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compelled to labor on the road for the rich mans' 1 consider that the whole subscription price of tlie work 

 use, whilst the rich man is attending to Ins own amounts not quite to 10 cents a week, they would find 



that it is almost as cheap to buy and retain, as to bor- 

 row and return the numbers.] 



DKATH OP THE MULE S COLT. 



To tlie Editor of the Fanners' Kegister. 



* * * * As the birth of the phe- 

 nomenon, my mule colt, was recorded in your 

 Register, so I will, with your jjermission, record 

 his death, that the learned may speculate upon it. 

 He was born, as I inlbrmed you, and as will be 

 seen in your Register of May or June 1834, on 

 the 23d of A])ril 1S34; and died on tlie 20th of 

 October 1834, at night. Tiie particulars are as 

 Ibllovv-s: on Friday evening late, I was inlbrmed 

 that llie mule colt was sicl<: upon exaniinmg him 

 I thought he had the staggers. He was Ireely 

 bled, and put m a lo*t and went to eating fodder; it 

 was now dark, and I determined that in the morn- 

 ing I would commence blistering, purging, and the 

 use of injections, which I have never known to 

 fail if taken in time — but in the morning he had 

 the lock jaw, and so nothing could be done effec- 

 tually for him, and he died on the Monday night 

 Ibllowing. He was weaned, and running in a good 

 pasture with a horse colt, also just weaned, which 

 is doing well. Now was it the staggers, or what 

 disease? Or Avas ever a colt delivered of a mule 

 known to live? I should have been much pleased 

 to raise it, and to have known if it could continue 

 its species. 



.lOHN T. KILBY. 



Nansemond, 22d October, 1834. 



business, or pvn-suing his own pleasure. It is about 

 the oidy case in our country in wliich taxation is 

 not proportioned to jiroperty. 



[The road law, and its execution, are obnoxious to 

 more and heavier charges than that brought by our 

 correspondent. The subject is important, and its dis- 

 cussion will produce much benefit, as soon as it appears 

 that our legislators are disposed to remove any of the 

 useless yet heavy burdens which now prsss upon ag- 

 riculture.] 



Amherst, \Wt October, 1834. 



Our crops of corn and tobacco (the latter our 

 staple) arc better than usual, and all salely housed 

 from frost. 



Buckingham, October \Alh, 1834. 

 » # # * Sq soon, however, as I fix upon a 

 ])Iace of location, I shall avail myself of the valu- 

 able information afforded by your excellent jour- 

 nal. I conceive that no man-, however limited his 

 agricultural operations may be, should deprive 

 himself of the pleasure of reading, and the in- 

 struction thereby gained in relation to the best 

 methods of cultivating the earth, for the considera- 

 tion of the small sum ot $5., I am well convinced 

 that the Register has imparted new vigor to the 

 system of improvement, in every section where it 

 is taken. The steril fields are already beginning 

 to show marks of reviving fertility, and the abo- 

 minable system, so long practiced, of ploughing up 

 and down hills, is gradually giving way. It gives 

 me much pleasure to find that the Register, so far 

 from decreasing in interesting and valuable com- 

 munications, as was anticipated bj- many, Avho 

 ought to have known something of the extent of 

 the subjects on which it treats, evidently sustains 

 its reputation, by gradually improving. 



Tuscaloosa, jllabama. 



Our crops of cotton some six weeks since were 

 very promising, more so than I ever saw them; 

 but from the drought, and an insect that cuts off the 

 squares and peribrates the hall grown bolls, our 

 crops will be very much shortened in my section 

 of the state. 



October 7th, 1834. 

 * » * # * tenders his warmest salutations to his 

 respected friend, and hopes that his work is well 

 supported and his zeal unabated. To keep up a 

 given projectile tbrce is not easy. I do all I can for 

 you — but ten will borrow my numbers of the Far- 

 mers' Register, for one that will subscribe. Suc- 

 cess must await you. 



[The fact stated by our correspondent above is not 

 peculiar to his county, for we have had similar reports, 

 and almost in the same words, from others. However, 

 it is gratifying to receive even this kind of attention — 

 for next to having the Farmers' Register bought and 

 read, it is most pleasing to us that it should be borrow- 

 ed and read. But if our friends the borrowers, would ; disposition, and in that one, the man lost only 



FENCING MARLING. 



To tlie Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



* * * * I will not let slijj this opportunity 

 of expressing my gratification that the grievous 

 tax imposed on us by our fii'nce law is becoming 

 the frequent subject of animadversion in the Re- 

 gister, but it is still doubtful if half the evils and 

 difficulties brought on us by the destruction of our 

 timber, quarrels among neighbors, and the em- 

 ployment of our hands and teams so long, have 

 Ijee'n sufficiently pointed out. Cannot some of 

 your correspondents who are competent to the 

 task be induced to undertake this? Every year is 

 adding to the evils we are laboring under, which I 

 feel warranted in saying are dready formidable, 

 and in some cases almost intolerable. 



I have the pleasure of informing you tliat most 

 decided benefit has resulted from the use of marl 

 in this county, particularly on Mr. Sutton's farm 

 near the court house. In a few cases I have heard 

 of a supposed damage from the use of the earth 

 lying above the shells, having impressions only of 

 the shells; from the very little carried out by my- 

 self I thought [ saw an improvement in the corn. 



Although it may be considered somewhat out of 

 season, as the next harvest is so distant, I beg leave 

 to make a short statement on another subject. It 

 has been three years since we have made use of 

 spirits in harvest, having substituted molasses with 

 a small quantity of vinegar (cider would probably 

 be better) — in that lime I can recollect but one 

 case in wdiich a cutter was obliged to stop firom in- 



