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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



Madeira wine till a whey is formed ; strain and 

 bottle. Drink a wine glass three times a day. 

 Mrs. Parson S. is the author of the above. 



CoLfc in Horses. — Soap suds, freely admi- 

 nistered, has effected many cures. 



Flowers, to Preserve. — Drop a little salt 

 in the water in which the flowers are placed. 

 Try it, young ladies. 



Joint-Felon. — Apply equal parts of soft- 

 soap and slaked lime ; put on a piece about the 

 size of a pea, and scrape off every fifteen or 

 twenty minutes. 



Frozen Limb or Burn. — A poultice of In- 

 dian meal and yeast, Mr. Fessenden says is good. 



Cologne. — Oil of lavender half an ounce, 

 oil of rosemary one drachm, essence of lemon 

 two drachms, oil of cinnamon sixteen drops, 

 bergamot two drachms ; put the whole in three 

 pints of alcohol, shake well and often. 



Shaving Soap. — Take common (store) tur- 

 pentine soap, scrape it fine, dissolve in just 

 enough French brandy to dissolve. 



Honey, its Anti-Septic Property. — The 

 best mode of conveying grafts, vine cuttings, 

 &c. is in a tin case or cylinder filled with honey. 

 Melons and fruits are preserved this way in 

 Italy. — Farmers' Register, 520. 



Flies, to Prevent Attacks and Injuries 

 to Pictures, Furniture, &c. — Let a bunch 

 of leeks soak four, five or six days in a pailful 

 of water, and wash your picture or any other 

 piece of furniture with it. It will drive flies 

 away. — Old Boston Times. 



John Smith. 



EXTRACTS. 



Agriculture feeds us, to a great extent it 

 clothes us, and without it we could not have 

 manufactures, and we should not have commerce; 

 these all stand together like pillars — the largest 

 in the centre — and that largest is Agriculture. — 

 Webster. 



Our farmers sometimes put out their money 

 in some joint stock company, to convert sunshine 

 into moonshine — or he buys shares in some gold 

 mine. Rely upon it, our richest mine is the 

 barn-yard, and that whatever temptations stocks 

 or shares may offer, the best investment for a 

 farmer is live stock and plough shares. — Biddle. 



Steam has given to England the equivalent 

 in labor to four hundred millions of men. 



"Flowers are God's smiles," says Wilberforce; 

 they are as beautiful beside the cottage as the 

 palace, and may be enjoyed by all. Let every 

 one study then, and work, to make whatever place 

 they may be in, so attractive that the hearts of 

 the absent ones shall go back to it as the dove 

 v id to the ark of Noah. 



o. p. a. 



CULTIVATOR ALMANAC FOR 1845. 

 We observe that Mr. Tucker, of the Albany 

 Cultivator, has prepared an Almanac for 1845 

 similar to his 1844 edition. From the table of 

 contents, and from the Almanac of the present 

 year, we have no doubt that it contains much 

 valuable matter. It is illustrated with thirty en- 

 gravings, and sold (we suppose at the agencies 

 of the Cultivator) at the low price of two dol- 

 lars per hundred and fifteen dollars per thousand. 

 " Booksellers or others, can have editions printed 

 with their imprint, and occupy the last page with 

 an adveetisement, for five dollars extra on the 

 first thousand copies." 



From the New England Farmer. 

 HILLING AND NOT HILLING POTATOES. 



I left two rows in the piece unhilled — that is, 

 making only a very slight hill at the first hoe- 

 ing, and not enlarging the hills at the two sub- 

 sequent hoeings. The whole piece was hoed 

 three times in the course of the season, and at 

 each of these times the hills in all the rows save 

 these two, were increased in size, as usual. At 

 harvest, I measured the product of two rows on 

 each side of the two unhilled, and the last gave 

 five pecks more (and larger potatoes) than the 

 mean product of the other four. By making 

 large hills, I suspect we deprive the crop of an 

 important share of the beneficial influences of 

 sun and atmospheric moisture. 



Potatoes need a free and mellow bed to grow 

 in, but this is not best secured by increasing the 

 size of the hill after planting — it should be done 

 before that, — at least, so that I have been led to 

 think from recent observation. 



DOWNING'S WORKS. 



We are pleased to see that Mr. A. J. Down- 

 ing, of Newburgh, New York, is about issuing 

 a second and enlarged edition of his very va- 

 luable treatise on " Landscape Gardening," as 

 also of his " Cottage Residences." Messrs. Wi- 

 ley & Putnam, (Mr. Downing's publishers) have 

 published a work of this author on " Fruits." 

 A friend has promised us a notice of these works 

 as soon as he has received them. We hail with 

 an unaffected expression of pleasure, these books, 

 and we hope to see them in the libraries of many 

 Virginia gentlemen. The American public has 

 been placed under obligations to this author for 

 his contributions to the improvement of the do- 

 mestic architecture and rural taste of our coun- 

 try, and we verily believe that he will effect a 



