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SOUTHERN PLANTER.— ADVERTISING SHEET. 



Nqtqlfe on the Cane-brake Lands— -or the 

 etaceous Calcareous Region of Ala- 

 ama. By Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia, . 

 eteorological Inquiries Answered, 

 ^.ture the best Economist, . 

 Fertilizers. By Hon, Thomas G. Clem- 

 son, LL. D.. 

 Cattle Distemper-— The Pleuro-Piienmonia 

 Exudative, 



CharcoaJ as a Manure, . . . 



Measuring Land, .... 

 An Address on the Opposite Results of Ex- 

 hausting and Fertilizing Systems of Ag- 

 riculture. By Edmund Ruffin. Esq., 

 Remarks on Liebig's "Letters on Modern 

 Agriculture," &c. By Robert Peter, M. D., 

 John Walton's Farm, 

 Sheep-Shearing in Pennsylvania, 

 A Wife's Influence on her Husband's For- 

 tune, 

 The Steam Press, 

 Grape Culture, 



Drilled and Broadcast Seeding Compared, . 

 Meteorology, ..... 

 The best Time for Closing the Agricultu- 

 ral Year, ..... 

 Manipulated Guano, 



Commercial, Agricultural, and Intellectual 



Independence of Virginia, 

 The United Fair of the Virginia State and 



Central Virginia Agricultural Societies, . 

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ALEXANDER GARRETT, 



Oary Street, second door toelow 13th strf 

 Adjoining^ the Old Columhiaii Hotel, 



RICHMOND, VA., 



GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHA.^T, 



AND DEALER IN 



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PERUVIAN, ELIDE ISLAND. AND EUEEIN'S PHOS- 

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 1 have made arrangements with Mr. Jno. M.Shep- 

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 Tobacco in this city, to attend to the sale of all 

 tobacco consigned to me. July 59— ly 



