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as scarcely to admit of cornparison ; but we venture to as 
Bert that, if due allowance, is made for the comparatively 
greater amount of land under cultivation at the South, 
and the deteriorating influence of our climate upon arat- 
ed soils, the planting ei onomy of the South will, this 
day, exhibit as much foresight, thrift, progression and in- 
dustry as that of any other section of the country. We 
are not driven by the shortness of the season into the 
display of such desperate and go ahead energy as often 
characterizes our Northern neighbors; but, having 
‘^twelve months in the year'’ to work out of doors, we 
accomplish as much or more in the end, and do it with 
greater ease, and less wear and tear of body and mind than 
they do. — Eds. 
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SUGAR — NEW PROCESS FOR MAKING. 
Ths Planters' Banner, (Franklin, La.,) of March 5, 
Bays: 
?>'Ir. Francis Lombas, of Lafourche, who paid us a visit 
yesterday, and well known throughout the entire sugar 
region as one among the best and most experienced prac- 
tical sugar-makers in the State— having had over twenty 
years experience in the business — informs us that Col. 
Richard A. Stewart, a planter residing in the parish of St. 
Bernard, below New Orleans, has obtained letters patent 
from Washington, for anew discovery in the manufacture 
of sugar on the vacuum pan. 
Our informant has th^'roughly examined, as well as 
tested the new process, and hesitates not to pronounce it 
equal if not superior to his own, or any other plan now 
in use. The sugar, he says, is made without the use of 
bi-sulphate of lime, and is of a quality and texture really 
beautiful, being almost perfectly white, and the grain un- 
usually hard and firm — differing materially from the ordin- 
ary sugars now made throughout the State. 
Mr. Lombas is firmly convinced, from bis knowledge 
in sugar-making, that this new process of Col. Stewart’s 
cannot but cause an entire revolution in the present man- 
ner of manufacturing our great staple; and he hesitates 
not in recommending it to the favorable notice of sugar- 
growers, as the best aud most practical plan yet dis- 
covered. With this assurance on his part, we feel our- 
selves in duty bound, to communicate the information 
thus derived to those who may become benefitted, through 
the columns of the Banner, trusting that it may prove, on 
trial, to possess all the merits the discoverer claims for it. 
Those wishing information on the subject should address 
Col. Stewart through the post office, at New Orleans. 
Doration of Life. — Mr. Charles M. Willich, of Lon- 
don, has published asiniple rule for computing the pro- 
bable value of property in life at any age from five to 
sixty. His formula stands thus:— E = 2-3 (80 — a,;) or, 
in plain words, the expectation of life is equal to two- 
thirds of the difference between the age of the party and 
eighty. Thus, say a man is now twenty years old. Be- 
ween that age and eighty there are sixty years. Two- 
thirds of sixty are forty; and this is the sum of his expec- 
tation of life. If a man be now sixty he will have an ex- 
pectation of nearly fourteen years more. By the same 
rule a child of five has a contingent lien on life for fifty 
years. Every one can apply the rule to his own age. 
Mr. Willich’s hypothesis may be as easily remembered as 
that by DeMoivre in the last century, which has now be- 
come obsolete from the greater accuracy of mortality 
tables The results obtained by the new law correspond 
very closely with those from Dr. Farr’s English Life 
Table, constructed with greai care from an immerse mass 
if returns. 
F r the Southern Cultivator. 
“YE YALLER DOG.” 
Be peace to his, our honored Shakespeare’s, bones, 
Whose harp of varied string 
Hath drawn such'sermons from the senseless stones, 
Such good from everything! 
Peace to his manes ! The music of his mind 
What centuries shall clog 1 * 
That summons me in latter days to find 
Thy use, thou Yaller Dog ! 
Promise is none in all thy form or face 
Of ornament or guard ; 
Not sporting gent would choose thee for the chase, 
Nor I, for my front yard ! 
Not plaided shepherd on his post might sleep 
And deem thy watching good, 
Unless in dreadful vengeance on ye sheep 
Of ye whole neighborhood ! 
And yet — since length of days (and tail) are thiae 
And thou art fat and old — 
Some heart hath strengthened at thy bark and whine 
And held thy hide as gold ! 
Belike some bi ped of the a’aject poor. 
Some breechless son of gun, 
Who hathj beside ten children ‘^to the fore,” 
A dog to every one ! 
And thou elect! his own especial pet 
Of all the yelping score, 
In shape of uncouth heraldry art set 
Beside his cabin door ! 
Something to love! with which a man may share 
His uttermost of prog. 
Soothes the sore bite of hunger with the hair 
Of this old Yaller Dog! 
All moral else thine outer want of grace 
Must evermore deny. 
And therefore he, the sponsor of thy race 
Hath named thee “Cur,” or ^ohy 7 
T. 
March, 1889. 
OoT Door Ice House. — A correspondent — one of the 
inventive men of the day — kept ice out of doors, and had 
a plenty to spare last September. He threw down four 
foot wood upon a space eight feet square, sufficient to 
keep ice from the ground. The spaces between the sticks 
were filled with saw dust or tan bark. The ice was then 
packed snugly in pyramidal form. To make the mass 
more compact, in order to keep the air from it, a few pails 
of water were thrown over it. The mass was then cover- 
ed with saw dust. 
We are inclined to think ice will keep in this way bet- 
ter than any other. Tlie evaporation from the outside 
carries off the heat, and the mass keeps cooler than it 
would it shut up in a tight house, t here appears to be 
philosojihy in the method. — Soulkcrn HmnesLeud. 
|^“To keep water out, use pitch ; to keep it in, use a 
pitcher. 
