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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
CONTENTS OF SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 
Plantation Economy and Miscellany. 
Work for the Month Page 265 
Milk “ 266 
Successful method of Raising Ducks “ 267 
“Free” Socif’ty — Life in New York. &c - - “ 270 
Stanford’s Wild Oat Grass — Rescue, &c “ 270 
Inquires “ 271 
The Origin of the “Bill Bug,” or Com Borer, and mode of 
Destroying the same “ 271 
G^ood Plows “ 271 
A good and cheap Sugar Mill, (Illustrated) “ 278 
Hill Side Ditching— Level Rows “ 273 
Chinese Sugar Cane in Texas “ 273 
W^ne Prospects in South Carolina. “ 273 
Crystalization of the Chinese Cane “ 273 
Exhaustion of Land “ 274 
Raising Water for Irrigation “ 275 
The Raising of Clover “ 276 
The Ciops, Weather, &c “ 276 
Apiary, or Bee- House of Mr LaTaste, (Illustrated) “ 278 
Sugar from the Chinese Cane “ 279 
Keeking Corn Green for winter “ 279 
Improvement of Sandy Land, &c “ 279 
Want of Appetite “ 288 
The kind of Education best suited to Young Farmers “ 288 
Mutton vs. Pork “ 289 
Southern Absenteeism “ 289 
The next Tobacco Crop .' “ 290 
Shoeing Horses “ 290 
Female Health and Beauty “ 290 
Editorial. 
Answers to Correspondents Page 280 
Georgia W ne “ 281 
Wine Premiums at the Louisville Pair “ 281 
Our Book Table ‘ 281 
Muscadine Wine - “ 282 
Chinese Prolfic Pea — Mr. Fleming’s Crop “ 282 
New Advertisements “ 282 
A great Coffee Pot ! “ 282 
Negroes and Cotton, &c “ 282 
Horticultural Department. 
Pears on the Quince Page 283 
The Curcul o— its Habits, &c “ 283 
The Grape Culture “ 284 
Fruit in Polk County, Texas “ 285 
Wine “ 286 
Prolific Cucumber Vine “ 287 
Wiue at the South “ 287 
Healthfuluess of Fruit “ 287 
A Cheap Luxury “ 287 
Catwba Brandy in Alabama “ 288 
Illustrations. 
A Good and Cheap Sugar Mill Page 272 
Apiary, or Bee-House of Mr. LaTaste “ 278 
CASHMERE GOATS. 
I HAVE on sale the following GRADE CASHMERE 
GOATS : 
4 Yearling Bucks, 15 16 Cashmere price, each, $100 00 
4 “ 7-8 “ “ 75 00 
6 February Buck Kids, 7-8 Cashmere “ 75 00 
8 “ 3-4 “ “ 50 00 
Also, 50 common EWE GOATS of large size, with kidby apure 
breed Cashmere Buck. Price $10 each, in lots not less than ten. 
Sep57— 2t , RICHARD PETERS, Atlanta Ga. 
NEW BRUNSWICK NURSERIES. 
E dwin ALLEN invites attention to his large stock of FRUIT 
TREES, cousis ing of Apple, Pear, (Standard an! Dwarf) 
Cherry, Peach. Plum, Apricot and Nectarine. Also, GRAPE 
VINES, and the smaller fruits, tos-ether with ASPARAGUS 
PLANTS, Linnaeus and Victoria RHUBARB, and every article 
usually found at .such establishments. These are healthy and of 
the most beautiful growth The lifting and packing beie is done 
by experienced hands and in the best manuer. 
51^=’ A new Catalogue of the establishment is now ready and wiU 
be senx to all applicants. 
New Brunswick, New Jersey, Sept., 1857 — 2t* 
SOUTH DO'Vra SHEER 
I AM willing to dispose of a few very fine yearlinar SOUTH 
DOWN EWES, in lamb ; also four fine yearling BUCKS, not 
related to the Ewes. 
Persons wishing to make trial of this celebrated variety of North- 
ern Sheep would do well to avail themselves of this opportunity 
to obtain a email flock of undoubted puritv. 
I wiP seP a Buck and three Ewes for $190, if applied for prior 
to the 1st of January next. , RICHARD PETERS, 
Dec56 — tf At auta Ga. 
SHEEP FOR SALE. 
O NE very five half French and half Spanish MERINO PTTCK, 
one year old. Also, two superior pure breed yearling SOU TH 
DOWN BUCKS of the Webb stocK'fit 
June56— tf EICHARD PETERS, Atlanta, Ga 
1857! 
1857! 
SOUTHERNCULTIVATOR, 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL., 
DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, STOCK 
BREEDING, POULTRY, BEES, GENERAL 
FARM ECOVOMY &C. 
DANIEL LE E, M. D., an_. D B BDM OND, Editors. 
The Pifneentli volume commences in January, 
1857 . 
TEUMiN: . 
