SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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This great saving of animal labor I deem sufficient to 
recommend it to all economical planters. There is how- 
ever, a much greater difference in the manner in which 
the Brinly and Hall & Spere perform the work : the one 
loosening and pulverizing the soil, leaving it as much 
broken up as though it had been harrowed, while the 
other leaves the soil in large and hard clods. 
I am of the opinion that plows requiring a great force 
to propel them generally leave more or less clods, admit- 
ting the land to be in good plowing condition and con- 
taining from 40 to 60 per cent, of clay. 
The nearer this implement approaches to the wedge 
shape, the less is the friction and the less is the draft re- 
quired. 
If the front part of the mould board is too perpendicu- 
lar, and the lower portion running too flat upon the bottom 
of the furrow, it does not lift and loosen or approach the 
soil as gradually as if it were more the form of a true cir- 
cle, consequently requires not only more draft to pro- 
pel it, but by forcing the particles of earth together, ex- 
pels the air and leaves the soil in clods. If we consider 
the importance of exposing as much as possible the sur- 
face of the earth to the oxydizing influence of the atmo- 
sphere, we will more readily see the importance of hav 
ing a plow which leaves the soil pulverized. 
As the Hall & Spere plow stands very high in the esti- 
mation of many planters, also to exhibit more fully the 
extent to which it is excelled by the Brinly plow, I will 
view this question in a little different light. 
If 350 lbs. draft will lift and turn over 90 square 
inches of soil with the Brinly plow, 117 lbs., or one- 
third of 350 lbs., will lift and turn over one third as much 
soil, or 30 inches. 
If this 117 lbs. draft is applied to the Calhoun plow 
it will lift and turn over only 14 9-10 square inches, and 
if it is applied to the Hall & Spere it will invert only 9 
9-10 square inches of soil 1 Thus we see one plow invert- 
ing 30 and another 9 9-10 square inches of earth with the 
Same amount of draft ! 
By referring to the report of the committee, it will be 
seen the Brinly plow takes a furrow slice ten inches in 
width, while that of Hall & Spere is only seven and one- 
half inches in width. 
Let us consider the effect this opparantly small differ- 
ence of width in the furrow exerts upon the amount of 
labor requisite to plow an acre of land with the different 
implements. 
If a plow takes a furrow slice 7 12 inches in width, the 
distance travelled while plowing one acre of land is 
13 1-2 miles, which, calculating that the team travels at 
the rate of 18 miles per day, will admit of one plow 
turning over 1 3-8th parts of an acre per day. 
If the furrow slice is ten inches in width, the team will 
have to travel only 9 9 10 miles while plowing an acre of 
land, and will admit of one plow turning over 1 4-5th acres 
per day at the above speed. 
Without passing any remarks upon the difference in 
the depth of furrow made by the difihrent plows, I will 
leave it for the reader to decide which is the cheapest, all 
things considered, a two-horse steel Brinly, or a two- 
horse iron Hall & Spere plow. 
Yours, very respectful y, 
J. W. Felt. 
“How blest the firmer’s simple life — 
How pure the joy it yields — 
Free Irom ihe world's tempestuous strife, 
Free ’mid the scented fields ” 
B^°Human virtue, like the dying dolphin, exhibits its 
most beautiful colors in distress. 
HOW TO CURE STAMMERING. 
Dear Doctor : — Will you or some of your experienced 
subscribers or correspondents inform the writer of some 
method by which children, who are subject to stammer- 
ing, may be relieved from this impediment. I have, in the 
school of which I have charge, a small girl of about ten 
years who is indeed in a most pitiable condition, and ^ 
whom I feel it my duty to try and relieve. Her difficulty 
is not so apparent in conversation as in recitations, andj 
on some days greater than others. She is a promising" 
little, girl, and I am inclined to think, if the proper means 
early used, she may be cured. C. W. Swartz.. 
Marlboro^ Ohio, Dec. 4. 
Stammering may be cured in all persons having perfect 
organs of speech, and who are of sound mind. The last is- 
indispensable, in order that they may understand the rule^ 
and have force of will to execute it on the rebellious or- 
gans. Success is more certain in adult persons than irs. 
children, for the season that it requires care, and close at- 
tention for a while to fully break up the habit. We have 
seen men and women cured instantly, but in most cases 
a little time is necessary. The plan we would recommend 
is a simple one, and may be thus presented: 
Take a phrase, or number of words, and utter them^ 
while keeping time with the index finger, bringing 
it down on the knee for each syllable, distinctly pronounc- 
ing the syllables the while with a full round voice. The 
mind is thus withdrawn from the action of the vocal or- 
gans, and placed on time keeping, and the nervous spasm 
of the organs is obviated. Take an example: 
Stnt-ter-ing and stam-mer-ing can be cur-ed. 
Now, at the moment the attempt is made to utter the first 
syllable— stut — let the finger come down with force; and 
then a “beat” accompanies each syllable in a word or sen- 
tence. It will not be necessary to continue this process 
longer to accustom the mind to it; but it should be con- 
tinued so long as the tongue falters at any word. 
This may, perhaps, serve to show our meaning. AS' 
we have intimated, children are not relieved so readily as 
grown up people, on account of the difficulty of securing 
and retaining their attention. Sometimes, too, the finger 
or hand of a child will take on the faltering and stammer- 
ing of the tongue, and it will be impossible to secure a 
regular “beat,” and finally it will only follow the utter- 
ance of a syllable, instead of being concurrent with it. 
When this occurs, no further attempt need be made to en- 
force the rule, as it would be useless. 
It is not easy to present successfully in words a lessor 
on this subject— the living teacher would be better— but 
as we are often written to in regard to it, we throw out 
the above for the use of such as may need the directions, 
it contains. — Pittsburg Advocate. 
The “Learned Professions.” — This itching of younrg 
men for the learned professions is a great evil in the land, 
and should be discouraged by all who have an influence 
to be felt in the creation of public opinion and direction 
of the economical systems of society. Let parents look 
closer to the welfare of their sons, and instead of qualify- 
ing them for professional loafers and drones in the indus- 
trial hive, place them in some one of the thousand active 
employments that will prove productive to themselves and 
useful to their country. The day has passed when the 
professions were considered alone respectable; and a- 
man’s position in society now depends rather upon his 
'floral worth and intelligence, and the degree of 
excellence he has attained in his calling, than upon the 
name which the latter may happen to bear,” — Savannah 
Republican. 
