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Chester vs. Berkshire. We arc very loth to say more than will clear our tskirts from any blame. Wc do t 1 >c<• i!u ! Jr?.it w< do wrong in pmnKtmg NfMUU nature to permit anger to get the mastery, but ’it'is uur nature,*-y et equally so to always make the amende. On this hog question rrejyyye WW pride, and we do not fed quite easy under charges made, by,the quhl.c and true, and as 'well, the knowing and leadiug ones. A private letter, and from a great breeder, reaches us from .Kentucky,^ - which woTakc, liberty to copy, in part; wc give tic low. 'We assert,- we never ,wrote AN ARTICLE SINCE TUB FARMER WAS FIRST ISSUED, COMMENDING . • Chester W hites. We tried them before the country was overrun ; wc discarded them* Our present printer has printed our writings for the whole time, and be will affirm that our re commendations were the bTaek hog— Essex or Berkshire. \\ c: wrote three years ago, the ‘coming hog,’ our old favorite. WeThave said, and do now say, the Essex is as fajp. superior fo any and' aH ^bbe 'hugs, ff Tthh Southern planter, as the pure bred horse is above the Indiani jmny. No hog can excel it. that w<i ever saw, except it may be the new Berkshire, which wo term tire 'Ceehratrc denounced impor¬ the tation: We have Chester and the Silver humbug, as not competent to stand Southern sun, feed and attention ; also as being very uncertain ar.d uuevcq in breed perhaps onewptaiter, uiw4hM*d, onc half or three-quarters may be good to fino, but never did wc sec a whole brood fine/ Wo hope this will do«~ No man can get us to brag on Ches¬ ters, or Improved Diddbe'rs,, for twenty-five per cent., nor lor all.— We have stood the abuse and insinua¬ tions of private letter-writers, and wc now forbear to state tacts. Wo have pride of a better judgment jind hones ty after * icsfihg, and ' living know we sold all we had, and stated wo woiiM not have them. ' Had we a farm, wc would not Accept either. When Tafge conmifibdalltms of the Chester Whites w<?rc made, we, were BOO miles south otPthe 'New Orleans railroad, owned not a dollar in the paper, aiid not bdugf-owner of present, could not control its columns, though we a (tin it wc should, as editor, have had the right. We feel s<'H>, and hope this will never be brought up again. The following is the ex¬ tract: “We would state that the $1000 premium which wc won at Chicago was for the twenty best -hogs-of-any breed, and we had to compete with Chester Whites] Cheshire's, Essex and Polland-Chmas; and also shires from other States and Canada, and our Berkshire* boro off the prkie triumphantly; and the result is tuat a number of breeders of other breeds of liogs are abandoning them altogether for the Berkshire, or.cross¬ ing them with the Berkshire to secure more finish, early maturing and early fattening qualities; at least this U the case with the Poland China men, as our numerous letters and sales testify. state 7het e facts, ns we learn that you aie not an advocate of the Berk shires, hut adhere mostly to the ^ ^ TVc v wi". .OpJjWftg W' cVcrj you oouM lu.vc l*- ;i at Chicago /:r,£i. -Udis, where so many of att breeds were brought together:, kc do not think you would fiaVCcver written another word in favor of. Chester^ JVh ilcs. •V Wc take the liberty to italicize, as it bears on us. Our recommenda¬ tions have been the black hog—Essex or Berkshire—and writings altered to suit the Chester White. — F.c. Hay Crop of the South. *, The /January'llcport of the Agri¬ cultural Department at Washington furnishes some valuable si alls tics.— <*the\h>urh Tbqse in regard to fufTy'su^Tfluu,but thejbny c$pp~Trf n^C^Offly- und in the exceed the calculatimpi f 'January number of tins paper. It furnishes us the ^vernge ItV price of hay X){ fivo' years past, comparison, lot ns take either Texas, Louisiana or AikausaSf where thu-«MV*agc prodyo- llli p-r acre} thd ‘ where the production fs nets, average 133 tons per acie,., The average price in these Stales for five years price in is $17.60 per ton ; the average Illinois 10r ~tiu> rtufle tiit*e'L ,, $S / 27 per ttfn. Take on'* hundred acres of grass in Texas, which would yield in five years 750 tons of hay; at $17.60 qgr ton, would give $13,200. One hundred acres in Illinois woulivield / « ii iro y ow Hi 6 6 i tm.vp* ats per ton, would fcring $5,1)00, making a difference of $7,700 in favor of the Texas farm. But this is rot nil -— The difference in the investment is equally great. The hundred acres of’ land in the South could be bought for 'twenty dollars per actr; in Illinois it would cost ony hundred, The in¬ vestment in the one ease would be $2000; in the other, $10,000. tVHuiliug ^ inJefW 'Oti flits hrVdStfiJGVt at the same rate, say ten percent, and then dedQdlfi’gThlJrJntcfest from the have" value the of the following’ crop produced, we would result: Texas value of crcp,,.$i3,200 ; inter* 4$I000 >Uoii investment^ n»r -five y 5 cofs, ; leaving, $12,200. Illinois interest <>u iorvcstinieVt Tor five ye^rs, 83000; deducted from the value of crop (#5 £00) leaves $500; or, if ran tiled at five percent , would still leave but $30t)0 as ''profit.,* Startling as aro these figures,'we -aiq.fuBy persuaded they can Vasily be exceeded. In¬ stead of 150 tons per acre, two tons oau easily bo realized; and an aver -agead twenty dollars.per ton could readily be obtained. T Wc make some figures upon this basis. Lands opened .aud under, foice, with necessary buildings, can be purchased in the South forTeii (k41»**.por An investment m thCw> to five thousand dollars would put him in possession i f a body of iaixtfv 21/) 'aerg* /of which might be put in grass These 200 acres can be made to yield here, by proper preparation, two tons per acre, or 40Q tons of hay per annum. * This hav, coming into market before the Northern h iy, furnishes him a better market, and he can easily sell it foi twenty dollars per ton, yielding bore , an anual income of $16,000. Alter . paying all expenses of taxetvinterest on capital, labor, transportation, handsome etc.