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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
®l)e Soutl)crit ^IitltiDatou 
AUGUSTA, GA. 
VOt,. IV., «0. ll.,.NOVEITlBEK, 184G. 
OUR FIFTH VOLUME. 
WE have placed on our last page the Praspecltts for the 
Fifth Volume of the SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR, and we 
also send with this Na printed handbills, containing the 
same, to every post office to which our paper is sent. 
W e take this occasion to remind our readers that the time for 
commencing our next volume draws near, and it behooves 
the friends of the work to bestir themselves, if they would 
see the CULTIV'ATOR sustained in a manner commensurate 
with the great interests it is designed to promote. Without 
your aid and co-operation, the success of any work in the 
Southern States, devoted exclusively to Agriculture, no mat- 
ter how ably conducted, is extremely problematical — nay, im- 
possible. With that aid, what can we not accomplish I 
While we express our heartfelt acknowledgements for the 
exertions of those who have so nobly and promptly respond- 
ed to our efforts, and arrayed their names under the banner of 
the lamented McDONALD, as well as others to whose indi- 
vidual exertions « e are greatly indebted, tve would urge up- 
on those who have not yet come forward, but design doing 
so, the necessity of prompt and energetic action. Now is the 
time to put forth your exertions. There is a growing interest 
manifested throughout the country, in favor of Agricultural 
works, and we receive the most cheering accounts from all 
quarters. A vigorous and united effort now, while the fruitis 
ripe jind ready to fall into your hands, and success, glorious 
saccess, wdl crown your labors. Will you make that effort? 
Friends of the Work! Friends of Southern Agriculture ! 
You who would see the miserable system of Farming which 
is blighting and desolating your homesteads— the fairest 
heritage beneath the sun— give way to an improved system 
of Scientific and Practical Agriculture, restoring lost fertility, 
andbringing plenty, happiness and contentment to every fire- 
side in the land— arresting the Vandal spirit that defaces and 
desolates, and then emigratesto again commence the work 
of destruction anew— we entreat you, put forth your best ex- 
ertions. Let each one actus if his individual exertions alone 
would ensure the success of the good cause. It is not only 
patriotic, but it is your interest to do so. Give us, then, 
your hearty and cordial support, and we will furnish you with 
a paper worthy your patronage— worthy of the great art of 
AGRICULTURE. 
Here is the list of the noble spirits who have already ar- 
rayed themselves on the side of Agriculture, and determined 
to rescue the Cultivator, and elevate the standard of the 
great Mother of all the arts to the position it was designed to 
occupy; How many more are there willing to pledge them- 
selves to procure twenty subscribers each to our forthcoming 
Volume ? Here is oiu list :— 
Col. A. McDonald, Eufaula, Ala. 
E. McCROAN. Louisville, Ga. 
T. W. RUCKER, Elberton, Ga. 
C. DOUGHERTY, Athens, Ga. 
G. B. HAYGOOD, Watkinsville, Ga. 
WM. T. DeWITT, Hopewell, Ala. 
H. E. CHITT¥, Henry Co., Ala. 
WM. CUNNINGHAM, Monroe Co., Ala. 
C. B. ZUBER, White Sulphur Springs, Ga. 
J. C. HELVENSTON, Macon Co., Geo. 
JAS. J. BANKS, Enon, Ala. 
Gen. A. W. GREER, Taliaferro Co. 
SINGLETON HARRIS, “ 
J. S. LASSETER, “ “ 
JARED L. TURNER, Greene Co. 
J. P. C. WHITEHEAD, Waynesboro, Ga. 
E. F. HURT, Macon Co., Ala. 
B. F. BORUM, “ 
WM. B. S. GILMER, Chambers Co., Ala. 
JOHN A. CALHOUN, Eufaula, Ala., 
JOEL HURT, Crawford, Russell Co., Ala. 
GEORGE SEABORN, Pendleton Dist., 3. <f 
MARTIN McNAIR, Richmond Co., Ga. 
J. N. McClendon, Fredonia, Ala. 
WM. SIMPSON, Wilkes co.. Geo. 
J. R. STANFORD, Clarkesville, Ga. 
J. C. HELVENSTON, Macon, co.. Geo. 
J.S. WARREN, Elbert co.. Geo. 
JOHN WEBB, Newton CO., Geo. 
P. MASTER, Mobley’s Pond, “ 
LEWIS McKEE, Jasper Co. “ 
AV, AV. SIMPSON, AVilkes Co., “ 
R. S. H.A.RDAVICK, Hancock Co., 
J. AV. BIcCLENDON, Fredonia, Ala., 
JAMES M. TOAVNS, Yalobusha, Co., bliss. 
GUY SMITH, Morgan county, Ga. 
A. B. TURNER, Florence, Ga. 
JOS. L. CHEATHAM, Jefferson co.,Ga. 
JOEL W. PERRY, Blakely, Early co., Ga. 
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Flori- 
da ! how many more suchfriends of Agriculture can we enter 
on our list 3 Speak out I 
D3^The Report of the Committee of the Monroe and 
Conecuh Agricultural Society, we are compelled to defer till 
our December No. 
iCiigraviiigs. 
