SOUTHERxN CULTIVATOR. 
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THE CUT WOR3I — BERMUDA GRASS. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I see a great com- 
plaint throughout the planting States on account of the cut 
worms. The way I prevent their ravages in this latitude 
is this : I break up the land deep, using a turning plow, 
commencing after the first, second, or third killing frosts, 
and turn all land over by the first of February, the freez- 
ing somehow destroys the worms in the ground before 
they mature; but I suppose this preventative would not 
answer in a latitude where the weather ss not cold 
enough to freeze the ground. 
How is the Bermuda grass propagated, and how and 
when planted ? — and of whom can it be obtained, and at 
what price! Any information on this subject will be 
thankfully received and cheerfully reciprocated. 
Jasper, Tenn., June, 1857. W. T, 
[Tlie Bermuda grass is propagated by clumps of sod 
containing the roots, or by the roots themselves. It may 
be obtained anywhere in middle Georgia, and we do not 
think it has ever been made an article of trade. Write to 
Colonel John Cunningha?.!, Greensboro’, Ga. Tiie fall 
or early spring is a good time to set these sods or roots. 
Let the ground be manured, deeply broken up, and well 
pulverized ; and after the grass once gets started, it will 
need no further attention. It is excellent both for pas- 
turage and hay, but cotton planters are generally afraid 
of its inroads and give it no quarter. It is hot very diffi- 
cult to control or destroy however, when properly man- 
aged. — E ditors.] 
AGRICUETURAE STATE FAIRS, FOR 1857. 
Georgia, Atlanta, Oct. 20, 24. 
Alabama, Montgomery, Oct. 27. 30. 
South Carolina, Columbia, Nov. 10, 13. 
Kentucky, Henderson, October 12, 10. 
East Tennessee, Knoxville, October 20, 23. 
West Tennessee, Jackson, October 27, 30. 
Yirginia, October 28, 31. 
Ohio, Cincinnati, Sept. 15, 18 
Canada East, Montreal, September IG, 18. 
Illinois, Peoria, September 21, 26. 
Pennsylvania, ■, Sept, 20, to Oct. 2. 
Vermont, Montpelier, Sept. 30, to Oct. 2. 
Wisconsin, Janesville, Sept. 29, to Oct. 2. 
Indiana. Indianapolis, October 4, 10. 
New York, Buffalo, October 6, 9. 
Iowa, Muscatine, October 6, 9. 
United States, Louisville. Ky., Septnnber 1, G. 
Michigan, Detroit September 
New Hampshire, Concord, October 7, 9. 
Connecticut, Bridgeport, October 13, IG. 
Massachusetts, Boston, October 20, 24. 
Maryland, Baltimore; October 21, 25. 
The Two Sexes, — W hen a rakish youth goes astray, 
friends gather round him in order to restore him to the 
path of virtue. Gentleness and kindness are lavished 
upon him to win him back again to innocence and peace. 
No one would suspect that he had ever sinned. But 
when a poor confiding girl is betrayed, she receives the 
brand of society, and is henceforth driven from the ways 
of virtue. The betrayer is honored, respected and.es-. 
teemed, but his ruined, heart-broken victim knows there 
is no peace for her this side of the grave. Society has no 
helping hand for her, no smile of peace, no voice of for- 
giveness. These are earthly moralities : they are un- 
knov/n in heaven. There is deep wrong in tiiem, and 
fearfal are the consequences. 
THE EMPIRE OF COTTOt^, 
Cotton is the great “ if,” — the potent peace maker ami 
peace keeper. The Day Book truly says ; ‘‘ We believe 
no one conversant with the culture of cotton is ignorartf: 
of the fact that it cannot flourish to any extent in tropical 
climates annually subjected' to the vicissitudes of what are 
called the dry and rainy reasons. In certain localities, 
indeed, the want of rain may be partially supplied by 
artificial irrigation ; but we know of no expedient tCc 
guard against excessive rains, which are, in fact, more 
fatal to cotton than long continued drouth. Though 
cotton is cultivated to some extent in Egypt, Hindostaa, 
and various districts in Asia and Africa, hy means of k- 
rigation, it would require a large portion of credulity tc 
believe that three or four millions of bales could be fur- 
nished for exportation annually, by the aid of artificial 
irrigation alone. A great portion of this process must, 
necessarily be applied to the production of food, which k 
an article of the first necessity; and in addition to this 
the industiy of Asiatics would be but a poor dependence 
for a certain, regular and permanent supply of that, the 
interruption of which would be attended by such seriout 
consequences. With respect to Algeria, the same obsts'- 
cles present themselves, in the climate, w'here the dry and 
rainy seasons alternate, and where, in addition to this, the 
projected cotton growing x’egion is exposed cominually to 
the devastations of a race of barbarians whom neither de - 
feat can discourage nor chastisement reclaim. 
“The cotton growing region of the United States k 
peculiar both in soil and climate. Though the former k 
rather liglit, it is rich, most especially in the first years b. 
cultivation, and though the latter is warm, it is never 
scorched into temporary barrenness by excessive heat ©r 
long continued drouth. There is no rainy or dry sest'- 
sons lasting for months, but heat and moisture are diffused 
j in harmonious proportion from the time of planting to 
1 that of gathering. Luring this whole period, with ocefi:- 
I sional exceptions, there comes neither a drouth nor a. 
j deluge, and hence the planter opn calculate on his crop c^' 
! cotton with as much certainty as any other product com- 
j bining with these advantages the species of labor employ- 
ed. We believe there is no other region of the earth that 
j can, by any possibility, be broughtinto successful compe- 
tition with a portion of the Southern States, in the pro- 
duction of what is now the great staple of the world.’' 
As far as human experience goes, all this is true; and. 
the cotton planter may rest assured, within at least hie 
day and generation, that no harm can come to hes fields 
unless it be the worm and bad seasons, and his own im- 
I providence. \^fith a decent degree of thrift this Southern 
I country ought to be within five years the tt'eallhiest oa 
j (he surface of the earth. — Alabama Plant^er, 
I A Cotton Glv. —We witnessed yesterday tk* 
I performance of a new Sea Island Cotton Gin, which hag. 
just been perfected and patented by James B. Mell, Esq., 
a native of this city. The advantage claimed by him are- 
1st, A freedom from clogging, which we saw fully tested, 
by throwing several handfulls of the ginned cotton info 
the rollers, when it passed through without causing tha 
slightest difficulty. 2d, Having cast-steet rollers no time 
is lost in putting in new ones, as they will last ten years 
and not cost a cent for repairs. 3d, This gin will do 
nearly double the work of an ordinary gin. Mr. Mell k 
positive that he can gin six hundred pounds per day 
4th, The cotton comes from the gin just as it went in, 
minus the seed — the staple not injured a particle. 
A good gin is much wanted by the planters of lon^ 
staple cotton, and we think Mr. Mell has supplied it. 
We can see nothing to prevent its success, and as the cosi 
v/ill probably not exceed SI 50, it will be in the power o' 
every planter to get one, — Savannali Republican, 
