Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-10-11
Agricultural Summary.

aThe weight of lime is increased from 30 to
so per cent by shaking; and it's bulk is trip.
plod or quadrupled" Prof. Jackson.
Purchasers,whether for building or manur.
ing should bear this in mind.
Deciduous trees, that is those which shed ,hei,
leaves, may be planted at any time between the
fall of the leaf in autumn, and the opening
the of buds in spring. Evergreens should be
planted when growing. The best line is soon
after the commencement Of growth in spring.
Holes for all trees transplanted should be dug
three or four feet in diameter, to enable the
young roots to penetrate the loose earth
thrown IN to to fill up the holes. Let plenty
of water be poured in'o the hole in time Of
filling up when evergreono i" growing statr
are 'ptanted This will settle the earth sufi.
ciently without treading.
Allen Page reports in the Cultivator 5, 5l2
kernels or grains of bearded wheat from a
single grain. The number of stalks was LOG
A. Dey reports, in the same periodical, tina,
he preserves his peach trees from the ravages
of the worm by laying tobacco near the body
of the tree over the roots both in the spring
and ia J. after scraping away the earth. The
tobacco he covers with earth, and the f!tra-
ton of the rain water impreenatad with sAo
tobacco juice, without injuring, the tree, ex'
pels or keeps of the worm.
Mr.. Samuel Saltmarsh of Northampton
(Mass.) says he expects to hatch out $50 oun-
ces of slkworm eggs, and feed five millions Of
worms next season, which he thinks will pro.
duce two thousand pounds Of raw silk. He
thinks it will be impossible to overstock the
country with trees for several years to come +;
and that the number Of eggs saved this year
will produce much larger number Of worms
next year than there will be trees in the coun.
try to feed.
Mr.. Curtis Cater Of Richmond expects to
feed two or three millions of worms the next
season. He fed this year in August from
25OOO0 to 100000, with dry leaves when he
could he get them, and wet, when he could
not. His worms did we'll, and spun in %
days.
A correspondent of the Farmers Register
says: zone thing I know from experience.
and that is, all pigs should be either killed or
given away if they are Uttered at any other
season of the year except the three spring
months. Reason, are obvious"
Hogs, like other animals, particularly when
fatteniug, should occasionally have salt.
South WESTERN PRosPERIrY.-MARL1Ne
STABLE MANuRE.-We extract the following
sentences from a Virginia correspondent Of
the Farmers Register.
All who have land and can mari, can
make supcrabundance here, and although
they make in the sou'h-wes, 10, l5,' 80,
40 and so thousand dollars annually, every
tinker of them returns here every fall, and
after getting through with his Dragging tn.
bles--he takes man Of mari by the hant,
and says" Old fellow or old friend walk
aside with ma. have thirty thousand dol
lars worth of cotton half have sent on to
Mobile, the other halfI ordered should be
sent on as soon as ginned. and, can you
let me have $1,000 or $5O0?" This has
not good look.
The same correspondent of the Register
says:
Manure.-Every farmer may. with ease,
raise as much and even more manure at a
very moderate price, than it costs him 10
feed his horses. fatten his hogs, beeves and
sheep, &c. | say the manure, ifjudicious.
ly made, and husbanded, and applied, will
more than pay him for all costs in feeding
aid fattcning. Falow the land and then
carry ou! and spread the manure.