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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



Managed in this way, I get three or four tons 

 of hay from each acre ; I have taken four tons 

 from 140 rods of ground, well dried. The best 

 time to put on manure is soon after mowing ; it 

 will not need it more than once in four or five 

 years. 



I have made nearly 500 rods of these ditches ; 

 they cost about five shillings per rod • they are 

 the cheapest fence I can make, and by cleaning 

 out the dilches, you can keep the fence in good 

 repair. 



Yours, Julius Watjuns. 



Whitesboro\ Nov. 19, 1842. 



For the Southern Planter. 



TO IMPROVE A PINY OLD FIELD. 



First belt the trees and cut down the bushes. 

 The following year cut and burn every thing 



into coal which is large enough, and scatter the 

 burnings. That which is not large enough for 

 coal should be spread on gullies and galls ; and 

 this should be completed by the middle of March. 

 Now mark off the ground with a coulter, sow- 

 oats, (and grass seeds, if you please,) and cover 

 with the same implement. For the purpose of 

 making equal distribution of the manure, and 

 I to avoid cost in carriage, the kilns should be 

 placed at about fifty feet distant; and that 

 they may be of about equal size wood should 

 be moved as required. Or if there be a surplus, 

 the wood or coal can be moved elsewhere. At 

 fifty feet distant, we have about eighteen kilns 

 to the acre, which, if producing only one hun- 

 dred bushels of burned earth and coal to the 

 kiln, is one thousand eight hundred to the acre, 

 which 1 would apply to the spot, and then comes 

 the blessing. 



s Old Flu. 



For the Southern Planter. 

 GATE. 



Messrs. Editors, — In No. 1 of the Southern 

 Planter for 1843, 1 noticed an article on the sub- 

 ject of engravings, in which you express a wish 

 that your friends should forward you sketches, 

 &c. with description of implements or fixtures 

 which are of a novel or interesting character. 

 I have taken the liberty to furnish you with one, 

 which, whatever may be its merits in regard to 

 interest or novelty, I cannot but flatter myself 

 will be found useful to farmers. I therefore send 

 you the above sketch, the object of which is to give 

 you an idea of securing gate posts so firm as 

 not to be moved by frost or otherwise ; it can be 

 used either for post and rail or the common 



worm fence. The only thing necessary repre- 

 sented aboye 3 is the brace from the top of the 

 back post of the gate to the first corner of the 

 fence. All that is necessary is that it should be 

 secured at both ends, as the weight of the fence 

 at the corner is sufficient to keep the back post 

 in a perpendicular position; therefore, if you 

 think it desirable to publish it, you may, with 

 the assurance that it will answer an excellent 

 purpose, as experience has proved it without 

 doubt. . I will here remark that it would be ne- 

 cessary to place the first pannel of fence in a 

 straight line with the gate when shut ; when 

 the gate is open, the brace will not act as repre- 