-, ' it will yield him a very net profit. “I speak as would wise men ; judge yc what I say ”— Bx. Com Crop—Mode of Gather¬ ing. EXTRACT FROM A TAFER READ BEF'iRB THE TUCAHAHOK FARMERS’ CLUB BY DR. THOMAS l'OLLARD. ' The general belief among the fanners of the present day is, that fodder palling “does not pay/’ If we calculate the loss, of labor and the in¬ jury done to the corn, 1 suspect this op'tiion is correct. Ia lhc Farmers' Gazette, July, 1871, page 8, is contained ihc result of ‘ Some careful tests inndr by Mr. 1). It. Harrison," an intelligent planter of Prince George, Ya , in¬ stituted to ascertain the loss of weight of corn by strippmg the blades at the usual time of fodder pulling, and also by the practice Virginia of cutting the top, as is , usual in after the car is well filled ; Lbs. jwr low. 4 rows, blades pulled U> top 121 4 rows, blades left below the ear 134 4 rows, blades left on whole stalk 161 6 rows, blades pulled to top 88 6 rows, blades all left 128 1 row blades all left 142 1 row stripped, tops left ten days 114 1 row, blade all left 122 Ti c rows in the experiment being long ami the whole covering several acres, producing over twenty barrels to tlu* acre, the test is a valuable one. It indicates a considerable loss in every instance of comparison by the fodder pulling. article In the same is the report of another experiment made a good many years since by Mr. Seaborn, of South Carolina. “He tested on twelve rows of corn as uniform in every reft poet as possible. Four rows, 1, 4, 7 aod 10 were left w ith the blades on, and the corn when dry shelled out 71^ pounds, measuring A pecks, 1 gallon, 2quarts, jum«. — Four ru.vvs, 2, 5, 8 ami 11 were strip¬ ped of their blades at the usual time of fodder pulling, and shelled out only 55 pounds, and measured 4 pecks and | pint. The I odder from there rows when cured weighed eighteen pounds, which added to the 55 pounds of corn, makes only ^ poiind more than the clean corn from I the rows on which the blades were ! left. The remaining rows, 3, 6, 9, • 12 were Eft until the b!ad< s were dry ^ up to the car, and qu some .stalks to I the tv*p, then cut down and shucked in the field, and shelled out 7u4 pounds, and measured 4 peeks, I gallon, 2 quarts and I pint. This last result corroborates that of the first four rows, and tho wh^le testimony of the experiments is strongly to tho efifect that by pulling the blade fod¬ der we"lose iu the weight of the corn almost ns many And, pounds as wc make the’1 in the fodder" added to this, writer might labor have in the said we lose the \ cost of the fodder pulling. * 1 bedieve the proper plan is to cut down the corn when matured, shock, and when dry gather the corn and fetd the fodder to our stock You will observe in the last experi¬ ment quoted there was only the loss of one pound of corn by this process, in comparison with that where all the blades were left on tho corn. 1 am informed, too, by a member of our club that, after careful experiments, this plan he has found the expense of twenty five to thirty per cent, less than that of pulling fodder and cut¬ ting "tops. Tho corn knife undo from An old scythe or grass, blade, having a handle well riveted on at the blacksmith's is the best imple¬ ment. lor cutting down the corn—de¬ cidedly preferable to the hoe In .shocking the corn, -you will find a plan u.-cd by my friend, Dr. Cren¬ shaw, and myself jointly tho past by season, good on a field owned us, a one. Shock the corn on a pole Iron; ten to fifteen feet long, planks supported at each end by crossed bored by u or 2 inch augur, and the pole in¬ setted through .those, or support the pole by benches (which we useu) made of scantling, pole aud sufficiently high to raise the t > the proj>cr height for the com—this height de¬ pot ding in a measure upon the length of the stalks After setting up one shock on the pole, you readily remove it tor another shuck, aud so on until the field is finished. If the fodder is at all grren and the corn not w-II dried, it is well to cut down some six rows :;t a time, leaving six standing. Alter .shocking the first six, and giving it lime to cure, yoti then go back, and fiuish the other six, shocking ou the unfinished shucks. Gall h'ouj). — For the washing of fine bilkin doth* and ribbons, gall soap is pn pared in the following manner: In a vessel of copper one pound of cocanut Fahrenheit, oil js heated to sixty half degrees whereupon a pound of caustic s d i is added with constant stirring. Jn another vessel, halt a pound of while Vene¬ tian turpentine is heated, aud when quite hot, stirred info the copper ket¬ tle. This kettlo is then covered and left for four hours, being gently heated, after which tin* fi e is increas¬ ed until the cotttcotg arc peifi etly clear, wheieitpon one pound of ox¬ gall in added. After this, enough g»od, perfectly dry castilc soap i» stirred into the mixture lo cause the whole, to yield but. little under the pressure ol :bc Unger; for which pur¬ pose, from one to two founds of soap arc required for the above quantify. Alter cooling ihe soap is cut into picco-L Jt is excellent, ami will nut injure the finest c *l»r.— Kc. Burns .— Wui II. Lewis arntL- ua the following remedy which he has thoroughly Ouo tested aud knows to be good ; ounce air-slacked lime and three ounces hug’s iard y mix thoroughly and apply to th > burn. It will afford immediate re iof, and when applied to a fresh burn wiil heal the sore and leave no rear. Wo may say that whatever will exelide air will give relief.—AU.