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can destroy it. By this means our farmers will, 

 not only rid themselves of one of their worst ene- 

 mies, but will greatly improve the face of their 

 country. Act promptly! 



Yours, &c. 



Charlottesv. Jeffersonian.] Ivy Creek. 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



RICHMOND, APRIL, 1855. 



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THE CLIMAX OF WHEAT REAPING 

 INVENTIONS. 



Air. J. J. Hite, of White Post, Clarke county, 

 writes us: "There is a patent now being taken 

 out by W. F. Pagett, of this county, for an autom- 

 aton binding apparatus to be combined with the 

 improved McCormick Reaper, which by the aid of 

 one, or perhaps two men, who ride on the platform 

 the machine will bind the wheat into sheaves and 

 will deposit them at intervals for shocking, probably 

 as many as six or twelve in a place.'' 



We know of one gentleman whose hands chris- 

 tened the first reaper as "the big nigger." This 

 beats that, or will if it succeeds, so far that the 

 only improvement on it must be the invention 

 of an automaton negro out and out, who can plow 

 the land and sow the wheat and take the machine 

 to the field and cut it when it is ready. 



RESCUE GRASS. 



Columrus, Ga., Dec. 13th, 1854. 



Dear Sir : — I take this method to bring to your 

 notice a foreign Winter Grass, the seed of which is 

 now acclimated, and which I sincerely desire every 

 farmer in the South to possess and cultivate. This 

 grass grows in the fall, winter and spring only ; 

 and for the grazing of stock and making nutritious 

 hay and restoring worn out fields, has no superior. 

 This grass has the following valuable qualities, 

 which four years' experience has abundantly 

 demonstrated : 



1st. It has the largest grain of any known spe- 

 cies of grass, being nearly as large as wheat. 



2nd. It will grow (on very rich ground) from 

 three to four feet high. 



3d. It is never injured by cold — no freeze hurts 



it, 



4th. It is never troubled by insects of any kind. 



5th. It is never injured or retarded in growth by 

 heavy rains, overflows or ordinary drought. 



Gth. It grows as fast as Millet or Lucern. 



7th. It is as nutritious as barley, and stock are 

 as fond of it as they are of that. 



8th. It will keep horses, mules, cattle, sheep, 

 goats, hogs and poultry fat, throughout the winter 

 and spring, from November to June. 



9th. It will then (the stock being withdrawn, 

 and the ground being rich) yield from four to six 

 tons of excellent hay per acre. 



10th. It saves com and fodder being fed aw r ay to 

 stock during the winter and spring. 



11th. It completely protects fields from washing 

 rains. 



12th. It enables farmers to have an abundance 

 of rich milk, cream and butter, with fat beef, 

 mutton, kid, pork, turkey and chicken for their 

 table. 



13th. It will (if followed with our cornfield pea) 

 give to farmers the cheapest, the simplest, the 

 surest and most paying plan to reclaim worn out 

 fields, and refertilize those not yet so, which the 

 ingenuity of man can devise. 



14th. It will sow its own seeds after the first time, 

 without expense or trouble, thereby reproducing 

 itself through its seeds on the same ground ad 

 infinitum. 



15th. It does not spread or take possession of a 

 field, so as to be difficult to get rid of. but can be 

 effectually destroyed at any stage before the seed 

 ripen and fall out, by being ploughed up, or under. 



This grass having the above enumerated proper- 

 ties will be found by all who cultivate it, far supe- 

 rior to any other species ever introduced, or which 

 can be introduced, for the climate and soil of the 

 South. I shall be prepared by July next, to fur- 

 nish seed of this valuable grass to ail who desire 

 to cultivate it. My price is $5 per peck, which is 

 as much as is necessary to begin with; it being 

 distinctly understood that in every instance where 

 the party is not satisfied (after giving it a fair trial, 

 the price shall be returned. 



Your obediant servant, 



B. V. Ivehson. 



A correspondent and subscriber requests us to 

 give our opinion of the Rescue Grass, which, as 

 many of our readers know, is a grass newly 

 introduced into this country, whence is doubtful, 

 and patronized by a Mr. Iverson of Georgia, who 

 has given it the name it bears because he asserts 



