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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOT. 
I fear I should not keep up the improving system, although 
convinced of its necessity. I cultivate from 9 to 10 acres 
of cotton, and from 7 to 10 acres ofcorn, and sow as much 
wheat, rye and oats a-s I can, to the hand. If my efforts at 
farming, in a small way, have been at all successful, I at- 
tribute it, in a good degree, to information obtained from 
your valuable paper. But, as I only intended to send 
you my subscription money, and not write an article for 
publication, you will pardon me for troubling you with 
this letter about my mode of farming M. M. P. 
PLANTING SWEET POTATOES. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I wish those that 
plant the Sweet Polatoe would try the following mode of 
raising them: 
Instead of bedding and transplanting the draws in the 
usual way, cut and plant the potato in the hill or ridge, as 
you may prefer. After they have come up, if the weather 
be too dry to reverse the ridge upon which the draws are 
to be transplanted, go over the patch taking a small bag 
or basket and scratch a hole by the side of the sprouts and 
takeoff the piece of potato, put in the bag and remove it 
from the patch, and let the draws remain. This will 
answer well when the weather is too dry to set out*the 
draws. The common Spanish potato does best, I think, 
if the piece of potato is removed so soon as the sprouts 
have sufficient root to live. 
If the seasons are favorable for transplanting, I prefer 
to reverse thenidge and take up the draws and set it in a 
fresh bed, particularly if my ground is grassy. 
I wish the experiment nriade and a report of opinions 
or the results. 
A limited education has prevented me from saying 
something on this and other subjects ere this. 
P y. 
Jefferson County, Ga., 1856. 
DISTEMPEE IN DOGS. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Your correspondent, 
'“W. G. B.,” of Rossville, Fayette county, Tenn., wants 
‘'some of your numerous readers or contributors, to give 
(if there be such a thing) an infallible remedy for distem- 
per among dogs.” Now, I think that to say any remedy 
or prescription i^infallible in every instance, is, as Lieut. 
Dobbin would say, “pinching the monkey’s tail a leetle 
too tight.” Dogs, like men and other animals, differ 
widely in constitution and habit, and what would prove 
successful in one instance might fail most signally in 
another; but I think the remedy I shall give you, if used 
with care and attention, will come as near infallibility as 
any other. I will guarantee it to cure nine cases out of 
ten, I have kept “a pack,” man and boy, 25 years, and 
lost from this great pest, distemper, many valuable lives; 
but since I commenced using the following prescription 
(about 12 years ago) have never lost a single case from it: 
On the first appearance of the disease, give i large tea- 
spoonful of British Oil for a dog from 6 to 12 months old, 
and repeat the dose every other day, from four to six days 
after which, give it every third day till a cure is effected; 
for older or younger dogs the dose must be in proportion 
to age. The dog must be fed on light diet, and by no 
means should he be exposed in bad weather. I have very 
rarely had to give more than 4 doses. For, distemper, 
likeBots in horses, every man has his o\\fn remedy. I 
reckon I’ve had at least a hundred, but prefer this to all 
others. 
As for “worming' dogs as a preventive for distemper, 1 
I know nothing about it, never having heard of such a 
preventive before. When quite a boy, I saw an old 
negro of my father’s “worming” his dog, as he said, “to 
keep him from going mad,” but thought it one of his 
vagaries. Yours resjoectfuliy, &c., 
Felix. 
Travis county, Texas, Feb., 1856. 
AGEICULTYEAL SOCIETIES— CONSTITUTION, GENER- 
AL REGULATION, ETC. 
In compliance with the wishes of many of our subscri- 
bers, we give from the Journal of ike Nevj York Society, 
the following form of Constitution and Regulations for 
Agricultural Societies. A slight modification will adapt 
it to the wants and requirements of all. It should be care- 
fully preserved for future reference : 
CONSTITUTION. 
Art. 1, — This Society shall be known and designated 
as the Agricultural Society. 
Art. 2. — The officers of this Society shall consist of a 
President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and 
six Directors. The President, Vice-President, Secretary 
and Treasurer shall be elected at the Annual Meeting of 
the Society, by the members thereof, and by ballot — a 
plurality of votes cast to constitute a choice — and shall 
hold their offices one year, and until others are chosen. 
Two Directors shall be elected, in like manner, at the An- 
nual Meeting, each year, and shall hold their offices three 
years. Vacancies may be filled at any meeting of the 
Society. The legal year of this Society shall commence 
on the first day of January, as shall also the official terms 
of office. 
Art. 3. — -The President, Vice-President, Secretary, 
Treasurer, and six Directors shall compose a Board of 
Managers, a majority of whom shall constiute a quorum 
for the transaction of business, and it shall be the duty of 
said Board to manage the pi'operty and business of this 
Society, as will best promote the interests of Agriculture, 
Horticulture, the Mechanic Arts and Household Industry; 
and they shall hold and conduct Annual Fairs and Ex- 
hibitions, and distribute premiums to the persons exhibit- 
ing the best and most meritorious specimens in these sever- 
al departments. 
Art. 4. — It shall be the duty ofthe President to preside 
at all meeting of the Society and of the Board of Mana- 
gers. The Vice-President shall perform the duties of the 
President in his absence. 
Art. 5. — It shall be the duty of the Secretary to make 
and keep a record of the proceedings of the Society, and 
of the Board of Managers, and to perform such other ap- 
propriate duties as may be assigned him by the Society 
or its Board of Managers. 
Art. 6. — It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive 
all moneys and property due the Society or donated for its 
benefit, and to dispose ofthe same only by a resolution of 
the Board of Managers, certified by the President and 
countersigned by the Secretary. He shall keep an ac- 
count of his receipts and disbursements and report the ; 
same, with proper vouchers, to the Society, at the Annual 
Meeting, and to the Board of Managers as often as they 
may require; and shall give bonds for the faithful dis- 
charge of his duty, in such surety and sums as they may 
deem proper. j 
Art. 7. — The Annual Meeting of this Society shall be 
held on at such place as the Society | 
may designate. i 
Art. 8. — The Board of Managers may make such Rules, j 
Regulations and By-Laws as ttiey may deem proper, con- i 
sistent with this Constitution. ■' 
Art. 9. — Any person may become a member of this 
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