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and the blue marl, that abounds in this region. In 
putting in this manure, we have a deep shovel fur¬ 
row. We scatter the manure in the furrow, and 
then throw up a bed on the manure, planting on the 
top of the bed. At page 100, I find the greatest 
want of rain, on the 26th of April. I find at page 
125, that on the 2d of June, lice were preying on 
our cotton; that on account of the dry and cold spri ng 
the prospect was quite gloomy. I was absent from 
nome from the 4th of June to the 16th of Septem¬ 
ber, during which time but little rain fell. At page 
148, I find that we finished hauling in my com on 
the 27th of September, making 1300 bushels. We 
finished, the first week in October, picking out the 
cotton, making 35 bales; and as I make a most 
sp’endid article, 
1 value it at $40 per bale,..$1400.00 
At page 187, I find that we have been 44 days 
hauling marl, at $2 per day,. 88.00 
At page ] 87, 1 find that we have been 24 days 
hauling straw, at $3 per day,. 72.00 
There will be 30 more days employed in haul¬ 
ing marl and straw, at $2.50 per day,. 75.00 
Other improvements on the farm,. 100.00 
$1735.00 
The expenses of the .year I set down at $450. 
Alexander McDonald. 
i Kufaula, Ala , Nov. 25, 1845. 
CARROTS^YERSUS OATS. 
It has been stated in the New York Farmers’ 
Club, that a bushel of carrots cut fine by a root cut¬ 
ter is fully equivalent to a bushel of oats for horse 
feed iii winter. If so, of how much importance is 
the cultivation of this crop to the farmer, who works 
horse teams, or keeps brood mares and raises colts ? 
Of the comparative value of these two crops, I can¬ 
not speak advisedly in mild weather, and the horse 
moderately worked; but in cold weather, and the 
horse hard worked, roots of any kind are poor feed. 
Under these circumstances, a horse must have grain 
in our climate. I would leave it to the intelligent 
farmers to make experiments, taking into account 
the cost of each. This much we can do. 
I have raised upwards of 800 bushels of carrots 
to the acre, but never raised over 56 bushels of 
oats; the whole of the work of cultivation of the 
carrots was done with harrow and cultivator, except 
the pulling up a few weeds with the fingers, where 
the two implements would not reach without injury 
to the carrots; making the labor of cultivating but 
little more than that of com, except the harvesting. 
I always have found them an excellent feed for all 
kinds of stock, but especially for milch cows. For 
carrots as well as all other root crops, plow deep. 
Put in the subsoil plow, after the common plow, as 
deep as it will go, and manure highly, and I will 
warrant a good crop, let the season be wet or dry. 
I once had an Irish gardener famous for large 
stories. He said while in the employ of a noble¬ 
man who was very fond of trying experiments, he 
dug a hole in the ground as big and as deep as a 
barrel ; set a pole into the hole twelve feet long; 
then built a pyramid of earth round it, to the top; 
mixed the whole well with compost; pulled out the 
pole and filled up the hole with a rich loam, mixed 
with chemicals ; planted his carrot seed, and when 
it had come up, pulled out all but one stand. This 
he wate v ed with liquid manure through the sum¬ 
mer, ana, -m the fall, he took away the dirt from the 
carrots. “ And faith, Misther,” added he, “ sure it 
had grown to the bottom of the hole, twelve feet 
long, and as big as your thigh.” 
Your readers may believe as much of Patrick’s 
story as they choose ; yet, this is certain, that T have 
occasionally grown the Belgian white field carrots 
three feet long and 4 inches diameter at the top, in 
a rich, deep, alluvia! loam. S 
SHIPPING SHEEP. 
Having had occasion the past month to ship four 
beautiful Merino sheep from the Hon. Wm. Jarvis, 
of Vermont, to E. R. Brown, Esq., of Gallatin, 
Miss., the directions received from Mr. Jarvis for 
doing this were so judicious that we copy them into 
our paper as an excellent guide for all engaged in 
such business. He says: 
Will you allow me to suggest, that I think they 
would go best in a pen of about 6 feet long and 4 
to 4 1-2 feet wide, and about three feet high; to be 
boarded tight on the back, and both ends and top, 
with the exception of a door in the latter to put the 
sheep in and give them drink. In front there might 
be slats up and down about an inch and a half wide 
and 3 inches separation, one from the other, the 
slats to be a little rounded in the separation; the 
bottom to be slatted with slats of 4 or 5 inches 
wide, and about half an inch separation from slat 
to slat, to let the urine and dung through; but the 
separation must not be wide enough to let their 
feet through. There ought to be nailed across the 
bottom, three cleats, one at each end and one at the 
centre, to keep the pen from the deck, so that a 
bucket of salt water might be occasionally thrown 
under to keep the sheep clean and without wetting 
them, as being kept dry is essential to their health. 
In front a board of about a foot wide may be nailed 
at the bottom of the slats, but to slope out about 9 
inches at the top, and secured at each end to make 
a manger to put the hay in: the bottom of this 
manger ought to be about a foot from the bottom ol 
the pen. A small trough ought to be made at the. 
end under the door to feed grain in; a salt water 
bucket, that is, a bucket bigger at the bottom than 
at the top, ought to be lashed in the corner of the 
pen under the door, and may be kept half full of 
water all the time to let them drink when they will 
—taking care to throw out the water when it gets 
fouled by their dung. This shaped bucket is much 
better than a common pail, as the water will not 
slop half so much out of it in the rolling of the sea. 
They will require about 2 lbs. [we prefer 4 lbs. 
as considerable is wasted on board ship] of good 
hay each per day, and a pint of good oats. It 
would be well to agree with some of the attendants, 
or a faithful sailor, to see that they are fed with hay 
night and morning, and oats at noon ; and for his 
attention to give him half a dollar or a dollar a head 
over and above the freight, if they all arrive safe. 
Weathcrsfield, Vt, Nov. 17,1845. Wm. Jarvis. 
To the above we will add, we have found by 
actual experiment, that large sheep like the Cots- 
wolds, &c., will eat from 3 1-2 to 4 lbs of hay per 
day on board ship ; and allowing for waste, 5 lbs. per 
day, per head, should be laid in for the whole voyage 
