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southern cultivator 
CONDENSED COSRESPONDENCE. 
“Elack Tongue” aimd Caterpillars — Will some of 
your correspondents be good enough to give us a cure for 
“Black Tongue” in cattle, as it is prevalent in this 
country; and a remedy for Caterpillars on Apple trees — 
they are very numerous in this region. J. T, P. 
Magnolia, Ark., 1859. 
Asparagus. — I wish to ascertain from you or some of 
your correspondents the viodus operandi of planting and 
raising this vegetable, which I consider indispensable for 
table use. And the best way to manage an old bed that 
produces, annually, slender and tough sprouts 7 
I have had a bed for years and have manured it every 
January with a mixture of stable manure and forest litter. 
For a few years the bed done well, but now it does not. 
I have thought it would be a good plan to dig up the bed 
and make a new one. If I do so, w'^hen is the best time in 
the year to prepare it^ 
Any advice upon the above subject, will be thankfully 
received. A Subscriber. 
[You may expect a reply from one of our subscribers or 
ourselves, in the next number of CvMivator . — Eds.] 
Galls on Horses, &c. — Wash the sores twice a day 
with castile soap and apply white paint thereafter as plas- 
ter, with a soft brush or the finger. In a very few days 
the galls will have healed. Augusta. 
Quinsey in Hogs.— If W. E. A., will boil corn and stir 
in it about a pint of rosin to every twenty hogs, it will 
stop the sore throat from taking hold on all that eat of it. 
If rosin can not be got, stir a half a pint of spirits of tur- 
pentine in a half bushel of meal and give to'twenty hogs. 
I have known the disease stopped with the above receipt 
often and never have known it to fail. 
Yours truly, M. 
Clay Hill, S. C., 18.59, 
Early Cotton. — I would be pleased to hear the views 
of your correspondents as to that species of cotton seed 
best suited to a dronthy country, such as Texas, where all 
crops are required (for success] to mature as early in the 
summer as posssible, thereby avoiding, as m.uch as pos- 
sible, the drouth which sets in from the first to the middle 
of July. 
Should your experience or information warrant you in 
suggesting any particular species, please advise us 
Texans. We plant as soon as the season permits, but 
that does not save us. 
With many wishes for your success in your most laud- 
able enterprise, I am 
Yours, with much respect, G. W. E , m. d. 
The First Boll and First Bale. — The Covington 
(Ga.) Times, of August 11, says : 
“We were shown, one day last week, a boll of cotton 
well matured, which was taken from the field of Hon. J. 
J. Floyd, on the first day of August. This is the first 
new cotton we have seen or heard of being matured in 
this section.” 
And the Vicksburg (Miss.) Sun, of August 6th, states 
that “Our townsman, Wm Cox, Esq , shipped yesterday 
to New Orleans a bale of this year’s cotton, which was 
made on the plantation of our enterprising and clever 
friend, Col. Gabe Fowler, of this county ” 
Fayette (Tenn.) Agricultural Society.— There will 
be an Industrial Exhibion at LaGravge, Tenn., by the 
Fayette County Agricultural Society, on Thursday pre- 
ceding the 1st Monday in October next. 
EIME FOR 3IANURE. 
“A Subscriber,” in the last number of the Cultivator, 
inquires as to the best mode of using lime for manure. If 
lime be cheap and a broad-cast application be designed, 
lay off the land in 20 feet squares with the plow, and 
place a half bushel of lime in each square. This will 
give fifty bushels to the acre, which is a good dressing for 
average land*. This application should be made only to 
new ground, or stubble land abounding in vegetable mat- 
ter. If lime be costly and it becomes necessary to use in 
smaller quantities, then apply it in the drill for cotton or 
corn, in the following manner : As early as possible in 
the fall or winter, lay off your land ; run twice in the 
same furrow, making it as deep and wide as possible. 
Fill this with vegetable matter, straw, corn stalks, scraps 
of fence corners, &c., scatter unslacked lime over this 
litter in the drill at the rate of 15 bushels per acre ; cover 
it with earth and let it remain until spring, planting upon 
the ridge. Our word for it, that the crop of cotton or corn 
in ordinary land and of a good year, will be nearly if not 
quite dou&Ied. H. 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 
The July number of this valuable journal has been re- 
ceived. This Quarterly is published by the United States 
Agricultural Society, and edited by B. P. Poore, Wash- 
ton, D. C. It is mailed to all Life and Annual Members. 
Any person may become a Life Member of the United 
States Agriculturul Society by remitan^ to Hon. B. B. 
French, Washington, D. C., ten dollars. Life Members 
receive an elegant Diploma, all the publications of the 
Society, free tickets of admission to all exhibitions, and 
their share of such seeds and cuttings as may be procured 
for distribution. Annual members receive the publications 
of the Society by paying a fee of two dollars. The next 
Annual Mee'.ing of the Society is to be held at Chicago, 
commencing oo the 12ih of September. The citizens of 
Chicago have guarantied that the receipts of the exhibition 
shall not be less than ^17,000. The Premium List is on 
the most liberal scale and is as comprehensive as pos- 
sible. In addition, a list of volunteer premiums, from 
the citizens of Chicago, will soon be published. “The 
Grand Gold Medal of Honor,” is to be awarded to “that 
machine which shall supercede the plow, as now used, 
and accomplish the most through disintegration of the 
soil with the greatest economy of labor, power, time and 
money.” This premium looks to steam as a motive power 
in the cultivation of the soil. The word plow is not used 
in it, because it is supposed that in connection with steam 
some other instrument may be found more effective than 
the plow. Besides this premium of the United States 
Society, there are now $G,000 offered by different So- 
cieties in this country, ^s a premium for the same pur- 
pose. The amounts offered in Europe are still larger. In 
view of the partially successful experiments which have 
been made, the strong stimulus of these Premiums at 
home and abroad, the invendve genius of our people and 
the imperishable renown of success, it can scarcely be 
doubted but that in the course of a few years, lands lying 
