THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



CONTENTS OF NUMBER VIII. 



PAGE 



Graduated or Guard Ditches for Hill-Sides 225 



Improving or Enriching Poor Land 231 



Quaker Management of Dairy Cows, &c 233 



Is Ammonia the Solvent of Silex in the Soil 1 . . 235 



Rancid Butter 237 



Cochin Chinas — a London Story 238 



Essay on Agriculture, No. 2 240 



Digging Machine 240 



Virginia State Agricultural Society 241 



District and County Agricultural Societies 241 



County and Individual Pledges to the Virginia 



State Agricultural Society 242 



To the Readers of the Southern Planter 242 



New Books 243 



Experiment with Lime 243 



Tomato Catsup 245 



Cattle Distemper 245 



Shade to Destroy Wire-Grass 245 



Joint Worm Convention 246 



A Few Words on Confectionery 246 



Milk-Pans— Soiling Cows 247 



How to Keep Fruit and Flowers Always Fresh. 248 

 Remedy for Toothache 248 



READ, CONSIDER AND ACT WISELY. 



IMPORTANT TO FARMERS ! 



What is that 

 you have got 



there boy, and 

 what doing? 



. Ah! Massa, dis de Wells' Seed 

 \ I Sower — de berry best ting in de 

 world to sow de clober and de 

 .timoty seed, de plaster, de go- 

 no, and de wheat. I 

 sows 25 acres in one 

 day massa — try 



WHAT DO THE PHYSICIANS SAY? 



fl^p 5 ^ Listen to the testimony of an eminent physician in 

 favor of McLane's Vermifuge, which is now universally 

 acknowledged to be the best in use ; even members of the 

 medical faculty (who are so often opposed to the use of pa 

 tent medicines,) cannot withhold their approval of this in 

 valuable remedy : 



Lind, Stark Co., Ohio, Jan. 8, 1849. 

 I have used Dr. McLane's Worm Specific in my private 

 practice, and am prepared to say that the unparalleled suc- 

 cess with which I have prescribed its use, both for children 

 and adults, induces me to say the most in its favor of any 

 specific or patent medicine ever before brought to my notice. 

 The mode of administration, the smallness of the dose, and 

 the certainty of its efficacious effects, give it, in my opinion, 

 a decided advantage over any other medicine of the kind 

 before the public 



It is only by the^lfee^of valuable improvements that we 

 can reasonably expect to keep up with the age in which 

 we live, and public opinion everywhere has placed M. I). 

 Wells' Improved Patent Seed Stfwer in the first class of 

 agricultural implements. The above drawing exhibits it 

 in use, and any ordinary mind must at once be impressed 

 with the certain conviction that it is an indispensable im- 

 plement of husbandry, and that every good farmer should 

 have it. By its use you save time, which is money and 

 labor which costs money, and experience in usifig it proves 

 you will not be driven from the field unless by very rough 

 weather, and the almost mathematical precision with which 

 the seed is distributed'; compared with hand sowing, renders 

 it self-evident in the opinion of the best farmers that a sav- 

 ing or gain of two dollars per acre is made in two crops of 

 grass and the succeeding crop of wheat, one year's inte- 

 rest on an acre of land at $33£, and sowing three acres 

 pays for a machine with lid at $6. 



The first premium was recommended for this machine 

 at the late Virginia State .Fair, and four of the committee 

 (all having use for it) engaged one each; and we think if 

 governed by your interest you will do likewise. 



MOTT, LEWIS <% WILLSON, 

 Sole agents for Richmond — Agricultural Implement 

 fe— tf Store, No. 36, Main Street. 



MERINO SHEEP.— Having increased my flock of Me- 

 rino Sheep on m-y farm, in Orange county, to over 

 gjDgr rurcnusers win De carerui to asK ior ■■ jl»i\ lvidjane'Al t j ^ • ™ c v • t t> t 



, if ^i^t- -r jj j * i i An ii ^.800 1 am now prepared to sell a few choice yearling iJucks 



ilebrated Vermifuge, and take none else. All other ve~' , m n i . - i S -, L ^ , 



Celebr 



inifuges, in comparison, are worthless. Dr. McLane's Ver- 

 mifuge, also his celebrated Liver Pills, can now be had at all 

 respectable Drug Stores in the United States and Canada. 



HAVE YOU A DISEASED LIVER? 



The question, though startling, is sufficiently sug- 

 gestive, when the fact is taken into consideration that dis- 

 eases of the Liver have become most alarmingly frequent 

 in the United States. Indeed, there are few formidable dis- 

 eases that are not in some way traceable to a deranged'state 

 of that important organ. Many of the complaints usually 

 classed under the head of Consumption, have their origin 

 in the Liver. "Any remedy that would insure regularity 

 and healthful action in the Liver, would be a blessing to 

 mankind!" has been the exclamation of thousands. That 

 remedy has been found ; it is safe and sure. When a fair 

 trial has been afforded it, it has never been known to fail. 



Reader, have you any disease of the Liver, or disease 

 which <you believe proceeds from hepatic derangement? 

 Lose npt a moment, but purchase a box of Dr. McLane's 

 Pills, and they will restore you to healt 

 remedy yet discovered, in which imp! 

 be placed. ^ 



I-Jp Purchasers will bAcdfeful to^^^^^^'Dr. M 

 Lane's Celebra^ed^Lfver Pills,'' and take nOTPelse. There 

 are other Pills, purporting to be Liver Pills, now before the 

 public. Dr. McLane's Liver Pills, also his celebrated Ver- 

 mifuge, can now be had at all the respectable Drug Store's 

 in the United States and Canada. 



For sale by PURCELL, LADD & CO. 



aug— It Corner Main and 14th street, Richmond. 



and Ewes. To all who have any acquaintance with CoL 

 Henry S. Randall of New York, and the reputation of his 

 flock, it is only necessary to say that the yearlings I pro- 

 pose selling are the product of ewes purchased of him when 

 he sold out last year, and selected by him personally as the 

 best in his flock. I have his letters, saying that he was 

 olFered the same price for his ewes by his neighbors, but 

 'that in starting the growth of fine wool in Virginia it was 

 very important to have good sheep, and as he knew these 

 were superior, he preferred selling them to go there. I 

 shall sell no bucks except such as show marks of supe- 

 riority. All who want to raise their flocks to a high stand- 

 ard at once will do well to apply early, as I have but a 

 limited number for sale. Address by mail, or apply to 

 WHVI. G. CRENSHAW, or 

 CRENSHAW & CO., 

 june — tf North side of the Basin, Richmond, Va. 



PERUVIAN GUANO.— Having on hand, and engaged 

 to arrive, a large supply of Guano, we solicit orders. 

 All who buy of us may rely on getting it genuine, as we 

 sell none except what comes direct from the Peruvian agents. 



CRENSHAW & CO., 

 june — tf North side of the Basin, Richmond, Va. 



M'CONNEIiL & BURTON,' 



DENTISTS, 



Main Street, between 9th and 10th Streets, Richmond, Va. 



JOHN M'CONNELL. W. LEIGH BURTON. 



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