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teen dollars a bushel. 



(hero, is a little brass bucket made to contain about | next spring, as I can procure: not however at six 



a gill, struck measure, which is to be carefully ' 



filled with whatever you design to weigh, when 



the bar is fixed on the standard, and the brass 



weight being moved until it balances the filled 



bucket, ascertains precisely, the weight by the 



struck Winchester bushel. 



Copy of the accompanying Table. 



Seventeen specimens oi marketable grain and 

 seed. 



Wheat is from 55 to (13 lbs. per bushel; mean wt. 



59 

 53 



47 



62 



68 



68 



40 



47 



49 



38A 



14 



16 



25 



64i 



63 



55 



4SA 



The use of ibis little implement will be obvious, 

 I think, at first sight; for it furnishes, at once, a 

 more convenient and expeditious mode than any 

 I have known tried, of ascertaining the compara- 

 tive weight of all our varieties of wheat, corn, 

 rye, and oats; and as their value generally, is in 

 proportion to their weight, it is a matter of some 

 importance; as well as curiosity, lor every farmer 

 to possess so easy a means of ascertaining which 

 is the heaviest. I have very often used this im- 

 strument, ami in several instances, have sold my 

 wheat by it — the purchaser being perfectly satis- 

 tied with this mode of determining the weight. 

 By this I find the weight of tin; skinless oat to be 

 47 lbs., whereas the heaviest oats in England, (as 

 yon will see by the table,) weighs only 42 lbs. As 

 you may never have seen this new variety, which 

 has lately been introduced into England from Chi- 

 na, and cultivated with great success, I send you 

 a lew grains as a sample. Last spring I purchas- 

 ed from one of William Prince's agents, in our 

 neighborhood, a single quart, at the rate of $16 a 

 bushel! One pint oi' these 1 drilled in my garden, 

 nine inches apart, the. wide way, and two inch- 

 es the other, as near as 1 could prevail on the hands 

 employed to drop the grains at that distance; but 

 they were probably nearer. In this way the pint 

 sowed 247 square yards, and produced 116 pints 

 of such grain as I send you. The produce would 

 have been something more; for three spots, each 

 about six or seven feet square, were lodged, and 

 consequently injured. The average height, when 

 ripe, was about four feet, and the appearance then, 

 by far the most beautiful of any small grain lever 

 saw. From the looks of the grain I should judge 

 it would make very good flour; but for horse feed 

 it must certainly be vastly superior to any other 

 oat yet discovered. To judge by my single trial, 

 they will make at least as much, by measure, as 

 any of the kinds we cultivate, and will so liir ex- 

 ceed them in weight as fo give them a very de- 

 cided preference. Be all this, however, as it may, 



JAMES M. GARNETT. 



MOVEMENTS OF THE ABOLITION SOCIETIES" 

 AND ANTICIPATED RESULTS. 



For some years past, the small, but growing- and ac- 

 tive sect of abolitionists in the Northern States, have 

 been bringing- their theories respecting slavery into 

 practical operation: and the effects have recently as- 

 sumed an importance which threatens seriously to af- 

 fect both the agricultural interests and political rights 

 of the Southern States. Tiiis sect, composed of bi- 

 goted and reckless zealots, who avow their aim to ef- 

 fect, if possible, the entire and immediate abolition of 

 slavery, at all hazards, and without regard to conse- 

 quences—has increased rapidly in numbers and 

 strength. Nor is this strange. The detestal ion of sla- 

 very, in the abstract, is a feeling almost inseparable 

 from man's best feelings; and thousands of slave hol- 

 ders—who will, if. necessary, defend their rights 

 against the attacks of the abolitionists, at the bayonet's 

 point — would make far greater personal sacrifices, in 

 any feasible and proper manner, to mitigate the evils, 

 or remove, if possible, the existence of slavery, than 

 those who condemn and denounce them It is the ea- 

 siest thing in the world to be charitable at the ex- 

 pense of other people— and there never will be a lack 

 of fierce advocates for the removal of this evil, thmgh 

 by producing evils ten times greater, so long as all the 

 losses and dangers from the change, whatever they 

 may be, must fall on those far removed from the zeal- 

 ous and ferocious "philanthropists" — who are striving 

 to put fire to a train of gunpowder, because they are 

 in perfect safety from the awful and destructive explo- 

 sion that may follow. 



These societies, lately deemed so contemptible, and 

 now perhaps as incorrectly elevated to a most impo- 

 sing station of power and influence, are now using 

 systematic efforts to reach their end. More than 200 

 affiliated abolition societies in the Northern States, 

 have already been organized, to labor for the good or the 

 ill of the South: large amounts of money have been col- 

 lected — secret emissaries are employed in the South — 

 from their presses numerous publications are issued, 

 filled with misrepresentations and falsehoods, address- 

 ed fo the supposed feelings of the slaves, ami to the 

 degraded understandings and besotted prejudices of 

 the lower class of their northern countrymen— and 

 these publications, through the mails, are sent free of 

 carriage (to the publishers) to every part of the south, 

 as well as of the north. These violent and open pro- 

 ceedings, and the strong suspicion that even worse are 

 in secret operation, have roused the south, and drawn 

 forth a burst of indignation, and expression of deter- 

 mined resistance, which will be universal. In this 

 matter, at least, there are no party divisions to distract 

 our views, and to prevent a united effort to maintain 

 our interests and rights. Whatever may be the issue, 

 the people of the south will, in defence of their rights 

 ami properly, act as one man. Public meetings are 

 every where called. They have been already held in 



J have determined to sow as many bushels of them ' Richmond and Petersburg, and with a unanimity with- 



