THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR 
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shires. They grew large, had beautilul t'orins, 
splendid hams, paid better for their keep than 
any other breed, and fattened kindly at any age. 
My hogs generally were not quite large enough. 
Sometimes one would reach three hundred, but 
not often. I wanted bigger ones, 1 must keep 
pace with my neighbors, Berkshires I must 
have. An opportunity soon offered, 1 pur- 
chased a pair of pigs of the importer himself, 
(and a gentleman too,) some of old England’s 
tei— paid sixty dollars cash— no mistake about 
it, I had heard something about the Yankee 
way of cooking and mixing and so on. Well, 
i thought I could do as well as the Yankees, and 
that 1 would do the thing right. One of Mott’s 
agricultural furnaces was ordered and brought 
home, A fine steam mill is hard by, owned by 
clever folks, and very convenient to turn corn 
into meal, ’Twas not long before I had a hun- 
dred or more full blood and half blood Berk- 
shire pigs. It so happened we had plenty ol 
corn and potatoes; a fine turnep patch, and 
more cole worts than we could eat. I had seen 
some good hogs raised in Georgia, and some 
good ones brought from Tennessee and Ken- 
tucky ; 1 had heard of Dr, S. D. Martin’s Wo- 
burns, of A. B. Allen’s Berkshires, of the Bed- 
ford, of the Suffolk, and of the improved Chi- 
nese hog, &c., and I intended to raise (for 1 had 
of old England’s best) just as good as the best. 
Corn was sent to mill, potatoes dug^ vegetables 
gathered, and Aaron went to cooking. The 
kettle was filled with com meal, turneps, or 
coleworts, and potatoes; water was added, and 
the whole boiled until thoroughly done. My 
pigs were fed with this food three times a day, 
all they would eat. Corn on the cob lay by 
them all the while. I have now tried the Berk- 
shires four years, 1 have had plenty of corn 
and to spare all the lime. I have taken more 
care, and had more attention paid to my hogs, 
than ever before. They have been kept and 
fed in the woods and in the field, in lots and in 
close pens, sheltered and bedded; they have 
been fed on corn alone, and on corn with '‘good 
substitutes,” and on raw food and on cooked 
food. The result is, I have not succeeded ; the 
Berkshires have paid less for their keep than 
any hogs I ever had. 
‘I wish to be distinctly understood, 5 do -not 
presume to say the Berkshires have not done 
well in the hands of others. lam aware they 
have been highly prized by intelligent and prac- 
tical men; men of good judgment and of un- 
doubted veracity. I dispute no man’s word, and 
impugn no man’s motives. 1 speak of my own 
experience and lor myself only. 
1 acknowledge 1 have not fed Berkshires — to 
profit. But my friend Bucket" Ah! he 
feeds his hogs" Will he tell me how '? 
Houston county, April, 134d. Clodhopper. 
For the Southern Cultivator. 
A Freak of Nature. 
Mr. Camak: — Sir — The Siamese Twins are 
a great curiosity, and rendered the more so, as 
they were a f reaK of Nature in the -human spe- 
cies, I have one to communicate, which I 
think much greater, and were it not that it is 
from the brute instead of human nature, it 
would greatly transcend the former, as to the in- 
teiest it would excite in the curious. I send 
this statement to you, and if you think proper, 
you may give it a place in your Cultivator, 
not that it is exactly appropriate for such a jour- 
nal, but that it may interest some of your read- 
ers, as many of them are engaged in rearing 
horses and mules; and because, too, as a sub- 
scriber to your valuable paper, I wish to cast in 
my mite of that which might interest. 
On the •29th of March, I had a mare that foa'ed 
i mule colt, (or colts, I do not know which to 
all it,) of fuli size, though dead when I found 
t, with two perfect heads and necks coming 
andsomely out of one perfect body, without 
my deformity , and each head and neck as lar^e 
is we would suppose the body ought to have, 
*ad it but one. I had it skinned as neatly as I 
■ould, and stuffed with bran ; and this was done 
in the presence of Di. B. F. H,ea; and on ex- 
amination, he found it had two hearts and two 
stomachs, connected with one set of intestines, 
thus far forming two distinct organizations, 
partly separate, as in the heads and necks, then 
blended in one body, partially through a part of 
the internal organs, and then strangely united in 
one, as to the balance, such as intestines, legs, 
&c. &c. 
it any one -wishes to see the skin of this 
strange anomaly of nature, I invite him to call 
at my house in Greensboro and he can do so, 
and after my friends have seen it, I propose to 
have k placed in some well regulated Museum. 
