THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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soeond crop raised. I should think the vines 
might be made to grow from twenty to thirty 
feet long. 
Great care should be taken that the vines are 
not moved or trod upon. 
The early but small melons. Let the melon 
set at the ^ or 3d leaf-joint from the root, and 
take the vine off two joints beyond the melons. 
To increase the number of cantelopes. Take 
off all the melons that set within two feet of the 
roots. 
These may be planted six feet apait, 4 to the 
hill> and require no particular attention. 
Sand on the hills is one of the best preventivTs 
against the yellow bug, though not entirely a 
preventive. 
It is useful to plant pumpkin or squash seed 
near the hills for the bugs, taking care to pull 
them up as soon as the bugs are gone. 
Cantelopes should not be planted nearer than 
00 yards to muskmellons or cucumbers. 
To improve your seed save none but from the 
very best melons. 
Keep a record if you wish to karw- certainly 
the results. 
SOMETHING ABOUT HOGOLOGY. 
Mr. Editor — As I wanted to send a letter to 
my old friend Duthan Peabody, who lives some- 
wheres up about Turkey Hills, on the business 
of Hogology, w'hich is rather a public concern — 
and as Duthan can read print better than my 
poor writing, I thought he would like to read a 
letter to himself in your Gazette, knowing that 
you would put the stops, the spelling,, and the 
grammar all right, I thought I would send it 
in that way. Then there’s the po.stage on a bu- 
siness letter both ways — some saving in tliat, 
vou know— hope you will excuse the liberty I’ve 
taken. 
Milford Farms, January 10,. 1843. 
Friend Duthan — ^As I am caleulating to hap- 
pen along your way the first good sleighing, and 
of course shall make you a kind of farmer’s 
call, I thought 1 would send this as a sort of 
forerunner, to put you in mind of some notions 
of mine about farming. You know I am a 
great lover of hogs, (though not half so hoggish 
as some of my acquaintance,) and as it’s the 
time among us Yankees to have a slice or twm of 
good broiled ham on the breakfast table when a 
friend happens in, it occurred to my mind to im- 
prove the opportunity to say a few things to you 
about hogs, and the breeding of them. 
And firstly, do you know what’s the best, the 
genteelest, and most fashionable of the whole 
hog family just nowl There seems to be a 
great many different notions about what it takes 
to make a good genteel hog, and about the char- 
acter of the different families — there’s great con- 
tention about it alread)''. If they only knew 
w'hat is written, and printed and said about 
liiem, they’d prick up their bristles and make 
war at once. But alter all, the hog is the fann- 
er’s friend, when he has a genteel, good breed- 
ing. But your saucy, ill-bred things are nothing 
but a torment. 
Now, if you want to make a figure in the 
world, friend Duthan, especially in the farming 
line, let me, after all my reading and experience 
on the subject, recommend to your notice the 
BerJcshires. I know you, like some other folks, 
have a sort of antipathy against British hogs, 
British short horns, and British any thing; (a 
little of the old Revolutionary feeling I suppose;) 
but let all that go — the Berkshires are the finest 
fellows that wear bristles for all that. If you 
will believe me, it takes a great while to make 
a genteel, gentlemanly hog like the Berkshires. 
They are none of your upstarts. It is education 
makes the man, you know — and so with the 
hog. By education, I mean, draxaing out and 
improving the faculties and good qualities. — 
Why, some of the first and most learned farmers 
in Old England, lords and noblemen, have been 
educating the Berkshire family for more than 
forty years, and their pedigree is as legitimate 
and canonical as that ol the Royal Family — 
though the original stock was, to be sure, of the 
Plebian caste, like all the nobility. Mr. Allen 
of Buffalo, has been on the ground, and traced 
out their whole rise and improvement, and has 
given us chapter and verse of all the history for 
about half a century, of their education, man- 
ners, habits and qualities, and can now intro- 
duce you to some of the most accomplished and 
elegant fellows that ever went on four legs. — 
Why didn’t you read what the Committee said 
about them at the Hartford and Albany Cattle 
Shows? They made them out the most com- 
plete gmtfeOTe??- in their appearance and behavior. 
The science of Hogology is so perfectly un- 
derstood in Old England, that they can educate 
them by good breeding, into any form, size, col- 
or and disposition they choose. They have, as 
Mr. Allen sa)"s, given the Berkshires more good 
points than any of the Swinish family. They 
have educated off, already, most all their hair 
and bristles, two-thirds of their skin, and about 
half their bones out. They have given them 
size, great r than an Alderman or Lord Mayor 
of London, “symmetrical, fine-formed limbs, 
fine, thin, glossy hair, soft lady -like skins, and 
great hardiness of constitution. Made them 
prolific breeders, best ofnurses, of thrifty growth, 
early maturity, easily kept on grass, will fatten 
at any age, their dispositions are quiet, powers 
of endurance great, and beat all nature to travel, 
e.specially when going to Fairs. And besides 
and above all, their meat is of tiiebestkind, lean 
where they should be, and fat where you want 
it — hams, shoulders and jowls, lean, muscular 
and delicate — broadsides the best of mess. Call 
them English or British, or what you please, 
the Berkshires are all they are cracked up to be. 
