121 Main Street, Richmond, Va. 



prefixed some useful kints to overseers as to plantation management. 

 The Book is well gotten up, and is offered at a very moderate price. 



[Southern Literary Messenger. 



A Southern planter has reduced to a complete system the entire 

 business of a plantation, and publishes it as a guide to others. The 

 minuteness with which the detail of all the operations on a plantation 

 is treated, is a model for farmers. The Cultivator. 



J. W. RANDOLPH, of Richmond, Virginia, has published a 

 most admirable work, one which every planter and farmer should 

 not only possess, but carry out its objects and aims, both in the 

 letter and in the spirit, for they all tend to the introduction of 

 system in the management of landed estates. The Book purports 

 to have been gotten up as a guide to overseers and managers ; 

 but is so filled, so arranged, that the proprietors of such estates would 

 themselves be equally benefited by personally carrying out its nume- 

 rous plans, hints and suggestions ; for after carefully looking through 

 and studying its details, we most conscientiously say, that they are 

 founded in wisdom, and, if practised upon, would be promotive alike 

 of economy and humanity economy in the management of the farm 

 or plantation and humanity in providing for the comfort and health 

 of the slaves, as well as stock. 



It contains a chapter explanatory of the manager's duty shows 

 how his journal or daily record should be kept. Upon this head, as 

 well as upon the employment and treatment of the negroes and ma- 

 nagement of the plantation, the remarks are alike copious and judi- 

 cious ; so also are those upon the manner in which the stock of all 

 kinds are to be cared for. Its observations upon the saving and ap- 

 plication of manure, the cultivation of the plantation or farm, as well 

 as upon the proper rotation of crops, are sensible, and show an ac- 

 quaintance with the several subjects on the part of the author. The 

 tables, illustrative of the three, four and five field systems of rotation, 

 are full of instruction, and may be studied with decided advantage. 



It contains a useful " table, showing the number of spaces con- 

 tained in an acre of land at various given distances, which will be 

 found useful in fixing the proper distances to place marl, lime or other 

 manures, so as to give any desired quantity to the acre" a rule for 

 measuring the contents of a corn crib two rules for ploughmen a 

 table showing the actual number of pounds in a bushel of different 

 kinds of grain, potatoes, bran, clover seed, timothy and Kentucky 

 blue grass seed, flax seed, hemp seed, castor beans, dried peaches and 

 apples, onions and salt a table of planting distances a table show- 

 ing how the contents of any bulk of grain may be ascertained one 

 showing the weight of various materials an instructive chapter upon 



