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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



CONTENTS OF NUMBER V. 



PAGE 



Essay on Enriching and Improving Poor Land .•• 161 



A Reviewer reviewed — an Oddity let loose 164 



Report on Fighting Creek Farm 168 



How is the Agricultural Society of Virginia to be Placed 



upon a Permanent and Self-sustaining Basis? 169 



Farms Improved by Keeping Sheep 170 



Steam among the Farmers • 170 



Soda Water 173 



Premium Essay on Hillside Ditching 173 



Shanghai Cocks and Hens, with a Portrait 176 



Q,uere about the Roof of Tobacco Houses 177 



The Prospects of Stock 177 



The Tobacco Crop of Virginia 178 



The Wheat Crop 178 



Price of Wheat in England 178 



Harvest Drink, Diet and Medicine 178 



Analysis of the Red Lands of the S. W. Mountains - ••178 



Acceptance of Mr. Timberlake's Challenge 180 



Distemper in Cattle " 180 



To Eradicate Sassafras 181 



Insects in Wheat and Oats in 1769, 1732 and 1755 181 



On the Application of Guano for Corn * 181 



Saltpetre as a Manure 182 



Experiments in Succoring Corn 183 



Drifting Soils — their Management 183 



How to Winter 100 Sheep^from Two Acres of Land- •• 184 



M'LANE'S WORM SPECIFIC. 

 fj^P* The following, from a customer, shows the demand 

 which this great medicine has created wherever it has been 

 introduced : 



Blossburg, Tioga Co., Pa., March 30, 1850. 



Gentlemen — In consequence of the great consumption of 

 your "Worm Specific" in this place and vicinity, we have 

 entirely exhausted our stock. We should feel obliged by 

 your forwarding, via Corning, N. Y. 20 dozen, with your 

 bill, on the reception of which we will remit you the money. 



From the wonderful effects of said "Specific" in this 

 neighborhood, there could be sold annually a large quantity, 

 if to be had, (wholesale and retail) from some local agent. 

 If you would compensate a person for trouble and expense 

 of vending, I think I could make it to your advantage to 

 do so. Yours, respectfully, WM. M. MALLORY, 



Messrs. J. Kidd & Co. per W. E. Porter. 



§2^° Purchasers will please be careful to ask for "Dr. 

 McLaue's Celebrated Vermifuge," and take none else. All 

 other vermifuges, in comparison, are worthless. Dr. Mc- 

 Lane's genuine Vermifuge, also his celebrated Liver Pills, 

 can now be had at all respectable Drug Stores in the U. 

 States and Canada. 



NO FAMILY SHOULD BE WITHOUT THEM. 



^ e s P ea k of McLane's Liver Pills, which have be- 

 come an indispensable Family Medicine. The frightful 

 symptoms which arise from a diseased Liver manifest them- 

 selves, more or less, in every family; dyspepsia, sick head- 

 ache, obstruction of the menses, ague and fever, pains in 

 the side, with dry, hacking cough, are all the results of 

 hepatic derangement — and for these Dr. McLane's Pills are 

 a sovereign remedy. They have never been known to fail, 

 and they should be kept at all times by families. 



Directions. — Take two or three going to bed,' every 

 second or third night. If they do not purge two or three 

 times by next morning, take one or two moire. A slight 

 breakfast should invariably follow their use. 



The Liver Pill may also be used where purging is sim- 

 ply necessary. As an anti-bilious purgative, they are infe- 

 rior to none. And in doses of two or three, they give 

 astonishing relief to sick headache; also in slight derange- 

 ments of the stomach. 



£3?^ Purchasers will be careful to ask for "Dr. Mc- 

 Lane'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 Ver- 

 mifuge, can now be had at all the respectable Drug Stores 

 in the United States and Canada. 



For sale by PURCELL, LADD & CO. 



jun — It Corner Main and 14th street, Richmond. 



ZIMMERMAN & CO.'S CELEBRATED PATENT 

 PREMIUM THRESHER, CLEANER AND BAG- 

 GER, which received the first premium at the Crystal Pa- 

 lace, New York, this making ten premiums in two seasons, 

 in competition with the most celebrated Separators of the 

 day ; proving conclusively, that simplicity' in construction, 

 cheapness in price and durability in machine, is being fully 

 appreciated, and the old complicated costly separators must 

 yield their place to a superior machine. This Machine, for 

 threshing, separating, cleaning twice, screening and bag- 

 ging, (by one simple operation,) all kinds of Grain — the 

 greatest labor-saving machine extant; for simplicity, dura- 

 bility, cheapness and capacity, it has no rival in the world. 

