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AUGUSTA, GA: 
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VOL. XV., NO. 8 AUGUST, 1857. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
BURTON’S SUGAR MILL. 
We regret to state that the draft cf a cheap Sugar Mill, 
intended for this number, never reached the engraver — 
having been lost in the mails between here and New 
York. We have written to Mr. Burton for another 
drawing, and will endeavor to give it in our September 
number, which will go to press about the 15th August. 
FRUITS THAT NEVER FAIL! 
An Alabama subscriber, (T. P. L.) who appears some- 
what discouraged at the failure of his efforts to raise regu- 
lar crops of the more tender stone fruits, such as the Peach, 
Nectarine, &c., asks us if “there is no way to prevent the 
ravages of late spring frosts and save our fine fruits — so 
indispensably necessary to health and comfort, in such a 
climate as ours V’ He also requests us to give, from our 
own experience, at “Fruitland,” a list of “such varieties of 
fruit as may be relied upon, generally, to escape the frosts 
without any protection, or great trouble on the part of the 
The following new advertisements will be found of 
special interest to many of our readers ; 
New Work — Sorgho and Iraphee, 
Illustrated Family Journals. 
Valuable Farm for Sale in Cherokee Georgia, 
Southern Planters ’ encourage Manufactures. 
Grape Culture ! — Vineyards ! ! — Wine ! ! ! 
Fresh Turnip Seed, 
Augusta Seed Store. 
Mississippi Fruit Trees, 
Saxton & Co.’s New Agricultural Books. 
Plantation in South-Western Georgia. 
First Class Family Journals. 
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL FAIRS. 
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The Fair of the “Southern Central Agricultural Socie- 
ty,” of Georgia, will be held at Atlanta^ from the 20th to 
the 24th of October. 
The South Carolina Society holds its Fair at Columbia, 
from the 10th to the 13th of November. 
The Alabama State Society’s Fair will be held at 
Montgomery, from the 27th to the 30th of October. 
The Fair of the East Tennessee Society will be held at 
Knoxville, from the 20th to the 23d. of October and that 
of West Tennessee, at Jackson, from the 27th to the 30th 
of the same month. 
We have no positive information from North Carolina, 
Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas or Texas — 
though, we believe that Fairs are announced in several of 
these States. We trust they will all be well attended, and 
that a progressive and improving spirit may everywhere 
be manifested. 
SEEDS BY MAIL. 
We have many complaints of the no eption of 
seeds, which we know have been carefully mailed, and 
we have been aFno little trouble and expense in duplica- 
ting and paying postage on packages thus lost or stolen. 
Congress should nass a law authorizing the sending per 
mail of all new and valuable seeds, grafts, &c., in pack- 
ages of not over one pound, at the rate of bound books 
and pamphlets, (one cent per oz., prepaid) and protecting 
such packages like letters. We hope to enlist the inter- 
est of a distinguished member of the next Congress in 
this reform, and trust our agricultural and horticultural 
friends everywhere will agitate the subject earnestly. 
grower.” 
It affords us particular pleasure to reply to the inquiries 
of our friend, for it has long been our earnest wish and de- 
sire that every man, woman and child in the country 
should have a constant and unfailing supply of the very 
best fresh and preserved fruits of our climate ; and it is 
our firm conviction that if ripe fruits were universally 
made a regular article of food instead of being regarded as 
a luxury of somewhat doubtful safety, many of the dis- 
eases and ailments of “suffering humanity” would be en- 
tirely unknown. Were this the proper time and place, it 
would be an easy task to point out many of our errors in 
dieting, and to prove the great blessing of a constant sup- 
ply of ripe and healthy Fruit, especially during our long 
and sultry summers; but as no person of ordinary intelli- 
gence will deny the importance of carefully cultivating 
the finest Fruits, we proceed to answer the queries of our 
subscriber ; 
1. We do not know of Q.r\y practicable method of pro- 
tecting large orchards from the effects of late frosts ; but we 
do know how all our readere can have almost a constant 
succession of Fruit from the first of April until the last of 
the following March, and we intend fully to avail ourselves 
of that knowledge hereafter. In the raising of Peaches, 
Apricots, Nectarines and Plums, it must be borne in 
mind that an elevated locality and a northern or north- 
vjestern aspect are most favorable. Something may, also, 
be done in gardens, or on a small scale, by raising a dense 
smoke from piles of damp and half rotten wood during 
the nights when frost is anticipated; but when there is a 
constant succession of frosts for weeks, and where there are a 
large surface to be protected, this method will, generally, 
be found altogether impracticable. We have much 
stronger hopes from the theory of a pomological friend, 
who advises the pruning or shortening-in of the Peach 
and its congeners, just before the blossoms begin to ex- 
pand, wdth a view of retarding their blooming, (which it 
will often do, for at least 10 or 15 day-s) ; but as this me- 
thod has not been fully tested, it cannot yet rank among 
the sure remedies. It shall be carefully tried, and re- 
ported upon hereaftei. Conceding, then, that the Fruits 
we have mentioned, are quite liable to the blighting effects 
