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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
m different parts of the garden, particularly on the potato 
oed, and strange, yet true, in one week all sign of them 
had disappeared, and from that time till this (3 months) I 
ha'Te not been troubled with a single one (to my know- 
ledge) in the garden. 
I will say here, it was my intention, ifl did not succeed 
with tlie hominy to try the strychnine in grub worms, as 
! thought this was what they were after, but I succeeded 
to my utmost wishes and had no occasion to make any 
farther triaS. 
Now, Messrs. Editors, permit me to say if you think 
this recipe rK>t worth the space it will require in your pa- 
per, just cast it aside and there will be no harm done. I 
have thus written lengthy and exact for fear “A Subscri- 
ber^^ would have to kill moles like your correspondent, 
‘'‘Green Horn,” said in the September (1855) number he 
bad to make his wine by — experiment. 
Your reader, S. 
New Prospect, Winston co.^ Miss., 1856. 
COTTON PLOW AND SCEAPER, 
B’.ditors Sootoern Cultivator — The cotton planters 
of the South have long wished for an implement that would 
scrape cotton closely and nicely, and at the same time 
clean and pulve.rke the row, whether 3 or 6 feet wide; 
thus doing the work at a single round that it has always 
taken two rounds to perform. That implement was never 
found until Yosts invented the “Plow and Scraper” com- 
bined. With this implement a hand and mule can do the 
woiic in'a cotton field of two hands and mules with any 
tdierplow or scraper. This of itself makes “Yosts’ Plow 
and Scraper” the most valuable cotton plow that has ever 
been introduced in the Planting States ; and then, if you 
take irrto account the capital invested in the extra mule and 
hand, it is a gain of one-half. I have never known a plow 
to give such general satisfaction as has the “ Plow and 
Semper.” 
Mr. SA^ruBL Reous, of Copiah Co., Miss., who is en- 
gaged in a coUoti factory and whose business it is to 
travel extensively over this State, stopped with me last 
night, and in the course of conversation mentioned the 
fact that he had seen many planters in different sections of 
the country that were using “Yosts’ Plow and Scraper,” 
and they all, without a single exception, pronounced them 
the best cotton plow ever invented. 
I have had m 15 acres of cotton and li of corn to the 
efficient hand, and Mississippians say that this has been 
the most unfavorable spring for the cultivation of crops 
y^er known. I have been “in the grass,” but with 
>^Yosts’ Plow and Scaper” I have got out, which I am sure 
1 could not have done without it. These plows must and 
win become the cotton plow of the world. The beauty 
and utility of them, among other things, is to be found in 
the fact that they can be used to great advantage as a 
plots of oM work. 
After using them in the scraping and pulverizing your 
cotton row you may turn on your cotton behind the hoe 
hands, with the bar of the plow next to the cotton and the 
fecrape in the middle of the row, and mold the cotton 
most beautitully and open the water furrow — leaving a 
nice fiat bed to the cotton — at a single round of the mule. 
This implement is not unwieldly — any mule worth S75 
can draw them with ease. Now ifl should speak of what 
has been done in Mississippi in the cultivation of corn 
with those plows your confidence might be shaken, there- 
fore I shall leave the subject with you and your readers, 
lantil they are introduced in Georgia, which will certainly 
be done the ensuing year and you can then see for your- 
selves. 
It is very probable that one of those plows will be on 
exhibition at the Montgomery and Atlanta Fairs in Oct. 
next ; if .so, I may represent it, and then I intend to give to 
the planters of Georgia and Alabama a practical demon- 
stration of what can be done in a cotton field with them. 
Had this plow and scaper been introduced in Georgia this 
year I have no doubt as to the certainly of 20,000 being 
sold in that State next year. The cotton planters of this 
State, ifl am not mistaken, are the last men on earth that 
could be humbugged with a cotton plow. They can teM 
at a single glance at a plow what it will do in a cotton 
field. 
In conclusion, permit to say that if any man on earth 
is benefited by “Yosts’ Plow and Scrapers,” it is the 
poor man who toils alone in the field with his scooter, 
shovel and sweep. With it he can add another hand and 
mule to himself with SlO, and do the work of both. 
I have no personal interest in this matter further than to 
benefit agriculture. Yours, &c., 
G. D. Harmon. 
Utica, Miss., July, 1856. 
Kicking Colts. — Mr. W. L. F. Jones, of Asbury, gives 
us the following mode of breaking colts of the bad habit 
of kicking. Whenever a colt kicks he takes hold of the 
head and neck gently, by clapping his arm around and 
holding on to the nose until he ceases to struggle, patting 
him occasionally and speaking kind words to him. By 
doing this a few times, he says the worst case can be 
cured. — Prairie Farmer. 
INSTRDCnON ON THE ABT OF KAEING WllfE. 
BY CADET-DE-VAUX. 
Published by order of the French Governmei^L 
TP..4NSLATED BY J. R., OF AUGUSTA, GEOSCaA. 
[Continued from our August nuTnber.^ 
OF THE MUCOSO-SACCHARINK MATTER, 
Honey and molasses are both mucoso-sacchariue mat- 
ters. 
To obtain a knowledge of things, it isnecessary to kapw 
their names. 
The mucoEO-saccharine matter is a mucilaginous sitb- 
stance tasting like sugar, whence it derives its nan>e. The 
mucoso-saccharine matter is not sugar ; it does not ciys- 
talize — when reduced to a dry form, it soon absorbs the 
humidity of the air — it is the true leaven of spirituous fer- 
mentation ; it always accompanies sugar, and they are 
separated with great difficulty ; much sugar often remains 
mixed with the mucoso saccharine matter. 
Some grapes are very sweet to the taste, such as the 
grapes of Fontainebleau; it is owing to the mucoso-sac- 
charine matter — these grapes, though exquisite to the 
taste, yield bad wine. 
OF SUGAR. 
Sugar is obtained from the sugar cane. Many vegetables 
contain sugar ; grapes particularly — if you tear off the 
skin of a dried grape you perceive crystalized sugar. 
Sugar is the same throughout nature ; it is obtained firom 
the cane, the grape, the maple, beets, &c. 
DIFFF.RENCE BETWEEN MUCOSO-SACCHARINE MATTER. AM» 
' SUGAR. 
Sugar crystalizes. The mucoso-saccharine matter ex- 
posed to the air, after being dried, regains its moisture. 
Sugar alone does not ferment, or at least its fermentation 
is slow, and imperfect ; it is the same with the mucoso- 
saccharine matter ; but these two elements, with the ad- 
mixture of water, become susceptible of spirituous fermen- 
tation. 
The sugar cane contains the two principles: sugar which 
crystalizes, and molasses (the mucoso-saccharine) whicii 
does not crystalize. 
One quart of Must may yield four drachms of sugar; 
