THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
9 
& .1. C. Langdon, last Monday, was Alabama 
manufacture. It was from the furnace of Mr. 
John M. Moore, in Benton county, it is saidby 
those who profess to be judges, to be a first rate 
article — superior to Eastern or Western castings 
for toughness and standing the fire. We believe 
it to be a superior article — cheap, too, as it can 
be bought anywhere: and we trust that Alaba- 
mians will buy this ware in preference to that 
which is imported. We say, give the preference 
always to Home Manufactures— encourage those 
of our fellow-citizens who are engaged in those 
undertakings, come what may. It is our true 
policy — interest, as well as State pride, should 
influence us. 
“Mr. Moore is now six thousand pounds 
of castings a day, and can make more if the de- 
mand requiresit. He has a large supply on hand, 
and is preparing boats to take large quantities to 
Mobile, as soon as the river rises. He thinks he 
can sell as low, and lower, — and give a better 
article too,— than the Northern and Western 
manufacturers can-; and if so, we really hope our 
Mobile dea'.ers will give him the preference We 
think he may claim a fair trial at their hands. ’ 
Dogs. 
Things will come right after ii w‘hile here in 
the South. As to the intolerable nuisance of 
dogs to wool-growers, vve did hope’thdt there 
would have been boldness ^enough ‘found in 
the Legislature of some Southern State to 
make a movement towards its suppression. We 
have been disappointed in this very reasonable 
hope, so far as Georgia is concerned, it is true; 
but'in South Carolina the ice has been broken. 
Yet even in that State, it seems that those 
►rndking the movement, at last hesitated, and 
“agreed^to keep the matter under consideration.” 
— The correspondent of the Greenville Moun- 
taineer, writing from Columbia, on the 8th of 
December, says ; 
“The Committee on Finance and Banks have 
had under consideration a long memorial from 
the State Agricultural Society, asking Tor a Tax 
to be levied on all Dogs, for the protection of 
the Sheep-growing interests of the State. Mr. 
Boyce moved in t'lommittee to lay a Tax of one 
<iollar on every Dog in the State. The Chair- 
man suggested thaf such a tax in Greenville 
'would raise a greater revenue than the whole pro- 
perty of the District otherwise paid. Messrs. 
F'eldbf, and Arnolb were in favor of the motion. 
Mr. Boyce concluded to reduce the ta.v to fifty 
'Cents— then it was proposed to allow every house- 
keeper to have one Dog, and pay a tax on all 
over that number. Finally, it was agreed to 
keep the matter under consideration.” 
We are not singular in having to endure this 
‘horrible nuisance. See how matters stand in 
Kentucky. A Frankfort paper, says : 
“A few nights ago, welearn, sixty-three choice 
ewes, selected for breeders on account of the 
fineness of their wool, owned by our friend Capt. 
John A. Holton, of Franklin county, were killed 
by dogs. The destruction of sheep by dogs has 
long been a sore evil to the farmers of Kentucky. 
From the best information we have — and we 
have devoted much inquiry to the point —we cal- 
culate that there are annually about 10,000 sheep 
destroyed by dogs in the State of Kentucky. — 
The destruction of 100 sheep in each county 
would give this grievous tot.al. We know one 
excellent farmer, in another county, who alone 
'has lost 600 sheep in years past, killed by d >gs.” 
Just across the Ohio river, in the State of Ohio, 
such depredations are not allowed. There, our 
foolish southern notions of personal indepen- 
dence are not indulged in. Every man considers 
his personal interest identified with the interest 
'of the whole community. Whatever destroys 
the property of his in ighbor is considered as-in- 
juring himself, as it diminishes the aggregate of 
the property Of the county. Hence, they are not 
only ridding the country of dogs, but also pass- 
ing laws to make the stealing of fruit and the 
destruction of ornamental trees and shrubbery 
something more than a mere trespass. 
Tfseful Measure. 
We find under the head, “Valuable Table,” an 
article in many of our exchange papers, profes- 
sing to give the dimensions of curtain measures 
■of capacity, in every day use arr.ong planters. 
