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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
SOUTHERN SEEDLING APPLES— No. 6. 
“ MANGUM" APPLE. 
Said to be a native of Jackson county, Ga., and exhibited by Wm. H, Thurmond, Esq., of Atlanta, at the State 
Fair of 1852. An excellent Apple, of medium size, and keeps well till March. Tree very prolific, and certain of a 
<^fop. J. Van Buren. 
Clarksville, Ga. 
THE TEXAS OAT GEASS, ALIAS THE RESCUE. 
Messrs. Editors: — As the origin of the so-called Res- 
cue Grass is fully established by irrefragible testimony as 
the Texas Oat Grass, we shall so consider it in the re- 
marks which we are now about to submit. 
When the advantage claimed for this grass over all 
others as a winter pasture for stock was first urged upon 
the attention of the public, we felt inclined, from the evi- 
dence of things not seen, and in the absence of any re- 
ported experiment, to test, at some future day, its relative 
value with rye or barley, as green food. Accordingly, we 
planted in drills, the 20th September past, on a well pre- 
pared piece of ground, several short rows of the Texas 
Oat, and alongside a few of rye, with the view of cutting 
and feeding it to our milch cows, horses, &c., as had been 
our custom. 
On the iSth inst., the rye having attained to the height 
of 6 to 8 inches, we proceeded to cut it, and obtained from 
one row 15 lbs. The Texas Oat could not be cut, (a 
sickle being used,) being only about three inches high ; 
each germ or stem standing solitary and alone, with no 
appearance of tillering out, In the meantime, one of our 
horses had intruded upon the plat three or four hours at 
two different times, and had cropped the rye quite low in 
places, without seeming to observe that the oat grass was 
there. ! 
It has usually been our practice to get three cuttings of 
rye thus sov/n, during the winter and spring. But it still 
remains to be seen which will yield the greatest amount 
ofgreen food, and the product in hay, after the grasses are 
left to seed. 
As we propose a series of reports, we will reserve fur- 
ther remarks for your February number. 
Algernon. 
December \9th, 1854. 
Remarkable. — Messrs. Wells & Sturgeon of the Emi- 
grant Ferry, have sent to this office a couple of hen’s eggs 
I about half the ordinary size, with the accompanying 
note : 
“ On the first of May we bought six hens, and on the 
second of July, our first chickens came from the shell ; and 
at this present date we have five eggs laid by the July 
brood — their age being just two months and nine days 
old .” — Shasta {Cal.) Courier. 
