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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



ture, Politics, Commerce, Manufactures, or Agri- 

 culture — whether in a stitched or unstitched form, 

 limiting only the size and intervals of such pub- 

 lications. 



This statement we withheld, in hopes that 

 some action would before this have been had 

 upon the subject ; but our subscribers complain 

 so much of the postage with which they are 

 charged, and we so frequently receive letters 

 from post masters themselves, asking how we 

 can mark our paper as subject only to new spaper 

 postage, that in justice to them and to ourself 

 we have thought fit to make this explanation. 

 Our friends will oblige us by calling the atten- 

 tion of their several post masters to it. It is for 

 them, of course, after reading the law and hear- 

 ing the argument, to pursue their own course ; 

 we were never more sure of any thing, than 

 that the judiciary would sustain us in our inter- 

 pretation of the law of 1845. 



one hundred. Stags are long-lived. Sheep 

 seldom exceed the age of ten. Cows live about 

 fifteen years. Cuvier considers it probable that 

 whales sometimes live one thousand years. Mr. 

 Malierton, has the skeleton of a swan that at- 

 tained the age of two hundred years. Pelicans 

 are long-lived. A tortoise has been known to 

 live to the age of one hundred and seven. — Ex- 

 change paper. 



A PET HEN. 



A hen, of the golden pheasant breed, belong- 

 ing to Mr. Richard Barnes, of Treales, which 

 has been brought up a pet ever since it was a 

 chicken, comes regularly into the house, and 

 lays its egg on the lap of a child four years old. 

 If the child is absent, it deposites it on the chair 

 whereon the child is accustomed to sit. After 

 it has laid its egg, it is indulged with a few 

 pieces of oat cake, or wheaten bread. — Preston 

 Chronicle. 



For the Southern Planter. 



PEACH TREES. 



JWr. Editor, — Permit me to give the farmers 

 a slight hint relative to their peach trees at this 

 season of the year. I have just examined ours 

 and find wherever the glue, or gum, is oozing 

 from about the roots, there is sure to be a worm, 

 one or more, at work between the bark and 

 wood. I have found as many as seven in the 

 same tree, and it must inevitably have died the 

 coming summer, had I not with a hoe scraped 

 the glue and earth from the root, and following 

 the cavity from which it oozed, found and killed 

 the worm. The worms have the same appear- 

 ance as the sawyer found in pine trees, and from 

 one to one and a half inches in length. 



J. M. 



AGE OF ANIMALS. 



A bear rarely exceeds twenty years ; a dog 

 lives twenty years ; a wolf, twenty ; a fox, four- 

 teen or sixteen ; lions are long lived — Pompey 

 lived to the age of seventy years ; a squirrel or 

 hare, seven or eight years \ rabbits, seven. Ele- 

 phants have been known to live to the great age 

 of four hundred years. When Alexander the 

 Great had conquered one Porus, King of India, 

 he took a great elephant which had fought va- 

 liantly for the king, and named him Ajax, dedi- 

 cated him to the Sun, and let him go with this 

 inscription, "Alexander, the son of Jupiter, hath 

 dedicated Ajax to the Sun." This elephant was 

 found with this inscription, three hundred and 

 fifty years afterward* Pigs have been known 

 to live to the age of thirty years ; the rhinoceros 

 to twenty. A horse has been known to live to 

 the age of sixty-two, but averages twenty to 

 thirty. Camels sometimes live to the age of 



* We wish the gentleman who found this elephant 

 would be good enough to tell us upon what durable 

 material the inscription was written. — Ed, Planter. 



CONTENTS OF NO. III. 



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Lime — How and where it should be used, p. 49. 

 Agricultural Schools— One established in N. York, p. 50. 

 Straw Cutters— "Rous' recommended, p. 52. 

 Hogs — Chester County hogs, p. 52. 

 Com— Directions for soaking corn and rolling in 



plaster, p. 52. 

 Hay Press — Fry's described, with a cut, p. 53. 

 Cellar Moors — A cement for, p. 54. 

 Sheep — An excellent treatise on, p. 54. 

 Bacon — How to cure, p. 56. 

 Com— Cultivation in drills, p. 56. 

 Lime-^-Iis mode of action, p. 58. 

 Clover — Proper depth for seed, p. 58. 

 Turkeys — Directions for raising, p. 59. 

 Agricultural Education— How to be secured, p. 60. 

 Hames — An improved plan, p. 61. 

 Hints— To agriculturists, p. 61. 

 Butter — Directions for churning, p. 62. 

 Sheepskins — To cure, p. 63. 

 Cows — To secure constant milkers, p. 63. 

 Roads — The value of good roads, p. 64. 

 Irrigation — Plan of a madman, p. 66. 

 Cow Peas — Value as an improver, p. 66. 

 Butter — How to keep, p. 66. 

 Dairy — How to construct, p. 66. 

 Fruit Trees— How to restore, p. 67. 

 Virginia Lands — Greatly commended, p. 67. 

 Corn — Mr. Pegram's mode of cultivation, p. 68. 

 A Wood-House — Described, with a cut, p. 69. 

 Inversion of the Womb — An experiment on, p. 69". 

 Oats and Clover— An experiment with, p. 70. 

 Hogs and Chickens — General Richardson's, p. 70, 

 Postage — Of the Planter, p. 71. 

 Hogs — How to manage, p. 71. 

 Hens — A pet hen, p. 72. 

 Animals — Age of, p. 72. 

 Peach Trees— How to manage, p. 72. 



