SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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CHINESE CANE — ITS PRODUCTS, &c. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I will give you an ac- 
count of my Chinese sugar cane. I planted 2 sacks last 
spring, and I have just finished working it up; the result 
is 130 gallons of good bright syrup; 10 gallons of wine; 
40 gallons of taffy, and 50 gallons vinegar; some very 
fine sugar — notable to say how much, as I have not got 
the molasses extracted from it. I have not measured my 
seed, though I think I shall have 50 or 60 bushels. 
I planted the seed on 1^ acres of light sandy land, 
which would not have made more than 500 lbs of seed 
cotton per acre. I would like to be a systematic farmer, 
if I could, and I am trying to get in that line. I am a fruit 
grower to some extent, and I have as good a selection of 
fruits as there is in the South. I have a young orchard of 
about one thousand trees, which furnishes a succession 
©f fruit from May until the first of December. I am pre- 
paring to plant 1 or 2 acres of vineyard this fall, and I 
have a good selection of grapes, viz : Catawba, Isabella, 
Scuppernong, Blue Grape, Mustang and the Tennessee 
Black Grape, which last variety I prize above all for table 
use. I have not tested it for wine, though I think it will 
make an excellent wine, as it is the sweetest grape that 1 
ever have tasted. 
• I think I shall be able to procure you five or six new 
subscribers for the Cultivator, for the next volume, for I 
wish to see it enlarged. In answer to a subscriber of 
Pine Forrest, Mississippi, I will give you a plan of a 
Flea Trap, that I think will take them all : Get some green 
pine poles and skin the outside bark off, and lay them 
where the fleas are most numerous, and you will catch and 
fasten them all. 
I expect to be a subscriber for the Cultivator os long as 
I can raise a dollar. Yours with respect, 
F. T. Cook. 
Weh-adkee, Ala., Oct, 1857. 
REMEDY FOR BUTS IN HORSES. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I notice that some- 
thing has been said in some ofthe back numbers ofthe 
Southern Cultivator about Bots in Horses, Remedies, &c. 
I will not pretend to go into details about the bots, but 
will simply give my remedy. One that is just as good for 
Cholic as for Bots and never knew it to fail in either case. 
Take one pint of water and make it quite sweet with mo- 
lasses, and then add to it one ounce of chloroform, keep- 
ing the bottle well corked to prevent evaporation, and 
drench the horse. If for Bots the horse will be well in five 
minutes— the Bot is killed the moment the chloroform 
enters the stomach. The very worst case of cholic it will 
cure equally as quick. It is the first and only thing that 
I have ever tried that would kill the Bot, without injuring 
the horse in the least. 
To satisfy you that it will kill the Bot, in one half hour 
after you have given the above drench, give a sufficient 
quantity of castor oil to purge the horse well, and you will 
find that every one that he discharges will be dead and 
never will come to life again. If you can procure a live 
Bot, touch it with one drop of chloroform and it v/ili kill 
instantly. 
The horse will appear a little stupid from the effects of 
the chloroform and will not be fit for use under some three 
or four Hours after being drenched. 
I have given chloroform in whiskey, but find it most 
loo strong a drench. 1 much prefer giving it in molasses 
and water — it answers every purpose The horse is 
more easily and rno.-e snfely drenched with it. I have 
never yet had to repeat the dose, chough in a very bad 
case of cholic it might be necessary; if S'>, I would a )- 
vise you to repeal it in thirty minutes after giving the 
first. L. E. L. 
Marsho.ll, Texas, Aug., 1857. 
BAGGETT SCRAPER, vs. YOST SCRAPER. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — The object ofmy com- 
munication in August last, speaking of the two scrapers 
above mentioned, was to call the attention of the planters 
to the fact that they would not now by the introduction of 
the Baggett Scrapers have to throw away their Taylor or 
Bar Scraper, as they would have to do if they purchased 
the Yost Scraper, but to impress upon their minds the (act 
that all those who had a Taylor or Bar Scraper could 
have the same so improved by attaching a plow to it ©n 
the same stock, that the two may be worked together in 
baring off and scraping cotton at cne and the same time 
with perfect success; thus saving to the planter five or six 
dollars for every Taylor or Bar Scraper that they may 
own. This, to the planters who now have Bar Scrapers is 
no unimportant item. I should not have alluded to this 
subject again, but your types made me say what I did not 
intend to say, which was to the effect that in purchasing 
the Bagget Scraper the planter “would now have to throw 
away their Taylor or other Bar Scraper,” which wron^ 
quotation destroyed in part the object of my communica- 
tion. The object of this is merely to correct the above 
error which was not the only one that occurred in said 
communication. Respectfully, 
Francis Marschalx. 
New Orleans. Sept, 1857. 
CURATIVE PROPERTIES OF SUGAR CANE 
Vapor. 
Dr. Cartwright, of New Orleans, has published in the 
Boston Medical Journal, an article describing the cures 
effected upon persons afflicted with consumption and bron- 
chitis, by inhaling the vapor arising from boiling cane 
juice. It appears that chemical investigation has discov- 
ered two very different properties in sugar, the freshly-cut 
cane juice destroying cold blooded animals as quick as 
lightning. From witnessing this remarkable property of 
killing so rapidly, the doctor seems to infer that it would 
cure equally as effectually, and he tried the experiment on 
a consumptive Frenchman, by making him inhale the va- 
por of boiling cane juice. The man got well. The doc- 
tor, in a fit of medical enthusiasm ascribed it to the vapor, 
and he wishes the world to know the good effects of this 
remedy. It has long been observed by overseers of sugar 
plantations, that weakly or sickly persons soon get robust 
and strong when set to skimming the pans during the 
boilling of cane juice. The fragrant cane juice is per- 
fectly respirable, and penetrates into the smallest bron- 
chital tubes, and produces beneficial effects. If there is 
anything in the discovery, the fact ought to be extensively 
circulated, for consumption is the greatest of all tlie de- 
stroyers of the human race. 
[We suppose, of course, that the vapor of the Chinese 
Cane also “ carries healing on its wings,” and shall, there- 
fore, have to add to the other good qualities of the Sorgho, 
that cf an important remedial agent in consumption- 
Truly! the “ half has not been told,” respecting this 
wonderful plant! — Eds] 
“ YOUNG AMERICA ” URUSHER—PRICE, &c. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — In my article, giving 
noiice of the “ Young America” Crusher, (as E.xctLior.) 
[ made a mistake in fi-;ures. The price is S65, instead 
'if ;5>‘25, as slate 1 by me. My aiteniion has been called to 
ihe fact by the General Agent, writing from Magnolia, 
MUcis>ippi. i regret the occ urrence, as it may have mis- 
led som-c. Yours &c., 
G. D. Harmon. 
; Utica, Miss., S' pi., 1857. 
