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F A II M E R S' REGISTER. 



Society." The celebrated Mr. George Thomp- 

 son* has been instrumental in fjctiing up the 

 steam on this occasion, and " Charles Lennox 

 Redmond, a gentleman of color, anli-slavery de- 

 bater from Pennsylvania," was paraded upon the 

 platform. The chairman declared that ihe object 

 of the meeting was to aim a deadly blow at 

 slavery, and to transfer our market from the slave 

 grower of cotton in America, to ihe free grower of 

 British India. The principal speakers were Mr. 

 Thompson and Mr. O'Connell, and the latter 

 came fi-om Ireland expressly to attend ihe meeting. 

 Mr. Thompson declared that there was no mea- 

 sure so calculated to effect the downliill of slavery 

 in the United Stales, as by encouraging the 

 growth of cotton by free labor. He instanced the 

 superior cheapness of Iree labor over slave labor 

 by the cultivation of indigo. Fifty years ago it 

 was wholly supplied by slave labor, but now the 

 slave grown indigo of the Carolinas and South 

 America has been superseded, and the three mil- 

 lions of it which they imported into Europe has 

 dwindled beneath an ounce. 



In allusion to the part taken by ilie East India 

 Company, which I have above described, Mr. 

 Thompson declared ihat it was an event in history 

 that could not be matched for two hundred years. 

 Mr. O'Connelfs speech was particularly remark- 

 able, for it did not contain one single sentence of 

 abuse against the south. It was confined entirely 

 to a description of the atrocious tyranny exercised 

 over India by the company, and demonstrating 

 the miseries, privations, iamines and death, which 

 have been the melancholy consequences of their 

 iron rule. J. W. G. 



CURING AND STACKING FODDER. 



From the Carolina Planter. 

 Mr. Editor: — Until last year, I was in the habit 

 of curing my fodder wholly in the sun and pulling 

 inipin double slacks. This I call the old plan. 

 The objections to it are, in the first place, ihat 

 many of the leaves dry, crumble, and are lost, ere 

 the stems and succulent portions are fit to be 

 stacked. In the second place, that an intensely 

 hot sun is hurtful to the Ibdder, that cured, in the 

 shade being always the most fragrant and nutri- 

 tious. It is the practice of the best English, 

 French and Flemish farmer.^, in curing their hay, 

 to expose it as little as possible to the sun. It is 

 carried in dry. but it preserves its green color ; and 

 you see hay two or three years old in their market 

 of so bright a green color, that we would scarcely 

 conceive it to be cured ; yet they are in the prac- 

 tice of preserving it for years, and value it more 

 fijr its age.. — Cured in this way, scarcely a leaf is 

 wasted and the hay preserves its freshness and 

 fragrance ; and it is said that at least ten per cent 

 is gained in quantity, and as much in quality. A 

 third objeclion to the old plan is, that Ihe fodder is 

 more liable to the seriously injured by dews and 

 rain; and the (act is, in a season like this, when 

 we have had rains almost every day, if we are to 

 depend upon curing our Ibdder wholly in the sun, 



* The English missionary abolitionist, who made 

 a figure in the United States a few years ago. — Ed. 

 Far. Reg. 



we shall not have one good stack in len. Ifthere- 

 fore, we can fall upon a plan by which we can 

 make better (odder and with less sunshine, we 

 shall o(" course, be running less risk, and stand a 

 better chance of getting in that part of the crop. 

 With this view, I have the (odder that is pulled 

 in the ibrenoon ; stncked in the evening of the 

 same day, provided there has been no rain about 

 if. If it is wet, I allow it to become perfectly dry 

 before it is stacked ; and my plan of slacking is 

 simply this : 



A pole is placed in the ground, at the spot where 

 you intend to stack. Four other poles, or (ence 

 rails, il your slacks be small, are placed around 

 the centre pole about a loot or more from the bot- 

 tom, and then all tied together at the top, with a 

 "■rape-vine or any thing handy, form.ing a cone. 

 Place some brush or a ihw rails at the bottom, so 

 as to raise the fodder a little off the ground. Then 

 commence laying your fodder in single bundles 

 around this cone, and when you have finished, it 

 will be a hollow stack. The air having free pas- 

 sage underneath the stack, will circulate in the 

 hollow, and the fodder will finish curins in the 

 shade and unexposed to the weather. You may 

 cure and stack pea vines in the same way. 



For this improvement, as I conceive it to be, I 

 am indebted to an old agricultural friend who has 

 had (brty years' experience in planting, and who 

 had all his life followed the " good old way" of 

 curing and stacking (odder, until about two years 

 ago he happened lo learn from an agricultural pa- 

 per, not an "014 negro,'''' that ihe best mode of 

 curing ha}', &c., was to expose il but little to the 

 sun, lie conceived his plan of slacking fodder so 

 as to have it cured partly in ihe shade. He has 

 adopted the plan for the last two years, and thinks 

 he makes better (odder by il, and certainly runs 

 less risk of weather. I have also had my (odder 

 stacked in the same way, and am much pleased 

 with the plan ; and I now send it to you to make 

 ^' book knoioledge^'' of it. FtENi'Bi. 



INDEPENDENCE. 



From the Journal of Commerce. 



Scarcely any thing is more desired, or more 

 misunderstood, than independence. When a man 

 has acquired a great amount of property, and has 

 a great number of tenants and clerks and servants, 

 and above all a vast circle of (ashionable ac- 

 quaintance;::, so that the keeping of his happiness 

 is in a ihou-and hands, (rorn some one of which 

 he is always suffering, then he is called indepen- 

 dently rich. He cannot appear abroad without 

 the help of a retinue, nor then bul on condition of 

 being dressed exacily so, and conforming without 

 scruple to all the follies and sins which the (iishion 

 of his class decrees — all lor the sake of being in- 

 dependent. 



In judging of independence in others, men com- 

 monly lake themselves as the standard. They 

 deem all other men who think and act as they do, 

 independent. Thus a politician, so long as he ad- 

 heres to the opposite parly, is a slave lo parly dis- 

 cipline, to bribery, corruption, the possession or 

 the hope of oirice. But so soon as he comes over 

 to our side, he instantly shows that he is a man 

 of sterling iadepcndciice. He has broken the 



