SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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ing note addressed to the editor of the Okio Farvier, hop- 
ing to receive an early response : 
Cleveland, Nov. 20, 1855. 
Dear Sir — On page 34d, of Tae Year Book of Agri- 
culture, for 1855-0, 1 find the following: 
“At the Ohio State Agricultnral Fair for 1854, speci- 
mens of speckled trout, artificially propagated, were ex- 
hibited by iNIessrs. Ackley &. Garlick, and attracted much 
attention as the successful result of one of the earliest 
efforts made in this direction in the United States.” 
Now, Mr. Editor, I should like to know in what other 
direction of the United States the successful experiment 
was made earlier, and by whom it was made. Perhaps 
the Editor of the Year Book will tell us in the next vol. 
Our experiment was made in the fall of 1853, and the 
young trout were exhibited in the following fall, at the 
Agricultural Fair, of Cuyahoga county, Ohio. I believe 
it to be the first successful experii.ient made on the Ameri- 
can Continent. T. Garlick. 
We copy the above from the Spirit of the Times, for the 
purpose of correcting the impression of Dr. Garlick. It 
will be seen, by reference to the articles of our respected 
correspondent. Dr Bachm.^n, in our last and present num- 
ber, that he raised fish artificially, more than half a century 
before the experiments of Dr. Garlick, and that to him (Dr. 
Bachman) belongs the credit of having inaugurated fish- 
bi-eeding in America, so far as we are yet aware. — Eds. 
So. Cult. 
SINGLE WHITE MACAETNEY ROSE. 
Judging from some specimens of this fine Rose, planted 
for the purpose of forming a hedge, which we have seen, 
it is likely to be more useful than the well known Chero- 
kee Rose, and mainly because it does not die out at the 
bottom and open a passage for hogs, like the last named 
plant. Its ever green leaves are smaller and somewhat 
darker than those of its Cherokee name-sake; its thorns 
equally or more abundant and formidable; while its dense 
habit of growth renders its quite impenetrable ; and it is 
not less hardy and easily propagated. Set four feet apart, 
it forms a close hedge in three years, although less strag- 
gling than the Cherokee, which spreads to an undesirable 
extent. 
HILDRETH’S IRON GANG PLOW. 
An engraving and description of this new labor sav- 
ing implement will be found on page — , of present issue. 
Having given this Plow a fair trial, we are prepared to 
say that it possesses many important advantages over any 
implement of the kind with which we at e acquainted ; and 
that, on land adapted to its use, it may, undoubtedly, be 
employed with profit. As will be seen, by reference to 
the engraving, three shares or mould-boards are attached 
to an eliptical iron frame, which is suspended on three 
wheels, the whole being drawn by a pole or tongue, after 
tli€ manner of a wagon or carriage. The shares or points 
may be regulated to run any depth, from 2 to 6 inches, 
plowing a strip of land 28 inches wide at every '‘turn.” 
A pair of horses or mules, and a man or boy will thus 
do the work of three single plows and three hands and 
mules, in a given time, and perform the task as well or 
better. The draft is quite light and steady, and the plow 
needs no holding. Upon a clean surface ; that is, on all 
lands free from stumps, roots and grass, it will be found 
of gi-eat utility ; but it cannot be made to operate well in 
foul or stumpy land. We are now using it for plowing 
the strips of land between our orchard rows, and consider 
it specially adapted to that purpose. It shall have a 
thorough trial for that and other purposes, at our hands, 
and we will be prepared to report fully on its merits in 
our next. 
Carmichael & Bean, of city, are the Agents ; and the 
price is $30. 
LIME FOR MANURE-FREIGHT ON THE STATE 
ROAD. 
The value of Lime for agricultural purposes is greatly 
under-estimated by a large majority of farmers. This cir- 
cumstance operates to prevent, in the State of Georgia, 
the Legislature having control of the State Railroad 
through a limestone region giving any facilities for the 
cheap transportation of lime over said road for the use of 
such as desire to improve the poor soils lying contiguous 
to the great thoroughfares of inland commerce. All regret 
that so many millions of acres in the “Empire State of 
South” yield no income to their proprietors, no freight to 
railroad companies, and nothing which will bear taxation 
for the benefit of the Commonwealth. There is abundant 
reason to believe that one hundred acres are turned out to 
grow up in broomsedge and old-field pine, in the State, 
where there are ten acres of these almost barren wastes 
fully recuperated. 
We are sorry to say that the exhaustion of land is the 
rule — its amelioration the cxcoption, in Georgia agricul- 
ture. This rule, long adhered to, will as certainly consume 
all the elements of fertility in the soil, and ultimately, de- 
populate the State, as that water runs down hill. It is, 
emphatically, a down hill system of tillage which kills the 
land subjected to its most popular processes in a few years 
at best, if not with a rush. 
Many, however, who see this bad state of things have 
no confidence in Lime as a means of increasing the fruit- 
fulness of impoverished soils. To such we have a few 
words to say. Do not that greatest marvel of antiquity, 
the mighty time defying Pyramids of Egypt, attest at 
once the great abundance of human food and the vast sur- 
plus of human labor, at the time and place where these 
blue limestone monuments were erected I The lime rock 
that furnished material for the pyramids gave wheat to the 
laborers. 
Who has not been filled with amazement while contem- 
plating the early and prodigious growth of Thebes and 
Babylon, each of which was developed in a limestone 
valley 1 So many human beings would require to form 
their bones alone, in five generations, more boneearth than 
could possibly be found out of calcareous districts. 
Pliny speaks of liming land as common in his time. 
Pallaidus says : “We make lime ofa hard, white stone, 
or Tiburtine, of dove-colored stone, or a red or porous 
stone, or lastly of marble.” Cato directs how a lime kiln 
should be constructed; and the Romans introduced marl- 
ing into Spain, Great Britain and Belgium, when pro- 
