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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER/ 



CONTENTS OF NUMBER V. 



PAGE 



Essay on Improving and Enriching Poor Land 129 



Essays on Agriculture, No. 1 135 



Digested or Undigested Straw 136 



Management of Small Gardens 137" 



The Game Fowl 138 



Culture and Management of Tobacco in Connecticut" 139 



To Make Good Starch 140 



Important Improvement in the Manufacture of Flour" 141 



Squashes and Pumpkins 142 



Chickens 143 



The Morgan Hunter, with a Cut 144 



The Currycomb 144 



Necessity of Good Stock to Virginia Farmers, and How 



they may Get it 145 



Award of Planter Premiums 147 



Oats and Late Corn for Hogs 147 



Derby's Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine - 147 

 Report of Gen. William H. Richardson to the Virginia 



State Agricultural Society 148 



A Treatise on the Culture of Corn 150 



Drying House for Fruit 151 



Sowing Corn for Fodder 152 



Water Fence 153 



To Grow a Beautiful Arbor •••■>-* # 153 



DR. M'LANE'S VERMIFUGE. 



|!|p ? * During a practice of more than twenty years, Dr. 

 M'Lane had attended innumerable patients afflicted with 

 every form of worm disease, and was induced to apply all 

 the energies of his mind to the discovery of a vermifuge, 

 or worm destroyer, certain in its effects ; the result of his 

 labors is the American Worm Specific, now before the public, 

 which is perfectly safe, and may be given alike to children 

 of the most tender age, or to the aged adult; it purges 

 mildly and subdues fever, and destroys worms with inva- 

 riable success. It is easy of administration, and as it does 

 not contain mercury in any form whatever, no restrictions 

 are necessary with regard to drinking cold water, nor is it 

 capable of doing the least injury to the tenderest infant. 

 An incredible number of worms have been expelled by this 

 great vermifuge. 



Purchasers will please be careful to ask for Dr. M'Lane's 

 Celebrated Vermifuge, and take none else. All other ver- 

 mifuges, in comparison, are worthless. Dr. M'Lane's ge- 

 nuine Vermifuge, also his Celebrated Liver Pills, can now 

 be had at all respectable drug stores in the United States 

 and Canada. 



The Great Restorative. — Fever and Ague Cured 

 by Dr. M'Lane's Liver Pills. — Mr. Jonathan Hougham 

 of West Union, Park county, Illinois, writes to the proprie- 

 tors that he had suffered greatly from a severe and pro- 

 tracted attack of fever and ague, and was completely re- 

 stored to health by the use of the Liver Pills alone. These 

 pills unquestionably possess great tonic properties, and can 

 be taken with decided advantage for many diseases requiring 

 invigorating remedies; but the Liver Pills stand pre-eminent 

 as a means of restoring a disorganized liver to healthy 

 action ; hence the great celebrity they have attained. The 

 numerous formidable diseases arising from a diseased liver, 

 which so long baffled the skill of the most eminent physi- 

 cians of the United States, are now rendered easy of cure, 

 thanks to the study and perseverance of the distinguished 

 physician whose name this great medicine bears — a name 

 which will descend to posterity as one deserving of grati- 

 tude. This invaluable medicine should always be kept 

 within reach; and on the appearance of the earliest symp- 

 toms of diseased liver, it can be safely and usefully admi- 

 nistered. 



$^eT Purchasers will please be careful to ask for Dr. 

 M'Lane's Celebrated Liver Pills, and take none else. There 

 are other pills, purporting to be liver pills, now before the 

 public. Dr. M'Lane's Liver Pills, also his Celebrated Ver- 

 mifuge, can now be had at all respectable drug stores in the 

 United States and Canada. 



For sale by PURCELL, LADD & CO. 



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



GREAT PREMIUM FAN, patented December 20, 1853. 

 Montgomery's Celebrated Double Screen Rockaway 

 Wheat Fan, has, during the past year, been proved to be 

 the best- Fan ever offered in the Middle States, having taken 

 premiums over all that have been offered to the public from 

 every quarter of the United States. It took the first pre- 

 mium at the Maryland State Agricultural Society's Exhibi- 

 tion, in October last, where all the most celebrated Fans 

 were in competition. 



