plenty of good feed; but if the horse had to 
eat many of them, and be obliged to do his 
own shelling , he would be apt. to grow poor. 
Ramsdhsll should change t lie name and call 
them “ Queer." It would be appropriate, 
and assist his notoriety.—W m. A. Connell, 
Saline, A. F., April 10. 
wards. I have found in an old copy of a 
Southern agricultural paper, an account of a 
Mr. Peters of Georgia raising 144 bushels 
and four quarts of shelled corn on one acre, 
which was then the heaviest growth of corn 
ever made in America. I have considerable 
personal knowledge of corn, and other crops 
raised on the tide sand belt, from New Jer¬ 
sey to Carolina, but never saw as heavy a 
growth of corn there its mine last year, which 
was proven , and took the first premium at 
the Crawford County Agricultural Society’s 
fair at Conneautvillc. 
Now, with these facte before me, I pro- 
born persons were residents of the towns on the 
Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the correspond¬ 
ing fact that, very few immigrants went to these 
localities. A newspaper published at Cambridge, 
in Dorchester county (The News,) remarking 
upon a decrease In the value of real estate, is 
led to consider this quest ion of immigration, and 
it assigns as the reason why real property is de- 
clinmtr in price twelve reasons, of which the 
Chief are the following: 
jpartmenf 
THE KNOB HOG. 
ABE NORTHERN MEN WANTED IN 
THE SOUTH? 
As your readers are interested in the dif¬ 
ferent breeds of hogs, I send you a descrip¬ 
tion of a famous bog raised in this region, 
called the “ Knob Hog.” Hi- is the highest 
blooded pig known, being the longest legged, 
and according to old Napoleon’s theory, 
(applied to quadrupeds,) knows the most, 
having tlve longest nose. His body is thin 
and elongated, and very sharp at the apex. 
His color is a beautiful dingy black and 
white; his hair is coarse, long and plentiful. 
He generally wears his bristle a la perpen¬ 
dicular. He has a fine, large, erect ear, and 
a tail like a rope. A stranger viewing his 
symmetrical contour, (I think that is the 
word,) would take him to he a recently im¬ 
ported greyhound. An antediluvian would 
swear that he saw Noah and his boys drive 
just such an animal into the Ark. His pedi¬ 
gree, therefore, must he unexceptionable. 
His advantages are: lie can eat the most 
corn and fat the least of any brute yet in¬ 
vented. He can crawl through or jump over 
any fence (nothing but death or a patent 
horse-poke will stop bis jumping over; a 
knot tied in bis tail will prevent his crawl¬ 
ing through, unless the tail breaks, in that 
cose look out for your garden sauce.) Un¬ 
like the swine of Scripture that, the devils 
entered and run into the sea, he has the devil 
in him all the time add runs where he pleases. 
In fact, lie can outrun a Kentucky hound in 
a fair race. Now and then some one tries to 
outrun him with a thoroughbred Berkshire 
or Chester White, hut “ we bet our money 
on the rope-tail hog,” every time. Farmers 
or proprietors of menageries wishing to in¬ 
vest in this superlative pig can address— En- 
sil Vester, Somerset , Ky. 
We do not usually insert advertisements 
of this sort, in our reading columns. But 
the historical information contained in the 
above, concerning a breed of swine we bad 
supposed extinct in civilized communities 
we think of value. We advise the organi¬ 
zation of an agricultural Ku-Klux-Klan to 
run them out of Kentucky. They are “ seal- 
law ags.” 
1. We have mi iunuiKration here to create com¬ 
petition, nor will we get it without muklOK a 
proper effort to Induce it. 
2. No inducement Is offered to Northern capi¬ 
talists to invest their surplus funds in manufac¬ 
turing among us. If one desire a strip of land 
whereon to build a factory, we ask him an enor¬ 
mous price for it, Instead of giving it to him, 
which ought to be done. 
3. We are altogether too selfish, unfortunately 
viewing the new coiners us interlopers who are 
dependent upon us, when, in reality, we are 
somewhat dependent upon them. 
4. The old aristocratic idea- that.a mail who 
toils is the inferior and not the equal ot the pro¬ 
fessional lounger—is still somewhat, prevalent in 
this lalitiidt*- 
5. The Jailiesof our community, it has been 
avowed, are too reserved in their calls upon 
those nf their own sex who are brought hither 
to reside, i.c., they do not extend the right kind 
of welcome to the wives and daughters of per¬ 
sons from the North who have bought lands and 
settled here- , , 
8. Wear® always endeavoring to devise means 
whereby we can live without work, which is an 
impossibility. History proves that, any people 
who abhor labor become beggars 
0. We undertake to farm large estates when 
we have scarcely the means to farm small ones. 
We should only attempt to do what we are capa¬ 
ble of duing. 
