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expense of decent ridicule. We will suppose the planter 

 operation in this was, having received a pair of fine Berkshire 

 pigs, says to his trusty man, Sambo, " take this bushel of corn 

 to the barn-yard, and feed those pigs well ; I want them to 

 grow large and fat." Well, Sambo, always anxious to carry 

 out the views of his master, and having carefully watched his 

 operations in the treatment of his cotton, to make it grow large, 

 takes up the basket, and then, providing himself with a ham- 

 mer or hatchet, he proceeds to the yard ; he first takes hold 

 upon the gentle, unsuspecting grunters, one by one, and, with 

 his instrument, knocks or breaks out their teeth, and then, 

 throwing down the corn, he returns to the house with spirits 

 buoyant, in the consciousness of having so consistently dis- 

 charged his duty ! "Well, Sambo, you have given those pigs 

 plenty of corn, ha ?" " Yes, sir, they are well fed." In a 

 few days he takes a friend to look at the fine Berkshires. 

 Yes, Sambo has given them corn plentifully ; there it lies by 

 them ! But this is too plain a case ; the pigs have the teeth- 

 ache, and they are broken off, too ! neither the wet nor the dry 

 weather has caused the mischief here ! And* yet the pigs, 

 like the cotton, have only their teeth broken off ! ! Poor 

 Sambo ! we leave him to explain to the world the rationale of 

 this root and teeth-breaking policy. 



N. B. CLOUD, M.D. 

 Macon Co., Ala., Nov. 1, 1843. 



SECTION III. EXPERIMENTS IN MANURING COTTON. 



Gov. BROOME : Immediately on ascertaining the result of 

 my first extensive experiment in manuring and spacing cotton, 

 I communicated the facts to the Albany Cultivator, an agri- 

 cultural paper that had, at that time, quite a large circula- 



