THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
56 
®l)e 0outl)etn <3lultiDatar, 
AUGUSTA, GA. 
T U ESPAY, AyKSI. 1, 184 5. 
A PREflIlUM. 
The Publishers of the “SOUTHERN 
CULTIVATOR,” propose to give to every 
mail who shall procure TEN subscribers, 
aud enclose a ten dollar bill, the two back 
\ olumes of the work, handsomely bound. 
13* Subscribers to the present volume of the 
Cultivator, can be supplied with the back 
numbers. We can also furnish the two back 
VOLUMES complete, at the subscription price. 
53* The package of seeds sent to the editor of 
the Cultivator, has been received, and distributed. 
Premiums Awarded. 
In our Prospectus of the third volume of the 
“SouTHE.RN Cultivator,” we offered six Pre- 
miums, to those who should interest themselves 
in obtaining subscribers — to be awarded on the 
1st of March — and we have now the pleasure of 
announcing the result. 
To the Hon. Charles Doughertv, of Athensi 
Q-a., was awarded the first premium — “A Silver 
Goblet, with appropriate Agricultural designs 
and inscription, worth $25,” for obtaining over 
ONE hundred subscribers. 
To Col. Alexander McDonald, of Eufaula, 
Barbour Co., Ala., the third — “ A similar 
Goblet, worth $15,” for obtaining over sixty- 
five subscribers. 
To Green B. Haygood, Esq., of Watkins- 
ville, Ga., the fourth — “Loudon’s Encyclopaedia 
of Agriculture, worth $10,” for obtaining over 
FIFTY subscribers. 
To Charles Hutchings, Esq., of Clinton, 
Ga., the fifth — “Johnson’s Encyclopaedia and 
Dictionary of Rural Affairs, v/orih $5,” for ob- 
taining over forty subscribers. 
It will thus be seen that no one has obtained 
either the second or sixth premium, both of 
which we should have been much pleased to 
have awarded to some of our Agricultural 
friends in testimony of their zeal in the cause. 
Id announcing the result we cannot permit 
the occasion to pass, without tendering to each 
of the above named gentlemen our most cordial 
thanks for the interest taken by them in our en- 
terprise, and to express our gratitude for their 
efforts in stimulating others to increased exer- 
tion, in behalf of the work. Nor would weomit 
to tender our sincere acknowledgements to all 
others, although less successful, who have ex- 
erted any influence to obtain subscribers to the 
work. 
The premiums will be ready for delivery at 
an early day, of which we will advise the respec- 
tive recipients, and receive their respective or- 
ders in relerence to them. 
Postage. 
The thoughtlessness of some of our friends 
frequently subjects the publishers to the pay- 
ment of postage, which is as unj ust as it is bur- 
thensome. For instance, some one wishes the 
direction of his paper changed from one Post 
Office to another, and forthwith writes us a let- 
ter, which he forwards willwut paying the post- 
age, and we are accordingly subjected to this tax 
on business purely his. Again: some friend 
wants to become a subscriber, and encloses the 
money in a letter, postage not paid, and we 
are consequently taxed double postage. 
It is true that the postage on a letter is of very 
little consequence so far as the amount is con- 
cerned, but whenourfriends reflect that the price 
of subscription to our paper is only One Dollar, 
a moment’s reflection will satisfy them that we 
cannot afford to pay the postage on letters per- 
tainingexclusively to the business of the writers. 
Besides, it is an easy matter to avoid thus tax- 
ing us, by simply requesting the Post Master 
to enclose the money, or request the change in 
the direction of a paper, all of which he is au' 
thorized to do. 
Agricultural Education. 