Respectfully, yours, &c. 
W. W. D. Weaver. 
Greensboro' , April2G, 1845. 
For the Southern Cuitivalot. 
Mr. Camak: — In renewing to you the -assu- 
rance of another year’s acquaintance, I felt 
gratified at the course the Cultivator was tak- 
ing; and have had one unitonn belief, that it 
will conduce to the essential interests of Geor- 
gia- 
Falling over from an honorable prolession to 
agriculture, I wish that my knowledge of me- 
dicine could be transferred to agriculture. I 
wish I could approach the subject with as much 
confidence as I think I may touching clinical 
cases, i will promote our interest better by in- 
quiry than an exposition ol any imperlect no- 
tion i may have in planting, cultivating or 
gathering. 
These three years past the trees in my apple 
orchard have dropped their fruit from the time 
it begins to form until it ripens. Now, under the 
trees, you may find all siees, from a garden pea 
to a hickory nut, covering the ground. In 
March a few of the trees had curled leaves. — 
The blossoms were yellowish, sickly, and fell 
off. The balance of the orchard looked thrifty, 
but the trees are afflicted with the same scourge 
tliey have been these three years. Opening the 
repudiated fruit we find, through all its sides to 
centre, a dark passable made by some insect, 
whose form and action the eye cannot discover. 
In the centre of the apple we find, sometimes, 
a maggot, but the parent I know nothing of only 
from its influence. I have read somewhere that 
by beating the trees in the evening, with cloths 
spread underneath, the insect might be caught 
and burned. I have not found it so; and the 
mischief will go on until the insect gets too 
weak, or the fruit too strong, to continue the 
nBsehief. 
Late planted cotton has not come up, and that 
on dry clay soil is no better. Other well-brok- 
en land and early plantings get along belter than 
could be expected from such deep and extensive 
drouth. The oat crop is cut off— its scantiness 
was never known before. That sown early is 
shooting half ancle high — that later, is ashamed 
to head at all. But relying on the Cultivator’s 
theoretic, we expect yearly to amend our proc- 
tiques, and by acquiring other resources ot the 
State, (which it maybe capable of, )to bring us 
to that stale of independence the planters en- 
joyed in years gone by. I salute the editor with 
the courtesy ol friendship, and trust its guidings 
may, in future time, be quoted as a standard to 
better informed agriculturists. 
Afay, 1845. N. Crawford. 
Excretory Duct of the Feet of Sheep. — 
Chancellor Livingstor, IstPresidentof the N. Y. 
State Agricultural Society, says, the legs of 
sheep are furnished with a duct, which terminates 
in the fissure of the hoof; from which, when the 
animal is in health, is secreted a white fluid, but 
when sickly, the ducts are stopped by the harden- 
ing of the fluid. He says he has, in some in- 
stances found that the sheep wsre relieved, by 
merely pressing out the hardened matter with the 
finger from the orifice of the duet in each toot ; 
it may in some cases be proper to place their feet 
in warm wa'er, or to use a probe or hand brush 
for cleansing this pas-sage. — Farmers' Cabinet. 
5^ An hoar’s industry will do more to beget 
cheerfulness, suppress evil humors, and retrieve 
your aflairs than a month’s moaning. 
'[l.grirultural llketings. 
Agricultural Meeting in Chatham. 
At an adjourned meeting, held on the l6th 
ult., at the Court House in Savannah, lor the 
purpo.se of crgani-sing an Agricultural Society, 
a respectable number ol Planters, and others en- 
gaged in agricultural .pursuits, were present; 
John Lewis, Esq. in the Chair, and Geo. P. 