 It is capable of turning out, ready for the mill or for seed, 

 from 300 to 500 bushels of wheat per day, with six or eight 

 horses, and eight hands — or from 500 to 800 bushels with 

 twelve horses and as many hands, doing the work cleaner, 

 and breaking less grain, than any machine now in use. 

 This machine received the first premiums at the Maryland 

 State Fair, Baltimore, in 1852 and 1853; the Washington 

 County Maryland Fair ; Valley Agricultural Fair of Virginia, 

 in 1852 and 1853; the Rappahannock Agricultural Society, 

 at Port Royal, Va.; Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, 1853. 



This machine is so simple in construction, that the one 

 fan and shoe completely cleans and bags the grain, dis- 

 pensing with all the complicated machinery (and consequent 

 liability of derangement) in all other separators, thus making 

 it more desirable to the farmer. 



I^^Shop Prices of Zimmerman & Co.'s Thresher, 

 Cleaner, Bagger and Power — Thresher, Cleaner and 

 Bagger complete, 6 and 8 horses, $175; Power for same, 

 $100 — making $275 Tor the whole complete. Thresher, 

 Cleaner and Bagger, 36 inch Cylinder, $200; Power for 

 same, $135, for 8, 10 and 12 horses. This machine is 

 complete with Band, Wrenches, &c. 

 ■ §3F° References. — Samuel Sands, Esq., Editor of the 

 "American Farmer;" Col. Edward Lloyd, Ea'ston, Md.; 

 Capt. D. Cox, Northumberland county, Va.; Hill Carter, 

 Esq., Richmond; Richard Willis, Esq., Richmond; Col. 

 Charles Carroll, near Ellicott's Mills, Md.; F. Nelson, Esq., 

 Richmond; Col. B. Davenport, Jefferson county, Va.; Dr. 

 Harding, Northumberland county, Va.; Captain Harding, 

 Northumberland county, Va.; Hugh Nelson, Esq., Clarke 

 eounty, Va.; Charles Mason, Esq., King George county, 

 Va.; S. W. Thomas, Esq., Clarke county, Va.; Dr. T. J. 

 Marlow, Frederick city, Md.; David Boyd, Esq., Frederick 

 city, Md.; Ezra Houck, Frederick city, Md.; Samuel Holt, 

 Middletown Valley, Md.; John Clagett, Hagerstown, Md. 



fjrjF" The above machines are manufactured in Charles- 

 town, Jefferson county, Virginia. All orders addressed to 

 us will be attended to with promptness, and all Threshers 

 sent out warranted to come up to the standard. 



ap— -3t* ZIMMERMAN & CO. 



| MPORTANT TO AGRICULTURISTS.— I desire to 

 1 call the attention of the farmers of Virginia, Maryland, 

 &c.j to my patent attachment for grinding and distributing 

 guano, and to give notice that I claim to be the true and 

 original inventor of these machines now on sale at the agri- 

 cultural warehouse of Addison &• Meade, Alexandria, Va., 

 and which will be for sale at the warehouse of Baker & 

 Brown, Winchester, Va. They are also in possession of 

 many farmers in Clarke, Jefferson, Culpeper and other 

 counties. Although a patent has been granted by mistake 

 to Messrs. Henson & Rhor of Charlestown, Va., for a part 

 of my machine, I have taken measures at the Patent Office 

 to establish my original exclusive title to the invention 

 claimed by them, and shall enforce my rights by the due 

 course of law. 



Persons desirous of obtaining these machines, or wishing 

 to purchase rights for counties, States or territories, will 

 please apply to me at Summit Point, Jefferson county, Va., 

 or to Addison & Meade, Alexandria, Va., or to Baker & 

 Brown, Winchester, Va. Farmers can have the attachment 

 affixed to any drill by application as above. 



jun— 3t T. F. NELSON. 



31'CONNSiIil^ & BURTON, 

 DENTISTS, 



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



JOHN M'CONNELL. W. LEIGH BURTON. 



