SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
333 
CHDTESE SUGAE CANE— SOEGEO SGCEE. 
We have frequently called attention to the Sorgho Su- 
a small stand, say 40 or 50 saws. I notice one particular- 
ly, advertised in your paper — McCord V’ — and J would 
be under great obligations to you if you would, if con- 
cre, or Chinese Sugar Cane. A number of expcninent-s j venient, examine it, being for sale in your city, and let 
daring the past season have elicited many encomiums ! me know, though \ our paper, your opmion of it. Also, 
upon its value, and we re-produce the following descrip- 
tion of its multifarious uses: 
“We turn now to the new drink. This it is proposed 
to proposed to produce in a circuitous way from a Chi- 
nese plant, known to botanists as the HoLcInis sacchara- 
tus, which was introduced into France a few years ^go, 
and into England last year. Chemical analysis shows 
this plant as containing eighteen and a half per cent, of, 
saccharine matter, being a higher proportion than in the ! 
case of beet. The sugar is obtained from the juice in the i 
same way as that of the Sugar Cane. j 
“In France, the capabilities of the plant have been 
demonstrated. iM. de Bauregard, having fermented, by j 
recommend, if you can, a low price and servicrable press, 
j 1 am sensible. I am troubling you a tircatdeal, but hope 
j you will excuse it. V’ery respectfully. 
! P. Ha.mpto.v. 
j [Will our friends, Carmichaki, &i k.^n, who deal in, 
I or others who have used McCords’ Power, reply to Mr. 
Ha.mpton, in our next? — Eds 1 
HILL SIDE DITCHING. 
Editors Soctkkrn Cultivator — Perhaps I may bene- 
fit some of my fellow planters who may wish to save 
their land from washing by hill side ditching, by stating 
means of the refuse of grapes, a quantity of the juice of the j j j.j^Ye learned from experience, viz : that itis always 
excellent I , • -ii l;ii r.,. Jr. or. a:. 
holcus in his v/ine vats, obtained an alcohol of 
flavor, which he sent to the market at IMarseilies, where 
it realized the same price as the ordinary alcohols there 
exposed. Of all substitutes for the vine that have hither- 
to been tried, Dr. Turrell believes tlie Sorgho to be the 
best, producing an alcohol altogether superior to ever\' 
Ollier. 
“But the Sorgho has nobler aspirations, and is likely 
to minister substantially to our intellectual wants. It re- 
sponds to the cry for rags, by a yield of four tons an acre 
of material for paper making, after the juice has been ex- 
tracted, Xor is this all. A v/riter in the Gardeticr^s 
Chrmide sdLys , ‘Attention has been drawn to a novelty 
of the year, in the shape of a tall, reedy grass, called j emptied, 
holdup sa/:ckaratus, of whose economical virtues I find ^ 
that great expectations are raised, -n- if. ^ q-jic , 
Deccan sportsmen and officers use it largely, under the 
name of jowaree, in preference to the coarse grass or hay ; 
obtainable there, in feeding their hunters and chargers, 
which thrive well upon it-, so much so, indeed, that when ' 
sent to the coa.st for racing piurposes, a supply of it inva- ' 
riably accompanies them.’ 
“Besides sugar, this plant gives abundance of alcohol, a i 
species of cider, molasses convertible into rurn, a valua- j 
ble dye. The leaves and refuse cane are excellent food! 
for cattle.” (^See Patent Office Agricultural Report, 18.54, 1 
p. 2i9,) I 
best to use hill side ditches up hill, or in an opposite di 
rection to the natural declivity of the land and to the di- 
rection in which the water naturally flows. Each 
ditch should have sufficient fall to carry off the water, 
and if this fall is made in the direction of the natural de- 
clivity of the land the one will partially keep pace with 
the other, and the ditch will be much longer and accumu- 
late much more water before it can be emptied into a 
creek, branch, or other natural outlet. If the fall to the 
hill side ditch is made in the direction opposite to the 
natural flow of the water, it will be much shorterand con- 
sequently not so subject to be washed into a gully, by 
the great quantity of water that collects in it before it cau 
Yours respectfully, 
Tho.s, P. Miller. 
AGEICULTDEAL ODE. 
BY WM. C. BRYANT. 
Orego.v Pea. — Editors Southern CulllvaUrr — In the 
August number of the Caltivalor, there appeared an arti- 
cle on the Ov-regon Pea, over my signature, offering to 
send to any person one ounce of the Oregon Pea, that 
would send me nine cents in postage stamps. I am com- 
pelled to withdraw my offer, as the demand for the Pea 
has been so great that my supply is exhausted. 
Samuel H. Gibbons. 
Prattville, Autauga Co., Ala., S^pt. 185G. 
EOESE P0WEE3 TOE FLANTEES. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have been a sub- 
scriber to your paper for several years and have derived 
much iiifornriation and entertainment from its perusal. I 
have never, so far, troubled you with inquiries, but now I 
am about to do so. I am a small planter or farmer and en- 
deavor to raise everyihing practicable at home, ily at- 
tention being devoted to other objects, I do not raise any 
great deal of cotton, but, still enough to make it an object 
to have a gin and press of my o vn, and not have to de- 
pend upon mymighbors whose convenience does not 
always c<>i respond with mineT The inquiry, then, which 
I wish to make of you is, whet.Per you think the Portable 
Horse Power, now so much in use, wiil answer to run 
Far back in ages, 
The plow' with wreaths w' as crowned, 
The hands ofking.s and sages 
Ent'wined the chaplet round ; 
Til! men of spoil 
Disdained the toll 
By which the v.mrld was nourished, 
And blood and pillage v/ere the soil 
In which their laurels flourished. 
Now the world her fault despairs — 
The guilt that stains her story'. 
And w’eeps her crimes amid the cares 
That formed her earliest glory. 
The throne shall crumble. 
The diadem shall w'ane. 
The Tribes of earth shall humble 
The pride of those wTio reign, 
And w-ar shall lay 
His porapaw-ay. 
The fame that heroes cherish. 
The glory earned in deadly fray, 
Shall fade, decay and perish. 
Honor waits o’er all the earth. 
Through endless generations — 
The art that calls the harvest forth, 
And feeds the expectant nations. 
Didst thou pjart with thy trials, thou wouldst pnrt 
with some of thy choicest blessings, Not that trials arc 
in themselves blessings; but it is the pathway in whiefc, 
the Lord walks 'when he comes to bless. 
