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SOUTHERx^' CELTIVATOK. 
AUGUSTA-, GA : 
VOI.. XV. ISO. 3 MARCH, 1857. 
AN8WER8 TO CORIIESPONBENTS. 
Rotting of Apples. — W. M. L — Please give us a par- 
iicular description of the disease that affects your Apples, 
and let us know whether you cultivate Northern or South- 
ern varieties. All the Southern kinds that we have tried, 
and a few of the Northern varieties succeed admir 
ably with us at “ F’rmtia'nd.y Late Northern Apples are 
of no value in the South. 
No Address. — Dr. Ch.\s. N. H. — It is impossible for 
us to comply with your request, as you furnish no post- 
office, or other indication of your locality. Correspon- 
dents are often too negligent in this particular, 
Arkansas GrapeSeeds. — Mrs. R. J. G. — Many thanks 
k)r your kindness. We will plant the seed sent. 
Concrete Houses. — C, D. M — Our concrete house 
is nearly complete, and we will shortly publish drawings, 
description, &c,, as you desire. 
Planting Fruit Trees, &c. — G. W. L F. — Your com- 
Aiunication is on file, and we shall reply to it at length here- 
after. 
Sample Numbers. — N. C. — The desired numbers were 
aent per mail, and we shall be greatly obliged by your 
kind efforts. 
Osier Willows. — W. B. H. — We answered your letter 
per mail, and you will find an article in present number, 
giving much information on the subject. 
CurriNG Sugar Cane.— M. R. S. — The Chinese Sugar 
Cane will bear cutting 4 or 5 times during the season, like 
any other Millet. If for Hay, let it tassel — if for green 
forage, cut at any stage, and sprinkle freely with salt be- 
fore feeding out. 
Wa.rts on Fowls. — J. G. — An intelligent and experi- 
enced correspondent (A. R. K.,) writes us from Concordia 
Parish, La., as follows: — “Seeing in the January number 
an inquiry from a lady correspondent, Mrs. M. B. W., of 
Mobile, Ala., as to the best cure for warts, and although 
the query was answered by you, still I think the follow- 
ing a more certain cute than those you proposed, so I 
concluded to give her and your other readers the benefit 
pf my experience, and not only mine but of nearly every 
person of my acqu dntance near here. First, pare off the 
wart or warts with a sharp knife or scissors, and apply 
immediately the common Spirits of Turpentine to the 
place. It may be necessary to repeat the operation, but 
it never h is so happened with me. It has been applied to 
the qyelids v/ithout any injury. I never have, known it 
to fail of effecting a speedy cure. 
Weights and Measures. — W. P, — We have publish- 
ed the following before, but repeat it for the benefit of your- 
self and other new subscribers . 
Of wheat, sixty pounds to the bushel. 
Of shelled corn, fifty-six pounds. 
Of corn, on the cob, seventy pounds. 
Of oats, thirty- five pounds. 
Of barley, forty eight pounds. 
Of potatoes, sixty pounds. 
Of beans, sixty pounds. 
Of bran, twenty pounds. 
Of clover seed, sixty pounds. 
Of timothy seed, forty-five pounds. 
Of flax seed, fifty-six pounds. 
Of hemp seed, forty-four pounds. 
Of buckwheat, forty-two pounds. 
Of blue grass seed, fourteen pounds. 
Of castor beans, forty-six pounds. 
Dwarf Pears. — H. — Success with dwarfs is certain if 
you will only select the proper varieties, plant the trees 
right, and give them high culture afterwards. A corres- 
pondent, (G. W. F.) in South Western Georgia, writes us 
on this subject: — “I have extensive collections of almost 
every kind of fruit here in my own grounds. Of Pears, 
over 150 varieties, mostly on the quince. The trees grow 
well and look very thrifty and vigorous. They would 
have yielded me a good deal of fruit last season but for late 
frosts. As it was,! had a good many fine Pears, although 
my trees are yet very young.” 
Chinese Sugar Cane Culture.— E. P.-^You will find 
directions in our January number, but as the season for 
the earliest planting is now at hand, we will repeat, in 
substance. The Chinese Sugar Cane seed, if planted in 
March, anywhere South of the latitude of Augusta, will 
ripen two crops of seed from the one planting ; i. e. after 
the first crop matures, and the cane is cut, the plant will 
^'•rattoo'id'^ or shoot out from the ground and ripen another 
crop of seed before frost. A good single crop may be 
made in the same latitude, by planting any time before 
the middle of June — though we advise our readers to get 
their seed in the ground as soon as possible after corn 
planting. In regard to culture, Dr. Robt. Battey re- 
marks : “While the seed remains in the hands of the few, 
and commands a price too high to permit a waste, it 
should be planted for one season with good distance, that 
the seed crop as well as the cane may attain their highest 
state of development. I would recommend that the rows 
should be three or even four feet apart, and a distance of, 
say two feet, given in the row, dropping one or two seed 
in a place. Let the ground be well cultivated, as for corn, 
and the shoots or suckers which spring up from the root, 
be all permitted to grow, A small portion of the crop 
should be reserved for seed, and permitted to stand until 
fully matured and dry. It would be well to limit the 
canes in the seed patch to one. By all means permit no 
Broom-corn^ Dourah-corn, or other plants of the same 
^SiVimy y to grow nea,r ymtr Ca?ie. It readily intermixes 
with these varieties, and effectually ruins your seed for the 
production of syrup. For the same reason, great care 
should be observed in procuring reliable seed, as well as 
in keeping them so. 
“After the first season, when a full supply of seed shall 
have been secured, a better- paying syrup crop may be 
grown, by closer planting. The space between the rows 
may well be narrowed down to three feet, and the seed 
put in, say two or three every six inches. When well up, 
the stoutest and healthiest plants should alone be allowed 
to stand. The cane, when very young, presents so much 
the appearance of grass, that an advantage may perhaps 
be gained, by dropping some other seed with the cane 
that the latter may be more readily distinguished. This, 
of course, should be drawn out with the superfluent cane 
plants. When of sufficient size, the plants should be 
