120 SOUiTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
• AUGUSTA, GA: 
¥<I>L. XIII, NO. 4 .....1 AFRIIm 1855. 
ANSWEES TO IHQUIKIES, &C. 
A. C. A., Jackson, Miss. — Thanks for the seed. The 
■mamber you desire is sent. Your suggestions are quite 
pertinent, and your article on the ‘‘Kescue Grass'’ will 
appear in our next. 
Clinton, Arkansas. — Your desire shall be complied 
with as soon as we can procure the article you allude to. 
We -will publish your communication next month. 
E M., Miss. — Our remarks had a general application, 
&Ed were merely intended as a hint to a certain class of 
readers, of whom (we ai-e happy to perceive) you claim 
taot to be one. If taken in the proper spirit, they are 
•entirely “void of offence.” We might retort upon the 
-tfein-skinned sensitiveness of our correspondent,'but cui 
konol W e utterly repudiate anything like personal con- 
troversy in the columns of this journal. Its object is to 
^ improve the soil and the mind.” 
J. W- H., Chulahoma, Miss. — Write to J. A. Ansley. 
of this city, for the “ Battey Potato.” He may still be 
able to supply you. A few small tubers might be sent 
you per mail,- if you so desire. 
B. M. P., Somerville, Tenn. — Wrote you per mail, 
March 15th, returning $2. * ’ 
X N. H., Live Creek, Ala.— Address Messrs. Car- 
mcEABL & Bean, of this city, in regard to the thresher. 
S. E. C., Helena, Ark. — The new^spaper you speak of 
lias not reached us, and we are, therefore, unable to pub- 
lish the advertisement. Be kind enough to cut the scrap 
out, and enclose it in a letter to us. 
J. C. S. — Your request for an article on Cheese Mak- 
mg will be complied with in a future number. 
G. R. B.. Florence, Ala.— We have plenty of the Oats 
yon forwarded us. It is a good winter variety, but br 
me-r,Q pnnal to the Large White Winter, the “Hunter” 
•m the Egyptian. 
J-C.So, Blairsville, Ga.— The “Country Gentleman^’ 
pabiished weekly at Albany, H. Y., ($2 per annum) • 
The ^'American Agriculturist.,'’^ weekly, New York City 
($2 per year) ; The ^'Pennsylvania Farm Journal ” 
monthly, Philadelphia, ($1) ; or the "New England Farrn- 
monthly, Boston, Mass., ($1) , are all good and valu- 
able journals, which you might read with pleasure and 
A- £>. L., Hancock Co., Ga. — It is an old adage that 
*^B.good horse cannot be of a bad color” yet there seems 
be a prejudice among horsemen against white or 
^Etocking feet.” We find the following, upon this sub- 
lee^ in an exchange paper “ Why are horses with 
white legs and feet less valuable than those which have 
thfi^mnot? — Because, even in a wet soil and climate 
white hoofs are more liable to accident and lameness 
'ms.n black ones, and in stony soil, white hoofs are much 
sjnjor® liable to break and to contract than those of a dark 
coior.” 't o wuich another editor replies “ White feet 
and a white face on a horse are indications of physiolo- 
gical conditions not favorable for cndui ance, or any 
other good quality. They are. in fact, ind. cations of a 
scrofulous tendency. Hence the following, quoted by 
horsemen from time iinmeihorial : . ' . 
One white foot- — buy him. 
Two white feer — try him. 
Three wliite feet — deny him. 
Four white feet and a white nose — 
Take off his hide and feed him to the crows.” 
Yf . L. — Broom Corn will grow well on any good, rich 
bottom land. Its culture is quite similar to that of 
common corn. The leaves are good fodder for stock, and 
the seeds may be fed to fowls. We do not know of any 
seed for sale in tins vicinity. We notice that Messrs. 
Clement & Mays, of Muscogee Co. Ga.,haYe commenced 
the manufacture of brooms out of Palmetto leaves, on an 
extensive scale. The brooms are made upon the pattern 
of the corn broom, and are said to last four times as 
long. They furnish them, we believe, at about 30 cents 
a piece. 
B. C., Columbia, S. C. — The Flat Dutch is one of the 
best early Turnips. After all danger of frost is over, they 
may be sown in a highly manured and well pulverized 
soil. Dust, with 5- parts of soot and 1 of sulphur, when, 
the plants come up, and'as soon as they begin to bulb 
or fill out thin them to a stand of 8 or 10 inches. 
Planting Sweet Potatoes Level. — In answer to our 
correspondent, "Lincolnf' we would state that the prize 
Essay of Rev. Mr. Johnson has never been published It 
is in the archives of the "Souther7i CentrA Agricxdturai 
Society f from which we hope to see it exhumed erelong. 
See article on this subject in present number of this 
journal. 
UNITED STATES AGEICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
The third snnual meeting of this Society was held at 
Washington City, on the 28th of February last. Hon. M. 
P. Wilder was re-elected President, and most of the chief 
officers are the same as last year. Reports were read on 
Chess in Wheat; on Agricultural History, by B. P. Poore; 
on Glover’s Collection of Models of Fruits and Insects, by 
Mr. Peck; and on Western Fruits, by Dr. Warder, of 
Ohio. Papers were received from Dr. Morton on Alder- 
ney Cattle, and from New York on the Potato Rot, Lec- 
tures were delivered by Hon. G. P. Marsh on the Rur^ 
Economy of Continental Europe, and Dr. Warder on 
Live Hedges. Resolutions were passed in opposition to 
the Reciprocity Treaty, and calling a Convention of Dele- 
gates from each State in the Union, to be held in Wash- 
ton the first Friday after, the next annual meeting of the 
Society, “in order that an agricultural platform may be es- 
tablished, which will meet the views of, and be sustained 
by the whole body of agriculturists as a profession."’ 
“CAN’T GET ALCNG WITECTIT ITr* 
An old friend and subscriber, in Burke Co., Ga., writes 
us as follows : 
“Editors Southern Cultivator Gentlemen : — I 
thought this year I would just try and get along without 
my old friend, the Cultivator, but I find without it I am 
like a ship at sea without a compass. The fact is, I would 
not be without for it twenty times the price of subscription; 
so just send it along and consider me a pei-peVuaL mk- 
scriber. 
“ Enclosed you will find the dollar. 
“Very respectfully your obedient servant, 
R. RG/ 
March, 1855. 
Making Turpentine. — Will some of our readers en- 
gaged in, or acquainted with the business of making Tup- 
rentine, giveua a plain, practical account of the 8a»e, fcr 
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