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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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Sales of Fine Stock. 



We are informed that Gen. J. S. Goe, of 

 Brownsburg, Pennsylvania, has sold to Col. 

 Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Georgia, one fine 

 brood mare by Bush Messenger, with foal by 

 Climax, another with foal by Messenger, also 

 six other mares" served by Bush Messenger, and 

 eighty Spanish Merino Ewes. 



We but recently published the opinion of a 

 highly respectable committee of the vicinage, in 

 attestation of the superiority of Gen. G.'s cattle, 

 sheep and horses, which superiority is strongly 

 corroborated by the fact that Col. Peters has 

 been induced to purchase so freely of him. Mr. 

 Ellis J. Faison, of Duplen county, N. C, has 

 also bought of the General a fine Messenger and 

 Morgan entire colt. Success attend these enter- 

 prising purchasers and all stock raisers of 

 character and integrity. 



Mr. Guest's Nursery. 



) We have received from Mr. James Guest, 

 (who has a large nursery, of choice fruit trees of 

 every variety, near the Second Toll Gate on the 

 " Westham road" above this city,) his Catalogue 

 of Trees, now ready for delivery to his custom- 

 ers. 



Along with the list of names of his trees, he 

 * sent us some delightful Pears, the product of his 

 dwarf trees. The Pears were of fine size and 

 appearance, and of most delicious flavor. 



Fleming & Nelson's Nursery of choice Fruit 

 Trees and Ornamental Shurbbery, near Augusta, 

 Ga. Catalogue received. 



Carew Sanders & Co., of "The St'. Louis Nur- 

 sery," St. Louis, Mo., have sent us their Cata- 

 logue of Trees, Fruits and Shurbs, — which we 

 find admirably gotten up — containing directions 

 for planting, pruning, &c. Mr. Sanders is well 

 known to the agricultural reading public, as a 

 frequent contributor to various journals on hor- 

 ticultural topics. 



Avarice and ambition are the two elements 

 that enter into the composition of all crimes. 

 Ambition is boundless, and avarice is insati- 

 able. 



When men's thoughts are taken up with 

 avarice and ambition, they cannot look upon 

 any thing as great or valuable, which does not 

 bring with it an extraordinary power or in- 

 terest to the person who is concerned in it. — 

 Anon. 



From Plain Talk to Farmers. 



Portrait of an Anti-Book-Fanner. 



Whenever our anti-book-farmers can show 

 us better crops at a less expense, better 

 flocks, and better farms, and better owners 

 on them, than book-farmers can, we shall 

 become converts to their doctrines. But, 

 as yet, we cannot see how intelligence in a 

 farmer should injure his crops. Nor what 

 difference it makes whether a farmer gets 

 his ideas from a sheet of paper, or from a 

 neighbour's mouth, or from his own ex- 

 perience, so that he only gets good, practi- 

 cal sound ideas. A farmer never objects to 

 receive political information from newspa- 

 pers ; he is quite willing to learn the state 

 of markets from newspapers, and as wil- 

 ling to gain religious notions from reading, 

 and historical knowledge, and all sorts of 

 information except that which relates to his 

 business. He will go over and hear a 

 neighbour tell how he prepares his wheat- 

 lands, how he selects and puts in his seed, 

 how he deals with his grounds in spring, in 

 harvest and after harvest-time ; but if that 

 neighbour should write it all down carefully 

 and put it into paper, it's all poison ! it's 

 booh- farming I 



"Strange such a difference there should be 

 'Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee." 



If we raise a head of lettuce surpassing 

 all that has been seen hereabouts, every 

 good farmer that loves a salad would send 

 for a little seed, and ask, as he took it, 

 " How do you contrive to raise such mon- 

 strous heads ? you must have some secret 

 about it." But if my way were written 

 down and printed, he would not touch it. 

 " Poh, it's bookish !" 



Now let us inquire in what States land is 

 the best managed, yields the most with the 

 least cost, where are the best sheep, the best 

 cattle, the best hogs, the best wheat? It 

 will be found to be in those States having 

 the most agricultural papers. 



What is there in agriculture that requires 

 a man to be ignorant if he will be skillful ? 

 Or why may every other class of men learn 

 by reading except the farmer ? Mechanics 

 have their journals ; commercial men have 

 their papers; religious men, theirs; politi- 

 cians, theirs; there are magazines and jour- 

 nals for the arts, for science, for education, 

 and why not for tha t grand pursuit on which 

 all these stand? We really could never 

 understand why farmers should not wish 



