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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
CONTENTS 0 ¥ APRIL NUMBER. 
PLANTATION ECONOMY AND MISCELLANY. 
Work for the Month Page 105 
Agricnltural Addi’css of Col. Henry J. Cannon “ 106 
Cotton Culture “ 108 
The Preparation and use of Manure “ 110 
Georgia and INIississippi Planting “ 111 
Rotation of Crops — an improving Plantation “ 111 
Planting Sweet Potatoes “ 112 
Distemper in Dogs “ 112 
Agricultural Societies — Constitution, General Regulation, 
&c “ 112 
Report on the Culture of Flax and its Preparation for use, 
from the Committee appointed by the Newberry Agri- 
cultural Society “ 113 
Rain water Cisterns “ 113 
The True Policy of the South “ 113 
Spaying Cows — Inquh'y answered, &c “ 114 
On the Proper time for Manuring, &c “ 115 
Japan and Oregon Peas — Vineyards, &c “ 116 
Cultivation of Fishes “ 116 
Agricultural Societies — Constitution, &c — “ 116 
Cold Weather in Mississippi “ 116 
Help One Another “ 116 
Mean Temperature for Six Years past “ 117 
A Farmer’s Life “ 117 
Bermuda and Nut Grass “ 117 
Gauging or Measuring Corn in Bulk “ 117 
Cotton Seed Oil “ 118 
How to Feed Young Horses “ 118 
Home (poetry) “ 118 
East India Cotton “ 118 
Art of Milking “ . 119 
Culture of Sweet Potatoes “ 119 
Cure for Bloody Murrain “ 119 
Red Camomile to Destroy Insects “ 119 
The Vine in Alabama ■. “ 119 
Good Styptic “ 127 
Mr. Cope’s White Oak Tree (illustrated) “ 128 
Subsoiling t!.s. Drouth “ 129 
Birds Earn their own Living “ 129 
Beauty “ 129 
Hints intended to Promote Peace and Harmony in a 
Family “ 129 
ImportanQe of Recreation “ 130 
To make Balky Horse Draw “ 130 
The Fireside (poetry) “ 1,30 
Birds vs. Insects “ 130 
Important Discovery, &c “ 130 
Disinfectants “ 130 
EDITORIAL. 
Answers to Correspondents “ 120 
“Gardening for the South” — Premiums “ 120 
McDowell’s Rhododendron 1 “ 120 
Out of Date ! “ 121 
United States Agricultural Society “ 121 
Agricultural College of Maryland “ 121 
American Bornological Society “ 121 
Our Book Table “ 121 
Sugar Crop of Louisiana “ 121 
To Correspondents “ 121 
Mule Power us. Negro Power “ (122 
Southera Agricultural Societies and Fairs “ 122 
Agricultural Chemistry “ 123 
Condensed Correspondence “ 123 
Horse Show ; “ 123 
HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 
Fruit Culture at the South Page 123 
Transplanting Evergreens “ 125 
To Produce Large Fruit- “ 125 
Mulching Young Fruit Trees “ 125 
Grape Culture — Peaches, &.c “ 126 
Fruits for the South — Holly Apple — Persian Black Mul- 
berry “ 126 
Snap Beans for winter irso “ 126 
Fruit better than Physic “ 127 
Curious Plants “ 127 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY, &C. 
Food for the sick Page 130 
Cheap Oil for Kitchen Lamps “ 131 
To make Lai'd and Tallow' Candles ... . .. “ 131 
A Certain Cure for a Rattle-Snake Bite or Spider Sting. . “ 131 
To Extract Grease from Cloth “ 132 
Watermelon Molasses ... “ 132 
A new Protection against Insects “ 132 
Creosote for Warts “ 132 
To Preserve Sweet Corn “ 132 
Cholic in Horses “ 132 
To Cure Hams “ 132 
For the Cure of Croup, &c “ 132 
Pickle for Beef “ 132 
To make Corn Bread “ 132 
Macassar Oil “ 132 
Custard Pudding “ 132 
Veal Minced with Potatoes “ 132 
Artiiicial Manures for Fruit Trees “ 132 
ILLUSTRATION. 
Mr. Cope’s W^iite Oak Tree Page 128 
1856! 1856! 
SOU'fHERN CULTIVATOR, 
A MONTHLY JOirKJVAI., 
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BREEDING, POULTRY, BEES, GENERAL. 
FARM ECONOMY, &C. 
Illustrated witli iMumerous Engravings. 
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The Fourteenth Vohiine, with many new and valuable 
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Jamiai’y, 1856. 
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THE DEVON HERD BOOK. 
VOL. HI. 
r|T he Subscriber is now ready to receive lists of animals for in- 
X sertion in the third volume of the DEVON HERD BOOK, to 
be published at as early a period in the year 1856 as a sufficient 
number of subscribers can be obtained to w'arrant the issue. 
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price of which will be $1. and also to pay 25 cents for the registry 
of each animal — registry foe to be paid in advance. All animals to 
be elligible for insertion, must be able to trace their descent from, 
unquestionable North Devon stock on both sides; 
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prize Devons. The price for these two volumes will, in future, be 
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of the above sum. SANFORD HOWARD, 
American Editor of the Devon Herd Book. 
Office of the Boston Cultivator, Boston, Mass., Jan. 19, 1856. 
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