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himself, for having' failed to preserve the virtues of his 
manure. 
Every body of manure should be kept covered with earili 
a few inches in depth, until taken out for use, and when 
taken to the field siiould bs plowed in as speedily as pos- 
.sible, or each pi'e as thrown from the cart or wagon 
should be covered with the surrounding soil, and that com- 
pressed with a shovel. But this kind of care, owinii 
to the high price of labor in our country, is more than can 
be expected irorathe generality of farmers — therefore, for 
the present, all that can be expected is this, that the catih 
and other yards should be sufficiently dished in form as 
to prevent the richness of the manure from being wasted 
by running away on the occurrence of each succeeding 
rain ; that each yard be provided with a large body ot 
rough vegetable matter and earth — say to the extent of G 
or 8 inches or more, in depth over the surface of such yard i 
the dish-like form being preserved in spreading — to ab- 
sorb the liquid voidings of the stock, and that plaster or 
charcoal be strewed over the yard every few days, to ar- 
rest and fix the volatiie gases — and further, as the excre- 
ments of the animals accumulate a few indies in deptli, 
through the season, over the yard, these should receive 
additional coverings of earth 
FT.E8H EATING AND VEGETABLE EATING. 
To consider man anatomically, he is decidedly a veget- 
able eating animal. He is constructed like no flesh eating 
animal, but like all vegetable eating animals. He has not 
any claw's like the lion, the tiger or the cat, but his teeth 
are short and smooth, like those of the horse, cow, and 
the fruit eating animals; and his hand is evidently in- 
tended to pluck the fruit, not to seize hi- fellow animals. 
What animals does man most resemble in every respect? 
The ape tribes ; frugiverous animals. Doves and sheep 
by being fed on animal food, (and they may be, as has 
been fully proved,) will come to refuse their natural food ; 
thus it Iris been with man. On the contrary, even cat> 
may be brought up to live on vegetable food so that they 
will not touch any sort of flesh, and be quite vigorous 
and sleek. Such cats will kill their natural prey just as 
other cats, but will refu.se them as food. 
Man is naturally a vegetable eating animal: how’- then 
could he possibly be injured by abstinence fiom flesh? 
A man by way of experiment, was made to live entirely 
on animal food ; after having persevered ten days, symp- 
toms of incipient putrefaction began to manifest them- 
selves. 
Dr Lambe, of London, has lived for the last thirty 
years on a diet of vegeiabie food. He commenced when 
he was about fifty years of age, so he is nosv about 
eighty, rather more, I believe, and i- still healthy and vigor 
ous. The writer of the Oriental Manual mentions that the 
Hindoos among whom he travelled were so far fniiii a ten- 
dency to inflammation, that he has seen compound fracture 
of skull among them, yet the patient to be at his work, as 
if nothing hud ailed him, at the end of three days. How 
difterent is it with our flesh-eating, porter-swilling London 
brev/ers ! a scratch is almost de ith to them. — F'uvxrs and 
Fruits, by J E D^/vran 
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Horses’ Coats.— Lately gnmg to me country to spend 
a few Weeks with a friend of mine, I drove a very hand- 
some horse, and a good Tin — but was always annoyed 
about his coat, as it was more like a lot of bristles than a 
horse’s smooth skin, and all the grooming he could gei 
^‘wouldn't do it no good.” IMy friend, who is a great 
horse breeder and fancier, mmle me try giving him a few 
carrots every day out of my hand, saying that he wouln 
have a good smoothe coat in tliree weeKs — and he wms 
right, fur in that time my horse had a beauiitui, sleek, 
glossy coat, and all from eating a lew l airjts daily. He 
lelrs me it is iiifullxble.— Pa/fer 5 Spirit. 
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EXHAUSTING THE SOIL. 
Is it not a singular fact that in some of the old States 
we have immense tracts of land, thrown out of cultiva- 
lion, as having become exhausted of the soil, whilst in the 
■ >11 countries of Europe, which have been in cultivation 
tor centuries, the reverse is the case 1 The soil oi Europe, 
says a traveller, is now betier than ever — and the reason 
be assigns, is tl'.e plentiful sup{uy of manures, and ma- 
nures made upon the best possible system, by wffiich the 
soil is receiving more back than is taken away in pro 
ducts 
Of all farm products, (says Mr. Charles l?emeiin in the 
Ohio Farmer) the atmosphere and rains furnish the. larger 
quantities of its component parts, and whenever a proper 
system of manuring exists, the ground must become con- 
stantly enriched. 
In Europe, manure is the ever present idea cf the farm- 
er, and by gathering all offals, and making manure in any 
conceivable way, he does not only by green manuring, 
such as plowing clover under, but by stable, factory, 
street, and dwelling munure, take good care to return to 
mother earth the rental she requires, and to do it without 
irrudgingand with compound interest Soil is only there 
exhausted vvdiere crops are raised which are entirely re- 
moved, and of which nothing is returned to the soil— for 
instance, tobacco. This is very litile in Europe. The 
tine wheat crops which smile upon the traveller, as he is 
rushed past them by railroad speed, would bean impossi- 
bility, if the idea of exhaustion were true. The meadows 
too, which are mown thrice every year, and each time 
give a good crop, have been mown for ages. contradicc this 
exhaustion theory. No! the European farmer, and his 
land, are always on good terms with each other. The 
man yields good husbandry and the land yields good 
crops. — E.r-cha nge. 
BiilNLEY’S STEEL PLOWS. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — A geniiemari living 
in Texas, a devoted friend of the Cultivator writes me 
enquiring particulars about the Brinley plow. He says, 
the plows he can get, only pushwei earth be:ore them, and 
do not turn the dry. 
There is a soil in our low grounds black as a coal when 
moist; much hasgiic in it, yet so adhesive that it sticksio 
iron, whether cast or wrought. Many pUjiiters think the 
fault is in the plow, whereas the fact is, the fuilt is in the 
material. Wooden mould boards would do laetter, and 
steel even better. 
Brinley’s plows are made of steel, and for this reason 
well suited to the Prariesoil, which plows best when rath- 
wet. These plows are not only suited to this land, but to 
any lands not decidedly sand, as the construction is well 
adapted to turn a furrow with ordinary* resistance. I do 
not believe they would turn a furrow in any land with the 
same resistance, nor with less on some land than other 
plosv^s I have tried, but take strength, wear, quality of 
such and draft, all advantages, and I will put them against 
any other plow. 
1 have no hesitatirn in saying I will give a silver cup 
or goblet worth 3-0 to any plow sent to me that will, in 
the judement of my neigb’oois, be superior I am inter- 
ested in ’luiving the best in endorsing the best was; ray 
only bruiher to start a 2nd rate plow, I would that “my 
right hand forget its cunning” ere I endorse. [ have 
used the Bimley plow 3 years, and hesitate not to say i: is 
the ptnv:. Though steel, a cnmnu»n negro smith has sbas- 
pened and laid it seveml times J s«y this, iiecauge raa- 
!iy of my friends make it an ohjertioii, that cemutry 
smiths caunnot lay, &c. Yours truly, 
M. W. pRriTiJe. 
Edwards, Miss., April 1857. 
