1S36.] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



41 



earth" — ) I must confess thut t had not observed 

 or referred to your note, (in the Ap|)endix) contain- 

 ing the explanation of your ditPiculty in the selec- 

 tion of a term, which would best suit j'our pur- 

 pose. I had sufficiently o'ratificd myself with tlie 

 more essential matters discussed in the E.ssay. 



JOSKPH E. MUSE. 



[The last fault named above, was of course the 

 printer's, as the meaning, and, therefore, the proper 

 word, was obvious: but the substitution of "harshness"' 

 for "frankness" was owing ^to the difficuhy of reading 

 the word, and the context, in tliat case, did not serve (as 

 in general) to determine the intention of an illegible 

 word. But in either case, we repeat the assurance 

 formerly given to our respected correspondent, 'that no 

 apology was necessary for his strictures — nor would 

 have been necessary, even if they'hadgoneto such ex- 

 tent as to deserve the word "harshness;" and it is only 

 because, he deems this explanation to our readers to be 

 necessary, and to comply with^his request on that ac- 

 count, that this extract is here inserted — and not be- 

 cause we think that any thing like apology was re- 

 quired for the remarks of our correspondent, either as 



went at it atjain with increased diligence. His an- i they ware in fact designed, or as mis read and there- 



ticipations of futurity, v/hich were before so pain- 1 fop^ mis-printed.] 



fUl, were now loaded with pleasure. He saw a 



way of driving that grim monster, poverty, from 



He travelled to some extent, but returned perfect- 

 ly disappointed with the country. He went "hard 

 at it" again for another year, and saw nothing but 

 bankruptcy staring him in the face. Every year 

 found his" debts accumulating. He had been 

 raised to agricultural pursuits, and to agricultural 

 pursuits alone. After a great deal of perplexity 

 however, in resolving and re-resolvino;, he finally 

 concluded to try and improve his soil in someway 

 or oilier: but how should he do it, Avas to him an 

 important question. It being then a thoroughly 

 new thing in that part of the country, he hardly 

 knew in what way to begin. The practice then 

 w-as (and is too much so now) to get all you can 

 from the soil, and return nothing to it. After 

 much reflection on the subject, he comirienced 

 hauling pine leaves and other litter into his cow 

 and hoi-se lots, and as soon as that vvas tolerably 

 trampled, he gave it a good coat of mud from an 

 adjoining branch, and continued alternate layers of 

 litier and mud, till it got a foot or so thick. He 

 then piled it up in large heaps, to let it undergo a 

 fermeniation. In the spring, he hauled it out and 

 manured his corn, some in the hill, and some broad- 

 cast. His succeeding crop bid him strenuously to 

 proceed. As soon as he had laid by his corn, he 



his path. 



The individual who is the subject of this article, 

 has continued to proceed in this way for the last 

 twelve or fifteen years, and he is now in prosper- 

 ous circumstances. His crops amjdy repay his 

 labors. His neighbors who at first laughed at 

 him lor throwing away his time, are now follow- 

 ing in his Ibotsieps, and there is a prospect of the 

 whole neighborhood's being greatly improved, by 

 the previous necessities of this one individual. 



W. 



EXPLANATION AND CORRECTION. 



To the Editor of Uie Fanners' Register. 



Cambridge, E. S., Md. ) 

 it/arcA 31, 1S3G. ^ 



In your March No. I discovered that you had 

 done me the honor to insert the two letters I had 

 written you respecting the 2d edition of your "Es- 

 say on Calcareous Manures," which you had po- 

 litely presented to me — and I regretted todiscoverin 

 the last paragraph of the second letter, a typogra- 

 phical error which gives an unfi-iendly aspect to 

 the spirit and intention of the communications, and 

 very different, I assure j^ou, from the motive which 

 dictated them. I designed, in that paragraph, to 

 apologize, for \\\q freedom, or, as I termed it, "ihe 

 frankness" of my remarks, and your printer has 

 rendered It "harshness." Now, though I am not 

 sensible of any harsh sentiment in the letters, yet 

 it would be inferred, from the printing, that 1 had 

 designed and believed there was, which f-; remote, 

 in truth from the fact. In the c^ame paragraph, 

 "except" is put in place of "accept" — which, by 

 the by, is too obvious an error to be regarded. In 

 reference to your comment on my exception to 

 your nomenclature, (as to the term "calcareous 



Vol. IV— 6 



ON FIRING TOBACCO THROUGH FLUES. TUB 

 BEKEFIT OF CUTTING WHEN FULLY RIPE. 



To tiie Etlitor of tlie Farmers' Register. 



Goochland, jfpril IG, 183G. 



Believing a portion of our time cannot be more 

 profitably employed than in the acquisition and 

 dissemination of truth, permit me through the 

 medium of your very valuable and interesting pa- 

 per, to offer to the public, a few suggestions in 

 support of a mode of curing tobacco (viz : by 

 flues,) which I deem superior to any other with 

 which I am acquainted. I do this the more cheer- 

 fuly, as it v/ill have a tendency to divert my mind 

 fi'om subjects of minor importance, and from the 

 conviction that it will not prove unacceptable to 

 those of your readers whose interests it may be 

 to secure their crops (when housed.) from the 

 destroying flames. Perhaps it may occupy an im- 

 proper position in my mind in believing this plan 

 to be something new ; if not, its age will only be- 

 stow on it additional credit; and I hope my im- 

 perfect description of the construction and effects, 

 may have a tendency to elicit from some of your 

 able and ready ^vriters a more correct account of 

 construction and utility, as developed by their suc- 

 ces^;ful experiments. 



I will now proceed to describe the formation of 

 the flues, and then say a i'ew words on the advan- 

 tages they possess, (over the common way of cu- 

 ring,) as related by Mr. Thomas B. Gay, from 

 whom they originated. The fire-place should be 

 made about twelve feel from the outside of the 

 house: six feet long three deep, and eighteen in- 

 ches wide. The flue fi'om The fire-place through 

 the house should be eighteen inches deep, and 

 twelve wide at the bottom, drawn in at top, so that 

 one brick will cover it. The fire-place and the 

 part of the flue outside the house, should be arched 



