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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
oiTc>reci by ihe ladiss, and agricultural produc- 
tions. 
Resolred, That the proceedings ol the meet- 
ins be published in the Tri-Weekly Chronicle 
& Sectinel ; nd the Southern Cultivator, and 
that all other journals in Ansusta and Milledge- 
ville friendly to the e.' use of agriculture, be re- 
quested to CO]'}’ the above. 
J' Hx H.rRRis, President, 
John H. Roberts, Jr., Secretary. 
Jelfersou County Agricultural Society. 
The Jefferson Coutity Asricultnral Society 
offer the lldlovving list ot premiums for 1846: 
For the best half acre of 
Corn for each hand 
worked §1' 
■2d best 5 
3d and 4ih best honors 
Best acre of Couon . . . .So 
2d best 3 
3d and 4ih best . . . .Iionor^ 
Best acre of wheal So 
2d best 
3d and 4ih be.-i. . . .Iionois 
Best ria ( acre potatoes. 
2d best I 
Best crdt under 2 yrs old .$5 
2d best 'I 
Best calf under 2 )'rs old. .85 
2d best 3 
For the best lamb, this 
year’s rai-ing $.5 
2d best 3 
3d and 4ih best honors 
For Ihe be.s. bog, accord 
ing to age SS' 
2d hesi 2 
3d and 4th be.st honrjrs 
For the uesl iniprove- 
menl in malving and 
stockiliff plows. 
Besi «t igiH il iiieih 
od of 
iiMkiiig: rnaiiure 
sit) 
For the be.>t marled acre 
of land producin 
g 'be 
best results 
■2J best 
10 
3d and Hh best, . , . 
. honors 
Befit to yds. of homespun 
(or gentlemen’s 
wear .^^5 
■^d best 
3d and 4;h best. . . , 
Best 11) yards domestic 
Carpeting 
$5 
2d best 
3d and 4ih t est. . . . 
.honors 
For ihe best patch 
work 
bed-quilt 
3 
'id and d h best. . . 
.iionoi's 
Best counterpane. 
S5 
2d best 
:3d and 4th best. . . . 
.honors 
For tlie best 10 yds 
negro 
cloth 
2tJ best 
Sd and 4lh best . . . . 
.honors 
The Society has set apart S15 to be awarded 
tor such other articles as may be presented by 
ladies not enumerated in this list. 
A. R. Wrioht, Secretary. 
Fair of this Society and report at our next tnetl- 
ing. 
Messrs. J. B. Mallard, W. Q,. Baker and M. 
L. Jones, were appointed that Committee. 
Resolved, That a report of the proceedings 
of this day be prepared tor publication in tlie 
Southern Cultiv.ator, and that a copy ol the 
addresstleliveretl by Dr. Stevens, and tf the re- 
port by Mr. Jxnes, be requested for publication 
in the same paper. 
Mr. J. B. Mallard was appointed to deliver 
an addre.*-s at our next meeting. 
The Society then adjourned. 
W. S. Baker, Recording Secretary, 
I feel it due to Mr. Jones as well as to our 
As‘<ociai ion, tosav, that we date exi^tence as a 
Society Irom 'he 5lh of March last, but that no 
action was taken with regartl to premiums until 
the I 9ih of April, at which lime, our corn T\as 
planted, and for the most patt 18 inches high, 
consequently no acre was planted expressly lor 
the prize. 
At the Fair, our President occupied an en- 
viable position. He exhibited a number of fine 
horses, three geldings, all valuable ; a filly ol 4 
years, a handsome and superior animal ; a well 
grown and promising colt ol 20 months, a large 
ox, two cows, giving, tlfe one 10 quarts, the 
other 12 quails, mornings and evenings, and two 
year old pigs averaging 200 ibs; 
Mr. W. Q,. Baker also exhibited a hog of 20 
monihs, and weighing 300 Ibs. 
By this day’s exhibition, we are shown that 
we have ample resources wiihin ourselves and 
need no longer depen^l^ipon ihe West for our 
hor-ses and bacon, or on the North for fine milch 
cows and Fulton market beefl 
Very respectlully, W. S. Baker. 
