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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
its thousands annually. May we not be permitted to hope 
something from this new species 7 * * They should be 
planted in a light soil, in drills, and about afoot apart, and 
suffered to run on poles,” 
[We have heard of a similar root at Silverton, S. C., on 
one of the plantations of our friend, Gov. Hammond. 
Who knows anything of its practical value 1 — Eds. So, 
Colt.] 
THE YOPON, OR SOUTHERN TEA PLANT. 
Class 4, I Natural order, 95, I Ilex. Vomiloria. 
Order 3, 1 D. Ilicineae. 1 Yopon S. S. Tea. 
Medical properties, tonic, astringent. 
Forms a go(^ beverage for the sick, particularly in 
fevers. 
This hardy evergreen shrub is found coastwise on the 
Atlantic slope, from Albamarle Sound, North Carolina, to 
the Rio Grande in Texas, and perhaps as far north as the 
Gulf of California, on the Pacific slope. It delights mostly 
in the poor, dry, sandy points and headlands, among 
rocks and dreary glade-lands, and frequently on small 
creeks and rivulets. In the formation of that most unholy 
compound called chaparrel, and which, to the muleteer 
and herdsman of Mexico and Western Texas, is so much 
in the way, so annoying, and so destructive to sacks, 
blankets, clothing, &c., the Yopon contributes, at least, 
a full proportion of scraggy hooks and irresistible snags. 
The leaves of the Yopon, when collected in August or 
September, carefully dried in the shade, and put up in 
air-tight canisters, are, v/hen made into tea of proper 
strength for table use, not inferior to the tea we find in 
market. Some people like it better, and certainly it ex- 
erts a less deleterious influence on the vital forces. 
In the form of tea, it is a pleasant diaphoretic in sick- 
ness, and is peculiarly applicable to fever of ali grades. 
In cases of fever attended with a dry skin and restlessness, 
it frequently acts kindly as a soothing diaphoretic. In 
many cases of slight bilious disturbances, it is sufficient to 
put the patient in bed, with a hot rock wrapped in a damp 
cloth to his feet, with blankets or quilts over him sufficient 
to keep him comfortable, and let him drink freely of the 
Yopon tea, till he sweats the fever off. 
In Florida, New Orleans, Mobile, and many other points 
along the Southern coast, it has been long known and es- 
teemed by the Indians and poor people as the best remedy 
for yellow fever ; hence its specific name, Vomitoria; 
relying upon it solely in the most aggravated cases, and 
many of them recovering. The unavoidable conclusion is, 
if the Yopon did not cure these cases, that there 
is no use for doctors ; for they applied nothing else. — Tex- 
es Telegraph. 
MIXED CROPS— WHEAT, SUGAR CANE, ETC. 
Mr. Editor — None of your correspondents have ever 
written anything in reference to making molasses, sugar 
and flour, that I have noticed. I think it is high time 
that all the planters were turning their attention to some- 
thing else besides Cotton. Twice as much could be 
realized by raising the above articles, and with only half 
the labor, too, that is now expended on cotton. 
I do not wish the planters any harm, for I am one my- 
self; but I would not care if they had to pay S50 per bar- 
rel, for sugar and molasses. The planters of Texas are 
certainly doing themselves a great injury by not making 
their own flour, molasses and sugar. 1 will guess at the 
amount of cash expended yearly for each in the country. 
Suppose there is 1,000 barrels of flour consumed yearly, 
at .<1^12 per barrel, delivered at Port Lavaca, will make 
S12,000; 500 barrels of sugar, atSl5 per barrel, will make 
S7,500 ; 500 barrels of molasses, at Sl2 per barrel, will be 
$6,000, v/hich, added together, will make $25,500 that is 
sent out of the country yearly, which might be kept in it. 
No wonder the cry of hard times. Planters, wake up out 
of a slumber that is the cause of great sacrifice of your 
own interests. I am glad to see a great many have com- 
menced the raising of v/heat, and a few the sugar cane. 
Planter, in Gonzales Inquirer. 
ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES. 
Beware of flashy gentlemen. Fine clothes do not make 
the man. Moustaches, whiskers and frizzled hair fre- 
quently adorn the vagabond. Just ascertain, before ad- 
mitting him to your society, whether the tailor and bar- 
ber have not contributed more in his “making up” than 
good character and manly principle. Beware of flashy 
flunkeys and fashionable vagabonds in disguise. Inves- 
tigate the animal, before giving away your affections.” — 
Exchange. 
I have known girls to turn, with scorn, from young 
farmers or mechanics, and marry a thing without brains, 
simply because he was more showy, and of too high pre- 
tension, to stoop to labor. 
I have seen the same females suffering in poverty, with 
their helpless children ; while the young farmers or me- 
chanics arose to wealth. Females are apt to be taken up 
with strangers who make a flashy, outside appearance. 
Some girls will run farther afeer a human monkey, with 
plenty of hair on his upper lip, than they would after the 
man of sterling merit, without the tuft of hair under hk 
nose . — Portland Pleasure Boat.^^ 
Salt and Guano. — Recent experiments, as stated in 
the Mark Lane (Eng.) Express, go to show that common 
salt is a valuable addition to all applications of guano to 
the soil. It not only has a tendeney to give strength and 
hardness to the straw (which guano weakens,) but pre- 
vents the loss of ammonia, which is constantly going on, 
even in a dry atmosphere. B. Barral, the editor of a 
French agricultural journal, says : “We left in the open 
air, on plates, during fiUeen days equal weights of the 
pure guano and the guano previously mixed with salt. 
At the end of that time we examined anew the amount 
of nitrogen, and found that the pure guano had lost 14.6 
per cent of its nitrogen, while that mixed with salt had 
lost only 5 per cent.” The Express recommends the use 
of the refuse salt from fish packers for this purpose, and 
refuse salt would, probably answer the purpose. 
[We recommended the sprinkling with brine of guano 
compost — 5 parts leaf-mould, 1 of guano — three or four 
years ago, in this journal; but “new discoveries” are con- 
stantly coming up to astonish us! — Eds. So. Cult.] 
A Daughter of South Carolina. — Miss Peggy Land, 
a young woman of Pickens District, about twenty-four 
years of age, after trying weaving, carding, spinning and 
sewing, last year went to farming, and made cotton which 
netted her $100. Her corn crop was two hundred and fif- 
ty bushels, worth sixty cents per bushel, and she made 
thirty-five bushels of wheat, worth one dollar and fifty 
cents a bushel. She accomplished this herselt, without 
any assistance or hiring. She plowed, drove the cart, cut 
her wheat and cribbed her corn, &c. 
The. American Agricnlturist , heretofore published 
by R. L. Allen & Co., lias been purchased by Orange 
Judd, A. M., by whom it will be exclusively conducted in 
future. Mr. J. has been the conducting editor for several 
years past, and possesses an ability and experience which 
ought, and we trust will, insure a career of prosperity and 
1 usefulness. ^ Rural New Yorker. 
