THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
Planters’ Club of Hancock County. 
It gives us great pleasure indeed to publish, 
as we do in this number, the account of the late 
Fair ot the Planters’ Club of Hancock County. 
This Club, we believe, was the first that was form- 
ed in this State, and the result of its efforts thus 
far, is certainly such as ought to induce plan- 
ters in other counties to iorm similar associa- 
tions. Near one hundred bushels of corn ga- 
thered from one acre ! It is not long since such 
a product was thought to be utterly impossible 
in Georgia. Now there can be no doubt about 
it; the Club have awarded a premium for the 
production of ninety-six and one-quarter bu- 
shels ; and we do not at all doubt that in less 
than five years, the members of this same Club, 
continuing their enlightened efforts for the im- 
provement of their county, will be called upon 
to award a premium lor the production of over 
one hundred and Jifty bushels to the acre. 
We felicitate the Club on their determination 
to include pork and wool hereafter in the list of 
objects to be presented for premiums. This is 
exactly as it should be, and will lead the way 
in Georgia, we have no doubt, to a state of things 
in which we shall not be dependant on others 
for these articles of prime necessicy. 
Need we suggest to the intelligent members 
of the Club, that in undertaking to produce 
wool, the very first movement must be to ex- 
terminate the whole race of rascally dogs with 
which the country is infested from Dan to Beer- 
sheba. We have known attempts at wool-grow- 
ing fail utterly from not doing this one thing. 
The Clubs of Hancock, Greene and Morgan, 
are, we believe, the only ones at present in the 
State. But we confidently expect that in a very 
few years, almost every county in the State 
will have its club, and that all of them will be 
but branches of a great STATE AGRICUL- 
TURAL SOCIETY. 
In Kohl’s Travels in Ireland, page 115, Har- 
per’s edition, there is a reference to the uses to 
which sea-weed is applied by the People on the 
coast of Antrim. “One kind of a sea-weed,” 
he says, “much liked for manure, is the La- 
minaria digitata, called sea-wrack, which is 
considered so serviceable, especially lor pota- 
toes, that it is a saying in Antrim that a sack of 
sea-wrack wfill make a sack of potatoes; al- 
though, in general, it is rather the quality than 
the quantity of this useful root that is im- 
proved by it. After every storm on this coast, 
the people come dowm in crowds from the moun- 
tains, to gather the sea-wrack for their potatoes, 
and in calm weather they run out far into the sea, 
and cut it under the water with sickles. Some- 
times they take the little mountain horses in 
with them; but when the shore is too rocky for 
this, they lade their own human backs with the 
salt dripping manure.” 
It must occur to every one on reading this 
account, that the efficacy of this manure, in im- 
proving the quality of the potatoe, must be ow- 
ing to the salt it contains. If this be so, the 
application of common salt wfiih the manure 
usually applied, at the time of planting, must 
have a good effect. It is, at all events, worth 
.the lime and trouble of making the experiment, 
to know what the efliect of the application will 
be in our climate. As the time for planting the 
Irish potatoe is approaching, may we not hope 
that experiments will be made, and that the re- 
sult will be made known to the public through 
the medium of the Cultivatoiv 
COUNTII'iG-IIOUSE CAEEi\"i>Aii FOE 
Hemp.— It has long been a matter of surprise 
to us that the culture of hemp was not attempt- 
ed on the rich lands of northwestern Georgia. 
What we know of these lands compels us to be- 
lieve that success must certainly attend the at- 
tempt whenever made. With a desire to aid 
those who may think of trying it, we intend to 
publish in the next number of the Cultivator, 
an essay on the culture of hemp, and its pre- 
paration lor market, by the Hon. Henry Clay, 
of Kentucky. This will be followed by Judge 
Beatty’s prize essay on the same subject, and 
various other papers, until nothing stiall be left 
that is necessary to a full understanding of the 
whole matter. 
There is great encouragement just now to un- 
dertake the culture, in the fact that the old te- 
dious and laborious process ot braking by the 
hand is about to be superseded, by a machine 
recently invented, by which, with an ordinary 
horse power, four hands can brake 200 lbs. per 
hour. The machine is called “Butler’s Hemp 
Brake,” and can be bought in Nashville, Tenn., 
for twenty dollars. 
For the Southern Cultivator. 
Mr. Editor: — 1 herewith send to you the 
form ot an abbreviated Almanac, which you 
might believe appropriate foran insertion in the 
first number of your third volume. It presents a 
facility of reference, which no other that I have 
ever seen does. The calculaiions have been 
made by myself, and I will guarantee its cor- 
rectness. You can, however, dispose of it as 
you may think proper. 
Very respectfully, Yours, 
Thomas Gaillard. 
Claiborne, Ala., November 20, 1814. 
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Explanations.— In the left hand Table, find the day 
which corcesponds with the given year. Example: 
Saturday with the year 134.5. In the right hand Table, 
under the given month, will be found the days of the 
month on which that day falls. Example: In .Tanuary, 
1315, Saturday falls oji the 4th ; therefore Wednesday 
will be the first day of the month. N. B. — In a Leap 
Year, the star (') points out the coiresponding .lanu- 
ary and Febiuary to be i eferred to. 
“KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,” 
That the outrages perpetrated on property 
IN THE SHAPE OF TREES, are at last arou- 
sing legislative and judicial vengeance. The 
robberies practiced openly upon gardens and 
orchards and door-yards, have long and keenly 
annoyed those who devote care and labor to the 
cultivation of fine fruits and the embellishment 
of their homesteads. This species of pilfering, 
so common with children, exerts a pernicious 
influence on the mindsKif the young and old; 
for those who plunder their neighbors this way 
while young, are commonly more or less laint- 
etl with thievish propensities in maturerlife. 
“ Train up a child in the way he should go, and 
when he is old he will not depart from it.” 
Mark, then, the influence of example — of good 
and evil example — upon the minds ot youth: — 
“VVedouot know,” says the New York Ex- 
press, “ when we have been more pleased with 
a judicial decision than that which we find re- 
corded in one of our late London files. A boy 
fifteen years of age, was convicted and heavily 
punished for breaking a bough from one of the 
trees in a public garden. The sitting magis- 
trate, in passing sentence on the oflender, took 
occasion to use the following strong and sensi- 
ble language: “that although the damage in 
thus particular instance was small, yet the prac- 
tice of breaking trees occasioned great damage; 
and the inhabitants of the different squares were 
put annually to great expense, in consequence 
of these depredations. Persons had no mure 
right to take a, branch from one of these trees, than 
they had to go into one of the houses and steal a 
piece of plate.'' We hope this will be ‘ recorded 
for a piecedent,’ in every court in this country.” 
There is a beautiful circumstance connected 
with agricultural emulation. In many of the 
pursuits of life, one man gets rich by making 
another man poor, — climbs the ladder by putting 
his feet on another man’s shoulder; or he builds 
his own building out of the fragments of his 
neighbor’s which he has undermined. This is 
often a crying injustice, and inflicts many bitter 
mortifications, or arouses vindictive and tiger 
passions. Emulation in agricultural improve- 
ment enkindles no such baleful fires. A man 
can make no improvements in husbandry, with- 
out at once extending the knowledge and advan- 
tage of them to others. The enlargement of the 
capacities of the soil and every increase of its 
productions, conler an immediate benefit upon 
the whole community. — Selected. 
