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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



If every neighborhood could boast of an in- 

 dividual possessed of the intelligence, the zeal, 

 and the warm-hearted devotion of the author of 

 this address ; of ofie, who would strengthen his 

 precept by example, and by ocular proof demon- 

 strate the advantages of an improved system of 

 husbandry, how easy would it be to satisfy the 

 public mind that the hidden resources of our 

 State, much as they have been wasted, are not 

 yet exhausted, and that upon no portion of the 

 world has Providence more liberally bestowed 

 its bounties, than upon the land of our nativity. 



CURE FOR WHAT IS CALLED A RUN- 

 ROUND ON THE FINGER. 



That disease of the finger or toe, which is 

 commonly called a run-round, may be easily 

 cured by a remedy so simple that persons who 

 have not tried it are generally incredulous as to 

 its efficacy. The first symptoms of the com- 

 plaint are heat, pain, swelling, and redness at 

 the top of the nail. The inflammation, if not 

 checked very soon, goes round the whole of the 

 nail, causing intense pain, accompanied by a 

 gathering of yellow matter, which, as soon as 

 it appears, should be punctured or opened by a 

 needle, not waiting till it has extended its pro- 

 gress ; otherwise the finger will become exces- 

 sively sore and intolerably painful, and the nail 

 will eventually come off. All this ma.y be pre- 

 vented at once, if as soon as the swelling and 

 inflammation begin, ihe finger is laid flat on a 

 table, and the nail scratched all over (first length- 

 ways and then crossways,) with the sharp point 

 of a pair of scissors or of a penknife, so as to 

 scratch up the whole surface of the nail, leaving 

 it rough and white. This little operation will 

 not give the slightest pain, and we have never 

 known it fail in stopping the progress of the 

 disease ; all symptoms of which will disappear 

 by next day. We have proved its efficacy by 

 experience, and believe that every person who 

 has tried it has found it a positive cure, if done 

 before matter begins to appear ; and even then 

 it will generally succeed if that part of the ga- 

 thering which has assumed a yellow color is 

 first opened with a needle and the nail afterwards 

 thoroughly scratched all over with the point of 

 the scissors. — JMiss Leslie. 



PROGNOSTICATIONS OF THE WEATHER. 



A friend of ours, a captain in the United 

 States navy, has handed us the following table 

 for foretelling the weather, which he says he 

 has consulted for twenty years in different lati- 

 tudes in America, and has generally found it to 

 be relied upon. It was originally composed by 

 that eminent astronomer, the elder Herschel, 



and added to somewhat by the late Dr. Adam 

 Clarke. A knowledge of the weather a few 

 days in advance, is of considerable consequence 

 to the farmer, and especially during harvest- 

 time; and we should be glad if our readers 

 would make their observations in accordance 

 with these tables, and give us any information 

 that they may happen to possess on this inte- 

 resting topic. 



A Table for Foretelling the Weather, 



THROUGH ALL THE LUNATIONS OF EACH YEAR, 



forever. — This table, and the accompanying 

 remarks, are the result of many years' actual 

 observation ; the whole being constructed on a 

 due consideration of the attraction of the sun 

 and the moon, in their several positions respect- 

 ing the earth, and will, by simple inspection, 

 show the observer what kind of weather will 

 most probably follow the entrance of the moon 

 into any of its quarters, and that so near the 

 truth, as to be seldom or never found to fail. 



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