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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



COMMERCIAL RECORD. 



WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT, 



REPORTED FOR THE SOUTHERN PLANTER BY 

 NANCE & GOOCH, COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 



Tobacco — Since our last report for the 

 Planter, the market has been quite animated. 

 Prices yesterday and to-day for most descrip- 

 tions have advanced 50 cents per hundred. — 

 We quote Lugs at $5 to $8 50; Leaf, good to 

 fine manufacturing, $9 to $18 50; Shipping 

 $9 to $15. The expectation that the late 

 freshets have materially injured the growing 

 crop caused some anxiety, and may account 

 for the late advance. 



Flour.— Old, canal, $5 to $5 12§; Scotts- 

 ville, $5 25. New, canal, $5 25; Scottsville, 

 $5 25 to $5 50. 



Wheat.— Red, $1 10; $1 15 for white. 



Corn— 60 to 62£ cents per bushel. 



Corn Meal— 75 to 80 cents per bushel. 



Whiskey— Reclined 62^ cents per gallon; 

 Mountain 40 to 50 cents per gallon. 



Sugars.— New Orleans, 6| to 7£; West In- 

 dia, 6 to 7-£. 



Flax Seed— $1 10 per bushel. 



Clover Seed— $4 50 to $1 75 per bushel. 



Feathers — 32 to 33 cents per lb. 



Fish— Herrings, No. 1, cut, $6 50; gross, 

 m 50. Mackerel, No. 3, $5; No. 2, $8 50; 

 No. 1, $13. 



Lime — Thomaston, from wharf, $1; Cam- 

 den, 90 cents. 



Plaster— Lump, from wharf, $3; Baron, 

 $4; Tierces, 500 lbs. $1 45. 



Salt— From wharf, $1 45; fromstore,$l 50. 



Guano — Peruvian, $50 per ton. 



August 30 



AGENCY FOR THE PURCHASE AND 

 SALE OF IMPROVED STOCK. 



STOCK Caltle of all the different breeds, 

 Sheep, Swine, Poultry, &c. will be pur- 

 chased to order, and carefully shipped to any 

 part of the United States, for which a reasona- 

 ble commission will be charged. Apply to 

 AARON CLEMENT, Philadelphia. 

 N. B. — All letters, post-paid, will be prompt- 

 ly attended to. aug — tf 



AGRICULTURAL. WAREHOUSE. — 

 The subscriber continues to manufacture 

 Agricultural Machines and Implements — 

 such as Horsepowers, Threshers or Drums, 

 Fan Mills, Straw Cutters, Corn Shellers, a 

 variety of patterns, Hill Side and Subsoil 

 Ploughs, Corn and Cob Crushers, Cultiva- 

 tors, Harrows, &c. — all of which will be made 

 in the best manner, and after the most ap- 

 proved patterns. My Horsepower has been 

 tested two seasons, and uniformly* pronounced 

 to be the best in use. 



Field and Garden Seeds. 

 Castings furnished at short notice. 

 ap-3t H. BALDWIN, 148, Main st. 



CONTENTS OF NUMBER IX. 



PAGE. 



Domestic Wine 257 



Proposed Remedy for Stealing Fruit 259 



Tussock Grass 260 



Fine Sheep 261 



Farmers, Read! 261 



The Plough 262 



A Word about Gardening 262 



Plans of a Beginner 263 



Irrigation 264 



The Curculio and Codling Moth 265 



To Preserve Eggs Fresh .* 267 



Resuscitation of Worn Out Lands 267 



The New Census Law 269 



Virtues of Milk 269 



Drilling in Wheat 269 



Gapes in Chickens 270 



Fencing and Ditching 270 



The First Newspaper i*71 



A Permanent Pasture 272 



Corn and Potatoes 272 



Radical Cure for Corns 273 



Machine Bands 273 



Milk Cellars 273 



Thinning Fruit 273 



Cut-Worms 274 



Common Schools in Different States 274 



Experiments in the Culture of Buckwheat. 275 



Ratsbane, a Settler for the Million 276 



Cotton Crops 276 



Two Blades of Grass, &c 277 



To Country Gentlemen 278 



My Daily Journal 5J78 



Smart Weed 279 



Subsoiling 279 



The Wheat Crop 280 



The Shepherd's Dog 280 



Spaying Sows 281 



Mixed Crops 282 



Electro-Magnetism and Motive Power. . .282 



Multicole, or Poland Rye 284 



Crops in Virginia 284 



Horticultural Remarks for September 285 



University of Virginia 285 



Tobacco Dust 285 



Strawberries 286 



Pulling Fodder 286 



Guano — Amount Used 286 



Whiteness in Flour 287 



Richmond and Fredericksburg Depot 287 



PERUVIAN GUANO. 



I AM NOW "prepared to receive orders 

 for Guano for the approaching season. — 

 Being anxious to distribute the article as 

 widely as possible over the whole country, 

 will sell any quantity, from a single bag up to 

 one hundred tons. Persons wishing to make 

 sure of a supply, would do well to forward 

 their orders without delay. The article is put 

 up in fine order, in new cotton bags, and as 

 pure as it came from the banks in Peru. 

 jy-2t HUGH W. FRY. 



