SOUTHERN CULT I VAR OR. 
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MEAN TEMPEKATURE FOR SIX YEARS PAST. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Herewith enclosed is 
a condensed table, showing the mean temperature for 
each month, and the quantity of rain which fell at my 
residence, 12 miles south-west from the city of Little 
Rock, in latitude 34 degrees 38 minutes north, during a 
term of six years. Of which you are at liberty to make 
such disposition as you may see proper. 
I farther propose to furnish for the pages of the Southern 
Cultivator, commencing with the present year, monthly 
reports of my observations on the weather. This is a mat- 
ter to which I have attended more for amusement than 
probably anything else ; if the result of my labors in this 
small way may be of service anywhere, or to any body, 
then I am amply paid for my little trouble. 
Yours truly, Allen Martin. 
Near Little Rock, Ark.; 185G, 
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The o^ervations with the thermometer were made at 
sun rise, i two o’clock and sun set, each day. 
A FARMER’S LIFE. 
The editOofthe England Farmer, in a notice of 
a recent agriqtural exhibition at Amherst, Massachusetts, 
waxes eloqueiit) speaking of the farmer and the ennob- 
ling infiuencesq^ich surround him: 
The highest Qitification which we found was not in 
•the noble horses„t beeves, milch kine, pigs, poultry or 
vegetables, but ir.he expression of a sentiment fast in- 
creasing in the rural population. A great many people 
have discarded the belief that labor is an evil, and that 
there is no enjoyment in the' occupation that earns the 
bread we eat and the delightful homes we occupy. After 
looking at all the departments of the exhibition, we were 
so fortunate as to be introduced to several of the women 
of Hampshire county; and in their expressions of attach- 
ment of rural life ; and of happy influences of rural oc- 
capations upon themselves and their children, we found a 
source of gratification far exceeding that which any other 
matter afforded. Thej^ feel that in the calm and rational 
pursuits of agriculture and its kindred branches, horticul- 
ture and arboriculture, there is less excitement of the pas- 
sions, less temptation to lure from the paths of virtue, and 
a constantly ennobling influence that lifts the soul through 
nature up to nature’s God. That God is daguerreotyped, 
as it were before us all; and we see his wisdom and love, 
in the bending grass, the trembling leaf, the sparkling 
dew, and in a thousand wonderful operations constantly 
carried on by his superintending care, and which are 
ever present to him who cultivates the soil. That there 
are lessons of trust, of confidence, of submission, to be 
found in the garden and field in many different forms ; 
that wisdom may be found in every flower that blooms, 
or insect that lives ; that there are, 
“ Sermons in stones. 
Books in the running brooks, 
And good in every thing.” 
Such sentiments are gaining ground, and as they are 
received, so will the farm-house become embellished with 
books, with shade trees, with climbing plants and flowers, 
and contented hearts, and the home of the farmer become 
the happiest of all our land. 
BERMUDA AND NUT GRASS. 
We have been reading attentively in the Cultivator, a 
description of the Bermuda Grass — and from the descrip- 
tion given, believe it to be nothing more or less than our 
common Coco. The writer speaks of two kinds, one the 
“greatest pest, and the other the greatest blessing.” If we 
are right in our opinion, the Georgians can get plenty of 
the seed, and have it in welcome, by sending to any part 
of Louisiana. The planters here would be glad to get rid 
of the stuff— it’s the curse of the country .” — Iberville Gaz- 
ette. 
Remarks. — The Bermuda and Coco (or “Nut Grass”) 
are entirely different, and there is enough of the latter in 
Georgia without troubling our Louisiana friends for 
seed. It is truly, as the Gazette says, a “curse” to any 
country — Eds. 
GAUGING OR MEASURING CORN IN BULK 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have a short rule 
for guaging, founded on correct principles (which I can 
satisfactory explain, if any of the readers of the Cultivator 
desire it) and as I have never seen anytng like it, perhaps 
it may be worth a little to some of your subscribers, so I 
will send it to you for publication. A neighbor of mine 
was cheated out of five barrels of corn, which would not 
have been the case had he been acquainted with the fol- 
lowing simple 
RULE : 
Multiply the length, width and height together and then 
multiply that product by 8. Cut off the two right hand 
figures, the left hand period is the correct answer in bar- 
rels. J* R Gunnells. 
Bold Spring, Ga., 1856. 
