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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
OUR BOOK TABL.E. 
Sorgho and Imphee — The Chinese and African Sugar 
Canes. — A complete treatise upon their Origin, Varie- 
ties, Culture, and Uses; their value as a Forage Crop ; 
and directions for making Sugar, Molasses, Alcohol, 
Sparkling and Still Wines, Beer, Cider, Vinegar, Pa- 
per, Starch, and Dye-Stuffs ; fully Illustrated with 
Drawings of Approved Machinery. With an Appen- 
dix by Leonard Wray, Esq., of Caffraria, and a Descrip- 
tion of his Patented Process for Crystallizing the Juice 
•f the Imphee; with the latest American Experiments, 
including those of 1857, in the South. By Henry S. 
Olcott. To which are added Translations of valuable 
French Pamphlets received from the Hon. John Y. Ma- 
son, American Minister at Paris. Price One Dollar. 
Sent by mail, post paid. Published by A. O. Moore, 
(Successor of C. M. Saxton & Co.) 140 Fulton St., New 
York. 
Nothing could be more opportune than the appearance 
of this work, now, when the whole country is so deeply 
interested in the production of cheap, home-made Syrup 
and Sugar, Mr Olcott has performed his task in a very 
able manner, and his book contains a complete account of 
these valuable plants (Sorgho and Imphee,) and their pro- 
ducts, up to the present time. Every one who cultivates, 
or desires to cultivate either plant named should procure 
a copy. As the best evidence of its value, we present, 
entire, the Table of Contents: 
Chapter i. — Origin and Subsequent History of the 
Chinese Sugar Cane. — The Cane in China— Accounts of 
Jesuit Missionaries — Extract from Japanese Works — Its 
Exhibition at the Great Fair at Moscow — Introduction 
into Europe — The appearance of Mr. Wray’s Imphee — 
Precarious position of the Sorgho — To whom is most Hon- 
or due— Sale of 800 Seeds to Vilmorin Adrieux & Co. — 
Various Experiments — Attempt of Pietro Arduino in 1786 
— Mr. Leonard Wray — Introduction of the Sorgho into 
America — Sugar made by Professor Avequin, of Louisi- 
ana — How Patent Office Seeds should be used. 
Chapter ii. — Description of the Plant. — The Confu- 
sion among Agricultural Writers — Appearance of the 
Plant— Height, &c. — Comparative Growth of the Sorgho 
and other similar Plants — Weight of the Stalk — Progres- 
sive Growth— Pulling out the Tufts— Ripening— Prostra- 
tion by Wind Storms. 
Chapter tii. — Soils Required — Culture — Manuring. — 
Should Hilling be Practiced?— Deep Culture-Sub-soil Plow 
— Soaking Seed — Covering Lightly — Manures — Hybridi- 
zation — Cultivation — Curing Fodder-Saving Seed-Strip- 
ping— Stacking. 
Chapter iv. — Value as a Forage Crop — Testimony of 
Cultivators. — Sowing for Fodder— Rattooning — Cutting 
Fodder — Testimony of D. Jay Browne, Esq — Testimony 
©f Author — Testimony of Mr. Gratz, of Kentucky — Mr. 
Wray’s Remarks at the Farmers’ Club— Count Beaure- 
gard’s Exper ence— Testimony of G, de Lacoste— Of Gov. 
Gardner, of Mass —Experience of C. L. Flint, of Mass. 
— The Sorgho in Texas this Year — Ability to withstand 
Drouth— Curing— Its Nutritive Qualities— Size of Stalks 
in North Africa— Testimony of Doctor Turrel, and La- 
cosfe— Coloring the Bones of Chickens — Yield per Acre 
of Seed and Forage — Should not be allowed to Grow more 
than one Year. 
Chapter v . — Sugar ayid Sugar-MnJdng — A West In- 
dian Sugar PI a ntation — Outti ng — Crushing — Bulling 
— .Ap(>.aratus Required, Fully Illustrated — A West Ir>dian 
Steam Mill —Cattle Mill — Horse Mills — Steam Trains — 
Ordinary Trains— Vacuum Pan — Bascule Pan — Making 
a Siiial! Crop of Sugar — The Cause for Present Pligh 
Piices — I'he “ African Apprentice” System. 
