SOUTHERN PLANTER.— ADVERTISING SHEET. 



CON"TEN"TS. 



Agriculture and Commerce, - 513 



The State of New York Regarded in the 



Light of an Experimental Farm, - 514 

 Pasture Lands, - - - 515 

 Back Galls on Horses, - - 516 

 Coffee, - - - 517 

 Suckers Among Corn — Query, - 518 

 Prizing Tobacco, - - 519 

 Green Crops for Manure, - - 520 

 Capped Hocks, - - - 520 

 A First-Rate Whitewash, - - 521 

 Rainy Days' Employment, - - 522 

 Do Potatoes Mix in the Hill ? - 522 

 Preserving Fence Posts — Striped Bugs, - 523 

 Cotton Cultivation in Africa, - 524 

 Wonders of Boiling Water, - - 524 

 Grape Vine and its Culture, - * 526 

 A Chapter on Strawberries, - - 527 

 Progress of English Agriculture, - 530 

 feugar— -l^heory of High PHces, - 536 

 Vegetable Physiology, - - 538 

 Something of Plants, and How they Live, 547 

 The Lives of Eminent Men, - - 554 

 Early Ripening Wheat, - - 555 

 Facts About Milk, - - 556 

 Overseer's Rules, - - 657 

 The Farmer, - - - 558 

 Exports of Wheat to England^ * 558 

 A Paper on Swine^ - - 559 

 The Life of a Farmer-^Healthful, Pleas- 

 ant, Profitable and Honorable, - 560 

 Differences in Soils, - - 561 

 Common Errors of Farmers, * - 562 

 Charcoal for Firing Tobacco, - 565 

 .Experiments in Pulling Fodder and Cut- 

 ting Tups. — Explanatory, - - 567 

 Value of Agricultural Papers, - 568 

 Information Wanted, &c., &c. - 568 

 To Postmasters and Others, &c., - 568 

 The Impropriety of Breaking Roots of 



Growing Crops, - - 569 



Tobacco Exchange, - - 570 



A Few Words to Young Farmers, - 573 



The Soil, - - - 575 



Boiling Potfitoes, - - 5t6 



To Preserve Dried Fruit from Moths, - 576 



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GUANO. GUANO. 



Having secured our supplies of Guano, we .•♦re now 

 prepared to furnish FARMERS. PLANTERS, COM- 

 MISSION MERCHANTS and DEALERS with all 

 the various descriptidns of known value and estab- 

 lished reputation ; we name 



A No. 1 PERUVIAN GUANO, 



Of the very last direct iiriportntion into this market, 

 and delivered from the agents' warehouse, containing 

 the very large and unusual per ceniage of 16.65 Am- 

 monia and 29.50 of Phof^phate of Lime, being the car- 

 go of the ship VOLAN r. 



CALIFORNIA [or Elide Island) GUANO, 

 Of direct importation, and now landing from ship 

 "EMPRESS OF THE SEAS," containing 10 per 

 ct. of Ammonia and 25 per ct. of Phosphate of Lime- 



A A BRO WN MEXICAN GUANO, 



Very superior and dry, contuiniug 01 per centum of 

 Phosphate of Lime; the best cargo in the market. 



A A NAVASSA GUANO, 



containing 70 per cent, of Phosphate of Lime, put up 

 in bags. Also, 



BE BURG'S GENUINE SUPER-PHOS- 

 PHATE 



received direct from the agents C. M. Stewart, Esq. 



All of the above are inspected and weiglied by the 

 State Inspector, and branded by him. 



For sale at very lowest f)rices in any <inantities. 

 E^P' A liberal deduction made to Couunission Mer- 

 chants and Clubs purch.isinir lartie (ju.iiilips. 



P. MAl.(^OM <fe CO., 

 Warehouse, Wood si., Bovvly's VVhurf, 

 September 18.^8— l>t ' Riihimore. 



FRUIT TREES k SHRUBBERY, 



SOUTHEIIN GREESWOOD MJllSElfy. 



Having on hand a choice variety of FRUIT TREES 

 of my own raising nnd grafting, sufficiently large fof 

 transplanting. 1 respectfully cull the attention of the 

 public to them. 



My NuRSEBY is located one and a half miles north- 

 east from the Old Market, where I will take pleJtsure 

 in showing them. 



All orders addressfed to, or left at my agents, Messrs. 

 Van Lew, Taylor & Co.. No. 19 JMain St., Richriibnd, 

 V.«i., or juvself, will tii?-et with prompt attention. 



Sept 18oS-if LEWIS TUDOH. 



