THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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chairman, and of which James S. Wadswurtii, 
of Western New York, late president ot the 
State Agricultural Society, and the Hon. Dan- 
iel S. Dickinson, n-ow senator from that State, 
are among the members. The report includes 
letters Irom various persons in different States, 
as well as from many parts of that State, ap- 
proving warmly of the plan pursued by the com- 
mittee for promoting the introduction ol agri- 
cultural books in the schools and libraries ol 
that State. The value of this movement may 
be estimated from the fact that there are about 
twelve thousand school and library districts, 
with superintendents of schools in every town 
and county of that great State. 
“Allusion v/as made to the as well 
efficiency oi this plan of action; inasmuch as 
it accomplishes its object by bringing the whole 
common school organization to aid the cause of 
agriculture and horticulture; at the same time 
that the general interest of the school must be 
largely benefited by the iticreased practical val- 
ue imparted to education through this connec- 
tion with what is appropriately termed - the sta- 
ple business of society — the culture ot the earth.’ 
“After mature consideration, it was deter- 
mined that the National Agricultural Society 
approve and adopt the plan set forth by the New 
York State Agricultural Society, as a plan that 
is applicable wherever schools or colleges exist, 
and which can be prosecuted cheaply and effi- 
‘ciently, especially in States where school organ- 
izations are judiciously arranged. 
“ With the view of promoting the extension 
■of this plan throughout the United States, addi- 
tional correspending secretaries were appointed 
as follows: T. S. Pleasants, of Virginia ; Hen- 
ry O’Reily, of New York; Thomas Affleck, ot 
Mississippi; Oliver Comstock, of Michigan; 
A. G. Summer, of Columbia, S. C.^ and Hen- 
ry Barnard, of Cennecticul. 
“ It is recommended to the nev/ly appointed 
secretaries to correspond freely with each other 
and particularly with the officers of the society 
at Washington, as well as with the friends of 
agricultural education generally in all sections 
ofthe Union, so as to produce the greatest efli- 
ciency by co-operation in the cause, 
“A resolution was adopted directing these 
proceedings to be published in the agricultural 
and other journals; and another resolution re- 
quired that copies thereof be forwarded to the 
several State Agricultural Societies in the 
Union. J. S. Skinner, Con. Sec. 
“ Post Office D-eparlment, Jan. 10, 1845.” 
Bermuda Grass. 
The Macon Telegraph, in a notice of the 
Cultivator, (for which it has our thanks,) 
speaks thus on the subject of Bermuda Grass ; 
“A communication on the subject of Bermu- 
da Grass, we transfer to our columns from those 
•of the Cultivator; and v'hile we appreciate the 
value of that grass for grazing, we would ask 
the editor ot the Cultivator at a leisure time to 
inform us as to the most practicable plan of get- 
ting clear of Bermuda Grass when the land is 
wanted for other purposes. Our farmers gene- 
rally deprecate its taking root on a corner of 
their plantations, as they would a great calami- 
ty. Its spreatt is slow when undisturbed by the 
plough, hut sure and steady ; and we have never 
yet learned how it is to be entirely eradicated 
from a field on which it has hold. 
“It this paramount objection can be remedied 
and it can be destroyer, at pleasure, we believe 
no grass, or scarce! v any grain, would be more 
useful to the South.” 
No one, neither Mr. Spalding nor Mr. Af- 
fleck, can have a higher opinion than we have 
ot the verv great value of this grass both for hay 
and pasture ; and we are, at the same time, ful- 
ly aware of the extreme dislike with which it is 
regarded by our planters. It would seem to be 
contrary to nature that what is of so much value 
should, at the same time, be so great a pest. — 
There must, therefore, be a mode by which it 
can be subdued. We beg leave to call the at- 
tention of Mr. Spalding and Mr. Affleck to ihi.s 
point, with the hope that they will furnish us 
with the result of their experience. If they will 
do this, and shall propose a plan by which Ber- 
muda Grass may be effectually rootpd out, 
whenever it is desired to use the land it occupies 
for other purposes, they will confer a lavor on 
the planters -of the South that will not soon be 
forgotten 
In Elliott’s Botany we find a notice of the 
Bermuda Grass, which goes to confirm all our 
impressu ns as to its great value. He says: — 
“ We have two varieties of this plant, one coar- 
ser, (perhaps a species,) growing in damp soils, 
and native; the other, said to be imported, a 
tender, delicate grass, growing over and brad- 
•ing the most arid and loose lands in our coun- 
try, and apparently preferred by stock of all de- 
■KTiptions to every oilier grass. The cultivation 
of this grass on the poor and extensive sand 
hills of our middle country, would probably 
convert them into sheep-walks of great value.; 
but it grows in every soil, and no grass on close, 
rich land, is more formidable to the cultivator; 
it must, therefore, he introduced loilh caution.'" 
Broom Corn and Tobacco. 
Would not you think it rather a tough story, 
if any one were to sit down and tell you about 
land being worth three hundred dollars an acre 
because It produces broom corn well? Well, 
you may think so if -you like — but Gov. Hill, 
of New Hampshire, says it is true. Read the 
extract below, from his agricultural paper, the 
“ Monthly Visitor.” 
