth on the sides only, so arranged, that they will finely Tjreak all the crusty surface, and at the samctimo not penetrate too deep, nor tear up tho plant, immediately oyer each row. Tho ends of this harrow teeth should bo bent backwards like a crooked elbow, throwing up little v flattened ai ms be hind, inclining outwards on each Lade, which both prevents injury to the rooti of the plant and gives the implement greater cflicien cy in dest roy ing tho first, buddings of grass and weeds which rise up to choke it. Scotching the enemy thus early, gives a fine chance to keep him in check easily tho balance of tho season. In a week or ten days after this run something like a scooW plow a round the plant, which by that time will begin to show considerable vigor; immediately plow out the middles nicely, following with the hoo hands, whose businesB will be to chop out at proper distances in the drill (12 to 20 inches will probably suit in tho most cases), thinning to two stallcs, and drawing a little fine earth around them. All subsequent plowings are best and quickest done with tho sweep, a hoo V shaped, the wings expanding back wards until their ends are two feet a part. It is fixed on a helve like a cutter, and goes in the earth from 1 to 2 inch es deep, more effectually cleaning and loosening the, surface, and less destroy ing the expanding roots of tho plant, than any implement I have sen inuse. ioccular demonstration of the attach-; The first running of the sweep should
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