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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
this moment, called upon my milker who confirms the old 
tale. 
That the cow, from the time of killing the snake, gave 
less and less bloody milk, till, in about a week, it ceased 
to flow, and after that the cow was milked as formerly. 
Here, Messrs. Editors, is the evidence — I leave to you 
and your readers the judgment. H. P. A. 
Toulon, Jan., 1856. 
THE OLD, OLD HOME. 
AVhen I long for sainted memories, 
Like angel troops they come. 
If I fold my arms to ponder 
On the old, old home. 
The heart has many passages. 
Through which the feelings roam. 
But its middle aisle is sacred, 
To the thoughts of old, old home. 
Where infancy was sheltered. 
Like rose buds from the blast, 
Where boyhood’s brief elysium 
In joyousness was passed ; 
To that sweet spot forever. 
As to some hallowed dome. 
Life’s prilgrim bends his vision, 
’Tis his old, old home. 
A father sat, how proudly. 
By that hearth stone’s rays. 
And told his children stories 
Of his early manhood’s days : 
And one soft eye was beaming, 
From child to child, ’t would roam ; 
Thus a mother counts her treasures 
In the old, old home. 
The birth-day gifts and festivals, , 
The blended vesper hymn, 
(Some dear one who was swelling it, 
Is with the Seraphim,) 
The fond “good-nights” at bed-time, 
How quiet sleep would come, 
And hold us altogether, 
In the old, old home. 
Like a wreath of scented flowers. 
Close interwined each heart. 
But time and change in concert 
Have blown the wreath apart. 
But sainted memories. 
Like angels ever come, 
If I fold my arms and ponder 
On the old, old home. 
THE CHINA THEE, OR “PRIDE OP INDIA.” 
A correspondent of the ^^Soil of the South,'' writes as 
follows : 
I wish to call your attention to the value of the China 
Tree. Few persons know its value. It is generally 
known that it makes excellent furniture, and is susceptible 
of a fine polish. Its durability is not known generally. 
Gov. Quitman, of Mississippi, several years since, inform- 
ed me that he found a post of the China Tree in one of the 
oldest settlements in Louisiana, and found, from tracing 
back its history, that it had been in the ground some 70 
years, and it was then only partially decayed. T have 
seen a fence made of poles three and four inches in diame- 
ter of that tree, fifteen years after it was made, and it had 
very little appearance of decay, other than the washing 
by the rains. I discovered that the insects would not 
harbor in the tree, and neither ants nor any worms ap- 
peared fond of the wood. I concluded from this fact, that 
the sea worm would not destroy it. I got a friend who 
lived on the sea coast to try it. He put a post oak, a ce- 
dar post and a China post into the bay at the same time. 
When the post oak and cedar posts were entirely destroy- 
ed by the worms, the China post was untouched even by 
barnacles. He then hewed out a piece of plank and put 
in the bottom of his schooner. When he overhauled the 
vessel and fonnd it destroyed by the worms, that piece of 
China plank was untouched by them. 
In the South, the China tree grows rapidly: and if 
planted close together, will grow straight, a length suf- 
ficient for two railroad ties. I have no doubt but ties 9 
inches in diameter, made of China tree, would last a cen- 
tury. The wood is solid and close, and will hold the 
nails better than any other wood. 
By planting them on each side of the railroad, in the 
South, they will make a fine shade, a beautiful appearance, 
and by the timethe ties of which the road is made shall have 
rotted, their place can be supplied by them, and be ready 
to supply any other road or to make fences or wharves. 
Every one who has paid the least attention to the 
growth of the China tree, knows how rapid it grows and 
what an immense number can be grown on a small quan- 
tity of bottom land. If attention was directed to the 
growing of this tree, wharves might be made, at the same 
cost they are now made with ordinary tiniber, that would 
last ten times as long. So durable is this wood that the 
small limbs used for sticking peas, that are half pith, will 
last for that purpose thrjee years. Respectfully, 
T. B. J. Hadley. 
Houston, Texas, 1855. 
Remedy for Lice on Poultry. — It answer to “ A 
Subscriber,” Saratoga Co. The best preventive, is clean- 
liness. Infested as your house is with them, you should 
give it a thorough cleansing. Clear it thoroughly, and 
give it a good coat of whitewash and scatter slacked lime 
on the floor and perches. Any kind of oil or grease will 
kill lice on fowls; but that which is thin, is most readily 
applied, and most readily spread over the body. Dip- 
ping the chicks in tobacco- water will kill the vermin, but. 
is likely to make the fowls sick and drooping for a while. 
Smxff scattered among the feathers, will thin oflf the lice. 
Wood ashes should be provided for the fowls to dust them- 
selves in, and if flour sulphur is mixed with the ashes, it 
will be useful. Sulphur scattered in the nests of setting 
hens will tend to prevent them from getting lousy. — Coun- 
try Gentleman. 
SHELTERING MANURE. 
“Will manure sheds pay, where the manure is all 
hauled out early in the spring 1” asks a subscriber in last 
week’s Rural. We will try and throw some light on the 
subject, though we hope those of our readers who can do- 
this from experiment, will give us their aid. We think 
such sheds will pay, if used at the same time as shelter for 
stock. 
One of our correspondents, Levi Bartlett, of N. H., in a 
communication to the Boston Cultivo.tor, gives some ex- 
perience right to the point on this inquiry. Some years 
ago, he built a shed at the end of one of his barns to pro- 
tect his manure from the rains, &c. The manure from a 
stable when ten head of cattle were kept in winter, was, 
with the litter, urine, &c , thown under the shed, but he 
says “the best way be could fix it, the mass would heat 
and fire-fang excessively, and the escaping gase.s, at times,, 
tainted the air for many rods around.” This heating pro- 
cess, no doubt, very much lessened the value cf the ma- 
nure. The same would be the case with horse manure 
treated in the same way, but to a still greater extent. 
