SOUTHERN RAILROADS. POTATO AND ROSE BUGS. 599 



yet a small boy, that he had always had the poorest spots on adjoining high land chosen for 

 curing and stacking his low-land meadow hay ; and when that hay was removed — say the 

 next sprijig or summer — these foor spots were always among the most fertile on the farm. 

 It is to its action in shadmg the soil that Doctor Baldwin, as we have said, contends is to 

 be attributed its fertilizing influence. Let any poor spot or galded knoll be covered with 

 bushes of any kind, ajid see how rank the grass will grow up among them, and how soon 

 the land is restored. The subject is worthy of particular attention. Let our Societies or 

 Institutes cause poor soil which has been thus covered, merely, without any application of 

 manure, to be analyzed, and see what are the properties so soon acquired by prt>- 

 tection, perhaps from cold as well as from the rays of the sim. For what more useful pur 

 poees are such institutions organized and supported by the public ? 



SOUTHERN RAILROADS. 



We subjoin a statement of the principal railroads in the Southern Slates, together with the 

 cost of travel on each. Several woi-fcs are in progress which will materially extend the 

 lines. When these are accomplished, we shall endeavor to exhibit the cost and dividends, 

 as well as other specific infomiation concerning all : 



IN ALABAMA. 



Ciimpaaiea. MUes 



Montgomery and West Point 60 



IN GEOKGIA. 



Western and Atlantic (State) 100 



Georgia 171 



Central 191 



Macon Western 101 



Total length ..503 



IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



South Carolina 136 



Columbia 68 



Total length ..204 



IN NORTH CAROLINA. 

 Companies. Milea. 



Wilmington and Weldon 161 



Gaston and Raleigh 87 



Total length ..,248 



IN VIRGINIA. 



Petersburg and Eoanoke 63 



Richmond and Petersburg 22 



Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po- 

 tomac 133 



Winchester and Potomac 32 



Louisa 50 



Total length TTsOO 



There is no reason why the stock of Southern railways should not be profitable. As a 

 specimen, we take the Re[X)rl of die President of the Petersburg Railroad Company, for tho 

 year enduig 30th September last : 



Total receipts for passengers and freight $179,867 94 



Expenses of every kind, repairs, &c 73,637 13 



Income after payment of expenses $106,230 81 



The cost of the road was $801,611 52 ; the dividend, therefore, is a fraction over thirteea 

 per cent. 



In his late Report, the President of tlie South Carolma Raih'oad Company sums np the op- 

 erations of the year : 



Gross receipts from 1st .Tanaarj' to 30th December, 1847. ..$655,575 30 

 Current expenses in same period 303,480 40 



Net revenue $352,094 90 



[De Bow's Commercial Review. 



Rose Bugs and Potato Bugs. — Take fresh, dry, burnt wood-ashes and sprinkle over the 

 potato-lops or rose-bushes (or other shmbs and vines) as soon as the bugs appear pretty nu- 

 merous, and they will soon leave. We have tried this eflectually, and it may be relied on. 

 Before we (lis(;()vered the remedy, which was m.ide known to us by our hired man,) we 

 look from one to two handsfuU of rose bugs from a single bush — according to size. 



[Prairie Firmer. 

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