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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



CONTENTS OF NUMBER IV. 



PAGE 



Scientific Agriculture, No. 7, by Prof. Gilham . .97 

 Facts and Testimony of Greatly Increased Pro- 

 duction from the Use of Miocene Marl on Land 



Naturally Poor, by Edmund Ruffin 100 



Application of Guano to Corn 104 



Smut in Wheat 105 



The Maine Liquor Law 105 



Report on Sunnyside Farm 105 



Morgan Horses 107 



Stuccoing Houses 107 



Agricultural Notice 108 



Saving Clover Seed — Economy in the Use of 



Agricultural Machinery 110 



Osage Orange Hedges 112 



Necessity of Good Stock to Virginia Farmers, 



and how they may get it 113 



The Commissioner of the Virginia State Agri- 

 cultural Society ♦..116 



Proceedings of the Executive Committee 116 



Plan and Constitution of a Working Agricultural 



Society 118 



Extirpating Wire Grass 119 



Atkins' Self-Raking Reaper 119 



Turkeys 120 



Nelson's Guano Attachment for Sowing Guano 



in the drill with Wheat 120 



Payments to the Southern Planter 121 



WORMS! WORMS! 



fpp^ A great many learned treatises have been written, 

 explaining the origin of, and classifying the worms generated 

 in the human system. Scarcely any topic of medical science 

 has elicited more acute observation and profound research; 

 and yet physicians are very much divided in opinion on the 

 subject. It must be admitted,, however, that, after all, a 

 mode of expelling these worms, and purifying the body 

 from their presence, is of more value than the wisest dis- 

 quisitions as to the origin. The expelling agent has at length 

 been found — Dr. M'Lane's Vermifuge is the much sought 

 after specific, and has already superseded all other worm 

 medicines, its efficacy being universally acknowledged by 

 medical practitioners. 



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. 



DISEASES OP THE LIVER.— When the celebrated 

 Dr. Rush declared that drunk enness was a disease, he 

 enunciated a truth which the experience and observation of 

 medical men is every day confirming. The many appa- 

 rently insane excesses of those who indulge in the use of 

 spirituous liquors, may be thus accounted for. The true 

 cause of conduct, which is taken for infatuation, is very 

 frequently a diseased state of the liver. No organ in the 

 human system, when deranged, produces a more frightful 

 catalogue of diseases. And if, instead of applying reme- 

 dies to the manifestations of disease, as is too often the case, 

 physicians would prescribe with a view to the original cause, 

 fewer deaths would result from diseases induced by a de- 

 ranged state of the liver. Three-fourths of the diseases 

 enumerated under the head of Consumption, have their seat 

 in a diseased liver. (See Dr. Gunn's great works.) 



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

 bi-ated 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 Vermifuge, 

 can now be had at all respectable drug stores in the United 

 States and Canada. For sale by 



PURCELL, LADD & CO. 



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



SUPERIOR SWINE AND PREMIUM POULTRY — 

 I am prepared to engage pigs by my large Byefield and 

 superior Suffolk boars, from matchless sows of the following 

 breeds: Byefield, Suffolk, Skinner, Essex, Chester, Dela- 

 ware, Cheshire and Russian — most of them of mammoth 

 size. 



The finest collection of ornamental and domestic Poultry 

 in Virginia — receiving the premium as the finest collection 

 and upon individual pairs. They consist of the following : 

 Brahma Pootra, Imperial Chinese, Colatta, Dorking, Span- 

 gled Hamburg, Seabright and African Bantams, Sumatra 

 Pheasant Game, Ablin Game, Mexican Game, Ebon Game, 

 Crested Turkey, Purple Turkey, Pure White Turkey, Bre- 

 men Geese, Hong Kong Geese, Wild Geese, Crested Black 

 and White Ducks, Java Ducks, Penguin Ducks, Rouen 

 Ducks, Aylesbury Ducks, Pure White Guinea Fowls, Ita- 

 lian Pea Fowl, Madagascar or Lopped Eared Rabbits — ears 

 22 inches long, 5 broad. 



The above are bred in separate apartments, and «an be 

 obtained at moderate prices by addressing 



JOHN G. TURPIN, 



mar — tf Clover Dale, near Petersburg, Va. 



GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES OF HATS AND 

 BOOTS.— J. H. ANTHONY'S Fashionable Hat 

 Store, Columbian Hotel Corner. The cheapest place in 

 the city of Richmond to buy hats and boots is at the above 

 store, where every article sold may be relied on as repre- 

 sented. By this means he has gained a good run of cus- 

 tom, and his customers feel satisfied. Below is a list of his 

 prices, which will be strictly adhered to: 



Best quality moleskin, - - $3 50 



Second quality moleskin, - - 3 00 



Best quality silk, , - - 2 50 



Second quality silk, ■ - - 2 00 



Fine Calfskin Sewed Boots only three dollars and fifty 

 cents. 



Also, Caps, Shoes and Umbrellas. 



J. H. Anthony has made an arrangement with one of the 

 best makers in the city of Philadelphia to supply him with 

 a handsome and substantial calfskin sewed Boot, which he 

 will sell at the unprecedented low price of three dollars and 

 fifty cents. The attention of gentlemen is respectfully soli- 

 cited, as they are the best and cheapest boots that have ever 

 been offered for sale in this city. He intends to keep but 

 the one kind, and sell them at one price. mar '54 — tf 



AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE. — The subscriber 

 continues to manufacture Agricultural Machines, viz. 

 Horse Powers, Threshers, Fan Mills, Hunt's Patent Wheat 

 Drill, Hay Rakes, Hay Presses, Straw Cutters, Corn Shell- 

 ers, Hillside and Subsoil Ploughs, Corn and Cob Crushers, 

 Cultivators, Harrows, &c, all of which will be made in the 

 best manner and the most approved patterns. My Horse 

 Power and Thresher, with self-oiling box, have been in use 

 three seasons, and uniformly pronounced the best in use. 



Machines repaired, Castings in lr. n and Brass furnished 

 at short notice. • k. BALDWIN, 



mar — 3t 148 Main Street, Richmond. 



M 



ANNY'S PATENT REAPER AND MOWER — 



This machine has been extensively tested for the last 

 two years in the Northern and Western States, and pro- 

 nounced the best in use — a premium has been awarded to 

 it at every fair at which it has been exhibited. It is desirable 

 that those who may want a Reaper, or Reaper and Mower, 

 should forward their orders earlv, to avoid disappointment. 



H. BALDWIN, 

 mar — 3t 148 Main Street, Richmond. 



IIVE STOCK AGENCY.— In compliance with repeated 

 J solicitation, the subscriber offers his services for the 

 purchase of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Poultry. His 

 long acquaintance with different breeds and breeders of 

 these animals, gives him superior facilities for procuring 

 the best. SANFORD HOWARD, 



Office of the Boston Cultivator, Boston, Mass. 

 N. B. — Some of the best Suffolk and Essex Pigs can be 

 had in this section, at $30 per pair, at two months old. 

 mar — 3t 



