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greater degree of cold is the result. But if ani¬ 
mals are protected from wind and storms, more 
heat is retained for their comfort; and the de¬ 
mand for fuel, through the medium of food, to 
keep up this heat, is not so great; and thus, less 
fodder is required. Whatever tends to make 
animals comfortable, tends to make them in¬ 
crease in weight. When animals have comfort¬ 
able stalls or sheds, well littered with straw, as 
they should be, where they may lie down with¬ 
out the fear of being routed, and pass the night 
in rumination and quiet rest, they will subsist 
on a much smaller allowance of food than when 
they are compelled to lie down on the cold 
snow. 
The stalls of my cattle, as long as the fodder¬ 
ing season continues, are well supplied with an 
abundance of straw as often as the night returns; 
and this I consider a source of profit, not only 
by imparting comfort to my animals, but by 
absorbing the liquid manure. 
3. Regularity in giving animals their daily 
allowance of food, is a consideration worthy of 
more notice than many are wont to suppose. 
All the works of nature are characterised by 
the greatest regularity. The appetite of all an¬ 
imals that are regularly fed, calls regularly for 
food to satisfy it. Whenever the process of 
digestion is complete, and the organs have had 
their required rest, it is necessary that an ade¬ 
quate supply be furnished. Interruption of this 
regularity causes derangement and disorder. 
By going beyond the usual time for foddering, 
animals many times swallow their food so greed¬ 
ily that digestion is not so perfect as it would 
have been had the food been taken at the prop¬ 
er time. And, on the contrary, sufficient time 
should elapse after the morning meal has been 
taken, for the appetite to return, before another 
portion is dealt out to them; else, much of it 
will be wasted, or rendered unpalatable, by 
their selecting the best part, and breathing on 
the rest. 
It is as important that this branch of farm¬ 
ing should be performed systematically, as 
any other, and far more so than many others; 
for success in this depends, in a great measure, 
on the most judicious manner in which fodder is 
mingled, prepared, and fed to animals. Any 
one can keep cattle well and fat during the 
winter season, if an abundance of grain and 
fodder is allowed. But he who keeps his stock 
during the winter, on the least food, and in the 
best condition, has unquestionably adopted the 
wisest and most economical system of convert¬ 
ing the productions of the farm into the ne¬ 
cessary articles of barter between man and 
man. 
S. Edwards Todd. 
Lake Ridge, Tompkins Co. N. Y. 
As this article came too late for our July num¬ 
ber, we concluded to put it over until November, 
when it would be seasonable. 
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THE TRAVELLER.-No. 9. 
I left Athens upon one of those beautiful 
days of March, which awakens all nature, ani¬ 
mate and inanimate, to the loveliness of spring, 
I must say I parted with many whose acquaint¬ 
ance I had formed during the few days I spent 
at Athens, as though they were old and long 
known friends. Designing to visit Lexington, 
my worthy host, Captain Wray, set me down 
from his carriage at the depot, after dinner, and 
I went down to the station, which is about three 
miles from the village; but fortune favored me 
in finding the carriage of Governor Gilmer and 
his excellent lady, with whom I took a seat to 
their large, and, of course, hospitable mansion 
and little farm, immediately adjoining the town. 
Lexington , Ga .—This is an old town with a 
look that does not give the lie to its antiquity. 
It is the seat of justice of Oglethorpe county, 
once considered one of the best cotton growing 
counties in the state. But forty or fifty years 
of hard skinning, will bring the hide off* of any¬ 
thing that ever fell into the hands of such hard 
taskers of the fertility of soil as these cotton¬ 
growing, land-destroying people. However, 
there have been made within the last year or 
two, some of the best kind of crops, upon the 
very spots heretofore neglected as worn out. 
Ex-Governor Gilmer .—I spent a pleasant day 
or two with this intelligent, social specimen of 
southern hospitality, embodied in an intelligent 
gentleman, alive to the spirit and necessity of 
agricultural improvement. One of the favorite 
amusements of this gentleman has been to col¬ 
lect a large quantity of rare minerals, princi¬ 
pally from the hills and mountains of Georgia. 
His rooms and grounds are full of matter to in¬ 
struct and interest visitors, and his library is 
stored with a great collection of valuable works. 
But he has not forgotten the improvement of 
the soil. Here I found a field of fine grass, and 
a barn in which to store the hay and feed the 
stock. He has fully demonstrated that grass 
will grow in Georgia. One remarkable feature 
in the farming operations of Governor Gilmer is, 
he never grew a bale of cotton. 
How to Groio Cabbage .—His plan is worthy of 
I note. He sows the seed about the first of April, 
