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great ,:est t^the report oi the different Com- 
mitu-ij ; o I'te Society, appointed to examine 
the crops, their reports wiil furnish valuable 
infor ■ tion t ) planters. 
Resolve..., That any gentleman or gentlemen 
app'' nted heretolore to examine crops in any 
particiilar beat or section oi the county, shall be 
permitted to exchange duties with any gentle- 
man ..jipointcd in a different beat or .section, 
and when any one or more shall have been ap- 
pointed in a .section embracing bis own crop, an 
exchange will be expected if practicable. 
On motion of Mr. Flournoy, the meeting ad- 
journed m the -Z2d inst. at Glennville. 
A. McDonald, Ch’n. 
Pitt Mu.nkr Caldaway, Sec’y. 
THE ECONOMY OF FARMING. 
Just as we were going to press, we received 
through the mail, from the publisher, a volume 
of 130 neatly printed octavo pages of the above 
title, translated from the German of J. Burger, 
Professor of Agriculture, &c. &c , with addi- 
tional notes irom several distinguished German 
prc>res.sors, by E, Goodrich Smith. The late 
hour at w.nch we have received it, preclu es 
a detailcu notice of its merits, and we therefore 
avail ou'-self of the testimonial of the Hon. H. 
L. Ellsworth, than whom no one is perhaps 
more capable ol determining. 
Patent Office, June 21, 1843. 
Having advised the Rev. E. G. Smith to un- 
dertake the translation of a portion of Burger’s 
Manual of Land- Husbandry, a text book in the 
schools and agricultural institudons in Ger- 
many, I take the earliest opportunity to com- 
mend the work to the American publii*. I have 
perused many ol the pages, prepared lor the 
press, and feel satisfied with the correv*tness ol 
the translation, since the same has been submit- 
ted to a German scholar and agriculturist, Mr. 
Fieischraann. 
There will be foun 1, in this publication, many 
details and accurate experiments which the pa- 
tience aad zeal ol the Germans have secured. 
This manual gives the precise intonnation need- 
ed in this country, where theory is so often sub- 
stituted for practice, and where large statements 
of products are given with so few items of ex- 
penditure, as taxes, oftentimes, the credulity of 
readers. With this manual m hand, enriched 
by numerous quotations from other writers, the 
youth of our country will grow up with accurate 
information on the great subjects connected with 
the profession. * * * * 
Henry L. Ellsworth. 
This is the first of w'hat is intended to be a 
series of traaslations of Agricultural works, if 
the author is sufficiently encouraged. Price 
50 vents. 
Robertville, S. C., August 10, 1843, 
Mr. Editor— I have a valuable horse, which, 
owing to a morbid state ol the system, has been 
very much injured by eating dirt, whenever he 
can get it. Salt is kept by him, salted water Is 
daily sprinkled over Ms food, poplar bark has 
been repeatedly given, also sassafras tea, but 
every thing has failed to do any good. Can 
you, or any of the correspondents of your valu- 
able paper, furnish me with a remedy for tMs 
disease! A Subscriber, 
We confess our inability to suggest a remedy 
for this singular affection of the horse of “A 
Subscriber.” It evinces a morbidness of the 
stomach which we have never seen noticed be- 
fore, and we give his letter to our readers with 
the hope that some one may suggest an efficient 
remedy. 
AGRICULTUR.^L FAIRS. 
Below we give a list of premiums offered by 
the Agriculturai Society of Morgan, to be di.s- 
tributed at their Pair in 1844, It is a small be- 
ginning but a noble one, and we are taught by 
high authority “to despise not the day of small 
things.” In our next we shall give a list ol pre- 
miums offered by the Monroe Agricultural So- 
ciety, 
The managers of the Morgan County Agri- 
cultural Society offer the following premiums, 
to be awarded during the year 1844: 
For the best acre of Wheat ^3 00 
“ “ “ Com 3 00 
“ “ “ Cotton 2 00 
“ “ “ Oats 2 00 
“ “ Fourth of an acre of Sweet 
Potatoes 2 00 
“ “ Specimen of Ditching, for pre- 
serving hilly or rolling land. 5 00 
“ “ Colt under 2 years old 3 00 
“ “ Milch Cow 3 00 
“ “ Bull 3 00 
“ “ Bull Calf under 2 years 2 00 
“ “ Heifer “ “ 2 00 
“ “ Boar and Sow under 2 years, 
each 2 00 
“ “ Piece ol Domestic Cloth, 8 
yards, for gentlemen’s win- 
ter wear 3 00 
“ “ 8 to 10 yds lor a lady’s dre.ss . . 3 00 
“ “ Counterpane or Coverlid 2 00 
“ “ Specimen of Domestic Car- 
peting 1 00 
“ “ Specimen of Knitting 1 00 
CURE FOR BOTS. 
A writer in the Columbia (S. C.) Planter 
gives the following remedy for bots: — “As soon 
as symptoms of bots appear, raise the upper lip 
of the horse, and with the sharp point of a knife, 
scarify the inner coat of the lip (beginning at the 
top) making a number ol slight gashes, trans- 
versely, causing it to bleed slightly. A ease has 
never come under my own observation, (and I 
have cured many,) in which this simple mode 
of treatment did not succeed instantly. The 
most violent paroxysms will be relieved in five 
minutes. What connexion or sympathy there 
may be between the lip and maw, I leave to the 
curious and learned to decide. 
