SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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PEOF LEE. 
For the l ist few weeks, we have listened with much 
interest to Dr. Lee’s Lectures on the Scieij^e of Agricul- 
ture His Lectures prove him to he well versed in Bot.my 
Geology and Chemistry —the three sciences most inti- 
mately connected with Agriculture— an accurate know- 
ledge of which is indispensable to success in farming on 
scietiiiiic piinciples. 
Dr. Lee has consented for his introductory lecture to he 
published in the agricultural papers, so that the public 
may have an idea of the objects of the Profe.ssnrship. In 
this Leciure will be found a statement of facts, which are 
to be thoroughly examined, enlarged and commented 
upon, in future lectures. The State of ^lississippi is cn- 
deavoringto establi.sh an Aai’icultural Prcft ssoiship in its 
Universit)^. VVe hope it will; and that Agriculture, the 
p irentand most useful of all occupations, under the digni- 
fied title of a science, will we stu'lied with more interest 
and attention. — G'nrsin- University M'frazine. 
STOCKING KNITTING MACHINE. 
A Stocki.vg Knitting Machine is among the latest novel 
ties in New York. It was patented in 1851, but with the 
exception of a few in Connecticut, has not been practical- 
ly tested. The New York ^lirror says : 
A gill ten years old can knit half a dozen pairs rf 
stockinofs in a day, working the machine by hand or toot 
In a factory, with motive power, one person can manage 
a dozen machines. The stocking is entirely made Iiy llie 
machine, from top to toe, and no nimble fingers of indns 
trious elderly maiden, sitting by the hearth corner, could 
“widen,” or ‘narrow,” or “heel,” or “toe” more perfectly 
The invention is in tho hands of a stock company, wim 
are about to apply it in a large factory in this city, and 
who efier fur sale rii^hfs to use the machines. 
I.vvKt.LKCTU.AL Pi.K.A-suRG. — 'i'he culture of the mind 
increases itidefinitely \.\\& smirces of its enjiiyrnevt. Itele 
vales their character ; and not less does it increase their 
amount. There is pleasure in knowledge itself, in being 
able to traverse fields of thought, converse with science, 
and read the wonders whi.-h are written for the instructed 
eye on all works c.f the Creator. There is a pleasure in 
books, in communion with gifted mi.'.ds of every age in the 
graceful walks of literature. There is a pleasure in th'' 
indulgence of cultivated taste, in the exercise of traineti 
and disciplined powers of reasoning. It is, indeed, im 
possible for the igoorant to appreciate erijoymenls like 
these, ijut they are, nevertheless, real. And tney have, 
too, this p.trticular merit, that their very enjoyment con 
duces to the improvement of the mind Sensual plea jure 
tends ’o deb-.sement. It blunts the nicer sensibilities of 
the soul ; it vitiates the tastes, degrades the desires, and 
prostrates to the level of the animal. But the pleasures ol 
the soul while they are et joyed benefit in turn the soul 
itself; elevatitig and refining it, atid making it more cap- 
able to enjoy, and more keen to relish the pure, the beauti- 
ful and the good. 
Advickto thk Giri.s. — Dr. Beeswax, in his admirable 
“Essay on Domestic Economy,” talks to young ladies 
after this fashion : “Girls, do you want to get married — and 
do you want good husbands'? If so, cease to act likefool.s. 
Don't take a pride in saying you never did house-work 
— never cooked a pair of chiclcens — never made a bed. 
and so on Don’t turn up your pretty noses iit honest in 
dustry — never tell your friends that you are not oljhged 
to work. When you go shopping never take your mother 
with you to carry the Inmdle. Don’t be ufr.nd to be seen 
In the kitchen cooking steak.” 
