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REVIEW OF THE SEPTEMBER NO. OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 
had got down in our own country to 3 and 4 cents 
per lb., for a prime article, thus making it a losing 
business to the dairyman. Now that same article 
is worth fully 7 cents, and upwards; and one 
million pounds of it were exported, during the last 
week in October, from this port (New York) alone. 
Would Reviewer leave us to infer that this was 
going to benefit the pauper population of England, 
to the injury of the American dairyman ? No ; we 
will do him the credit to believe that he would draw 
no such conclusion; and yet we are sanguine in the 
opinion that corn and cheese will prove a parallel 
case.] 
Foreign Cattle. —I agree with you most cordially, 
neighbor Bement, that we have imported enough at 
present. If we rightly improve those we have, 
we might better become exporters than importers. 
We might just as well import our wheat and pota¬ 
toes, as any more cattle. Many now have learned 
to think that nothing American is good enough for 
their perverted taste. We have the seed, and if as 
good cattle cannot be grown upon our soil as that 
of Great Britain, let us acknowledge the fact, and 
own our dependence again upon our old mother for 
all the common necessaries of life. 
Southern Agriculture. —Perhaps it is as your cor¬ 
respondent from Louisiana thinks, “ almost useless 
for any one to waste paper and ink to write to the 
southern planter,” &c., because he won’t read. If 
your “ plantations are too extensive to manure 
thoroughly,” throw away one-half or three-quar¬ 
ters, and treat the remaining part rationally. The 
fact is, your system of rushing everything is your 
ruin. I don’t know how it is with you, as I have 
never visited your immediate locality, but I know 
in many of the cotton plantations, the most de¬ 
structive system of farming is pursued that I ever 
saw. The timber is barely cleared from the land 
before the soil is literally washed away down the 
steep side-hills, and the land spoiled for ever! 
Perhaps your land at “ Redwood” is level, and only 
in danger of being worn out by the eternal round 
of cotton after cotton every year, which you can¬ 
not prevent, because you “ have no time to haul 
large quantities of manure to the field.” But I tell 
you that you do not need to haul manure ; your 
land can be kept in good condition for ever by 
green crops plowed in, and by doing all your plow¬ 
ing twice as deep as you now do, which I venture 
to assert is not over two inches. If you think dif¬ 
ferently, I beg you to go into your fields unknown 
to the plowmen, and stick down a dozen pegs two 
inches below the surface, and then follow the 
plows and see how many they will plow up. If 
the present low price of cotton continues, it will 
drive you to cultivate other crops, which, if not 
otherwise profitable, will save your soil from utter 
prostration. I have seen as fine Cuba tobacco 
grown a hundred miles north of you, as ever grew 
upon that Island. As for the assertion that north¬ 
ern farmers would be as bad off as your southern 
farmers now are, I cannot agree to it. Look how 
they are renovating some of the worn-out lands of 
Virginia. When your present exhausting system 
of farming in Louisiana has mined the land, and its 
present occupants, northern farmers will then come 
and grow rich, where the system of starving the 
y soil Las ruined the owners. These are facts. 
however useless it may be to write them to south¬ 
erners. But I am glad to see that one planter, the 
writer of the article under review, is in a fair way 
to be benefited by reading the Agriculturist; and it 
is a great pity that many others could not be induced 
to follow his example in both reading and writing 1 
in agricultural papers. 
Removing Stains from Cloth. —This is one of 
those plain, concise articles, that all grades of intel¬ 
lect can understand. It is the many such useful 
articles as this that gives great value to your paper. 
I like them. 
Yellows in Peach Trees. —No doubt the cure is 
effectual. But I wish to know whether it would 
not also answer to cut them off' even with the 
ground, and then the roots will sprout up and make 
new trees? 
Management of Honey Bees. —I have only one 
remark to make upon this article. Mr. Miner con¬ 
demns bee-houses in toto This is so contrary to 
old custom that I cannot at once agree to it. My 
bee-house is simply for the purpose of sheltering 
the hives from sun and storm, and l have never ex¬ 
perienced the difficulties mentioned. But if Mr. 
Miner’s plan of hanging up hives in the open air is 
best, it certainly is cheapest. But pray, Mr. M., 
do your hives never warp and crack, and leak 
water; and is the sun not too hot without any 
shade whatever ? Let us hear further from you on 
this point, and in a more serious mood. , 
Sowing Machine. —For seeding, I prefer Pen- 
nock’s, for that plants and covers ; but this may do 
well for spreading plaster, &c., which that would 
not. But this costs too much, and I think it can be 
simplified and cheapened. Construct the upper 
roller in the figure so as to serve for the axle, and 
by being made fast in the hubs of common wagon 
wheels, revolve with them. Geer from the axle 
direct into the cylinder. Have a revolving band on 
the centre of the axle, to which the coupling rod 
can be attached, and then the whole of the so wing 
apparatus can be attached to a common wagon, and 
not cost over $20. If ihe present machine is pa¬ 
tented, my improvement is not; so all creation may 
use it if they like. There is no doubt, in my mind, 
about the feasibility of the alteration. 
Colic in Horses. —The recipe is very good, but 
the difficulty is to know whether the complaint is 
colic. I have seen a good many horses die with a 
complaint that appeared like colic, which no medi¬ 
cine on earth could cure after the horse showed 
symptoms similar to colic. The directions for pre¬ 
vention are therefore the most valuable of the two. 
| The Superior Corn Bread , found at Bement’s 
Hotel, I have eaten there, and endorse “ good;” but 
I have eaten the superior of it made in a southern 
negro cabin, with meal and water only, thoroughly 
worked into stiff' dough and palatably salted, then 
laid between two cabbage leaves and buried like a 
potato to roast in the hot embers of a wood fire. 
Such corn bread is good—cheap—easily made— but 
never grind the meal fine. This is where the Eng¬ 
lish will fail—they talk of “ flour of Indian corn 
that spoils it most surely. 
Succotash. —All right Mr. Farmer and Gardener. 
Hope all your readers have got the pork, and will 
follow your plain directions to cook this excellent 
dish, which is often spoilt in making 