Chapter vi. — Syrup — Best Method of Making it. — 
Experience of American Growers — The Seed obtained as 
well as Syrup— Apparatus Necessary — M, d’lvernoig' 
Syrup made without a Mill — Iron Rollers better than 
Wooden Rollers — Amount of Saccharine Matter Varies in 
different Cases— Necessity of Cleanliness and System — 
Col. Peters obtains 468 Gallons on an Acre. 
Chapter vii. — Alcoholic Products. — Most approved 
method of making Sorgho Alcohols — The French Ex- 
periments — Brandies — Wine — Sparkling Wine — Beer — 
Cider — The French Government Patronage — Enthusiasm 
of Dr. Turrel — Distillery — Apparatus Illustrated witfe 
numerous Engravings. 
Chapter viii. — Paper — Vinegar — Starch — Di/e-Stuffs 
— Cerosie, or Wax. — The Quality of Vinegar — D. Jay 
Browne’s Testimony — Count Moignerie’s Process De- 
scribed — Dr. Sicard’s Experiments and his Method of 
Vinegar Making — The Value of the Starch — Pearling and 
Hulling the Seeds — The Flour — Author’s Experiments in 
making the Dye-Siuffs — Coloring Ribbons — Dr. Sicard’s 
Samples of Colors — Chemical Treatment to Procure the 
Tints— Pigments — Cerosie or Vegetable Wax — Making 
Candles in China — Author’s Experiments — Monsieur 
Hardy’s Calculations — Corn Stalk Paper— Duret’s Speci- 
mens — Dr. Sicard’s Specimens — Process of Paper Mak- 
ing. 
Chapter ix. — Mr. Wray^s Process foi- Making Excel- 
lent Sugar from the. Imphee., Sorgho, Sugar Maple, Bed, 
and Ordinary Sugar Cane, Described. 
PART II. 
The Imphee. — By Ijconard Wray, Esq — Discovery of 
the Plant in Caffraria — Previous Attempt to Make Sugar 
Unsuccessful— Botonical Position of the Imphee — The 
Different Varieties — Their Description and Yields of Su- 
gar — Cultivation — Manuring — The Imphee Compared to 
the Sugar Beet and Sugar Cane. 
Appendix. — C orrespondence with the American Minis- 
ter at Paris— Letters of Vilmorin and Vattemare, of Paris 
— Article by Mr Browne on Crystallizing the Juice of the 
Sorgho — Analysis and Chemical Researches by Dr. 
Charles T. Jackson, of Boston — French Analysis of Sor- 
gho Stalks, Seed and Soil— Paper by Dr. A. A. Hayes, of 
Boston — Mr. Wray’s Letter to Author — History of the 
Sorgho in the Southern States, by D. Redmond, Editor of 
the Southern Cultivator — Author’s Translations of Pam- 
phlets of F. Bourdais — Count Beauregard — Dr. Turrel — 
Paul Madinier — Duret — Louis Vilmorin — The Reports to 
the French Minister of War, by Henry and Dr. Turrel — 
The Sorgho at the South. 
1^” The Publisher has sent us a few copies, which we 
will send per mail, post paid, at Si 00 ; or they may be 
obtained from nearly all Booksellers, 
Report of Commissioner or Patents fob the Year 
1857. Agriculture. 
This volume is one of the very best and most attrac- 
tive, that the Patent Office has yet issued. It contains a 
great number of articles on the Agriculture of the countr)!^, 
and is profusely illustrated with Draft Horses; Sheep j 
Peabody’s new Strawberry; Mice; Rats; Squirrels; 
Eagles; Hawks; Owls; Birds, of various kinds; Tod 
Houses, Tool Closets ; Lime Burning; Draining; Graft- 
ing; Grape Planting; Wine Making, &c , &c. Upo» 
the whole, a very interesting and useful volume. Send 
to your Representative or Senator, and gel a copy. 
Downing’s Fruit and Fruit Trees of America. 
Charles Downing, Esq , has politely sent me a copy 
of this new work, revised and corrected ; for which he 
