A LETTER EROM NORTH CAROLINA ABOUT ABOLITIONISM. 
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Some may think this a small business. So 
is making pins, and rearing chickens and bees. 
But there is an abundance of people, whose age 
and capacity are just fitted for it, and for want 
of other employment are a charge upon their 
friends or the public; and now, when our cities 
and large town are so readily reached by rail¬ 
roads from all parts of the county, our farm¬ 
ers should study to apply their land to the pro¬ 
duction of everything that will find a profitable 
market. Things unthought of, a few years ago, 
now find a large consumption in New York 
and other cities by the aid of railroads; and we 
know of no good reason why this production 
and trafic should not continue to an indefinite 
extent. When the breeding of rabbits is corn- 
commenced, get a good treatise on the breeding 
and rearing of them, which you will find at C. 
M. Saxton’s, publisher of the Agriculturist, at 
152 Fulton street. 
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A LETTER FROM NORTH CAROLINA ABOUT 
ABOLITIONISM. 
I have just received your June number, and 
find it as usual, full of abolition—practical, 
beneficial abolitionism—the abolition of old no¬ 
tions and xoorlhless tools among farmers* I am 
really surprised to find such a red-hot abolition, 
disunion publication so eagerly sought after by 
my southern neighbors. I say abolition , for, our 
old modes of getting along here will soon be 
totally abolished. I say disunion , for I expect 
shortly to see an attempt made at disuniting the 
surface of the earth to a depth which, not more 
than two years ago, would have been considered 
as the work of some farmer “ gone mad.” Such 
were considered my first attempts to plow eight 
or nine inches deep. We look upon the Agri¬ 
culturist as an abolition paper, which is work¬ 
ing wonders towards abolishing old-field pines 
and broom-straw fields from North Carolina. 
Worn-out land will soon be worn out of exist¬ 
ence. Our present race of cattle, improved— 
abolished—by amalgamation with a better kind 
—they could not be worse—indicating as they 
do a cross of goat and bison. Such abolition 
as this,is a consummation devoutly to be wished. 
The very contemplation of such a prospect is 
gratifying to North Carolina. 
We have been visited by your travelling 
agents, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Sherman, and 
should like to see them again. Such visits set 
people to talking, and induce them to read, and 
then they begin to improve. 
Cutting potatoes will not prevent the rot—I 
have tried it. You say almonds may be grown 
in North Carolina. Can we plant the common 
nut, and grow them? [Yes, the hard-shelled 
almonds.] Will nutmegs grow here? [No.— 
Eds.] 
The mean character I have given to our cat¬ 
tle generally, does not apply to all. There are 
some of the Devon and Kerry breeds, which are 
hard to beat. I have a cow of the Devon blood, 
from which 20 to 24 quarts have been milked 
in a day. 
Wishing you great success in the speed of 
your abolition principles and tools to accom¬ 
plish that purpose, I am your agricultural 
friend, John Robinson. 
Black Creek, N. C., June 9th, 1851. 
LARUE COW. 
When you say Grace was the fattest cow ever 
killed in this country, and also assert it is un¬ 
doubtedly true, I must remind you of a cow sold 
at Brighton, in 1844. A Hereford cow, eight 
years old, weighed on the scales at Albany, 
2,313 pounds alive. When put on the scales 
again at Brighton, she weighed 2,297 pounds, 
and was sold by Mr. Bennett, salesman, to a 
butcher in Boston, for $150. She was shown 
in Boston, (tickets one shilling each,) for up¬ 
wards of a month, and then killed. Her beef 
was admitted to be of the best quality ever 
shown in that market, and the owner, to his 
sorrow, exhibited the quarters round the city 
on a warm sunny day, and spoiled the whole 
of it. This is undoubtedly true. I never ascer¬ 
tained what was her dead weight, but I know 
there was as small a shrinkage as in any beast 
ever bred. 
Mr. Bennett, of Brighton, can give you a bet¬ 
ter description than I can, as he knows the pur¬ 
chaser, and can probably give you her dead 
weight. W. H. Sotham. 
Black Rock, June, 1851. 
Pie Plant.— September, in the middle states, 
is the month for transplanting the roots of this 
most valuable article of food for the farmer’s 
family. 
“ To raise it in perfection, trench a piece of 
ground about two feet deep, turning in the 
strongest manures to be had, at the rate of a 
barrowtul to every square yard. Set the plants 
two feet apart, and you will have stalks as thick 
as your arm, and so tender as scarcely to sus¬ 
tain their own weight. It is the greatest feeder 
of all kitchen plants; and this is the reason why 
we see the great bulk of that sold in the mar¬ 
kets small, tough, and flavorless—the plants 
are starved.” 