You will find, farther, that Gov. Hill speaks 
of land in Massachusetts ptoducing, by the cul- 
ture of tobacco, a clear profit of one hundred 
dollars per acre. 
Herein the South there is land in abundance 
that will produce better tobacco, and more of it, 
than can fee made, on the same number of acres, 
any where In New England. Yet, because a 
blight has come over the prospects of the cotton 
trade, men are found among us who are almost 
ready to yield to despair. This will never do. 
Our maxim is— never despair. Cheer up, we 
say; read agricultural papers. Ifyou don’t like 
t’ae “ Southern Cultivator,” there are plenty 
of others. You can be suited among them all, 
surely. It is not of very much consequence to 
us v/hich one you take, so you read some one. 
Get the intelligence ol the Yankees ; then imi- 
tate their enterprise and industry ; and you will 
soon find that there are many other things, be. 
sides cotton, by the culture, of which 5 '’oa may 
not only live, but get rich. 
From Gov. Hill’s Monthly Visitor. 
“ While the intervale lands at Northampton, 
Massachusetis, on Connecticut river, devoted to 
the Indian corn and other grains, with the grass- 
es for hay, bear only an average price of some- 
what less than one hundred doliais the acre, the 
same kind of lands in Hadley, near by, which 
for years have h -en empl-oved in raising broom 
coin, sell for three hundred dollars the acre 
Lower down upon the river, in Springfield, 
Massachusett.s, in Suffield and Enfield tn Con- 
necticut, tobacco is becoming an extensive arti- 
cle for cultivation, it is said that land in 
Springfield the last year produced a clear profit 
of one hnndred dollars the acre in the produc- 
tion of tobacco. Spanish and Havana cigars 
are manulactured in those parts of Massachu- 
setts and ConneciicuT, whe.e the business has 
been pursued to great advantage. 
“A new impulse has been given tithe oldest 
village in New Uswich, formerly the residence 
of the Farrars, the Barretts, Appletons and Pres- 
tons, by the manufacuire of cigars. Since the 
u.se ofalccrhol has been banished from most of 
OUT interior towns, smoking has become a sub- 
stitute, tbs excess of which, it maybe feared, 
will be hardly less deleterious in the course of 
man’s whole lift* than the use of strong drink. 
The man who smokes ten cigars in twei ly-four 
hours (and some smoke double that number) 
paying as the price of the best thtee vents each, 
w-ill expend as much as the cost ol keeping 
drunk onrum. Webelieve exces.sive smoking, 
chewing and even snuffing to be about as bad 
as hard drinking : it may not make the man im- 
mediately drunk, but continued month after 
month it must undermine the health — it like- 
wise creates the appetite lor strong drink. Filly 
thousand cigars weekly, or thereabouts, are 
made at one establishment in New Ipswich. — 
The tobacco leaf used in this manufacture, for 
“ long nines” and the cheaper kinds, i‘ raised in 
Virginia, Maryland or Kentucky: the belter 
kinds are made from the Cuba tobacco, the price 
of which is much higher than the leaf tobacco 
raised in the United States. If the appetite for 
tobacco should continue to increase as it has for 
the last few years, tho.'^e w'ho are engaged in its 
manufacture will accumulate fortunes. Mil- 
lions ofdollars are annually puffed awav in the 
fumes of this narcotic weed. The manufacture 
of lobacco alter it has been cured by the grower, 
has made fortunes in some cf our cities : Jacob 
Lorillard, w'ho died some years ago in the city 
of New York, acquired probably more than a 
million of dollars in the manufacture and sale 
of snuff and smoking and chewing tobacco. 
“In vending the cigars, paste and liquid shoe 
and leather blacking, writing ink and locofbco 
matches made at ihe liitle village ol New Ips- 
wich, Hill.sborongh county, N. H., some forty 
orfiliy horses and half as many pedlar’s vehi- 
cles are employed, furnishing the articles in all 
parts of New England.” 
Kow to get Sound Sleep and Pleasant 
Dreams. 
The Albany Cultivator forMarch says : — “The 
Hon. J. J. McKay, member of Congress from 
North Carolina, has renewed his subscription for 
j one hundred copies of the Cultivator for gratui- 
i tous distribution among his constituents. James 
I Sloan, of the same State, is also a subsciiber for 
one hundred copies.” 
When these men lay their heads on theii pi'- 
lovvs, how different must their Uelings be from 
those of the rabid party polidcian who will spend 
thrice that sum in circulating among the people 
documents filled with the gall and aenom of party 
spirit, the only tendency rf which is to prison 
every source of social enjoyment, stir up feelings 
of lancorous hate and rabid ferocity, and set man 
against his fellow man in bitter and unrelenting 
patty conflict— and all for what? That he may 
be regarded as a great man ) y those whom he 
thus brutalises, and may, by their means get to 
Washington City as a member of Congress, there 
to wallow in coiruption, Herein we make no 
personal allusion ; but we do say wi;h Colman: 
“ Blessed will be the day, if come it ever should, 
when every man will learn that his own true 
prosperity is essentially concerned in the pros- 
perity of his neighbor, and that no gralification 
j on earth, to a good mind, is more delicious than 
