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HANCOCK COUNTY FAR31ING, AGAIN. 
and Mathematics, with the single exception of Antiqui- 
ties: 
COURSE OF STUDY. 
FRESHMAN CLASS. 
First Term. 
Greek Xeno'phon' s Anabasis. 
Latin Cicero de Amicitia and de Senectute. 
Mathematics Algerbra, (Davies^ Bov.rdon ) 
Second Term. 
•Greek . . .^ Xenophon's Cyropadia. 
Latin Cicero de Officiis. 
Mathematics Algebra, (completed ) 
Third Teryn. 
Greek Herodotus aud Thucydides, (Grarzea Alajora.') 
Latin . ; Horace’s Odes. 
Mathematics Geometry (^Davies’ Legendre.) 
SOPHOMORE CLASS. 
First Term. 
Greek Lysias and Isocrates, (Groeca Majora.) 
Latin Horace’s Satires. 
Mathematics Geometry, (completed.) 
Second Term. 
Greek Demosthenes’ Orations, (Grceca Majora.) 
Latin Horace's Epistles and Art of Poetry. 
Mathematics. Davies' Plane Trigonometry cf- Alensuration 
Third Term. 5 
Greek Homer’s Odyssey. 
Latin Livy. 
Mathematics . . Davies' Spherical Trigon. Sur'ng, (begun) 
Boje?en’s Roman and Grecian Antiquities throughout 
the year. 
JUNIOR CLASS. 
First Term. 
Greek Plato’s Crito. 
Latin Cicero de Oratore. 
Mathematics . . i Surveying and Navigation, (completed.) 
) Analytical Geometry, (begun.) 
Natural Philosophy . . .^. Olmsted. 
Rhetoric Blair. 
Second Term. 
Greek Xenophon's Memorabilia. 
Latin Cicero de Oratore. 
Mathematics Davies' Analytical Geometry. 
Natural Philosophy t Olmsted. 
Rhetoric Campbell. 
Logic Hedge. 
Third Term. 
Greek Loiiginus, 
Latin Cicero de Oratore. 
Mathematics . . Davies' Differential and Integral Calculus. 
Botany Gray. 
Evidences of Christianity Alexander. 
SENIOR'CLASS. 
First Term. 
Latin QvAntilian. 
Astronomy Olmsted. 
Chemistry. 
Moral Philosophy. 
Constitutional Law Sheppard, 
Second Term. 
Greek (Edipus Tyr annus. 
Astronomy Olmsted. 
Christianity. 
Geology. 
Mental Philosphy. 
Third Term. 
General Review. 
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face ; a 
beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form ; it gives 
a higher pleasure than statues or pictures, it is the finest 
of the five arts. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — In reply to my friend 
Robinson, of Oglethorpe, who rnnkes a very handsome 
appeal to certain Hancock farmers to let the balance of 
mankind know “their superior mode of cultivating corn 
and cotton,” I must, as the call is made upon me (with 
others) by name (though not of late much given to news- 
paper corresponding) say a word or two. 
I say it, and not boastfully, that my friend is right when 
he supposes that there is “light” down here, and he is 
wrong when he supposes that we keep it covered under 
a bushel. 
And, before I go one step further, I will tell him iiow we 
let it shine, and how he may fill within the blessed in- 
fluence of one or more of its genial rays. If he will lodk 
in the October number of DeBoiv's Review for 1858 he 
will find a copy of the Constitution of our Planter’s 
Club. Take a copy of it — call a meeting of your Planters 
— organize a Society upon its plan. Have at least annual 
meetings— appoint a delegation to visit and correspond 
with our Club and we will reciprocate the favor — come 
and mingle with us— see the spirit and determination 
amongst us to improve our homes and comforts — to ele- 
vate and enoble our calling — and if he does not imbibe 
some of that spirit and carry it home with him and im- 
part it to his associates, neighbors and friends— then he 
does not deserve the benefit of the light he seeks, and I 
may be set down for an unmitigated humbug, while 
truth compels me to say it is the opinion generally enter- 
tained of me and my farming by those best acquainted 
with both. 
There is one fact to which those from a distance, who 
make us agreeable annual visits at our fairs, will bear 
• willing testimony ; it is, that there is an absorbing and 
deep interest felt by owners of land and negroes here in 
the modus operandi, as my friend calls it — in the mode, 
means and expenses and implements of our tillage, that 
is rarely to be met with. All owners of land and ne- 
goes and especially the large owners who live apart from 
their plantations, feel an absorbing interest in the profits 
and net dividend of their investment, and what is to be 
much regretted, they feel an interest in dividends alone. 
It is not from such that you are to look for improvements 
in tillage — in manures, in implements. It is to men who 
live on their farms, and who, though they have overseers, 
personally witness and superintend the entire manage- 
ment of their farms that we are to look for improvements. 
It is a valuable element in our Hancock farming, that we 
have but few absentees — and the want of a Railroad has 
learnt the mass of them to make themselves comfortable 
at home during the summer— by the way, staying at 
home is one of their most profitable crops, and improves 
all the other crops. Property, too,* is about as equally 
disj:ributed among our people as, under our laws of inheri- 
tance, it can probably ever be. 
It is, then, readily perceived that we have the elements 
here, if anywhere, of achieving high culture and pro- 
fitable culture for slave labor if these elements can be 
combined and organized, and the proper spirit of improve- 
ment and progress imparted to the organization. I assert 
again, the fact that this interest in all improvement, this 
spirit of progress, is deeply felt here. It may be seen by 
the casual observer in the numberless country colleges, 
mansions, gardens and orchards, with all the unmistak- 
able signs of taste, comfort and plenty all around them. 
It is seen in the red Devons and the roan Durhams, 
which may be found everywhere in the place once occu- 
pied by the ring-streaked, spotted, dappled and bony. 
It is seen in the neat horizontal tillage instead of the rows 
that ten years ago went straight across the field up and 
down hill. It is seen in the drainage of our creek and 
branch lo"; lands. It is seen in our home-made plow.s 
