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valuable journal, the recipe and process of making the 
Star and Adamantine Candles'? My “ better half” has 
tried sundry recipes already published for hardening lard 
and tallow candles ; some make them an ugly color, and 
all that she has tried, leave them too soft, including alum, 
salt petre and nitric acid. Our State abounds in fine beef 
and plenty of tallow, with no market for the latter, which 
we could turn to profit did we know how to make, even 
our own candles. 
With many wishes for the prosperity of Southern Po- 
litico Agricultural Movements, 
I am your obedient servant, W. A. M. 
Fairfield^ Texas, 1856. 
PROPES SELECTION OF SEED. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I notice in a late 
number of the Cultivator an article on the proper selection 
of seed. I endorse all friend B. F. R. has stated. I have 
been pursuing this course for the last 4 years, by personal 
attention, and am convinced that I have been fully paid 
for my trouble, though I would say much depends on the 
kind of cotton planted. I have been experimenting with 
the Calhoun cotton, but as I have not seen an article in 
your journal in behalf of the Calhoun, I suppose it is not 
generally known. The origin of the Calhoun cotton in 
this State cannot be dated farther back than 1848 or 1849, 
at which time the stock on hand did not amount to one 
dozen seed, and as the production the first year far sur- 
passed the most sanguine expectations, they were care- 
fully preserved, and the second year’s production gave a 
convincing proof that it was no ordinary cotton. I became 
convinced of the superior quality of the Cotton, and de- 
termined to have a few of the seed at any price, and by 
adopting the plan above alluded, I think that I have se- 
cured a few of the best seed I have ever seen, judging 
from the yield and other advantages. And in conclusion, 
I would say, try the Calhoun. Yours, &c., 
A. M. Blake. 
Greenwood, S. C., 1856. 
MEASURHIG CORN IN THE CRIB-CORRECT RULE. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I see, in the April 
number of the Cultivator, a rule given for gauging or 
measuring corn in the ear, by Mr. J. D. Gunnells, which 
he seems to think correct, but it will not exactly do. In 
a binn of corn 10 feet square and 10 feet high, it will lose 
3 1-3 barrels. I have noticed several rules in the Cultiva- 
tor heretofore for the same purpose, but do not recollect 
to have seen one yet that is exactly correct, and as I have 
one that is nearer right than any of them, I give it to you 
for publication, if you have room for it. I have tried it 
faithfully and would as soon measure corn by it as the 
half bushel. A nice trial will convince any one of its cor- 
rectness. Here it is : 
RULE. 
Multiply the length, width and height together and di- 
vide the product by T2, and you will have the correct 
.answer in barrels. Respectfully yours, 
J. F. Morton. 
Dirt Tov:n, Ga., April, 1856. 
AGEICULTDEAL IMPLEMENTS FOR THE SOUTH. 
The Southern Sun, published at Yazoo City, informs 
us that Dr. A. W. Washburn, of Yazoo county, has invent- 
ed several agricultural implements, which will prove of 
.great advantage to planters in enconomizing labor and 
time at the busiest season of the year. These implements 
have all been patented, and we learn from Gen. Mitchell, 
.of this county, that in a very short time they will be ex- 
hibited in this city, when planters and othei's interested in 
agriculture will have an opportunity of examining them. 
The Sun gives the following description of these imple- 
ments and the use to which each is intended to be ap- 
plied : 
The Cotton Planter is operated by one mule and one 
driver, planting as many acres per day as five hands and 
two mules. The cotton beds are drilled any depth, from 
one inch to six deep ; regulating the quantity of seed from 
half a bushel to 5 per acre. It prepares the bed by throw- 
ing off and crushing every clod on the roughest ground ; 
drills, sows, covers and rolls, leaving the bed in a convex 
shape. Every seed separated and distinctly itnbedded. 
It is adapted for planting corn as well as any other seed, 
either in drill or step drop. 
The Chopper Out is a very important concomitant to 
the Planter. To avoid trampling crop in the beds, two 
mules are attached and one hand arranges. This bars, 
scrapes and bunches out the cotton or corn (at one turn of 
each row) any distance required, from five to ten or thirty 
inches apart, performing as much work in one day as by 
the usual method requires eight hands and two mules. 
The third implement, the Hiller or Dirter, with two 
mules, and one to manage, replaces the earth to the cotton 
or corn to any depth required most conducive to the health 
of the plant, performing as much work per day as five 
single plows. These machines are strong and simply 
constructed, very durable, and as readily repaired as a 
common plow. 
Planters requiring farther information respecting this 
most valuable Southern agricultural improvement, can be 
satisfied by application to the proprietor. Dr. Washburn, 
or Dr. G. W. Woodbury and James J. B. White, Yazoo 
City; Dr. L. F. Henderson, Canton, Madison county: 
Hon. C. S. Tarpley and Hon. W. L. Sharkey, Jackson, 
Miss. — Vicksburg Whig. 
FOUNDER IN HORSES. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — As the Cultivator is 
a channel through which knowledge is diffused, and I be- 
ing one of its many subscribers, if I may not be consider- 
ed trespassing, suffer me to lay claim to a short space in 
one of its columns for the purpose of giving what has 
proved with me an infallible cure for the Founder in 
Horses. I have tried various remedies, but never have suc- 
ceeededas well as with the following : 
On first discovering the animal to be afflicted, bleed very 
freely from the neck and drench with a pint of hog’s lard 
and have a gallon of boiling water and take a mop made 
of pine tops and dip it in the v/ater while boiling and 
bathe the legs, from the knees downward to the hoofs, and 
repeat the process of bathing three times a day until a 
cure is effected ; in the mean, burn a brush heap and rake 
off the fire and put two or three blankets over the animal’s 
body and then stand the animals on the earth until it per- 
spires freely. I had a case of founder, and a bad one at 
that, recently, and treated it as above, and in 18 hours the 
animal was able to work. 
Now, if you think this worth publishing you can give 
it room in your columns; if not you may throw it under 
die table. J. M. B., an Overseer. 
Jefferson, county, Fla., 1856. 
Save the Bones. — The value of bones, in almost any 
form, as a manure for field or garden, should induce farm- 
ers to save them for this purpose. In the winter, especi- 
ally, quantities might he gathered to be broken in spring 
and mixed with compost, or applied directly to the soil. 