WORK FOR AUGUST. 
We have availed ourself of the labors ofouj. 
brethren of the “American Farmer” and a cor- 
respondent of the “American Agriculturist,” 
for the following calendar for August. 
Briars, Bashes, Weeds and Shrubs. — If your 
fields, pastures, meadows or fence sides are in- 
feeted with any of these enemies ot cleanly cul- 
ture, be sure to have them cut down this month, 
put in piles, and as soon as dry enough, have 
them burnt. 
Draining and Ditching. is an excel- 
lent month to carry on the.se operations, and if 
you have any grounds that you cultivate, which 
may be too retentive ol water, have them re- 
lieved by these means, as you may rest assured 
that by such relief you will add fully twenty live 
per cent to their value, besides making them 
much easier to work. 
Potatoes.— you have not already given 
your late potatoes their last working do so forth- 
with; and be sure to lay them by clean of weeds, 
and that the top of the furrows be left as flat as 
possible. 
PaUoibing. — Get all your grounds intended 
for fall grain ploughed up as speedily as possi- 
ble, taking care to get that alloted for rye ready 
first, as the earlier in September you get that 
grain in the better will it be; nor would we be 
content to sow it without spreading over every 
acre of the ground a bushel of plaster. With 
regard to the time of sovnng wheal we a— per- 
suaded that most farmers delay that op Hion 
until it is loo late. It is our opinion tha' :.. ery 
one should begin to seed from the 15th to the 
•20th of September. This would give the '. heat 
plants time to get well and strongly rooteit m the 
earth before the freezing ol the ground in the 
fall, and thus serve to prevent the loss by ■ eez- 
ing out. The only difficulty to result ,rom 
early sowing is the fall attack ol the Hh-^sian 
Fly, but we think this may be obviaten by 
watching the plants and rolling when the insect 
is in its chrysalis state; but even if this should 
not prove a remedy, the advantages to be deriv- 
ed by earlier ripening and consequent avoidance 
of the rust, would more than compensate lor 
the hazards of the fly in the tail. 
Sheep — As this is one ol the months in >."hich 
the fly deposits its eggs in the nostrlis of the 
sheep, which produce the disease called worms 
in the head, and which destroy so many ol 
these useful animals, we would advise vou to 
avail yourself of a very simple and cheap rem- 
edy, one which we have often recommennei’ and 
will here repeat. It is this: for every sheep, 
place in a trough, once a week, for five or six 
weeks, a gill of salt and as much tar. Place 
the tar on the bottom ol the trough and spread 
the salt over it In eating the salt the sueep 
will smear their noses with the tar, and thus 
secure themselves against the fly, as the aroma 
of tar is repulsive to his organs of scent Be- 
sides protecting the animals against their insect 
enemies, the tar will act medicinally, and im- 
part constitutional vigor to your sheep. But 
unless you intend to repeat the precaution week- 
ly, don’t attempt it at all, because in its repeti- 
tion the security ol the measure rests, and it 
would be but a mockery to do it once, and then 
ascribe its failure to save your sheep to the want 
of efficacy, when, in fact, your own neglect 
should be wholly chargeable with it. If you 
undertake to do a thing, do it as it ought to be 
done, and not by halves and quarters. It it is 
worthy of being done at all, it is worthy of be- 
ing well done. We are of this fath: that wheth- 
er a man be engaged in winning the smiles of a 
lovely woman, or farming, he .should give to the 
object of his pursuit his whole heart, as nothing 
less than that should or will answer in either 
case. 
Heifers. — All two year old heifers intended for 
milch cows should now be served, and in select- 
ing a bull have a due regard to the improvement 
of their progeny. It takes no more to raise a 
good calf than an indifferent one. 
Milch Coios. — When the pastures get thin, 
provide your cows with good succulent food of 
some kind, so that they may neither fall off in 
flesh nor milk. 
Barn Yards, Coio Pens and Hog Pens. — Have 
these covered with loam and leaves from the 
woods, or mould of any kind, a foot deep, as 
your stock will convert every cubic foot of it 
into good manure before next spring. Don’t 
say you hav^e not got time to do it, but resolve 
that it shall be done, and the possession of the 
time will be an easy matter. For a farmer to 
say that he has not time to provide food for his 
crops, is a language which we do not compre- 
hend; and our opinion is, that every man engag- 
ed in farming should teach every one about him 
to forget the meaning of the terms. 
Make it a matter of especial attention to have 
every thing in readiness lor picking cotton. It 
requires only the same time to prepare, and if 
done in time, you will have no detention. 1 
therefore urge you to examine baskets, sacks, 
gin stand, gin band, running gear, presses, &c., 
and if anything requires repairing, do it imme- 
diately. Continue your improvements all spare 
time, such as grubbing, &c.; repairing fences 
about lots, repairing buildings, making shin- 
gles and scaffolds to sun cotton. 
Cut crab grass hay, throw into heap-rows, 
there to remain for a day, then into tall narrow 
heaps until cured. Clean your potato plantings 
designed for seed or slips. Gather the fodder 
