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SOUTHS KN CULTIVATOK. 
raspberries, brambleberries, strawberries, quinces, cherries, 
plums, cranberries, basket willow, walnuts, chesnuts, 
bees, honey, wood, maple sugar. 
Here, then, we have enumerated sixty different articles 
which, at the low average estimate of $10, will give the 
handsome sum of $G00. A nice little income, isn’t it ? 
Why would it not be a good plan to keep a book in which 
to register and account our crop? We might start with, 
determine to come up to the above estimate, and as our 
experience, ability and capital increased, we might double 
treble, or quadruple it, which last would be $40 for each 
article, or $2,400 in the aggregate. This matter is certain- 
ly worth looking into, if we desire wealth. The Missis- 
sippi is a mighty stream, but it derives its magnitude and 
power from the little rills which come pouring into its 
bosom in the great valley of the West. It is so of wealth 
or wisdom. We must multiply the sources, we if would 
build up a fortune and a reputation . — Dollar Newspaper. 
[A very suggestive article, the main points of which we 
particularly commend to onr readers. — Eds. So. Cult.] 
POLICY OF SOUTHERN PLANTERS. 
The return of seed-time suggests a few remarks appro- 
priate to the season, and bearing upon the true policy of 
Southern planters, as derived from the experience of the 
past. 
In many portions of the South, agricultural interests have 
prospered in spite of the defective systems upon which 
they have been conducted, as well as the entire absence of 
any system, as is the case in many instances. A propi- 
tious heaven and generous earth have overcome the errors 
of man and prospered his ill-directed exertions. There 
are many portions of the country, however, where these 
blessed influences are less liberally felt, to be found chiefly 
where the population has become dense and the capacity 
of the soil exhausted by over taxing. Here judgment and 
system become necessary in order to secure a reasonable 
remuneration to labor ; and it is to those occupying such 
less favored sections that a word of advice may not be 
wholly out of season or unprofitable. 
The over-production of cotton, to the almost entire neg- 
lect of cereal crops, and consequently the animal products 
dependent thereon, we have long felt convinced has con- j 
stituted the principle obstacle to the success of many of 
our planters. It may be worked out on paper that it is j 
better to plant cotton and buy bread, pork, mules and I 
horses, with its products; butit is a notorious fact that our j 
planters who act on a different principle and pursue exact- 
ly the opposite course have become the wealthiest, most 
independent and comfortable class of the community. The 
truth is, thew'ealthof the country is to-day in the hands 
ofjust such men, and we invite any one who doubts it to 
look around among his neighbors, and he will find a 
practical attestation of its truth. It is the two and three 
bag planters that own nearly the entire country ; lend 
money annually to the producers of ten bags, and come 
in as the chief distributees of the estates of the latter when 
they die. This is not only true, but it is the legitimate re- 
sult of sound principles judiciously applied. 
Could the planter have a guarantee of ten cents annual- 
ly for his cotton, and that the price of flour would keep at 
six dollars per barrel, corn at forty cents a bushel, and 
pork at four cents, and that all these necessaries shall con- 
tinue to be supplied at his own door, the figure work of the 
theorist might be regarded as a safe rule for his guidance. 
But nothing is more uncertain than the happening of these 
contingencies, and the very fact that his own policy is 
withdrawing labor from the production of these com- 
modities, is one of the sure causes of uncertainty. With 
cotton at five and six cents, and the necessaries of life at 
the common prices which we have had to pay for them 
for some years past, we can see no other fate for the man 
who continues his attention to cotton, but inevitable ruin. 
In the long run, the planter who himself produces what 
is necessary for the support and comfort of his family, and 
at the same time exercises a proper economy in his expen- 
ditures, is bound to become prosperous and independent. 
The whole history of the past fnlly establishes thjs fact. 
It is ourintention merely to glace at the subject in this ar- 
ticle, and we have consequently omitted many points that 
might be brought to establish the position we are seeking 
to impress upon the mind of the planter. The difference 
between the effect produced on our lands by the produc- 
tion of cotton and those of the grain crops, constitutes an 
important item which should not be left out of the account 
in an investigation of this subject. 
The last year presents a practical illustration of the 
soundness of the views we have presented. A large ma- 
jority of our planters planted large grain crops and paid 
less attention to cotton, and the result has been most fa- 
vorable. Our people were never in more comfortable cir- 
cumstances than they are and have been during the pre- 
sent winter. Their cotton has brought remunerative 
prices in comfort and plenty. The experiment has proved 
a successful one, and we hope it may be continued until it 
shall become the settled policy of our people. — Savannah 
Republican. 
PHYSICAL EXERCISK 
One of the principle causes, if not the cause, of the at- 
tenuated and pallid appearance of Americans, is doubtless 
the neglect, or rather the violation— the habitual violation 
of the rules laid down by Nature for muscular develop- 
ment. The class of men in this country whose occupa- 
tions are such as almost necessarily lead to the formation 
of sedentary habits, is very large, larger perhaps in propor- 
tion, than that of any other commercial nation. And this 
will account in a measure for the fact that the various 
complaints, generally the concomitants of insufficient ex- 
ercise, are more prevalent here than elsewhere. Our 
young men become clerks at an early age, and being thus 
confined to the narrow limits of a counting-room at a time 
of life when the open air and constant motion of the body 
are indispensable, it is not surprising that they should be 
in their manhood so sadly deficient in muscular vigor and 
exhibit so little of the athletic developments that are looked 
for in the sterner sex. With many such their lot is their 
fate, or is imposed as a necessity from which there is no 
escape, and, for these there is some excuse for the loss of 
health and life. But what shall be said of those who make 
no effort to ameliorate their condition, or of that still more 
culpable class, who, from mere indolence, suffer their 
bodies to waste away, to sink into premature old age — 
actually paying a premium for crooked spines, humped 
backs, round shoulders, attenuated limbs and drooping 
heads ! Such persons are guilty of a species of suicide, 
which, inasmuch as it is more deliberate, may be equally 
more criminal than when the “brittle thread” is severed 
in an instant by the victim of misfortune or delirium. 
In Germany, they thought that they saw the young de-, 
generating, both physically and socially ; and after severe 
study and mature reflection, recommended by eloquent 
appeals through the public prints, the adoption of vocal 
and gymnastic exercises, as characteristics of the German 
race. In a short time, gymnastic and vocal societies were 
organized throughout the whole extent of Germany, 
which have resulted in a highly favorable revolution in the 
physical condition of the people. It is not really neces- 
sary for pi operand healthful exercise that one should be 
provided with parallel bars, &c., for there are many things 
at hand that many be substituted for them, which can be 
made with no expense or trouble, equally efficient. Fist 
irons, it is suggested by a contemporary, can be used to 
