SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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CUEING PORK, BEEF, &C. 
Ora Recipe for Curing Meat. — Those who will care- 
ftilly adopt our method of curing pork and beef will be 
enabled to enjoy as fine hams, tongues, “dried beef” and 
rounds, as the Emperor of all the Russias can command, 
always providing diat the meat cured is of the best quality. 
It is this : 
To one gallon of water, 
Take one and a half lbs. of salt, 
Half lb. of sugar, 
Half oz. of saltpetre, 
Half oz. of potash. 
In this ratio the pickle to be increased to any quantity 
desired. Let these be boiled together, until all the dirt 
from the sugar (which will not be a little) rises to the top 
and is skimmed oflf. Then throw it into a tub to cool, and 
when coldf pour it over your beef or pork, to remain the 
usual time, say four or five weeks. The meat must be 
well covered with pickle, and should not be put down for 
at least two days after killing, during which time it should 
be slightly sprinkled with powdered saltpetre. 
Several of our friends have omitted the boiling of the 
pickle and found it to answer equally as well. It will 
not, however, answer quite so well. By boiling the 
pickle it is purified — for the amount of dirt which is 
thrown off by the operation, from the salt and sugar, 
would surprise one not acquainted with the fact. — Ger- 
mantown Telegraph. 
CALIFORNIA TIMOTHY AND CARNATION CLOVER. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have taken the 
liberty to send you a small quantity of “California Timo- 
thy seed,” and 3 small heads of the same. It proves to 
be an annual, and doubtless, will succeed much better in 
a warmer climate than this. It is a very coarse grass and 
I should think it well adapted for soiling and renovating 
worn out lands. I have not, however, tried it in any other 
than garden soil ; there it grows most luxuriantly, and 
from an incredible small quantity of seed burthens the 
ground with its enormous weight. I planted in spring in 
rows 13 inches apart and 4 inches in the row, single grains, 
and it appeared as if no more could possibly grow on the 
ground. 
I think it is a native grass of Sacramento Valley. Also, 
enclosed is seed of the Carnation Clover, an English vari- 
ety — it will not stand our hard winters — perhaps an an- 
nual. l.W. Briggs. 
West Macedon-^ N. V., />cc., 1855. 
Remarks. — We thank 5Ir. Brigg.s for the seed above 
alluded to, which w^e have transferred to a friend who 
takes especial interest in the grasses. — Eds. 
Make L.vbor Fashionable. — Gov. Wright, of Indiana, 
in his address at the New York State Fair, alluded in 
beautiful language to the connection between enlightened 
agriculture and the development of the social and moral 
nature of man — between agriculture and independence — 
between agriculture and the sacredness of domestic re- 
lations and endearments— between agriculture and the 
recognition of that Providence upon whose care the farm- 
er, more than any other man, should, from the nature of 
his pursuits, rely. And of labor, he said ; 
“At the base of the prosperity of any people lies this 
great principle — make labor fashionable at home. Edu- 
cate, instruct, encourage, and offer all the incentives you 
can offer, to give interest and dignity to labor at home. 
Enlist the heart and the intellect of the family in the sup- 
port of a domestic system that will make labor attractive 
at the homestead. By means of the powerful influences 
of early home education, endeavor to invest practical 
labor with an interest that will cheer the heart of each 
member of the family ; and thereby you will give to your 
household the grace, peace, refinement and attraction 
which God designed a home should possess.” 
iSnrticEltEial Stpitmtnt. 
NUMBER OF TREES OR PLANTS ON AN ACRE. 
Table shoioing the number of Trees required to platiJt a/ti 
acre of ground, from one to fifty feet apart. 
Feet. 
Trees. 
Feet. 
Trees. 
Feet. 
Trees. 
1 
.. 43,560 
18 
,. ..134 
35 
o. 
..10,890 
19 
, ... 120 
36 
33 
3 
20 
,. ..108 
37 
31 
4 
.. 2,722 
21 
... 98 
38 
30 
5 
.. 1,742 
22 
.... 90 
39 
2S 
6 
.. 1,210 
23 
.... 82 
40 
27 
7 
889 
24 
75 
41 
26 
8 
.. 680 
.... 69 
42 
34 
9 
. . 537 
26 
... 64 
43 
23 
10 
27 
... 59 
44 
22 
11 
.. 360 
28 
45 
21 
12 
.. 302 
29 
... 51 
46 
20 
13 
.. 257 j 
1 30 
... 48 
47 
19 
14 
.. 222 
31 
48 
18 
15 
.. 193 
32 
... 43 
49 
18 
16 
.. 170 
33 
...40 
50 
17 
17 
.. 150 
34 
... 37 
TRANSPLANTING 
FRUIT 
TREES. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — As the proper season 
for transplanting fruit trees has commenced, we trust a 
few words, ideas and suggestions on this subject may not 
prove inopportune or be taken as an assumption of any 
superior knowledge on our part, but simply as a word of 
our experience, which, if it proves to be of any practical 
service to those who propose adding to their stock «>f 
fruit trees the present season, our only object in penning 
this communication is accomplished. 
The question is very frequently propounded to us, 
“When do you consider the best time to transplant fruit 
trees 
We unhesitatingly answer? in the Southern Slates, 
During the latter half of November and the entire montii 
of December, although they can be transplanted any time 
from the 15th of November until the 1st of March. Our 
reasons for preferring November and December for the 
process, is, that in those months the earth is warmer than 
the atmosphere; the effect of which is, the warmth of the 
earth causes the roots to throw out numerous rootlets as 
soon as it is transplanted, whereby it at once becomes 
firmly established and prepared against spring to make 
a vigorous growth, and at the same time the cool atmos- 
phere and hard frosts keep the top in a dormant state ; 
thus restoring a mere equal balance of power between 
the roots and top than w’ould be the case, were the tree 
transplanted near spring-time, when the reverse would be 
the case, in consequence of the top being brought into an 
active state before there were roots to support it. 
I am aware that I am treading on disputed ground, by 
intimating that trees take up their carbon through their 
roots instead of their leaves ; but never mind it. There 
has never yet been the first leaf formed on any of our or- 
