THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



same time testing them by fair trials, as to general 

 adaptation. 



"4. A selection from the common, or so called 

 native stock, to be subjected to a systematic course 

 of breeding. 



"5. Crosses of the Ayrshire and of the Jersey 

 with the common stock, the offspring to be kept 

 separately for a sufficient period to ascertain their 

 qualities. 



"As Fattening Stock, of Secondary Value for the 

 Dairy — 



"1. For poor and rough soils and a severe cli- 

 mate, the West Highland Scots. 



"2. For somewhat better soils, the Galloways 

 and Devons. 



"3. For medium quality of soils, the Herefords. 



" 4. For the best soils and milder climate, the 

 fattening variety of Short Horns. 



" The Herefords, Devons and West Highlanders 

 are excellent draught cattle. 



"In this climate, owing to the extremes of heat 

 and cold, strength of constitution is an important 

 requisite in cattle that are obliged to undergo more 

 or less exposure at all seasons. On this account, 

 as well as for other intrinsic properties, the lecturer 

 advocated strongly the introduction of the West 

 Highlanders." 



Several of t^iese breeds of cattle are not known 

 here at all; but they are very meritorious and de- 

 serve to be investigated. The Kerry cows, parti- 

 cularly, we think suited to the short grass of much 

 of our country, and we believe, though we express 

 the opinion with hesitation, and frankly avow that 

 it is the result of reading and not of observation, 

 that for the chance they have had the Herefords 

 deserve vastly more notice than they have received. 

 We think that with the same chance they would 

 now have been better stock in every way than the 

 boasted and beautiful, but delicate and uncertain 

 Short Horns. 



Be that as it may, any is better than none, and a 

 plenty better than a few. They and all other stock 

 are necessary to a high state of agriculture — and 

 the farmers who do not keep enough stock to make 

 manure and to bring revenue, cannot be expected 

 to enrich their lands or keep up their fertility. 



AWARD OF PLANTER PREMIUMS. 



Though the Premium List of the Planter closed 

 on the first of April, as it was limited to do, yet 

 we could not publish it in the April number be- 

 cause the full returns were not in. We now an- 

 nounce the result. 



To Mr. F. N. Watkins of Farmville, Prince Ed- 

 ward, who has sent us for new and old subscribers 

 the sum of $207, we award the first prize of the 

 thoroughbred Devon bull calf, "Farmington the 

 First," with the hope that his horns may never 

 grow less. 



To Mr. William W. Garrett, Rumford Academy, 

 King William county, who has sent us $100, the 



South Down ram, "Ivy," with the hope that he 

 may never have any horns at all. 



To Mr. J. F. Hansbrough, Stevensburg, Culpeper, 

 who has sent us $55, the boar pig, "Lewis," and 

 the sow pig, "Joanna," with the earnest wish that 

 their tails may always remain curled as handsomely 

 as at present. 



We shall be happy to hear from all these gentle- 

 men at an early day, that we may know how they 

 wish their animals consigned. 



OATS AND LATE CORN FOR HOGS. 



Now is the time to make arrangements for hogs. 

 Fence off a portion of the oat field, say ten acres 

 for fifty hogs, and do it before the oats get so high 

 that you will think it a pity to haul rails through 

 them, and before the corn gets so high that you 

 will not be able to spare the time from it. Turn 

 in the hogs when the oats are three-fourths ripe. 



In this month, too, plant corn (two acres for fifty 

 hogs) thicker than your regular crop is planted, to 

 cut up and give to them green, stalk and all, after 

 the first crop for that purpose is exhausted or be- 

 come too ripe. 



That first crop is easily provided for by refrain- 

 ing to thin, or by leaving twice as thick, two acres 

 of your regular crop. And remember not to let 

 your cattle get to the refuse of this feed left by 

 hogs, as if they do they will surely die. Feed out 

 in the roasting ear. 



A correspondent recently told us that the article 

 we wrote on this subject some time since was w T orth 

 many years' subscription to the Planter. To those 

 who had no other means of arriving at the fact 

 than through the columns of the Planter we know 

 it was worth, or will be just double the quantity 

 of pork they had before, and at no increase of 

 expense. 



DERBY'S HORTICULTURAL REVIEW AND 

 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 



We are indebted to the courtesy of the publisher 

 for the March number of the above periodical, pub- 

 lished at Cincinnati, and edited by John A. Warder, 

 M. D. and James W. Ward, Esq. — price three dol- 

 lars per annum for twelve numbers of 48 pages each. 

 We take pleasure in recommending it to those of 

 our readers who desire to possess themselves of an 

 able work adapted to instruct and entertain them 

 on the subjects of Horticulture, Floriculture, Botany 

 and allied sciences. The typography and pictorial 

 illustrations of this number are beautiful specimens 

 of art, and the high order of its contents in talent, 

 taste and judgment is creditable to its conductors 

 and contributors. If its present character is well 

 sustained in its future numbers it cannot fail to 



