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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
CASS COUNTY FAIR. 
We regret that the crowded state of our columns pre- 
vents an extended notice of this gathering of the farmers 
of Cass. It was difficult to realize that 20 years ago, the 
Fair ground was a hunting ground of the Cherokee In- 
dians. The advance has been marvelous. A portion of the 
exhibition would have done honor to an old and wealthy 
county. The exhibition of Horses was one of unusual 
excellence. The number of Cattle was small, but some 
of them of superior quality. The Sheep were also limited, 
but it would trouble Vermont to show finer Merinos of the 
same age, than those exhibited by Col. Sproull. Some 
good specimens of Essex Hogs were on the ground. Our 
gallantry renders us reluctant to say that the ladies de- 
partment might have been improved. We should be sor- 
ry to think that the farmers of Cass are in advance of their 
wives and daughters. We were delighted with the ster- 
ling*'good sense of the admirable address of Col. Ryals in 
ite connection with this point. Whatever advantages of 
education in other branches we give our daughters, home 
education should not be omitted. It is sheer folly to edu- 
cate a country girl as if she were destined to be a city 
belle. Neither man or woman ever direct others well in 
any given thing unless they know how to do it them- 
selves. We trust that these suggestions will induce our 
fair county women to fill the ladies’ hall, at the next Fair, 
with specimens of whatever is useful and elegant in the 
pursuits of country life. 
A copy of the address of Col. Ryalls, to which we 
have alluded, has been requested for publication. It will 
be raad with interest, as it abounds in good thoughts 
beautifully expressed. 
It was resolved by the Society to memorialize the 
Legislature in reference to Legislative aid to Agriculture, 
a step which it is to be hoped will be adopted by every 
agricultural society in Georgia. The success of the per- 
tinacious suitor, who was accepted at last by the obdur- 
rate fair one, “to get rid of him,” should teach us a lesson. 
Let the farmers of the South petition, memorialize, and in- 
sist and demand, until their rights are given them. 
It was greatly to be regretted that the pleasantness of 
the occasion was interrupted just at its close by a collision 
between two young men, which ended in one being very 
seriously wounded. We do not know the parties or the 
eause of the quarrel, but this we do know: that it is an 
outrage to carry concealed v/eapons into an assemblage 
of this kind. It is a fit occasion on which to render con- 
spicuous the majesty of the law. If this be not done, 
there wdil be few persons sufficiently hardy to expose their 
wives and daughters a second time to the recurrence of a 
similar peril. A man, detected with a pistol in his pocket 
on a fair ground, should be instantly expelled from it. 
H. 
j^^The First annual Fair of the Agricultural and Hor- 
ticultural Society of Western Alabama, will be held at 
DemopVis^ Marengo county, on the 1st day of November, 
and continues four days. The Li t of premiums is re- 
markably full and comprehensive for so young a Society. 
RHODES’ SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF DIME. 
During the early part of this year, we received from 
Mr. Rhodes two barrels of his Super Phosphate. We 
have delayed expressing an opinion in regard to it until 
the close of the season. It gives us pleasure to say that, 
upon certain crops, its effect has been remarkably good. 
Upon clover, it gave a good cutting, when the unmanured 
clover by the side of it did not grow tall enough to be cut. 
A similar effect was produced upon Lucerne. Upon Tur- 
nips, its results were equal to those produced by a heavy 
dressing of barn yard manure. A top dressing of the 
Super-Phosphate on wheat and oats produced no percept- 
ible influence. And a handful to the hill of corn greatly 
increased the product. Perhaps its effects upon corn was 
more marked than in any other instance. The stand was 
perfect in a field in the rest of which the stand was bad — 
the corn grew more rapidly, was ready for gathering fully 
two weeks earlier and the produce much greater than 
upon the unmanured portion. We did not try it upon 
Cotton, but from an observation of its effects upon other 
plants, would conclude that in the higher part of the State 
this manure would be of great value in cotton culture, es- 
pecially in hastening the maturity of the crop. 
H. 
GEORGIA MONEY FOR WESTERN PRODfTCE. 
From the Report of the Superintendant of the W, & A. 
Railroad, we learn some facts of great interest to the farm- 
ers of Georgia. For the year ending October 1st, 1859, 
there were shipped from Chattanooga and through it from 
the Tennessee Roads, the following items of freight. The 
value of the several articles is not given in the Report, but 
we have placed, as nearly as possible, an estimate of 
value upon each one and added the amount, that the 
people of Georgia might see how much money goes out of 
the State for articles which ought to be raised within it: 
Bushels of corn, 105,055 at 60 cts S 63,033 00 
Bushels of wheat, 659,321, at ^1 659,321 00 
Pounds of bacon, lard, tallow and butter, 
20,342,072, at 12 cts. 2,441 ,1 56 00 
Barrels of flour, 1 1,3.30, at S6 67,980 00 
Sacks of flour, 109,956, at S3 329,868 00 
Number of cattle, 3,693, at S40 147,720 00 
Hogs, 41, 215, at SlO 412,150 00 
Total S4 121,228 64 
This very large sum v/ould be greatly increased if 
horses and mules were included, which, for some reason, 
have been omitted in the Report. 
As a question of interest in the political economy of the 
State, we trust our Legislators will consider the exhibit 
thus made. This drain is excessive. It is of the worst 
kind, for we receive nothing in return for it. If we buy 
from England or the North, they buy from us our cotton 
in return. So that a portion of this money, at last, stays 
at home. The Western drover buys nothing, or next to 
nothing, from us. Beyond this the process which de- 
pletes our purses, enriches the Western farmers’ land. 
Imagine the fattening of stock to the amount of nearly 
four millions of dollars annually in Georgia. But a few 
