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cotton. This is a most gratifying prospect not only to the 
farmers in that section, but to the State at large. At pre- 
sent our importations of flour are very heavy. Not less 
than 300 barrellsare sold on the average per week, in this 
market. At that rate, at present prices, about $‘110,000 
per annum goes out of the State from this city alone, for 
an article that can be produced so easily at home, and 
with more profit than cotton. 
PROFITS AND PLEASURES OF FARIillNG. 
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph gives us the “bright 
side” of farming, in this wise : 
People living from hand to mouth in towns, working 
the year round, spending half they earn in things that are 
useless, ifnot injurious, have very little idea of the cheap- 
ness of a good living and a thrifty homestead in the coun- 
try. A mechanic will earn in town from S2 to $3 per day, 
amounting to from $600 to $900 per year, but with a fami- 
ly to feed and clothe, and children to educate, he must be 
a very steady and frugal man to have a dime ahead, or 
eveti to be out of debt, at the end of the year. All of this, 
however, has nothing to do with the profits of corn plant- 
ing except by contrast. 
Good farming land can be brought within five miles of 
this city at from $2 to $5 per acre. The following is a 
fair estimate of the cost of a farm of fifty acres, including 
cheap, but comfort able improvements,a small start of team. 
utensils, cattle and provisions to last until a crop is made ; 
Fifty acres land $5 per acre $150 00 
Two yoke of oxen and cart 120 00 
One horse 40 00 
Five cows and calves and a supply of hogs and 
poultry 100 00 
Labor of extra hand in building log house 20 00 j 
Lumber for flooring, doors, nails, &c 25 00 
Labor and board of extra hand in getting out rails 
for ■25 acre field 60 00 
Twenty-five bushels corn 25 00 
Provisions for six months 150 00 
Plows, axes, &c 25 00 
Total outlay ..$715 00 
CONTRA. 
By 20 acres corn GOO bushels $1 $600 00 
By 4 acres sweet potatoes 300 bushels 75 cents.. 225 00 
By butter, eggs and poultry 100 00 
$925 00 
According to tlie above estimate, he has made $i25 
over the entire expenditure and has besides accumulated 
an available productive property to the value of $505. He 
has now laid a foundation on whueh any industrious and 
prudent man can easily and rapidly build an indepen- 
dence for his funily. ills horses, cattle, hogs, poultry, 
&c., are better investm.cnts than was ever made in goods, 
houses or stocks of any sort. They will pay their own 
expenses and yield a profit at the most moderate calcula- 
tion of 20 per cent. per annum, compound interest, and 
without any risk, such as attend other investments. 
The above calcalation is for an industrious and econo- 
mical man ; a lazy one has no business in town or coun- 
try and will do as well in one situation as an other, and 
we don’t kno w of any way by which he could possibly 
better his condition. 
THE RICE WEEVILS. 
This insect is the Curadio Oryzee of Linnaius. It is a 
well known fact that the amount of injury done to stored 
rice by this insect is such as to cause much loss by those 
persons who have in their possession large quantities of j 
that article. The insect is coleopterous, or,^ in other j 
CULTIVATOR. 
words its wings are protected by elytra or sheaths. This 
little depredator much resembles the Wheat weevil (Cur- 
culio granarius, of Linnaeus,) and, indeed, it is sometimes 
known to attack stored wheat. A well known writer on 
American entomology has justly remarked, that il this in- 
sect increases numerically m stored rice, all possible 
means should be made use of to prevent its ravages. I 
feel perfectly satisfied, from close observation, that it does 
increase, and to such an extent, in some cases, as to 
prove alarming in its character. There is a simple reme- 
dy, however, and it is not merely thoretical, but practical 
experiment has shown that it is entirely eftectual, which 
will prevent their injurious effects. It is this: — To every 
two bushels of rice, apply at the time of storing, one 
pound of common salt (Chloride of Sodium,) and you need 
have no fears in relation to the ravages of the Rice Weevil. 
The same remarks apply, as a general thing to the storage 
of wheat. 
A CHEAP COTTAGE. 
Mrs. SwissiiELM .gives us the following plan of a cot- 
tage, to be built at a cost of not more than one hundred 
dollars : 
As many may doubt that a house can be built for so 
little, let me give some description : When logs are plenty 
and convenient, it is my impression a snug little house, 
16 or 18 feet square, could be put up and made comfort- 
able for less than one hundred dollars ; but where they 
are not to be had, ordinary laboring men can build a nice 
little board house by placing four sleepers on stone rests ; 
nail boards to these, upright, first at the corners; have 
scantling of lengths to correspond to the sleepers ; fix t nem 
seven feet above by props until the top ends of the boards 
I are made fast to them, when the prime difficulty of the 
building process is over. Side it up with boards running 
up and down, nail strips over the cracks outside and in; 
lath to the inner strips and put one coat of plaster as 
smoothly as possible, which will make it close enough. 
Let th^ front and back wall be seven feet high ; fix cross 
ties half way up the roof for the ceiling, and the room will 
be be high enough for comfort and health. The cheapest 
and most suitable roof is rough flooring boards, the grooves 
Ailed with a mixture of two iliirds coal tar and one-third 
linseed oil, giving the whole a thorough coating afler it is 
put on, and sprinkling it thickly with sand. By having 
the roof extend over one foot or eighteen inches, and pul- 
ing brackets under, making a window and door in front, a 
window in one gable with a hood over it, a chimney in 
the other, a door at the other side with a little rough perch 
over one or both doors, the outside witite washed and a 
tree partly shading it, a house of sixteen or eighteen feet 
square would be pretty and ;ittractive. 
Dangers of a High Pillow. — It is often a question 
among people who are unacquainted with ti:e anatomy 
and phy.sic-logy of man, whether lying witli the head ex- 
alted, or even with the body, be more wholesome. Most, . 
consulting their own ease on this point, argue in fav. r of 
that which they prefer. Now, altliough many delight in 
bolstering up their heads at night, and sleep soundly 
v/ithout injury, yet we declare it to be a dangerous habit. 
The vessels through which the blood passes from the heart 
to the head are always lessened in their cavities when the 
head is resting in bed higher than the body ; therefore, in 
all diseases attended with fever, the head should be pretty 
nearly on a level with the body; and people ought to ac- 
custom themselve.s to sleep thus, to avoid danger. — Ex- 
change. 
g;^’“The annual product of Plemp in Kentucky, is esti- 
I mated at fifteen thousand tons, and in Missouri at ten 
thousand tons. 
