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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
remain convinced that, if well cultivated and well treated 
in distilleries, it will be for certain countries what the su- 
gar beet is for the provinces of the north of Europe. I do 
not despair of hearing soon that its culture is introduced 
in Martinique, the Isle of Bourbon, &c. We know that 
this plant is an annual, and that the xesou which it yields 
contains eight to ten per cent, of raw sugar analogous to 
that from the cane. 
If this plant, which surprises one by its height and the 
beauty of its stalks, be not distined to be cultivated in 
France for its sugar-bearing qualities, it is indisputable 
that it may still be regarded as one of our very best forage 
crops. Cut in July, in the more central portions of 
France, it affords an abundant green forage, sprmgs 
agairi f and sires in Oct-ober an excellent second crop. We 
do not elsewhere posses amongst thegrassess, plants which 
offer such advantages. 
I repeat that the hulls of the seeds contain a coloring 
matter of a blueish violet shade, which M. Secard, of Mar- 
seilles, has successfully used in the dyes for cotton and 
linen goods, Gitst.we Heuze, 
Professor of Agriculture in the 
Imperial School at Grignan. 
JowH-al cC Agricv.li-nre PrafAque] 
Kilogramme 2 lbs. 5 1-2 drachms. 
Hectare 2 1-2 acres. 
Litre 2 1-9 wine pints. 
Rema«ks. — U nlike the Diascorca Batat-as, which has 
met with very general censure from our experimei'iters 
last season, the Sorgho has fully met the expectations of 
its most sanguine friends. As it becomes more generally 
known, and new experiments are instituted upon it, we 
predict that it will meet with more extended favor. Its 
good qualities may be enumerated as follows : 
1. Its cultiaation Is uo more troublesome than that of 
eom. 
2. It grows to full height, and will doubtless perfect its 
seed as far north as the latitude of Halifax, 
S. It is a very profitable forage crop, giving two crops 
— one in July, die other in October — of a green fodder 
superior to sweet corn. 
4. It yields 26 bushels of seed per acre, w'hich make 
a fine meal, and the hulls of which afford a good dye 
stuff, 
5. It, together with this seed, gives also one thousand or 
more pounds of excellent sugar per acre, and at the same 
ume fifty -five gallons of molasses or syrup. 
6. It gives on distillation about 300 gallons of alcohol at 
50 centesimal. 
7. The crushed stalks may be fed to cattle, who are 
very fond of it, 
8. If used to make syrup only, it ha-s yielded to Mr. 
Peters at the rate of 468 gallons per acre. 
9. The molasses may be distilled into rum, brandy 
and a beverage similar to cider. 
Without being champion to the extravagant speculations 
of some of our friends, we cannot but believe that the in- 
troduction of die Sugar Sorgho into America is of vast 
importance to our political economy, and we think the 
day not far distant when its manufacture into sugar, and 
distillation into the various alcoholic compounds, will be 
largely undertaken in the Northern and Southern States. 
In the letter which we translated for the Workmg 
Fanner last spring, M. Avcq^uin says that the brandies, 
rums, &c., yielded by it, can in no wise compare with 
4he Cognacs, but Professor Heuze, in the above article, 
maintains that this inferiority is entirely due to imperfect 
methods of manufacture. We shall see, however, in the 
future which view is the correct one. 
The samples of syrup made by us at the Westchester 
Farzn School, were of very fine quality, equal, we think, to 
good maple syrup; and that given to us by Col. Peters, of 
Georgia, tasted not unlike molasses candy, or the cooked 
syrup on baked pears. 
We esteem it our duty to afford every information in 
our power concerning the Sorgho, and shall translate from 
time to time the remarks made upon it in the French 
journals, H. S. Olcott. 
EMIGRATION. 
A correspondent of the Charleston S'anAa^d, writing 
from Texas, makes the following sensible remarks in re- 
lation to emigration ; 
“ Instead, therefore, of persuading the young men of 
South Carolina to leave their native Stale, I would say tO' 
them, “turn your attention to every new branch of busi- 
ness that is honorable and remunerative. Build up manu- 
factories of every kind. Introduce the culture of every- 
thing that yields a large return from a small extent of land. 
Use your boundless extent of water to irrigate your lower 
lands and make them yield five to ten fold as much as 
they are now doing. Plant groves around your dwellings 
to shield you from the miasma that rises from the creeks 
and rivers. In short, do everything that is necessary to 
j increase and multiply the resources and ir.dependenc€ 
j and power of South Carolina.*’ 
I We have, on more than one occasion, within a few 
j years been compelled to give the parting hand to most 
useful and valued citizens of our district, who were about 
seeking more desirable homes, and a greater yield for 
their labor, in the distant lands of West. And we also 
have been called upon to record the melancholy fate, and 
perhaps, too, to learn of the wreck of fortune of those 
who relinquished abodes, smiling with health, plenty ami: 
prosperity, in their maternal and native Carolina. An 
uncalled for or imaginary dissatisfaction, or, may be. a 
thirst for more I’apidly increasing gain we fear, in too 
many cases, prompts the actors. 
The soil and the various departments of mechanical and 
industrial pursuits in South Carolina, all of which tend to 
the development of our resources and the building up of 
our commercial importance and State-rights independence,, 
still hold forth inducements and rev/ards for the invest- 
ment of enterprise and capital. 3Iany are the noble and 
never-failing streams, coursing our native valleys and em- 
bodying within themselves the element of power neces- 
sary to put in motion the driving machinery and busy 
loom, whose waters of wealth have been permitted to 
flow on, yielding no increase. The soil, too, with a proper 
and judicious system of cultivation, has never failed tc 
render a remunerative return. 
Why, then, will the sons of Carolina, who have been 
nurtured in her lap and reared to mannood beneath her 
genial sun, desert her standard, and lend iheir enterprize 
and means to enriching and building u[) other lands'] 
Gratitude, and respect and veneration for iier honored 
name, if nothing else, should deter them — JVakk- 
nian. 
Cheap Board Fence. — The following vril! be found to 
be a cheap and lasting fence: Posts si.\ feel long, holes 
dug 15 or 18 inches deep; then have the posts set in and 
well rammed. Next, throw up an embankment at least 
two feet high this will make a narrow ditch as deep as 
the foot of the posts, thereby preventing decay. It will 
also drain the land considerably. Two boards— one a 
foot wide, the other eight inches, with a cap board four 
inches wide, on top, will be high enough for a common 
fence. It can be easily seen that a fon- e made in this 
way will last longer than any other Gnoe made of wooc-,. 
and the first cost is but little more th.an a i'.ommon r.ig-zii^- 
I rail fence. R. W. S., (A Farmer. 
I Canada Wesl, 1657. 
