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as wayward younkers sometimes do at college, 

 in resisting a public examination. But bellow- 

 ing and baaing are but little heeded at either 

 place. The porkers take it more easily, and 

 spend the while in a, perhaps, more rational 

 and submissive way, to the very driving off to 

 the butchery. Alas, the poor lambs ! they too 

 have to pass the ordeal, though they fearfully 

 spring and bounce and bleat. Butchers have 

 no hearts, — the cry of the distressed and the 

 shout of the victorious are both alike to them : 

 sometimes there may be a little bantering, but 

 as the parties are generally old acquaintances, 

 business is done with some despatch, and dally- 

 ing is out of the question. Washington mar- 

 ket and Fulton market and several minor ones 

 have all to be supplied, and so each purchaser, 

 having made his selection, drives ahead in pre- 

 paration to feed the half a million mouths of 

 the great city. — Ploughman. 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



RICHMOND, JULY, 1854. 



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AN ANSWER TO COL. WARE'S ARTICLE ON 

 SHEEP AND FARMING IN THE PRESENT 

 NUxVIBER. 



W T e give in another place, the communication of 

 Col. Ware to the public, purely because he calls 

 it a reply to articles of ours. For ourselves, we 

 must confess that we do not see one single particu- 

 lar in which he " replies" to anything we have said, 

 and we can not understand, if he has read what we 

 wrote with care, as he asserts, how he could have 

 so totally misconceived, not to say perverted, our 

 meaning. The motive of Col. Ware, we take it is 

 this : he is " as much interested in fine stock as the 

 most of men." He raises Cotswold sheep, and we 

 do not admire them. It is not enough for us to 

 say "there is profit in all;" (see current volume of 

 Planter, p. 115,) but we must agree with him that 

 his are beyond all comparison the best, and adopt 

 his motto, aut Cotswold, ant nullus. We not hav- 

 ing done this, he undertakes to reply to us, and 

 failing to find anything in the article on which to 

 hinge his reply, very kindly supplies all omissions 

 and makes us say something which will suit him. 

 Thus he assumes, in the very teeth of all we have 

 said, a portion of which he quotes, that we have 

 been advising the farmers of Virginia to graze both 

 lands and stock to death, and considerately informs 

 us that we have been " theorizing," and that we 

 can not bring " a practical man to believe that any 

 animal can flourish, or even live on nothing to eat." 



In the same spirit, he next takes up the case of 

 England, which we had doubly cited: first, in the 

 general statement that she devotes sixty-six per 

 cent, of her arable lands to meadow and pasturage, 

 and second, in the special case mentioned by Mr. 

 Holcombe, of Delaware, where a very productive, 

 and of course exceptional, farm had devoted fifty- 

 eight and a half per cent, of its arable land to 

 meadow and pasturage or its equivalent — he takes 

 up, we say, the case of England to show that we 

 had argued from it, that here the farmers should 

 increase their stock, without reference to grass, 

 and adduces our quotation from Arthur Young, in 

 full, to show that we meant to adopt it only in part. 

 This is not only illogical, but unfair, and we protest 

 against it. Let Col. Ware cite the case in which 

 we took any such ground : we deny it peremptorily. 

 The only colorable matter that Col. Ware has, is our 

 having said that a gentleman kept four hundred 

 and fifty sheep on two hundred and thirty acres of 

 bare pasture ; this he quotes, not taking the distinc- 

 tion between naked land and " bare pasture." To 

 state more precisely, we will say that we gathered 

 from the published statement of the gentleman we 

 alluded to, that he offered feed to the four hundred 

 and fifty sheep on the bare pasture, and they re- 

 jected it repeatedly — a pretty good sign that they 

 did not suffer from hunger. And to be still more 



