1835.] 



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ewe and wether Iambs; which is easily done by 

 notching one ear of either; and the same method 

 may be employed, with some variation, to class 

 them at the future stages of their growth. 



Where, indeed, a pure, as well as a mixed 

 breed of sheep is reared on the same farm, it will 

 become necessary, in order !o avoid mistakes, to 

 distinguish those of the first breed with a differenl 

 mark from that employed for the sheep of the se- 

 cond. Were this system carried stiil further, and 

 each sheep branded on the cheek with a separate 

 number, a judicious breeder would find it condu- 

 cive to his interest to keep a register, in which the 

 numbers of each sheep might be marked; here 

 also should be carefully entered such observations 

 as not only related to the coupling and crossing of 

 the breeds, but also those experiments he may 

 wish to try upon the animals. A careful cultiva- 

 tor, who is solicitous to improve his art, will, in 

 such register, notice the delects, or other qualities 

 of his sheep, their respective states of health or 

 disease, the nature of their wool, the profit they 

 yield, &c. Thus it will be easy to ascertain what 

 individuals it will be proper to dispose of every 

 year, as well as those from which it will be advan- 

 tageous to breed; and, at length, the object pro- 

 posed will be obtained, namely, the improvement 

 of the breeds, and deriving from them the greatest 

 possible profit. 



[To be continued.] 



SELECTIONS OF EDITORIAL CORRESPON- 

 DENCE. 



[The two following scraps reached us about the 

 same time, from nearly the extremes of north and south. 

 Such statements may be new in print — but unfortu- 

 nately they are no novelty in publishers' correspon- 

 dence. We could furnish a lonj list of such subscri- 

 bers — and still we believe that we are so fortunate as 

 to have the best paying list of any publisher in the 

 United States, who has to confide in the honor of so many 

 remote and unknown subscribers.] 



m From the Genesee Farmer. 



Black list. 



Many of our subscribers have expressed then- 

 approbation of the proposed publication of the 

 names of such subscribers as refuse or neglect to 

 pay for the papers, and we shall continue the list 

 as occasion may require. The following names 

 have been added to the list of delinquents during 

 the present month: 



P. Lencham, Winchester, Tenn. $5 00 



Dr. T. W. P. M'Gimpsey, Columbia 



Tenn. "gone to Mississippi," 9 00 



Oliver Harwood, Rushviile, N. Y. — "does 



not wish it any longer," 6 41 



Caleb Vanduser, Macedon — "not taken," 2 70 

 Abram Ramsdell, Macedon — "not taken," 2 70 

 Daniel Murray, Kankakee, Illinois — 



"wishes it stopt," 5 00 



John T. Hill, Columbia, Mo.— "'not ta- 

 ken," • 6 45 

 D. S. Rossiter, New Lebanon, — "gone to 



Illinois," 1 40 



Samuel Barrows, Esq. Olean — "refused" 1 60 

 Andrew Poucher, Smoky Hollow — "will 



From the Southern Planter. 



The following is one among the many epistola- 

 ry favors we receive; and which if not among the 

 most important, yet forms an interesting portion of 

 an editor's correspondence. 



Villa- Rica, (Carrol co.) Aug. 11. 

 Dear Sir — You will do well lo stop your paper 

 directed to John D. Chapman, as he has moved 

 away. 



Yours &:c. 



JAMES L. ADAIR. 



Orj-Mr. Chapman owes for the Planter $7.50 



ON THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF COTTON. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Fairfield District, S. C. Oct. 3, 1835. 



The cotton plant forms a subject of peculiar in- 

 terest, both to the southern planter and to the bot- 

 anist: and every thing relating lo its history and 

 character cannot fail to excite a lively attention. 

 The articles on this subject in your late valuable 

 numbers, from Mr. Spalding and Mr. Croom, have 

 been read with much pleasure, and we should be 

 much gratified to see the investigation continued. 

 Although these gentlemen have shed much light 

 upon the native localities of this plant, the period 

 and manner of its introduction into this country, 

 and the botanical characters of the different spe- 

 cies, yet, we apprehend, the subject is not yet 

 thoroughly understood. Its botanical history es- 

 pecially — the several species, and the botanical 

 characters of each, we shrewdly suspect are im- 

 perfectly known, and, consequently, the botanical 

 descriptions are very unsatisfkctoiy. Mr. Croom 

 has given the characters of all tue species of cot- 

 ton, as furnished by the Encyclopaedia of Plants. 

 But upon examination, this botanical account, is 

 found to be im perlect. To render my remarks 

 more clear and intelligible, I will beg leave to tran- 

 scribe the botanical descriptions given by Mr. 

 Croom from the Encyclopaedia. According to 

 this, there are but four species of the cotton plant, 

 as follows: 



"1. Gossypium herbaceum, (greenseed cotton.) 

 Leaves 5 Jobed, 1 gland beneath: lobes round mu- 

 cronate, invol. serrate, stem smooth."* 



"2. G. hirsutum, (Mexican and petit gulf.) 

 Upper leaves undivided cordate; lower 3-5 lobed, 

 with 1 gland beneath: branches and petioles hir- 

 sute." 



"3. G. barbadense, (sea island cotton?) Up- 

 per leaves 3 lobed; lower 5 lobed with 3 glands 

 beneath: stem smoothish." 



"4. G. arboreum, (tree cotton.) Leaves 5 lo- 

 bed polenate; upper 3 lobed, with 1 gland beneath, 

 Inv. tern. Cal. with 3 glands at base." 



Eight or ten years ago I substituted what is 

 called the Mexican cotton in the place of the 

 green seed: and for the last three or four years I 

 have purchased annually, as many bushels of 

 what is sold in the Charleston market as petit 

 gulf seed, as would furnish seed sufficient for the 

 succeeding crop; so that my whole crop now con- 



take them no longer, 



1 6*0 



*Mr. Eaton in his Manual of Botany, describes the 

 g. herbaceum as a biennial. Certainly not so in this 

 countrv. 



