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the butcher (without having been fed one mouthful 

 of grain) at $8 50 each — it would have shaken 

 even your faith in your own opinion of their profits 

 to the farmer. 



Josiah ¥m. Ware, 

 Near Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. 

 October, 1854. 



Guano for Melons. — We had a very fine melon 

 patch which was well nigh destroyed by the striped 

 bug. The vines had just commenced running, and 

 in two or three days, the bugs had stripped nearly 

 every leaf. As a desperate remedy, we applied a 

 handful of guano on top of the hill, under the run- 

 ning vines, sifting on the hill as far as the vines 

 had run, taking care that it did not fall on the leaf. 

 In twenty-four hours not a bug was to be seen; 

 the vines had assumed a healthy and vigorous ap- 

 pearance, and are now loaded with fruit. This ex- 

 periment was not on one vine only, but hundreds. 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



RICHMOND, DECEMBER, 1854. 



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The above work contains, besides the regular 

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 lowing Premium Experiments and Essays : 



Essay on the Theory and Laws of Rotation of 

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Essay on the Analysis of Marls in lower Virginia, 

 by Professor William Giiham of the Virginia Mili- 

 tary Institute. 



Experiment to Test the Effects (in profit or loss) 

 of the Usual Mode of Saving Corn Fodder, &c. by 

 Edmund Ruffin, Jr. 



Experiment to Test the Action of Lime as Manure 

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Experiment in the Tillage of Indian Corn, by 

 Commodore Thomas Ap C. Jones. 



Experiments on the Benefits and Products of 

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Experiments with Tide Marsh Mud as Manure, 

 by John R. Bryan. 



Experiments with Sulphate of Barytes as a Ma- 

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Essay on Enriching and Improving Worn-Out 

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Essay on the Properties and Value of the South- 

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Essay on the Treatment and Management of Milch 

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