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as many as we do, and at trifling expense, we never trouble ourselves 

 much ; at this time I must have over three pigs of three to six months 

 old to each member of my family. 



The mange in hogs I cure with sulphur in food, and washing with 

 suds, or feed with poke root ; or it boiled and the liquor fed with 

 meal or grain. 



The mange in dogs I cure by washing them daily in tan ooze, and 

 give sulphur occasionally. 



The diseases in sheep have proven my master when they do occur, 

 which is but seldom in our native flocks, but in my Bakewell crosses 

 I have lost a large number, and generally about yeaning time. 



We will now return to the State from this digression, which I 

 trust may be of service. This State is well known to be a cotton 

 growing one, and too many, both at home and abroad, think it can do 

 nothing else. This is an error, as before shown j but, to be more 

 particular : From very respectable authority, I can say that wheat 

 has been grown weighing sixty to sixty-eight lbs. per bushel — that 

 forty bushels have been cut from one acre — one hundred and one bush- 

 €ls of sound corn gathered from one acre, out of a fifty acre field — 

 not meaning that all would be as good, but that it was all cultivated 

 alike. 



I have seen an entire crop, within three miles of me, of one hun- 

 dred acres, that averaged fifty bushels per acre, and not a shovel full 

 of manure to all or any part of it. I have cut, from what was sup- 

 posed to be a fair average spot of my little crop, at the rate of four 

 tons of well cured millet grass per acre. I have also cut at the rate 

 of 36,000 pounds of green corn fodder, and the driest season known. 

 I have shown here native grass, " nimble will," that measured near 

 five feet, and crab grass that exceeded six feet in length, not including 

 a joint where roots had sprung from. Hogs killed out of the woods, 

 that never ate ten grains of grain to our knowledge, weighing two 

 hundred and twelve pounds ; others that were raised in the range, 

 but stalled before killing, weighing from two hundred to over four 

 hundred pounds, and but one of them over two years. 



Will this not satisfy ? Had we the energy, industry and improving 

 spirit of our northern brethren, we could do any thing in husbandry ; 

 but unfortunately, our northern friends, when settling among us, soon 

 get to be as lazy as we denizens of a southern clime are. 



I know of nothing that could add more to the welfare of this my 

 adopted State than disseminating agricultural facts and agricultural 

 knowledge, generally speaking. Our legislators cannot be induced 

 to do any thing in this matter, and although agricultural books and 

 papers are very cheap, yet my fellow-citizens in the mass, seeing no 

 utility, will not subscribe or buy. We " must wait a time with pa- 

 tience," until time has the opportunity to work the change, which I 

 am happy to say is now going on. Good plows and effective plow- 

 ing has done much to assist in bringing about this change, and proba- 