P. S. The author of the Report declines its 
publication. 
Liiberiy County Agricultural Society. 
Mr. Camak:— 1 am instructed by the Liberty 
Couiily Agricultural 'Society to send you lor 
publication the proceedings of a meeting held at 
Riceboro on the first of January, (our Annual 
Fair day,) together with a report and address 
delivered on the occasion. 
On the IsL of January, 1846, the Society was 
called to order by the Piesident, Air. Nathaniel 
Yarnado?, sen’r. The proceedings of the last 
.meeting weie read and approved. 
The Committee on Corn, through their Chair- 
man, ur. J. A'l B. Harden, reported that the 
largest quanxily to the acre, amounting to 464 
bushels, was raised by Air. AI. L. Jones. 
Mr. Jones, in accordance with a rule of the 
Society, then read an account of his process of 
cultivation, the quantity ol manure applied, the 
time when, and kind, to which he annexed some 
highly useful remarks on the culture ol Corn 
in general. 
It was moved that Alessrs. AI. L. Jones, W. 
S. Baker and T. S. Alallard, constitute a Com- 
mittee to examine and report on Stock. 
Dr. J. P. Stevens, by appoiniment, delivered 
a very cha^le and appropriate address replete 
yvith valuable information. 
On metion, the Society tooka recess of three- 
xjuarters of an hour. 
The meeting being again called to order. Air. 
Jones, Chairman of the Committee on Stock, re- 
ported that they had attended to the duty assign- 
etl to ihem, and unanimously decided that Air. 
N. V. rna loe, sen’r, was entilledto the premium 
for exhibiting the best specimens of stock. — 
He then in behalf of the Society presented to 
Air. V. a silver cup, value $10. 
After which, the Chairman of the Commit- 
tee on Corn presented a like award to Air. M. 
L. Jones. 
The presentation ot these were acepmpanied 
in each case with suitable congratulatory re- 
marks, w’hich were responded to by the recipi- 
ents in an appropriate and happy manner. 
On motion, Resolved, That the Chair ap- 
point a Committee of three whose duly it shall 
be to take i-utu consideration the subject ot the 
awarding ol 'honors and premiums at the next 
Barbour County Agricultural Society. 
According to appointment the “ Barbour 
County Agricu: tnral Society,” met in Glennviile, 
on Friday, tire 27th F'rbruary. The Piesident, 
Dr. John M. Paiford, in the Chair, inforrned tire 
Society that the meeting had been postponed to 
that date, in order ihat a general attendance might 
be secured, and that a plan of arrangements for 
Ihe successful operation of the Society for the 
present year might be thus early adopted. 
The pr iceedings of the last meeting of the 
Society, held in Eufaiila, in November last, were 
then read — after which, John A. Calhoun, Esq., 
in some appropritte remarks, informed the meet- 
ing of the interest exhibited by the members ge- 
nerally, and the public, in the proceedings of that 
meeting, affording prospects of the more exten- 
sive success of the Society. He entertained the 
, meeting with interesting views in favor of the 
Agricultuial cause. The at entiou it deserves — 
the objects and interests of the Society— and 
urged upon th? consideration of the citizens of 
the neighborhood of Glennviile, tne advantages 
of their position, in an agricultural point of view, 
and the i-r portanee ot giving a unanimous co- 
operation in, the promotion of the Society. He 
offered in conclusion the following resolution, 
which was unanimously adopted : 
Resolved, That a committee of three be ap- 
pointed by the President to report to the next 
meeting of this Society as to the best means of 
governing ourselves and of promoting their hap- 
piness, and consequently their usefulness to 
their owners. 
John A. Calhoun, Esq., Dr. E. E. DuBose, and 
Dr. V. Bobo, were appointed the Committee 
under that resolution. 
Dr. DuBose moved that the ex-President, 
Col.-McDonald, favor the meeting with a report 
of his observations, and the information other- 
wise derived on the subject of Agriculture, dur- 
ing his tour through the West and North during 
last summer. To which Col. McDonald rc- , 
sponded in uninteresting description ot the va- 
riety of climate and soils, the different modes of 
culture in each, and the success ; the improve- 
ments and inventions in agricultural imple- 
ments, the v.arious systems of agricultural ma- 
nagement, economy, &c. &c., concluding with 
the opinion, that the country occupied by the 
“ Barbour County Agricultural Society,” would 
compare favorably with anv he explored, were 
its resources fully developed, and properly deve- 
loped and properly husbanded. 
