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raising as lar as possible, our own supplies, 
though it be aitended with cost and attention. 
He prelers the grazier breed, because they weigh 
■well at an early age, and do well where they 
can graze. He suggested the importance of 
having different suitable enclosures, so that 
they may be separated to advantage when ne- 
cessaiy; and a Ivised that on physiological prin- 
ciples they should be led while young on a 
great variety of food, and that a great saving 
might be made the result of boiling provisions 
lor them daring the whole progress of their 
growth. He uses for this purpose a great ouan 
tity of squashes, peas, artichokes, &c. 
M. Calhoun stated that he had failed in this 
country in raising hogs, which he attribu- 
ted mainly to a want of proper enclosures, 
without which they are apt to stray and get 
wild. He contended that it is cheaper to 
raise by feeding on a variety of such articles 
had been susgested, than to buy pork or bacon, 
and decidedly better policy; and staled, ho was 
experimenting with ground peas and potatoes 
planted in his corn crop for the benefit o! his 
hogs He preferred the common breed. 
To the 1 lurth question, which is as follows: 
“What quantity of food should be given to 
field hands, when they have free access to vege- 
tables and milk ?” — 
Dr. Richa -dson was of opinion that 3 lbs of ba- 
con per week was sufficient, prrhaps too much. 
He was disposed to think that in this climate 
two pounds would be more healthy if the defi- 
cit were supplied with a well prepared vegeta- 
ble diet. He recommended shallots, cabbages, 
turnips, peas, squashes, tomatoes, okra, &c., to 
be substituted in part, instead of a full allowanc'e 
of animal food, not only as a saving, but 
-healthy precaution for laborers,''in this climate 
particularly, where nature pointed out the pro- 
priety of such a substinnion in her dispensation 
of the abundance of those things. 
Mr. Browderstated, it has been his plan, as a 
matter of policy, s-n.rl conduci ve to the health of 
his slaves, to have particular attention given to 
cooking the veget.ables with their meal, and was 
satisfied that one-half might be saved and their 
health better secured, Milk, he considered 
highly advantageous, and he was careful to 
have a good supply of common peas saved for 
their use through the winter. 
Th“>-e were s 'me other important questions 
(’i.'-i usse.l. but from the length of the report, are 
reluctantly omitted. 
Dr, Richardson suggested that every member 
of the Society should become a subscriber for 
one of the Eufaula papers, so that reference 
could be had to all the proceedings without mis- 
take or disappointment, and particular! v as very 
great aecommodaii-ons had been rendered the 
Society by those papers, in nublishing (or the 
Society, and the interest they had taken in pro- 
moting its interest, the Society should feel bound 
to assist in e-ytending their circulation The 
unanimous sanction of the Society was given 
to the suggestion. 
The names of Messrs. A. Bowdrie, Esau 
Brooks, and Brittain Rogers, were offered and 
regularly c-nTere’d members of the S 'eiety. 
On motion of John A. Calhoun, Esq , Benj. 
Gardner was elected Assistant Recording Se- 
cretary. 
Next meeting anrounced by the President to 
be held in Eufaula, on the '2d Saturday in Au- 
gust next. 
On motion, the Society adjourned. 
M. M. Glenn, Secretary. 
Making Vi.negar. —Vinegar, according to a 
writer in the Genesee Farmer, is cheaply made. 
VVe republish his recipe : 
Tij/eighl gallons ot clear rain water, add 
three q’narts of molasses, put into a good cask, 
shake well a few times, then add two or three 
spoonfulls of good yeast ;akes. In summer, 
place the cask in the sun ; in winter, near the 
chimney, where it may be warm. In ten or 
fifttea days, add to the liquor a sheet of brown 
paper, torn in strips-, dipped in molasses, and 
good vinegar will be proiluced. The paper will, 
in this way, form what is called the “ mother,” 
or “ life of vinegar.” 
This look's reasonable, and, what is of more 
irnnortance, it is supported by the inductions of 
chemical science throughout. 
To make Johnny Cake. — Take two large 
cups ol meal, one cup of flour, and one cup of 
sour milk, one egg, one table-spoondul of mo- 
lasses, and a tea-spoonful of saleratus, dissoly- 
ed ; mix thoroughly, and add sufficient sweet 
milk to cause the batter to spread in the pans; 
then bake in the usual way. 
To Ascertain the Speed or Velocity of 
Machinery. — In all ordinary machinery, the 
motion ol some part thereol is sufficiently mo- 
derate to admit of the counting ot the revolu- 
tions or vibrations thereof. Having compared 
the motion with time, and ascertained the num- 
ber ol revolutions per minute, ofa driving wheel 
or drum, multiply that number by the quotient 
obtained by dividing the diameter ol this wheel 
by the pulley or pinion which receives a mo- 
tion directly [herefrom. But it these two di- 
ameters are such that one cannot be divided by 
the other without a remainder, then reduce each 
to inches an 1 decimals, and apply the rule of 
proportion, multiply the diameter of the first 
wheel by the number of its revolutions per 
minute and. divide the product by the diameter 
of the small wheel, pulley, or pinion, and the 
quotient will show the velocity thereof, in revo- 
lutions per minute. If another drum or gear 
wheel is mounted on the shaft of this second ro- 
tary, arid motion is communicated therefrom 
to a tnin) axle pulley, the same process may be 
repeated to ascertain the velocity of the third 
shaft. In this way the velocity of the mandrills 
of the most violent motion may be accurately as- 
certained. 
Temperance Legislation. — The Legisla- 
ture of Maine have enacied a law forbidding 
the sale of intoxicating liquors at wholesale or 
retail, except for medicinal and mechanical 
purposes. Penalty for the first offence from 
to S20, second offence 5^5, to S20, with a 
bond ofSuR to abate the nuisance for six 
months, and forfeiting all money received for 
liquors thus sold. 
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COMTE UTS OF THIS MUMBER. 
original papers. 
■Asparagus, how to r-ai-e Giant page 137 
Agricultural Society .lefferson Co. Meeting of “ I'tg 
Col. McDonald’s Proposi ton “ 136 
Corn Crtisher, Rn'wt’s “ 141 
Corn Shelter, another “ 140 
F.irrning. IN arih Carolina..... “ 137 
Farini ng, Yan k#e “ 138 
Florida Cnfrce...,. “ 140 
Green Bar ley a Substitute for Indian Corn. . “ 138 
Hay, curing t....... “ 116 
Mastodon Colton — Circular “ 141 
McDonald, de.aih of Col A. — Obituary “ 133 
Pianter.s, Respect your Profession “ 140 
Paying onr Debts — Ground Nuts “ 140 
Peaches, dried “ 130 
Respect for Labor *■ 139 
Sumach “ 137 
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Southern Crops and Culture ’ ‘134 
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