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ginal communications. For our own part, we 

 think there is an idle prepossession existing in 

 the public mind in favor of what is called an 

 original communication. If we can find a good 

 thing, should we decline to publish it because it 

 has been communicated first to some other pa- 

 per ? Would our readers cut us off from the 

 prolific source of agricultural information af- 

 forded by our exchange papers, from the benefits 

 to be derived from the experience and informa- 

 tion of the correspondents of the agricultural 

 papers with which our table is daily covered 1 

 On the contrary, we often discard an original 

 communication, and select an extract which we 

 think conveys information of more value to the 

 reader ; and yet there are readers so senseless 

 as to object to such articles that they are all 

 " copied." We humbly conceive it to be our 

 duty, diligently to examine all the material af- 

 forded us, and to select the best for our sub- 

 scribers, from whatever source it may originate ; 

 and as the aggregate of the contributors to 

 other papers is to the number of our own cor- 

 respondents, as an hundred to one, it stands to 

 reason, if we labor as we should do and go over 

 the whole ground, that each number of the 

 Planter should contain at least ten selected for 

 one original article ; and but for the public taste, 

 it should be so. Nothing would tend so much 

 to abridge our editorial labors as the resolution 

 to fill our columns with original matter ; to do 

 which, we would only have to hand over to the 

 printer one half of the manuscript copy we re- 

 ceive from the post office. 



For the Southern Planter. 



SEED WHEAT.— CAUTION. 



Jtfr. Editor, — Let me advise any fanner, who 

 intends to purchase seed wheat, to do so of the 

 raiser of the wheat, who is bound to know whe- 

 ther he is disposing of a good article or a bad 

 one. I, with two of my near neighbors, in this 

 immediate vicinity, (and I understand a consi- 

 derable number of persons in different parts of 

 the country) purchased a part of our seed wheat, 

 in October last, from a commission merchant, in 

 the city, at the round price of one dollar and 

 twenty-jive cents per bushel, thinking we were 

 getting a most superior article ; when lo ! what 

 is the result ! my two friends have ploughed up 

 considerable portions of theirs — one re-sowing 

 with good seed, the other seeding the land with 

 oats, and both considering the remainder of the 

 land seeded with the wheat spoken of, as thrown 

 away for the present crop. For my own part, 



having seeded my land with clover and grass 

 seed, I was compelled to let it remain ; and now 

 have the daily mortification of seeing one-sixth 

 of a crop on my best land, while I have even an 

 abundant crop upon land adjoining, but seeded, 

 with wheat purchased of a farmer. Upon men- 

 tioning my mortification to the person of whom 

 I purchased it, but whom I freely and willingly 

 acquitted of all knowledge at the time of the 

 seed having been heated, as it must have been, 

 my only consolation was, " He could not help 

 it; if I had not purchased it, some one else 

 would, as plenty more wanted it." So after 

 this, say I, buy of the raiser. 



A Sufferer. 



Henrico, June 26, 1843. 



GAPES IN CHICKENS. 



A writer in the Farmer's Cabinet, says, posi- 

 tively, that the gapes in chickens, which cause 

 so many to die, are occasioned by worms in the 

 windpipe ; and that if the poulterer is pleased to 

 take a feather, strip the sides all off except a 

 small tuft at the end, dip this in spirits of tur- 

 pentine, catch the chicken, open its mouth and 

 just touch this turpentine to the mouth of the 

 windpipe, which may easily be seen at the top 

 of the tongue and near its roots, the worms will 

 almost instantly die, and the chicken as instantly 

 recover. He says there is no danger to the 

 chicken from this course. — JV. jE. Plough Boy. 



We believe with the writer of the above that 

 it is worms which occasions the gapes, and 

 think that the application of the spirits of tur- 

 pentine would prove effectual, but we deem it 

 proper to add the remedy which we have al- 

 ways found effectual. Whenever we found our 

 chickens laboring under the disease, we gave 

 them each a tea-spoonful of a strong solution of 

 assafcetida, which invariably cured the disease, 

 and as we supposed, by dislodging the worm, 

 which we took it for granted was the cause of 

 the disease. — American Farmer. 



We never fail to disseminate information that 

 has the slightest tendency to increase the quan- 

 tity or quality of fried chicken. 



ITEMS IN DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



Use spirits of turpentine to remove grease 

 spots from clothes. It dissolves the grease, and 

 then soap the more easily removes it. Grease 

 may be removed from undyed woollen by a so- 

 lution of pearlash. 



Lime spots on woollen clothes may be com- 

 pletely removed by strong vinegar. The vine- 

 gar effectually neutralizes the lime, but does 

 not generally effect the color of the cloth. Dark 

 cloth, the color of which has been completely 



