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and epoils, and occcigioria a bad stand — while 

 ihat intended for nuuniro is picked out ol the jxin 

 house window and Icl't expo.sed to eiiii luid rain, 

 by means of whii-li, ninch of il)e bulk and more 

 of the oil and gas is iocit. For llie last few years 

 I have had a large room built at the side of n^y 

 gin house, under the window. The floor 1 had 

 rei^uiariy tongued and grooved, and made vvaier 

 tight, the sides wcalhur boarded, and tiie lop cov- 

 ered with plank aa securely as possible. Right 

 under tlie window, there is a hole in the top in 

 which the seed is thrown— some time in the month 

 of January, I have ihe top taken olf that the rain 

 may get lo the seed and destroy ihe germinaiing 

 principle— a better plan would be lo keep on the 

 to|), and a lew days before the manure is hauled 

 into the field, have one or more large holes made 

 in it, lo ihe boitom, and hll iheni wiih water. Or 

 it may be left a week or so in the field in small 

 piles. However ihis may be, by preserving the 

 seed from sun and rain as long as possible, more 

 is added or preserved to ihe amount of ihe manure 

 than any one would suppose. The bottom of my 

 floor when seed is removed, always appears satu- 

 rated with oil, and I have nodoubtoil would run from 

 the heap, if ihe floor had been made with a suita- 

 ble inclination. 



This plan I would recommend for the adoption 

 of all who are desirous of increasing the quantity 

 and preserving the quality of their manure at the 

 smallest cosr. Some planters haul their seed into 

 the fields as soon as ginned, and pile it. on leaves 

 or slraw, and making a layer ol' leaves, and one 

 ofseed to the top. This is a good plan — attended, 

 however, wiih some additional labor, and the loss 

 of something in the quality of the manure. All 

 the virtue imparted Uy tb.e cotlon seed to the 

 leaves is preserved, but not better than in ihe seed 

 itself in the box, while much is necessarily lost by 

 evaporation. Bosides the leaves can scarcely be 

 made very available manure by this process in 

 due time — I have not, however, tried it. Other 

 planters haul their seed inl'i the cow and 

 stable yards, and make a sort of compost. The 

 quality of the compost ia grpatly improved, and 

 this manure is perhaps ihe richest in the world, 

 but the loss in quantity is immense and the trou- 

 ble considerable. Now ! go to save lime and la- 

 bor in all things, as much in making and apply- 

 ing manure, as in any thing else. 



There are many opinions as to the method of 

 applying the seed as manure, and the quantity lo 

 be applied. My plan has been with cotton, to 

 run a furrow, fill it up and bed on it, and with corn 

 to drop the grain and throw a handful on it, and 

 do no more until the corn comes up through it. If 

 it produces worms the sun will kill Wiem— if 

 it produces noxious gasi's, destructive to vegetable 

 life, they evaporate, and if something is lost in 

 the strength of the manure much time is gained 

 in the method of application. It answers well. 

 1 know by experience. Some sow their seed 

 broad cast, plough them in and [ilant. I cannot 

 think this n good plan, though I have heard it 

 highly commended. For small grain, for which 

 nothing is so good as cotton seed— I know it does 

 well, for every grain then tias its manure— but be- 

 fore the corn or coltoa roots can well reach the 

 centre of the rows, manure so disposed must be 

 greately impaired. Some persons contend (hat 

 not less that a hundred bushels ofseed la the 



acre will do any good — others that thirty bushels 

 are sufficient. The iruih lies between. 1 usually 

 apply a wairon load lighlly thrown on — proba- 

 bly about 70 bushels, un cotton ground, and on 

 corn perhaps not over fifty bushels. Any quan- 

 tity will do good, and ibr my own part I have 

 never thouglit \ had done harm by putting loo 

 much. 



I intended when 1 began to have said some- 

 thing of the system oi' purchasing cotton seed for 

 manure, now adopted by many excellent planters, 

 but 1 have already made this article too long, and 

 most deler my rejiarks for the present. 



Short Staple. 



WONDERS OF CULTIVATION. 



From tlie Carolina Planter. 



There is scarcely a vegetable which we novi? 

 cultivate, that can be found to grow naturally. 

 Bulibn has stated that our wheat is a fictitious 

 production, raised lo its present condition by the 

 art of agriculture. Rye. rice, barley, or even 

 oals, are not to be found wild, that is to say grow- 

 ing natural in any pari of ihe earth, but have been 

 altered by the industry of mankind from plants not 

 now resembling them, even in such a degree as 

 lo enable us to recognize their relations. The 

 acrid and disagreeable opium graveolens has been 

 transformed into lielicious celery, and the colewort, 

 and plant of scanty leaves, not weighing altogether 

 half an ounce, has been improved into cabbage, 

 whose leaves alone weigh many pounds, or into 

 the cauliflower of considerable dimensions, being 

 only the embryo of a lew buds, which in their natu- 

 ral state would not have weighed as many grains. 

 The potato again, whose introduction has added 

 millions to our population, derives its origin from 

 a small bitter roof, which grows wild in Chili and 

 Monte Video. 



1 ALLOWANCE OF WATER TO HORSES. 



I From the Sporting Magazine. 



t It is by no means an uncommon notion that if 

 j horses are to be got into condition for work, they 

 I should be allowed to drink but a very small quan- 

 tity of water. On what physiological basis this 

 opinion is founded, I conltjss appears to me a per- 

 fect mystery. Nevertheless, as many persons 

 adopt this treatment, it is filling to notice it. For 

 my own part, I have ever found that it is an ex- 

 tremely bad plan lo stmt a horse in his water, and 

 have consequently always made a practice of leav- 

 ing plenty of it at all times witliin reach of every 

 horse I have had. Of course 1 do not intend to 

 say that when a horse comes in heated li'om ex- 

 ercise lie should be suffered to drink, or should 

 have a bellyfull of water jusi prior lo being ridden ; 

 but if a horse be watered ad libitum in the morning, 

 he will not require to drink again for some hours, 

 and should never be allowed to do so then unless 

 perleclly cool. Those horses that are only sup- 

 plied with a limited quantity of water at a time, 

 and are never permiiled to slake their thirst ful- 

 ly, will be much more liable to be griped, if at 

 any time they by chance should drink their fill, 

 ihan those that are always suffered to take as 

 much as nature dictates to them : but should a 

 horse liave been hard worked and come into his 



