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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



CONTENTS OF HUMBER X. 



PAGE 



Minutes of Agricultural Facts and Observations 289 



Prolits of Sugar Culture 291 



The Shanghai Fowls 292 



Report on Mr. John Marrhall's Farm 292 



The Price of Wheat at Albany for sixty-one years • • • • 293 



Super Phosphate of Lime 294 



Some Words about|Mules 297 



The Mode of Using Guano 298 



Liberality of Richmond to the Agricultural Society - • • • 300 



Analyses of Soils 301 



Lime — Its Action, &c. 302 



The State Fair 305 



The Agricultural Pairs of Virginia • • • • 30G 



Entries for the State Fair 306 



Plan of the Fair Grounds 306 



The tv/o Mr. Rulfms 307 



An Additional Premium 307 



Plan for an Ice-House 308 



Experiments in Butter-Making 308 



Properties of Charcoal • 309 



Seed Wheat and its Preparation 309 



READ, CONSIDER AND ACT WISELY. 



IMPORTANT TO FARMERS! 

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

 Sower — de berry best ting in de 

 world to sow de clober and de 

 laster, de go- 

 i de wheat. I 

 sows 25 acres in one 

 ly massa — try 



MEDICAL TESTIMONY CANNOT BE CONTRO- 

 VERTED. 



|!^° One of the most startling cases is narrated of Dr. 

 McLane's Vermifuge by Dr. John Butler, of Lowell, Trum- 

 bull county, Ohio. The case was that of a young lady who 

 had been very sick for eight years, and had consulted a 

 number of physicians, who had treated it as one of Pro- 

 lapsus Uteri. Dr. Butler was then called in, and for a time 

 believed with his predecessors that it was, however, soon 

 forced to the conclusion that his patient was suffering from 

 worms, and after much persuasion, prevailed upon her to 

 take two doses of Dr. McLane's Vermifuge. This medi- 

 cine had the effect of removing from her a countless number 

 of the largest size. After she passed them, her health im- 

 mediately returned. She is since married, and continues 

 to enjoy excellent health. 



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 United States and 

 Canada. 



DR. McLANE'S LIVER PILLS. 

 l^-^'TIiis great medicine has supplanted all others for 

 the cure of diseases of the Liver. Its effects are so salutary 

 and speedy, and at the same time so perfectly safe, that it 

 is not surprising it should surpersede all others. Invented 

 by a very distinguished physician of Virginia, who practiced 

 in a region of country in which Hepatis, or Liver Complaint, 

 is peculiarly formidable and common, and who had spent 

 years in discovering the ingredients and proportioning their 

 quantities, these Pills are peculiarly adapted to every form. 

 of the disease, and never fail to alleviate the most obstinate 

 cases of that terrible complaint. They have justly become 

 celebrated; and the researches of Dr. McLane have placed 

 his name among the benefactors of mankind. No one hav- 

 ing symptoms of this formidable complaint, should be with- 

 out these invaluable Pills. Have you .a pain in the right 

 side, under the edge of the ribs, which increases with pres- 

 sure — unable to lie with ease on the left side — with occa- 

 sional, sometimes constant, pain imder the shoulder-blade, 

 frequently extending to the top of the shoulder'? Rely upon 

 it that although the latter pains are sometimes taken for 

 rheumatic, they all arise from disease of the Liver; and if 

 you would have relief, go instantly and buy a box of Dr. 

 McLane's Liver Pills. 



f^^^^ 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. 



octlt Corner Main and 14th street, Richmond. 



It is only by the use of valuable improvements that we 

 can reasonably expect to keep up with the ag§ in which 

 we live, and public opinion everywhere has |»laced M. D. 

 Wells' 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 Avith 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'g inte- 

 rest on an acre of land at $385, 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 Pair, ,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. 



MERINO 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 Bui^ks 

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

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

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

 pose selling are the product of ewes purchased of him wh<?n 

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

 best in his flock. I have his lettei-s, saying that he was 

 otTered 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 

 hmited 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'CONNEI^Ii & BURTON, 



DENTISTS, 

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



JOHN m'cONNELL. W. LEIGH BURTON. 



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