THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, 



30eboteti to Agriculture, horticulture, an* tlxt ^ouseholfc Arts. 



Agriculture is the nursing mother of the I Tillage and Pasturage are the two breasts 

 Arts. — Xenophon. I of the State-.-— Sully. 



Vol. VII. RICHMOND, JUNE, 1847. No. 6. 



P. D. BERNARD, 



PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. 



C. T. BOTTSj 



EDITOR. 



Ill' All Communications, concerning the 

 Planter, must be addressed 



P. D. BERNARD, Richmond, Va. 

 i^T-For Terms see last page. 



MARKET FOR WOOL. 



It always gives us pleasure to chronicle any 

 event which may advance the welfare of any 

 portion of the agricultural community. We 

 now wish to mention a fact which may be 

 useful to the growers of wool who live within 

 a distance of Richmond not too great for the 

 transportation of their produce thereto. A 

 woollen factory has been in operation there 

 for several years past, but has been of little 

 service to those who have Virginia wool for 

 sale. Fine flannel has been hitherto the only 

 goods manufactured, and the wool grown in 

 our part of Virginia is all too coarserh quality 

 to serve for that purpose. All the wool used 

 has been imported. We have lately learned, 

 however, that a change is about to be made 

 there, and all the Virginia wool which can be 

 procured will be wanted. Mr. Jones and the 

 proprietors are now engaged in enlarging their 

 establishment to nearly treble its present size, 

 and their buildings and preparations will be 

 completed, we believe, before the close of this 

 summer. It will then manufacture nearly 

 eight hundred thousand pounds of wool an- 

 nually. They intend commencing the manu- 

 facture of blankets and negro cloths; and for 

 .this purpose, the coarse wool of our part of 

 Virginia is admirably adapted. We have 

 Vol. VII.-C. 



been informed by them that all of it they can 

 get will be gladly received, and that a price 

 as good as the market will justify will be paid. 

 It is hardly possible that the quantity needed 

 will be procured, and much that they manu- 

 facture must still be imported. But there are 

 now so many modes of conveyance to Rich- 

 mond, by land and by water, that large quan- 

 tities might be brought here with small ex- 

 pense. Many farmers bring the rest of their 

 produce here, who send their wool to other 

 quarters. We think there are many so si- 

 tuated that they would find this their best 

 market, and we hope it may be a profitable 

 concern to all parties. 



From the Maine Cultivator. 

 ON MANURES. 



In this part of our country we can 

 hardly expect to succeed in farming with- 

 out a competent supply of manure. In 

 new States where lands are first cleared, 

 the soil will yield a few harvests without 

 any other application than the ashes that 

 are left at the first burning. 



In Maine it has been customary to let 

 lands lie idle after one or two crops, sow- 

 ing no grass seed, planting no new trees, 

 nor yet suffering the sprouts to run up 

 and form a new timber lot. Cattle have 

 been allowed to roam through the whole, 

 getting a scanty living and cropping the 

 thriftiest shoots just close enough to spoil 

 them for all purposes. 



When new lands are cleared the soil 

 should never be run so hard with grain 

 as to make it poor and unfit for grass. 

 The seed should be sown with the first 

 grain, and then something may be ex- 

 pected that is worth fencing in. 



But we must keep stock and must be 



