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THE ILLmOIS FAEMER. 



Feb. 



L. M. Ford & Co., publishers. Volume one looks 

 well. Price, $1 a year. 



Oregon Farmer, Portland, A. G. Walling editor, 

 semi-mLinthly, quarto, 8 pages, $2 50 a year; now 

 in its third volume of agrijuUural, horticultural 

 and miscellaneous matter, suited to that State. 



California Farmer, San H'rancisco ; eight well 

 printed pages quarto, weeiily, at $5 a, year. An 

 agricultural and miscellaneous journal, largely 

 patronized by advertisers. Edited and published 

 by (Jol. Warren. It is now in its fourteenth vol- 

 ume, and is doubtless found valuable to the 

 agricultural community of the gold-digging 

 State. 



Calif jrnia Culturist, San Francisco ; ^Wad ;- 

 worth & Flint, editors and proprietors; a month- 

 ly octavo of 48 pages, at $4 a year, devoted to 

 agricuU ire and horticulture, in its third volume. 



The American Farmer, published over forty 

 y^ars ago at Biltimore, is a monthly octavo of 

 32 pages, at §1 a year, by Worthington & Lewis, 

 successors to Samuel Sands, who succeeded John 

 S. Skinner. This has always been a well con- 

 ducteJ, popular paper, the contents never bely- 

 ing its name, though somewhat more devoted to 

 Southern than Northern farming. 



The Rural Register, Baltimore, Md., quarto, 

 16 pages, in three columns, exclusive of adver- 

 tisomeuts, by Samuel Sands, who was publisher 

 of the Aincncan Farmer for a long time, and S. 

 Sands Mills. This paper is now in its second 

 volume, and well filled with matter as well suited 

 to Nort'aerm farmers as Southern planters. 

 Monthly ,$1 a year. 



Southern Planter, a small-sized octavo, 64 

 pages, published monthly at Richmond Va., by 

 Augustus Williams, at $2 a year; maintains a 

 popularity established twenty years ago. 



North Carolina Planter, published monthly at 

 Pialeigh, by A. W. Gorman, at §2 a year, octavo, 

 of 32 pages. This, as its name indicates, is local 

 \i its character, and as such, entitled to patron- 

 age. It is now in its third volume. 



The Edgecombe Farm Journal is published at 

 Tarboro. N. C, in one of the most enterprising, 

 improving section of the State. It is now in its 

 first volume ; it is a well printed quarto, 8 pages, 

 monthly ; 50 cents a year ; Wm. B. Smith &Co., 

 editors and proprietors, who certainly give their 

 subscribers, (we hope they are numerous) the 

 value of their money. 



Farmer and Planter, Columbia, S. C; R. .M. 

 Stokss, proprietor. Col. Sumner, editor ; octavo, 

 32 pages, covered, monthly, $1 a year ; particu- 

 larly adapted to Southern agriculture, and valu- 

 able for all planters. It has been published 11 

 ye<it8, but has never received the patr^ nage it 

 merits. 



The Southern Cultivator, a large octavo of 32 

 pages, is published monthly by W. S. Jones, at 

 Augusta, Ga., at $1 a year ; was formerly edited 

 by Dr. Lee, and now by the publisher and Mr. 

 Redmond. It is Southern in its character, and 

 justly popular there. 



Southern Field and Fireside, published weekly 

 at Augusta, by J. Gardner, at $2 a year, is part- 

 ly agricultural and partly miscellaneous, a quarto, 

 now in its second volume. 



American Cotton Planter, Montgomery, Ala , 

 a monthly octavo of 48 pages. A Southera 



journal of agriculture at $1 a year, by Dr. Cloud, 

 editor and proprietor. 



Southern Rural Gentleman, Grenada, Miss., a 

 quarto weekly, $2 50 a year, J. L Davis, pro- 

 prietor, is now in its third volume, and is made 

 up of airicultural and miscellaneous matter 

 suited to that region. 



Canadian Agriculturist, Toronto, appears to 

 be published by the Board of Agriculture, and 

 contains its transactions and other agricultural 

 matter, principally Canadian. It is issued semi- 

 monthly, 32 octavo piges, at 50 cents a year 



There has been, and may be now, one or two 

 other agricultural papers published in Canada. 

 There may be, also, others that we have not 

 named in the United States, which we shall be 

 glad to add to the list, when assured of their ex- 

 istence. The New York Agricultural Society 

 issues a monthly bulletin, and so does, or did, 

 the National Agricultural Society. Ench one of 

 the State Agricultural Societies publish annual 

 volumes of their transactions. The American 

 Institute, New York, also publishes an annual 

 volume. The weekly proceedings of the Farm- 

 er's Club attached to the Institute are published 

 in the Semi-Weekly Tribune. 



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Corn-cob Meal, and its Injurious Effect 

 on Animals. 



The time was — nor but a few years since — 

 when corn cobs were thought to be very valua- 

 ble for feeding stock, and some agricultural 

 writers placed such a high estimate upon them, 

 that they pronounced cobs "almost equal in 

 value to the corn that grows on them." But 

 common sense, reason, and expeiience all teach 

 us that they are good for just nothing at all, for 

 feeding any kind of stock. When the Creator 

 first made Indian corn, he never designed the 

 cobs for food, and the experience of every thor- 

 ough and observing farmer goes to corroborate 

 the fact, that instead of being an article of food, 

 possessing a very small amount of nutrimen; 

 and palatability, they are a decided iniury to 

 any animal that takes them into its stomach. ^ 

 Now, if any mortal is so self-willed or incredu- 

 lous as not to credit this statement, I will only 

 ask him to eat mush, or corn bread, or Johnny- 

 cake, for a few meals, made of corn-cob meal ; 

 and if it don't make him pur, and groan to be 

 delivered from corn-cobs for food, we will set him 

 down as having a digestive apparatus equal to 

 a shark. Ground into meal, or whole, they are 

 no more fit for food than ground bones, or horn 

 piths, or the stems of squashes. They are as 

 insipid as they are innutritions, and do not pos- 

 sess half the value of good saw dust ; for saw 

 dust of good wood will nourish an animal, and 

 will not injure its intestines meclianically. But 

 corn-cobs, whether ground or whole, will injure 

 its intestines ; and if fed in large quantities will 

 cause death. In good saw dust, beside some 

 potash and woodj fibre, there is more or less 

 sugar, gum and starch, which will nourish the 

 animal system ; but in corn-cobs we find not a 

 single particle of sugar, gum nor starch, the 

 principal constituents being potash and woody 

 fibre, which aflford no nourishment. Feed it to 

 animals which are being fattened, and iustead of 



