THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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sbaH we not in this case impoverish the soil of 

 minerals % Yes, it is possible to impoverish the 

 soil La this way, but as turnips require for their 

 growth more phosphoric acid than wheat and 

 beans, and clover more potash, the soil will refuse 

 to grow these crops from Lick of minerals much 

 sooner than wheat. As long as we can grow good 

 crops of turnips, peas, beans, and clover, we may 

 be sure there are suflisient minerals in the soil for 

 the largest wheal crop. 



Were the " mineral theory** correct, man would 

 possess the power of utterly exhausting the soil; but 

 according to the views we have set forth, this power 

 has been wisely withheld from- him. Impoverish 

 it he can and does, but to exhaust it by any nat- 

 ural and economic means is beyond his power. 



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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER 



RICHMOND, APBIL, 1856. 



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THE OHIO FARMING AND STOCK BREEDING 

 COMPANY. 



It strikes us that One of the most promising cu- 

 terprizes we have heard of for some time is the 

 one which is desoribed under the above heading 

 in a lute number of the Ohio Farmer. 



It seems that a company of farmers, with, we 

 presume, ample means, and of considerable ex- 

 perience, have formed a partnership for ten years? 

 renewable at the end of that time, for carrying on 

 farming and stock breeding. The stock is made 

 up. of shares of $1,000, and the company will 

 commence operations with $20,000, cash paid In. 

 They have purchased some 8,000 acres of land in 

 Butler county, Iowa, near a railroad now la pro- 

 cess of construction. They will immediately 

 commence building and cropping, and in about a 

 year will send out 50 or 60 brood mares, well se- 

 lected and stinted to some of the best and most 

 fashionable horses in Ohio. A like number of" 

 shorthorns — cows and heifers— will be sent out at 

 the .same time. ' Then the superintendent, Dr.. 

 Sprague, at present corresponding secretary of 

 the Ohio State Beard of Agriculture, will- lata 

 charge of the farm. He— 



Widl open a set of books, prepared with a 

 view* to keeping a systematic account of opera- 

 tions on the farm ; charging the farm with mo- 

 neys invested in the land, in improvements, breed- 

 ing stock, implements, labor, and all other invest - 

 ments and expenditures ; giving credit for all 

 produce sold or consumed, pasturage, moneys ob- 

 tained from sale of stock, and (at the expiration 

 of ten years, this being the lifetime of the part- 

 nership, but which may be renewed at pleasure,) 

 the worth of the land upon closing up the aftaira 

 of the company. An account will also be opened 

 with each breeding animal when purchased, 

 charging for investment and keeping from year 

 to year, giving credit for produce sold or retained 

 for breeding from time to time. No horde stock 

 will be sold, until some fifty young horses havo 

 attained sufficient age for service. These will, for 

 six months or more previous to marketing, bet 

 thoroughly trained by a good hors&iftaaj gailcd 