On motion of Col. McDonald, it was 
Resolved, That meetings of the Barbour Coun- 
ty Airriculiural Society Le held monthly at the 
plantations of such members as may invite the 
Society to their farms, and furnish a dinner to 
those that examine thtii lainis. 
Urffing his resolution upon the ground that 
more interest would be thereby excited in the 
prom' tion of the Society, and the proof of its 
benefits carried to every man’s door. 
It was further resolved, on ino'ion of jM. AI. 
Gle-n, “that the President of the Society, and the 
ex-President, Col. AIcDrnald, to commun cate 
the Society and the public, at their convenience, 
the result of thei/experience, and such informa- 
tion as they may have othe. wise tjbtained, in re- 
lation to the most effectual means of preventing 
tbe effects of drought on provision, ciops in ihi.s 
climate. 
On motion of John A. Calhoun, Esq., it was 
appointed by the Presideni, that the next-meet- 
ing of the S’.'ciefy be held in Eu'^aula, on the 1st 
Saturday (the 4th day) of April next. 
After which the Societv adjourned. 
AI. AI Glenn, Secretary. 
Industry and. Economy. 
From the Albany Cultivator. 
L. Tucker, E^q.— Several years ago, on a 
cold raw day in November,, public business 
called me to the house and farm of Mr. Dudley 
Chase, then and still residing in the town ot 
Winche.ster, in this state. I was so highly 
pleased with the arnount of labor perlormed in 
Goors and out, with the help employed, that I 
then made memorandums ot the same in writ- 
ing, and think it wor hy ofa place in }ourvery 
worthy agricultural journal. I have no doubt 
ot the truth of what I state, although it may 
seem extraordinary. The work was none of it 
slighted, but was all. in doors and out, done in 
an excellent manner, and in due season. 
They then lived in an old inconvenient house 
in the middle of their <arm, and had no public 
road to the house, but have now a good conve- 
nient house, and a good road passing by it, 
Mr. C. was, as might he expected, a subscriber 
to the New England Farmer, published at Bos- 
ton, perhaps the only agricultural periodical 
then published here-abouts. He had that year 
kept and milked 16 cows, and made 6.500 lbs. 
cheese, 450 Ibs. butler, and fatted 2,700 Ibs pork, 
to aid in doing which, he bought a load of braa 
and 70 bpshels of com. 
Mrs. Chase and a hired girl did the work in 
the house. They had three children, the oldest 
then four years old, and the youngest born the 
preceding August. 
Air. C., with the help of a boy 16 years old, 
had done all the work on the farm, raised 3 acres 
of com and potatoes, made 16 rods of stone 
wall, got out his manure, made and got in his 
hay, collected materials lor a large and con- 
venient farm-house, and his year’s wm d : made 
575 lbs. ol maple sugar, of which he saved for 
his own use 30 lbs., and cleared on the rest over 
expenses of transportation, 20, and 2 galls, 
of molasses sold for 50. Sold 5,400 lbs. of 
his cheese for 8 cents a pound, and his calf- 
skins lor |:9, 28. Collected the apples for 25 
barrels of cider, carried them more than a mile 
to the mill and brought back the cider. 
His team consisted of a single horse and no 
more, and he used no other during the year, ex- 
cept to break up one acre of sward land lor 
planting. And with the same horse, he went to 
market in trifs from 7 to 53 miles out, each, 
amounting in the whole to 428 miles, and he 
thinks about the same distance in shorter trips. 
He bought his farm on credit, but by the in- 
dustiy and economy, not parsimony, above de- 
scribed, had been enabled to pay for his farm, 
and furnish himself and lamily with all the com- 
forts ol life. My daughterdrank tea at his house 
a few days ago, and informed me that every 
thing is managed as well as when I was there. 
Lest it should be thought I hav’e some inter- 
est in puffing a particular Iriend or connection, 
