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BOUTHBKN CULTIVATOE. 
Buy a Broom. — We notice, by the Yorkstown Register^ 
that Poland, in Mahoning county, ‘carries the broom,’ as 
against all towns in the way of manufacturing that indis- 
pensable article of household utensils. 
There are eight broom manufactories in the town, which 
turn out 300 dozen brooms per week, or 150,000 dozen 
per year. 
The parties engaged in their manufacture are as fol- 
lows ; Ferrel & Co.; Cunningham & Co.; J. Smith, Kirt- 
land, Lee & Co.; Hugh Cover, Brown & Co.; Jared Elli- 
ott, Elijah Drake. There may be others, but these are 
all we heard mentioned. The brooms are mostly shipped 
to Pittsburgh, and sold at wholesale. 
Improved machinery has been brought to bear in the 
manufacture of these articles. A ‘Self Regulating Broom 
Machine,’ for binding brooms with cord, wire or brass 
bands, has been recently patented, we believe by Kirtland 
Smith & Co., which greatly facilitates the tying on of the 
broom corn. The machine is entirely of iron, very sim- 
ple in its structure, and enables a skillful workman to turn 
out brooms with great rapidity. A single hand will make 
with it from 2 to 4 dozen per day. 
The manufacturers pay for the broom corn from S3 to 
$4 per hundred weight, a price which makes it a good crop 
for farmers to grow. The handles are purchased from 
persons engaged in turning them, at SlO per thousand. — 
Ohio Parmer. 
lurticnituial Itparfiiitiit. 
^ BAERER STEAWBEREY PLANTS. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Can you or some of 
■your numerous contributors to the Southern Cultivo.tor 
tell me how to make my strawberry plants bear fruit I I 
have had a bed say 40 by 30 feet square for 4 years, and the 
plants are large and fine, but have never borne more than a 
gill of berries yet. I have never kept the runners (which 
are many) scrupulously picked off until this spring. They 
have thousands of blooms, but fall off and the point 
where the berry ought to come, dries up. 
I do not know what name to give them, as they are 
wild. I found them in my plantation — tliey are all over 
it. I selected those from two corners of the fence, out of 
which I gathered nearly a hat full of r'pe berries at one 
time of, say, medium size. 1 know of some persons who 
do not cut the runners at all, and still have an abundance 
of berries. 
Will the keepiing of the runners closely picked off this 
season make them bear this spring I or, will it not have 
this effect until next spring'? 
I take the Cultivator. Any information will be thank- 
fully received. Yours, &c., J. F. M. 
Mount Hickary, Chattooga, Co., Go , , May, 1856. 
[You should plant a due proportion of staminate and pis- 
tiliaate plants, as heretofore recommended. See our Au- 
gust and November numbers, of last year (1855).,, We 
can supply you with plants in November, and they will 
furnish you a good crop of fruit next May. — Eds.] 
Fruit IN the Piney Woods of Mississippi. — D. Hans- 
DROUGH, Esq., (one of our subscribers) writing from Col- 
lamer, Copiah Co., Miss.; 
“I am delighted so far with the piney woods. My fruit 
trees, particularly the pear, are growing finely. I am in 
the woods and not a tree amiss wherel stuck down stakes 
last October. 1 have a hard road to travel; and the people 
tell me I am killing my land by deep plowing, but 1 in- 
tend to give it a thorough trial, and will charge you with 
the result. Respectfully, D. R.” 
THE CURCULIO-— AN EFFECTUAL PREVENTIVE 
AGAINST. 
Editors Southern Cultivator— I have, from two 
years observation and experimentting, at least found a 
I'emedy by which the Curculio may be destroyed. The 
process by which I rid my plum and other fruit trees of 
the destructive ravagers may be an old thing to you and 
the fruit growing community at large ; if not, it will not 
discommode any one in the least to try the experiment 
You can have the secret lor what you may consider it 
worth. It is as follows : 
Early in the sping, when the plum begins to send forth 
its bloom and young leaves, be careful to notice and pay 
particular attention to your trees, and on the first appear- 
ance of the fell destroyer of one of our greatest luxuries, 
begin your work of destruction by making large smokes 
of tobacco stems or leaves among your fruit trees night 
and morning, for one week ; and my word for it, you will 
have an abundance of fine fruit and destroy the filibusters 
by millions. 
If my discovery is an old one cast it aside with the 
other trash in your rubish recepticle. My intentions are 
to do good, not to make myself conspicuous as a letter 
writer, for my abilities are too limited to make the attempt- 
Respectfully your obedient, servant, 
J. C. White. 
Po,ruh of Vermillion, Perry's Biidge, La,., June, 1856. 
[A good remedy, and deserving of extensive trial. — 
Eds.] 
INSTRUCTION ON THE ART OF MAKING WINE. 
BY CADET-DB-VAUX. 
Published by order of the French Government. 
TRAN.SLATED BY J. It., OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. 
At a time when many respectable farmers, of this and 
the adjoining States, are bestowing a considerable degree 
of their attention on the cultivation of the Vine, surely, it 
will not be improper to offer to them, and the public, a 
clear and short treatise on the art of converting the grape 
into wine— it is well known that this branch of rural in- 
dustry is, for France, an immense source of wealth. Why 
should it not turn to the same advantage to the Southern, 
States, so highly favored by the quality of their soils and 
their climate 1 
That wine of a good and wholesome quality can be 
made in this country, has been fully proved ; and that 
with proper management, it may be a source of wealth to 
many who, at present, toil in vain to raise a competency 
with our cotton staple, is a consideration which ought 
not to be discarded. The cultivation of the vine and its 
conversion into wine, would naturally produce an excel- 
lent effect on the morals of the people, though it be not pre- 
tended that the use of ardent spirits would be immediate- 
ly relinquished ; still when a substitute, innocent and 
agreeable, would be offered at a low price, it can hardly 
be imagined how the vicious habit could continue to exist . 
The original work, the translation of which is presented 
to the public, is the production of Cadet-de-Vaux, a cele- 
brated French Chemist, and member of several Agricul- 
tural Societies in France; in it he has condensed the views 
of Cbaptal in his treatise on cenolgy. The remarks of 
Mandel, another Chemist, on the same v/ork, are heteu: ' 
