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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
THE WORKINGMAN. 
The noblest men I know on earth, 
Are men whose hands are brown with toil ; 
Who, backed by no ancestral graves, 
Hew down the woods and till the soil. 
And win thereby a prouder fame 
Than follows king or warrior’s name. 
The workingmen, what’er their task. 
To carve the stone or bear the hod — 
They bear upon their honest brows 
The royal stamp and seal of God ! 
And brighter are the drops of sweat. 
Than diamonds in a coronet ! 
God bless the noble workingmen. 
Who rear the cities of the plain. 
Who dig the mines and build the ships. 
And drive the commerce of the main, 
God bless them, for their swarthy hands 
Have wrought the glory of all lands. 
FERTILIZERS— GEORGIA IMPROVING. 
The Savannah Republican states that a few months 
ago the Central (Ga.) Railroad advertised to carry guano, 
salt, and other products for fertilizers, at a price just suffi- 
cient to defray the expense of transportation. The amount 
of thes^raaterials' carried from the 1st of December to the 
1st of April was, of guano 2,550,350 pounds, and of salt 
109,350 pounds — ma'king a total of 2,689,600 pounds. 
Altogether there were 1,343 3-4 tons, making 168 car 
loads. 
The Republican^ in commenting on these remarkable 
figures, says : 
It is a well ascertained fact that the older portions of 
Georgia — or rather those which have been settled long- 
est, for all, we presume, are of equal age — are more thrif- 
ty and productive to-day than they were twenty years 
ago. How has this been brought about I By the manu- 
facture and application of manures, made on the farm, for 
the most part, and more recently drawn from the chan- 
nels of commerce. This latter source of supply has been 
opened to the planter chiefly through the liberal and en- 
lightened policy of our railroads ; and to show what an 
impetus it has given to the trade, we propose to cite a 
single case in point. 
The “ case” is given above. Just as soon as our South- 
ern people fall into this tendency of Georgia, their lands, 
instead of becoming worthless from year to year, will 
grow in value ; and then there will be something like re- 
pose in our population. They will stay at home, where 
they ought to be, instead of running on wild goose chases 
every few years to find new fields in strange territo- 
ry-'to run away thence just as soon as they are able to 
wear out the soil, People think that this is an economi 
cal plan— money making in a high degree. They are 
wrong — the exceptions we do not take into account— not 
only as a means of profit, but as a moral meains — for a 
roving man or family can never attain to much account, 
cither materially or morally. 
Georgia is the “ banner” Southern State, and intends to 
keep the honor which her industry has won. — Alabama 
RlanUr. 
Good Profits! — Prof.- Mnpes, the scientific farmer, 
now farms one hundred and twenty-one acres of land 
near Newark, N. J. His total receipts for produce raised 
on his farm from April, 1858, to April 1, 1859, were SH,- 
627,88. His total expenses were S3, 152, 28, leaving him 
the handsome net profit of S8, 375,28. So much for scien- 
tific farming. — Hampshire Gazette, 
NANKIN COTTON — SAW-GINS, &c. 
Editor Southern Cultivator — In your June number 
“R. C.,” ofBeauford District, S. C., inquires for Nankin 
Cotton Seed, Saw-Gins, &c. I will say to “R. C.,” 
just let that variety of cotton alone, lest you rue your ex- 
perimenting. It will not yield much more than half the 
amount per acre, as do most kinds of short staple. A 
hand cannot pick out more than half as much in a day, 
and then you will only realize about 20 per cent, more 
per pound for it, than for short staple. You will, there- 
fore, see, at a glance, how unprofitable it would be. 
Never having been fond of experimenting, I have never 
cultivated Nankin Cotton, but two of my brothers, one in 
Arkansas, the other in Georgia, have, and to their 
sorrow ; and the above is about their experience in the 
matter. 
There is a difference in Saw-Gins in respect to making 
a good sample of cotton ; the fine tooth gins (all other 
things being equal) make the nicest and best samples, and 
there is no man in the South, has a better reputation for 
making the right sort of gins than Samuel Griswold, 
Griswoldville, Ga. His factory is not far from Macon on 
the Central Railroad, he will ship to any part of the South. 
Try him and you will be pleased. 
Thomas F. McGehee. 
Meriwether Co., Ga., June, 1859. 
ACCIDENTS— CARELESSNESS. 
Editor Southern Cultivator — Accidents, when no 
human agency can prevent them, are things which, of 
course, we must bear with becoming patience and resig- 
nation. But when accidents, so-called, are, to the fullest 
extent, the result of carelessness, then it almost amounts to 
crime. Ah ! is it not altogether a crime I* 
These reflections were forced upon my mind from hear- 
ing that an unfortunate plowman had been thrown from 
his mule, his feet hanging in the trace-chain and killed. 
Such accidents as these are as common as steamboat dis- 
asters on the Mississippi River— hundreds of them occur 
annually. Yet, strange to say, but little, if any, effort is 
made to prevent them. Why, in the face of these facts, 
stern and demonstrated, do managers and planters risk, 
or suffer the negro to risk his fifteen hundred dollar life, 
to say nothing of his immortal soul, by permitting him 
under any circumstances whatever, to ride to or from the 
field with the hame string tied 7 
Make it a law upon the plantation, as unchangeable 
as that of the Medes and Persians, if a plowman is 
ever found upon the back of a mule or horse with the 
hame string tied, that they are whipped, stocked or jailed ; 
and accidents of the character referred to will never occur. 
Yours, &c., 
G. D. Harmon. 
Milliken's Bend, La., May 22, 1859. 
[*Yes I the Poet says, truly, 
“Evil is wrought by want of thought. 
As well as by want of Aear^.”— E d.] 
HOW TO KILL SWEET GUMS. 
Editor Southern Cultivator— In reply to “C. L.’s” 
inquiry in the June number, the best way of dead- 
ening sweet gums, is to cut round some 15 or 20 inches 
from the ground ; then skin down to the ground, and let 
the bark remain to the root of the tree ; the water will 
run down between the bark and the wood and there re- 
main until it sours and the tree decays. 
J. D. P. 
Miltstone, May 26, 1859. 
