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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
€l)p lontlipin Cultinridr. 
AUGUSTA, GA: 
VOL. XVII., No. 12.;:;:;DECBMBEH, 1859. 
CliOSE OF THE VOEUME — OUR PAPER FOR 
1 S 60 . 
The present number of the Cultivator closes volume 17, 
and the year, 1859. Our next volume for 1860, will be 
printed on entirely new type, and greatly improved in 
mechanical appearance. In other respects, we deem it 
merely necessary to say that we shall devote to the paper 
our bes" powers, and trust (with the assistance of our 
practical and experienced correspondents) that we shall 
be able to furnish each subscriber a journal worth many 
limes the subscription price. 
We shall be greatly obliged to our friends for any 
aid they may give us in extending our circulation. A 
slight effort on the part of each subscriber would double 
our list, and make the paper to us much more highly re- 
munerative than it now is. 
INDEX TO PRESENT VOEUME. 
A very full and complete Index for present volume will 
be found embodied in this number. By cutting through 
the top margin of pages 364 and 365, the title-page and 
index can easily be detached and placed in their proper 
position at the front of the volume. 
Grape Grower’s Convention. — The call for a Conven- 
tion of Grape Growers to be held at Aiken, S. C., next 
August, was received just as we were going to press. It 
will appear in our January number. 
To Corespondents — We have on file for future in- 
sertion, articles bearing the following signatures: — F. J. 
H. — H W. Ravenel — A Farmer — A Lover ofGame Fowls 
— J. Van Buren — B. F. Transou — Jas. D. Jarrot, M. D. — 
?. J. B. — Prof. I. N. Loomis— Juglans Nigar — A B. Luce 
—C. Le Hardy — G D. Harmon— M. W. Philips — J. D, H., 
and several others. 
Improved Cotton Culture. — See the interesting ac- 
counts of the experiments of David Dickson and T. M. 
Turner of Hancock Co., Ga., and do not forget what 
&ey have done, before planting time, next spring. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Super-Phosphate of Lime. — Editors Southern Culti- 
vator — I noticed in the Cultivator some remarks about 
Super-Phosphate of Lime : I ordered last spring 250 lbs. 
of each, Bhode’s & Hoyt’s, ani applied it to Corn, 
applying each kind separately, to about an acre. The 
result was a large increase over the usual yield, in both 
cases, with scarcely any difference as to the relative 
kinds. I mixed each kind with its own bulk of leached 
ashes, and put a small handful of the mixture into each 
hill, covering it slightly with earth and then dropping the 
Corn upoQ it, and covering in the usual manner. I pro- 
pose to try it again next season on a larger scale. B. 
Caterpillars in Trees, — Hang Tobacco stems in 
your Apple trees about where the Caterpillars are, and 
they will disappear. Your obedient servant, 
Job Greer. 
Bash Creek, Polk Co., Tenn., Sept., 1859. 
Worms in Horses. — I have an excellent horse that is 
thin of flesh, and is hard to fatten, which I .think is 
caused by worms. The animal occasionally passes a 
worm or two, about four and a half inches long, one half 
of the worm being about the size of a common earth 
worm, while the other half is very small. I mention this 
because there are several kinds of worms, sometimes 
found in the horse. 
I want a remedy for the expulsion of those worms. If 
any of the readers of the Cultivator will give me a reme- 
dy in the next number they will much oblige a 
Subscriber. 
Bur Machine, — Will you do me the flavor to inform 
me who manufactures Bur Machines to separate the coc- 
kle bur from wool, I am running a wool carding ma- 
chine, and I find the bur is very troublesome here as we 
have to take them out by hand. I am told there are Bur 
Machines advertised in your paper, will you inform me 
what is the cost. I want a first rate one. If you do not 
know what is the cost, let me know who manufactures 
the machine. Yours, J. W. 
Will some of our readers answer. % 
Wherry's P. O , Rush Co., Texas, Oct. 13, 1859. 
EOVEJOY’S ANTI-FRICTION COTTON PRESS. 
A model of the above press was shown us a few days 
since by Col. S, Dike, of Columbia, S. C., Agent for the 
press. 
From the working of the model and the explanation of 
Col. Dike, as to the expense of the press and its power 
and rapidity of motion, we think it must be very gener- 
ally used, and be of very great advantage to cotton plan- 
ter. Col. Dike has letters, speaking in very flattering 
terms of his press, from several large cotton planters in 
this and the adjoining States, This press is a new model 
entirely, having only been patented on the 25th of Octo- 
ber, 1859. 
Fine Fruit Trees. — Messrs. P. J. Berkman’s & Co,, 
of Fruitland Nurseries, will accept our acknowledgement 
for a handsome assortment of Fruit Trees, consisting of 
25 varieties of Cherries, 17 of Nectarines, 35 of Peaches, 
and a large collection of Apples. H. 
Bacon Hams. — A writer in the Southern Planter, over 
the signature of “London,” says, “My bacan although 
invariably excellent, was never so good as last year, 
when I was induced to drop each ham for five minutes in 
a strong red pepper tea before rubbing with salt.” 
