SOUTHERN cultivator. 
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AGBICTJLTTJRAL INCOME OF THE UNITED STATES. 
The following is an estimate of the quantity and value 
of the agi-icuUural products of the United Slates for tlie 
year 1855— compiled at the Agricultural Bureau. 
The vast resources of our ocean-bound Republic, when 
thus presented in bulk, are well calculated to astonish even 
the most credulous : 
Indian Corn, bushels, 600,000,0000, at GO cents, $300,- 
300.000. 
Wheat, bushels, 165,000,000, at $1 50, $-347,500,000. 
Rye, bushels, 14,000,000, at $1, $14,000,000. 
Barley, bushels, 6,600,000, at 90 cents, $5,940,000. 
Oats, bushels, 170.000,000, at 40 cents, $68,000,000. 
Buckwheat, bushels, 10,000,000, at 50 cents, $5,000,- 
000 . 
Potatoes (all sorts), bushels, 100,000,000, at 37 1-2 cts., 
$41,250,000. 
Flax Seed, bushels, 58,000, at $1 25, $7-25,000. 
Beans and Peas, bushels, 9,500,000, at $2, $19,000,000. 
Clover and grass seeds, bushels, 1,000,000, at $3, $3,- 
000 , 000 . 
Rice, pounds, 250,000,000, at4 cents, $10,000,000. 
Sugar (cane), pounds, 505,000,000, at 7 cents, $35,350,- 
000. 
Sugar (maple), pounds, 34,000,000, at 8 cents, $2,720,- 
000 . 
Molasses, gallons, 14,000,000, at 30 cents, .$4,200,000, 
Wine, gallons, 2,500,000, at$l, $2,500,000, 
Hops, pounds, 3,500,000, at 15 cents, $5-25,000. 
Orchard products, $25,000,000. 
Garden products, $50,000,000. 
Tobacco, pounds, 190,000,000, at 10 cents, $19,000,- I 
GOO, ! 
Cotton, pounds, 1,700,000,000, at 8 cents, $136,000,- 
(KX). 
Hemp, tons, 34,000, at $100, $3,450,000. 
Flax, pounds, 800,009, at 10 cents, .$80,000. 
Hay and Fodder, tons, 16,000.000, at $10, $160,000,- 
000. 
Pasturage, $148,000,000. 
Horned Cattle, 21,000,000, at $-2(), $420,000,000. 
Horses, Asses and Mules, $5,100,000, at $60, $306,- 
600.000. 
Sheep, 28,500,000, at $2, $47,000,000. 
Swine, 32,000,000, at $5, $160,000,000. 
Poultry , $20,000,000. 
Slaughtered animals, $200,009,000. 
Butter and cheese, pounds, 500,000,000, at 15 cents. 
$75,000,000. 
Milk, gallons, 1,000,000,000, at 10 cents, $100,000,000. 
Wool, pounds, 5,000,000 at 35 cents, $21,000,000. 
Beeswax and Honey, pounds, 16,000,000 at 15 cents. 
-2.400,000. 
Silk Cocoons, pounds, 5,000, at $1, $5,000. 
Total $,2,707,89-2,500, against $1, -299,197,682 of 1849- 
’50. Showing an increase in five years of over 108 per 
cent. It must be remembered, however, that the market 
value of these products is generally rated higher than in 
:ne estimate for 1850. 
This estimate, remarks the Charleston Standard, is ex- 
ceedingly favorably to the agricultural condition of the 
South, so far as may be judged from the specification of 
those articles of produce which belong more peculiarly to 
the Southern States. The value of the cotton crop, for the 
present year, is set down at the sufficiently low figure of 
$136,000,000, against $98,603,7-20, for 1850 — showing an 
increase of over 38 per cent. 
The value of the rice crop has increased in the 5 years 
from $4,000,000 to .$10,000,000 or 250 per cent; tobacco 
from $13,982,686 to $19,000,000 or nearly 36 per cent ; 
cane sugar from $12,378,850 to $35,355,000 or 180 pes 
cent; and wheat, of which the South has of late greatly 
increased her production, from $106,485,9-44 to $-247.- 
j 5U0,944 or from iUu,485,944 Ousiids to l65,U0U,00o oush- 
j els. Other items will appear equally favorable, but these 
’ are sufficient to direct attention to the increasing agricul- 
tural importance of the country and the South. 
THE OREGON PEA. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Last year I procured 
half a pint of Oregon Peas, for which I paid $l 30, wliich 
is too much. 1 planted about the first of June, one half) 
on a small lot ; the rows 3 feet apart by 15 inches in the 
drill, and three peas to the hill. I plowed and hoed one 
time; when the vines got about waist high, the wind blew 
them down. I did not save all the peas, but let my 
chickens gather them, on which they feasted for months,, 
as the vines continued to bear until frost. 
The other half I planted in some new ground, ana 
cut them about the 1 5th of October for hogs, au/d my cows- 
like it better than crab grass hay, corn shucks, or fodder. 
I think every firmer should plant the Oregon Pea ; but 
as the price has been so ihgh, it has deterred many from, 
trying them. I will send one ounce of the Oregon Pea 
to any person that will send me nine cents in postage 
stamps. 
If you think this worth a place in your invaluable jour- 
nal, put it in “ship-shape” and let it go ; and if not, throw 
it with your rubbish, and accept the well-wishes of a 
young farmer, who takes the Southern Cultivator , reads- 
and profits by its instructions. 
Your truly, S. H. Gibbons, 
Prattville, Autauga, Co., Ala.., 1856. 

COLIC IN HOPvSES-A CURE. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have been waiting 
for some time to see if some one of your many subscribers 
would send to you for publication a cure for Colic in 
Horses, similar to mine; but as I do not see any of the 
kind and have been using it for twelve years and have 
lost but "2 in that lengdi of time (that I saw at the com- 
mencement of the attack) and have cured hundreds, E 
think it worth knowing to all : 
TrcaMnciit . — I bleed in the mouth and make, the ani- 
mal v.mrk the under jaw and tongue, as to swallow the 
blood, and have them well rubbed by two men with the 
fist in the sides, commencing about half way the sides 
and rub back to the flank. Then give a drench of one 
pint whiskey with as much assifcetida in it as will de- 
solve; one pint red pepper tea; 4 table spoonsful spirits 
turpentine; 2 table spoonsful salt petre, or 4 of gun pow- 
der and then walk the animal about, but not run, as many 
do. 
If the first drench does not relieve in 10 or 15 minutes, 
rejDeat the same, all but the turpentine.give half the quan- 
tity. I have given it three times, but very seldom more 
than twice. I keep whiskey in a jug or demijohn with 
the assifetida in it always ready. 
Castor oil rubbed on a cut or sore of a horse or anima l 
of any kind will keep all kind of flies away from theni 
without covering the parts with cloth, which many » 
great horseman does for the want of a little knowledge. 
If you consider this worth a place in the CnltivoXor 
slip it in; if not, slip it under the table. I have many 
other things I could send you for your journal, but as 
you have so many writers and those that can put an ar- 
ticle better shape than I can, I will wait for them for this 
present. Yours with respect. 
Old Oversees?, 
Iberville Parish, La., April, 1856. 