'It was prepared by James M. Garnett, of Essex 
county, Virg'nia, and was first published in Mr. 
Ruffin’s Farmer's 'Register. Wherever we have 
seen it recently, it is full of errors— so much so, 
that if any one shall have made his boxes accord- 
ing to the table, and used them, he will have very 
much wronged either himself or his neighbor. 
We have corrected the figures, and the reader 
may now depend on having it, as Mr. Garnett 
made it. accurate within a small fraction of a 
cubic inch. 
The standard English Corn, or Winchester, 
bushel contains 2,150 2-5 cubic inches, for the di- 
■mensionsof the Winchester bushel are, by stat- 
j ute, 8 inches deep, and 18 1-2 inches in diameter, 
j Remembering this, every man may easily verify 
j the dimensions in the table. 
I MR. Garnett’s table. 
[ A box 24 incnes long, 16 inches wide, and 28 inches 
I deep, will contain a barrel, or id 752 ci)bic inches, 
j A box 24 inches long, IG inches wide, and 14 inches 
I deep, wil I coniai n a half b rrrel , or 6.376 i nches. 
I A box 16 H. 10 inches long 16 inches wide, and 8 inches 
i deep, wi II contain a bushel, or 2. 150 4- 10 cubic inches, 
i A box 12 inches long, 1 1 2-10 inches wide, and 8 inches 
i deep, WI II contain a half bushel, or 1.07 5 2 10 cubic 
inches. 
A box 8 4 10 inches long. 8 inches wide, end 8 inches 
deep, will contain one peck, or .537 6 |0 cubic inches. 
A box 8 inches long, 8 inches wide, and 4 2-10 inches 
deep, will contain one half peck, or 268 8 10 cubic 
inches. 
A box 7 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 4 8-10 inches 
deep, will contain one half gallon, or 134 410 cubic 
inches 
A box 4 iticbes long, 4 inches wide, and 42-10 inches 
deep, will contain one quart, or 67 2 10 cubic inches. 
This is the form Mr. (Harnett gives bis table. 
But for convenient reference by those who want 
to use it, would not the force following suit bet- 
ter? 
Length 
Width 
D-pth. 
Contents. 
Contents. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
Inches 
Cu'>. inch. 
By name. 
24 
16 
28 
10,7.52. 
One barrel. 
21 
16 
14 
5.376 
Half “ 
16.8 
16 
8 
2.1.50 4 
One bushel. 
12 
11.2 
8 
1,075 2 
Half “ 
8.4 
8 
8 
537.6 
One peck. 
8 
8 
4.2 
268.8 
Half peck. 
7 
4 
4.8 
134,4 
Halfgallon. 
4 
4 
4.2 
67.2 
Uiie qviari. 
In connection with these measures it may be 
useful to have a simple and easy rule to find the 
-contents of a ciib— corn being often sold by the 
bulk in this way. 
Rule . — Make the corn in the crib level. Take 
the length, width and depth of the pile. Multiply 
them' together. Multiply their product by 8, and 
divide that product hy 10. The result is bushels 
'and tenths. To the result add one-half bushel 
‘for every hundred in the said result, and you 
have the ti ue contents of the pile of corn within a 
small fraction of a bushel — supposing it to be 
shelled. 
Example.- -tn a pil-e of Corn 12 feet lon.g, 11 feel 
broad and 6 feet deep— 
I2i><; 11X6X8=6,336. 
Divide G.-SSG by 10, and we have 633.6 bushels. 
Add one half bushel for every 100 3. 
Conletils in shelled corn. . 616.6 bushels. 
[f the Corn be in the ear, the content is. .318.3 “ 
Agricultural Fair in DeKalb. — Theannual 
Fair of the “DeKalb counly Agricultural So- 
ciety” took place on Tuesday, December 3. It 
was its first appearance in that capacity, and it 
cou d not. therefore, he expected that the exhibi- 
tion would be either very extensive, or interest- 
ing. The meeting was very thinly attended, and 
even many of those attending, were unprepared 
to make any exhibit of their advances, or success 
in agriculture. 