Ncckssity op Mixkd Food. — If I only bend my arm or 
move my finger, there is a certain portion of the tissues 
destmyed whiedi rnu.st be supplied liy my food; the more 
work that a man performs the more of those nitrogenous 
suiistances he requires. 8o far as supfilying the waste of 
the tissues, it ia a matter of indifFercne.e whether we give 
an animal food containing gluten or aUnmien ; Imi it ex- 
ercises a consideraide influei-ce on the character of the 
animal. Take, for exanqile, a !nint,ai which we have an 
omnivorous animal, man, riding on a gramiiivornus ani- 
mal, a horse, accompanied by a carnivorous animal, a dog, 
following an heriiivorous animal, a hare. Even the char- 
atuer ofnaiions is very materially affected indeed l-y their 
fond. The other class of food serves a very important, hut 
totally different, purpose— nf*m ly, that of sufqdying ani- 
mal heat. The lemperainre of our bodies is, in it-infier- 
aie climetes at leabt, higher than the .'-urrounding air. 
Now, in order to keep up this tenifierature, a coinliu^tiori 
goes on similar to that of an ordinary fire. The same, pro- 
fiucts — carbonic acid, water and ammonia- are evolved 
from the mouth of ilie furnace of the body and the mouth 
of a comiiinion cliiirmey. In cold weather, a certain por- 
tion of heat is gradually abstracted from our body, which 
must be supplied Iiy the combustion of our food or of the 
matter of our bodies; the colder the cliraaie, therefore, the 
more heat-giving maieiials must be supplied in the food, 
— Professi r Lyoo Plnvf'rir 
OtTT-DooR Exi-mcnsK. — It is owing mainly, to their de- 
lightin out-door exercise, that the elevated classes in Eng- 
land reach a patriarchal age, notwithstanding their halms 
of higli living, of late hours, of wine drinking, and many 
other healfli destroying agencies ; the death of their gener- 
als, their lords, their earls and their dt.kes, are cliroiiicled 
almost eveiy week, at 7<', 8U and 9J years ; it is because 
they will be on horse back, the most elegant, rational and 
accomplished of all forms of mere exercise, both tiir sons 
daughters. But the whole credit of longevity to these 
classes, must not be given to their love of field sports; it 
must lie divided with the other not les.s charactfriNiic traits 
ofan English, nobleman — he will take the world easy ! 
And could we, as a people, persuade ouivelves to do the 
same thing, habitually, it would arid ten years to the 
average of human life, and save many a liroken fortune 
and broken constinnion — H'V'r J 'vrnml nf H.nUh. 
Transporting Eggs opFisuks — In the last sitting of 
the French Siciele Znnlof'iqve a'' Accliviotian, M Millet 
detailed a series ofexfierimems he Imd lately made in con- 
vey ing fecunfli. led eggs. 'I’he result was, he said, liiat 
rl-.e eggs, when vvrajiped up in wet cloths and placed in 
boxes wiili moss, to prevent them from becomoig dry and 
iieing jolted may safely be conveyed not only during 20 
to 3f), but for even more tlian (JO days, either l>y water, 
; railway, or diligence. He added, liial he had now in his 
possession eggs about to be hatched, which have lieen 
111 ought from the most distant pari.s of Sc.oiland and Ger- 
rn oty, and even from America. -M. Millet stated a fact 
which was much more curious — namely, that fecundated 
I eggs ol (litferent descriptions of salmon and trout do not 
j peri.sli, even, when the cloths and itmss in wh’di they are 
I wrapped become frozen. ‘‘He had even been able, ’ he 
j said, “to observe, by means of a rnicrnsco[ie, that a fish 
I ju-t i.'-suing from the egg, and of which the heart was seen 
j to beat, was not inconvenienced by being completely 
frozi n up. This he explained liy the fict that the animal 
j heat of the fish, even in the embryo state, is snfliinent to 
I preserve around itacertam quantity of moisnire.” 
This is a very important addition to the science 
zoology. 
There is noilnng hKe a fixed, steady aim, with an 
hrnorable purpose. It dignifies your naiurcj and insures 
you success. 
