SOUTHERN CULTITATOR. 
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WHEAT IN AMERICA. 
Wheat was first sown in the American Colonies in 
1692, on the Elizabeth Islands, in Massachusetts, by 
Gosnold, at the time he explored that coast. That has 
been just 262 years ago, and since that time so great has 
been the increase of this ce»'ea], that in the 1849, accord- 
ing to the census of 1850, the product amounted to lOO,- 
503,899 bushels. Up to 1610, and perhaps later, England 
supplied the colonies with the gi’eater part of their bread- 
stuffs. How changed is it now ! All Europe is looking 
to us for bread. The bread sent to the colonies in 1610 
was not cast upon the waters never more to return. Two 
hundred and forty years afterwards it rolls back in a con- 
tinuous stream, to gladden the hearts of halffamished 
millions in England, France and Belgium. The descend- 
ants of men originally lashed and scourged from their 
shores, and forced to make their future habitations be- 
neath the uninviting sky — more humane than the task 
masters of their father’s — are now striving to return good 
for what was considered an evil, by suppying them with 
bread. 
POULTRY MANURE. 
The horticulturist cannot value too highly the drop- 
pings of poultry. For the past two or three years I have 
tested fully its properties, and feel satisfied that one 
bushel of poultry manure mi.xed with plaster, and used as 
a top dressing, is equivalent to ten bushels stable manure 
put into the ground in the usual manner. It is particu- 
larly valuable for onion sets, as well as for almost every 
other garden vegetable. My process for its use is this : — I 
dig and plant my seed, and in the course of a few days, or 
about the time I think the seed is beginning to germinate, 1 
I take the manure, previously mixed with a small portion 
ofplasterand put upon the hills or beds containing the 
seed. By the time the shoots come up the manure is in a 
proper state for working, it having decomposed by losing 
much of its ammonia, and I find it' requires less labor to 
keep the ground loose than when not used, to say nothing 
of its effects upon vegetation, which are incalculable. The 
season for saving this manure is now at hand, and' I feel 
satisfied that if once tried will never be abondoned, if the 
manure can be had. 
I might also state in this connection that in consequence 
of the attacks of the striped bug upon the cucumber plant 
it has become almost an impossibility to cultivate that 
much admired vegetable. By the use of air slacked linie^ 
sprinkled every few days over the plant, their ravages 
may be checked, and the horticulturist find no difficulty ii? 
raising any quantity of the vegetable. ' The same remedy 
will apply to pumpkin and squash vines. — Pa,. Farm 
Journal. 
INQUIRY. 
^Messrs. Editors— Can some of your numerous sub- 
scribers tell us the causes and a remedy for the “Hollow- 
Horn” in cattle'? I know some will say it.is the hollow 
belly, or want of attention and care; but with such I 
must differ, for I had four work steers that had it last year, 
and I always keep my oxen in good order, well fed, and 
not abused, to which my neighbors will testify. A pre 
ventive and remedy is anxiously sought after by i 
A ScBSCRIBER. I 
HayneviLle, Ga., 1855. | 
Sugar in Louisiana. — The Plaquemine Gazette of j 
March 3, say§ : I 
The prospect of the next sugar crop in this State, is i 
anything but promising. We have conversed with a 
number of the best Planters in this District, who are of the 
opinion, that the crop of 1855, will be a short one. From 
the Point Coupee Echo it will be seen that this is not the 
only Parish in the State that has lost seed cane. The Echo 
says : 
The plant cane is, we regret to say, seriously injured in 
this parish. If the dry weather continues two or three 
weeks longer, it will be impossible to plant half the sugar 
lands of the parish. 
1^” We republish the following, by request of a fair 
housewife of our acquaintance: 
HOW SHALL WE PRESERVE EGGS1 
This is the ^‘grand question.'^ We have, in the course 
of our life, tried nearly all the expedients that have been 
recommended, and sometimes succeeded, and sometimes 
failed — from which results you will say it is no more than 
foir to conclude that none of the methods are infallible. 
We have learned one fact by these experiments. Eggs 
should be perfectly fresh when you begin to preserve 
them. Ifan egg has commenced, even but a very slight 
decomposition, it is difficult arresting it ; indeed, we are 
inclined to think nothing short of freezing will do it. The 
following very simple plan we have never tried, and 
know nothing practically whether it be effectual or not. 
We found it in the Farm Journal, quoted from the Eng- 
lish Agricultural Gazette. We pass it over to our readers 
for their consideration : 
Take a half incli board of any convenient length and 
breadth, and pierce it as full of holes (each one and a half 
inches diameter) as you can. I find that a board two feet 
and six inches in length, and one foot wide, has five dozen 
in it, say twelve rows of five each. 
Then take four strips two inches broad, and nail them 
together edgewise into a rectangular frame of the same 
size as your other board. Nail this board upon the frame 
and the work is done, unless you chose to nail a beading 
around the top. 
Put your eggs in this board as they come from the poul- 
try house, the small end down, and they will keep good 
for six months, if you take the following precautions: — 
Take care that the eggs do not get wet, either in the nest 
or afterwards. (In summer hens are fond of laying among 
the weeds or grass, and any eggs taken from such nests in 
wet weather, should be put away for immediate use.) Keep 
them in a cool room in summer, and out of the I’each of 
frost in winter. If two boards be kept, one can be fill- 
ing while the other is emptying. 
The writer accounts for the preservation of eggs in this 
way by suppo.'^ing that the yolk floats more equally in the 
white, and has less tendency to sink down against the 
shell, than when the egg is laid on one side — certainly, if 
the yolk touches the shell it spoils immediately. — Maine 
Farmer. 
Econo:, lY in Wives. — A young married woman, who ■ 
has not had the opportunity of profiting by the advice 
and example of a good mother, will find some difficulty at 
first in spending her money to the best advantage; for 
there is really on art in spending money, though it is get- 
ting rid of it. Some women will keep house respectably 
and plentifully on one-third less money than will be re- 
quired by others, or without even meanness or illiberal 
dealing. But to do this, judgment, forethought and ex- 
perience are necessary. One woman shall be able to tell 
you how much her housekeeping costs toashilling, while 
another cannot guess within ten. The former has method, 
rule, regularity, and a certain sum assigned to her; with 
the latter it is all hazard — it comes and it goes, she neither 
knows how, nor cares. And this is almost sure to be the 
case if the money is doled out by her husband in a few 
shillings at a time. 
