The Southern journal., 1846-03-14

STOCK. have hadasome OF it ground
and boiled, which flour makes tolera.
Bile good batter cakes or frilters.
spoke Of large trough; let me
describe one, as it is worth any plan
ter's attention.: II is made with four
pieces of hewn timber, any length
desired, Is or 90 inces wide, 6 inches
thick. two blocks ola suitable size.
say 6 feet long, The blocks are placed
on the ground, two Of the pieces laid
on these blocks, the other two are set
up, one on each side, and the whole
clamped together. This i. done by
boring four holes with a large augcr,
and putting in pin in each hole with
a shoulder outside, one in each end Of
these blocks, and wedges drove 10
clamp the timbers which form the
trough, which is done when the heads
are pinned on. My trough is 90 feet
long and has shelter built over it.
forgot to name in its proper place
that the kind Of corn herein spoken
Of, remains green till frost, and con-
tinues TO grow. We have cut tie last
\ of ours this week. 1t has been in
this settlement for three years, ] be.
lieve. The seed was brought from
Alabama.
Mr.. Pitts, in his communication
some time since on the subject of
Berkshire Hogs, is considered to be
cxtravagant, though ] have to confess
that there has been something of the
multicauls about them with some
men, and that they are not what they
have been cracked up to be. They
are not the hogs for planters, especial
ly those that do not allow more than
a bushel Of corn per day to something
like hundred head.
am, dear sir, yours respectfully,
JOHN FARRAR.
Putnam Co., Gu, Moo. Is, as.
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A Farmers Life.
Our readers no doubt remember the
speech of the the Rev. MIR. CHoULEs, at
the anniversary of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society. They will notice,
also, his letter, in another column of this
paper, on the duty of the clergy in con.
nection with agriculture. We have the
pleasure now to make an extract from
speech of this gentleman, on another
occasion, which is worthy of all COM
mendation.-Souihers Cultivator.
81 wish could see (he says,) In all our
farmersa disposition to magnify their
calling; but ! have been grievad in many a
farmhouse, 10 listen 10 lamentations over
what they term their 'hard lot have
heard the residents upon noble farm, all
+ paid for, talk about drudgery, and never
I having their work done, and few or no op.
portunities for the children; and have es-
pecially been sorry to hear the females
lament over the hard fate of some promis-
ing youth of seventeen or eighteen, who
was admirably filling up his duties, and
training himself for extensive usefulness
and influence. They have made compari-
son between his situation, coarseIy clad
and working hard, and coming in fatgued,
with some college cousin, or young man
who clerked it in a store, till at length
the boy has become dissatisfied, and beg
ged off from his true interests and happi-
ness.
f 81 am conversant with no truer scenes
of enjoyment than l have witnessed in
American farm-houses, and even log
cabins, where the father, under the inhu-
ence of enlightened Christianity, and
sound views of life. has gone with his
family, as the world have termed it, into
the woods. The land is his own, and he
has every inducement 10 improve it; he
finds a healthy employment for himself
and family, and is never at a loss for
materials to occupy his mind, do no, think
the physician has more occasion for re-.
search than the farmer; the proper food of
vegetables and animals will alone cons,i-
'ute a wide and lasting field ofnvestgation.
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