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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
A subscriber, of Ripley, Miss , says: — “Your paper is 
looked upon as an old frjend, and I find it very hard to 
do without it, as /mis5 2 ^ more than ' any other reading. 
You will find find my one dollar, the old price, enclosed. 
Yours respectfully, J, W. K.” 
Lime is Manure. — Editor Southern Cultivator — Will 
you be so kind as to inform me, through the columns of 
the Cultivator, of the best manner, or way, to apply lime 
(as manure) to light sandy soil, the quantity, &c. By so 
doing you will oblige me and many others here, wishing 
toknow. Yours, &C.J R. G , m, d. 
Cotton H'lll, Ga., 1859. 
Reply. — Lime may be applied to such land as that of 
our subscriber, at the rate of 25 to 40 bushels per acre. .If 
slacked with strong lime, made at the rate of 1 bushel of 
salt to every 4 or 5 of lime, its efficacy is greatly increas- 
ed. Lime is not, in itself, strictly a manure, but it won- 
derfully assists in converting vegetable matter into good 
manure, and in increasing the absorptive power of dry, 
sandy lands. — Ed. 
Value of the Cultivator — New Cotton, &c. — A 
very intelligent and progressive Planter, of Oglethorpe 
Co., Ga., writes : 
Allow me to congratulate you upon the greatly im- 
proved looks of the Cultivator. No farmer or planter or 
housekeeper in Georgia should be without it, at twice the 
price. I have the first volume of it bound, and some four 
or five others unbound. And notwithstanding many “old 
fogies” will not subscribe — it is with me as it is with 
Judge Andrews — it is a necessity now, and one of those 
necessities that “grows with what it feeds on.” 
Long may its banner wave. 
And its columns flutter o’er 
Ignorance and Error’s grave — 
Let it wave forever more. 
Excuse the doggerel for the sentiment. 
I wish I could get you 500 subscribers in this county; 
but the liti’e exertion I have made has ended so unencour- 
agingly tome, that I have let them alone as joined to their 
trash— politics, and demagogism. 
By the way, last fall I discovered and secured a boll of 
cotton which was well grown and contained eleven dis- 
tinct locks of cotton. I have preserved the seed, and hope 
to get some more this year of the same sort ! I found several 
with SIX locks in the' boll ! F. 
Weevils in Corn. — A subscriber, writing from Hunts- 
ville, Columbia county, Florida, inquires for a remedy for 
Weevils in Corn, and says : 
Weevils in corn are a terrible pest in this country, and 
if there is a remedy in the known world for the destruc 
tiori of such a pest, please oblige your humble servants 
by publishing it in your next issue. J. T. G. 
Reply. — It is said ihsii pitch is soofFensise to weevils, 
that it is only necessary to smear it over the surface of a 
lot of old boards or planks, in the granary or corn crib, to 
drive them entirely away. Cannot some of our readers 
give us farther information 1 — Ed 
^‘Deadening” Green Trees. — I would much be obliged 
to some of your subscribers if they would tell me when is 
the best season of the year and the best method of dead- 
ening Sweet Gum. I have just commenced a farm on 
bottom land that has a great deal of gum on it, and I am 
entiiely ignorant of the best way of killing them, and I 
have no doubt but some of your subscribers are well in- 
formed on the matter, and by giving me the desired in- 
formation they will much oblige a new-beginner at the 
business. C. L. 
The Buckeye Poisonous. — Can any of our readers fur- 
nish an antidote for the poison of the Buekeye 'I “R. S, 
W.,” of Crawford ville, Ga., writes : 
Our Cattle die here every spring from eating Buckeye 
leaves. We do not know of any antidote. I have tried 
oil, lard and strong coffee, and in every instance I made 
a failure. I had a fine cow that lingered for three weeks, 
and then had her killed. If you know of any remedy, 
will you be so kind as to give it to me through your valu- 
able paper 1 
Pip IN Fowls.— In answer to the inquiry for a remedy 
Pip in Fowls, I would state that I use assofmtida by pul- 
ing it in the water ; but more as a preventive of all dis- 
eases than a remedy. S. 
Oakhurst, Richmond Co., May, 1859. 
Deep Wells, Pumps,„&c. — Can you or any of your 
subscribers give us in this section some ideas as to the 
best method of getting our drinking water to the surfiice ; 
many of us having to drag it up by dint of hard labor from 
depths of one hundred feet, with thesold-fashioned wind- 
lass, which is laborious to the last degree, and I, for one, 
am getting tired of it. Can science do nothing for us? 
Do you know anything of the pump advertised in the 
New York Observer by J. M. Edney, 147 Chambers St., 
New York ? W. T. C. 
[A force-pump, let down into the well, within 25 or 30 
of the water, with connecting rods to the surface, will, 
perhaps, answer your purpose. We know nothing more 
of the Pump of Mr. Edney, than is set forth in the adver- 
tisement you refer to. — Ed ] 
Peach Borers, t&c. — I have circumvented the Peaeh 
Borer ! ! ! Scrape away the dirt, pick out the grub, and 
wrap the coilar of the tree with rags. 
We are taught that the fly lays the egg in the spring 
but I have found grubs of all sizes from a “3” to a “30 
penny” every day in the year. We must make it a physi- 
cal impossibility for them to get to the collar or our labor, 
however incessant, will ht fruitless. 
Hot water will not kill them, when well covered with 
bark, though it is a valuable application to the tree, and a 
delightful solvent of the gum. I have also found it im- 
possible to save Pear trees from rabbits by anything less 
than a similar application. 
Therefore, “5at;e your Rags !” F. 
[A writer in the American Farmer recommends coal 
tar as a sure preventive of the Borer in Peach trees. We 
will give his article in our next. — Ed.] 
Japan Wax Berry. — Gen. Campbell, our Consul at 
London, sends to the Agricultural Department of the 
Patent Office seed of the Japan Wax tree, and samples of 
the wax, a cargo of which was recently brought to Eng- 
land in an American vessel. Consul Campbell thinks 
the tree would succeed well in the Southern States, and 
we have written to the Patent Office for seed, in order to 
give it a trial. 
All subscriptions to the Southern Cultivator com- 
mences with the January number. 
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