ONE COPY, one year $1 I TWENTY-FIVE COPIES.. $20 
SIX COPIES, “ 5 I r»NE HUNDRED COPIES.. 75 
ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. No paper sent unless the cash 
accompamies the order. ’ 
The Bills of all specie-paying Banks, and Post-Office stamps 
received at par. 
Remittance, by mail (postpaid) will be at the Publisher’s risk. 
Address W3I. S. JONES, Augusta, Ga. 
I^^Persons who will act as AGENTS, and obtain SUBSCRI- 
BERS, will befurnishfd wiA the pa per at club prices , 
PURE DEVONS AND GRADE DEVONS 
For Sale. 
F or sale the thorough-bred North Devon BULL CALF 
Southerner, " 5 months old, of fine ierm and proportion. Sire 
Keohuli (prize bull), and dam, “Lively Dame both Herd Book 
animals of undoubted pedigree. 
Also, a pair of CALVES (heifer and bull) 5 months old, sired by 
the above Bull (Keokuk) and from excellent Short Horn or Dur- 
ham Cows. For terms, Ac., address 
June57 — tf D. REDMOND, Augusta Ga. 
EVERGREENS AND ORNAMENTAL TREES 
for the South. 
A FEW rare and beautiful E \7HJRGRKENS, Trees and Shrubs 
of the proper size for transplanting may now be obtained 
from the subscriber. The ccllections embraces the Deodar Ce- 
dar, Cryptomeria Japonica, Oriental Cypress, Norway Spruce, 
Silver Fir. White Pine, Balsam Fir Silver, Cedar, Irish, English 
a.rd Pyramidal Yew, Swedish Juniper, American and Chinese 
Arbor Vitse; Cedar of Lebanon, Magnolia Grand.flora, “Mock 
Orange,’’ Pittosporum, &c , &c. ; in short all the most desirable 
Evergreen Trees and Shrubs tba' flourish in this latitude. DBCI- 
DU' »US SHRUBS and TRGES, of many varieties can also be 
supplied in quantity. (Nee Descriptive Catalogue sent gratis per 
mail.) Address, fDec56 — tf] D. REDMOND, Augusta, Ga, 
SORGHO SACCHAROMETERS. ~ 
T he Subscriber has a number of these instruments — invented 
and each one proved by himself — which will be furnished to 
any who ma 3 ’^ desire this indispensable guide to the inexperienced 
in SYRUP MAKING. 
Pull directions accompany the instruments. Price $3, and 10 
postage stamps when sent by mail. 
Jy57-3t ROBERT BATTEY, M. D., Rome, Gai 
NEW CROP TURNIP SEED. 
J UST received from the importers a full supply of the Large 
White Plat, Large Globe. Norfolk, Hanover, Ruta Baga, and 
the Yellow Aberdeen TURNIP SEED, for sale wholesale and re- 
tail. W. H. HAINES, Augnsta. 
^^Orders from the country attended to with dispatch. 
July57— 3t 
F ruit and ornamental trees, mcindii« 
EVEKCREENS, the finest collection in the Union. 1,700' 
lbs. Chinese Sugar Cane, and also, parcels of 8600 Seeds, post-paid, 
fer $1 25. Chinese Imperial Rice White Poiatoe.s, the most valu- 
able of Esculents — the only ones for sale c>f American growth, at 
at $3 per dozen — $5 per 20 — $20 per 100. Osier Willows — 8 finest 
kinds — $2 to $5 per 1000, Lawton Blackberry $18 per 100 — $2 
per doz. Grapes, Gooseberries, Raspberries and Currants at 
lowest rates. Linnasus and Victoria Rhubarb $9 per 100. Arbor 
Vita;, small for Hedges, and large sizes. All Evei greens of small 
sizes for Nurserses. All the new native Grapes. Tree and Rbmb, 
Vegetable, Flower and Fvegreen Tree Seeds. Earth Almonds. Yel- 
low and Honey, Locust and Osage Oi-ange Seeds. Strawberries — 
20 splendid market varieties— $1 to $2 per 100. 
Priced Catalogues of every Department sent to applicants who 
enclose stamps. W. R. PRINCE & CO. 
Flushing, N. Y. May57ft 
BLACK ESSEX HOGS. 
F or SALE, a few pair of three to Tour mmths old. at $20 per 
pair For Loi Hogs, I consider this breed superior X> any 
other— they cannot be made to take t’ae matige, and are free from 
cutaneous eruptions and disease of thelunirs, to which bog.a are 
so liable when confined iu dry pens in a Southern climate. Address 
Nov55 — tf R PETER-i. Atlanta. Ga. 
GARDENING FOR THiT^UTH 
T he work, securely enveloped, will be sent by mail (pre-paid) to 
a ny person remitting at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five 
cents per copy in postage stamps, or in the bdls of an v specie pay; 
ing Banks. Address WM. N. WHITE, 
May56- tf Athens, Ga, 
