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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR 
four hills of potatoes, yielding a double handful of respect- 
able tubers. 
My only apology for addressing you \s, Eureka! I 
intend planting the tubers thus raised the coming season, 
and expect to send you a good large Yam for a potato pone. 
So that you may expect the grand proof of the pudding — 
*‘the chewing the bag.” Respectfully, 
E. J. Mims. 
La Pine, Edgefield District, S. C., Feb., 185G. 
CHINA BERRIES AS EOOD FOR ANIMALS. 
Editors Southern Cultiv.\tor — For the information 
of M. T. McGehee, of Mount Elba, Ark , I would state 
that I have from childhood been well acquainted with the 
China Tree and its fruit and have always considered the 
berries of no use as food for domestic animals. The China 
Berry and leaves, however, I know to be an excellent 
manure, A. McL. 
Cl-ayvelle, Ga., 1857. 
lomtstic CcDnointi anlt 
To Stop Bleeding from the Cavity of an Extract- 
ed Tooth. — Noticing the case of Mrs. Locke, who bled 
to death in consequence of the extraction of a tooth. Dr. 
Addington, of Richmond, Va., says he never fails to stop 
the bleeding by packing the alveolus from which the 
blood continued to trickle, fully and firmly with cotton 
moistened in a strong solution of alum and water. He 
cured a bi'Other physician in this way, whose jaw had 
bled for two weeks. 
Recipe for Mending Broken China. — Take a very 
thick solution of gum arable in water, and and stir into it 
plaster of Paris until the mixture becomes a viscous 
paste. Apply it with a brush to the fractured edges, and 
stick them together. In three days’ the article cannot 
again be broken in the same place. The whiteness of the 
cement renders it doubly valuable. 
The Boston IVIcdical Jo^irnal mentions the follow- 
ing simple and economical apparatus for overcoming bad 
odors, and purifying any apartment where the air is load- 
ed with noxious materials. Take one of any of the vari- 
ous kinds of glass lamjDs — for burning camphene, for ex- 
ample — and fill it with chloric ether, and light the wick. 
In a few minutes the object will be accomplished. In dis- 
secting rooms, in damp, deep vaults where drains allow 
the escape of offensive gases, in outbuildings, and in 
short, in any spot where it is desirable to purify the at- 
mosphere. burn one of these lamps. One tube charged 
■with a wick is sufficient. 
To MAKE Starch Polish.— Take 1 oz., Spermaceti, and 
1 oz., White Wax ; melt, and run into a thin cake on a 
plate. A piece the size of a quarter dollar, added to a qt 
of prepared starch, gives a beautiful lustre to the clothes 
and prevents the iron from sticking. 
Blueing for Clothes— .B e/, and cliea/per than Indi- 
go . — Take 1 oz. ofsoit Prussian Blue, powder it, and put 
it in a bottle with 1 quart of clear rain water, and add 
1-d oz. of Oxalic Acid. A teaspoonfu! is sufficient for a 
large washing. 
To Implove Pear Trees and their Fruit. — When 
planted in a clay soil, mix sand and lime together at the 
rate of one part of the former to two of the latter, and ap 
ply a bushel of the mixture around each tree after the soil 
has been hooked up and loosened. Broken bones are 
also a good manure for Pear trees. — Ohio Valley Farmer. 
lim ntiseraeiito. 
FRUITLAND ISTURSBR-Y-— A CARD. 
T he subscriber would respectfully infonn his customers and 
friends that the unprecedented demand for trees, added to 
the severity of a, portion of the winter, and the premature coming 
on of spring (15th of Feb.) has prevented him from tilling many 
late orders with which he has been favored. His stock for the next 
year, (1857-8) however, will, he hopes, be amply sumcient to meet 
all demands, and he earnestly solicits that orders be sent in as 
early in the fall as pos.sib'e. Laud intended for orchards, next 
year, should be deeply plowed, well manured, and cultivated in 
some hoed crop, like corn, cotton or sweet potatoes. Por further 
particulars see Descriptive and Priced Catalogue of FruitlandNur 
sery, sent/reeo/ postage to all applicants. Address 
D. KED1.IOND, Augusta, Ga. 
“Fruitland Nursery,'’ Augu.sta, Ga., March 1, 1857 — if 
YOUNG AMERICA CORN AND COB MILL. 
The Cheapest and Best. 
W E offer for sale the above MILL, which surpasses all others 
in speed and durability, simplicity and strength as well as 
economy. That part of the Mill most liable to wear being separ- 
ate from the main body, can at any time be removed at a small ex- 
pense. 
The above Mill has received the first premium at the State Fairs 
of New Pork, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina and Tennessee, as 
also at a large number of County Fairs in various States. 
The YOUNG AMERICA MILL performs its work better and 
nearly twice as fast as any other Cora or Com and Cob Mill yet 
offered to the public. 
Planters are invited to examine the Mill and compare its ad- 
vantages. JOHN & THOS. A. BONE& 
March — tf 
GARDEN HAND PLOWS. 
fTlHESE well known and most useful little PLOWS, worked by 
_L band, >vith six different working irons to suit such work as 
may want to be done, attached to each at pleasure, will be found 
at all the Hardware Stores in this city, by wholesale or retail. 
Marcb.57— 2t B PICQ UET. 
SEED OF FINE LONG STAPLE 
For Sale. 
T his cotton, with the subscriber, has proved early and pro. 
ductive. Price #5 per sack of 2 bushels, delivered in Beaufort 
on board the Charleston and Savanuh steamboats, and less if taken 
in bulk from the plantation. RORT. CHISOLM, 
Marcb57— It Beaufort, S. C- 
PURE AND VALUABLE SEEDS. 
H aving experienced the great difficulty in obtaining reliable 
FLOWER SEEDS, suitable to the South, I have raised a 
small quantity, which I have placed in the hands of D. B Plumb & 
Co., Druggists, i:i this city, for retailing. I w’ould particularly draw 
the attention of the ladies to the splendid co. lection of Stock Gilly 
Flowers, Ten Weeks Stocks, Double Wall Flowers, and German 
Asters. ROBERT NELSON, 
Dec56' — tf Augusta, Ga. 
^IVIORBURN’S WHOLESALE PRICED LISTS of VegetaWe, 
JL Field, Tree, and Flower SEEDS for 1857 will be mailed to 
Dealers enclosing a three cent .stamp. 
J. M. THORBURN <St CO. 
March57— It. 15 John street, New York. 
