THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



381 



CONTENTS OF NUMBER XII. 



PAGE 



Address of Wm. Ballard Preston before the Virginia 

 State Agricultural Society at its Second Annual Ex- 

 hibition 353 



Bread 362 



Smut in Wheat 303 



Experiments in Using Lime and Salt, and the Relative 



Value of Peruvian Guano and Kettlewell's Salts - •• -3G3 

 Abram Renick and his Short-Horns. — The Springfield 

 (Ohio) Cattle Show. — Weights of the Short-Horns- • 364 



Col. Josiah William Ware, again 367 



Journal of Transactions of the Virginia State Agricul- 

 tural Society 369 



The Best System of Management 370 



Five-Field Rotation 372 



Saddle Galls 372 



Report of the Executive Committee of the Virginia State 

 Agricultural Society 372 



READ, CONSIDER AND ACT WISELY. 



IMPORTANT TO FARMERS! 

 What is that , _^ Ah ! Massa, dis de Wells' Seed 



you have got 

 there boy, and /| 



Sower — de berry best ting in cle 

 world to sow de clober and de 



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^€Ml§lrO^ IIS?) sows 25 acres in one 

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A GOOD COMPARISON. 



XW The Rev - William Roulatt, a well known Methodist 

 clergyman, residing at Naples, draws the following amus- 

 ing but apt comparison between Dr. McLane's celebrated 

 Vermifuge and a ferret: 



"A ferret, when placed at the entrance of a rat-hole, en- 

 ters the aperture, travels along the passage, seizes upon the 

 rat, exterminates his existence, and draws the animal's de- 

 funct carcass to the light. And in like manner have I found 

 Dr. McLane's American Vermifuge to operate upon worms, 

 those dreadful and dangerous tormentors of children. This 

 remedy, like the ferret, enters the aperture of the mouth, 

 travels down the gullet, hunts round the stomach, lays hold 

 of the worms, shakes the life out of the reptiles, sweeps 

 clean their den, and carries their carcasses clear out of the 

 system. This, at least, has been the effect of the Vermi- 

 fuge upon my children." 



A neighbor of Mr. Roulatt, Mr. John Briggs, adopts the 

 simile of the reverend certifier, thus both giving their most 

 unequivocal approval of this great specific, after having 

 witnessed its operation upon their own children. Let others 

 try it, and be satisfied. 



tj^* Purchasers will be careful to ask for "Dr. McLane's 

 Celebrated Vermifuge," and take none else. All other ver- 

 mifuges, in comparison, are worthless. Dr. McLane's genu- 

 ine Vermifuge, also his celebrated Liver Pills, can now be 

 had at all respectable Drug Stores in the U g_d States and 

 Canada. 



A GREAT BLESSING TO THE AFFLICTED. 

 §3§P Dr. McLane, the inventor of the celebrated Liver 

 Pills, used these pills for several years in his practice, be- 

 fore he could be induced to offer them to the public in such 

 a manner as to make them known throughout tbe country. 

 This learned physician felt the same repugnance that all 

 high-minded men of science feel in entering the lists against 

 those unscrupulous empirics who obtrude their useless nos- 

 trums upon the public, and rely upon a system of puffing 

 to sustain them. Convinced, however, of the real value of 

 the Liver Pills, and influenced by the plain dictates of duty, 

 the Doctor finally sacrificed his delicate feelings on the altar 

 of public good. His great medicine has not disappointed 

 the expectations of the medical practitioners, at whose in- 

 stance he was induced to forego his inclinations. From 

 every quarter do we hear the most gratifying accounts of 

 its wonderful curative effects — the East and the West, the 

 North and the South, are alike laden with "tidings of great 

 joy" from the afflicted. These wonderful Pills have com 

 pletely conquered that great scourge of America, the Liver 

 Gom plaint. 



[jW Purchasers will be careful to ask for Dr. McLane's 

 Celebrated Liver Pills, and take none else. There are other 

 Pills, purporting to be Liver Pills, now before the public 

 Dr. McLane's Liver Pills, also his Celebrated Vermifuge 

 can now be had at all respectable Drug Stores in the United 

 States and Canada. 



For sale by PURCELL, LADD & CO. 



delt Corner Main and 14th streets, Richmond 



It is only by the use of valuable improvements that we 

 can reasonably expect to keep up with the age in which 

 we live, and public opinion everywhere has placed M. D. 

 W ells' Improved Patent Seed Sower in the first class of 

 agricultural implements. The above drawing exhibits it 

 in use, and any ordinary mind must at once be impressed 

 with the certain conviction that it is an indispensable im- 

 plement of husbandry, and that every good farmer should 

 have it. By its use you save time, which is money and 

 labor which costs money, and experience in using it proves 

 you will not be driven from the field unless by very rough 

 weather, and the almost mathematical precision with which 

 the seed is distributed, compared with hand sowing, renders 

 it self-evident in the opinion of the best farmers that a sav- 

 ing or gain of two dollars per acre is made in two crops of 

 grass and the succeeding crop of wheat, one year's inte- 

 rest on an acre of land at $33f , and sowing three acres 

 pays for a machine with lid at $>6. 



The first premium was recommended for this machine 

 at the late Virginia State Fair, and four of the committee 

 (all having use for it) engaged one each; and we think if 

 governed by your interest you will do likewise. 



MOTT, LEWIS & WILLSON, 

 Sole agents for Richmond — Agricultural Implement 



fe — tf Store, No. 36, Main Street. 



ERINO SHEEP.— Having increased my flock of Me- 

 ]_*•_& rino Sheep on my farm, in Orange county, to over 

 800 I am now prepared to sell a few choice yearling Bucks 

 and Ewes. To all who have any acquaintance with Col. 

 Henry S. Randall of New York, and the reputation of his 

 flock, it is only necessary to say that the yearlings I pro- 

 pose selling are the product of ewes purchased of him when 

 he sold out last year, and selected by him personally as the 

 best in his flock. I have his letters, saying that he was 

 offered the same price for his ewes by his neighbors, but 

 that in starting the growth of fine wool in Virginia it was 

 very important to have good sheep, and as he knew these 

 were superior, he preferred selling them to go there. I 

 shall sell no bucks except such as show marks of supe- 

 riority. All who want to raise their flocks to a high stand- 

 ard at once will do well to apply early, as I have but a 

 limited number for sale. Address by mail, or apply to 

 WM. G. CRENSHAW, or 

 CRENSHAW & CO., 

 June — tf North side of the Basin, Richmond, Va. 



PERUVIAN GUANO.— Having on hand, and engaged 

 to arrive, a large supply of Guano, we solicit orders. 

 All who buy of us may rely on getting it genuine, as we 

 sell none except what comes direct from the Peruvian agents. 



CRENSHAW & CO., 

 june — tf North side of the Basin, Richmond, Va. 



M'COJiNELL & BURTON, 



DENTISTS, 

 Main' Street, between 9th and 10th Streets, Richmond, Va. 



JOHN M'CONNELL. W. LEIGH BURTON. 



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