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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



needle with a double thread of coarse yarn, and 

 running it through the skin and confining it by 

 a tie. The thread must be moved every morn- 

 ing to keep up irritation, and encourage a dis- 

 charge of the viscid matter, which should be 

 daily washed off with a little warm water and 

 soap. — American Farmer. 



CORN FOR HAY. 



We hope our planters will take measures, 

 during the coming season, to make experiments 

 from which we may obtain full and satisfactory 

 reports of the value of this new and plausible 

 mode of cultivating our old favorite. The di- 

 rections are, to sow the corn broadcast, about 

 four bushels to the acre, upon a rich well tilled 

 lot — cover lightly with a small plough, and 

 either use it green for soiling, or, what is proba- 

 bly better, permit it to proceed to maturity until 

 the years or nubbins get into the milky state, 

 then cut and cure it as hay — pack it away with 

 salt, and pass it all through the cutting box. 



For turning in as a green crop, it is said to 

 be superior to any thing known to our climate 

 and soil. 



From the Farmers' Ga2ette. 

 STABLES— LITTER, &c. 



Mr. Editor, — The chief business of the far- 

 mer, through the long winter months now at 

 hand, will be the care and attention of his stock ; 

 and we hope that every careful and judicious 

 farmer will have provided himself with conve- 

 nient sheds and stables, for the comfort and 

 health of his animals through the cold winter 

 months. "A merciful man is merciful to his 

 beasts," and any farmer who will neglect and 

 starve his animals at this season, is not worthy 

 the name of a farmer. 



Stalls for cattle should be kept warm, and 

 well ventilated, and should be cleaned every 

 morning after the cattle are turned out. Another 

 important point is, to have your stalls well lit- 

 tered with straw, cut from three to four inches 

 in length ; and as rye straw is mostly used by 

 us for litter, in Connecticut, — we hope that no 

 farmer, after trial, will think of littering his sta- 

 bles with long straw, without being cut up. 



When a large quantity of straw is thrown 

 into the hog pen, to be mixed with rich loam, or 

 muck, it should be cut up, and then the swine 

 will work the whole mass together, and in the 

 spring you can fork it out easy, without pulling, 

 or tearing, as is the case when whole straw is 

 put in. 



Last winter, being short for straw, we went 

 to the woods, and carted home leaves with which 



we littered our stables. It made a soft bed for 

 our cattle to lie upon, and when thrown out, it 

 made good manure for any kind of crop. 



It is a good plan, where manure is thrown out 

 into a heap, to spread it about the yard ; as 

 when it is left in a heap till spring, it is apt to 

 heat and mould, — and this is the case in parti- 

 cular with horse manure. 



Every farmer knows, that manure kept under 

 shelter, is worth about double that which is left 

 out, to be washed by the rains, and undergo the 

 action of freezing and thawing. This being 

 the case, it will be well in constructing barns, 

 either to have a barn cellar for the manure, or 

 where this is not convenient, let the stables be 

 made wide enough, to throw the manure back 

 in a space, of sufficient width to back in a cart 3 

 and carry out the manure in the spring. 



The practice of stacking out hay about the 

 farm, has justly been condemned by all good 

 farmers. It is calculated, in stacking out hay, 

 to be fed to cattle, from a quarter, to a third of 

 the hay is wasted, and besides that, the loss of 

 manure, the leanness and suffering of the cattle, 

 from cold and exposure, and the time spent in 

 foddering them, makes it all a bad business from 

 beginning to end. We will suppose a farmer, 

 in a cold winter's morning, after a driving snow 

 storm, to set out for a distant stack on his farm, to 

 fodder his cattle, and after beating his way through 

 the snow for half an hour, he at last arrives 

 at the hay stack. But what a picture presents 

 itself, there stand his cattle, by the side of a rail 

 fence, their only shelter, with their hind feet 

 drawn up so near their fore ones, that they can 

 stand on the bigness of a shingle, shivering and 

 ! shaking with cold. If this will not stir up the 

 feelings of a man, then I know not what will, 

 especially if he be a man of nervous tempera- 

 ment. If any reader of the Gazette should be 

 in this predicament, the present winter, we hope 

 they will make up their minds, that before an- 

 other winter comes, they will provide good sheds 

 and stables for all their stock. 



If you are under the necessity of stacking 

 out part of your h&y ; then bring it up and stack 

 it around } 7 our barn-yard, where you can take it 

 to your cattle in their sheds and stables. But 

 what is better than all, provide yourself with 

 extra barnroom and stabling for all your hay 

 and cattle. It will pay you ten per cent, on the 

 capital laid out, in the saving of hay, and ma- 

 nure, and the comfort, good order, and health of 

 your animals. 



And nowj brother farmers, as the year is about 

 drawing to a close, let us not forget to return 

 our sincere thanks to the great Giver of all good, 

 from whence all our blessings come ; that he 

 has not only spared our unprofitable lives,but that 

 He has crowned our labors with success ; that 

 He has filled our barns, and store houses, with 

 plenty of food for both man and beast, and that 