Harrison, Acting Secretary. The minu'es of 
the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
On motion, the Constitutkni, adoyaed at the 
last meeting, was reconsidered, and after one or 
two slight amendments, was adopted. 
The By-Laws, reported to the last meeting, 
were then taken up by sections, and alter various 
amendments, were adopted. 
The meeting then proceeded to organise the 
Society, by electing officers under the, Constiiu 
tion . 
When the Hon. J. M. Berrien was unani- 
mously elected to fill the office of President, and 
John Lewis, Esq., of Chatham County, Thomas 
S. Clay, Esq., of Bryan County, and Clem. Pow- 
ers, ,Esq. of Effingham County, were elected to 
fill respectively the offices of First, Second and 
Third Vice-Presidents. 
The President elect being absent, John Lewis, 
Esq., First Vice-President, resumed the Chair, 
The Society then proceeded to till the remaining 
offices; and the following gentlemen were elected 
to the same, viz: George J. Kollock, Corres- 
ponding Secretary, George P. Harrison, Re- 
cording Secretary, Samuel C. House, Treasu- 
rer; Robert G. Guerard, Lihi.arian; and Dr. 
William H., Cuyler, George Jones, William D. 
Hodgson, William P. Bowen, and Dr. John S. 
Law, were elected to compose, with the Presi- 
dent and three Vice-Presidents, ez officio, the 
Board of Managers. 
It was then, on motion — 
Resolved, That the Corresponding Secretary of the 
Society be directed to subscribe to such a number of 
copies of the Southern Cultivator as will be necessary 
to supply each member with a copy, on the best terms 
that can be done ; and also to retain one capy, to be de- 
posited with the Librarian, for the use of the Society. 
Resolved, That the Corresponding Secretary, in <on- 
tiection with the. Board of Manageis, be directed to pub- 
lish such of the;proceedings of this Society as they 
may deem proper, -in the gazettes of this city, and in the 
Southern Cultivator, 
On motion the Society adjourned. 
John LEwts, 1st Vice-Pres’t. 
Geo. P. Harrison, Rec’g Sec’y. 
CONSTITUTION. 
Article 1. This Society shall be called “The Agricul- 
tural Society of Chatham and adjacent Counties.” 
Art. 2. Its object shall be to collect and diffuse infor- 
mation concerning Agriculture in all its departments 
and connections ; and to encourage and improve the 
same amongst ourselves. 
Art. 3. The officers of the Society shall be a President) 
three Vice-Presidents, Corresponding Secretary, Re 
cording Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, and a Board’ 
of Managers, who shall be elected by ballot at each an- 
nual meeting. Should a vacancy occur in any of said 
offices, by death, resignation, or otherwise, it may bo 
filled up by ballot, at the next regular meeting of the 
Society. And if it should happen in any office other 
than that of the President or Vice-Presidents, it may be 
filled up until the next regular meeting by the presiding 
officer. 
Art. 4. There shall be an annual and quarterly meet- 
ings of this Society, at such times as may be established 
by the By-I.aws. 
An. The day before the annual meeting of this 
Society, there-shall be an exhibition of Aericultural 
products, slock, manufactures, and such other things 
as the Society may choose to encourage. 
Art. 6. The Presideni, or in his absence, either of the 
Vice-Presidents, may call an extra meeting ol the So- 
ciety, upon the request of three members. 
Art. 7. Any person wishLog to become a member of 
this Society, may do so, by subscribing lo the Constitu- 
tion, and paving the amount of contribution money, 
unless/objeciion is made, in which case a majority pre- 
sent may admit him. Each member shall pay an an- 
nual contribution of three dollars. 
Art. 8. Five members, including at least two officers, 
shall constitute a quorum, and be empowered lo trans- 
act the regular business of the Society, except at the 
annual meetings, when thirteen shall constitute a quo- 
rum 
Art. 9. The Society shall pass such By-Laws as they 
may deem necessary to carry out the object of the As- 
sociation. 
Art. to. This Constitution can be alteteff or amended 
only by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at 
the annual meeting ; and a notice to that effect having 
bean given at a previous meeting. 
