THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
But there are other crops which might be 
cultivated to profit, il intermixed properly with 
the cotton crop. Tobacco, the long staple cot- 
ton, the cultivation ol Bear Grass, from which 
a hemp can be procured perhaps nearly equal 
to the Sisal hemp, some of which we have seen, 
and are informed it is easily produced, and can- 
not tail to be profitable. These, with others we 
may hereafter name, all or any of them can be 
successfully cultivated. 
We have thrown out these remarks for the 
consideration of our friends. Having recently 
become a State, it devolves upon our citizens 
to aid in developing our resources. Unless we 
think upon these things we shall never practice 
them — unless we practice them we shall never 
succeed. Agricultural Societies should be insti- 
tuted in every county in the State, regular meet- 
ings should be held, and the experience ol plan- 
ters, the success of different crops, and different 
modes of culture, should be made known to the 
communit}'^ 
Appropriate Mauure. 
The following remarks, which we find in the 
Albany Cultivator, have their oiigin in prac- 
tice. The results obtained, and the sugges- 
tions, are in accordance with scientific experi- 
ments : 
With too manj farmers it seems to be the 
aim to make and apply manure, not stopping to 
inquire how it can best be applied. Green and 
rotted, composted and clear, it is too often ap- 
plied, indiscriminately to all kinds of soil, 
when or where convenience or custom may di- 
rect. There can be no question that long ma- 
nure is best alapted to hoed crops, and well 
rotted compost for top dressing. But the prin- 
ciple to which I would particularly invite at- 
tention, is that given by the Creator of Adam, 
and legible in all nature’s works, viz : that seed 
produces seed alter its kind; in other words, 
that like produces like. Look upon the stately 
trees of the forest. How have they attained 
their great dimensions'! Who has been their 
cultlvator, and what the mode of their cultiva- 
tion'? He, who does all things well is their 
culturist, and their food the decayed leaves and 
branches that are annually deposited at their 
roots. Man has been slow in learning the 
simple principle from the Great Teacher. It is 
but a recent thing that the vine dressers of 
France have discovered that the prunings form 
I he best manure for the vines. It has lotig been 
observed that hog manure is exceedinelv well 
adapted for a crop of corn. Does not the fact 
that hogs are generally fatted upon corn, fur- 
nish the reason of its adaptation? An experi- 
ment of a good farmer in this vicinity, bears di- 
rectly upon this principle. Cutting the lops of 
corn for fodder, he places the bol'om stalks be- 
tween the row.s, and upon these stalks he turns 
back furrows; without further manuring or 
plowing, he plants his corn, and his crops are 
above the average of those in the neighborhood. 
A similar experiment with potatoes has proved 
that the tops weil covered at the time of digging, 
will furnish sufficient manure to ensure an 
equally good crop the .succeeding year. Onions 
it is well known succeed best when sowed on 
the same ground >ear after year. Ls not the ra- 
tionale found in the factihat the tops are always 
left on the gi-ound? Rye has been known to 
grow on the sam? land for a course ol years, 
with undiminished yield, with no other manure 
t lan is furnished by the stubble plowed in. Chip 
manure is universally recommended for promo- 
ting the growth ol young fruit trees. The 
wherelore is found in the simple principle we 
lav down, that like produces like. Nature has 
furnished all seeds with nutriment in themselves 
best adaptr-d for the luinre plant. Who can 
. doubt but that the pulp ol the apple was design- 
ed aslood f ir the seed as well as to gr.atify man’s 
appetite? The blade of wheat and the sprout 
of the potato, as they first shoot forth, feed solely 
upon the parent stock. 
The principle we have thus briefly illustra- 
ted and endeavored to prove, has important po- 
litical inferences. 11 the principle is true, no 
top-dressing can be better adapted for grass than 
theaflermath left to decay on the ground. The 
manure from stock led on hay should also be 
applied to grass lands, while that derived from 
grain should be applied to farinaceous crops. — 
It is not necessary to carry these inlerences 
lurther. They will suggest themselves to all 
readers of reflection. 
Lee, Sept. 15, 1845. Berkshire. 
COUTEl^iTS OF THIS HUMBER. 
ORIGINAL PAPERS. 
Anonymous Writers page 46 
Agricultural Society of iiurUe county — List of 
Premiums “ 47 
Anniversary Oration, delivered before the 
Burke County Central Agricultural Society, 
by M. C. M. Hammond “ ok 
Editorials. — A griculture, Aid to “ 43 
American Ingenuity “ 43 
Cow-ology “ 40 
Domestic Wine “ 42 
Efficient Support “ 40 
Horses “ 41 
Memphis Convention, the late “ 42 
Notice to Contributors 40 
Ornamental Trees “ 41 
Potatoes and Ground Nuts “ 40 
Southern Independence “ 41 
Sumach ‘‘ 41 
Useful Measures. “ 41 
Weather, the “ 42 
Fencing — A substitute for “ 46 
Fencing — Rules for making rail Fences “ 46 
Measures, Millet, Meal and Corn “ 46 
Nankin Cotton “ 46 
Slaves, management of. “ 43 
Southern Independence “ 45 
Subsoiling, experiment in “ 45 
Subsoil Plowing “ 45 
SELECTIONS, EXTRACTS, &C. 
Agriculture “ 38 
Agricultural Society, Leon county, Fla “• 47 
AgricuUuraMmplements “ 47 
ualcndar for March “ 37 
Georgia Clay. ... “ 36 
Hay and Fodder Crops “ 39 
l.ittle Things “ 35 
Manure, appropriate “ 48 
Model Farm of Ohio, the “ 38 
Practical Agriculture, to the Young Farmers 
of Maryland, on “ 35 
Purchasing Butler “ 37 
Plows and other Farm Tools “ 39 
To make Poor Old Land Good, and the Good 
Better “ 36 
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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR, 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to the Improvement of Southern Agriculture, 
Editeil by JAMIdS CAMAK, of Atlietis. 
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Cabbage, Beet. Carrot, Parsnip, Clover and Grass- 
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