The Publishers feel especial pleasure in be- 
iog able, through the courtesy of Col. Summer, 
of Columbia, S.C., to afford their patrons some 
splendid engravings, accompanied by a sketch 
from his accomplished pen, of this very supe- 
rior breed of cattle. It is the more gratifying to 
them, just at this period, as it will serve to show 
the friends of the work what they may expect in 
the next volume. U is our purpose, if we are 
at all sustained, to secure a variety of elegant 
embellishments for the Cultivator, and we 
sincerely hope that our friends will stand by us 
in this effort to afford them a paper that every 
Southern man shall be proud to claim as a 
Southern work. 
Agricultural Education. 
In the last number of the Cultivator we in- 
formed our readers that an Agricultural Profes- 
sorship had been established in Yale College, 
Connecticut. We have just heard that J. P. 
N'orton, Esq., has been elected to fill the ofifiee. 
Of Mr. Norton, and his qualifications for the 
office, Mr. Skinner speaks as follows in the Oc- 
tobei number of the Farmers’ Library: “Mr. 
N. had the fire and spirit and good sense to go, 
some years since, to Edinburgh, the head-quar- 
ters of chemical science as applied to agricul- 
ture, and has there had the advantage of pursu- 
ing the study under the ablest teachers, as well 
in the field as in the laboratory ; and we shall be 
mistaken in the tokens of an imprrving pub 
lie taste, if his class at College be not as numer- 
ous as he can do justice to. But we should sup- 
pose he would be demanded, if to be had, for the 
Smithsonian Institute at Washington. 
“There must be a beginning to everything ; 
and we apprehend the beginning is now, when 
agriculture will no longer lay in the rear of other 
pursuits, either in public opinion or in the fos- 
tering care of the Government, of the States, if 
not of the Union. Is there any good reason 
why the people should be taxed for educating two 
or three hundred [young men] every year, and to 
whom life commissions and good pay are to be 
given, to strengthen our arms for war, and yet 
not give one dollar to teach (without afterwards 
giving them commissions and pay for life,) and 
qualify men to go teaching, surveying and map- 
ping, and the art of road-making and bridge- 
building, and chemistry, and mineralogy, and 
botany, and natural history, and all applications 
of the arts to industrial pursuits, which would 
promote a better knowedge of agriculture, man- 
ufactures and commerce? 
“If the people had sense and self-respect 
enough to compel their representatives to expend 
one-fourth as much for the dissemination of use- ' 
ful knowledge and the perfection of the industri- 
al arts as they now expend every year on war 
and warlike objects, the time would soon arrive 
when all wanton promoters of war would be 
dreaded and doomed as so many mad dogs,” 
The Horticulturist. 
The first number of this work aa'hs published 
in J uly last. We have not noticed it before now, 
simply because we AA'ere not furnished with a 
specimen of it, until within a few days past. 
And even now we have received only the 2d, 3d 
and 4lh numbers. The first has not been re- 
ceived. Will the publisher make the series com- 
plete ? 
Having examined carefully the three numbers 
we have received, it gives us great pleasure to 
say that it comes fully up to what we expected 
it would be ; and our expectations were very 
high, from the established character and acknow- 
ledged ability ofthe editor. We would be very 
glad to see it extensively circulated among 
Southern planters ; because, devoted, as it is, in 
part, to the inculcation ot sound principles on 
the subject of the embellishment of rural resi- 
dences, it could not fail in a few years to work a 
refinement of taste, and excite a love for the 
simple and the beautiful in rural architecture 
and landscape gardening, that w'ould change the 
whole face of the Southern country. 
The work is published monthly at Albany, 
N. Y., by Luther Tucker, and is edited by A. J. 
Downing, of Newburgh, N. Y., so favorably 
known as the author of "-Fruits and Fruit 
Trees of America,” “ Cottage Residences,” 
"Landscape Gardening,” Sic. Each number 
contains 48 pages, and is embellished with nu- 
merous engravings ; and the whole — paper, print- 
ing and pictorial illustrations — is gotten up in 
the very best style of modern art. Subscription, 
S3 per year, payable in advance. 
Bread and Butter. 
We have introduced into this paper from Miss 
Beecher’s Book of Recipes— the best book on 
that subject, the ladies say, that has been pub- 
lished in this country— full directions for making 
bread. Such directions are sadly Avanted in 
many Southern kitchens. With our fine wheat 
and flour unsurpassed, it is positively sickening 
to look at, much more to eat, the abomination 
too often made of it, and set before hungry peo- 
ple as bread. With such ample directions as 
Miss Beecher gix'es, there can be no excuse 
hereafter foi bad bread, but the inability to buy 
her book, or to subscribe for the Cultivator. 
What more natural digression than from bread 
to butter? And here, in the South, how very 
often is the butter a dead match for the bread. 
What a miserable apology for butter one often 
has to endure on Southern tables, espedally 
where cotton is the main crop? The Rev. Mr. 
Beecher, editor of the Western Farmer and 
Gardener, has taken pains to arrange the bad 
butter of the West under its appropriate varie- 
ties. We copy his article, because his arrange- 
ment describes so admirably the varieties of our 
Southern butter: 
THE SCIENCE OF BAD BUTTER. 
We took occasion, last year, to give our opin- 
ion of the butter which is so largely brought to 
this market. The article was deemed severe; 
but if they who think so had eaten of the butter 
they would have regarded that as the more pun- 
gent of the two. We have waited another year ; 
and are now prepared more fully to testify against 
that utter abomination, slanderously called but- 
