THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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in debt to a large amount, for the force which 

 he employs. He has, by economy and diligence 

 as well as skill, managed, from the proceeds of 

 his farm, to extricate himself entirely from debt, 

 and at the same time provide abundantly for his 

 family all the substantial comforts of life. His 

 farm is upland, lies beautifully, and is in the 

 highest degree susceptible of improvement. — 

 Every part of the premises shows skill and 

 good management. Comfortable buildings, good 

 fences and gates, and the fields well laid out in 

 three shifts for corn and tobacco. The tobacco 

 lots were in a very high state of improvement, 

 and the tobacco in his barns not only proved the 

 fertility of the land on which it grew, but the 

 skill and attention of the owner in curing the 

 crop. The corn crop appeared to have been 

 very well worked, and was a good one for the 

 season. The whole farm seemed to have been 

 very well taken care of since it came into his 

 hands, and few men in our vicinit}', all circum- 

 stances considered, have made more progress in 

 improvement, tie is determined, in future, as 

 he has provided himself with three shifts for 

 tobacco, to commence manuring his corn land, 

 and rely on the aid of clover and plaster, in 

 some measure, to keep up his tobacco land ; and 

 your Committee have no doubt that with his 

 accustomed skill and diligence, he will be able 

 to realize a rapid advance in improvement. — 

 For your committee believe that after the planter 

 has provided himself with three or four shifts of 

 rich tobacco land, and seeded them in clover, 

 and begins to apply his manures freely to the 

 com lands, that the resources for making manure 

 and improving the farm increase in such a pro- 

 portion as would excite the astonishment of any 

 man who had not experienced the desirable ef- 

 fects produced by this system. Capt. Haskins' 

 teams were in good condition, and he seemed to 

 be well fixed in the articles of gear and ploughs 

 for the operation in which he was employed, of 

 preparing the land for the crop of wheat. One 

 of the entire tobacco shifts has been seeded in 

 wheat, which was neatly effected, especially the 

 draining, which was very carefully and efficient- 

 ly done. Such of the stock as were seen by 

 the Committee looked well. In short, the Com- 

 mittee were very much pleased with the whole 

 exhibit made by Capt. Haskins, and they would 

 urge him to carry out fully his scheme of ex- 

 tending his manured surface, and at no distant 

 period his farm may become one of the most 

 productive, as it is now one of the most beauti- 

 ful, in our region of country. They would also 

 recommend to him the more extensive cultiva- 

 tion of the artificial grasses, to which his farm 

 is peculiarly adapted, and the putting in mea- 

 dow the beautiful creek flat which runs through 

 his land, which would greatly increase his ma- 

 terial for making manure, and also enable him 

 to raise more cattle, without a well kept stock 



of which, your Committee think there cannot 

 be much improvement. Your Committee would 

 not do justice to Capt. Haskins, if they omitted 

 to mention, that the corn crib was well supplied 

 with old corn, and that he, at least, is in no dan- 

 ger of having to put a stone in the end of his 

 bag when he sends to mill. 



A. C. Morton, 

 Rich'd Russell. 



SIXTY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. 



We state the following fact to show what 

 may be done by proper management. Henry 

 Workman, Esq., solicitor of this town, planted 

 about an acre and three perches of ground with 

 rather more than a bushel and a half of the red 

 cluster wheat, furnished by Mr. Robert Beman, 

 of Lenchwick, and the produce is twenty bags 

 or sixty bushels to the acre ! The seed was set 

 by the hand, that is, it was dibbled. The land 

 upon which this extraordinary crop was grown 

 is known to be as good for cast as any in the 

 Vale of Evesham. — Worcester {Eng.) Chronicle. 



A gentleman from the county of Brunswick 

 asked us a few days since why we had no agent 

 in that region of country, saying that several to 

 whom he had shown his paper concluded to 

 subscribe immediately ; the work, as he was 

 pleased to say, only wanting to become known 

 to be universally patronised. Similar inquiries 

 have been made from various quarters, and in 

 answer to them, we take this occasion to say, 

 that the price of the paper is so low that out of 

 it we cannot, afford to pay an agent enough to 

 make it worth his while to seek subscribers. — 

 We must, therefore, throw ourselves upon the 

 kindness of our friends to disseminate a know- 

 ledge of our work. Agricultural societies and 

 farming clubs might probably advance the cause 

 to which they are devoted by extending infor- 

 mation of a Southern periodical, published at so 

 cheap a rate. We know that in some counties 

 we have twenty subscribers where an hundred 

 might be obtained, and if the cheap rate at 

 which the paper is afforded, cuts us off from 

 the services of an agent, we may with a better 

 grace ask our subscribers who are benefited by 

 its cheapness, in a measure to fill his place. 



A cat of extraordinary intelligence, says a 

 writer in Bentley, was lately seen feeding a kit- 

 ten with starch, to make it stand upright ! This 

 reminds ns of the house-maid who drank a pint 

 of yeast, to make her rise early in the morning. 



