SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
ITIs 
516.000. 000, to which, if the cost of making them into 
paper, including 1 3-4 cents to each pound of paper in 
labor, with wastage, chemicals, &c., be added, would 
swell the cost to ;r:23,G25,0Uu to produce S^7,000,000 of 
paper — leaving nett profits on the total manufacture of 
53. 375. 000. For the year ending the 30th June, 1855, we 
imported 40,013,510 pounds of foreign rags from 20 differ- 
ent countries. Of this amount, Tuscany, in Italy, supplied 
14.000. 000 pounds, Two Sicilies 6,000,000, Austria 
4.000. 000, Egypt 2,406,028, Turkey 2,466,028, England 
2,501,178. The total valueof the 40,013, 510pounds import- 
ed was, SI, ‘225, 150. 
It is possible that the cotton fields of the South may fur- 
nish an almost inexhaustable supply of hemp, so as here- 
after we will reach the great desideratum in modern civili- 
zation, an abundant and cheap supply of paper. — Savan- 
nan Republican. 
CORRESPOITDENCE OF THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
Editors Southern Cultivator— Although I am ignor- 
ant of matters pertaining to practical agriculture, yet I am 
desirous, in some way, to add a flower to the beautiful 
garland that adorns your valuable journal; in consider- 
ation of which, I send you the following modest token, 
culled in the garden of the muses, and trust it may not be 
deemed amiss. John Gierlow. 
yiacon, Ga., Map, 1856. 
THE PLEASURES OF A COUNTRY LIFE. 
Paraphrased from the Second Book of Virgil’s Georgies.* 
Some the seas enrage with paddles. 
Some rubli into arms with fury. 
Some work into courts of monarchs ; 
One to ruin dooms a city — 
Wretched families distressing. 
That he may drink in fair jewels. 
And on Tyriant purple slumber; 
Wealth is hoarded by another. 
Brooding over buried treasures ; 
One, astonished at the rostrum, 
Giddy grows; while loud applauses 
Through the crowded rows come pealing 
To the ears of still another; — 
Some in brother’s blood rejoicing. 
Their sweet home for exile changing. 
Seek a country far oft lying. 
With a crooked plow the farmer 
Cleaves the earth, and hence the labors 
Of the year sustain the country ; 
Hence his litile offspring feeding, 
Herds of kine, and steers deserving. 
Nor of intermission any. 
But the y’ear abounds with apples. 
Breed of flocks, or sheaf of Ceres, 
Or with increase loads the furrows. 
And o’erstocks the barns with plenty. 
Winter comes : the Sicyonianj; 
Berries pounded in the presses; 
Swine come in with acorns gladden’d; 
Autumn gives its various products. 
And the vintage mild is ripen’d 
High upon the sunny mountains. 
^leanwhile babies sweet are twining 
Round the neck of loving parents : 
His chaste folks maintain their virtue; 
Cows hang down their milky udders; 
*A word derived from the Greek ge and ergon, the science of 
husbandry put into poetry. 
tTyrian, from Tjtc, a city of Phanicia in Asia, celebrated for the 
invention of scarlet and purple colors. 
f Sicyonian beny, the Olive, with which Sicyonia, a district of I 
Peioi.oimesu.s, in Greece, aboimded. 1 
And the kids together wrestle 
With their horns on cheerful meadow. 
Celebrating festal seasons, 
Lies the swain on grass extended,. 
Where a fire in the middle, 
And companions crown the wine-cup;,. 
O Lenmus, * thee invoking ! 
On an elm sets forth to masters 
Of the flock the various prizes. 
To be fought for with the javelin ;. 
And they strip their hardy bodies • 
For the rustic ring of combat. 
This old life was well observed 
By the ancient Sabinef nation, 
And by Remus with his brother;. 
Thus Etruriaj:grew in power. 
And thus Rome became the glorjr 
Of the world — became its beauty. 
And hath for herself encompass'd 
Seven hills with wall around then:. 
This life, too, was led by Saturn 
On the earth, before the scepter’d 
Sway of the DictEeanll monarch, 
And before an impious nation 
Feasted on the slaughtered bullocks. 
Nor yet was the warlike trumpets 
Heard by man ; nor yet the sword-blades 
Laid upon the anvils clatter. 
[We welcome Air. Gierlow to our columns. Whf- 
should not the “lofty rhyme” celebrate and glorify ihsr 
charms of agriculture and horticulture — of all pursuits^- 
the most poetical and natural! — Eds.] 
VARIETY OF CROPS. 
The farmer must have not one but many strings »o his- 
bow, so if one fails he can try another. If w^e depend OEi 
one kind of production, and the season proves bad for It; 
we are up “salt river ;” but with a variety of crops vve 
be right with some of them, let the season be what it irsay... 
Hence, our subsistence at least is reduced to a certainty... 
which is not’the case with any other pursuit. Besides, a. 
variety of crops enable us to be sowing and harvesting: 
throughout the season. Some are early and some are 
hence we can be constantly busy, and to purpose, whicL 
is a great desideratum in a cold climate. Raising many- 
different articles, permits us to fill up the measure of 
time and our cellars, corn cribs and granaries to overflow- 
ing, Little things are often overlooked ; but it is many 
minute atoms that form the mighty aggregate. Every 
mason knows that a wall must be well chinked or its per- 
petuity is endangered. Consequently in agriculture \cs 
should not forget the day of small things ; but endeavor, 
by every means in our power, to increase our revenue by 
multiplying its productions. This variety is the spice©* 
life ; and by the sweat of our brow, the curse of iaboi' is- 
removed. I will here mention a list of articles which almos2 
every smaller large farmer may raise and sell to profitr 
wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, corn, broom corn 
millet, beans, peas, hay, straw, corn-fodder, horses, hens, 
geese, turkeys, beef, pork, tallow, lard, hides, mutton., 
wood, butter, cheese, milk, flax, flax seed, potatoes, beets, 
onions, cabbages, carrots, turnips, cucumbers, lettuce^ 
pumpkins, squashes, muskmelons, watermelons, tomatoes, 
peaches, pears, apples, cider, vinegar, currants, grapes, 
*Lenaeus, a snniame of Bacchus, the god of ine, from the Gree%:. 
lenos, a winepress. 
tS.abines, an ancient people of Italy 
fEtruria, (Tuscany,) a country in Italy. 
IIDictaian monarch; Jupiter is so called from Mount DtcteiaCrei3j 
where he was worshipped. 
