SOUTilERN CULTIVATOR. 
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that without interruption they may etijoy their "oftiuvi 
cunt dignitaie.” What a miserable translation do many 
mike practically of this familiar latin phrase. 
Let us visit one or our “summer residences/’ take a peep 
into the every day life of our young planters, and notice 
bow their time, is occupied. Our first impression will be 
that they are very industrious men, judging from the 
punctuality observed for leaving the village each morning 
to attend to business, their fast travellers causing but little 
delay on tlie read Their places are visited; “the driver” 
summoned to answer familiar queries, “the nurse” comes 
and makes her report in favor of the sick, and against, 
“de doctor,” who “curns more dan's any ’casion for.” the 
field, if not too far distam, is visited that the cotton may 
know it is closely watched, and behave accordingly ; then 
the sulkey wheels are again in motion, and by mict-day or 
sooner the planter is where he was a few hours eailier, 
tAe day's business ended. 
Now has arrived the glorious opportunity of leisure 
time — priceless time — the employment of which is to tell i 
for futurity'. How is it engaged, cnmi di^rnuiakl Let us 
see — here are two or three of tho.se who have returned, 
whither are they going so merrily 1 With unweared and 
elastic steps they proceed fill arriving at the door they en- 
ter — the Billiard Room. Ochers follow soon and atid dis- 
cover “the. same attractive spot.” But some we notice in a 
different direction, and with eager hope and earnest e.x 
peetdtion we notice whither they tend. Ah ! v/e see the 
fishing and the sail-boat await their coming. 
But this is only natural we say; we all need recreation, 
and young men wdl resort to these amuse'nents only oc- 
casionally; they have too much self respect, too much re- 
gard for the fleeting hours of time, too much affection for 
their families to be constantly or often engaged in this 
manner. 
Now, if this were only so, how much could then be 
hoped for of these educated, privileged young men. How 
truly would they then enjoy their “leisure with dignity ” 
How soon would the billiard room be supplanted by the 
reading room, and the ashing boat yield to some more en- 
nobling pursuit. Then would Southern Literature and 
AgTiculiural Improvement be sustained and encouraged. 
Then would the Mouth at once gain the position belong- 
ing to her, and inspire her enemies with the fear and re- 
spect which her transcendent advantages and htr unequal 
ed lalent can command 
The young men of our country should start from their 
slumbers as from a bed of poppies, ere their drow siness 
issue in the sleep of death. Let them realize the powers 
Within them, and use them profitably. There are files 
within and around them calling for all their wakeful ener- 
giee. 
Wore than all ; there is a record book open on high, 
wherein are wriiten “the detd.s done in the body,” and in 
that book, at the last day, will be found an account oi 
many, many miss[ieni opportunities. I'hen, token too 
lafe, loiU be knrnon the xaLue of time. M. 
Johns Island. 1 8.b7. 
BAGGETT BAU PLOW AND 8CliAPER vs. THE 
Yost Scraper. 
EniTORB 80UTHKRN Cultivator — It is with much plea 
sure that I take pen in hand to inform you of a great im 
provement made in the romhinalion of the. Bar-Plow urn' 
Scraper, so that the work ol baring off and scraping of 
one side of a row can be done pei thcl'y at one and at ih« 
same lime liy one hand and one horse. 'Phis' imfiiovfmi n 
Wus made by Col Win. J Baggett, of Lawrence coumy, 
and is simply ah wltachmenl te ihe old 'Piiylur or any othe> 
bar scraper. This improvenienl will be goo<l news tolh- 
planters tcnerally , for they will now have to throw away 
their old bar scraper, as they would have to do, if they 
bought the Yost Scraper. The Yost Scraper is a good 
thing and does good work in the hands of an experienced 
plowman, but they cannot be so indiscriminately used as 
the Baggett Scraper, and the reasons apparent to rr.e from 
a view of the model I took a few days ago in the hands 
of a friend of mine, and a partner of the Col’s, in this 
enterprise The advantages that the Baggett Scraper pos- 
sesses over the Yost Scraper are as follovvs : 
The Baggett Scraper having a bar under it makes that 
part of it the cortroling part of the implement upon 
which it is made to turn to the rigl.t or to the left or to 
make both implements take more; or less dirt simultane- 
ously as desired. With the Yost Snapn- the bar plow df 
of that implement go\ ti ns it, and the p.lowman has to 
watch botli plow and scraper 'i'he bar being u'.dcr the 
plow and the scraf»er being attached to an upright to the 
left and on a continuation of the beam : ehind the bar plow 
makes the implemeL.t somewhat hnid to control, and as 
the governing power is ni.der the bar plow the scraper 
i must necessary take tl.e d’lt when the hanoi s are de- 
pressed while the f'lnw -eaves if,uiid when elevating them 
the plow must take the dirt, wli’.le the scraper leaves it, 
and so on viso, versa, making a zig-z.ag uneven farrow. 
Not so with tile B&gget Scraper, the controlling power of 
it it is the bar, under the scraper, the plov/ being placed 
before it on the right of the beam, and attached to an up- 
right iron bar which runs through a cuff which can be 
tightened or loosened at plea.sure, allowing the plow to be 
moved up or down, so as to adjust it to cut ar^y depth that 
may be. required. It is also braced forward by a rod with 
which the plow is made adjuitable fore and aft. The 
scraper is also made adjustable, by which it can be moved 
laterally to the right or 10 the left, and is, take it altogether, 
a very simple combination by which the work is done 
more easily and performs the work perfectly with one 
horse and one hand, which under the old regime requires 
two 
Col, Baggett has applied for a patent for this combina- 
tion, and intends sending you an engraving of the same 
as soon as it can be obtained, in order that you may, io 
the form of an advertisement, place it more properly be- 
fore your readers. Very respectfully, 
Francis Marschal^, 
New Orleans, Avg . , 1 857. 
THE GRAPE CULTURE. 
(^Continued from our last, page 284.) 
In the fall, after the first killing frost, manure the vine- 
yard broadcast with 20 loads of the compost above stated, 
plow (he ground in the narrow rows and let it lie. In 
November the dead cuttings may be replaced by young 
vines from the nursery, if they are two years old, other- 
wise it will be safer to defer it till the next year. About 
(he last of January or first of February, trim down the 
young vines to within one eye or bud of the ground. This 
bud foims 'he head or crown of the vine. 
Prepare substantial stakes of fat lightwoed, heart pine, 
post oiik, or other durable wood, six feet long, two 
nches .'•quare, point them at one end, then take up the 
t'-mporary stakes and drive the new posts about eigh- 
tr< n inches into the grond — when the vines are grown 
long enough, ‘le them slightly to the posts with some soft 
substance as silk grass or ravels of guniiy bagging. Re- 
move tfie earth five or six inches deep round the stem and 
cut off the surface roots some two 01 three or more around 
the sides of the stem, and return the earth hi the stem. 
uiing the summer, the vineyard must be carefully hoed 
iwi'^e, ruiioff the shoois at the fool of the stem, so as tfl) 
iive vigor to the main twigs or branches; this concludes 
the second year’s cultivation. 
Imhe third year, the vines must undergo the sameop€= 
