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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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cation, for the use of Teachers, Schools and 

 Families. R. Curry, A. M., editor, Pittsburg, 

 pp. 32. Price, per annum. 



Premium List of the First Ajjnual Faib of 

 THE Cotton Planters' Convention op the State 

 OP Georgia, to be hehl for three weeks in the 

 city of Macon, beginning on the Isl Monday in 

 December, 1S60. Will embrace the Foreign 

 Departnietit and Manufactures of the Southern 

 States, Fine Arts, Ac. 



Organization op the Cotton Power, contain- 

 ing a communication from the Presicient, Mr. 

 Secretary Cobb, to which weshnll probably pay 

 our respects in a future number. 



Transactions op the State ArtRicuLTCRAL So- 

 ciety of South Carolina. Compiled by R. J. 

 Cage, Secretary of the Society. 



Tliis volume opens with a strong and vigor- 

 ous sfieech by Col. A. P. Calhonn, President, 

 nnd son of the late Hon. J. C. Calhoun. As 

 might be expected, his loyalty io the South, afid 

 ardent devotion to Southern rights and Southern 

 interests, are vital principles, which inform eve- 

 j-y line of it, as with living energy. We should 

 like to make copious extracts from it, did space 

 allow, but must defer doing so to a future num- 

 ber. 



CATALOGUES. 



The University of Virginia, 185 9-'60. 

 Piedmont Female Academy, Albemarle. 

 Mr. Lefebvre's School, Grace Street, Rich- 

 mond. 



Old Dominion Institute, Richmond. 

 Bloomfteld Academy, Albemarle. 



The Virginia Farm Journal. 



The subscribers to the Virginia Farm Journal 

 who have paid in advance for the current year 

 will be furnished with a copy of the Sf)uthern 

 Planter until the close of their subscription. 

 The paper will also be sent to those subscribers 

 who are in arrear for the present year, with 

 bills for the amount due, which, if promptly 

 paid, will entitle the subscriber, to the Planter 

 for the balance of the year. If not promp-tly 

 paid, we shall cease to send them the paper. 



Mediterranean Wheat. 



We are indebted to Mr. Johnston for a sample 

 of his Mediterranean Wheat, of which we spoke 

 in our last. We will take pleasure in exhibit- 

 ing it to ciny one who may desire to make an 

 experiment in this hardy variety, now that we 



are threatened with the joint-worm among us, 

 if we may judge from the rate of progress it is 

 making hitherward in its regular descent from 

 Piedmont. We learn that the proprietor of San* 

 dy Point, on lower James River, has determined 

 to keep the whole produce of seven bushels 

 sov/n last year for early resowing this year, hav- 

 ing found it more productive than any other va* 

 riety cultivated by him. It is proper we should 

 remark, that though brighter than most varieties 

 of red wheat, it is not likely to be in as 

 high favor with the miller as some other varie. 

 ties, by reason of the greater thickness of the 

 bran, and consequent lighter yield in flour. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



We have received from the Agricultural Book 

 House of C. M. Saxton, Barker & Co., Publisliers 

 of works on Agriculture, Horticulture, Rural 

 Art, Domestic Economy, etc., and recommend 

 to our readers The Young Farmer's Manual ; 

 AND Farmer's Workshop. Price $1 25. One 

 Volume r2mo., 450 pages. Containing two 

 hundred Illustrations. By S. Edwards Todd. 



This book, which supplies a deeply felt want 

 of every young farmer at the commencement of 

 the business of practical agriculture, details in 

 plain and intelligible language the routine of 

 farm labours, and prescribes with simplicity 

 and clearness the best practical and economical 

 methotls of laying-out a Farm, and erecting 

 Buildings, Fences, and Farm Gates, and also 

 full directions for the selection of good farm 

 and shop Tools, their use and manufacture, 

 with numerous original illustrations of Fences, 

 Gates, Tools, &c., and for performing nearly 

 every branch of farming operations. 



The reader will perceive from the scope of 

 this book, that it is adapted to meet his almost 

 every necessity in conducting his farming ope- 

 rations, accompanied with the important ad- 

 vantage, that instead of mere theory, he is fur- 

 nished by it with the matured fruits of the ex- 

 jperience and observation of an eminent practi- 

 cal farmer as well as able and perspicuous ag- 

 ricultural writer. As evidence of the high 

 estimation in which Mr. Todd is held as a 

 writer, by the most competent judges, we men- 

 tion the fact that the New York State Agricul- 

 tural Society paid him $75 for the privilege 

 of publishing the chapter on " Fences," in a 

 volume of their transactions, and that Col. B. P. 

 Johnson, the aicomplislied Secretary of the 



