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hack or the exhausted race horse? Seboys on 

 long voyages live exclusively on peas. The 

 working" and healthy man and beast want mus- 

 cle, and not fat; fat encumbers and impedes 

 activity, and every excess of it is disease. We 

 seldom see a fat laborer or a fat soldier, except 

 among the sergeants, who sometimes eat or 

 drink too much. 



" Charcoal, which, next to water, forms the 

 chief ingredient in potatoes, is subsistency to 

 life though not to strength. The came is true 

 of the charcoal, which is the main ingredient of | 

 rice, sa<ro, sugar, butter and fat. The woman 

 at Tutbury, who pretended to fast for many days 

 and weeks, sustained life by secretly sucking 

 handkerchiefs charged with sugar or starch. — 

 During the manufacturers' distress in Lancas- 

 hire, five years ago, many of the poor remained 

 in bed covered with blankets, where warmth 

 and the absence of exercise lessened materially 

 the need of food. When Sir John Franklin and 

 his polar pany travelled on snow nearly a fort- 

 night without food, they felt no pain or hunger 

 after the second day; they became lean and! 

 weak by drinking warm water and sleeping in | 

 blankets with their feet around afire; alas, a I 

 knowledge of such facts may become needful 

 and useful in the approaching winter. 



"It has already been stated, that the most 

 nutritious of all vegetable food is the flour of 

 peas, which was the stable food in Europe be- 

 fore potatoes. The flour of kiln dried peas 

 stirred in hot water makes a strong and pleasant 

 Scotch brose, on which alone a man may do 

 good work. B rrrels of peas brose flour may be 

 brought from Scotland, or prepared in England 

 wherever there is a malt kiln. 



"In England, pea-soup and peas pudding are 

 still a common and most nourishing food. Our 

 forefathers and their children, we know, from 

 nursery rhymes, etc. 



"Peas pudding hot, peas pudding cold, 

 Peas pudding in the pot, and nine days old." 



For the Southern Planter. 



CORN-SHELLER3 AND CULTIVATORS. 



A "Young Farmer," in the October number, 

 among other things asks for a cheap corn-sheller 

 and the best cultivator. Any thing that saves 

 labor is at once deserving the attention of the 

 agriculturist, who lives by labor the most inces- 

 sant, but to save labor and money too, is of all 

 things the most necessary for young farmers. 

 I use a sheller, or beater, made of ten by ten 

 inch pine, seven or eight feet long, and three 

 feet broad, from out to out. The frame in the 

 space between the sills have inserted into the 

 head blocks, two inch oak rails, edge up one- 

 quarter (full) of an inch apart. A two inch pin 

 holds the corners together and forms legs. Four 

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holes near the out edge of ihe sills receive pins 

 or standards for two broad planks, and ihe sheller 

 is complete. Two men with flails may beat out 

 as much in a day as they have a mind to. r l he 

 corn should pass through the coarse fiddle of a 

 fan, and then the small cobs are easily separated. 

 Much htbor in shelling is saved, but the great 

 utility of the thing is the cobs are broken into 

 short pieces which can be given to cattle which 

 they devour greedily in this form. If given to 

 them in small quantities^ instead of the fashion 

 of some who commit this rich food to the flames. 



Like the "Young Farmer," I sought long 

 and far for a cultivator that would work to suit 

 me, but seeking in vain, I have invented one 

 which if any young gentlemen, farmers or ar- 

 tists, choose to meet me in the spring (should 

 we live) I will engage to beat the entire crowd 

 ploughing corn of whatever State he or they 

 may come, when it is considered the neatness of 

 the work, the depth the land is stirred, the little 

 left for the hoe. The same contrivance, by 

 shifting one tooth, is one of the best of corn 

 planters, (covering only,) by shifting two teedi 

 it is converted into a coulter for working vege- 

 tables, irish potatoes, cabbage, beets and turnips, 

 it is immutable; for putting in oats on a winter 

 fallow, or wheat where the soils part easily and 

 the vegetable matter is rotten, nothing can be 

 superior 



as it. stirs the land w 



hout bringing 



back to the surface that which should remain 

 below, while the wear for a corn crop is only 

 ten cen?s, and never has to go to the blacksmith- 

 shop, when once well finished. I shall offer the 

 implements for sale in the spring at about five 

 to six dollars, according to the weight of iron 

 required. 



When the land is in good order for com and 

 laid off two ways there is no more use for a hoe 

 than there is for a fork to drink soup with. — 

 When it is used at the proper period, and ihe 

 corn in drills, a hand can hoe nearly double the 

 amount of hills in a day that can be done when 

 the corn is sided with the bar to the j loueh. 



J. II. D. Low^es. 



P. S. — It is lucky yen put my name to the 

 last piece published over it, as I should not have 

 known it without. J. H. D. L, 



For tl 



lomhern Planter. 



STIFLED HORSES. 



Seeing many prescriptions for the cure of 

 stifled horses in different, authors, and among 

 others, one in the May number of the Southern 

 Planter, by J. B. Godard, of Connecticut, page 

 106, permit me to give Mr. Godard and the pub- 

 lic, my own experience of this disease, through 

 your interesting and useful paper. In the first 

 place, the stifle in a horse is simply this : the 

 flank or stifle joint is a large cne, with two deep 



