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ing their very best specimens and they were certainly 
choice porkers indeed. 
The judges, however, were at no loss to decide in favor 
of Col. Frazier’s lot, and they were tolled olF, squalling 
after a silver cup of corn — victorious. 
District Socikty Fair. — The effect of these last stock 
shows, has excited the stock raisers of our neighborhood so 
that they call loudly for our District show in October next. 
It is thought advisable by many that it shall take place on 
Saturday of the second week of next October Court. 
Farmers, rub up your horses, colts, bulls, cows, hogs, 
goats, chickens, and bring in samples of wheat, corn, 
millet, cotton, insects, potatoes and a little of any and 
everything that will be ofinterest. 
The Executive Committee will give notice in our next 
issue of the precise time for the Fair. 
The Edgefield District Agricultural Fair. — -The 
Executive Committee has appointed Saturday of the 2nd 
week of October Court, for the first Fair of the Edgefield 
District Agricultural Society. 
It is hoped that the first show of stock, and agricultural 
products in general, that our District will make, on so 
short a notice, will do credit to the commencement. And 
as “tall oaks from little acorns grows,” our people may, in 
time, become the best producers of all that is choice in 
agriculture, and whose energy, skill and industry shall 
whiten every sea with the sails of her gi’owing commerce. 
Coulter & Scooter. 
We heartily second the above appeal of Messrs. Coulter 
& Scooter. But where is our Edgefield Society ? Why 
can it not meet and make some definite preparatory ar- 
rangements'? In Fairfield such has been the course adopt- 
ed and we see in a late number of the Register a long list 
of premiums offered in all the various departments of ag- 
ricultural skill. Can we not, at least, approach the pub- 
lic spirit and liberality of our Fairfield fellow-citizens'? 
Can we not prepare grounds, charge a small amount for 
entrance of stock, &c., as well as for the admission of 
spectators, and in this way be enabled to put up a few 
silver cups if nothing more '? We shall see. 
FODDEE PULLING-CAN’T HELP IT. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have been a subscri- 
ber to the Southe'ni Cultivator for several years, and dur- 
ing that time have repeatedly seen articles condemning 
the practice of pulling fodder. To me the arguments 
against it are conclusive. We save 150 lbs. of fodder per 
acre, more or less, and lose the same weight of corn per 
acre, i. e.: we exchange 150 lbs. corn for 150 lbs. fodder 
and give as the difference of the two articles li day’s labor 
of a hand. I conceive the 1 r day’s labor of itself to be an 
equivalent for the fodder. Yet how we (I mean in this 
section of coumry) are going to obviate it I am unable to 
say, unless it is by reserving so many acres for crab grass 
bay. 
Some seasons we would get a fine crop, and again would 
not gel enough to pay us for the trouble of mowing it. 
1 have tried cutting up corn and shocking it as 1 used 
to do in the North, but I cannot cure it here one time in 
ten, as about that time we have a shower every day and 
.sometimes three or four of them. Provided we could 
cure stalk fodder it would not answer to feed horses and 
mules, as they could pick only a few blades off of the front 
.stalks in the rack and no more. 
I have sowed corn broadcast and tolerable thick so as 
to prevent the stalks growing large, that it might be more 
easily cured and handled ; the stalks I believe would aver- 
age about three quarters of an inch in diameter. When 
about 61 feet high it commenced tasseling and firing at or 
&boul the same time. In six or eight days after I cut it to 
prevent it from burning up. I had it spread as cut and 
then turned every day, the sun shone very hot and yet 
the 4th day after it was cut it was so full of sap that I 
could squeeze it out by twisting the stalk. I finally cured 
and housed it and I must add that neither mules nor 
horses will touch it as long as they can get fodder saved 
in 1854 — all that I saved in 1855 has given out. In try- 
ing to cure the stalk the blades had become perfectly black 
with the dews and sun. 
In the August number, under “ Hints for the season,” 
yousay “Cov/ peas, for hay, may be sown ; cut when 
the pods are beginning to form,” &c., &c. On the 28th 
or 29th of July, 1855, I sowed cow peas broadcast; on 
the last of October I cut them ; they were full of young 
pods, but no ripe ones. After letting them dry four days 
in the field I hauled and spread them out in the horse lot 
and other places adjacent, so that I could house them in 
case of rain. After being spread out five days in the 
horse lot, &c., I housed them and found, after two days, 
that they commenced heating. Having no more time to 
lose, from picking cotton, I commenced throwing them 
out to my horses, mules, cows and oxen, but they would 
not eat them when they could get fodder or shucks. 
About the last of April I sowed an acre of cow peas 
broadcast for hay. I intend to cut them just before frost ; 
the were sowed on hill land. The other experiments were 
made on bottom land. 
Clover will not do here for the simple reason that our 
soil is deficient in lime. In the North before we had 
timothy and clover we sowed garden peas broadcast and 
mowed them for hay and they answered an excellent pur- 
pose. Can you or any of your numerous subscribers in- 
form me how they will do here '? 
Thus far I have been unable to find anything that will 
satisfy me as a substitute for fodder. 1 intend trying the 
garden pea, millet, &c., &c. 
As much opposed as I am to pulling fodder I shall have 
to submit to it for the present. Respectfully, 
T. C. C. 
Mill DaUy Miss., 1855. 
BEES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. 
Editors Southern Cultivator— Permit me, through 
your columns to give answers to Nos, 1, 2, and 10, of A. 
T. Sherrill’s interrogations, page 270. 
The hive I prefer is that recommended by a person of 
the name of “Nutt;” it can be purchased at Geo. Neigh- 
bors, High Holborn, London, with glasses, thermometers, 
ventilators and all sorts of useful and ornamental appli- 
ances, but a hive may be constructed upon the same 
principle by any country carpenter, that will do quite as 
well, thus: — Make of inch board three boxes each 12 
inches every way ; let them be united and placed on a 
stand in a row ; let the sides which come in contact with 
the center box and the corresponding sides of the center 
box be perforated with augur holes so as to give the bees 
means of free communication— and let each side so perfor- 
ated be provided with a piece of tin to slide over the per- 
forations so as to cut off the communication. Let an early 
swarm be put into the centre box, the tin slides being 
down. Bees never swarm except for wantof space — they 
will cluster around the mouth of the hive from excessive 
heat within, but after a while disperse again. The swarm 
being received in the centre box, should be allowed to re- 
main there undisturbed until the following spring, when 
signs of swarming will be observed ; then draw up the 
slides so as to give the bees access to one of the side boxes 
and the disposition of the hive to throw off a swarm will 
immediately subside, and the bees instead will forthwith 
commence operations in their new apartment. As soon 
as this may be filled with comb and honey — say in six 
