SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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We give below our ’’sual Table of the amount of Cotton 
consumed the past year in the States South and West of Virginia, 
and not included in the Receipts at the Ports. Thus — 
1850. 1851. 1852. 1853. 
North Carolina.... bales 20,000 13,000 15,000 20 000 
South Carolina 15,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 
Georgia 27,000 13,000 22,000 20,010 
Alabama 6,000 4.000 5,000 5,000 
Tennessee 12 000 8,000 7,000 5 000 
On the Ohio, &c 27,500 12,000 16,000 30,000 
Total to Sept. 1... bales 107,500 60,000 75,030 90,000 
1854. 1855. 1856. 1857. 
North Carolina ...bales 20,000 18,500 22,000 25,000 
South Carolina 12.000 10,500 15.000 17,000 
Georgia 23,000 20 500 26,000 23,000 
Alabama 6,000 5,500 6,500 5,003 
Tennessee 6,000 4,000 7.000 9,000 
On the Ohio, &c 38,000 26,000 42,000 38,000 
Total to Sept. 1... bales 105,000 85,000 117,500 117,000 
To which, if we add, (for the past year,) the Stocks in the interi 
or Towns Ist instant, (say 2000 bales,) the quantity now detained 
in the interior, (say 5000 bales,) and that lost on its way to mar- 
ket the past year, to the Crop as given above, received at the 
Shipping Ports, the aggregate will show, as near as may be, the 
amount raised in the United States the past season — say, in round 
numbers, 3,014 000 bales, (after deducting 100 bales new crop re- 
ceived this year to Ist inst., and some 50,000 bales rtetained in the 
interior September 1st, 1856, which came forward the past season 
and is already added to the Receipts at the Ports,) against 
1856 bales.. 3,335,000 
1855 3.178,000 
1854 3,000,000 
1855 3,360,000 
1852 3,100,000 
1851 bales.. 2 450 000 
1 50 2,212,000 
1849 2,840 000 
1848 2,357,000 
The whole Consumption of the United States the past year 
to September 1, 1857, was 840,000 bales against 788,000 bales the 
year before. 
The quantity of new Cotton received at the Shipping Ports to 
1st September was- 
1857 
—in 
1850 
1856 
1,800 
1849 
575 
1855 
34,079 
1848 
.3,000 
1854 
1,890 
1847 
18.53 
716 
1846 
1852 
1845 
1851 
GOUT IN FOWIiS &c. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Every planter should 
contribute his mite, (not the genius Acarus^ but the mite 
the widow threw in, which was commended as of .more 
value than the oblations of the rich ; and sustain the South- 
ern Cultivator with his practical, not theoretic mind. 
I observe in one of your numbers, a correspondent is 
inquisitive to know a remedy for that formidable and oft- 
times fatal disease, the gout in fowls, A valuable game- 
cock afforded one of my little sons an admirable subject 
for experiment. 
He made a salve of tar, soap and sugar, incised the 
protuberance, or tumor, crosswise, and bound the foot 
tightly by passing the bandage round each toe. In a few 
days it was removed, and a dark, hard mucus, of a faetid 
odor was extracted; and one would not imagine how such 
an obdurate tumor could occupy so limited a space just 
at the junction of the toes with the shank, or tibia, I be- 
lieve the books call it. 
Turner’s Cerate was applied after a bath of soap and 
water, and now, the gouty game is assuming a bright, 
new plumage, as he had been nearly plucked and bereft 
of that chanticleer glory, and feeding freely on chopped 
peppers and homony, and I believe, if sulphur was added, 
it will be more efficacious still, to effect a perfect cure. 
We have also suffered heavy losses of poultry ; no age, 
or kind, being exempt. They eject from their mouths, 
by a sudden jerk, an acetous fluid, fall back and expire ; 
others sit in profound repose until they extend their 
wings, turn over and die. 
