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ROTTING OF APPLES ON THE TREE. 
Editors Southkrn Cultivator — I have read your 
sheet for nearly two years, and 1 think very highly of the 
work, and further think it should be read by every one 
who attempts to till the soil, whether he calls himself a 
farmer or not; for, by reading and practising what he 
reads, I have no doubt he would soon make a farmer. 
I would like to make one request of your grey beards, 
which is this : What will prevent the rotting of Apples on 
the trees, and that before they are matured ? 
I have a large orchard ; a great part of summer apples 
rotted, as above stated; and my winter apples rotted en- 
tirely; so that I am without any of either kind. They 
would begin by small specks appearing, which would in- 
crease in number and size until the whole apple would be 
covered with rot. This happened to all the varieties. This 
was the case with others in the vicinity. Now what will 
prevent it? Yours respectfully, G. B. 
Rock Spring, Desoto Co., Miss., 1856. 
Remarks. — Discard your Northern varieties and substi- 
tute Southern Seedling Apples ; then cultivate the ground 
properly and you will escape the rot, unless your soil needs 
underdraining. — Eds. 
GRAPE CULTURE IN TPIE SOUTH. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have read with 
much interest the communications from Dr. McDonald 
and Mr. Weller in answer to a request of mine through 
the Cultivator, relative to Grape culture in the South. 
In Mr. Weller’s communication the great sine qvi non 
is good soil. If that be the principle pre-requisit for the 
growth and final development of the Grape, we are beyond 
a doubt in possession of that part of the jug of wine. 
Our soil, with proper culture, yields, abundantly, any- 
thing we ask of it ; and I have no doubt but it would suit 
the grape-growing, as we have in the wood or wild lands 
a great variety of the wild grape, the vines of which are 
larger than I ever saw elsewhere. The Muscadine also 
produces abundantly, 
I should be much pleased if the above-named gentlemen 
(or either of them) would, at their leisure, give me the 
mode of wine-making; the number of hands re- 
quired to a given amount of vineyard or barrels of wine; 
the time of gathering, pressing, &c , of the fruit. I am dis- 
posed to think the only crop that would come in collision 
with the grape culture is, or would be, “king-coiton.” 
A friend has suggested the probability of trouble by a 
certain kind of worm perforating the barrels and letting 
out their contents. Do you know of any such trouble- 
some “wine-bibbers” in Georgia or the Carolinas? 
With respect J, S. Greenlee. 
Enterprise, La., 1856. 
Preparing Osage Orange Seed. — Isaac L. Stanley, of 
Rensselaer, Indiana, says, to prepare this seed for plant- 
ing, “Tie it up in a bag and sink in running water three or 
four weeks; if you have no running water, deposit it in 
any vessel filled with cold water, taking care to change 
the water everyday, to prevent fermentation.” He thinks 
this is not generally known, and imparts it as having 
been proved to be a good plan, by two years experience. 
— Prairie Farmer. 
Eemarks. — We know the above method to be good 
from practical experience, and can safely recommend it to 
our readers. — Eds. So. Cult. 
A Choaked Horse. — Bailors Southern Cvliivator — 
Take a strong cord and lift one of his fore feet until his 
leg gets soft, then tie it tight above the knee and turn him 
loose. I never have seen it fail. J. S. 
FRUITS FOR THE SOUTH. 
“POCAHONTA” PEACH. 
This beautiful new peach is unquestiontibly a Georgia 
Seedling The original tree stands in a large old field in 
Macon county, remote from any other tree. It is a large 
yellow-fiesl.’ed fruit of rather elongated form. Skin, as 
well as fle.sh, of a lighter colour than the “Columbia” 
^also called “Pace ’ and “Tinley”) peach, which it some- 
what resembles, but is superiour to it in flavor. 
A friend, a first-rate judge of peaches, sent me scions of 
it for grafting, some years ago. He wrote; “Having at 
one time planted and cultivated an orchard of several 
thousand peach trees in Delaware, for the supply of the 
Philadelphia market, and being intimately acquainted 
with the extensive peach growers of that State, I have seen 
something of good peaches, and I pronounce this the 
finest I have ever eoien. North or South.'’' It bore with me 
for the first time last summer, ripening by the 10th of 
August. Owing to the general failure of the peach crop 
and to the excessive drouth, the specimens were by no 
means perfect; but still bore evidence that this variety 
will fully come up to the high praise bestowed upon it. 
Robert Nelson. 
Macon, Ga., 1856. 
Peach Tree Borer — Tansy. — We saw it stated, two 
years ago, in an agricultural journal that these pests could 
be driven from peach trees, by Tansy. We planted it at 
the roots of some ten or twelve trees, and not one of them 
have been disturbed, whilst others are injured badly. 
This spring we intend planting it around all. — Newberry 
{S. C.) Sun. 

DISTElirPER IN B0GS~A SURE CURE! 
Editors Southern Cultivator — A Tennessee corres- 
pondent wishes to know an infallible cure for Distemper 
in Dogs, and “Felix” has undertaken to give one ; but as 
he seems doubtful of its infallibility, I will give one which 
has never been known to fail. It is this : 
Take 2 or 3 grains of strychnine, or apply to the dog’s 
head a cold leaden pill from the barrel of a gun, and no 
one will ever have occasion to complain of his catching 
sheep or sucking eggs or being subject to any other* dis- 
temper. 
Now, I am aware that I may be thought to be treading 
on forbidden ground, and infringing some one’s privileges. 
So I used to think when I tried to raise sheep, but have 
long since given it up. Our legislators are afraid of deli- 
cate subjects, but if four-fifths of the yelling scamps were 
defunct there would be plenty left. 
The writer only intends these as passing remarks, ap- 
plicable to his neighborhood, as a general thing, and not 
directed to “Felix,” or any correspondent in particular. 
J. 0. 
Jefferson county , Ga., April, 1856. 
§^^We re-pubhsh the following at the request of one 
of our readers : 
Cure of Scratches on Horses. — Take a teaspoonful 
of arsenic, put it in half pint of boiling water-, let it re- 
main from three to five minutes. After it has cooled, ap- 
ply with a mop to the parts affected. “It is a certain 
cure," and is the only sovereign remedy I ever tried on 
mules. — Correspondent of the Southern Cultivator. 
g^’It is very rare to find ground which produces no- 
thing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees, 
and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same 
with man; if he is not virtuous he becomes vicious . — LC 
Bragere. 
