SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR 
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CASHMERE GOATS FOR TEXAS. 
This afternoon’ Mr. Aaron RofF, of Georgia, will leave 
here on the steamboat R. W. Powell for Red river, on his 
way to Cherokee county, Texas, there to deliver to Col. 
Yokum, a well-known citizen of that section of country, 
three goats of the Cashmere shawl species, purchased by 
Col. Yokum of Mr. Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Ga, One 
of these goats is a buck of pure blood ; the other two are 
ewes of three-fourths to seven-eighths pure blood. Mr. 
Roff has also two other animals of the same breed, which 
he will exhibit or sell, as most convenient. 
The Cashmere goat was introduced into this country 
in 1849, by Dr. J. B. Davis, of South Carolina, who ob- 
tained tliem at much expense and trouble while he was 
employed by the Sultan, in Turkey in Asia. They are 
not the Thibet shawl goat or the Angora goat, and natu- 
ralists in this country have decided to call them the 
Cashmere Goat. From the pure, white color, and 
silky fineness and great length of tkeir fleece — its value, 
eight dollars a pound, the animal yielding four or five 
pounds — their adaptability to our climate, without deterio- 
rating — their crossing readily with the common goat and 
retaining still their peculiar and valuable characteristics 
— their needing little care ; their vigorous frame and frugal 
habits; the delicacy and nutritiousness of their flesh; 
their capabdity of defense against dogs or other animal — 
they must prove the most valuable variety of the goat that 
can be introduced into this country. 
Mr. Peters, the proprietor of the Devon farm in Georgia, 
has been eminently succesful in crossing the pure blood 
Cashmere bucks with the common goat, and the fleece of 
even the fourth crosses is wonderfully fine, soft, light, 
long and white. We can well understand that the fam- 
ous Cashmere shawl, made of precisely this wool, should 
be'of such beautiful texture und durable qualities. 
Several animals of this valuable breed are already in 
Texas, and with the admirable capabilities of that State 
for raising sheep and goats of the finer qualities, every 
addition of this kind to its stock resources, is worthy of 
notice. — N. O. Picayune, March 19. 
Sound Sentiments from the Right Quarter.— Mr. 
Joseph C. Lovejoy, of Boston, has written a letter, which 
occupies over two columns in the Washington Union, 
(and which we are glad to see republished in the Mobile 
Register,) to his brother, Owen Lovejoy, a member of 
Congress from Illinois, commenting upon a speech of the 
latter recently delivered in Congress. Mr. Lovejoy, in 
his letter, defends the South and the institution of slavery. 
He tells his brother that his “convictions at the present 
time are, not only that the slaveholders have a complete 
vindication of their present position, but they are entitled 
to be looked upon as benefactors to the country and to 
the human race.” Farther on he says, “it cannot be de- 
nied that the idea of slavery runs all through the Bible; 
it was stamped upon the entire history of the Jewish na- 
tion, and upon the history of every vigorous nation upon 
the face of the earth ; indeed, I strongly suspect this is 
the normal condition of large portions of a depraved race, 
and I can readily believe that a man may sustain the re- 
lation of a slaveholder, in all good conscience, and with 
the entire Divine approbation. There are visible foot- 
prints of God’s disapprobation of the abolitionism of this 
country.” 
B^°Could every man be always impressed with the 
solemn fact that his life is short, and the labor which he 
ought to accomplish great, he would more than double 
his present rate of intellectual attairments and material 
progress. 
HORSE HOE — CORN IN BULK — CROPS, &c. 
Editor Southern Cultivator — In your remarks 
upon plantation work, in May number of the Cultivator, 
you say cultivate Corn with “cultivator, harrow or a horse 
hoe, &c.” Will you please tell me what a “horse hoe” is, 
and, if you can, insert a cut of it in the Cultivator. By 
a “horse hoe,” do you mean the sweep plow I 
I have watched, with some interest, the several rules 
you publish for measuring corn, and below find a com- 
parison of three of the most important, showing so slight 
a difference, that either will answer the purpose of the 
planter. Each of them are for corn in the shuck ; 
1st. 10 feet by 10x10 — 12=83 bbls x5=4I5 bushels — 
1-3 off for shuck and cob=277 bushels shelled corn. 
2d. Western rule — 10x10x10x5 2-3=56 bis. x5=280 
bushels shelled corn. 
3d. The above in inches— 120x120x120— 6171=280 
bushels shelled corn. 
I do not give the fractions, as unnecessary. The first 
rule I cut from a newspaper, and the 1-3 off for shuck and 
cob is an addition of my own, and the other two are taken 
from the Cultivator. 
The crops in this section are much behind those of last 
year, at the same time, though the corn crops are a good 
stand, look green and are now growing off. The cotton 
lookj badly and I hear of bad stands far and near — some 
had to be planted over, as mine is and I had to do. Last 
year I finished hoeing my cotton the first time May 6, 
and this year the same time, I will have just 1-4 of my 
crop chopped out. There is the same difference in the 
cotton. Truly, Rebek. 
Hopehazy, [Baker Co., Ga.,] May 3, 1859. 
Reply. — The “Horse Hoe,” of Knox, and others, is an 
improved cultivator — very little like the “sweep plow.” 
We have no cut of it, and can hardly describe it, so as to 
give you a correct idea of it. We consider it a very su- 
perior implement, for killing weeds and keeping the sur- 
face level and mellow. It may be had at the Agricultural 
Implement Stores in this city and elsewhere — price, about 
S7 to S9 — Ed. 
USEFUL HINTS TO YOUNG MEN. 
How many young men ignorantly 'deny themselves a 
fortune. There is scarcely a young man of good sense 
in this city who cannot save $100 easily from his annual 
earnings, and, if he will forego cigars, billiards and juleps, 
he can save double that amount. Figures sometimes pro- 
duce almost incredible results. Thus, for instance, if a 
young man, upon his twentieth birth-day, will invest SlOO 
in any stock, paying ten per cent., and annually threafter 
will invest the same amount and the accumulation of inter- 
est, he will be worth, when he is thirty years old, Slj753 ; 
when forty years old, S6>300; when fifty years old, 
S18,150; when sixty years old, S48,700. 
How simple, then, is the plan by which a youth of the 
present day can pass his old age in comfort and luxury. 
He has only to regulate his expenses so as to save one 
hundred dollars each year from his income. If the amount 
saved be larger, then the sum total will be increased in 
the same proportion. 
Only think of it, that $500 saved annually and invested 
in ten per cent, stock will amount, in forty years, to 
$243,500. One million invested in the same way for ten 
years will amount to $2,593,600; in twenty years, to 
$6,826,800; in thirty years, to $16,384,628; in forty 
to $45,250,338. No wonder, then, that the Rothchilds 
have amassed such boundless wealth . — Baltimore Ameri- 
can, 
