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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR, 
never dreamed of by those all of whose ideas 
nbotat fruit -are associated with hog-plums, 
choikc-pears a'nd erab-apples. 
The Cash System. 
The beauty ol tl e credit system, when applied 
to the publishing business, is made strikingly 
manliest, by the case of the Democratic /review. 
That work has now due to it, according to a 
statement recently published, on account of sub- 
scriptions, the sum ol ^40,000, VV e have the 
authority of the New liork Farm r and Me- 
chanic,^’ for this fact. 
When Mr. J B. Hines purchased the Geor- 
gia Journal of Mr. S. Graxtland, the debts due 
that paper for subscription and advertising, 
were estimated to amount to about S60,000. Of 
this large sum there never was collected, aceord- 
ing to present recollection, more than between 
three to tour thousand dollars. 
Would not the publishers and proprietors ol 
the Cultivator, with the knowledge ol these 
facts, be doing a very fine business indeed, to 
abandon the cash system, and encounter losses 
such as those above stated, merely to please 
some lew persons, who, because they cannot get 
credit for a year’s subscription, choose to fall 
out with the paper and every body connected 
with it ? 
All our e.xperience is in favor of a steady ad- 
herence to the cash system in the publication of 
this paper. This number closes the 3J volume. 
Our contract with our subscribers has been com- 
plied with fully. E very one wishing to get a 
copy of the 4lh volume, will oblige us by send- 
ing his order for it, accompanied with the cash, 
without delay, as it is very desirable to know 
before the first ol January how man}’’ copies 
will probably be wanted. 
Southern Dependence. 
Surely the severe scoring our Southerners get 
on every side, will, in the end, enable us to head 
our articles, “ Southern J/idependence,” instead 
of riependence. Among others, Mr. Solon Ro- 
binson t kes liberties with t;s, and our system 
ol economy, as in the quotation below. Mr. R. 
lives in Indiana, but spent the last Winter in 
Mississippi; and has written, and published in 
the Albany CuUivalor, his “ Notes of Travel in 
the Southwest.” His advice is in exact con- 
formity w'iih ours, given in almost every number 
ol our Cultivator. We trust it will be the 
more heeded, as Mr. R. lives in a region which 
derives very great profit from our Southern habit 
of buying what we ought to make at home. 
‘‘There are a good many other things,” he 
says, “ that Southerners might learn economy 
in. And one ol the first things to learn is, that 
out of their own staple we furnish them almost 
every manufactured article, for which they pay 
us for carrying the raw material from the gin 
and press we built for them, done up in our bag- 
ging and rope, and sewed with our twine and 
needles, drawn upon our wagons by our horses, 
in our harness, over roads made with our plows 
and hoes and spades, to our steamboats, and 
upon that to our ships ; not forgetting to let our 
Commission Merchants have a good share of 
the "skinnage;” and then, alter manutaciuring, 
to return it In the same way to e.xchange lor 
more raw materials ; by all which means we 
constantly keep a raw spot in your feelings ; but 
it is not yet sufficiently “ galled” to teach you 
to become home manufacturers— o'a\y healing 
salve that you will ever find to cure the lesteiing 
sore of “ such low prices for cotton that plan- 
ters cannot live by it.” Would you adopt a 
more prosperous course? Gluit planting, as 
you understand if, and become farmers, as we 
understand it— raise upon your farm, as lar as 
possible, every thing that you eat, drink, wear, 
and use, and never buy an article of cotton 
goods, except it is of home manufacture — that 
is, manufactured in the country where the raw 
material grows — and never bale your cotton in 
any thing hut cotton baling, made from cotton 
not worth sending to market in any other shape. 
Get up and keep up agricultural associations, 
and give premiums to that farmer that shall 
come the nearest to raising every thing he con- 
sumes, and to him who will exhibit the greatest 
proportion of his Negroes clothed in plantation 
manufacture throughout — and above all things 
else, read and support agricultural papers.” 
English Farming. 
In looking over oui agricultural exchanges, 
we noticed the following statement of the ex- 
pense of cultivating an acre of ground in Irish 
potatoes, in England. 
Rent $24 
Taxes I 
Manure 24 
Plowing 3 
Seed 10 
Plaining 7 
Hoeing or Plowing 3 
Digging the crop 7 
Total Expenditure on one acre $79 
The result is about 400 bushels at 38 cents. . . 152 
Proh>. .$73 
Sometimes the crop will .sell lor more, and 
rents, taxes and labor may vary, yet the state- 
ment shows what may be considered a fair 
average. 
