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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
The Club will institute new regulations as experience 
may direct. 
Their meetings have, so far, been profitable and satis- 
factory. I hope Goliad, Victoria, and other neighboring 
counties, may follow the example of Jackson county. 
They should endeavor to improve upon the plan noticed 
in this article, and the citizens of this county will gladly 
adopt their improvements. The tillers of the soil can aid 
each other immensely in these associations. There are 
too many lights among them that are ‘‘hid under a 
bushel.” 
These associations may produce much sociability, as 
well as profit, amongst the farming community. It costs 
but little, and even if it cost much, the information that 
each would obtain from all the other members of the club, 
and by personal observation in examining all of his 
neighbors’ crops, farming utensils, gardens, orchards, etc., 
in company with intelligent and observing farmers, would 
amply repay him. 
Can you inform this Club, through your paper, how 
they can obtain the results of a correct chemical analysis 
of specimens of our different soils in this State — for in- 
stance, stiff hog- wallow prairie,” “sand prairie,” “bot- 
tom prairie,” “post-oak soil,” etc.'] How much of each 
specimen would it be necessary to send ?- V/liat would 
be the cost of analy.zing ? D. D. 
Texana, Jackson ConrJy, Texas, June, 1857. 
[Our correspondent sends us the outline of a very ex- 
cellent organization, and one calculated to effect much 
good in any agricultural community. We hope to see 
similar clubs formed in every neighborhood throughout 
the planting States. The different samples cf the soil 
alluded to, may be put up separately in tight tin cases, 
numbered or labelled, and the whole enclosed in one box 
and sent, per express, to Prof. Daniel Lee, Athens, Ga. 
We do not know the exact cost of making the analysis, 
font our senior will charge no more than the cost of the 
chemicals used, and a reasonable compensation for time 
and labor. — Ed.] 
c;hess, or. “ cheat crops in jones 
CoEiHty—— Vineyards, &e. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Although I have been 
a subscriber to the Cultivator for the last twelve or four- 
teen years, I have never yet troubled the editors with 
communications, and if it does not trespass too much up- 
on your time and patience, I should be much obliged if 
you would tell me what the enclosed is. It was found 
growing in a neighbor’s field, where he had sown wheat 
two years in succession, and incre’ases rapidly, and ap- 
pears hard to get rid of. Is it what the Northern farmer 
calls chess, or cheat 1— or is it simply a species of grass'? 
The stalk resembles wheat very much, but does not grow 
i 0 large. 
Our grain crops are very fine, particularly wheat— in 
fact, the best I ever saw. Corn is generally small, but of 
a good healthy color, and with “seasons” will make an 
abundant supply. Cotton very sorry, and all of three 
weeks behind last year. 
I have commenced a Vineyard, and am going to have 
fifty acres in vines another year ; provided, I can get a 
suitable man to superintend them. I can easily make 
three hundred gallons Scuppernong wine per acre, but 
Low much Catawba I don’t know, as I have never seen 
the matter tested. My father has had a vineyard for a 
number of years, and sells all his wine very readily. 
With great respect, yours, etc., B. 
Clinton^ Ga.,^June^ 1857. 
[The heads sent us were the veritable chess, and “noth- 
ing else,” It is a pest to the wheat field, and of no value 
for anything, that we are aware of. We have had several 
samples of it sent us by various persons, who supposed it 
to be some new “ Rescue” or other grass, and anticipated 
valuable results from it. We believe strongly i« vineyards 
every wliore in the South; and hope to see them dotting 
every hill-side ere long. Thousands of acres of land, now 
lying idle, may easily be made to produce a crop of 
grapes, worth ten times that of either corn or cotton; and 
either in the form of fruit or wine, the products of the 
vineyard always meet with the readiest sale. — Eds.] 
FARMING NORTH AND SOUTH. 
A VERY intelligent and practical Pennsylvania farmer, 
who has purchased and is about to remove to a large farm 
in Southern Virginia, writes one of the editors as follows. 
His remarks are suggestive, and the deductions to be 
drawn from them plain and forcible. We, of the South, 
have, certainly, many great advantages over our Northern 
neighbors, and it is our own fault if we do not avail our- 
selves to the best advantage, and surpass them in all agri- 
cultural results : 
Editors Southern Cultivator— My brother-in-iaw 
and myself have purchased about two thousand acres of 
land in Southern Virginia, near the North Carolina line, 
and it has given me a much better idea of Southern farm- 
ing than I ever had before. I see the great necessity of a 
few practical working men to be scattered over the South- 
ern States to show these old planters how to im'prove their 
land, crops, etc. I have been almost tempted to write a 
few articles on farming at the North and South, for your 
paper, but being well aware that I had not the practice 
with the pen that many of your able correspondents have 
had, I felt as if I had better let it rest for some one more 
capable than myself to undertake the task. I have, also, 
found that if I tell them in Virginia and North Carolina 
what our success is at the North at farming, they cannot 
believe us until they come and see us ; or some one of 
their own friends, that has seen our manner of farming, 
will certify to the correctness of the statements we make ^ 
What would they think if you were to tell them that you 
could raise, at the North, three tons of hay, forty bushels 
of wheat, one hundred bushels of corn, seventy-five bush- 
els of oats, four hundred bushels of potatoes, and other 
crops in proportion, per acre, on good land, when well 
cultivated '? I presume they would think you could never 
do so at the South. But I believe it can be done, if the 
season is favorable in many cases ; but it will take time 
and labor to do it ; and it can never be accomplished un- 
til the planter or farmer himself knows how to cultivate 
and improve the soil, as we cannot hire overseers to take 
interest enough to improve the soil as the owner would 
himself. I have frequently seen in Virginia and North 
Carolina plantations that would not produce five dollars 
per acre for the cleared land ; provided, you sold all off 
the farm. At the North, I have had my place to produce 
over fifty dollars per acre yearly, which is quite a con- 
trast. 
I hope to be able to give you some little information 
how we succeed, from time to time, with our Northern 
farming at the South, as we have began cultivating mixed 
crops, such as oats, corn, wheat, buckwheat, rye, broom- 
corn, etc., and commenced to seed down a portion of our 
land to grass for the use of our cattle, hogs, etc. 
Yours, very truly, A. C, 
Bucks County, Pa , June, 1857. 
I To prove to our readers that our correspondent is not 
