THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



Recorder, he instituted the following- experiment. 

 He placed a turkey in a box or enclosure, four 

 feet long, two feet wide, and three feet high, 

 excluded light as much as could be done, and 

 allowed a free circulation of air, and fed the tur- 

 key with soft brick, broken fine, pounded char- 

 coal, and six grains of corn per day. The box 

 was kept locked. At the end of a month, the 

 turkey was killed in the presence of several 

 gentlemen, was large and heavy, and on being 

 opened was found filled with fat. Nothing, on 

 dissection, was found in the gizzard and entrails 

 but charcoal and brick. Last winter the expe- 

 riment was repeated, and with the same success. 



Several years since, in fitting out one of the 

 Liverpool traders at New York, a pig on board 

 was missing, and was supposed to have been lost. 

 The cargo was taken on board, stowed, and 

 the vessel sailed. It was now discovered that 

 the pig was alive in the coal hole, but as he 

 could not be got at readily, it was concluded to 

 leave him to his fate. He remained in this re- 

 treat until the passage was made, when his pig- 

 ship was found to be not only alive and well, 

 but materially improved in condition, though 

 there was nothing, coal excepted, he could have 

 swallowed. 



When it is remembered that wood, sugar, and 

 several other substances, some of which are 

 most nutritive, are compounded of nearly the 

 same original elements, it would seem possible, 

 by animal chemistry, to convert them to saving 

 life; though all experiments with which wood 

 or charcoal failed. The German chemists have 

 converted wood into very palateable bread, by 

 roasting and pulverizing; but calcination, it has 

 been supposed, would destroy whatever powers 

 of nutrition wood might originally contain. — 

 The chemical action of vegetables seems to pro- 

 duce the least effect on coal, and not the least 

 particle of it has ever been found in the struc- 

 ture of vegetables, though mixed with the earth 

 and water in which plants were growing, in the 

 form of the most impalpable powrler. Whether 

 animal chemistry is able to do what vegetable 

 organization cannot, remains to be seen ; though 

 if there is no mistake in the statements alluded 

 to, it would seem probable that this intractable 

 substance is, in some way, made subservient to 

 the nutrition of animals. 



AMERICAN MEAT FOR THE ENGLISH 

 MARKET. 



The liberality of the new English tariff is 

 destined, probably, by unshackling the principles 

 of trade, to work great mutual advantage to 

 the producers of America and the consumers of 

 England. Preparations are now being made to 

 supply Great Britain with the surplus produce 

 of the beef and pork of our bountiful land, and 



the time perhaps will shortly come, when man 

 will cease to put asunder what nature has joined 

 together ; when Europe and America will see 

 how much it is to their mutual advantage to 

 permit the extended production and free inter- 

 change of those things to which they are re- 

 spectively adapted by climate, soil, and peculiar 

 circumstances; all of which may indubitably 

 be effected by simply leaving unshackled the 

 common sense and keen self-interest of mankind. 



The " Cincinnati Gazette" says that one es- 

 tablishment in that city is packing largely for 

 the English market, under the superintendence 

 of an experienced packer of Irish pork. The 

 same house is also engaged in packing a large 

 quantity of leaf lard of snowy whiteness in 

 bladders to suit the fastidious taste of our new 

 customer. 



The Irish pork and beef, which are unrivalled, 

 are said to be cured in a manner very different 

 from, and very superior to, our own. A parti- 

 cular and complete description of the process, 

 which is supposed to be invaluable to the meat 

 curers of the United States, is promised in the 

 same paper. 



This may be all very good, and we should 

 never be too proud to learn, and w r e do know 

 that John Bull has been turning up his nose 

 lately at some of our beef and pork that has 

 appeared in the English market, but we doubt 

 if he has seen the best of it ; it may be because 

 of our ignorance, but we are a little sceptical of 

 finding any thing better than some hams and 

 rounds of American curing of which it has been 

 our fortune to partake. We should have liked 

 especially to have brought to the notice of this 

 imported packer an old shoulder, sent us as a 

 Christmas gift by our friend, Mr. Edward Hill, 

 of King William. We think he would have 

 confessed it equal to any thing he ever saw on 

 the other side of the water. 



From the South Western Farmer. 



THE APPLICATION OF HORSE-POWER TO 

 MACHINERY. 



It is, I believe, thought hy many that horse- 

 power should be applied to mills, gins and other 

 machinery in the same manner that it is applied 

 to drawing ploughs and wheel carriages. This, 

 I think, is not entirely correct ; but, that it should 

 be applied to both by draught equally is very 

 certain. Horses hitched to the plough, as most 

 formers know, perform their labor with the 

 greatest ease when hitched low and short, so as 



