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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
the object lur which the premiums are offered, as 
possible They only .egret they were not able 
to embrace a more costly and extended list. 
You will see, by the resolution respecting 
new members, that we a''e anxious to encourage 
the continuance of the Cultivator. I know 
not that we shall effect anything by the offer, 
but be that as it may, 1 think our present Club 
will stick to me, and will, therefore, take the 
responsibility and you may set me down a sub- 
altern ui.der our worthy Col. McDonald, and 
good for my quota of twenty subscribers for the 
next year. I hope we can furnish even more. 
Geo. Seaborn, 
The Committee appointed to report premiums 
to be awarded in October next, has had the 
matter under consideration and beg leave to of- 
fer the following ; 
Crops . — For the best acre of low-land Corn, provided the 
product is not less than 75 bushels, a Volume of Johnston’s 
Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry. For the best acre of 
upland Corn, product not less than 40 bushels, the same. 
For the largest yield of W'heat, the product to be not less 
than 30 bushels on lott land or 20 upland, to each, a Volume 
of the Farmer’s Library and Monthly Journal of Agriculture. 
For the greatest amount from one acre of green Corn cut for 
provender, one Vol. of the Naturalist. For the largest pro- 
duct of Rice, the yield to be not less than lOO bushels per acre, 
one VpLume each of the Albany Cultivator and Southern Ag- 
riculturisf: 
S?9C,V.’— For the best Stallion for farm use not over 3 years 
old, one Vol. Youatt on the Horse. For the best Mare, a 
volume of the same. For the best Jack raised in the district, 
not over 3 years old.avol.of thesame. For the best Bull, na- 
tive or imported, one vol. each Treatise on the Cow, and Al- 
bany Cultivator. For the best Cow, one vol. each Treatise 
on the Cow and Southern Cultivator. For the best Ram of 
improved breed, one vol. L. A. Morrel on Sheep. For the 
best Ewe, the same. 
Implements . — For the following implements of Agriculture, 
the price and efficiency to be taken into consideration : isL 
The best Sub-soil Plow, one volume Southern Cultivator. 
2d. The best Turning Plow, one vol. Southern Cultivator. 
3d. The best Harrow, one volume of the Muck Manual. 4th. 
The best Cultivator, one vol. Albany Cultivator, 5th. The 
best Roller, one vol. Southern Cultivator. 6th. The best 
Shuck and Straw Cutter, Productive Farming. 7th. The 
best Com-Sheller, Farmer’s Manual. 
Miscellaneous . — For the best specimen of Butter, not less 
than 10 lbs., a Silver butter Knife. For the best piece of 
homespun, wool and cotton, not less than 10 yards, premium 
of Si. For the best do. do. wool or silk, 10 yards, S2. For 
the best piece of homespun for ladies’ dresses, 7 yards, one 
spinning wheel. For 2d best, 7 yards, a pair of cotton cards. 
Best piece of flannel, half cotton, 10 yards, SlO. Best blanket, 
■wool and cotton, for negroes. S2. Best pair half-hose, all 
wool, 50 cents. Best pair half-hose, all Cotton, 50 cents. Best 
carpeting 10 yards, worsted, ®2. Best carpeting, rag, ®2. 
For the best bushel of Apples, to be presented to the Society, 
one vol. of the Fruit Culturist. 
A discreiionary premium Committee will ex 
amine the various vegetable productions tha 
may be presented, and deal with them accord- 
ing to their merits. Such as Cabbage-heads, 
Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, Celery, Potatoes, Tur- 
nips and Onions, Apples. Peas, Peaches, 
G apes, Plower.s, etc. 
Ni. animal will be entitled to a premium that 
has heretofore received one from the Society — 
nor none that is not of superior quality. 
Geo. Seaborn, 
O. R. Broyles, > Committee. 
J. V. Shanklin, j 
The above report was adopted by the Society 
when the Chairman moved the following reso- 
lution : 
Resolved, That the Secretary be directed on 
the first day of January next, to subscribe for a 
number of copies of the Southern Cultivator, 
equal to the number of new members that may 
attach themselves to our Society between this 
and that ti.me, and that each of said new mem- 
bers be furnished with a copy for the year 1846, 
which was also adopted by the Society. 
