THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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ing or selling the pork: — "Cut the head off in 

 the usual way, about 1| inches behind the ears ; 

 weigh the head and multiply by ten, and the pro- 

 duct is the weight of the hog. I have tried it 

 frequently, and have found it correct to a fraction 

 oftener than otherwise." — S. Cultivator. 



MR. STEVENSON'S IMPORTED STOCK. 



We availed ourselves last week of one of those 

 soft and balmy days which herald forth the 

 coming spring, to visit mine excellent host of 

 Bacon Quarter Branch. As we basked in the 

 rays of the genial sun, almost overpowering but 

 for the fitful gusts of the "gentle south" as it 

 swept across our face and sought to dally with 

 the curls it could not find, we abandoned our- 

 selves to the enjoyment and admiration of the 

 glorious weather, which nature vouchsafes to 

 our Southern clime at this beautiful season. — 

 But when we arrived at the " Branch," we 

 found, in the person of Mr. Stevenson's Ayrshire 

 bull, another of nature's works, that fairly di- 

 vided our admiration with the weather. 



We pretend to no superiority of judgment in 

 such matters, but it requires small powers of 

 discrimination to assure us, that this is the finest 

 animal ever offered to the breeders of stock in 

 this region of country. The gentlemen by 

 whom we were accompanied in this excursion, 

 were so much struck with the beautiful appear- 

 ance of this noble animal that they unanimously 

 backed us in the determination we expressed of 

 calling on Mr. Stevenson for some account of 

 the pedigree and history of this stock, as well 

 as of other importations, which his public spirit 

 and devotion to agriculture have induced. 



Whilst we are in the asking vein, we would 

 beg Mr. Stevenson to favor our readers with 

 the recipe by which he cured the ham and 

 tongue we lately received at his hands. If that 

 was the sort of tongue with which he flattered 

 Glueen Victoria whilst he was in England, we 

 don't wonder at the position he attained in the 

 good graces of that august personage. 



For the Southern Planter. 

 PEACH TREE. 



Mr. Editor, — Mr. Garland Garth is the neigh- 

 bor to whom I alluded in my conversation with 

 you relative to the peach tree. Mr. Garth is a 

 very intelligent and strictly pmctiml -agriculturist. 



On a visit to him, about the close of the last 

 month, I inquired of him if he had bestowed 



any attention on the two trees (not three) which 

 had escaped the ravages of the worm, other 

 than nailing them 1 He replied, "I have done 

 nothing else for them, except to lop off the 

 limbs which were broken by the superabundant 

 crop of fruit they bore last season." 



I again examined the two trees — they are ap- 

 parently thrifty, flourishing, and entirely healthy, 

 and are the sole remains of a considerable num- 

 ber of trees planted simultaneously, in the same 

 kind of soil, and treated in the same manner, in 

 all respects, the nailing excepted. As you have 

 not stated the process quite correctly, allow me 

 to correct it. When you remove the trees from 

 the nursery, for the purpose of transplanting, 

 drive a tenpenny nail through the trunk of each 

 tree immediately above the region of the roots. 

 The trees are nailed before they are re- planted. 

 Hastily, but respectfully, yours, 



Alex. Duke. 



Albemarle, March 14, 1844. 



TO REMOVE STAINS. 



Stains on varnished articles which are caused 

 by hot water, may be removed by rubbing them 

 with lamp oil and then with alcohol. Ink stains 

 can be taken out of mahogany, by one tea- 

 spoonful of oil of vittriol mixed with one table- 

 spoonful of water, or by oxalic acid and water. 

 These must be brushed off quickly, and then 

 washed with milk. — Exchange paper. 



For the Southern Planter. 



ROANOKE WOOLLEN FACTORY. 



Mi\ Editor, — As the blankets manufactured 

 by Mr. John Bonsack, of Roanoke county, 

 Virginia, and exhibited at your Agricultural 

 Fair, last fall, very justly elicited much com- 

 mendation, (and no doubt surprise, as com- 

 ing from this mountain region,) some notice of 

 his manufactory, reared up by his own skill and 

 enterprise, may not be uninteresting to your 

 readers and patrons. This establishment is in 

 its infancy, having gone into full operation in 

 the fell of 1842. Its location is on ihe main 

 Western road from Lynchburg to Salem, and 

 within six miles of the Big Lick, on the waters 

 of Glade Creek. The building is fifty by forty 

 feet, and three stories high. The first story is 

 well built of lime and stone, in which is con- 

 tained the propelling machinery, an oil mill, and 

 a room for dyeing. The second story is devoted 

 to the carding of wool, and is occupied with six 

 wool carding machines. There is a room ad- 

 joining for pressing cloths and dressing them off. 

 The third story is occupied with the spinning 

 apparatus, say three hundred spindles — two very 

 superior carding machines-^six looms for the 

 weaving of blankets, jeans and satinets. The 



