SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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AGRICriiTURE IN ARKANSAS. 
We clip the following items from a late number of the 
Stable Go.zelte. of Little Rock, Ark.; 
AgriculturoJ and. Mechanical Association of Pulaski 
County. — Pursuant to previous notice a number of the 
citizens of Pulaski county met at the Court House, on 
Monday last, and formed an Agricultural and Mechani- 
cal Association, A Constitution was adopted, and most 
who were present paid the initation fee of one dollar, and 
become members of the Association — some paid twenty 
dollars and become life members. 
The association was organised by the election of Wm. 
E. Ashley, President; A, J. Ward, Secretary; John H. 
Newbern, Corresponding Secretary ; R, L. Dodge, 
Treasurer, and the following Executive Committer Wm. 
Drake, G. W. King, Sam. W, Williams, W. E, Wright, 
and C. C. Danley. 
Des Arc Fair. — The notice of the Fair at Des Arc is 
in the outside of this paper The list of Premiums is 
large, and the Fair will, doubtless, be one of the best ever 
held in the State. The occasion will be one of great in- 
terest, and w’e hope all who can conveniently do so may 
attend. 
Resources of the Cotton-growing Sections of our 
Country — Cotton may be said to be the great staple pro- 
duct of the South: but singular as it may seem, planters 
have not hitherto availed themselves of one-half even of 
its value. The plant is cultivated for the fibre alone, the 
stalk and seed being thrown away, or used only for ma- 
nure. Whereas the seed, which in weight equals even 
more than three times the weight of the fibre, needs but to 
be oronerly prepared, to yield an oil orth from sixty 
cents to one dollar per gallon, valuable alike for burning 
and lubrication, and a salad oil far surpassing the best olive 
oil from Seville. 
The subject is one to which v/e have devoted consider-, 
able attention, and we hope to present, from time to time, 
such facts and figures in relation to it as shall tend to 
awaken an interest in the matter on every plantation in 
the South. 
It requires but the necessary machinery for hulling and 
preparing the seed, and expressing and clarifying the oil, 
to more than double the income from that crop so soon as 
its value is sufficiently well known to make a market for 
it. 
Several large establishments are now engaged in pro- 
ducing the oil, but the business may be .still considered as 
in its infancy. 
O ar machinists have yet much to do to supply the de- 
mand which, at no distant day, must arise for their skill 
and labor in that direction.— Machinist. 
Pudw Deep. — Mr. Kenlall of the New Orleans Pico.y 
une, says that “if v/e can have two good seasons out of 
three, we ean get along well enough in Texas, more es- 
pecially if our farmers will plow and plant iheir corn deep 
and cultivate shallow. In a former letter I stated that I 
had this year made forty bushels of sound, solid corn to 
the acre, in Comal county, I planted furrows as deep as i 
I could make them with a two-horse plow, covered with j 
a hoe. and cut down the weeds between the rows with a i 
sweep w’hich did not penetrate the ground an inch, and 1 i 
hoed the corn well, too, and have gained heavily by my 
extra work.” 
The Postage on the Ctdtivator, pre paid, is 18 
cents per year. 
I Brahmin Cattle. — At the St. Louis Fair, one of the 
greatest curiosities of the show was the herd of Brahmin 
cattle, exhibited by C. G, McHatton, of St. Louis, The 
old bull, “Billy,” was purchased of the late Earl of Derby 
by Dr. Davis, in 1848, and is still in fine condition. In 
a stall adjoining, was a yearling bull, imported from 
Bombay, direct, by Mr, McHatton; and next comes a 
dun-colored heifer, imported by Mr. Hufnagel, of Phila- 
delphia, They are curious beasts, all of them. On the 
back, just at the withers, rises a hump of flesh, curving 
somewhat backward and downward. The legs are quite 
deer-like, and evidently made for running. The ears are 
lopped, like a Madagascar P».abbit’s. The color varies 
from deep Devon red to dun-spotted white. The rump 
falls, and the hams are very full and round, like those of 
a fat shoat. The horns are short, black, polished, upright. 
Mr. Peters of Georgia, who has crossed them with Devons 
and Durhams, has found many of the grades valuable as 
milkers. He even states that two cows in bis herd gave, 
each, their 24 vuarts per day. When dry, they are said 
to fatten very. rapidly during the hot summer months of 
the South, He has so much confidence in their value as 
to have purchased of Mr. McHatton a thorough bred bull 
calf and several grade heifers. — Ex. 
California Trees. — A grove of mammoth trees even 
larger than those of Calaveras, which have become so 
celebrated a.s California wonders, has been discovered in 
an unfrequented part of Mariposa county, I'he largest 
tree in the Calaveras group was one hundred and five 
feet in circumference. In this more recently discovered 
grove, a tree was found measuring one hundred and four- 
teen feet in circumference. The grove contains six hun- 
dred of these monsters — none others of them, perhaps, 
quite that large — but all of them of approxima’e propor- 
tions. These trees grow on the South Fork of the Mer- 
ced river, about thirty miles southwest of the town of 
Mariposa, One of the trees, one hundred free, from the 
ground, has a circumference of sixty- six feet, and a branch 
measuring eighteen feet in circumference. 
Upland Rice.— Mr. Wm. Hughes left in our oJSice, 
yesterday, some fifteen or twenty, well-filled and heavy 
heads of rice, measuring twelve and thirteen inches in 
length, which are specimens of a crop grown by him in 
Liberty county, on pine land, which he assures us is too 
much worn to be planted in corn without being manured. 
Mr. Hughes informs us that such rice can be grown on 
the poorest pine land, and with the same pains bestowed 
on other crops, good yield obtained. 
Judging from the success which has attended his ex 
periments, we need not be surprised to see the culture of 
upland rice entered into extensively by interior planters, 
when we will have, perhaps, to quote upland and river 
bottom rice, as v/e do now upland and sea island cottons. 
Fr.e specimen left with us may be seen at our publication 
office. — Sava.nnah Nev:s. 
Sorghum Molasses — This article, made from the Chi- 
nese Sugar Case has, evidently, become one of the fixed 
institutions of this country. From what we can learn, a 
large quantity will be made. The demand for empty 
whisky, molasses and vinegar barrels is so great that the 
price has advanced from 50 cents to S'l 25 and not 
enough to supply the demand.— Kanatrha ( Va ) Repulli- 
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