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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
Cjie inEljjern CultoEtDr* 
AUGUSTA, GA: 
VOL. XVII, No. 8.: :::::::: AUGUST, 1859. 
THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR 
AND 
“SOUTH COUNTRYMAN.” 
The Proprietor of the Southern Cultivator takes plea- 
sure in announcing to his friends, that he has just com- 
pleted an arrangement with Rev. C. W. Howard, late 
Sditor of The South Countryman^ by which that paper is 
merged in The Southern Cultivator, and it’s list of sub- 
scribers transferred to this journal. All subscribers to 
The South Countryman will be supplied with The South- 
ern Cultivator during the present year, and a satisfactory 
arrangement will be made by Mr. Howard with those 
gentlemen who have paid tor both papers. 
The readers of the Cultivator will also be gratified to 
learn that Mr. Howard will hereafter be associated with 
Mr. Redmond in the Editorial Department of journal ; 
and that it is the determination of both Editors and Pub- 
lisher to produce a Southern Agricultural Monthly of un- 
rivalled interest and value. 
It is the intention of Mr. Howard to spend a portion of 
liis time travelling, with the view of Lecturing on Agricul- 
tural topics, canvassing for subscribers, &c., and we be- 
speak for him, in all places, a cordial reception. 
THE “SOUTH COUNTRYMAN.” 
The undersigned, acting with the advice of friends, has 
been convinced that the interest of Agriculture would be 
best answered by the union of the two journals— the 
Southern Cultivator South Countryman. This union 
bas been satisfactorily effected. As Associate Editor ol 
the Cultivator, I shall devote to it the same interest previ- < 
ously felt by me in the success of the South Countryman. 
Believing that the diffusion of Agricultural intelligence is 
intimately connected with the prosperity of Agriculture, 
I venture to ask that those friends who warmly sustained 
the South Countryman will cordially transfer their inter- 
cSjSs to the Southern Cultivator. There are some persons 
"Ji^hp.were subscribers to both papers. In these cases, it 
’•.^ill bs considered that there has been an advance pay- 
ij^ent for the Cultivator for the year 18G0, and the Culti- 
vator be sent them for that year without additional 
charge. Or, if this arraagement be not satisfactory in 
such cases, the subscriptions to the South Countryman 
will be refunded. C. W. Howard. 
Kingston, Ga., Jane 30, 1859, 
The foregoing sufficiently explains the very important 
arrangement which we have recently made with our 
friend. Rev. C. W. Howard, and places that gentleman 
fully in communication with our readers— to many of 
whom (in Georgia especially) he Is already well and most 
favorably known. In introducing him to our more dis- 
tant subscribers and friends, we need only say that our 
new associate is a native Georgian, who, to a life-long 
familiarity with practical Southern Agriculture, has added 
the most extensive reading, study, and travel in foreign 
countries— that he resides upon a grazing and stock- 
raising farm in Cherokee Georgia — that he has devoted 
especial attention to the culture of the Grasses, the use of 
Lime as a fertilizer, the Renovation of Poor Lands, the 
raising of Improved Stock, &c., &c., and that, in our 
humble opinion, as an Agricultural writer or speaker, he 
has no superior in the South. The reader who has care- 
fully perused and studied Mr. Howard’s papers heretofore 
published in the Cultivator,* will need no assurance of 
the ability and zeal which he brings to his favorite field 
of labor; and we trust that the union of our forces will 
greatly improve our journal, and more efficiently aid in the 
advancement of Agriculture and Horticulture in the South. 
D. R. 
MARTIN’S FARM SCHOOL. 
We have lately enjoyed the privilege of attending the 
examination of the pupils of this Institution, at Mont- 
pelier, Ga. To say that we were gratified, hardly expresses 
our meaning. This school now consists of twenty-eight 
boys, the sons of gentlemen from different sections of the 
State. The instructors are the principal, the Rev. Mr. 
Martin, and Dr. Loomis, who has charge of the depart- 
ment of natural sciences. No manual labor is performed 
by the pupils, but the whole spirit of the Institution is 
eminently practical, particularly as it relates to subjects 
of interest in plantation life. We strongly commend 
this Institution to the attention of planters and others who 
have sons to be sent from home tor their education. The 
healthfulncss of the spot, its retired character, its 
exemption from local temptations to evil, the excellent 
influence of the principal and his co adjutor, and the ex- 
tent and thoroughness of the course of study, render it an 
admirable Institution. H. 
|^°The absence of the resident Editor, (D. Redmond) 
at the North, for a few weeks past, will account for several 
unanswered letters, which will be attended to immediate- 
ly on his return. 
*“An Essay on Grasses,” (February and March num- 
bers, 1858) ; ‘ The Low Price of Land at the South,” &c., 
(May and June numbers, 1859, &c , &c ) 
