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ticular attention. This was the result, we understand, of a 

 careful selection of seed and attention to cultivation. The planter 

 has been three years in producing this result. In 1848 he select- 

 ed the seed from one boll which produced eleven stalks, from 

 the seed of which he was enabled to plant one acre in 1849, the 

 produce of which was one bale of 470 lbs., which was sold on 

 the 19th of January, 1850, in Augusta, at 14 cents per pound, 

 two cents above the highest market price at that time. It was 

 pronounced by the best judges of cotton at Augusta and Savan- 

 nah to be the finest bale of upland ever seen in those markets. 

 It was ginned as it was picked from the field. 



Planters and cultivators generally have been too much in the 

 habit of neglecting the selection of their seed. It may with 

 safety be adopted as a rule that whatever the cost may be for 

 carefully selecting the most perfect seed, the improved quality 

 and quantity of the crop will more than repay. We cannot 

 " a-athcr graces of thorns^ or figs of thistlcsP A. C. 



GLASS, 



Is one of the most important articles for the convenience, 

 comfort, and luxury of man, which art has achieved. The time 

 when the art of making glass was discovered, remains undeter- 

 mined. At this distant period, we may not expect that sufficient 

 additional light will be thrown on tlie subject, by which the 

 date can be fixed with any degree of precision. It is supposed 

 to liave been known to the ancient Egyptians, but there is noth- 

 ing- very positive to sustain the supposition. It is said the beads 

 wherewith some mummies are adorned, composed of earthern- 

 ware,have an external covering of glaze, and that recent searches 

 among the tombs at Thebes have disclosed some pieces of glass 

 of a blue color. Some writers assert that the Cliinese to this 

 day are wholly unacquainted with the manufacture of glass, and 

 yet their earthern vessels are, and have been for centuries, cov- 

 ered with glaze. 