Near London, however, the item of rent is 
very much higher. Mr. Colman says land is 
usually rented there for about $100 per acre, lor 
producing potatoes lor the London markets. 
Of the market gardens near London the in- 
come per acre is very large. Mr. Colman men- 
tions one case as quite worthy of remark. The 
actual sales from if, in one year, were — 
Radishe.s £10 
Cauliflowers 60 
Cabbages 30 
Celery, 1st crop 50 
do 2d do 40 
Endive 30 
£220 
Or about SI, 100, for the gross income from 
the produce of one acre of vround in 12 months. 
Mibsoil Plows. 
Mr, Churchill, of Athens, brought from 
Boston this fall, some subsoil plow.^. They 
were sold very soon after they were unpacked 
at his store, and there is a demand for more. 
This we fake to be pretty good evidence that 
some converts have been made — either by our 
preaching, or the preaching of somebody else. 
We intend to consider them ours, any how, un- 
til some better claim shall make its appearance. 
Railroads. 
The way railroads use up Northern towns, is 
admirably illustrated in ibe case of Fitchburg. 
May not a like fate be in store for Augusta, Co- 
lumbia, Macon, Athens, and other towns in the 
South? Fitchburg, says a Northern paper, since 
the completion of the ra'lroad from Boston, has 
grown very rapidly. The Crocker Company are 
erecting a large cotton mill to cost S200.000. 
There are three manufactories of woollen goods, 
at two of which a very good article of broadcloths 
and cassimeres is made ; the other is devoted to 
the manufacture of negro cloths. There are three 
scythe factories in operation, three paper mills, 
and saw mills, grist mills, &c. in abundance. 
Alvah Crocker, Esq. is erecting a brick building, 
two hundred feet long, between thirty and forty 
feet wide, and four stories high, for a railroad car 
manufactory, to be occupied by Davenport and 
Bridge?, of Cambridgeport. Messrs. Clark and 
Blackburn are building a factory of granite and 
brick, one hundred feet long by forty-six wide, 
and four stories high, for cotton goods; and 
Messrs. A. P. Kimball & Co. are building a scythe 
factory of granite, one hundred by forty feet ; all 
of which are on the Nashua, and when finished 
will give employment to a large number of hands. 
There Is a spacious brick hotel now building and 
nearly finished, in the immediate vicinity of the 
railroad depot. 
How to Get Rich. 
About eight years ago, says Mr. Beecheh, Ed- 
itor of the Indiana Farmer and Gardener, a raw 
Dutchman, whose only English was a good- 
natured yes to every possible question, got em- 
ployment here as a stable man. His wages were 
six dollars and board; that was thirty-six dollars 
in six months, for not one cent did he spend. He 
washed his own shirt and stockings, mended and 
patched his own breeches, paid for his tobacco by 
some odd jobs, and laid by his wages. The next 
six months, being now able to talk good English, 
he obtained eight dollars a month, and at the end 
of six months more had forty- eight dollars, ma- 
king in all for the year eighty-four dollars. The 
second year by varying his employment — sawing 
wood in winter, working for the corporation in 
summer, making garden in spring — he laid by one 
hundred dollars, and the third year one hundred 
and twenty-five dollars, making in three years 
ihr.ee hundred and nine dollars. 
With this he bought eighty acres of land. It 
was as wild as when the deer fl^d over it, and the 
Indian pursued him. How should he get a living 
while clearing it. Thus he did it: He hires a man 
to clear and fence ten a erss. He himself remains 
in town to earn the money to pay for the clearing. 
Behold him ! alreadyrisen a degree — he is an em- 
ployer! In two years time he has twenty acres 
well cleared, a log house and stable, and money 
enough to buy stock and tools. He now rises 
another step in the world, for he gels married, and 
with his amply built, broad-faced, good natured 
wife, he gives up the town and is a regular farmer. 
In Germany he owned nothing and never could; 
his wages weie nominal, his diet chiefly vegeta- 
ble, and his prospect was that he would be obliged 
to labor a? a meniai for life, barely earning a sub- 
sistence, and not leavingenough to bury him. In 
five years he has become the owner in fee simple 
of a good farm, with comfortable fixtures, a pros- 
pect of rural wealth, an independent life, and, by 
