editor’s table. 
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ESfior’s 2TiiMt. 
Stealings. —With all due deference and respect to 
exchange papers, and with as much of the suaviter in 
modo as the nature of circumstances will admit, Ave beg 
leave to say, that Ave fear, in process of time, we shall 
be under the necessity of coming to the fortiter in re, 
and characterize things by their proper names. During 
the month of May last, we counted up in different ex¬ 
change papers, twenty-seven articles STOLEN from 
our February, March, and April numbers of this year, 
placed in their columns without credit; and during the 
past month we think we have observed quite half as 
many more. Besides all these, our friends inform us of 
some others which Ave have not had time to look over. 
Verily this is an honest world, and the printer’s devil is 
a shining or rather a black light in the Avay of an ex - 
amplar in it. But. the beauty of all this honesty is, nine 
times out of ten, Avhen these THIEVINGS (we beg 
pardon, we are disposed to be polite, we only mean 
STEALINGS) are pointed out to them, they take no 
sort of notice of the matter, and never stoop to make 
a correction. They seem to reason like a certain cor¬ 
poration we wot of, which was thus—“ It was indeed 
a great wrong, but having been done, we don’t see 
how it can be made right by an acknowledgment.” If 
we should call names hereafter by way of letting the 
world know who is not guilty, we think it will be noth¬ 
ing more than is due to the honest and honorable. 
Let those, therefore, cabbaging without ceremony from 
other people’s cribs, hereafter beware; we had just as 
lief they would filch our purse as filch our paper—the 
one is no more stealing than the other. 
Early Prairie-Breaking—Shallow Plowing. —A wri¬ 
ter in the Prairie Farmer contends, that breaking up 
in May is much better than later, and plowing 2§ inches 
deep has proved more beneficial than 4 inches. The 
reason of the latter, is, that the harrow tore the sod of 
the shallow plowing more easily than that turned over 
deeper. Not long since Ave saw some plows destined 
for the west, with peculiar flat cutting shares, Avith 
Avhich the purchaser informed us he intended plowing 
his prairies about 2 inches deep, by cutting off the tops 
of the sod, and turning it flat over. Will any of our 
friends at the west informs us whether this is a success¬ 
ful practice ? 
South Down Sheep taken for Leicesters. —We are some¬ 
what surprised that the sharp editor of the Massachu¬ 
setts Plowman does not know a South Down sheep 
from a Leicester. Why, we should just as soon think 
of his taking a rhinoceros for an elephant. 
Poisoned Sheep. —A writer in the Maine Cultivator 
says, that sheep poisoned by eating laurel , or lamb-kill, 
may be cured by a liquor made by boiling the twigs of 
the white ash for an hour, first bruising the tAvigs, then 
give two spoonfuls to each sheep. He says it is a cer¬ 
tain cure if it is administered in twenty-four hours.— 
Mass. Plowman. 
Soap-Suds a Preventive for Shedding Milk. —A farm¬ 
er from Stoughton told us last week, that washing the 
ends of cows teats in strong soap-suds, would prevent 
the shedding of her milk before the time of milking. 
Perhaps it tends to contract the ends of the teats.— lb. 
Premium Cotton. —We perceive that the Chamber 
of Commerce, at Apalachicola, has awarded an elegant 
silver tea-set to Col. Alexandtr McDonald of Eufaulla, 
Alabama, as a premium for the best lot of 20 bales of 
cotton sold last season in the market. It was classed 
fine, no other lot classing over good fine. In addition to 
this, Col. McD. had the solid satisfaction of receiving 10| 
cents per lb. for his premium cotton. We do not know 
what other cotton was worth at the same time, but pre¬ 
sume not over 6 to 7 cents. If any one wishes to learn 
how Col. McD. succeeds in raising such superior cot¬ 
ton, let him turn to our last number, page 179, and he 
Avill see that one means he adopts, is reading agricul¬ 
tural papers; the whole expense of Avhich for 20 years, 
is doubtless repaid him in the value of the above pre¬ 
mium, and the extra price obtained for these 20 bales 
of cotton. Reader go thou and do likewise. 
To Destroy the. Curculio.— Previous to 1841, several 
of my plum-trees had been so attacked by this insect 
that I scarcely obtained a ripe plum. Early in the 
spring of that year, as soon as the blossom-buds began 
to swell, I removed the soil around the tree to the 
depth of tAvo or three inches, and as far on all sides as 
the limbs extended. I then deposited in the opening a 
layer of lime, recently slaked and still Avarm, about 
half an inch in thickness. The soil was immediately 
restored to its place over the lime, and closely pressed 
down upon it. I had an abundant crop of well-ripened 
plums. In the spring of 1842, I again applied lime in 
a similar manner, and with the same success. 
In the autumn of that year, it Avas stated in some ag¬ 
ricultural journal, that salt sprinkled around the tree 
in sufficient quantities to render the ground whitish , 
would prevent the ravages of the curculio. In 1843 I 
made the experiment. The trees blossomed Avell and 
showed an abundance of fruit; but every plum was at¬ 
tacked by this insect and fell to the ground. 
I intend to apply the lime again the present spring; 
and if I obtain a good crop of ripe plums, my confi¬ 
dence in this remedy Avill be strong.— Boston Cult. 
Big Grain Rice. —Mr. Ward in the Southern Agricul¬ 
turist says, that he planted half an acre of new land with 
this at Longwood in the spring of 1841, which yield¬ 
ed in the autumn 49| bushels of clean winnowed rice. 
In the year 1841, this product was sown in a 21-acre 
field at Brook Green, which yielded in the autumn, 1,170 
bushels of sheaf-rice, clean AvinnoAved. Of this quan¬ 
tity, from 150 to 200 bushels Avere milled, and sent to 
market. My factors disposed of it at a considerable 
advance beyond the highest market price. In the year 
1842, 1 planted 400 acres Avith this seed, and being so 
perfectly satisfied Avith both the product and the im¬ 
proved quality of the same, I Avas induced in the suc¬ 
ceeding year (1843) to soav with it my entire crop. 
The first parcel, when milled, consisting of eighty bar- 
• rels, netted fifty cents per cwt. over the primes! new 
rice sold on the same day. 
Marling Light Sandy Soil. —In the same paper Mr. 
Hammond gives the following results of an experiment 
in marling:— 
Unmarled acre, 361 lbs. seed cotton. 
100 bushels do. 451 do. Increase 90 lbs. 24.9per ct. 
200 do. do 384 do. do. 23 6.3 “ 
300 do. do. 173 do. decrease 188 52 “ 
The land, being very old, is bare of vegetable mat¬ 
ter for marl to act on, to Avhich more than to the tex¬ 
ture of the soil, inferior as it is, I attribute the failure 
of any great improvement from it. I make the state¬ 
ment, however, because it is valuable in many respects. 
It shows the danger of heavy marling on worn land 
without previous rest or manure. The acre with 
three hundred bushels has been destroyed. There is 
one rich spot, the bottom of a small basin in the centre 
of it, which produced nearly all the cotton gathered. 
On the rest of it the weed mostly died as soon as it came 
up—one hundred proves a better quantity than two 
hundred bushels, and perhaps a little less would have 
been still better on this soil—at least to begin with. 
All the lightest land in the fields marled with two hun¬ 
dred bushels was evidently injured and now renuires 
