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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 369, 16 March 1871, Page 2

If you are not particular about the looks, turn your hogs into your orchard, but keep wire out of their snouts. Let them root to their hearts' content, and mellow the soil j they are equivalent to a cultivator, —better in sod; and they are continunl workers. They will meet three important things—they will work the soil, manure it, and destroy the infected fruit. This remedy, for at least a few, is advisable. Then grow sod if you like, and have a clean orchard—clean of hogs as well as vermin. The best manure is with sod ; this generally costs nothing, and-yields crops all the while, and is of the best quality as a fertilizer. From fifty to eighty-two horse loads of manure are contained in:the sod of an acre. What manure is used, let ib be in the main to make sod.

A correspondent of the Farmer and Artizan, writing from Barn well,'S. C, says : —lcln our ordinary plantation system, the supply of long forage for stock is generally made a secondary consideration, and, consequently, is never abundant. In the middle and lower counties of the atate, where the sweet potato is largely planted, an addition of considerable value may be made to the fodder left with but very little trouble. I have long been in the habit of going into my potatoes before the frost—say about the 10th of October—pulling by hand the vines, and immediately putting them into compact cocks about twice the size of a flour barrel. They remain thus four or five days, when the cocks are thrown down for three or four hours' sun, and then hauled inandhoused. It makes an excellent hay. Horses eat it with avidity. The greater facility with which the potatoes are dug, after the beda are cleansed of the vines, repays the expense of making the hay."