The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-25
AGRICULTURAL.
Lnrre and Small Fnrms.


Many large estates willhave to be di-
vided into small farms. We have as
serted this before, and it is, as most men
admit, only question of time for full
-fllment. While we do not hesitate to
make declaration of an inevitable fact,
it is but fair to qualify what might
otherwise seem too general an opinion.
The division of large estates will not,
of necessity, compel planters to turn
market gardeners. On the contrary, we
believe that planting on q large scale
will, and ought to be pursued by those
who can afford it. Numbers possessed
of the requisite means and ability, will
thus cultivate broad acres, but not in
the same profusion as of yOre. Supe-
rior energy and talent must accumulate
landed property, just as the same quail
ifications gather merchandise or gold.
But the number Of these great propris-
tors cannot be so formidable as under
the slave system. Labor-saving ma
chimes, such as steam or buggy plows,
rcapers, threshers, &c, render i'm
mense estates still possible. 1t
is well that they should not be
wholly annihilated, for there are no
better schools for enlarged ideas OF
state-craft or private enterprise. Ad-
ministrative ability Of higher order is
requisite. The common slang about
"keep hotel" as evidencing peculiar
traits of government, applies with ten
fold force to the management OF a fine
estate. Much of their eminerce, as the
breeders of statesmen or politicians,
has sprung from these habits of the
Southern people, nursed from the era
die to use authority and engineer vast
systems of labor. 1t is objected to the
division of large plantations that this
eminence may be surrendered. We
think not. There will be suiliciency
of plantations to create n superabun-
dance of statesmen, and it may be mat
ter for congratulation that the supply is
necessarily limited. Thus, too, there
may be Just rs much force of character
necessary to regulate matters on a mod
est farm. We feel assured that poverty
will compel the great body of Southern
youth to manifest the noble qualities OF
courage, fortitude, patience and indus
try which, running in different groove,
made them splendid gentlemen and in
comparable heroes. The South has
much to learn, and she knows it. Ex-
perience may be fools teacher, but it
frequently transforms folly into wis
Observation-Disclosures, augusta, Ga.
BoTs IN HoRsEs.-The following is
the substance of note from Brevet
Colonel J. Hamilton to Professor Town
send Glover, eutOmologist of the Depart
ment OF Agriculture, dat ed ut Raleigh,
n. c.:
l observe in your report for 1864, that
You say that no very certain means OF
Kidding the horses stomach of the bots
has yet been published. Since receiving
the following from DIR. Gee, of Florida,
am glad that have had no opportuni-
ty of trying it, but it has the air of eff
cacy, and certainly shall on the first
opportunity. You are aware that it is
hard sometimes to distinguish between
an attack of the bots aud one of the
collie; this remedy, however, is equally
efficient in either. The reason that bot
can resist the action of agents adminis-
tered is his power of drawing his head
into the walls of the stomach by his ten
tacles. But he cannot resist the chloro-
form. A table spoonful OF chloroform
screened by couple of spoonsfnl of any
good mucilage will make him let go his
hold on the stomach even after having
bored nearly through. -- .r,.
ESRICnING PAsTUREs.-The 4meriodn
Farmer has been discussing the subject
as to what stock most cnriches pastures.
Horses are considered the very worst
fertilizers of pastures; being dainty
feeders they are apt to Craze only in
spots, to tho great injury of the grass.
The same objection, though in less de-
gree, holds against cattle, and their
manure is not scattered sufficiently for
the good of the. land. Sheep, being
even grazers, and ranging over the
whole field, scatter their manure in the
very best form as a top dsessing, and
are therefore regarded as the very best
stock for enriching pasture lands.
, CUTTING rTpdpER.-A Canadian wri-
ter, of long experience, finds that timber
cut in August is much more durable for
all purposes than when cut at any
other season. White oak posts and
black oak rails cut in the winter do not
last, on the average, more than ten 'or
twelve years, while some oak rails
made from timber cut in August, have
been in use forty years, and are yet
sound. 'vtir go
THREAD FROM CoTToN STALKs.-A
New Orleans inventor has succeeded in
making thread from the stalks of the
cotton plant; it is strong and fine, as
plant as thread from fax, and is readi-
" converted into seryiceable fabrics.
One hundred and twenty pounds of
stalks will turn out forty pounds of
thread.
MILK FOR POUND OF BUTTER.-The
agricultural Rerieic has been keeping an
accurate account with q Jersey COW,
and finds that 4t quarts of milk make a
pound of butter, the feed being English
hay, stalks and two quarts of shorts per
day.
CLEANLINESS OF SwINE.-The Agri-
cultural Rerie,c has an article on raising
swine, in which cleanliness is urged as
point Of the greatest Importance. a
rule is given that a hog pen should
never be distinguished by its odor twen-
ty feet distant.
Although blood may be thicker than
water, the difference in the degree Of
attenuation tends to become every day
more trifing. For instance, persons
who live in large and busy towns con-
cern themselves much less with their
less near relations than people who
live in the country. A man may live
in .he same town with his uncle with
out knowing anything of what the un-
Gle is doing, and without seeing him
more than three or four times year,
and then only by accident. -satHfdns,
Rerier.s - = 49, -
lam not one of those who profess to
love my enemies. Ny enemy I should
like to have in handouts and without q
hat, at high noon, in the middle Of the
great deserta would then read him
my printed opinions of him, which are
highly sarcastic, andI thinkcleyer, and
refresh him from time to time with
anchovy sandwiches and boiling Wor,