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jfiterested in the sale of this and similar michines, to 
Keep them more fully before the public 1 We do not 
Know the address of the of these LoomSj or any 
person who makes or sells them. — Eus j. 
Gin Gearing &c. — I see a cornmutiicaiion si;^ned T. in 
No. XI, (I858j page 337, in wliich he states that he has 
seen a sixty saw gin propelled by friction. Will you do me 
and probably others the favor to requec t him to give us a 
description of that gin gearing through the CvMivator — 
size of horizontal wheel and handwheel, mid how tnuch 
is “ a sufficient enlargement of the shaft to secure ample 
contact” or in other words, how large should the shaft be 
made at the place where it rolls on the horizontal wheel. 
J. D B. 
Richmond, Arkansas, 1859. 
Who’s Got a Camel for Sale % — Will our friend, ‘‘B.,” 
of Mobile, reply to the inquiry of our subscriber'? 
Editors Southern Cultivator. — In your January 
Number, page 29, I notice an article from H C. Wayne, 
Maj , U. S. Army, descriptive of the Camel, amounting 
to a recommendation of the animal, for Agricultural pur- 
poses. I want one of the and must beg yot to 
tell me how I can get one, transported or shipped to 
Macon, Geo. Allow me to hope that you may find a 
leisure moment, and devote that time, to me, informing 
me how 1 can have a Camel delivered at Macon ! 
Yours enquiringly, 
G. W. T. 
Forsyth, Geo., 1859. 
Measuring Corn. — In your January No. p. 10, is a 
rule for measuring corn in the bulk which I conceive to 
fee incorrect, at all events I cannot apply it; as for in- 
stance what IS the number of barrels in a room of 20 feet 
length, 15 width, and 9 depth, according to rule ! 
Yours Respectfully, 
W. C. K. 
[Will some of our readers who are “ good hands at 
figures,” answer the above % 
Distemper in Horses, — Take a piece of Indigo the 
the size of a Lady’s thimble ; tie it up in a cloth, reduce it 
to a powder, put it into a bucket of water, and rub out 
enough to color the water — and let the Horse drink it 
Let him have no water except the Indigo water, he v,?ill 
be well in two or three days. 
R. B. P. 
Poll Evil in Horses, — I have bought a horse that has 
the Poll Evil. The Gentleman says he has had it for four or 
five months; you or some of your numerous correspon- 
dents will please give a receipt to care it. I came from 
Georgia, and left all of the back numbers of the Cultivator 
or I have no doubt but I could find a receipt in some of 
them. 
C. W. A. 
Shreveport La., 1859. 
[A correspondent of the Cultiva.tor (Vol. 13, for 1855, 
page 271,) says of a Horse affected with the Poll Evil; 
" I made a large plaster of white lead and put it on ; in 
some 6 days it dropped off itself, and all the time I own- 
ed him it never returned.” Youatt recommends the pas- 
sage of a seton through the tumor. (See Youatt & Skjn- 
nbr, page 157.) And Dr. Dadd, (“ Modern Horse Doc- 
tor” p. 363,) recommends that the sore be dressed and 
injected with 
Spirits of Turpentine, i 
Pyroligneous Acid V Fqual parts. 
Linseed Oil. ) 
especially, if it assumes a morbed character. He adds ; 
“ So soon as the parts show a disposition to heal, dress 
with tincture of aloes and myrrh.” We shall be glad, 
also, to hear from nur correspondents who have had ex- 
perience with this disease. — Eds.] 
The Camel and “ Cuffy.” — A medico-agricultural 
correspondent, writes us from Mobile, under date of Jan- 
uary, lOth: 
“ In Bug’s Travels in Tartary, you will find a very in- 
teresting aiticle on the Camel, and I should like to see 
the claims of that valuable animal more strenuously urged. 
They are certain to succeed in the South, Dr. Lee has 
conclusively proved that v/c need more laborers and 
cheaper ones, it is equally true that we want more and 
cheaper draught animals. Let “ Cuffy” come and his ap- 
propriate CO- laborers the Camel. However people may 
differ about the negro, nobody can be offended by the im- 
portation and breeding of the camel, so let us have the 
Camels right off, and then defy the world to prevent our 
gettting as many of the wool bearing bipids as we may 
need.” 
R. G. J. 
An Appreciative Subscriber. — Enclosed you willfind 
one dollar for my subscription to the Cultivator. I think 
it a most valuable publication, and if your price were ten 
times the amount, I would not hesitate to pay it. I am 
trying to get up a club for you amongst my old fogy 
neighbors and hope to be successful, 
G. 
Morgan Co., Ala., Jan. 1859. 
Too Diffident. — A correspondent of the Cultivator , 
who always writes for us well and to the point, says: 
“I am so an.v.ious that the Cultivator should flourish 
and do all the good to farmers it is capable of doing, 
that I continue to write, though with great misgivings as 
to my capabilities. If you publish, correct errors. The 
enlargement, the matter, and the new dress of the Culti- 
vator, are all admirable. Why don’t all tillers of the soil 
take it ? Surely they would, they could see and read 
it.” 
OUIl BOOK TABLE. 
An Argument Against the Policy op Re-openikg thb 
African Slave Trade. By Robert G. Harper, Esq. 
Atlanta, Ga Printed by C. R Hanleiter. 
The above is a pamphlet of seventy-eight well filled 
pages, devoted to the discussion of a subject of great prac- 
tical importance, not only to all the Southern States, but 
to the entire confederacy and the commercial world. Mr. 
Harper has evidently. felt the dignity of his theme, and 
brooght to its elucidation much patient research, close ob- 
servation, and sound logic ; and, therefore, his “Argu- 
ment” is every way entitled to the most respectful con- 
sideration. The perusal of this pamphlet has reminded 
us constantly of the writings of Mr. Jefferson, Johjt 
Randolph, and other emineni men, whose clear and 
vigorous intellects have been so far absorbed in consider- 
ing the evils of negro slavery as it exists in the South, 
that they have singularly failed to do justice to its grow- 
ing advantages. Randolph said “ the time will com* 
when masters v/ill run away frorw their slaves and Mr. 
H seeks to delay that dreaded state of things as long as 
possible. On page 84 he says: “We have now in the 
Southern Slates about three and a half million of slaves. 
If the trade from Africa was re-opened, bow long would 
it be before that number would be doubled'? Ijn western 
