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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



CONTENTS OF NO. VIII. 

 To Christopher Quandary, 

 Disease among Fowls, 

 Oxen vs. Horses, - - - 



Smut in Wheat, 

 Wet Lands, - 



Clover Seed — Gathering and Cleaning, 

 Harvesting Wheat, 



What may be done with a Poor Orchard, 



Broadcast Corn, 



The Application of Lime, 



Raising Horses — Letter from the late 

 Wm. R. Johnson of Chesterfield, 



Great Sale of Live Stock, 



Guano Convention, - - - 



Cultivation of Buckwheat, 



Mangel Wurzel, - 



The Cultivation of Root Crops, 



A Tax on Female Dogs, 



Improved Breeds of Animals, - 



Crosskill's Clod-Crusher, 



Annual Address for the State Agricultu- 

 ral Society's Fair, - 



South Carolina Agriculturalist, 



" The Great Guano Discovery," 



Agricultural and Commercial Review, 



Receipts of Wheat, - 



General Notice, - 



Random Thonghts upon the use of Guano, 



Nicholas Lands, Sheep, &c. 



Manure of Flesh, 



Report to the Locust Bottom Botetourt 



Agricultural Club, - 

 A Noble Proposition, &c, 



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THE VIRGINIA FIRE AND MARINE 

 INSURANCE COMPANY. 



CAPITAL $200,000. 



Office No. 131 Main St., next East of the Dis- 

 patch Newspaper Office, Richmond, Va. 

 Chartered in the year 1832. 



HAS now been in operation about twenty-five 

 years, and has paid over ($1,000,000) ONE MIL- 

 LION DOLLARS for losses. 



Farmers and others in Town or Country wishing 

 their Dwellings, Barns and other Buildings or their 

 contents insured against FIRE or their shipments in- 

 sured against WATER RISKS can he safely pro- 

 tected in this long tried and responsihle company on 

 fair terms without charge for Policy. All necessary in- 

 formation promptly furnished. Address either of the 

 undersigned. " THOS. M. ALFRIEND, Pres% 

 W. L Cowardin, Sec}y. Aug '56 — ly 



WOODLAWN ACADEMY. 



THE third session of this School will com- 

 mence on the 10th of Septemher, and continue, un- 

 til 1 Oth July following, making a session of 10 months, 

 instruction will be given in Greek, Latin, French and 

 Spanish, (in which lan^ua^es the subscriber graduated 

 at the University of Virginia;) also in the elementary 

 blanches of Mathematics. The school is convenient 

 to Louisa Courthouse, at which place scholars will be 

 met with a conveyance. 



TERMS. — Board and tuition for ten months, includ- 

 ing everything, $160. Tuition for classical scholars 

 $50; English $30— one half invariably in advance. — 

 No scholar taken for less than five months. 



D. M. QUARLES. 

 BP Address D M. Quarles or John T. Quarles, El- 

 lisville, Louisa county, Va. Aug — 4t* 



Great Sale of North Devon Stock. 



THE whole and entire herd of pure NORTH 

 DEVON CATTLE imported and bred bv R. H. 

 Van Rensselaer, of Morris, Otsego County, N York, 

 will be sold, without reserve, bv public sale, at WA- 

 TERTOWN, on Thursday the 3d day of October, at 

 I o'clock, on the ground appropriated to the N- York 

 State Agiicultural Society on the 30th September, 

 and 1st, 2d and 3d of Oct'r next, consisting of 



Twenty-thre : Females and Three Males, 

 which includes among the latter the celebrated and 

 imported bull " MEGUNTICOOK," winner of the 

 first prize at the show of the American Institute in 

 1850, and also the first prize at the New York State 

 show in 1851. 



Nothing is risked in pronouncing this herd one of 

 the three best herds of North Devons in the United 

 States, and unsurpassed by any one of them. 



Catalogues will be furnished on application at the 

 offices of Secretary of the New York State Agricul- 

 tural Society. Boston Cultivator and Albany Cultiva- 

 tor, , by Col. L. G. Morris of Fordham, Westchester 

 Co., and the undersigned at Butternuts, Otsego Co. 

 Aug - 2t H. STURGES. 



Wheat Drills and Broad Cast 

 Sowers. 



T HAVE just received a lot of SEYMOUR'S 

 1 WHEAT and GUANO DRILLS, and SEY- 

 MOUR'S BROAD GASTERS. Also BINNOCK'S 

 GUANO DRILL, and Cooper's Guano and Lime 

 Spreader, Threshing Machines, Corn Shellers, Cutting 

 Boxes and Agricultural Implements generally. 



Seeds and Manures for sale at factory prices, freight 

 added. By DRAYTON G. MEADE, 



Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, 



Aug — 3t Alexandria, Va. 



GEO. WATT. | | P. H. STARKE. 



Cuff Brace Plows. 



THIS PLOW has been steadily increasing in 

 favor with the Farmers and Planters of this State 

 and several of the Southern States till it may now be 

 considered the best and most popular plow in use. It 

 has been put to the several trials by most of our large 

 river Farmers, and has taken premiums at THREE of 

 our State Fairs, and at the last took the FIRST PRE- 

 MIUM over all the most popular plows in use. It 

 has also taken the only two premiums ever given by 

 the Virginia Mechanics Institute. Manufactured of 

 every size from largest 4 horse to smallest 1 horse by 

 the undersigned at their factory on Franklin Street, 

 Richmond, Va., where we may be had nearly every 

 article used for tilling the earth. ALL MADE IN 

 OUR OWN SHOPS, of best materials 



Aug '5ii— ly GEO. WATT & CO. 



School at Gordons ville. 



DELAWARE KEMPER, Instructor in Mathematics. 

 A. CHAPMAN WHITE, Instructor in Ancient and 



Modern Languages. 

 rpHIS School is designed to afford thorough 



1 preparation for the highest classes of the Univer- 

 sity, or for the business of life. The text-books are 

 for the most part, those in use at the University. A 

 superior set of instruments, has been provided lor the 

 use of the class of Civil Engineering 



The Sessions commence on the 15th September, and 

 close during the first week in July following. 



TERiVIS.— For Boa;d and Tuition, (including every- 

 thing except lights.) $220. for the whole session. Pay- 

 ment lor a half 15688100 is required on entrance, and 

 the remainder on the 15th February. 



For further particulars, see printed eirculars, to be 

 obtained by applying to 



WILLIAM S. KEidPER, 

 •Aug. '56— 2t Gordonsville, Va. 



