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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
For the Southern Cultivator. 
“SAVE YOUR BACON.” 
Hog-killing times have come ! The days 
Of cracklin’s, chitterlings, sausages and souse ! 
Now “cabbined, cribbed, confined,” ye porcine crew 
Their I''st allotted corn, portentous crunch, 
Or wrapped in rosy, pinguid dreams recall 
The pleasant days of Pighood — waking thence 
To startling terrors of impending death. 
And ominously grunt ! or eke, oh fate more dire 
On some high scantlin, hung, between two sticks. 
Their capillary covering gone, and nude 
And white the bare integuments, they wait 
The final dash and last aspersion from 
An old tin bucket or a broken gourd ! 
Oh ! days to childhood dear! when airy hope 
Unfolds her first of many tinted tales 
And bursts her piimal b-uboles! 
Now bring on salt! yea peppers, black and red. 
With grains of chymic compound, which your clerk 
Y’clepes potassae nitras, better known 
To men of sentimental minds as “vil- 
Lainous saltpetre!” 
So rub for life ! as one whose earnest palm 
Here clasps the cap sheaf of a twelve month’s toil, 
Yea, binds the coming to the closing year, 
And so — makes both endismeet. 
November, 1859. 
Torch-Hill. 
COTTON CUETURE IN HANCOCK COUNTY, 
Georgia. 
Report of five acres Cottov. grown by Thos. M. Turner, 
1859. 
No. 1, manured with 20 bushels of cotton seed and 50 
pounds of Peruvian Guano. Product, 1806 pounds, at 
3 cents $54 18 
Cost of manure and applying it 5 00 
$49 18 
No. 2, manured with 40 bushels cotton seed. Product, 
1574 pounds, at 3 cents $47 22 
Cost of manure and applying it 5 00 
$42 22 
No. 3, manured with 20 bushels cotton seed and 1 bushel 
salt. Product, 1450 pounds, at 3 cents $43 50 
Cost of manure and applying it 3 50 
$10 00 
No. 4, manured with 160 bushels good stable manure. 
Product, 1424 pounds, at 3 cents $42 72 
Cost of manure and applying it 12 00 
$30 72 
No, 5, not manured. Product, 508 lbs., at 3 cents. $15 24 
No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 were prepared in March by turning 
the land over with the Allen Plow, going about five inches 
deep, running in each furrow with a targe, long scooter. 
About the first of April the land was run off into 4 feet 
rows with a large scooter, as deep as a mule would pull 
it j in this furrow the manure was deposited and at once 
covered by running a scooter plow on each side, making 
a small ridge. About the 10th or 15th of April two more 
furrows were run, one on each side of the ridge, with a 
turning plow, at the same time breaking out the middle 
with a large shovel plow, one furrow, making a large, flat 
bed. 
The cotton was planted about the 20th of April. Pro- 
cess of planting — opened the bed with a block about one 
foot long, which was attached to a common plow stock ; 
in front of the block was a small bull tongue plow, reach- 
ing below the bio. k some three inches, and covering with 
a block of wood, shaped out so as to bring all the loose 
dirt to the centre and over the cotton seed. The cotton 
came up well. When well up, it was chopped out from 
one to three stalks in a hill, about fifteen inches distance. 
First plowing with two sweeper furrows in a row. About 
the 15th of May chopped over again as soon as the plow- 
ing was done. Plowed twice after this, each time with a 
flat sweep, running twice each time ; each plowing about 
18 days apart, A few days previous to the last plowing, 
hoed out the land between the hills of cotton, each plow- 
ing was as near the surface as it could be done, say one 
inch deep. Cotton opened early and has all been picked 
out except a snaall remnant. Scarcely a boll would be 
killed by frost if it should frost to night. The land is a 
sandy pine land. 
No. 5 was prepared on the old plan, planted on the old 
plan, no manure on the old plan, product same as on old 
plan. About half of this yet to open. A frost how would 
t it off at least 50 pounds. 
cxxSparta, Ga., October 22, 1859. 
Fertilizers. — We are gratified to observe ihat the use 
of Fertilizers in dressing the over-cultivated and worn- 
out lands of Georgia is coming more and more into fa- 
vor. Those who adopt this system of improvement, in 
preference to breaking up long cherished associations, 
relinquishing the comforts of home which they have ac- 
cumulated around themselves by yeai’s of toil, and remov- 
ing to Texas or Arkansas, or purchasing new land in a 
distant section of the State, will, in time, find that they 
have acted wisely, and made money by the operation. 
The various railroads are doing all in their power to 
promote and foster this spirit of agricultural improvement, 
by reducing the freight on all kinds of manufactured and 
imported fertilizers, well knowing that it will ultimately 
conduce to their interest, in the increased amount of ag- 
ricultural products which will be transported to market. — 
Chronicle Sentinel. 
A Home-sick Georgian. — A Georgian, who had emi- 
grated to Texas, writes back to his brother at County 
Line, a rather doleful letter, which said brother publishes 
in the Atlanta Intelligencer, as a warning to those who 
are going West, to “look before they leap.” We copy only 
the closing paragraph : 
“Satisfied, from sore experience, that the ‘Lone Star 
State’ can progress as well without me, I long once more 
to plant my foot firrnly upon the soil of my native Georgia, 
and there remain content to drink her sparkling waters 
as they gush forth pure from nature’s fountain — share in 
her exhuberant crops — her variety of productions — her 
geniality and healthfulness of climate — her accessibility to 
market — her increasing greatness, and, lastly, let my re- 
mains rest underneath her clay. * * * * 
Your brother, &c,, .” 
^^“He thatgiveth beyond his power is a prodigal; he 
that giveth in measure is liberal; he that giveth nothing 
is a niggard, 