These are remarkable explanations. I hey 
challenge attention. They are given, mind, by 
an Eastern Shore newspaper, and by one Demo¬ 
cratic in its politics, 1 1 is fair to suppose, iliere- 
fore, that they are candid ul lerunces of truth, 
ami they afford an easy explanation why It is 
that so few immigrants have located on the 
Eastern Shore, and why real estate Is depreciat¬ 
ing in value in Dorchester Enmity, llliberality 
toward new comers, ostracism and dislikesliown 
to those wtio come from abroad to locate, will 
lie sure to bring poverty and depression into any 
community. 
FIELD NOTES, 
An Oregon Poiuio —The Dimick. 
A writer in the Williamette Farmer 
(Salem, Oregon,) says of a potato originated 
by Mr. Dimick, Marion, Oregon, that it “ is 
ness, mere arc people, can t. say neigu- 
bors.) living just over our line fence, that 
have never entered our house at all, whose 
wives and daughters I do not know. 
The manner of dealing is very different 
from the Northern men. Here, if a man 
makes a verbal agreement, no matter how 
large or small, with very few exceptions, if 
it is for his interest to break it,or“ to change 
my mind,” he is going to do it,; and they are 
so much afraid of each other—and especially 
the” Yankees”—that in selling only one- 
half a cord of wood, I have had to give a re¬ 
ceipt lor the payment. 
It is almui twenty-six miles to Baltimore, 
and costs from $2 to $3 to take a load of 
marketing there; and yet the people will 
not sell here loss than the highest price in 
market. Only last week a man wanted a 
load of potatoes. He was asked $1.50. He 
went to Baltimore and bought for $1, and 
hauled them home. Another man, whose 
team was hauling potatoes to Baltimore, and 
getting seveniy-two cents, was asked to sell 
here, and said he would lake not less than 
ninety cents, and then sold those very pota¬ 
toes the next week for sixty-five cents. 
II a Northern Democrat comes here, he is 
“ a d—d Yankee turncoat come here for of¬ 
fice;" if he is a Republican he Is likewise 
hated and treated very contemptuously by 
the Democrats, and by the Republicans is 
treated with a spirit of rivalry, because eight 
out of every ten men here, of either party, 
want office. 
If il is known that a Northern man enters 
a county to look for land, property goes up 
$5 lo $10 per acre. Within three months 
after we purchased our place, properly went 
up in tills vicinity from $10 to $30 per acre. 
If a Northern man will come here and pay 
the people their own price for everything— 
use the same implements that they use, that 
is the same tlmt have been used for one hun¬ 
dred years or more; do just, as they do, cheat 
as they do, only give them the best every 
time, make no improvements, live in a house, 
whether large or small, without a pantry in 
it, sleep up stairs, then lie may perhaps stand 
some chance to, alter a long time, become a 
recognized citizen; if not, only “ a carpet¬ 
bagger.” 
There are. no Ko Klnx here. A person 
here is safe in person and in properly; yet 
there is an under-current that will show itself 
occasionally, that says, in regard to the Ku 
Klux outrages in the farther South, “served 
them right;” and if it dared, I think it would 
show itself openly. 
There is no energy here. As a sample, 
some twenty years ago a charter was granted 
for a railroad to start from Baltimore, and 
go through the counties of Baltimore and 
Harford, and cross the Susquehanna, River 
some eight miles above Its mouth. It is 
through a very rich fanning country, lmt it 
is no! built ye*. Baltimore lias offered to 
give $600,00*2, if the Company would raise 
$800,%.,, and the road is only about forty 
mites long. The people say, “ I would like 
to have a railroad, but I have always gone 
to market with my wagon, ami reckon I al¬ 
ways shall.” 
We have only three families that arc wil¬ 
ling to associate with us during this whole 
three and u-lmlf years. Therefore a North¬ 
ern man must be able to live within himself, 
ami be independent in his Ideas. Since 
writing the above, I have found the inclosed 
extract, which I clip from the Baltimore 
Weekly American,” and it applies to the 
whole of Maryland, also to a large portion of 
the South, especially the third, fourth and 
filth reasons. 
Maryland, April, 1871 . 
The following is the extract alluded to : 
We gnve some census returns the other day, 
8liowintf what a trilling- per cent age of foreigu- 
M0UNTAIN POTATO—(Solanum Montana.) 
THE MAGIE HOGS. 
Tn tbe Rural NewYobker of March 11, 
on page 146, an inquiry is made concerning 
the origin or crosses which produced the 
Magle hog. The Magic hogs were originat¬ 
ed by Daniel Maoie of Hamilton county, 
Ohio, and are a cross between the Poland, 
Russian, China and sometimes other breeds. 
However, the true crosses are difficult to as¬ 
certain ; but the above named breeds no 
doubt constitute the principal crosses. It is 
self-evident that the Magic hog is not a dis¬ 
tinct breed, and the best evidence of this is, 
that, you will see Magic bogs of all colors— 
sometimes white, with two or three black 
spots, and sometimes entirely spotted ; and I 
knew of one boar, said to be full-blooded 
Magle, that is entirely white. 
But my experience is, that to breed good 
hogs, is lo get a distinct breed and keep them 
properly crossed with the same breed ; then 
they will show uniformity in color and size, 
both in the pigs and matured hogs. And all 
crosses heretofore attempted, have only de¬ 
teriorated the stock instead of improving it. 