The first premium at the Virginia State Agricultural So- 

 ciety's Exhibition, in November last. 



The Maryland Institute awarded silver medals to it at its 

 Exhibitions in 1852 and 1853, as superior to all others on 

 exhibition. 



The first premium was awarded at the Talbot County 

 (Maryland) Show, in 1852; and 



The first premium at the Prince George's County (Mary- 

 land) Exhibition, in 1853, by the special vote of the Society, 

 in consequence of its superiority and value, it being con- 

 trary to their standing rules to award premiums to articles 

 made out of the county. 



We annex the following certificate from a respectable far- 

 mer of St. Mary's county, and any number of others could 

 be published if necessary, all tending to show the decided 

 superiority of this Fan over any others that have ever been 

 introduced in the Middle States — and as the manufacturers 

 devote their whole attention to this one article, and rely for 

 its continued success upon the faithfulness of its make, as 

 well as the superiority of its principles of construction, far- 



mers and others may rely on having their Fans made of 

 the best materials and workmanship. 



St. Geramers, St. Mary's Co., Md., Oct. 6, 1853. 

 This is to certify, that I have tried Messrs. J. Montgo- 

 mery & Brother's Wheat Fan in some tailings I made in 

 cleaning a part of* my crop, which I did not think could be 

 made worth anything ; it extracted from a bushel and a 

 half of filth about three pecks of pure wheat. I must say 

 that I never saw a Fan»that can even come in competition 

 with J. Montgomery & Brother's Rockaway Wheat Fan, 

 for screening wheat. Benjamin M'Kay. 



REFERENCES. 



City of Baltimore: John S. Williams, foot of Commerce 

 street; Messrs. Seth & Godwin, No. 4 Bowly's wharf; E. 



B. Harris, No. 4 Bowly's wharf; Michael Dorsey, Light 

 street; Thos. J. Hall, Light street; N. E. Berry, Lombard 

 street, near Charles; R. D. Burns, foot of Bowly's wharf; 

 Mr. Wilmer, No. 2 Bowly's wharf — all commission mer- 

 chants. 



Virginia references: Hon. William S. Archer, Virginia; 

 Gen. B. Peyton, Virginia; Hill Carter, Virginia; Lewis G. 

 Harvey, Virginia; Rowlett Hardy & Co., Petersburg; A. 



C. Lane, Richmond; Robert Cole, Richmond, Virginia; M. 

 Heartwall, D. I. Payner, James B. Lundy, J. Ravenscroft 

 Jones, Geo. W. Field, Col. Isham Trotter, John Winbeiks, 

 Wm. Towns, Jas. Hays, Sr., Dr. Wm. W. Oliver, Samuel F. 

 M'Gehee, William M. Watkins, William I. Scott. 



We are prepared to sell State or County rights to those 

 who wish to manufacture our Fan. 



All orders addressed to the undersigned at the Baltimore 

 City (Md.) Post Office, will be promptly attended to. 



J. MONTGOMERY & BRO. 

 No. 155 N. High st., between Hillen and Gay streets, 

 may — ly Baltimore. 



SUFFOLK PIGS. — The subscribers are prepared to re- 

 ceive orders for pure Suffolk Pigs, bred from stock im- 

 ported by the late William Stickney in 1848, and by the 

 subscribers in January; also an importation of twelve in 

 October, 1853. Address 



JOSIAH STICKNEY, Watertown, 

 Or, ISAAC STICKNEY, Boston, Mass. 



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IMPROVED SUPER PHOSPHATE OF LIME— The 

 subscriber is manufacturing the above at his Bone Mill, 

 a short distance from the city, of the best and purest kind. 

 Farmers are requested to examine his before purchasing 

 elsewhere; the quality will speak for itself, and his price is 

 the same as that manufactured out of the State. 



may— tf R. R. DUVAL. ' 



