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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



three and a half acres. I feed them to my cat- 

 tle, sheep and swine; and for feeding calves the 

 first winter, they are invaluable, carrying them 

 through in fine condition, and promoting their 

 growth wonderfully. 



In storing them I fear the heat more than the 

 frost. I have about 1,600 bushels in a cool cel- 

 lar and 6 CO in heaps covered with straw and 

 earth, for feeding my ewes in May. 



C. N. Bement. 



A FENCE. 



We noticed at the North a style of enclosure 

 for yards and gardens that struck us as combin- 

 ing neatness and economy in a high degree. — 

 We have attempted to illustrate it in the en- 

 graving. 



The posts and rails are put up in the usual 

 form of those to which palings are nailed, but 

 the slats instead of being put on perpendicularly 

 are placed diagonally and crossed so as to show 

 perfect diamonds in the interstices. These slats 

 are ripped with a circular saw out of the slabs 

 and refuse timber at the saw mill ; they are an 

 inch wide and three-eighths or a half inch thick, 

 and when crossed in the manner represented, 

 form a very neat and substantial fence. They 

 are nailed on to the railing just as they come 

 from the saw, and are covered with a coat of 

 pitch which conceals the roughness, affords a 

 good black color and renders it extremely dura- 

 ble. Whitewash might be substituted for it. — 

 Various patterns are used according to the fancy 

 of the owner, but we think the one we have re- 

 presented combines strength with neatness in a 

 higher degree than any other we saw. If the 

 reader, in his next journey to New York, will 

 take the trouble to cast his eyes to the right as 

 the cars approach Amboy, he may catch a hasty J 



glance of the enclosure from which we made 

 our sketch. 



We will attempt an estimate of the cost of 

 this paling. The slats will average about four 

 and a half feet in length and will cost here pro- 

 bably three dollars a thousand, (at the North 

 they are furnished for less ;) they are placed 

 about four inches apart ; a thousand will, there- 

 fore, cover twenty pannels of eight feet, allowing 

 for waste; the rails will be worth about four 

 dollars and the posts about three dollars and 

 fifty cents. The tar may be estimated at one 

 dollar and the nails at fifty cents — making a to- 

 tal of twelve dollars for the materials, at a high 

 estimate, in one hundred and sixty feet of paling. 

 The workmanship may be executed by any 

 man that can dig a hole and drive a nail. 



Who would be without a neat enclosure to 

 his yard when it can be had at so cheap a rate ? 



For the Southern Planter. 

 MUD. 



Messrs. Editors, — In the November number 

 of the Planter "A Subscriber" notices a com- 

 munication, which was published over my name, 

 relative to river mud as a manure. He says that 

 " similar experiments have been made under his 



