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SOUTHERN PLANTER. — ADVERTISING SHEET. 



ciety, and thinking it hardly fair that the im- 

 pressions which are intended to be conveyed by 

 the author of the advertisement, should go 

 broad cast to the entire farming community 

 without some comment, we have taken it upon 

 ourselves to give what we deem and what dozens 

 of disinterested persons will bear us out in as- 

 serting to be a fair and disinterested statement 

 of that trial, and we call upon the examining 

 committee, Messrs. M. T. Goldsborough, and 

 E. B. Calbert, to confirm our statement. The 

 first thing that drew our attention to the trial 

 was the appearance of the gentlemen (commit- 

 tee) at the location of the Excelsior or Leavitt's 

 Mill, (which we must admit ground very pret- 

 tily,) having two horses attached ; the commit- 

 tee then went to the Scott's Little Giant, (or 

 Messrs. Robinson & Bibb's Mill,) which re- 

 quired one minute and a quarter longer to pro- 

 duce the same amount of meal, some one pres- 

 ent said that the trial was hardly fair with but 

 one horse. The remark was then made, inas- 

 much as the Excelsior was grinding green corn 

 with two horses, and the little Giant was grind- 

 ing hard flinty corn with but one horse ; the 

 committee having satisfied themselves of that 

 * fact, requested Mr. Leavitt to try the hard corn, 

 which was assented to, and the hard corn put 

 in, and at the second revolution the sweeps flew 

 all to pieces, the corn being entirely too hard 

 for it. This induced the committee to postpone 

 their examination until the next morning, with 

 the request that each Mill should be tried with 

 the same corn. Then came the trial referred to, 

 and feeling some curiosity in the matter, we 

 made our appearance upon the ground in good 

 time to witness it. The commencement was 

 with Mr. Maynard's Champion Mill, which pro- 

 duced a half bushel measure half full of meal 

 in five minutes, requiring twenty revolutions 

 with but one horse. Then came the Excelsior, 

 which produced about the same amount of meal 

 in three minutes and a quarter, requiring ten 

 revolutions with two horses. Then came the 

 Little Giant, which produced about the same 

 quantity in four minutes, requiring fifteen rev- 

 olutions, with but one horse. Then came Mr. 

 Colburn's Mill, which produced the same amount 

 of meal in eight and a quarter minutes, requir- 

 ing thirty-two revolutions also with one horse. 

 We were under the impression that the Little 

 Giant led the van, but there is the statement, 

 and a disinterested community can judge for 

 themselves. [jantfj Edmund Maker. 



SAMUEL S. COTTRELL, 



SADDLE AND HARNESS 

 MANUFACTURER, 

 Wholesale and Retail, 

 No. 118, Main St., Richmond, Va. 



Having received the first premi- 

 um at the Fair of the Virginia 

 Mechanics' Institute, in 1854, and 

 a Silver Medal at the Fair of the 

 same Institute in 1855, feels confident he can 

 please all persons in want of any article in his 

 line. March 1856— -ly 



DOMESTIC ANIMALS AT PRIVATE 

 SALE. 



LG. MORRIS' Illustrated Catalogue, with 

 i prices attached of Short Horned and Devon 

 Bulls and Bull Calves, a few Horses, South- 

 down Rams, Berkshire, Suffolk and Essex Swine, 

 will be forwarded by mail, if desired, by ad- 

 dressing L. G. MORRIS, Fordham, Westchester 

 County, N. Y., or N. J. Becar, 187, Broadway, 

 N. Y. It also contains portrait, pedigree and 

 performance on the turf of the celebrated horse 

 " Monarch," standing this season at the Herds- 

 dale Farm. je — tf. 



Great Reduction in the Price 



OF 



HATS AND BOOTS ! 



From 15 to 20 per cent saved by 

 buying from J. H. ANTHONY, 

 Columbian Hotel Building. 



Moleskin Hats, of best quality, 

 $3,50 ; Moleskin Hats, of second 

 quality, $3,00 ; Fashionable Silk Hats, $2,50 ; 

 Fine Calfskin Sewed Boots, $3,50 ; Congress 

 Gaiter Boots, $3,35 ; Fine Calfskin sewed 

 shoes, $2,25. 



J. H. ANTHONY has made arrangements 

 with one of the best makers in the city of Phil- 

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 substantial Calfskin sewed BOOT, which he will 

 sell at the unprecedented low price of THREE 

 DOLLARS AND A HALF. ap '56— ly 



INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE. 

 To be sold, fifty thousand, will-be published 

 about the first of March, Price fifty cents, 

 Three Copies for one Dollar, 



A NEW MAP OF VIRGINIA. 



Upon which are delineated its vast Works of 

 Internal Improvements, and all information usu- 

 ally found on Maps of the latest date ; accom- 

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 the various Officers of the Commonwealth, 

 Members of Congress, House of Delegates, &c, 

 &c. Also the 



Constitution of Virginia, and the 

 BXXiZi Or RIGHTS. 



With a vast amount of valuable information 

 indispensable to every citizen of the Common- 

 wealth. 



Published by Richard Edwards, No. 157, 

 Main Street, Richmond, Va. 



Persons wishing a copy of the New Map, will 

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 to secure a first impression. Send Post Office 

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 can be inclosed to any part of the country. 

 Orders can be sent direct to the Publisher, 

 RICHARD EDWARDS, 



Richmond, Va. 

 Or Thomas Bailie, 12th street, Richmond, Va., 



and copies will be forwarded at once. fetf 



