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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 4 



find the answer ready naade — '■^Why, sir, the lice 

 have nearly deslniyed my stock of hogs /'' Now, 

 dill you evei' linovv a I'm cow lo "l.ise her cud," ordie 

 Willi hollow horn, or a thrifty corn-led hog to reel 

 from lice .' Go into the cnrn-fickl. What waste! 

 the best spots covered with briers and bushes, or 

 lost in water — many places have no corn at all; but 

 hog tracks without number. Examine, if you 

 please, the stacks of wheat, oats or hay — some 

 wet — some rotten — much wasted on the grountl. 

 Ask, what is the matter, and I will venture thi» 

 answer is — "I told the head-man so and so:" 

 when, if lads could be known, the poor man, after 

 telling "'so and so," never went to see; and, in all 

 probal)ility, his neifihhors cows and horses de- 

 stroyed the >tacks — thus "one man soweth. and an- 

 other reaj)eth." 



Horses, beyond all doubt, may be kept in good 

 working order, throuirhout the year, on the usual 

 allowance of oats and hay, with onlv one halfthe 

 usual quantity of corn, (ten ears being the num- 

 ber generally given at each leed.) I have only 

 given from ibur to five ears of corn, at each feed, 

 with the usual quantity of rough (i)od, lor years 

 successively; and, indeed, lor several months in 

 the year, we give no corn at all. But, no man can 

 keep his horses in good onler, for any len<rih of 

 time, without bestowinix personal attention to the 

 subject, whether he leeils on a full allowance of 

 corn or not. The practice of filling the racks witli 

 more hay, or food of any kind, than the horse will 

 consume at one thed, is not only injurious, but 

 wasteliji. We are too apt to think, il" the rack is 

 full, the horse caimot suffer; and, in this way, we 

 ofic-.n find a poor horse standing by a full rack. 

 In regard to colts, calves, &c., much food is also 

 wasted. They may be sufficienily well kept on 

 low grounds or meadow land, without the aid of 

 extra feeding — that is, when the trround is not co- 

 vered with ice or snow. The winter of '36, was, as 

 you know, a very hard one. I then wintered six 

 or seven colts and several calves on a piece of 

 meadow land containin<x fifteen or twenty acres, 

 and thai not very well set with t>rass. My colls, 

 however, became poor — very poor; and I could say 

 with Pharaoh — "Behold, seven other kine came 

 up, poor and very ill-favored, and lean fleshed — 

 Ruch as I never saw m all the land of Egvpt for 

 badness." But this, no doubt, was the conse- 

 quence of my own neirligence in not having a 

 suitable shelter to protect them from bad weather. 

 So, sir, you see I am as ready with an excuse lor 

 my poor colts, as some are lor their poor cows and 

 hogs. My colls and calves, managed in the same 

 way last winter, but sheltered, looked tolerably 

 weil — sufficiently so, at least, ibr {he scrub breed; 

 and I am well acquainted with a trentleman of 

 much observation, who has pursued this plan suc- 

 cessfully (or years. 



The above remarks are made chiefly lo corrobo- 

 rate a statement in regard lo the management of 

 work horses, published in the Farmers' Register 

 some time ago, and signed 



W* 



try's papers lor quite a number of years — we do 

 not know how many — but it is quite an old ac- 

 quaintance. Now, iftheeditors who give it circu- 

 lation, would try to pro|)<igaie apple trees in this 

 new way, they would .soon be able to prove to 

 their readers all al)out the new method. For 

 ourselves, we ieel pertectly satisfied, and liiel 

 willing that our readers should know as much 

 about it as we do ourselves. The method allu- 

 ded to is to ''take shoots li'om the choicest trees, 

 insert them into a poiatoe, and plunge both into 

 the ground, leaving about an inch or two of the 

 shoot above the surfiice." We have tried this 

 imw method, and known it to be tried by others, 

 and the result has been invariably that only one of 

 the combined material grow, viz. — the potatoe. 

 Yankee Farmer. 



NEW METHOD OF PROPAGATING APPLE 

 TREES. 



A paragraph under the above interesting cap- 

 tion, has taken its annual trot through our coun- 



* See excellent article referred to, at page 590 of 

 vol. iii. — Ed. 



STATEMENT OF THE PRODUCTS OF SUCKERS 

 LEFT TO GROW ON CORN. 



To tlifi Editor of tlie Fanners' Register. 



Charlotte, Jane 20th, 1837. 



Whilst my pen is in hand, and paper before me, 

 I will give you a correct statement about the corn- 

 suckers alluded to in a publication of yours some 

 time last summer in the Register. I counted 106 

 hills ol corn which threw out 1.39 suckers — 92 of 

 them bore ijood and measurable ears — 47 produced 

 no ear, that is, no measurable ear. Some of the 

 hills produced three suckers, and each sucker a 

 good ear — others [)roduced two. Sometimes each 

 would be a good ear — then again there would be 

 no ear at all. I could not discover any injury sus- 

 tained from the suckers whatever. It occasionally 

 happened, that the main stalk, throwing off two or 

 three suckers, produced oi' itself two good ears; 

 at the same time the suckers doing their part. 

 Yours, respectfully, 



T. E. SV ATKINS. 



[The foregoing is in answer to ourinquiiy addressed 

 to some of the very few farmers in this region who 

 omit the very troublesome job of keeping their corn 

 suckered — of which the cost is so certain, and the ex- 

 pediency at least very doubtful. Mr. Watkins has 

 practised this plan for several years, and entertains no 

 question but that he profits by letting the suckers alone 

 — and it is very unlikely that he, or other judicious far- 

 mers of his county, can be far mistaken in this general 

 opinion. His expernnent is ver\'' satisfactory so far as 

 it goes. But it would have been much more so, if he 

 had suckered a portion of the field, as usual, and 

 measured and compared its product with adjoining and 

 equal land.] 



A MARE S TWINS OF DIFFERENT RACES. 



MARSH LANDS ON THE CHESAPEAKE. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Poplar Grove, 22d June, 1837. 

 Dear Sir: 



I send you a certified statement of a very curi- 

 ous fact which has hap[)ened, this spring, in the 

 neighborhood of Salem, in New Jersey. In 

 the course of my reading in natural history, 

 I do not recollect to have met with a similar one, 

 at least in the quadruped kingdom. I have seen 