We have found cayenne, mixed with grist or homony, 
and bleeding under both wings an excellent remedy; 
and I have been recommended to secure a small bag of 
Asafoeitda in the poultry yard trough, with an ample sup- 
ply of fresh water, as a preventive, it being a highly 
fetid gum, stimulant and antispasmodic ; it is worth a trial, 
when this vindictive enemy invades our extensive poultry- 
yard enclosed by a tabby wall and tabby floor, to keep 
out the rats, and correct a bad atmosphere. 
The oat patch you recommended, is an admirable aux- 
iliary, where some 90 or 100 young tuikies luxuriate every 
fine day, with their coops arranged under the grapery in 
a cool shade. 
I observe your Concrete Cottage, at Fruitland, is of 
similar materials as our Tabby; substituting shells for 
stones in the proportion of three parts of shells, to one of 
lime, sand, or gravel ; well mixed to a mortar, pounded 
into a two side^ box or mould board, secured by movable 
pins, to regulate the thickness and length required for the 
walls. 
Of this material we are now constructing a row of ne- 
gro houses, v/ith a Tabby Chapel at the head, and an 
avenue of native oaks on each side ; as it is well known 
that when the country was in a state of nature, its sa- 
lubrity was perhaps unsurpassed by any climate under 
the canopy of Heaven ; and not until its surface was ex- 
posed to the intense rays of a Southern Sun, by the axe, 
plough and hoe, that its inhabitants were subject to en- 
demics, as epidemics were little known. To restore our 
dwellings to as near a state of nature as a dense shade 
surrounding them, would certainly promote health ; which 
has been tested here from 1818 to the present time. 
When the roving savage paddled from isle to isle, which 
stretch along our beautiful sea coast ; luxuriating on finer 
oysters than can now be found ; casting the bivalves in 
massive mounds around their wigwams ; the Knistereaux 
of the Algonquius, and perhaps the Isicus of the Latins ; 
they scarcely ever dreamed, if at all — their visions of the 
future never suggested the idea, that more thrifty and ad- 
ventitious peace would supercede them, and apply these 
very shells they threw away as useless, in constructing 
durable, cheap buildings, and paving roads, rendering them 
equal to plank roads. Yet such are the facts, and these 
testaceous molusks, collected for centuries by the Indians^ 
are now affording us valuable materials in extensive de- 
posits on this island. 
My son has lately introduced a plow of his own plan, 
made in Savannah ; that may be a valuable acquisation in 
breaking and mellowing your hard-pan clay soil in the up 
country. 
Blade 6 inches long by 4 wide, coulter 10 or 12 inches 
long, with a back-brace 3 inches, turned up 1 inch to be 
let into the beam ; made of bar iron about i or 1 inch 
thick, which any Blacksmith can make and jobbing Car- 
penter stock. 
I cannot close this article better than in the didactic 
language of the great Jewish Lawgiver, in his Meshalim. 
“ My son, keep thy Father’s commandment, and forsake 
not the law of thy Mother : Bind them continually upon 
their heart, and tie them about thy neck. Where thou 
goest, it shall lead thee ; when thou sleepest, it shall keep 
thee ; and when thou wakest, it shall talk with thee. Go 
to the Ant, thou sluggard ; consider her way’s and be 
wise ! ! ” A Planter. 
Glynn Co., June, 1857. 
A Thousand Fold. — We have just been informed, on 
the authority of a citizen of Monroe county, whose word 
is entitled to implicit credit, that he was shown a bunch 
of wheat containing seventy stalks. On each stalk there 
was an average of fifteen grains to each head, making in 
all the enormous yield of one thousand and fifty grains of 
wheat from a single grain. 
Nor is this to be regarded as an isolated case. The 
crop in the country is represented as being as good as it 
is possible for the land to make it. We congratulate 
ourselves, therefore, on the prospect of cheap bread foi 
another year . — Forsyth Journal, June 20. 
