SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 153 
AGKICUIiTUItAI. LiBHARY. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I am in receipt of 
your valuable and very interesting number for April, and 
in it I see an answer, on page 112 to a correspondent, 
W. M. B., recommending the '^Cotton PLo.nter's ManuaV 
for reference in regard to the value of cotton seed as a 
manure, and adding that “it will pay for all planters to 
furnish themselves with the leading Text books of their 
profession ” Now, I am exactly of the same opinion, and 
I will be under great obligations to you, Messrs. Editors, 
if, in your May number, you will direct, among the answ- 
ers to correspondents, one to J. E. W., recommending 
lorae of those text books of the profession that are valu- 
able and worth having, 1 know there are such, and you 
are better acquainted with them than any one else I can 
refer to ; at least I would rather have your opinion. 1 ask 
this from a desire to increase my stock of information in 
regard to farming, for I am a young planter, just enter- 
ing upon my new avocation, and I want to get things 
going systematically. 1 have no doubt such a communi- 
eation from your journal would be received with satisfac- 
tion by many of your subscribers I take the Farmer tf* 
Planter also, and that and your journal are ray most wel- 
oome visitors. I hope you will think this no intrusion, 
as I am anxious to derive the information. 
Yours very truly, J E. W. 
Florence y S. C., March, 1859. 
We take great pleasure in responding to the wishes of 
our subscriber, and append the following, as a very good 
fist of Text Books in Agriculture and kindred sciences : 
Agriculture, generally : i 
Thaer’s Principles of Agriculture S2 00 
Beatty’s Southern Agriculture 1 00 
American Farmer’s Encyclopedia 4 00 
Boussingault’s Rural Economy 1 25 
Stephens’ Book of the Farm 4 00 
Botany and Geology : 
Gray’s Botanical Text Book Si 50 
American Weeds and Useful Plants 1 50 
Johnston’s Elements of Agricultural Chemistry 
and Geology 1 00 
Sardenino: 
White’s Gardening for the South.” SI 25 
Johnson’s Dictionary of Modern Gardening 1 50 
Schenck’s Gardener’s Text Book 50 
Fruit Culture : 
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees SI 50 
Elliott’s Western Fruit Book 1 25 
Barry’s Fruit Garden 1 25 
Thomas’ Fruit Culturist » 00 
Allen os the Grape 1 00 
Buchanan’s Grape Culture 75 
Charlton’s Cold Grapery 50 
Manures and Composts: 
Browne’s American Field Book of Manures .. ..Si 25 
Dana’s Prize Essay on Manures 25 
Dana’s Muck Manual 1 00 
Ruffin’s Calcareous Manures 1 25 
Agricultural Chemistry : 
Leibig’s Complete Works on Chemistry ,S1 50 
Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry 1 25 
Stockhardt’s Chemical Field Lectures 1 Of) 
Nortoti’s Scientific Agriculture 75 
Flowers and Birds: 
Baist's American Flower Garden Directory $1 '25 
Bnist's Rose Manual 75 
Breck’s Book ot Flowers 1 00 
Book of Caged Birds............ 1 00 
Architkcture and Landscape Gardening : 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening $3 50 
Downing’s Cottage Residences., 2 00 
Rich’s American Architect 6 00 
Vaux’ Villas and Cottages 2 00 
Allen’s Rural Architecture ; 1 00 
The House 50 
Horses: 
Youatt and Skinner on the Horse Si 25 
Dadd’s Modern Horse Doctor 1 25 
Cattle : 
Youatt and Martin, by A. Stevens Si 25 
Allen’s Domestic Animals 75 
Dadd’ American Cattle Doctor 1 00 
Milch Cows and Dairy Farming 1 50 
Guenon on Milch Cows 38 
Hogs : 
Youatt and Martin on the Hog S 75 
Richardson on the Hog 25 
Sheep : 
Randall’s Sheep Husbandry SI 25 
Moreli’s American Shepherd 1 25 
Canfield on Sheep 1 00 
Poultry : 
Bement’s American Poulterer’s Companion SI 50 
Brown’s American Poultry yard 1 00 
Miner’s Domestic Poultry Book 75 
Bees: 
Miner’s American Bee Keeper’s Manual Si 00 
Quinby’s Mysteries of Bee Keeping..., 1 00 
Miscellaneous : 
Lindley ’s Theory of Horticulture (English) SO 50 
Field’s Pear Culture 75 
The Cotton Planter’s Manual 1 00 
Munn’s Practical Land Drainer 50 
Pedder’s Land Measurer 50 
Fish Culture, by Dr, Garlick 1 00 
Flint on Grasses 1 25 • 
Hedges and Evergreens, by Dr. Warder 1 25 
Moore’s Rural Hmd Books, 4 series, each 1 25 
Chemistry of Common Life 2 00 
&c , &c. 
All of the above are either published by, or may be ob- 
tained from A. 0. Moore & Co., 140 Fulton St., New 
York ; and where neighbors club together and order large- 
ly, a considerable discount will be made from the regular 
prices. Any desired book or books will, also, be sent 
per m^WJree of postage, upon the receipt, by the publish- 
ers, of the above prices. 
The back volumes of our journal and other Southern 
agricultural periodicals, are also indispensable ; and can 
mostly be obtained from the publishers, already bound, at 
a trifling advance on the subscription cost. The Cultiva- 
tor is fur mahtd, neatly bound, at Si 50 per volume, or 
SI. 80, sent per mail, post paid. Address Wm. S. Jones^ 
Augusta, Ga. 
consolation. 
“A little while, a little while, 
And each his burden will lay down, 
And he who sorrows now will smile 
To find his cross hath won a crown 1 
A little while, ye weary, wait, 
Some pitying Day will beckon you 
To enter at the Golden Gate 
Life’s thorny path hath led you to.” 