Respect for Labor. 
There is no mistaking the signs of the times ; 
and these signs plainly indicate, all over the 
United States, that the day is well nigh gone 
by, when labor was considered disreputable. — 
Look, for instance, to the State of New York; — 
and see the increasing-interest, every year, taken 
by the people, in the State Fairs. The last was 
held in Poughkeepsie, and is thus described in 
one of our exchange papers : 
“The Late New York State Fatr — Agricul- 
tural Enthusiasm — Increasing Respect for 
Labor. — To those who have attended the succes- 
sive State Fairs of N. York, comparisons between 
the past and the present will be at once suggest- 
ed. Not only the absolute change which is so 
clearly manifest, but the spirit at work strikes the 
mind with pleasureable wonder and pride. 
“Four years since, when the first State Fair 
was called at Albany, it was considered a matter 
of doubt wh-ther the great experiment would 
succeed. It was deemed more than questionable 
whethereven a sufficient numberofvisitorscould 
be induced to come there, to pay the expense in 
getting up these Farmers’ Festivals. That Fair 
was held, and it succeeded beyond the most san- 
guine expectation. It was found to be a most at- 
tractive place to visit. Those who went, mes- 
senger-like, soon spread the news in their several 
localises, and those who neglected to go, after- 
wards regretted that they had lost so much plea- 
sure. The next State Fair was held at Syracuse. 
The gathering was large, and the exhibition fine. 
The next at Rochester, where'Western New York 
poured out her richest treasures and thousands 
and tens of thousands of people. In 1844, it was 
given to the Hudson River (jouniies at Pough- 
keepsie, an I most nobly did Eastern New York 
repay that honor, by an exhibition worthy of her 
past reputation, while the people gathered there 
not by thousands, but tens of thousands, to cele- 
brate this great annual holyday. In 1845 the 
Fair was awarded to Central New York at Utica, 
from which so many thousands have recently re- 
turned to their homes, and where the exhibition 
in the ready useful has surpassed that of any pre- 
vious year. 
“At every succeseivejFair there has been an in- 
creasing interest evinced, until now' the enthusi- 
asm has become so wide-spread among all classes, 
that the question is not. Have you I een there? 
but rather, Have you vot been there '1 
One ol the best evidences of this deepening and 
pervading interest is the increased attendance of 
ladies, whose presence is thus calculated to dig- 
nify and adorn '?/!« useful in the Farmer’s life. 
Four years ago their attendance was limited. 
The number has increased from year to year, un- 
til at the late Festival at Utica at least one-half 
the visitors were ladies : many from distant parts 
of the slate, and of a class loo, who do n 't usu- 
ally attend these exhibitions. They came there 
with their fathers, brothers and mothers to ■com- 
memorate the great Harvest Home of New York. 
We allude to this circumstance because nothing 
can be more calculated to render agricultural ex- 
hibitions popular with ourpeople, who are noted 
for the respect they entertain for tlie fair sex. 
Their influence in forming the tone of public opi- 
nion is of inconceivable moment, and therefore, 
we hail their presence upon such occasions, not 
only as calculated to enhancethe nleasures of the 
hour, but as tending to give interest to the occu- 
pation of the firmer, and fo elevate the life of 
manual labor to that position which it 5ho-iild oc- 
cupy in the minds of the rising generation of our 
republic. 
■“ It requires but little perception to see that 
farming is becoming fashionable in this country. 
Young men of position, wealth and education, 
now pride themselves upon having a finely man- 
aged farm, and a superi ir breed of stock. At the 
late fair we met young men of fortune ai.d fin- 
ished eilucation scarcely in their majority, who 
have become farmers, and wh'i pointed with pe- 
culiar pride to the articles they had raised for ex- 
hibition. The influence of such examples is 
scarcely to be esiimated. Ten years since such 
w'as the diseased state of public opinion in rela- 
tion to farming, they w'ould have been almost 
ashamed to acknowledge that they were farmers. 
But those days of sickly sentimentality have 
passed, and a healthier and sounder tone is in- 
fused throughout the State, and we may hope 
