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S O tl T TT E E N C XT L T r V A T O R. 
and llie Penivi.'Ui lor wliefit. We shall test bf'th on 
corn this year, in a e('>in[).ira!ire trial of cost and yield 
Corn is a cere li ^rass hard to beat, wiiere the land is ricli 
enough for it to do its l)est. L- 
LEGISLATlYiZ AID TO AGAICDLTuEE. 
We cominend the following to die earnest attention of 
the people of Georgia and her sister States of the South, 
Let not the example of Michigan be lost upon them, 
when they come to express their sentiments through the 
ballot-box. Our law making servants should be fully ap- 
prized of the fact that in no other way can they so well 
advance the interests of the country as in an enlightenpd 
and liberal support of the best system of agriculture. We 
should begin the work of reform at once, and hope our 
next Legislature will appropriate at least $20,000 to start 
the good work : 
Michigak State Agriccltcral School, — W'e are 
pleased to learn that this young and enterprising State 
has, at the late session of its Legislature, passed an act 
establi>hing a State Agricultural School. 
The provisions of the Michigan law authorise the Exe- 
cutive Committee of the State Agricultural Society to se- 
Ject a farm of not less than 500 acres, nor more than 1000 
fecres, within ten miles of Lansing, thecapitalof the State, 
^bject to the approval of the Board of Education. Twenty- 
two sections of salt spring lands, or the moneys arising 
from the sale, are appropriated for the pay of the purchase, 
the erections, furniture, library, &c.. The School is to be 
under the direction of the State Board of Education. From 
$5,000 to $6,000 per year appropriated to pay the teach- 
ers. Tuition to be forever free to the pupils from the 
State. 
AN AWFUL CONDITION! 
A scEscRiBEPv in South Western Georgia writes us as 
follows. We need not say that we flew to his relief at 
once, by dispatching him a package of Cultivators. Should 
any other agricultural gentlemen find themselves in a 
similar “fix,” it will afioid us pleasure to apply the same 
remedy. But to the extract: 
Editors Soctherx Cultivator — Gentlemen — T am be- 
hind in plan'ing. Everything in a st-ne of “'wild con- 
fusion."’ Horses getting and ?/.gZ7/, cows dying with 
the hollow horn, hogs .'/aggcrzbig sheep a/iY///, 
and all, all for the want of the Cultiralur. I cannot do 
without it, and did not know that you had stopped it till 
I found the “dollar” still in wig pocket. You will, there- 
fore, please make the exchange again and take the dollar 
and send the paper. Respectfully yours, etc., 
H. F. W. 
Tkomasrille. Ga.., March, 1655. 
DEYONS “AROUND CAPE RORN.” 
The first attempt to import pure breed Devon stock 
from the United States to the Sandwich Island.s, has result- 
ed in the most perfect success. By the ship Vancouver, 
from Boston, a fine cow, called “Edith,” not yet three 
years old, and a bull, ten months old, named “Young 
Herod,” have just come safe to land. A bull calfwa.s add- 
ed to the list on the Gth of .Jariuarv, wldcli it is presumed 
will receive the mme of “Vancouver,” from the ship on 
board of which it was calved on the passage out. The 
blood of these animals is of the purest kind, and their 
pedigree is on record for the assurance of those who have 
an iiiu rest in ihnn. Tliey wt re inipoiu-d by .llie R(i} al 
Haw.iiati .•\gricultiir;il Si'ci( ly, wliich oxvns olie-iinltin- 
t^ ivst in tliem, J Mo.xtuo.mkhy, who ow ns oiie-quMiter, 
and Dr R. VV. Wnoo, who nu ns the i eiiiaining tjnai ter. 
“Edith” cost, in W<-stchester county, Yew York, .$550, 
and “Young Herod” $150. The expenses ol their jour- 
ney to Bosron, iuiy, grain, and water for ilie voyage, and 
hou.'e (or their iiceontmodotion, &c., bring up tiie entire 
cost to aliout $765, l.mded at Honolulu. Besides this, 
there was much gratuitous labor bestowed upon them, in 
selectiirg. &.e.,aiid through the liberality of the owners of 
the ship, nofreight has been ebarged. 
COST OF FENCING. 
Mr. Editoi ' — The appearance in your issue of the 17ih 
ult , ofan article on tlie “cost of fencing plantations,” was 
at this particular time most apropos. Not a reader ofyour 
journal in the District, nay,iu)t even in the State, but that 
feels most sensibly the truths contained in that article. 
The writer, (whom we suppose to be one of the editors of 
the Southe'u. CvMivator from his signature,) fully under- 
stands the immense expense, but does not know the prime 
coat of enclosing a field for cultivation. Ask the farmers 
and planters of our District what it costs to keep their 
several plantations well fenced against the intrusion of 
their own and other owners’ stock, most of which are 
turned out to hunt their food or die of starvation, and we 
venture, not one of them could tell within half what it 
costs. Southern planters generally maul their rails and 
build fences at a time when many of them suppose nothing 
else could be done. The cotton crop being picked and 
packed, and the corn housed, a “new ground” must be 
cleared from ancestral custom; in clearing this the rails 
are made, and the fences built with no loss but time, and 
time to such men is of no value. Were this same tract 
of woodland allowed to remain, and its surface well 
scraped and cleared of its trash to make manure, thou- 
s.inds of impoverished acres might be reclaimed, and our 
beautiful forests left standing as pasture ground for the 
owners, stock. 
As fences are built during the winter season, when 
planters do not tiiink it profitable to keep their plows, and 
those too of the subsoil kind, running, and many of thi in 
are altogether ignorant of tlie method and value of mak- 
ing manure — clearing lands and mauling rails is a tiec.es- 
sary ulternatiue to employ the hands on a plantation: 
hence its cost is regarded inconsiderable. But when after 
such a dry winter as we have had, there happens so uni- 
versal and destructive a fire as has lately^ visited our State 
and almost the entire South, and this, too, in the very be- 
ginning of tile planting season, each land owner will ap- 
preciate fully the following summary which we suggest 
as the prime cost of fencing a field for caliivation. 
IVe will select a square field of 36 acres, 6 acres on 
either side. The length of a fence to enclose sucli a field 
would be 5040 feet, or nearly one mile. Now, a rail fence 
seven rails higlr (which is too low to be certain jiroiection) 
will average about one rail to tlie foot, hence it will re- 
quire 50 10 rails to build the fence. A hand that will maul 
125 rails one day with another is worth 75 cents a day, 
finding himself, ft will require him 40 days work to maul 
tlie rails, or an expense of $3(1 The rails, if worth any- 
tliing, should sell fur at least $2.50 per Imndred, or $!26, 
for llie 5040. H.-iuling the rails and building the lence, 
we suppose, would be worth $20. Hcnee the entire cost 
of cutting tlie timber mattling the rails and finishing the 
fence would be .$176. VVe consider this e.stimate a fair 
one, and believe tlie fence the most expensive that can be 
bu’lt. 
Air. Editor, a system of fence is beintr adopted about 
ynur town, which to us appear much neater, far more dur- 
able, and withal, less, expensive. We allude to the ditch 
