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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



and fire-wood, will be from $1 50 to $2 per 

 week. Tuition from $8 to $12 per quarter. 

 This will include instructions by Gen. Harmon, 

 as well as the Editor's lecture fees. 



Gen. Harmon's farm is regarded as admirably 

 adapted to the establishment of such an institu- 

 tion. He turns off some 1,500 bushels of su- 

 perior seed Wheat, every year, beside considera- 

 ble seed Corn, and between forty-five and fifty 

 fine wooled bucks. As a breeder of Sheep, he 

 has few equals in the country. His facilities 

 for soiling-, or for keeping up sheep, cows and 

 swine, can be estimated by practical farmers 

 when they are informed that his basement rooms, 

 walled in with stone laid in lime mortar, cover 

 an area of 8,916 square feet — or more than the 

 whole basement surface of seven 30 by 40 feet 

 barns. 



The late census returns show that Monroe 

 County grows more Wheat than any other in 

 the State, and more bushels per acre ; and that 

 Wheat-l&nd produces more, per acre, than any 

 other town in the county. 



There is a beautiful natural pond, or lake, 

 partly on the farm, the outlet of which is suffi- 

 cient to drive a flouring mill. The shores of 

 this sheet of water are covered with shells and 

 shell marl, which are admirably adapted to bring 

 up the land, with a few other fertilizers, to a 

 high state of productiveness. 



Horticulture and Fruit Culture will not be 

 neglected at this school. 



Pupils should have a good Common School 

 Education before they enter the institution. If 

 it shall be found desirable, competent tutors will 

 be employed to teach the Languages and Ma- 

 thematics. Assistants, if necessary, will also be 

 engaged to aid in teaching Geology, Chemistry, 

 Botany, Comparative Anatomy, Physiology and 

 Meteorology. It is contemplated to have but 

 few students ; and to pay particular attention to 

 their attainments, morals and habits. But should 

 the Legislature ever deem it worth while to aid 

 a little in making scientific farmers as well as 

 scientific doctors, it is hoped that under a charter 

 and Board of Trustees, this may become a State 

 Agricultural School. 



Daniel Lee. 



For the Southern Planter. 

 STRAW CUTTERS. 



JMr. Editor, — Having used one of your Patent 

 Straw Cutters for more than twelve months, and 

 fully tested its merits, I take pleasure in saying 

 to you, and through you to the readers of the 

 Planter, that it is, in all respects, superior to any 

 machine of the kind that has ever come under 

 my observation ; and such is the estimation in 

 which I hold it, that I could not be induced to 

 part with mine at three times the original cost, 

 were I convinced that I could not procure another 



of the same kind. It is with me a matter of 

 some surprise, that its use has not become more 

 general, which circumstance, I attribute to the 

 fact, that its cost is a little more than that of a 

 more common article ; but if any subscriber to 

 the Planter, who has been accustomed to the 

 use of a common, crooked blade concern, or a box 

 with a single blade, (perhaps an old scythe blade,) 

 will procure one of your straw cutters, and give 

 it a fair trial for twelve months, at the end of that 

 time, if he has any inclination to return to the old 

 plan of straw cutting, or rather of straw mashing, 

 and will deposite your machine with Messrs. 

 Deane & Brown, of Richmond, they will refund, 

 the purchase money on my account, and I will 

 only reserve to myself the privilege of saying 

 he is no economist. 



With the hope that your invaluable invention 

 will, in future, be duly appreciated and liberally 

 patronised by my brother farmers, I subscribe 

 myself, 



Your most obedient servant, 



William M. Moseley, 

 Buckingham, Jan. 20, 1846. 



CHESTER COUNTY HOGS. 



We have received several communications 

 containing inquiries about the Chester County 

 Hog. We take this occasion to say that Gen. 

 Richardson, of this city, has received a very 

 superior pair from Philadelphia, and that he will 

 have pigs for sale early in the summer, both full 

 and half breed ; the latter from fine sows — all 

 at moderate, farmers prices. 



We are also authorized to say that Mr. Aaron 

 Clement, of Philadelphia, has on hand for sale 

 very superior sheep of the Cotswold, South 

 Down and Leicester breeds. All of his sheep 

 received premiums at the last exhibition of the 

 Philadelphia Agricultural Society, of which he 

 is Recording Secretary. 



SOAKING SEED CORN IN PLASTER. 



Hart Husey, Esq., of this village, took a small 

 portion of corn with which he planted a field ? 

 soaked it in a solution of salts of nitre, com- 

 monly called saltpetre, and planted five rows 

 with the seed thus prepared. Now for the re- 

 sult. The five rows planted with corn prepared 

 with saltpetre, yielded more than twenty-five 

 rows planted without any preparation. The 

 five rows were untouched by the worms, while 

 the remainder of the field suffered severely by 

 their depredations. We should judge, that not 

 one grain saturated with saltpetre was touched, 

 while almost every hill in the adjoining row 