Kingston, O., 1871. O. I*. G. 
NEW JERSEY vs. PENNSYLVANIA 
CORN. 
PIG-PEN PAPERS. 
IIok Cholera Remedy. 
An Indianian cured bis hogs of cholera by 
taking them lo a pond of water and pitching 
them in headlong. He says if be ducks 
them, strangles them and almost drowns 
them, it is all tlie better—the strangling 
especially is what is beneficial. 
I read in the Rural New-Yorker, 
Vol. 23, page 154, a long communication, 
purporting lo have been written by I>. 
Petit, Salem, N. .J. Now the statement of 
this writer, Lliul “ lie had as much shelled 
corn per acre last year as I reported ears, on 
laud not plowed, but pulverized two or throe 
inches deep,” viz., one hundred and seven¬ 
ty-nine (179) bushels, is, to the minds of all 
Rural readers in this vicinity, perfectly dis¬ 
credited by his own propositions, especially 
the 3d :—“ The nearer fertilizers are kept 
where the main body of the roots grow, the 
better the crop will be;” and 0th, “ that lie 
has seen the soil six or eight led in depth 
all dust, by evaporation and 10th, “ the 
richer the soil in vegetable matter, the better 
it will withstand dry weather, because, 
loosening the soil with it prevents, in a measure, 
evaporation, and is a good retainer of mois¬ 
ture and 11th, “ the laws of vegetable life 
arrest the moisture as it rises to the surface 
and appropriate it to their growth, etc., etc.” 
Now, various Rural readers have been 
measuring tlie depth to which my first pre¬ 
mium corn roots ran, and we have found 
that the main body of tlie roots grew from 
seven to ten inches from tlie surface, (and no 
hilling up,) aucl many roots from sicleen to 
twenty-two inches deep, according to the size 
of the stalk—the larger the deeper. I have 
been looking over, as carefully as time would 
permit, the Agricultural Reports of the Pa¬ 
tent Office, from 1845 to 1869, inclusive, and 
I find three cases of 125 bushels of shelled 
corn per acre, four cases of 120, and perhaps 
a half-dozen others of 100 bushels and up- 
RAMSDELL’S NORWAY OATS, 
N. Oatman suggests that any one who 
knows of D. W. Ramsdell taking any oats 
according to agreement should communicate 
the fact to the Rural New-Yorkeii for 
publication. Now, 1 do not know of his 
taking any ; but 1 do know of a great many 
he has not taken—and that is not the worst 
of it—he never, in my opinion, will. How¬ 
ever, for the benefit of Mr. Oatman, and 
others interested in this grand humbug, I 
will state that, having the honor to he one 
of the oat-dupes, I, in the last one of a series 
of letters, informed him that having waited 
an unreasonable time for him, I would sell 
the oats to any one who would pay me a 
reasonable price for them, alter a certain 
dale. He replied that “ if his agent failed to 
reach me by that date T might, consider my¬ 
self released from the certificate of purchase.” 
Of course, the “Agent” failed to connect. 
Ramsdkll, no doubt, is happy, notwith¬ 
standing the demands of his many dupes. 
He has accomplished his purpose, by get¬ 
ting $5 per bushel for the seed, and by keep¬ 
ing very many oats out of the market this 
spring, and so, of course, gels a larger price 
this Season and next. 
The Norway Oats are much thought off!) 
here on account of the great weight of shell 
they possess. I think a horse might thrive 
if fed on them in small quantities, with 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.» Hog*. 
John Ferris, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., 
sends us the following weights of hogs killed 
last fall in the town of Lawrence, N. Y. 
They are a cross of Chester Whites on St. 
Lawrence Co., natives:—The following is 
the age and dressed weight with name of 
feeder. 
Own Eft. Age of pig. Weight, lbs. 
A. WliHe.ti months. 414 
T. SituondB.n>-4 “ 418 
U. Wilts.0« •• 417 
H, Witters.9 “ 400,410 
II. Bedding.-.91$ “ 420 
W. 8. Taggart_8 “ .407, 411,424. 
Jrfll-raoii Co., flogs at St. Louis. 
A. G. F., Fulton Co. Ill,, asks if any of 
the Jefferson Co. N, Y,, breed of swine can 
he lmd in that State—if we know Of anyone 
breeding them there. We do not. We 
remember, however, that Messrs. Clark & 
Green of Jefferson Co -N. Y., breeders of 
what they call the “ Improved Cheshire 
hogs,” otherwise known as the “Jefferson 
Co., breed," exhibited twenty-five head of 
their stock at the St. Louis Fair last fall. A 
boar, sow and five pigs of them took the first 
prize of $500, offered bv the Pork Packers 
Association of St. Louis. The same sow 
took the first prize of $20 for “ llie beat sow 
of large lived,” There were about 700 head 
of swine on exhibition there, and this Stock 
came in competition for these prizes with 
Berkshires, Poland, Chester Whites, etc. 
