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SOU3THERN CI)LTIVAT0:R. 
The Home JournaLdAwQ.y'& has been, and no doubt 
always will be, while under the editorial care of Morkis 
and Willis, one of the most refined family newspa- 
pers extant. The series for 1857 will contain new attrac- 
tions, new features, and new type. The editors will con- 
tinue to devofe their time and abilities to the work N. 
P. Willis proposes, in addition to his usual picturings of 
home-life, and rural family sympathies and interests, out- 
doors-and-in, to give more of his valuable “Letters on 
Health,” which his experience enables him to write, and 
which have been so widely quoted, both at home and 
abroad, and also “a series of Portraits of Living charac- 
ter.” General Morris, besides his usual constant labors 
upon the several departments of the paper, will make it 
the woof on which to broider first the new sketches, songs, 
ballads, etc., suggested by the history and events of the 
passing time. T. B. Aldrich, the gifted young poet, 
whose productions have recently created such a sensation 
in literary circles, has prepared an original prose poem, 
entitledkhe “Rose of Glen Lodge,” which will be publish- 
ed in numbers, from week to week. Genio C. Scott will 
continue h.\& piquant and popular papers onfashion,gossip, 
romance, etc., which have proved so “interesting to la- 
dies.” Besides these constant writers, the Home Journal 
has a corps of correspondents, wholly unsurpassed, in the 
society of New York, and through these gifted and refined 
“mediums,” its readers are kept apprised of all that occurs 
new, charming and instructive, in the brilliant circles of 
city. For the health, and moral improvement, and the 
religious culture of families, the editors watchfully gather 
every new suggestion, and carefully chronicle all signs of 
progress and utility. By unceasing vigilance and indus- 
ry, and by skill, acquired by long and successful practice, 
they will, undoubtedly, still keep the Home Journal in 
the front rank of family newspapers. The terms are two 
dollars a year in advance. Address Morris & Willis, 
New York. 
Agricultural Statistics. — The following valuable sta- 
tistics, which we take from Hwnis- Merchant's Magazine^ 
give the nearest attainable approximation to the number 
of acres cultivated in each crop: 
Land actually cultivated in the several crops of the United 
Slates, in 
]849-'50. 
Product. 
Acres. 
Prod.uct. 
Acres. 
Indian Corn 
.31,000,000 
Sugar 
.. ..400,000 
Meadow or Pas- 
Barley. ..... 
. . . . 300,000 
ture exclusive of 
Rice 
Hay crop 
.20,000,000 
Plemp 
....110,000 
Hay 
,13,000,000 
Flax 
....100,000 
Wheat 
,11,000,000 
Orchards .... 
....500,000 
Oats 
. 7,500,000 
Gardens 
....500,000 
Cotton 
, 5,000,000 
Vineyards 
. .. .250,000 
Rye 
1,200,000 
Otherproducts 
.. 1,000,000 
Peas and Beans . . 
1,000,000 
Improved but not 
Irish Potatoes. . . 
1,000,000 
in actual culti- 
Sweet Potatoes. , . 
Buckwheat 
750.000 
600.000 
. 400,000 
vation 
. 17,247,614 
Tobacco 
Total 
113,033,610 
lap'll is stated that the stalks of sunflowers may be 
profitably used in making paper, the fibrous nature of the 
plant being well calculated to furnish materials for fine 
writing and printing paper, as well as fine and coarse 
paper hangings. 
COTTON SEED EXPOilTED. 
Our commercial report of this morning notices the en- 
gagement of a ship of 800 tons to take a full cargo of cot- 
ton seed to Providence, R. I, where the articles is to be 
turned into oil cake. 
An extensive factory for extracting oil from the seed of 
cotton is already in operation in Rhode Island, and we 
understand that one or two companies are forming in Bos- 
ton with the object of getting up similar establishments 
there. 
This is an enterprise in which the South is deeply in- 
terested, promising, as it does, to convert an article hither- 
to almost worse than useless into one of great commercial 
value. — N. O. Picayune. 
[How much more sensible it would be for us to get up 
these oil-mills at home, and secure to ourselves the profits 
of manufacture. — Eds.] 
Important Invention for Cotton Planters. — Mr. 
Geo. G. Henry, a merchant of Mobile, has obtained a 
patent for an arrangement and conibination of machinery 
which is expected to create quite a revolution in the indus- 
try of the South. By its means the seed cotton will be 
converted on the plantation, by one contiuous process, 
into merchantable yarn, and this without a greatly increas- 
ed outlay of capital, and with the ordinary labor of the 
plantation. We shall have more to say respecting this 
invention, hereafter. 
Vanilla. — The Vanilla Bean, which is now much used 
in flavoring puddings, jellies, ices, etc., grows in Mexico, 
near Vera Cruz, and has become very profitable to the 
cultivators. The Bureau has information that last year’s 
importation of, and consumption in the United States, of 
this article, amounted to 5,000 lbs., at a cost ofS20 per 
pound, or $100, 000, paying the United States a duty of 20 
per cent., of $20,000. At the present time the Vanilla 
Bean is selling at $30 to $40 per pound. 
[Has the culture of the Vanilla Bean ever been attempted 
in our Souuthern States 'I We have an idea that it migh^ 
be raised here, and shall endeavor to procure some of the 
seed for trial. — Eds ] 
1^” The “ Va7i Derveer Cottoid' is said to be a new 
variety of superior excellence. The seed is for sale in 
Savannah, by Messrs. Lockktt & Snellings. Farley, 
JuREY & Co., of New Orleans, make the following state- 
ment respecting it ; 
New Orleans, Oct., 1856. 
We have sold Mr. Van Derveer’s two last crops, and 
from the excellence of his cotton, have obtained for it 2 to 
4 cents per pound more than other kinds of cotton will 
command. Farley, Jurey & Co. 
This is all we know of its merits. It is probably worthy 
of a trial. 
A Great Honey Crop. — Mr. M. Quinsy, of St. Johns- 
ville, Montgomery county. New York, has sold this year 
upwards of 20,000 pounds of honey, principally produced 
by himself, and the temainder by a few neighbors who 
have followed his example. Himself and son make the 
production of honey a business, and undoubtedly a very 
profitable one. The honey is deposited by the bees in 
small, cheap boxes, with glass sides and ends, and sold in 
the same by weight, including the weight of boxes. 
