SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
which we have given presents one curious feature. From 
the mart of a strict! y cigricultural region, it gives a return 
of export of 530 lbs. of wool and 55,802 lbs. of rags ! 
We hope our Floyd friends will take mildly a little 
salutary suggestion : They have no agricultural society — 
no Fair— no Farmers’ Clubs. We heard of no special at- 
tention to good stock, except on the part of one gentleman 
whose farm is, unfortunately, at a distance. Under these 
circumstances, we can hardly wonder that the rich bot- 
toms of the Coosa, Etowah and Oostanaula, should pro- 
duce annually more rags than wool. We do not know 
a county so favored by nature us Floyd — three large 
rivers and vallies unsurpassed in fertility — a charming 
climate— a railroad traversing it — a market for produce at 
home — it ought to be among the garden spots of the 
South. H 
Advertising ! — A New York correspondent of the 
Charleston Courier, speaking of I. M. Singer, the inven- 
tor of the Sewing Machine, and his progress in life from 
an extremely poor young man to a millionare, says : 
“The amount Singer has spent on newspapers is very 
large ; but large as it is, he once informed me that for 
every ten dollars he had paid to newspapers (as near as 
he could get at it,) he or his concern had received back 
one hundred dollars in profits, or an increased business.” 
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Steam Plows in E:«gland.— At the meeting of the 
Royal Agricultural Society in Warwick England, July 
12th, a prominent feature of the exhibition was the col- 
lection of steam plows and steam cultivators. Sixteen 
steam plows were entered for competition, and ten steam 
cultivators, the last named being intended for cutting and 
thoroughly pulverizing the soil to the depth of six to nine 
inches along a t»ack four and a half to five or six feet wide. 
The Manchester says that “the most peculiar 
and novel implement exhibited under this head is Ro- 
maine’s patent steam rotary cultivator, which professes to 
perform perfect spade husbandry, digging six acres a day 
at nine shillings (S2 16) per acre. The machine is very 
cumbersome and unwieldly, weighing ten tons, but it does 
not require any assistance from horses, as it is self pro- 
pelling. 
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Steam Plows. — The Executive committee of the Illinois 
State Agricultural Society have made arrangements for a 
trial of Steam Plows, to held in connection with the 
Annual Fair at Freeport. Prizes of S3, 000 for the best, 
and S2,b00 for the next best are offered. The Illinois 
Central Railroad Company offer additional Si, 500 for the 
best steam plow, to gain which the machine must be ex- 
hibited at three points on the line of road. The awards in 
both cases are to be made by the Executive Board of the 
Society in connection with three machinists selected by 
them. Messrs. Hedges of Cincinnati, Gates of Chicago, 
nnd Allen of St. Louis have been chosen to the office. 
^^Create not imaginary difficulties ; sufficient are the 
real ones we have each to encounter in the course of our 
lives. 
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BnititEltEial SefflttmtEt. 
FRUIT TREES FROM THE NORTH. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — 1 see by the July 
number of your paper that one of your correspondents is 
afraid that the people of Georgia will purchase trees of 
Northern Nurserymen, to their own disadvantage, and 
you sympathize in that feeling and endorse the “Caution.” 
With your leave, I will reply to some of the propo- 
sitions of “Malic Acid;” and between us, may we not, 
hope that the truth will appear, and the community oe 
protected from humbug, while they derive what advantage 
there may be from trade. 
The statement that late keeping varieties of apples for 
the South, cannot be procured from the North is, in the 
main, correct, as those varieties are not much known out 
of the Southern States ; nor even there ; but our best 
nurserymen do procure scions and disseminate the trees 
among their Southern customers, and sometimes even in 
greater numbers than those sorts can be obtained South. 
Fine late keeping apples are still very scarce at the South 
and few nurserymen have any adequate supply of such 
varieties; the home demand in a single county should 
consume all the trees there are for sale. 
The list of best Early Apples found in our Northern 
Nurseries is nearly identical with the list of sorts recom- 
mended by the best Southern Horticulturists and Nursery- 
men, as their respective Catalogues show; and the same 
is true to a still greater extent in the case of Pears, Peaches, 
Apricots and Grapes — many of these being even better at 
the South than they are with us. 
There are, doubtless, seedling fruits, originating in 
Georgia, which have a special local value, and perhaps, 
upon trial, some of them would be found valuable for 
general dissemination ; these should le propagated and 
sedd by Southern Nur&eymen, and their merits brought 
before their Northern friends; but there are also many old 
varieties, the product of much care in selecting and trial 
for many years, which should not lightly be laid aside. It 
takes a long time to prove a new sort to be really better 
than the old favorites, and the collections which long 
years of patient gathering have now brought into the 
hands of the Nurserymen are the surest res®rt of planters 
for good sorts. 
The idea that a tree must be grown upon the soil in 
which it is to bear fruit, is a very erroneous one, as numer- 
ous facts show. 
Trees are so constituted as to bear a certain range of 
heat and cold, soil and climate, and no process of accli- 
mation will enable them to go beyond thisjrange — we can 
only put the individual trees in such a state of health as 
will but enable them to bear the changes which they are 
so constituted by the Creator to endure. A healthy 
specimen of Bartlett Pear, Early York Peach, a Red As- 
trachan Apple tree, grown in France, in Georgia, or in 
New York, will bear all the changes of the soil and cli- 
mate which it is possible to cause them to endure by rear- 
ing them upon the spat where they are to spend their 
lives. 
The simple fact is, a locality which has such a temper- 
ate climate and favorable soil, as will cause the young 
trees to thrive in the best manner during the first three or 
four years of their lives, is the best starting point for any 
tree or plant. Nurserymen are well aware of this fact, 
and endeacor to procure their young stock and specimen 
trees and plants from such localities, as the immense an- 
nual importati ns of trees from the foreign nurseries to 
this country shows very plainly. 
The experience of Horticulturists and fruit growers 
should certainly teach them to avoid all fruits and varie- 
ties of fruits which are known to be valueless, and to 
