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same at the latter place, but which happens to be 

 nn unusual variety there, meets with no sale in 

 New York at a very low price. 



Some ol'lliose in South Carolina may not make 

 eo while a lime as the norihcrii, but it will be 

 equally stroni; and similar for mortar, and lariher 

 in the quarry it maybe fiund purer. Very little 

 of it, however, will be liable even to this objection. 

 That from Jacksonboro' is reujarkably while. 



By openinnr the same bed on the Savannah ri- 

 ver, where it must occur, with a few kilns there, 

 and also on the navigable pans of the Saritee and 

 Edisto, a company of enterprisinjr men, or one 

 man with a capital, mii:ht, t believe, supply all the 

 lime required for Charleston, Beaufort, and the 

 who'e southern coast, lor half the firesent cost oC 

 She Thomaston lime, and afford it to the neijih- 

 borinsr planters at a price, which would make it 

 fin object to them to use it for renewing worn out 

 iands, and keeping up those under immediate 

 cultivation, without their being compelled contin- 

 ually to clear npw land, and cultivate extensive 

 tracts (or crops, which, with the aid of lime, might 

 be produced on iialfihe number ol'acres. 



These observations, a traveller's notes merely, 

 are at your service, Messrs. Editors, and il' they 

 may call attention to some of the neglected ad- 

 vanianres of this country, it will adbrd me much 

 pleasure, that I made ihetn. J. T. H. 



RED ROOT, IN CLOVER SEED. 



From tlie New Genesee Farmer. 



As the time for buyinir and sowintr clover and 

 srrass seed is at hand, permit me to raise a warn- 

 ing voice, lor farmers to beware of sowinjr fbul 

 seeds on their lands, especially that of m/ rno<.— 



I consider this weed a much worse enemy to the 

 wheat grower than even the Canada thistle. It has 

 already obtained a lasting foothold on some good 

 wheat farms in this section, to the great detriment 

 of the crop, and, in my estimation, reduced the 

 value of the land about one haiC For, when the 

 iiround once becomes seeded with it, it is next to 

 impossible ever to get rid of it; as the seed is 

 produced very abundantly, and is of such an im- 

 perishable nature, that it will lie dormant in the 

 ground (or years till a favorable opportunity pre- 

 sents, when it will spring up and seed anfain most 

 plentifully. The seed is rather lartrer than that of 

 clover, of a brown color, nearly round, rough and 

 very hard. Any person acquainted wiihlt will 

 readily detect it in clover or irrass yeed ; but those 

 who have never seen it would not be apt to ob- 

 s^rveiU IMoNROE. 



CARROTS AS FOOD FOR HORSES. 



From the New Genesee Farmer. 



JVlr. Geo. ShefTer, of Wheatland, called at the 

 seed store, a few days since, and gave us some 

 nccount of his success in the culture and use of 

 roots, lor stock; particularly in ftjeding horses on 

 carrots. He raised last season, beside other roots, 

 about 300 bushels of carrots, which he feeds most- 

 \y to three working horses, giving then one bushel 

 each per day, toarether with hay. He has fed 

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them in this manner nearly three months steady 

 and kept them ai work most of the time. He for- 

 merly led his horses half a bushel of oats each per 

 day, with hay; and from the results of his expe- 

 rience, he is fully convinced that one bushel of 

 carrots is worth as much for horses as half a bushel 

 ofoats. His horses eat much less hay than when 

 fed on grain, and keej) in as good order, and appear 

 as well able to work. He thinks that horses fed 

 on carrots, with a small quantity of oats and hay, 

 will do belter than when led on oats and hay only. 



DIVEnS THINGS. 



For the Farmers' Register. 



In looking over your two last numbers, I have 

 been amused as well as instructed to see how doc- 

 tors disagree, and my wonder is much excited to 

 find that some who have railed and travelled their 

 patient in " seven league boots," have called a 

 halt, and propose something that is belter. I 

 wish they may succeed. JVly experience has 

 taucht me ihat the constitution of land is perpetu- 

 ally varying and changing as you supply it with 

 calcareous and vegetable maiter. Any vegetable 

 matter is good ; but that which lias been animal- 

 ized, that is, passed through the intestines of some 

 animal, is ureatly prelerable. With profound re- 

 spect for all clover-lay farmers, I would suggest 

 that they cut their clover, and, if they please, 

 throw it into their farm-yards, until it is well satu- 

 rated with urine and tlie fluid excrement, and in 

 iliat state spread it, thick or thin, give it a dress- 

 ing of'80 to 50 bushels of lime, and bury with two 

 2ood horses. If the land thus treated be dry, you 

 will have better crops of corn, wheat, or clover, 

 than the same land produced w!ien fresh from the 

 wood. Some land will yield better than others, 

 and so it is of some fields ; I presume lor this plain 

 reason, that they are constitutionally different. My 

 own farm is divided into seven fields, (besides 

 lots,) lour of 60 to 70 acres are thus cropped : first, 

 corn, wheat, or oats, then clover, clover pastured 

 freely. Three fields are appropriated to follow 

 thus; wheat, clover, clover or oats, wheat, clover. 

 My corn land gets all the manure I can give it 

 during the spring, the fallow the balance. Of 

 those seven fields, no two are alike constituted. 

 I selected the dry lands for corn, the wet for fal- 

 low, and I would particularly recommend this 

 practice to young beginners, or old who have be- 

 gun wrong. 



It is contrary to all of nature's laws, that 

 land filled and saturated with water should im- 

 prove, or produce grain; and any application of 

 manure, lime or piaster, is a folly as well as a loss. 

 I will demonstrate, if I have time, that the poor 

 land of Virginia wants nothing but lime, clover 

 and plaster, to make it good ; m\d if I do, then I 

 hold I shall render greater service to my country, 

 than all the political babblers that have lived in the 

 last century. And by the way, sir, can you tell 

 me of any other animal that will persevere to the 

 death in the destruction of his own pasture, be- 

 sides the politician and the hog? 



Our wheat is very promising, and our clover 

 three weeks earlier than usual, i have much to 

 say about lime, but 1 will keep that for another 

 communication. Fairfax. 



