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taken to a pile on a vacant lot, and from there is hauled 

 to the farm in two or four horse wagons, and put in a big 

 pile, with a good coat of locomotive cinders, and coal 

 ashes covered over the top, where it is thoroughly rotted 

 before using ; for it is composed of all manner of things 

 gathered up in the streets, yards, and stables. As soon 

 as possible after it is hauled on the land, it is plowed in 

 about two or three inches deep in winter, and in the 

 spring, after the weeds have got well under way, he plows 

 them all under, five or six inches deep, and sows millet, 

 oats, peas, barley, clover, grass, &c., and harrows in ; thus 

 killing the weeds and allowing the crop to get a fair start. 

 All the produce is sold or used as hay, and also a crop of 

 crab grass. Of the latter, he cut up a crop some years 

 ago from among the corn upon 100 acres, which he sold 

 for $600. 



Mr. Moore, it is proper to remark, was not bred a 

 farmer, though now one of the best in the country. That 

 is, he makes as much, if not more to the hand, than any 

 other man in that region ; and all because he understands 

 the value of manuring, and following a judicious system 

 of cultivation, instead of the too common skinning one. 

 Besides the profitableness of his farming, his farm is 

 kept in the neatest order of any one in that neighborhood 

 of neat farmers. Altogether, his example is worthy of 

 commendation, and profitable to be noted and followed. 



Mr. Robinson's Tour. — No. 17. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 9:148-49; May, 1850] 



[February ?, 1850] 



North-Carolina Farming. — Having heretofore given 

 some items of the products and expenses of cotton, sugar, 

 rice, and wheat culture, I will now give, by way of com- 

 parison, the amount of expense and sales of a corn plan- 

 tation on the Roanoke River. 



The tract contains 1,785 acres, valued at $13 per acre. 

 About 1,250 acres of it are open land ; 650 usually in corn, 

 the remainder in grass, or "resting." It is composed of 



