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the general disposition of farmers to use better 
tools. 
Hussey’s Reaping Machines we found extensive¬ 
ly used in Delaware; and no country, except the 
prairies, can be better suited to the working of 
drilling and reaping machines, for it is very 
level, and free from stones; the soil, also, is 
quite friable, and easily worked over a great 
portion of the state. 
G-EORGTA FARMING-. 
I am greatly pleased with the advice to south¬ 
ern planters, and with Mr. Robinson’s letters; 
and glad that he gives no quarter to some of the 
Yankee farmers, as well as to us farther south. 
It will do both good. Georgia is trying to do 
better; and if there were no more new worlds 
of fresh land to go to, her people would begin 
to make her blossom as the rose. As it is, her 
march is onward. Look out for the day when 
the south will spin and weave up so much cot¬ 
ton that John Bull can no more say for its price, 
' “thus far and no further.” 
Our cotton dealers now begin to believe in a 
very short crop—the fine fall for picking out, 
good roads and fair prices have accelerated its 
coming to market. Two millions is their fullest 
estimate. How sincerely I wish it could never 
exceed that amount; for, as things have hereto¬ 
fore been, cotton raisers have been “ hewers of 
wood and drawers of water” for other parts of 
the world. But I trust a better day is dawning 
for us, when the capitalists of your section will 
know what to do with cheaper water power, 
cheaper labor, (white, too), cheaper living, and 
what is above all, the raw cotton at their very 
doors, with cheap railroads to get to the shipping; 
and who then can head them ? Can old England ? 
Can New England ? Our trees are full of green 
leaves yet, and thousands of blooming flowers; 
and while I write we need no fire, even in the 
early morning. Please let me hear from you 
about the gutta percha. B. V. I. 
The Growing Wheat Crop.— Mr. Robinson 
writes us from Delaware, Nov. 25th, that he never 
saw the wheat crop so universally good as it is 
this season wherever he has travelled. Some 
fields in Delaware have been injured by the fly, 
but the weather is so very favorable that the 
crop is recovering. 
Drilling Wheat. —Mr. Robinson also says, that 
a greater proportion of the wheat in Delaware 
is sown by drill machines than in any other 
state; and it is the general opinion that it increas¬ 
es the crop at least ten per cent ., and saves twenty 
per cent, of seed. 
Save your Manure.— What are you doing to 
save your manure—the food of your next sea¬ 
son’s crops ? Are you allowing it to be dropped 
in the road, the commons, or on declivities where 
the fresh rains will wash it beyond reach ? Are 
you subjecting it to drainage from the eave 
troughs, or evaporation from sun and wind 1 or 
are you carefully housing it ? or composting it in 
a tight, basin-shaped yard for future use ? We 
venture the assertion, that there are in these 
United States ten farmers who waste $50 annu¬ 
ally in manure, where there is one who pays a 
a dollar for an agricultural paper, which would 
teach him how to save it. Yet the dollar must 
be saved, while the $50 are wasted without a 
regret. 
WIRE FENCES. 
No one who values his shrubs and flowers on 
a lawn, where alone they ought to be, would 
rest a week without these effective, but almost 
invisible fences. Our lawn occupies some eight 
acres; but the most valuable shrubs and ever¬ 
greens are upon two acres near the house. Now 
it is well known that cattle will go over or 
through a fine evergreen, with the same object 
that swine will rub against a post. To this fact 
our broken evergreens will bear abundant testi¬ 
mony. To save these, and at the same time to 
pasture the rest of the lawn, we procured 
annealed wire of Nos. 9 and, 6, placed the posts 
100 feet apart, using occasionally a tree for a 
post, and passed through these four strands of 
wire. At one end of- the whole line a strong 
popt was placed firmly in the ground, and the 
wire fastened to it. At the other end of the line 
a similar post was placed, the strands of wire 
passed through holes in it and the end of each 
strand, fastened in a small cylindrical piece of 
iron about an inch in diameter. One end of this 
iron being squared and a wrench applied to it; 
the wire was without difficulty drawn perfectly 
tight. This cost some two and a half dollars 
per 100 feet, and can scarcely be seen at 50 
yards distance. We caused it to be painted red , 
and the first day three white cows were let in it; 
they came out with their necks and breasts 
striped with red, giving clear evidence that they 
had tested its strength. We fully believe that 
no animal will break through it. We have been 
amused to see the way in which our cattle after 
testing its strength, would stand off and gaze at 
it, as if in utter astonishment and bewilderment 
that so insignificant looking a barrier should be 
able to withstand all their efforts to break 
through it. 
For cheapness, no fence—scarcely even the 
crooked ones of Virginia—can equal it; and for 
beauty, its superiority is evident. What a beau¬ 
tiful sight would a cleared farm of several hun¬ 
dred acres present, if fenced in this way, and 
with a fine group of trees to every two or three 
acres. The passer by would seldom detect the 
wire fence, and would fancy it one large lawn, 
whose owner was a man of true taste. We think 
if made entirely of No. 6 wire it would be better, 
although the cost of it would thus be somewhat 
increased. 
Importation of Saxony Sheep. —By the ship 
Louisiana, arrived here in November last, Mr. D. 
W. Gatlin of this city, and Mr. C. B. Smith of 
Litchfield county, CQnnecticut, imported 4 Sax¬ 
ony bucks and 8 ewes. They were selected for 
them by Baron de Spreck near Leipsic, and are 
of nearly the same character as those we have be¬ 
fore noticed as being imported at different times 
by Mr. Taintor. Their size and fineness are 
