THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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who has not experimented in this way. The 

 second crop the beds will be reversed, and the 

 same course pursued, by which a more general 

 diffusion of manure will take place. I am fully 

 persuaded that the small quantity of manure 



recommended in this article will produce double 

 the quantity of grain that a broadcast applica- 

 tion of the same would, and leave the land better 

 every year. A Patron. 



July 23, 1844. 



THE MARL INDICATOR. 



The following, taken from an old number of I and the adjoining country, that the growth of a 



the Farmers' Register, may be new and interest- 

 ing to many of our friends in the marl region : 



It has been long and generally believed among 

 the marling farmers of King William county 



certain plant, in running water indicates, with 

 absolute certainty, the presence of marl, or beds 

 of fossil shells, somewhere higher up the stream. 

 The great value of any such indication, to thos r 

 who are searching for marl, is obvious. T 



