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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
GROUND PEAS, OR FINDERS. 
Editors Southern Cultitator — As I rarely see an 
article in your paper treating upon the Ground Pea, or 
Pinder, I propose, for the benefit of your readers, giving a 
few thoughts upon making them, and their indispensable 
benefits to the Southern farmer. I mean an ecpnomical 
farmer. 
There is no crop that yields so much ample pay for the 
labor bestowed on it as this pea. The making of them, 
after my manner^ requires so little labor that one would 
think they had reaped much without giving an equivalent. 
In the first place, 1 lay off my corn land in drills, three 
feet and a half, planting every alternate row in corn, the 
other with the pea, about the middle of March ; thus mak- 
ing each seven feet apart, giving good room to work each. 
The manner of cultivating them through the season is 
with the sweep after the first plowing, which is done by 
running the bar of a Dagon or turning plow next them, 
doing this only while working the corn. If they are 
proi erly managed at first the hoe can be kept in the cot- 
ton field, where every moment seems to require it. 
I will next notice some of the benefits derived from 
them, giving my experience (which is but one of many) 
of last season as proof of this matter. I had my entire 
corn crop planted in this pea, after the above manner, 
which after gathering a cut of corn the last of August, I 
turned in my hogs the first day of September, and they 
have not had an ear of corn thrown to theni up to this 
writing (March 2*2d),and were it not that the field has to 
be planted for the next crop there would be an ample sup- 
ply for them one or two months to come. 
One might ask if! raised my own pork 1 to which I 
would say, yes; nnd nearly double a sufficiency, that was 
killed from the field without a day’s confinement for corn 
feeding. 
I hope that every reader of this has discovered that there 
has been seven months of twelve that this stock has left 
the corn crib uninterrupted, which must prove a material 
help to the farmer. Hoping to hear some better ideas of 
this pea through your paper, I leave this to my planting 
friends. William P. Gammon. 
Greenwood, Jackson Co., Fla., March, 1859. 
“ AGRICUETURAE STATESMANSHIP.” 
Editors Southern Cultivator — May I express a 
thought which suggested itself on reading the article in 
your March number entitled “ Agricultural Statesman 
ship T’ 
May the day be very distant when agriculture shall 
sell her right to protest against all class legislation, for 
any mess of pottage which this Government can cook ! 
For, 
Government is, at best, a necessary evil. It never does 
&.x\y ihxTig well ; 
Therefore, the less it does the better. 
2ndly. Gover7iment has nothing of its ow7i. 
Therefore, it can only give to Peter by taking from 
Paul ; 
And therefore, it is better occupied in protecting all alike, 
in the peaceful prosecution of whatever business their 
hands may find to do, and in regulating its own conduct 
by the requirements of the Constitution and the Ten 
Comandments. 
A from Government, quotha 'I 
Let our Petitition assume the shape of a command. 
“Let us Alone,” and Agricultural Statesmanship will 
have “graduaUd.” 
But until some successful Guy Fawkes shall have 
blown up the Patent Office (and parts adjacent) ; or some 
true Statesman shall perform a like office for the “Tariff,” 
and we have that good time, so long coming, of Free- trade 
and direct taxation, it is altogether likely that it will suit 
the convenience of many people to talk about partial 
legislation as Statesmanship. 
As you want a name, I can’t think of a better in this 
connection than 
“Randolph.” 
March, 1859. 
RE-APPEARANCE OF THE EOCUSTS, 
Dr. Gideon B. Smith, of Baltimore, writes to National 
Intelligencer that the locusts will appear the approaching 
spring in seven districts of the country, viz : 
1st. In the whole valley of Virginia, from near the top cf 
the Blue Ridge mountains on the east, the Potomac 
river on the north, to the Tennessee and North Carolina 
lines on the south, and several counties on the west. 1 hey 
will probably occuoy a considerable portion of North 
Carolina and Tennessee, overleaping other districts. 
3d. In North Carolina, from Raleigh to Petersburg, 
Virginia, and adjacent counties in both States. 
3rd. In St. Mary’s county, Maryland, the southern 
part of the county, occupying about one- half ot the 
county. 
4th. In North Carolina, Rowan, Davis, Carbarras, Ire- 
dell, and adjacent counties. 
N. B. The above are all of the northern tribe, or seven- 
teen years’ locusts, and will commence emerging from 
about the 5th to 15th of May. 
5th In Georgia, Gwinnet, DeKalb, Newton and adja- 
cent counties. 
6th. In Tennessee, in the northern ihiddle part. 
7th. In Mississippi, in all the eastern portion of the 
the State, from the ridge or “backbone” that runs north 
and south about forty-five miles from the Mississippi river 
to the eastern boundary of the State, and probably extend- 
ing into the States on the east. 
The three last districts belong to the northern tribe, or 
thirteen years’ locusts. They will begin to emerge about 
the 20th of April, in the extreme southern district in Mis- 
sissippi, to the 5th of May in Georgia. 
A “ Rice Gun.” — The Savannah Republican oio.rtc^'Cii 
date, says: 
We have witnessed, at the Rice Mills of Messrs. R. Haber- 
sham & Co , the performance of a new invention for clean- 
ing rice, which, from its similarity to a cannon, has been 
named the “Rice Gun.” The inventor has been at work 
on it for several years, and has now brought it, he thinks, 
to perfection. The machine is somewhat remarkable. 
One cast iron cylinder within another, both revolving in 
opposite directions, and an air pump throwing a stream 
of air through the centre, keeping the rice cool, is the sum 
total of the invention The machine is very simple, and, 
to our inexperienced judgment, seems to be just the thing 
desired by planters. The owner of the patent claims that 
it will clean from thirty-five to forty bushels of rice per 
hour and never break a grain ; its performance in our 
presence bore out his assertion. It is calculated that a 
saving often per cent , will be effected in the whole crop 
by the use of this invention It has been a few days since 
we mentioned that such a machine as this is claimed to 
be was one of the positive wants of our planters. In di- 
recting their attention to the Rice Gun, we are sure that 
it will undergo a thorough and practical examination, and 
if it meets approval will abundamly reward those who 
own the patent ; otherwise it will end, as many others 
have done, in a failure. Its claims are, in our opinion, 
worthy of attention. 
§^”Examine what undue passions reign most in thy 
soul, and take thy course of life clean contrary to them in 
thought, word and deed. — DeSales. 
