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the premises of any unpleasant effluvia, and render 

 the atmosphere perfectly salubrious and healthy. 

 Soda ash of eighty per cent, free alkali is sold at 

 the soap houses at three dollars per hundred pounds, 

 and Athens lime can be bought by the barrel at 

 seventy-five cents a cask. 



Every practical chemist knows that putrid animal 

 matter can be converted into ammonia by the mix- 

 ture (in a heated state) with caustic alkali. Such 

 is the process, and such the result in this<;ase. 



In large vaults a greater quantity than twenty- 

 five pounds is required; the quantity should be 

 increased in proportion to the size of the vault. 



The use of one hundred pounds of soda ash, per 

 annum, in a vault prepared and used as directed 

 above, will prevent accumulation, and render the 

 services of a scavenger unnecessary. 



Bilge-water may be purified by the same process. 



This pre\3aration is more economical than chloride 

 of lime, is fifty times more efficacious, and one 

 thousand times more healthful. 



I have used this preparation for more than twenty 

 years, with the most complete success. 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



RICHMOND, OCTOBER, 1854. 



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THE STATE FAIR 



To be held on the 31s^ of October and the 1st, 2d and 

 Zd of November. 

 The preparations for this, the second exhibition 

 of the Society, are in active progress and will be 

 completed in time for the exhibition. 



At this early day it is impossible to say what 

 will be the relative character of the exhibition, and 

 we are not the man to attempt to make a Fair by 

 puffing and run the risk of having the consequences 

 of a failure or of broken promises visited on our 

 head. We can only say that the entries of all sorts 

 are more numerous than they were this time last 

 year, and everything seems to promise even a better 

 show of stock, implements and miscellaneous arti- 

 cles than we had before. We had apprehended 

 that the disastrous drought of the past summer, 

 which has parched and withered nearly the whole 

 Union, and seared the pastures of Virginia as never 

 before, would thin the numbers of stock of all sorts, 

 but we have just seen that the Fair in Baltimore, 

 which is closing whilst we write this hasty article, 

 "in its great feature— the number and variety of 

 cattle exhibited— is largely in advance of former 

 years, whilst in other departments a gratifying in- 

 crease of attractions is visible, showing that our 

 agriculturists are imbued with the improving spirit 

 of the age, and fully estimate the importance of 

 maintaining a generous spirit of emulation in the 

 pursuit of their calling." We cannot suppose, then, 

 that we shall do less than Maryland, whose Society, 

 except in the energy and ability of her Executive 

 Committee, is less richly endowed than ours, and 

 whose arrangements are represented to be much 

 less complete and imposing. The rail roads in all 

 quarters, except only the Virginia and Tennessee 

 Rail Road, have come, forward and agreed to carry 

 passengers to and from the Fair at half price, pro- 

 vided they exhibit evidences of membership, (which 

 means, in nine cases out of ten, provided they have 

 paid their dues for the current year,) and to carry 

 subjects of exhibition, whether stock or imple- 

 ments, on terms which cannot be objected to, that 

 is to say, to charge full freight on all things down, 

 and to refund the amount when the same article or 

 animal is sent back by the same owner— a rule 

 which protects both themselves and the Society 

 from the imposition of all those persons, if there 

 be any such, who would take advantage of the free 

 transportation on the road and the free provender 

 at the exhibition to get their animals cheaply to 

 market, and which does not hurt even them ; for if 

 they sell they can afford to pay, and if they do not, 

 they get back what they brought free of charge. 



The city of Richmond has done her part so far, 

 and no doubt in hospitality and kindness to the 

 many strangers she is prepared to receive will do 

 the balance at the proper time. The opening of a 



