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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, 



overgrow themselves. I am done buying them 

 at ten dollars ahead. Parson Turner may get 

 all he can for his, but in future I will sell my 

 full blooded pigs for five dollars ahead — buy 

 common shotes at two dollars, and lay out the 

 balance of the pig money in corn to feed them 



on, and that will make bacon good enough for 

 me if well cured * and cheap at that. 



A Loudoun Subscriber. 

 Middleburg, Loudoun, Jan. 11, 1843. 



* Some of these days I'll show you how to do it. 



HUSSEY'S CORN AND COB CRUSHER, 



The public have become satisfied, at last, that 

 in throwing away the cob of the Indian corn, 

 they have been wasting very good feed. The 

 experiments of Mr. Peter Minor, of Albemarle, 

 which have been detailed over and over again, 

 and the testimonials daily published in the agri- 

 cultural journals, of the nourishment and bene- 

 ficial effects of cob meal, have awakened a very 

 general interest in the subject. We have often 

 expressed the opinion, which we take this occa- 

 sion to repeat, that the farmer wants nothing 

 more than a good, cheap, and simple horse-power, 

 to induce him to apply it to many operations at 

 home, that are now, either totally neglected, or 

 performed abroad, at the expense of much cost 

 and more trouble. Amongst the chief of these 

 we reckon the grinding not only corn and cob 

 for stock feed, but the grinding of corn meal for 

 human consumption. Every farmer who has 

 to send five or six miles to mill, knows, that 

 the toll is the smallest portion of the expense of 



grinding; and the greatest difficulty in persuad- 

 ing our farmers to do what, under almost any 

 circumstances, their interest would dictate, that 

 is, to grind all the grain they feed away, arises 

 from the trouble and inconvenience of "sending 

 to mill." For this reason, we have been asked, 

 over and over again, by persons living within 

 five miles or less of a public mill, "can you not 

 find or construct us an implement with which 

 we can grind our own corn V With the in- 

 creased desire to grind the corn and cob to- 

 gether for all the stock, this demand has greatly 

 increased. To answer this demand, various 

 machines have been gotten up ; there are Hus- 

 sey's, Baldwin's, Murray's, and Birely's, 

 that we have seen. We have not, however, 

 had sufficient opportunity to examine and test 

 them, to enable us to compare them, or speak of 

 their respective merits. Of Mr. Hussey's, of 

 which the engraving is a representation, we 

 have received and worked one or two, and we 