Elam Sharpe, Jr., Sec’y- 
Farmers’ Hall, August 13, 1846. 
Clarke County Agricultural Society. 
G. B. Haygood, Esq., having announced the 
death of our distinguished friend to the cause 
of Agriculture, Col. Alexander McDonald of 
Eufaula, Ala., 
On motion of Philip Clayton, Esq., it was 
Resolved, That this Society has heard with 
unfeigned regret of the death of Col. Alexander 
McDonald of Eufaula, Alabama, the great 
friend and efficient promoter of Southern Agri- 
culture; and take this method of giving ex- 
pression to their sympathy, that one so useful 
has fallen in the midst of his noble and patriotic 
exertions. 
Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing reso- 
lution be furnished the Southern Cultivator 
for publication. G. B. Haygood, Secr’y. 
Sept. Is/, 1846. 
Talbot Agricultural Society. 
The Society having seen .-’n account of the 
death of Alexander McDonald, of Eufaula, 
(Ala.,) passed the following resolutions; 
Resolved, ist. That the members of this So- 
ciety, sympathize with the family and friends 
of the deceased, in the loss of one so estimable 
in all the relations of life. 
Resolved, 2nd. That they deplore the loss, al- 
most irreparable, the farming community has 
sustained in the death of so intelligent, so en- 
terprising, and so successful a planter, and, at 
the lime of his decease, one who was perhaps 
doing more than any other, to advance the inte- 
rests of Southern Agricul'ure. 
J. Carter, President. 
Thomas A. Brown, Secretary. 
CQHTEl/ITS OF THIS HUMBER. 
ORIGINAL PAPERS. 
Agricultural Education page 153 
Agricultural Reiding — Rasping— Permanent 
Improvement “ 151 
Agricultural Society, Monroe and Conecuh — 
Address of Dr. Watkins..., “ 158 
Agricultural Society, Pendleton (S. C.) Far- 
mers’ “ 159 
Agricultural Society, Clarke county “ 160 
'■ ‘ Talbot county. “ 160 
Apples “ 152 
Bots, cure for ‘‘ 153 
Cotton — Caterpillar “ 157 
Crops in Mississippi— Smut in Wheat— Croup- 
Inquiries “ 155 
Grass for the South, a new “ 152 
Gravel “ 155 
History of Husbandry “ 157 
McDonald’s Proposition — Colton Crop in 
Alabama “ 154 
Mineral Manures “ 155 
More of the Right Spirit ;... “ 154 
Opinions of the I’ress ■“ 153 
Ourselves “ 152 
Proposition of Col. McDonald, notice of and 
list “ 152 
Southern Independence “ 153 
Vine Culture — Progresss of the Brinkleyville 
Vineyards, and some TJItraisms noticed. . “ 156 
Wheat, sowing “ 150 
SELECTIONS, EXTR.ACTS, &C. 
Butter Making “ 150 
Butter, Philadelphia, its high flavor and cause, “ 151 
Cotton Crop of the tJnited States for the year 
ending Aug. 31, 1346 “ 151 
Model Farm of the Union, at Mt. Airy, near 
Philadelphia “ 147 
Monthly Calendar— for October “ 145 
Rotation of Crops “ 149 
Salt as a Fertilizer “ 143 
Southern Soils, improvement of “ 148 
Soil, how to sustain and improve the quali- 
ty of “ 149 
Tobacco, housing and curing...., “ 146 
Wheal, the Southern States should go large- 
ly into the culture of “ 1.50 
Wheat, extraordinary experiment with “ 1.50 
|I3= Volumes I., II and III. of the “Southern 
Cultivator,’’ can be supplied to all who desire them. 
GEJMUINE GEORGIA PEAINS. 
