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[No. 4 



nic; and conceiving mine to be the most simple 

 and efficient, remedy of the two, I have ventured 

 to recommend it. 



Should these desultory remarks be the means of 

 prolonging the lile of any good grunter, my object 

 will have been attained; as, however grovelling an 

 animal the hog may be in its nature, it it neverthe- 

 less one ol' the indispensibles of low-land Virginia 

 husbandry ; as a well stored smoke-house,, and the 

 contents freely used, makes honest and good ne- 

 groes, to say nothing of other benefits and com- 

 forts derived. A Lowlandek. 



PRICE OF MORUS MULTICAULIS SEED. 



The 'Journal of Commerce,' of New York, gives 

 the following as a remarkable example of high 

 prices, and of the disposition of the public to pay 

 ihera. But the intelligent editors of that paper 

 did not mention, and probably were not aware of 

 the most important item in the account, which 

 makes the prices and the dupery both transcen- 

 dent. This is, first, that neither these, nor any 

 of the many pounds of seeds sold in this country 

 as of the moms multicaulis, were grown on that 

 variety of mulberry; and secondly, that even if they 

 had been so grown, that the seeds would rarely, 

 if ever, produce the same kinds as the parent tree. 



" Good Profits. — A person last year received a 

 small invoice of the morus mullicaulis seed from 

 Canton, which cost then about four dollars per 

 pound. It was afterwards re-sold several times, 

 at a constantly increased price, and a small parcel 

 is said lo have been sold at one hundred dollors the 

 pound. The price has since abated a little, and 

 the present market rate may be quoted at about 

 eighty dollars the pound." 



EFFECTS OF E3IAKCIPATI0:V OF SLAVES IK 

 JAMAICA. 



FroiiTtlie Iviiigston (Jam.) Despatcli. 



We are "■eltinnj on here terrible bad. The 

 behavior of the neirroes is enough to drive one 

 out of his senses. The lew that do turn out, do 

 about one fburlh of a day's work, and that for the 

 most exorbitant wages — viz : 2s. Id. lor cutting 

 canes in the fields; 2s. 6d. lor wainmeii; 3s. 4d. tor 

 cane carriers; 3.s. '4d. fjr mill feeders ; 2s. IkZ. tor 

 green trash carriers; 2s. 6d. for dry trash carriers; 

 3s. 4d. lor boilermen, and 3s. 4d. ibr stokermen. 

 Some of the cane piet-ps not cleaned since last crop, 

 and lor crop of 1810, no prospects whatever. A kw 

 acres of cane-holes dug, but no body will plant; and 

 even the late plants of the present crop (1839) have 

 some of them not been cleaned since they were 

 planted; consequently one half is dead, and the 

 other so stunted Irom neglect, that they will not be 

 worth the cutting; for instead of two liogsheads to 

 the acre (which they ought to iiave given had 

 they been attended to,) they will not, I sup- 

 pose, give more than a barrel. It looks as if it 

 was the intention of the negroes to take as 



much of this crop of! as will suit their purposes, 

 and let the rest rot, and malte no preparations for 

 any future one. When I say suit their purposes, I 

 mean pisl to work as much as will supply them 

 with what money they may require. Some of my 

 principal hands are so busy planting pams in their 

 grounds this week, that they have had not time to 

 bestow a thought on the poor proprietor's produce. 

 "An estate in our neighborhood has struck 

 work (or two or three days past, and left about 40 

 loads of canes rotting in the mill yard, merely 

 because rent had been demanded. 



CARROTS. 



Fromtlie Second Report of the Agriculture of Massachusetts. 



Jeremiah Valet, late of Stockbridge, but now 

 an emigrant to the fertile west, a true philosopher 

 in a homely garb, a pure diamond, though never in 

 the hands of the lapidary, (I would not say this if 

 he were not out of the reach of my voice,) was 

 much in the habit of raising carrots; and gave a 

 prelijrence to them over every other vegetable for 

 tlitlening swine and cattle. This was the result of 

 repealed trials and long experience. To fatting 

 swine he gives them boiled ; to store hogs, raw. 

 His crops averatre 800 bushels to the acre. 



Jno. Merrill of South Lee, has been a very suc- 

 cessful cultivator of carrots. Restates the yield 

 on two acres at 600 bushels to the acre ; and the 

 cost of cultivation, exclusive of manure and rent 

 of land, at 25 dollars per acre; or a little more 

 than four cents per bushel. For feeding horses, 

 he says, he should preli^r one hundred bushels of 

 carrots and one hundred bushels of oats to two 

 hundred bushels of oats. He applied them in a 

 raw slate to the feeding of his team horses, and 

 horses in preparation for market; and they were 

 kept by them in higlv health and spiiits. Oats 

 followed his carrot crop on tiie same ground with 

 great success. The experience of J. C. Curwen, 

 Er.g. in the use of carrots Ibr horses, corresponds 

 with that of Mr. Merrill. The authority of Cur- 

 wen is unquestionable ; and he was in the habit of 

 employing constantly as many as eighty horses 

 on liis larm and in his extensive coal-mines. 



"I cannot omit" he says, "stating the great profit 

 of carrots. I have found by the experience of the 

 last two years, that where eight pounds of oat- 

 feeding was allowed to draft horses, four pounds 

 might be taken away and supplied by an equal 

 weight of carrots ; and the health, spirit, and 

 ability of the horses lo do their work be perfectly 

 as good as with the whole quantity of oats. VVilh 

 the drill husbandry and proper attention, very 

 good crops of carrots may be obtained upon soils, 

 not generally supposed suitable to their growth." 



He adds in another place. "The profits and 

 advantages of carrots are in my opinion greater 

 than any other crop. This admirable root has, 

 upon repeated and very extensive trials for the last 

 three years, been found to answer most perfectly 

 as a part substitute for oats. Where ten pounds 

 of oats are given per day, four pounds may be 

 taken away ; and their place supplied by five 

 pounds of carrots. This has been practised in the 

 feeding of eighty horses for the last three years, 

 with the most complete success, and the health 

 and condition of the horses allowed to be improved 



