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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
TO THE MANY CORRESPONDENTS OE M. W. 
PHILIPS. 
Dr. Cloud — Dear Sir : — Before thisreaches you I shall 
be engaged in an entire new work, though really, in my 
humble position as a laborer. I have for many years 
been actively engaged, as you know, in aiding, with my 
ability, to build up our country and aid our race — as an 
agriculturist. I do not mean to stop that, but advancing 
upward whilst I keep this. 
I will leave my home for weeks at a time, to engage in 
the work of arousing man to his duty, in reference to his 
right master and his fellow man. To explain, my busi- 
ness will be to raise funds to send the preached word and 
the Bible to those in the South who have not had access 
thereto. Whilst I am absent, letters will accumulate at my 
home as for the past 75 days, but they will be answered 
at each return. And I thus notify such, if answers be not 
prompt, they may know I an> absent. 
My travels; will be over Mississippi, and whilst my 
business will be to beg men to be earnest in their own 
hearts, and to contribute of their means to send the word 
of Life to the needy, I will have a good opportunity to see ' 
our agriculture, to make the personal acquaintance of our 
planters and farmers, and thus fit myself to be more useful. 
Thus striving to labor, I earnestly request of our editors 
and progressive — reading planters and farmers — that they 
speak a good word tor the cause. If I have helped you dear 
reader, when I have labored for the agricultural cause; may 
I not ask you for some help in my new branch of labor. 
Remember, I only ask for the cause, believing in truth it 
is more exalted than the agricultural part, but a part of the 
same cause. Address as usual, and oblige 
Yours, M. W. Philips. 
Edwards, Miss., July, 1856. 
N. B. — Will all agricultural editors with whom I cor- 
respond, please notice this ? 
GEORGIAN AND ALABAMIAN PLANTERS AND 
FARMERS~COLS. R. PETERS AND 
ALEXANDER CARTER. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — It is due the cause, 
the agricultural public, that I should give for the Benefit of 
all concerned what I saw at the farm of Richard Peters, 
the grand-son of Judge R. Peters of Pennsylvania, (who 
if not the introducer of Red Clover and Plaster to America, 
was one of the earliest and most energetic advocates of 
that article) like his grand parent, foremost in what will 
benefit his country, and like him, may Ire fill the hearts of 
his fellows. 
I am aware that anything I can say of Col. Peters’ 
stock will be laid to the credit of the corn field, and yet 
when he can sell about S400 per hand it shows something 
is made from corn as will as other things. I have not 
seen a prettier lot of Iruit trees North or South, orchard 
laid out as neat as are the trees, gai’den, stables, all 
showing the master hand, although not time as yet to have 
the taste and finish of an old place. All will expect to 
hear of Devons, of Brahmins, of Berkshires, of Cashmeres; 
just go and see for yourselves, and then you will see Berk- 
shires and Essex and a pair of the finest white hogs I ever 
saw ; but I w'as better pleased with the Clover and the 
Herds grass and the Bluegrass, with the great big Graziers, 
and no corn — of course in such pastures. Then the wheat 
field that bids fair to average your 20 to 25 bushels per acre 
and the acres of Japan Peas. Who can say that Peters 
deserves not the thanks of all the South for his demonstra- 
tion that we can make a living without cotton. 
None can— dare — accuse me of being bought up, and if 
they would, I have hosts of friends scattered all over the 
land that would repel the insult; but should they, 1 owe it 
to Col. Peters as well as your readers, to say, R. Peters 
is doing more for the South than any man in it. We need 
a public-spirited man, a man of fortune, of enlarged views 
to test the culture of divers articles. He may and will 
lose a sum, but his country that supports him will be the 
gainer. 
My friends know I would not flatter a living man, they 
know I would not intentionally do or say anything lo 
offend or lead astray — and where is the Southern planter 
who is not my friend ? Since leaving my home on the 
21st of April, I have been treated with more kindness by 
far than I have merited, had I been a Howard I could not 
have been more honored. And I feel humbled and grate- 
ful. 
But that is by the way. I saw such a showing for No. 
1 pastures, after such a winter and spring, that I wish 
every man South could see them. Any body who is not 
too stingy can keep fat hogs and cows and sheep, but 
every body in our country cannot keep them on pasture. 
I ask that our country will award to Richard Peters all 
praise for his success, and hope that he may be to Georgia 
what Richard Peters, the Elder, was to Pennsylvania 
half a century ago. 
I pass on now to Alex. Carter, near Montgomer]/-, 
Ala., and claim for his orchard, a very large one, of native 
apples, a meed of praise. A lovely site and as mathema- 
tically laid off with the cleanest stump and healthiest trees 
lever saw. The mulberry exceeding in bulk of fruit the 
leaf; a herd of milk cows not to be beaten for milk 
the half- fed cows of the land ; hogs that will fatten — this 
stock though made by judicious selections and crosses on 
the place, yet evidently partake of the best qualities of the 
Eastern importations, the stock make a valuable cross, as 
I tried them 9 years ago, and Col. Carter has shown at 
the Montgomery Fair what corn, peas and potatoes will 
do on such stock. Large fields of peas, of corn and some 
cotton, evince clean culture, with the choice mules of our 
country — a pair driven in his carriage would command 
some $600, and Alabama raised mules that are mules. 
During my trip round even as far as Cincinnati, I have 
had many discussions as to the fitness of the South to rear 
mules; could my opponents visit Carter’s they would 
no longer hold an argument. 
I would speak of the cloth made at home for the plan- 
tation, of the quantity and variety of patch- work, and of 
the quantity of silver premiums, but I would praise ray- 
own household and the industry of a mother who reared 
us. Enough for the present. Your truly’, 
M. W. Phil) PS. 
Edwards, Miss., June, 1856, 
The Texas Ant. — One of our “Lone Star” exchanges 
contains the following advertisement, which we give “for 
the benefit of all concerned 
Having discovered a process for destroying the Grazing- 
or Cutting Ant, and having secured the same in the Patent 
Office at Washington City, I take great pleasure ir. present- 
ing it to the public. 
The process consists of an engine and chemical com- 
pound by which a deadly gas is generated and forced into 
the recesses of the enemy. I warrant it to be no humbug 
and free from any deleterious influence upon the health 
of the operator. The engine weighs about 50 lbs,, is easy 
of construction, is portable and can be made anywhere byr 
a cabinet-maker or carpenter. The chemical compound 
can be had at my store in this place in any quantities 
needed. Eor testimonials see printed circulars. 
D. G. Gregory, M. D, 
La Grange, Texas, April-, 1856. 
