THE SOUTHERN 'PLANT fcli 



221 



cobs, if sound and not weathered, mix admirably 

 with pure meal. 



To work poor mules, oxen, and horses, or waste 

 their expensive food, is bad economy ; and one 

 way to keep teams poor is to use dull, worthless 

 ploughs and harrows, which require man and 

 beast to go three times over a held to effect a de- 

 gree of tillage which, with really good implements, 

 might have been better done at one ploughing or 

 harrowing. Every step in agriculture ough to tell ; 

 but it cannot, with bad tools, and badly kept work- 

 ing cattle and servants. — South: rn CvUlvaior. 



GHSBM 1 SALE OF SHORT HORNS EN ENG- 

 LAND. 



Last week we noticed Mr. Tanc(ueray ? s 

 dales of Short Boras, at Hen don, on the 24th 

 of April, It would seem hardly possible, had 

 we not facts and figures, that from a single 

 herd there should be sold, at one time, 101 

 animals — consisting of 77 cows and heifers 

 and 24 bulls — at an average price of nearly 

 $400 each. Some of the English journals 

 attribute the high prices to American buyers 

 who, they say, are getting away their best 

 stock. They add, that we have the advantage 

 of them in the associations formed here, by 

 means of which the expense is divided, and the 

 influence of superior animals more widely ex- 

 tended. 



At the Hcndon sale, however, the competi- 

 tion was chiefly between Messrs. Morris &> Be- 

 ear and Mr. Spencer, of New- York city, and 

 Mr. Gunter, a young grazier of Brampton, 

 England. Mr. Gunter obtained the highest 

 price animal (500 guineas,) after which the 

 American buyers seemed to have their own 

 way, as they secured a majority of the 

 best animals, and Mr Gunters name ap- 

 pears afterwards only as the purchaser 

 of one of the bulls. However, Mr. G. now 

 owns more of the Duchesses and Oxfords—- 

 the highest priced families of the Short Horns 

 -than any other breeder in England, and 

 English breeders now turn to him as being re- 

 sponsible for keeping at home any of these bet- 

 ter auiumL-;, 



[Am. AgriculL 



^ Labor Saving Soap. The wife of an Am- 

 erican Agriculturist has been experimenting 

 on soaps, and folds that the addition, of threc- 

 quarters-of oun'cVof borax to a pound ef 

 oap, molted in without boiling, makes a sa- 

 ving qi '•ue-half the labor" in wishing, 

 and Mgfojifl £Wi*thhv ness of the fabric:*" ; 

 lesjdes, the usual caustic effect is removed, 

 NHh Ifcarttri'lkll iJMfj 1 J (Tl with 1 p.-euiiiirly 

 «o*V «#»f «*iik5KeQlm <J, leaving nothing' mote to 

 f:e d^r •:•<•! by the- rr'"^t a\n Utn.-?« 'wasbvrwo- 



For the Southern Planter. 



I A statement of the financial condition of 

 | the Virginia State Agricultural Society ap- 

 pears in the June number of the Southern 

 Planter, and I wish to say through the same 

 channel, that of the amount of commission to 

 which I was entitled as General Agent of the 

 Society, as set forth in that exhibit, there re- 

 mained, after defraying the various expenses 

 | incurred by myself and my son, less than $400 

 jto me, and $217 to him; as is more fully 

 I stated in my report to the Executive Commit- 

 j tee, a part of which is published as an adden- 

 |dum to the financial statement. 



For this, however, the Executive Commit- 

 tee is in no degree responsible. The canvass 

 conducted by myself and others employed by 

 me, was arranged with the President of the 

 Society, and had commenced with considerable 

 success before the meeting of the 1 0th of March, 

 1853, when the subject wag first submitted to 

 the Committee. They undoubtedly wished 

 and intended to make the compensation as 

 liberal as they felt themselves justified in do- 

 ing ; it was entirely satisfactory to me, and I 

 have neither desired nor would have received 

 more. The President himself had offered in 

 the first instance to guarantee a larger amount 

 | from his own purse. 



The operations of my agency were conduct- 

 eel without instructions or control from any 

 quarter; the various expenses incurred was 

 my own voluntary act, and so directed as in 

 my own judgment was best calculated to build 

 up a great State Society. My motive for en- 

 tering upon this agency was rather to render 

 what service I could to a great cause, than to 

 make money by it I relied for a support 

 upon other business in which I had previously 

 engaged, and thought it would be in my power 

 to render this service also without detriment 

 to my private interests. The pecuniary re- 

 sult was, as before stated, and without going 

 further into matters merely personal to myself 

 and my son, I only wish to state the fact. 



Wm. IT. Richardson. 



Fot the Southern Planter. 

 JO? N T W OKM — SUB SOILING AND MAN UR INGL 

 A communication in the June number again 

 recommends destroying wheat straw and stub- 

 ble as a sure means of shortening the reign of 

 ttai-eyer powerful enemy to the wheat crop, 

 tM joint worm. Tinder the above head I will 

 U',.it;.v a i-'*w suggestions' which can do no 

 injur , U> the crop if it does pone to the joint 

 worm. . i Uiiieve the joint worm will have its 

 day, and for all we know, it may be a very long 

 da; ; but j think the fact that they are so un- 

 merous and increte so fast, is an mdication 



