SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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pievails a degree of contempt for these things, which 
proves tl'iat perverted notions have become inbred and 
well nigh ineradicable. Many a farmer whom we know, 
Holds in the utmost scorn all show of polite life. The 
man who talks bluntly, and helps himself at table with- 
out show of baslifulness, and holds the parlor in con- 
tempt, and turns up his nose at flowers, and rejoices in 
the thickness of skin upon iiis hands, and isn’t ‘‘stuck 
up,” is tlie popular man. What wonder is it that a boy 
brought up in this way, who accidently gets a sight dur- 
ing absence at school, or on a visit, of a different and 
more exalted kind of life, should leave the farm, for other 
pursuits and places as soon as possible 1 
We love the life of a true man who is a true farmer. 
His lot is the noblest and sweetest — the most from free siclt- 
ness and care that falls to mortals. But this stereotyped 
talk about the desirableness of a farmer’s life, as it pre- 
vails in most localities, is the veriest gammon e\ er uttered. 
The farmer should be a gentleman. Some of them — nay, 
many in the aggregate — are gentlemen — and they make 
the noblest aiticle of the kind we have. There is nothing 
in the farmer’s profession that should make him awkward 
and boorish in the least. We trust that the young men 
now coming upon the stage will be something more than 
drudges — men who will take position in society — men 
who will delight to make their homes beautiful and com- 
fortable, and who will do their share to throw the charm 
around the farmer’s life which belongs to it — comfort, 
eonvenience, beauty, taste — the charm which shall make 
the life attractive to those who ate bred in it, and which 
will secure for it the talent which now seeks a more con- 
genial atmosphere in other fields. — Spring/i-eld RepvMi. 
THE cultivator— FODDER PULUNO, Ac. 1 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have induced two of ; 
my friends to subscribe to the Cultivaior, and they are | 
much pleased with it. I wish all its subscriber.? would | 
agree to pay two dollars instead of one, that you might en- | 
large the sheet and illustrate it move fully. ' 
Last summer, several friends engaged to try with me! 
the effect of pulling corn upon the weight of grain 1 un- j 
fortunately was taken .sick at the time of “saving fodder,” j 
and consequently made no experiment. My friends did, j 
however, (three in number), and the result was that the 1 
one who noticed the greatest difference found it to be three | 
pounds on the bushel. 
The weight of unstripped corn was (01 lbs.) sixty-four 
pounds per bushel. 
The stripped corn was (Gl lbs.) sixly-one pounds per 
bushel. 
On the 23d of July 1 marked a cotton dower. On the 
I2ih of September it was an open boll. 
From form to flower days. 
From flower to open boll 51 •“ 
From form to open boll 90 days. 
I believe this occurs under the most favorable circum- 
stances. Various casualties reduced me to only one form 
and one blossom out of several of each, to nb.serve. The 
present year I will be more careful, mark more largely 
and note carefully, and if you think it of any interest will 
forward you the results, Providence willing. 
BiioOfC. 
Uhciiy Co., Go., 1857. 
L-ROUAD PEAS «R PINDAR.S, 
Editors Southern Cultiv.a tor — I see in your.Ktnuary 
number a letter from Texas, the gentleman signing his 
name “F. B.,” stating that he wanted to raise the Ground 
Pea, but did not understand the manner of cultivating. 
As I have liad some experience in cultivating them for 
stock to advantage, I have concluded to write to you. 
If you think it wortli anything, you can piubiisu it ; if not, 
throw it away. 
In the first place, about the middle of Febr.taiy, I select 
the poorest field I have, and lay off the rows, three 
feet apaiT, and bed it up with a turning plow and opess 
this bed with a scooter, say five inches wide ; I the« drop 
the peas (in the hull) in this furrow about eighteen iRches 
apart, and cover them with a scooter by running on each 
side of them; I then let them lie there until the hull be- 
gins to crack; I then run u board over them. The board 
is about IS inches long and about 7 wide, and i inch 
thick with a small notch cut in the middle of it. and is at- 
tached to the jilow stock in the same manner as the plow. 
This answers for one working, and enables tne pea to 
come up better. As soon as they come up so that you 
can see them across the field, if they are grassy, take 
a turning plow and side them with the bar of the plow 
next the pea, tlirowing the dirt entirely in the middle and 
leaving the pea to stand on u ridge about 5 inches wide. 
Keep the gra.ss off this ridge by hoeing until the pea be- 
gins to blossom; then take a large scooter aiid plow the 
row out good with it ; after that cultivate entirely with a 
sweep, running farther and farther from the pea every 
time you worlc them. Be careful not to break off llie 
vines after they have rotted down, for they Viull make 
more in the grass than they will after they are thus toi-e 
up either witli a plow or hoe. This is th.e be't manner of 
making ground peas I ever tried. .PoNti. 
March; 1H57. 
That would not pay for the waste of fodder in leaving it 
fo dr)'’ on the stalks. vVe do not strip fodder in this sec- ! 
tion until a yellowish tinge is perceptible on the field of 
corn. Some might remark that that was the incipienecy 
of decay. That may be ; but our horses prefer it then to 
Northern hay, and there is an inappreciable loss in the I 
weight of the grain. 
I was induced to engiige in these experiments from 
articles in the CidticaLor oy careful and observing men 
vshowins a very great loss to those who .stripped their 
torn. To tiiose in the section of your correspondent I 
would say, cultivate grass; but to those in niy section I 
would say, “strip” your corn and raise the grass too, if 
you can. 
Another experiment of interest to Sea Island Cotton 
pkmters living on the coast, I made myself. 
On the 23d of July I marked a form (square to Upland 
plamers.) On the 1st rff September it was a blossom. 
Sorghum S.ACCUARATUM.-The BulktiH tT lOjtum:, 
of Puri.s, has a notice in its September number of the 
North China Sorgho a Sucre, or Sugar Millet, from the 
pen ofDr. Tunel, Secretary of the Agricultural Commit- 
tee of Toulon ; he says that in the vine growing proprie- 
taries in that region, the juice ofthe Sorgho has been pro- 
fitably mixed and fermented with the juice of the grajve, 
and witliout impairing the flavor of the w'ine produced. 
He, also, speaks of another species of Sorgho to whicli 
Leopold Wray gives the name of Sorgho al 'Irnphy, or 
Sorghum of the Caffres ; it is an earlier variety' than the 
Chinese, audits cereal product is mere abundant , hence 
51. Nayot who grows it successfully at Martinique, says 
that the grain is there ground into flour which is snore 
nutritive than rice, and is preferred by the Coolies there 
to rice, as palatable food; its leaves also make an abun- 
dant and excellent forage, and the juice of 'J*.e canes, Ute 
best of rurn, — Gcnc^ste Pctrmyer. 
