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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



vation the next year can be benefited by fall 

 ploughing, but must, on the contrary, be very 

 materially injured. Most of the advocates of 

 this system insist that by fall ploughing the clay 

 soils will be pulverized through the winter by 

 the frost, and thereby rendered more easy of 

 cultivation in the spring. If such is the fact, 

 which I deny, the clay on my farm must be of 

 a very peculiar nature, because I have, now be- 

 fore my eyes, a field most of which was ploughed 

 in fine weather in January, but the cold weather 

 coming on prevented its completion, and the re- 

 sidue was ploughed in the spring, and it took 

 much more time to put the land, ploughed in 

 the winter, in good order for corn than it did 

 that which was ploughed in the spring. The 

 winter ploughed land, in place of being well 

 pulverized by the frost, had run together like 

 putty, and if the advocates of fall ploughing 



I could only see the difference in the looks of the 

 crop and land at present, I think we should no 

 longer disagree. Hie corn on the land ploughed 

 in the spring is so far superior to the other that 

 I am constantly asked the cause of the differ- 

 ence by strangers, and the land has been much 

 easier to cultivate during the whole season, than 

 the other. If these remarks shall elicit some- 

 thing from more experienced agriculturists on 

 this subject, my object will be fully attained, 

 and the cause of agriculture advanced. 



C. 



We know many very judicious farmers who 

 go out and out against fall ploughing, upon the 

 principle of covering instead of exposing the sur- 

 face; but even amongst its advocates, that kind 

 of clay soil which " runs together," is almost 

 universally excepted. 



SAND HILL HOG. 



We transcribe from the " Western Farmer" will indulge me, in a few practical remarks on 

 the following capital description of an old stock, this subject. I am a practical farmer, and have 

 under a new name. The species is not alto- profiled much by experience and observation, 



and think I have learned something about "fancy 

 stock." 



get her extinct in this region, but probably it in 

 creases in value as it grows scarcer. If Mr 



-r> . to . r .. ' , The "animal" which I wish to bring to the 



Bement, or any of our northern friends, should egpecial notice of your readerg> js> what may 



desire to cross their Berkshires with this improv* be called the "Cotton Planter," or what is 



ing breed, we think we can undertake to pro- commonly called the "Sand Hill Hog." 



cure them as pure a specimen of genuine blood I am sony that I have not a specimen before 



as ever rooted in the sand hills of Alabama. j me ; but I give you above, from memory, a pret- 



I ty faithful sketch of a favorite old stock boar of 



Alabama, July 10, 1842. | one f mv neighbors, who, I think, possesses 



Mr. Editor, — There has been much said and the "purest blood" in South Alabama. The 



written of late years about imported, and what are picture is the more faithful, as you will perceive 



called improved, breeds of pigs ; and I hope you that his ears bear strong evidence of having 



