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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



them for the former purpose, and decidedly 

 prefer them for making rich milk and 

 high colored and well flavored butter, to 

 any other food we ever used in the winter ! 

 season. For horses, we know the* opinion 

 of those who have used them is highly 

 favorable. Mr. Risley, of Chautauque j 

 county, raises annually great quantities 

 of carrots, and has been the most success- j 

 ful competitor for premiums on this crop, 

 of any man in the State. He has, in se- 

 veral instances, produced more than 1,000 

 bushels to the acre. We are informed 

 that he feeds them largely to his horses. 

 We have been lately told by a man who | 

 has been some time in his employ, that j 

 the horses fed on carrots are 'more healthy j 

 and active than when fed with anything 

 else. In his own language, the carrots 

 wili " make an old horse appear like a | 

 colt." He stated that they usually gave 

 from a peck to a half a bushel of carrots 

 to each horse daily, with about half the 

 quantity of grain which is given where 

 no carrots are allowed. Horses which 

 have been kept on grain in the ordinary 

 way, when put on their allowance of car- 

 rots, it is said, very quickly improve in 

 spirit, and in the appearance of their 

 coats ; and if the labor they are required 

 to perform is not very hard, it is preferred 

 to give them only the allowance of car- 

 rots, with but little grain, — Cultivator. 



.For the Southern Planter. 

 CURE FOR THE BITE OF A SNAKE. 



Take the root of the cockle bur (which 

 is an oblong bur frequently found in low, 

 swampy, or in very rich ground,) boil in 

 new milk, and drink freely. This is a 

 certain cure, as stated by a lady of high 

 standing in Lynchburg. There is a weed 

 to be found in most parts of Virginia, 

 known as the master poison, the root of 

 which is said to be equally as sure a cure 

 as the above. As the most of Virginia is 

 infested with snakes of the most venomous 

 kind, I think such recipes should be in 

 the hands of every one. 



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Amherst C. H., Va. 



IMPORTANT TO FARMERS. 



A letter from a highly respectable house 

 in New York to a commercial house in 

 this city, says : " The preference is now 

 altogether for yellow corn, though but a 

 few months back white was preferred. — 

 Meal from white corn is now also difficult 

 of sale." 



Yellow corn, we understand, can be 

 readily sold for four or five cents per bushel 

 more than white in the New York market. 

 The farmers will perceive the importance, 

 in planting their next crop, of having re- 

 ference to a fact likely so seriously to af- 

 fect their interests — for, even if the next 

 European harvests should be abundant, it 

 is not to be doubted that the demand for 

 corn will continue to be large for twelve 

 or eighteen months to come. Having be- 

 come familiarized, indeed, to its use, we 

 may anticipate that it will continue, even 

 after the necessity in which its exporta- 

 tion originates shall have ceased to exist, 

 to constitute no inconsiderable portion of 

 the food of the people of Great Britain. 



Richmond Whig. 



FIRE-WOOD. 



We have been burning, for the last 

 month, green black and white oak wood, 

 cut from small trees. Our students find 

 on analysis that 100 lbs. of this wood 

 contain 35 1 lbs. of water, and less than 

 one pound of ash. We demonstrated in 

 an article published in the last Farmer, 

 that 1000 degrees of heat are taken up, 

 in converting water into steam which oc- 

 cupies a space 1,696 times larger than 

 that filled by the water. Although the 

 quantity of latent heat contained in a cord 

 of green wood is not increased by season- 

 ing, and hence the latter can evolve no 

 more sensible heat than the former ; still, 

 in burning green wood, or wet wood, it is 

 almost impossible to avoid the loss of one- 

 fourth of the heat generated, in combina- 

 tion with water, in steam and vapor. Most 

 of the heat rendered latent in these gaseous 

 bodies passes up chimney, where they are 

 condensed, and give out their heat to 

 warm all out doors. 



