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ing water is used on ihe meadow. The walls of| 

 the yards are posied uiul closely planked, about I 

 ei<,'lit led hij^li ; the openings in which, as exhi- 

 bitfd, are g;ilcp. 



I iuii nialcmg arrangements for a piggery, on 

 the pliin here exhibited. 1, is the boiling and ve- 

 getable house ; 2 and 3, are apartments for sows 

 ant! pigs, and a boar; 4 and 5, for store hogs. 

 The doors of ihe boiling house, the passage be- 

 tween 4 and 5, and the passage through the gar- 

 den, to be in a direct line; so that a hand cart can 

 be conveniently. used. The spring F, not atlbrd- 

 ing sufficient water (or the piirgery ant! meadow, 

 J intend to convey under ground, Ihrouirh liored 

 logs, by the way oi" the duttcd line K, L,the want- 

 ed supply; lo be served frst to the hogs, then !o 

 the garden or meadow, or pools presently to be 

 mentioned. By raising a head of a lew feet al 

 the start, a bore of two and a iiall" inches will af- 

 ford abundant supply. I have already fin open 

 dilcli in the direction K, L. for the purpose of 

 conveying the creek water, when wanted, to an 

 adjacent field ; yet lor several obvious reasons, a 

 covered conduit is required lor llie use of the pig- 

 gery. 



To the intelligent, all the above is plain saillnir ; 

 but connected therewith, I have another project in 

 my head and heart, whi^h is worthy of develope- 

 ment ; but conlessing my inability, I call on you, 

 Mr. Ruffin, and my neighbor, Professor Arni- 

 strontT, and any, and all oihers, whom either in- 

 terest or chanty may prompt to assist me. We 

 all know that any yiven quantity of putrescent 

 matter, will finally produce its equivalent ; and is 

 it not lime that the larmer had learned to husband 

 all his funds, instead of dissipating theiri for the 

 benefit of the deserts? Can it be more decent or 

 profitable to gather the stale excrements of man 

 and other animals, and prepare these for manuring 

 grounds; than lo prepare and thus use the car- 

 casses of cows, sheep, horses, &c., which may die ? 



I nave as good luck as my neighbors, yet in the 

 course of the year I iiave lour or five cows and 

 horses, and from 40 to 50 sheep and lambs lo die, 

 which have herelolbre been cast on a waste, and 

 suffered to evaporate. These when alive were 

 perhaps worth S150; now first, when dead, if 

 judiciously prepared and used as manure, what is 

 their value? and secondly, what is the most judi- 

 cious preparation 7 



In answer to the first question I would merely 

 remark, that it were absurd to say that the death of 

 a brute is a loss to the world ; and I suppose it 

 equally absurd to assert that the owner cannot de- 

 vise a methoil of appropriaiion which shall renm- 

 nerate him lor the loss. If a barrel of corn be 

 ground and af)plied to the earth as a manure it 

 will yield an additional barrel of corn. If instead 

 ol" applyiniz the meal to the earih, it be fed lo an 

 animal, it will produce its equivalent in flesh ; and 

 if this flesh be led to another animal or lo ihe 

 earth, it will again reproduce its equivalent. It is 

 true thai the atmosphere must and will have its 

 share of all putrefving matter, but as it receives so 

 it gives. It is also irue that (or ihe mutual pros- 

 perity of animals and vegetables, lliere must be a 

 perfect equilibrium of the two materials ; bul most 

 likely it is not in the power of man to reirulate the 

 balance : at any rate it is my sirong desire to hold 

 on to my matters, panicularly to the flesh, a? I 

 consider it the most valuable. 



By looking at the lower end of my cattle yards 

 it will be seen that I have marked two pools; in 

 these I [)ropose depositing and preparing my dead 

 carcasses ibr manuring m}' meadows. For Ibis 

 purpose nujst I use lime, aslies, potash, or other 

 alkali, in connection with the urine irom the 

 yards, or with connnon water, or what 1 It is de- 

 sirable to have it in a liquid stale, and that the 

 bones as well as the flesh be dissolvcil. I propose 

 two pools to each yard, as exhibited, connected 

 at bottom by auger holes ; casiing the carcasses 

 into the uppermost, and when to be emptied, 

 drawing from the lowermost; and if any matter 

 should remain undissolved, more alkali and water 

 lo be added. 



I deem it worthy of promulgation to state, that 

 about twelve years past, I chopped a quantity of 

 old field pine limbs, about six inches long, letting 

 them remain in a pile till I thought they were half 

 rotted, when they were carted lo my cattle yard 

 and attempted to be composted ; but, to my sur- 

 prise, they were preserved by the urine, so that I 

 can to this day find them on a meadow as hard, 

 and apparently as sound as when growing. This 

 experiment proves that posts of any kind of wood 

 may be made as lasting as locust. The draining 

 li'om any horse or cow yard, can be led into a 

 wooden or earthen pool, and the posts deposited 

 therein will be saturated. Mountaineer. 



December 27, 1S39. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



For the Fanners' Register. 



Navigation is restored to our late ice-bound 

 streams, and is rapidly being restored to those 

 north of us ; while, at the same t.me, the rivers of 

 the south-western states, after a long period of 

 droutrhl, have again become navigable. Immense 

 supplies are now poured into market by these 

 channels ; and an active business prevails in all 

 kinds of produce, but at comparatively low prices. 



The British steam packets have been deterred 

 from prosecuiinir their regular trips during the 

 winter; and the New York packets being retarded 

 by adverse winds, we are without recent intelli- 

 iXerice from Europe. 



In the tobacco market there is liitle variation 

 tins month. Tl-.e qnanliiy brought in for inspec- 

 tion is large, but readily finds purchasers at ^3 lo 

 ^4^ per hundred (or lugs, and ^4^ to 8 Ibr leaf. 

 Fine qualities (suitable Ibr export, in leaf,) do not 

 yet sppear. The supply consists chiefly of the 

 lowest sorts, as usual at the commencement of the 

 year. There is no foreign export. 



A srood demand has existed for flour, both for 

 fbreiirn and coastwise shifiment. Supplies have 

 been large and sales commensurate — price Q5^ to 

 5^ — vviih a prospect of decline, particularly when 

 su[)[ilies from the west can arrive freely. The 

 quaniity to be received from thence is very great, 

 and requires an extensive IbreiLrn demand to ab- 

 sorb it. In Oliio wheat is selling at 40 to .50 cens 

 per bushel; flour at $3^ lo 4 ; and corn al 20 to 

 30 cents. In our markeis wheat commands 108 

 to 115 cents. Corn 50 cents. Shipments of bread 

 stufls lo a large extent are made to England, and 

 some to Francf. 



Siq'jilies of cotton are now pourinir in to all the 

 southern am! westcin (oris at tin unprcicdcnled 



