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crop, without profiting by the lessons which it 
teaches. 
We heard a man saying, “the best crop of 
celery I ever saw was raised by old John , 
on a spot of ground where the wash from the 
barn yard ran into it after every hard shower.” 
Did he then take the hint, and apply liquid ma- 
nure to his celery trenches 1 Not at all. 
We knew a case where a farmer sub-soiled a 
field, and raised crops in consequence, which 
were the admiration of the whole neighbor- 
hood ; and for years the field showed the ad- 
vantages of deep handling. But we could not 
learn that a single farmer in the nighborhood 
took the hint. The man who acted thus wisely, 
sold his farm, and his successor pursued the old 
wav of surface scratching. 
A staunch farmer complained to us of his soil 
as too loose and light, we mentioned ashes as 
worth trying: “Well, now you mention it, I 
believe it will do good. I bought a part of my 
farm from a man who was a wonderful fellow 
to save up ashes, and around his cabin it lay in 
heaps. 1 took away the house, and to this day 
I notice thatwhen the plow runs along that spot, 
the soil turns up moist and close grained.” It 
is strange that he never took the hint. 
A farmer gets a splendid crop of corn or oth- 
er grain from off the grass or clover ley. Does 
he take the hint? Does he adopt the system 
which shall allow him every year a sward to 
put his grain on ? No, he haie.s book farming, 
and scientific farming, and “ this notion of ro- 
tation,” and plods on the old way. — Ex. paper. 
Core for Whooping Cough. —A teaspoon- 
ful of castor oil to a teaspoonlul of molasses. 
Give a teaspoonful of the mixture whenever the 
cough is troublesome It will affoid relief at 
once, and in a few days it effects a cure. The 
same medicine relieves the croup, however vio- 
lent the attack. — Na.1. hit. 
Old Bread the Best. — It has been found 
that baked bread on the first day produces from 
71 to 79 per cent. of nutritive matter, while that 
five days old yields from 81 to 82 percent. New 
bread loses the five per cent, of its weight by 
evaporation in cooling. Aside from the advan- 
tages of stale bread in its nutritive matter, it is 
more wholesome, more easily digested, has 
more taste and is sweeter; while new bread lies 
heavily in the stomach and is of difficult diges- 
tion. With these advantages it is strange that 
most people reject stale bread or prefer the new'. 
It has been found that, on feeding the poor, very 
stale bread mixed with soup is far more satisfy- 
ing than any other they can obtain. Thus the 
laboringclasses consume one-eighth more bread 
than would be necessary if stale bread were 
used; or a family that consumed six pounds of 
bread per day would expend, at the present 
price, some 'SlO more a year by eating new, 
than by eating stale bread, with all the other 
disadvantages we have mentioned. 
Delicious Apple Pudding. — It is conve- 
nient, as it may be made several hours before it 
is baked, or when a nice addition is wanted un- 
expectedly. Pare and chop fine half a dozen or 
more, according to their size, of the best cook- 
ing apples — grease a pudding dish, cover the 
bottom and sides half an inch thick with grated 
bread, and very small lumps of butter ; then put 
a layer of apples with sugar and nutmeg, and 
r-'-peat the layers until the dish is heaped full. 
Before adding the last layer, which must be of 
bread and bnber, pour over the whole a teacnp- 
ful of cold water. Put it into the oven as soon 
as the dinner is served, and bake it lor twenty- 
five or thirty minutes. It may be baked the day 
before it is wanted; when it must be heated the- 
roughlv, turned into a shallow dish, and sprink- 
led with powdered sugar. It requires no sauce. 
■ — Am. Agr. 
SuBsTtTUTE FOR THE Potato. — A Vegetable 
indigenous in New Grenada, the arrachia, is 
said to be a valuable substitute for the potato. 
Each plant furnishes three or lour pounds of 
root, of the nature of the carrot and potato uni- 
ted, and is said to be a wholesome food. 
The pear has 24 thousand pores to the square 
inch, on the under side of its leaf. 
Back Volumes of the Southern Cultivator. 
The Work complete from its commencement. 
Volumes I., II. and III. of the “Southern 
Cultivator,” can be supplied to all w'ho may desire 
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CTQl/ITEHTS OF THIS IIUMBER, 
ORIGINAL, 
Book Farming page 105 
Cincinnati Egg Trade .. *■ 105 
Crops, the “ 105 
Hogs, fattening “ 107 
Improving Exhausted Land — Bermuda Grass — 
Lucerne — Rye, &c “ 108 
Improvement of the Soil “ 105 
Oats, Smut or Blast in ' “ 107 
Overseers “ 106 
Plowing, Subsoil “ 106 
Potatoes, Sweet “ 107 
Roadside Trees “ 104 
Strawberry and Milk Trade of New York “ 104 
Turpentine..., “ 101 
^ SELECTED. 
Agriculture, improvements in page 103 
Amateur Gardener, the “ 102 
Apples, a chapter on “ 103 
Book Farming and a Portrait “ 109 
Calendar, monthly — Work for. luly “ 108 
Chemical principles, necessity of a knowledge 
of to the farmer “ 101 
Effects of Crossing on the Constitution 109 
Guano Poisonous ^ #05 
Hint, taking a “ 111 
Home Truths “ 111 
Manure and its Application — something about “ 110 
Manures, prepared, and their effects on Crops. “ 100 
Marl — A Letter addressed to the Agricultural 
Society of Jefferson County, Ga : by J. H. 
Hammond [concluded] “ 97 
Plowing near the Salerno “ 108 
Potatoes “ 102 
Refuse of the Garden “ 111 
Rice should be the Pioneer in bringing Wood- 
land in to Culture “ 110 
Science with Practice “ 101 
Soil, to improve the “ 110 
Whooping Cough cure for “ 112 
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