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THE SOUTIIEllN PLANTER. 



scription list of your Planter, and for ilie Jove 

 of loell-doing increase it five-fold ! ! You will 

 feel all the better for it ! 



We heard of a wealthy gentleman who was 

 bewailing to a friend, the determination of a 

 very talented son-in-law, (of -whom he was 

 justly proud,) to remove to a distant part of 

 the country for the purpose of bettering his 

 pecuniary fortune. " He is right to go away, ^' 

 answered his friend. " He has been v^^aiting on 

 you for years, and you have done nothing to- 

 wards meeting his just expectations. He is of 

 course right, in determining to leave you. But, 

 if you wish to intercept his purpose, provide 

 for him according to your ability and his mer- 

 it?, and my life upon it he will not leave you." 

 It was done. The removal was arrested. In 

 a short time afterwards, the father-in-law ac- 

 knowledged to his friend that he had found the 

 greatest satisfaction in following his advice. 

 "Would you double your satisfaction?'^ re- 

 joined his friend. "Then just double your 

 benefaction I" But to the address. 



" TO THE PLANTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



"At the instance of numerous Agricultur- 

 ists of the State, the undersigned was induced 

 to commence the publication of the North 

 Carolina Planter, a copy of which you have 

 before you. On the 1st of January last, the 

 first number was issued, and it has continued 

 to make its appearance regularly, the first of 

 each month, since that time. 



" Both the other Agricultural Periodicals — 

 ' The Arator,' and the ' Carolina Cultivator' — 

 had been discontinued ; and it wajr deemed 

 highly important to the great Agricultural in- 

 terests of the State, that a Jwme organ should 

 exist in North Carolina. Notwithstanding the 

 failure of every other enterprise of the kind, 

 we determined to try the experiment, and see 

 if North Carolina Planters would support one 

 journal, devoted especially and exclusively to 

 their interests. 



" We secured the services of highly compe- 

 tent gentlemen to take charge of the Horticul- 

 tural, Pomological and Botanical department of 

 the Planter, — and have been fortnnate in secur- 

 ing contributions from several intelligent, prac- 

 tical Farmers in furnishing editorial and com- 

 municated articles upon the general subject of 

 Agriculture; and have enlisted the aid of out- 

 able and scientific State Geologist, Prof. E. 

 Emmons, in advancing the enterprise by valu- 

 ab'e contributions from his pen. We have pub- 

 lished a much neater and more tastily gotten up 

 Periodical than an}^ of its predecessors; and yet 

 after all these efforts to get up a first-class North 

 Carolina Agricultural periodical, at the low 

 price of one dollar per annum, we find, at near 



ly the close of the year, less than a thousand 

 subscribers' names on our books. 



" We lay these facts before those interested 

 in the continuance of our publication, and will 

 simply add, if they desire its continuance, the 

 number of subscribers must be greatly increas- 

 ed. We ought to have five thousand subscri- 

 bers ; but if we can get two thousand to begin the 

 next year with, it will be at least a guaranty that 

 it will be sustained, and will justify us in making 

 the improvements we desire for the ensuing year. 



" It remains now to be seen whether the 

 Farmers and others in the State, interested in 

 its continuance, will give us their aid in in- 

 creasing its circulation. The times for holding 

 our State and County Fairs is near at hand. 

 It will be inpossible for us to attend all of them, 

 but if a few friends, at each of them, will ex- 

 ert themselves a little, our list can be increased 

 hundreds, and perhaps thousands. Some will 

 help us, we trust, freely, from a sincere desire 

 to promote the Agricultural interests of the 

 State in which they live, and in which they are 

 so interestedly identified ; and we are willing 

 to allow a liberal per centage to others who 

 will energetically press the claims of the Plan- 

 ter. We have no doubt an industrious man 

 can make several dollars per day at these 

 Fairs, by soliciting subscribers for the N. C. 

 Planter. We offer twenty per cent, on all sub- 

 scription money sent us, and hope to have 

 several Agents operating for us, at each and 

 all the Fairs in the State. 



"A. M. GOR MAN." 



Milch Cows and Dairy Farming. 



The reader's attention is invited to the 'ad- 

 vertisement of a new work on the above sub- 

 ject, by C. L. Flint, Secretary of the Massa- 

 chusetts Board of Agriculture, and published 

 by J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, and 

 A. 0. Moore, New York. 1858. 



The book is a 12 mo of 416 pp., fully and 

 liberally illustrated, and comprises the breeds 

 of stock, and especially the dairy breeds, the 

 principles of breeding, the selection of milch 

 cows, with a full and complete explanation of 

 Guenou's Method, the feeding and management 

 of dairy stock, the raising of calves, the cul- 

 ture of grass and forage plants, a treatise on 

 the dairy husbandry of Holland, (where this 

 branch is made a specialty and is carried to 

 great perfection,) Horsfall's dairy management 



in England, &c., &c. 



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Our Own Paper. 

 We have witnessed with deep sensibility the 

 kindness of our brethren of the press in their too 

 flattering notices of the Southern Planter since 

 our accession to the Editorial chair. 