Much as book-farming has been ridiculed and 
despised in times past, and much as it is held in 
contempt in parts of the South even now, still 
the day is fast approaching when those who 
have thus acted will rue their folly. Even 
though we may incur the risk of being laughed 
at, yet we will take the liberty of saying that, 
day by day, the value of mere bone and muscle, 
as a mechanical agent, is becoming less and 
less, and ere long mere bones and muscles will 
become worthless as to any profitable use that 
can be made of them, unless their operations 
shall be guided by the light of this very book- 
learning so much despised. One reason why 
the South is so far behind the other sections of 
the Union is, because we have not long ago un- 
derstood and appreciated this important truth 
about the decreasing value of mere bone and 
muscle. In New York, for example, all this 
was comprehended long ago, and as a conse- 
quence, their Agricultural Institute is a regular 
college for teaching a system of Agriculture, 
suited to that soil and climate. There, the 
student learns all the lactsin Chemistry, Geolo- 
gy, and Botany, so far as they are immediately 
useful in Agriculture. He is taught how to 
prepare and drain soils; howto collect, store 
away, and preserve provender, grain, truit, &c.; 
how to feed, and take care of, and improve 
stock; how to take care of orchards, vineyards, 
gardens, &c. ; howto prepare and apply ma- 
nures to the best advantage ; and, indeed every 
thing that is necessary to make a man accom- 
plished in both the practice and the science of 
Agriculture. 
Even in the adjoining State of Tennessee, 
they are ahead of us in this matter of Agricul- 
tural Education. On the first of January last, 
an Agricultural College was opened in that 
Slate, with between forty and fiftv students; and 
our latest information about it is, that the uutr» 
ber will very soon be as large as can be accom- 
modated. We have now before us a catalogue 
of the students, including young men from the 
States ot Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, 
Missouri and Kentucky ; notone from Georgia. 
In this connection we copy from the Globe 
newspaper, an article showing what the Na- 
tional Agricultural Society is doing, and pro- 
poses to do, lor Agricultural Education. Let 
the reader con it over carefully, and very seri- 
ously, and then ask himself if it he not his duty 
to bestir himself and do something fur Agricul- 
tural Education in the South— in Georgia espe- 
cially — so that the light of science may be 
brought to the aid and direction ot the bone and 
muscle of this section of the country, ere the 
advances made elsewhere shall make his efforts 
vain and profitless. 
How is this to be done? you ask. Very ea- 
sily indeed. The tillers of the ground are a 
part of the State so numerous and important 
that, without them, the State could not exist. 
They have only, therefore, to have a proper no- 
tion of their own importance, and to assert their 
rights as men ought : to demand that in our sys- 
tem of education, so far as it is supported by the 
State, due regard shall be paid to the interests of 
their profession, and that the funds of the State 
shall not be applied almost exclusively, as here- 
tofore, to the preparation of young men for the 
study of the learned professions, so called — two 
of which at least, if not already, will soon be, 
at the present rale of increase, filled up to star- 
vation point. The planters pay by far the lar- 
ger part of the public taxes ; and they ought to 
see that these taxes are expended in like propor- 
tion for their benefit. In a v/ord, they should 
demand that the system of education in the Slate 
University shall include a Professorship of Ag- 
ricultural Chemistry and Geology — and de- 
manding this as their right, they should see that 
their agents in the Legislature provide the 
means of sustaining such professorship. 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 
The National Agricultural Society has lately 
adopted a plan that promises valuable results in 
promoting iinpr)vement among the farming 
community in all quarters of the Union. That 
plan is briefly set fnnh in the annexed proceed- 
ings, and has the merit of involving little ex- 
pense, while largely stimulating attenti-in to the 
great purposes for which the National Society 
was founded. The proceedings, as communi- 
cated to a late Agricultural Convention in the 
State of New York, and published in the Alba- 
ny Argus, were as follows: Globe. 
“National Agricultural Society. — At a 
meeting of the members of the National Agri- 
cultural Society, at the City of Washineton, on 
the 10th of January, 1845, Mr. Ellsworth, Com- 
missioner of the Patent Office, in the chair, and 
Mr. Callan, Secretary, — inquiry turned upon 
the means whereby the efforts of the friends of 
agricultural improvement may be made more 
united and efficient throughout the United 
Slates. The matter which most particularly 
arrested attention was the repor" of the opera- 
tions for ‘extending agricultural knowledge, 
through the instrumentality of the common- 
school organization of the State of New York.’ 
The report on this subject is in pamphlet form, 
and emanated from a committee of which the 
Hon. John Greig, late member of Congress, is 