I TAKE THIS 
method of informing 
the Planters that 1 am 
still manufacturing 
Negro Cloths, styled 
GEORGIA PLAINS, 
made of .strong, well 
twisted cotton warp 
and pure wool filling, 
which I warrant as a 
faiihful article, and to 
wear longer than any 
Northern Goods, and 
will sell them as low 
as Northern Goods of 
the same weight and 
width. 'Ihey range in price from 23 I o 30 cents, ac- 
cording to the weight of wool put in. The difference 
of price beingonlythecostofthe material in the differ- 
ent styles, lean and will manufacture Negro Cloths 
as cheap as the Northern manufacturer, and put in bet* 
ter wool, and warrant the goods to last longer. Plan- 
ters wishing to purchase can have their orders filled 
at any moment, with a credit until January, /Samples 
can be sent by mail to those at a distance, or seen at 
the Stole of George W. Lamar & Co., Agents for the 
Factory in Augusta. None are genuine but those bear- 
ing my label on them. 
George Schley, 
ol-3tC Augusta, Georgia. 
BRINKIiEYVat/LK VIN. YARDS AM) 
NURSERY. 
IN THE ABOVE ESTABLISH- 
MENT,for market, some two thousand well root- 
ed Scuppernong, and some hundreds of other 
most select kinds of American grape vines. Small 
quantities from ten cents to one dollar, each rooted 
plant, according to age and size. Medium price, per 
hundred, $20 the rooted, and $3 for cuttings. Best 
kinds of fruit and ornamental trees, for Southern 
climes, from ten to fifty cents each, according to size 
and scarcity in market. Other nursery articles at cor- 
responding moderate prices, early or fall planting of 
vines, &c , especially important in the South. 
BEST AMERICAN WINES AND CORDIALS. 
Bottles of select wines and cordials, sealed, wired 
and labelled, for medicinal and family use, 50 cents, 
each, and upwards, according to quality ; lowest pri- 
ces, per gallon, $1, and lowest per barrel. $20 
All postpaid letters, orders and remittances, (or 
equivalent as to last named,) pertaining to the above 
stated objects, will, as heretofore, receive prompt at- 
tention and action by the proprietor. 
Sidney Weller. 
Editors friendly t.o the advancement of Ameri- 
can Agricultural enierpise, and those, in particular, for 
whom I have made communications thereon, may, by 
a gratuitous inseitioti or so of the above, oblige others 
of the farming community, and their humble servant, 
S. W. 
Brinkleyville, Halifax Co., N. C. Sept. 2. ol* 
CHOICE FRUIT TREES. 
THE SUBSCRIBER has on hand 
a rare collection of FRUIT TREES, graft- 
ed by himself from the best varieties, ' 
which have been tested in this climate, among which 
are some twenty kinds of Tennessee Apples, (which 
are found to do much better in this climate than North- 
ern trees.) Also, Pears, Plums, (specimens of which 
call be shown grown oy ma this season weighing 4 
ounces,) Cherries, Apricots, Nectarines, Figs, Grapes 
Quince, Gooseberries, Also some beautiful dou 
ble flowering fruit trees as the Apple, Peach, Almond- 
Quince, &c. Also, Hovey' s celebrated Seedling Straw , 
berry, which have have proved in this climate to be 
fine bearers, of enorpions size and of exquisite Pine 
Apple flavor, (baskets ot this delicious fruit have been 
in the Columbus mat ket the past summer with berries 
measuring from 4 to5 inches round.) Also, Ornament- 
al Shrubs, Plants, &c. Superb Hutch Fiotcering Bulbs, 
Hyacinths, Tulips, Amarylas. Also an extensive as 
sorlraent of Garden and Field Seeds, all ofwhich can 
be found at my seed store in Columbus, Geo. Orders 
for trees, plants, bulbsor seeds will be carefully packed 
to go any distance with safety. 
8-5 Charles A. Peabody. 
HAVE YOU A COW! 
three copies foe one dollar! 
A TREATISE ON MILCH COWS.— 
Whereby the quality and quantity of Milk which 
any cow will give may be accurately determined by ob- 
serving natural marks or external indications alone ; 
the length of time she will continue to give milk, &c. 
&c. By M Francis Guenon, of Libourne, France. 
Translated for the Farmers’ Library, from the French, 
by N. P. Trist, Esq. late U. S. Consul at Havana. 
With Introductory Remarks and Observations on 
THE COW AND THE DAIRY, 
By John S. Skinner, Editor Farmers’ Library. 
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