Now, Friend Duthan, as they say the Con- 
necticut people are the best educated of all the 
world, why should not we keep our hogs as 
much above all others in that particular? The 
science of Hogology in England has done won- 
ders, far beyond Craniology or Phrenology — 
and we never can be up to the British in that 
science till we have a Hogological Institute . — 
But there^s such a confounded notion in our 
country ofrunning^every thing into Old School- 
ism, New Schoolism, Millerism, Puseyism, 
Perfectionism,, Socinianism, and every sort of 
isms, that I dare say siaeh an institute would 
soon be upset by some ism or other. The pro- 
fessors would be getting by the ears about the 
doctrines, or some other principles in Bumpolo- 
gy, and frustrate the whole plan. But I should 
have no objections, however, to a little perfec- 
tionism in such an institute, for the Berkshire 
family are considered a good deal in that line 
nowq and I think it would go much better in 
Hogoly than Theology, if they would not spin 
it too fine — for its just what Connecticut wants. 
Now, Friend Duthan, think of this matter, 
for I must conclude this long concern by sum- 
ming up my ideas in a sentiment for the occa- 
sion. The Berkshire Family — Long lives and 
perfection to their posterity.” Excuse my ver- 
bosity on this favorite topic of yours and mine, 
and believe me sincerely, 
Your friend, 
Obadiah Fairflax. 
Central New York Farmer. 
Ploughing for Corn. — The American Far- 
mer says: — In ploughing up corn and oats 
ground, the farmer should neither spare his 
team or his plough, as the deeper he goes the 
better prepared will his soil be to sustain the 
crop sown upon it. It is a fact that cannot be 
disputed, that corn planted on ground deeply 
ploughed always stands drought better, looks 
green and healthy longer, and nine times out of 
ten will yield more fodder add more grain, than 
that which is planted in shallow plowed ground. 
There is no mystery as to the reason; it is as ob- 
vious as that two and two make four. The 
roots penetrate beyond the depth at which, by 
evaporation, earth becomes deprived of its nois- 
ture, and there find in store for them that neces- 
sary ingredient to healthful vegetation, and thus 
escape from the evil of being parched up for the 
want of water. 
Cure for Worts in Horses and Cattle. 
A valuable friend of great experience in horses 
and cattle, (says the British American Cultiva- 
tor,) and who has imported and bred many of 
the best in the United States, says that a strong’ 
wash made of pearl ash and water, applied thrice 
a day, will remove tumors and worts. 
Cultivation of the Tur.nep. — These are 
usually sowed, says a Mississippi correspond- 
ent of the American Agriculturist, here in Au- 
gust and September, on ground enriched by 
penning the cows and other stock upon it some 
time previously, or what is still better, on a 
piece of newly cleared land. But I prefer to 
them, for cows, raxe sweet potatoes and cooked 
cotton seed. 
If you would teach your cattle to be mischiev- 
ous, put up a low or a slender fence at first and 
raise or strenghten it as they become expert in 
jumping. 
AUGUSTA MARKET. 
Tuesday p. m., April 18. 
Since our report of last Tuesday eve- 
ning our cotton market has been very quiet, 
with but little doing, and no change save that 
Avhieh always marks a dull, inactive market; 
Ave therefore continue to quote 4 to 64 cents as 
extremes of the market — principal sales 4f to 
5i cents. 
Exchange — The market is abundantly sup- 
plied with exchange, which is sold at par on 
Charleston, Savannah and all the Northern ci- 
ties. Central money ranges from 25 to 30 ^ 
cent discount. State 6 ^ cent Bonds are in de- 
mand at 50 cents on the dollar. Alabama notes 
20 @ 25 ^ cent discount. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
PAGE, 
Progress of Improvement ; Improve v'our ) 
Farms 
Salt as a Manure 50 
Agricultural Education; Manure; Ink -.-51 
Preparation of Seed Wheat to prevent Smut; ) 
Mons. Sckruitz’s method of preventing 
Smut; Industry; Cure for Inflamed Eyes 
of Horses J 
Blight in Pear Trees; to destroy Bugs on ") 
Potato Vines; Remedy for Sore Teats and 
Inflamed Udders; Curious Method of Plant- >5T 
ing Corn; Management of Bees; Manure;, j 
to make Vinegar; Sowing Corn Broadcast J 
Do your Work well; Value of Manure;, a ) 
Maryland Farm 
Cure for Piles and Cataract; Cotton Seed for 1 
Cows; Good Advice; Watermelons and > 55 
Cantelopes j 
Hogology; Ploughing for Corn; Cure fori 
Worts on Horses; Cultivation of the Tur- > 56. 
nep; Augus'.a Market y 
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