SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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80T7THEKK AGRICULTUBAL SOCIETIES. 
Gbohqia. — The Tenth Annual Fair of the “ Southern 
Central Agricultural Society,” will be held in Atlanta 
during the week commencing on the 10th of September. 
We are informed that the preparations ol the Society and 
<he citizens of Atlanta are progressing on a scale that 
promises a most interesting exhibition, and the comforta- 
fble entertainment of the masses in attendance. Atlanta 
h a central point, accessible for everybody ; and now 
when the prospects of Agriculturists are so bright and 
eheering, all should relax for a brief season, after the 
jwmmer’s toil, and covte to the Fair, determined to make 
it a grand rural jubilee and holiday. 
Alabama. — The farmers, planters, mechanics, indeed 
etil thepeople of our spirited sister State, (including the 
fedies — “ God bless them,”) are earnestly engaged in pre- 
paring for the first Fair of their Society, to be held in 
Montgomery, from the 23d to the 26th of October. '‘'■Here 
«€ Rest," (the English translation of the beautiful Indian 
name, Alabama^ no longer applies to the Agricultu- 
rists of that State, who by recent manifestations of well- 
directed energy have proven themselves to be decidedly 
progressive, in the best sense of the word. 
Tennessee. — The Fair of the Eastern Division of Ten- 
ttessee will open at Loudon on the 23d day of October. 
Railroad facilities are doing wmnders for this fertile and 
beautiful region ; and we hope to see its agricultural im- 
provement keep pace with the locomoti%*e. The Fair of 
Ae Middle and Western Division will be held in Nash- 
ville, from the 1st to the 6th of October. 
South Carolina. — A large and highly respectable 
body of Agriculturists assembled in Convention at Co- 
himbia on the 8th of August, and remained in session 
iwo days. A regular report was made, suitable resolu- 
tions adopted, a Stc^te Agricultural Society formed, with 
Constitution, &-c. Much interest was felt and manifested in 
cause, and from the character of the gentleman engaged 
in the work, we augur the most favorable results. The 
Society meets again on the Second Tuesday in November. 
North Carolina. — The long slumber of the Rip Van 
Winkle State is over, and she is now thoroughly awake to 
the importance of improving both the soil of her territory, 
and the minds of her people. The Fair at Raleigh, last 
year was a decided triumph ; and the forthcoming Fair 
promises to equal or surpass it in interest. It is also to be 
beld in Raleigh from the i6th to the 19th of October. 
Virginia, with her powerful and generous State Society, 
aobly leads the van, and bids fair to revolutionize the 
entire system of soil wasting in the glorious “ Old Do- 
vsinion.” We rejoice at the liberality and spirit that hhs 
#ius far characterized this Society. It cannot fail of suc- 
•ess. The Fair, for the present year, will be held in 
SLchmond from the 30th October to 2d of November. 
iLORioA, LouiBi.tNA, MISSISSIPPI .AND Texas, are (as 
Ifee politicians say) “yet to be heard from ;” and we 
i»pe they will all give rousing “ majorities” for agricul- 
improvement 
COTTON PLANTERS’ CONVENTION. 
In accordance with a resolution of the last “Southera 
Commercial Convention,” a Convention of Cotton Plan- 
ters assembled at Cooper’s Well, Mississippi, on the 4th 
of July to hear the report of a select committee which had 
been charged with the business of considering the expedi- 
ency and practicability of establishing a direct system of 
trade between the Southern States and Europe. The con- 
vention was in session two days, but we are not aware 
that any measure of particular importance was adopted. 
The Hon. J. J. McRae, the Governor of the State, presid- 
ed. At the opening of the convention, Mr. C, G. Baylor^ 
the projector of the scheme, and who recently visited 
Europe on behalf the select committee to make arrange- 
ments for testing its feasibility, explained at some length 
h s plan of operations. He proposes to establish in Ger- 
many the principal cotton depot or factorage, with a 
branch in New Orleans, possessing a capital of several 
million dollars, safely deposited, so that the planters 
should have ample assurances of its solvency and ability 
in every emergency to insure them against losses. After 
some discussion of this plan, and of various propositions 
urging Southern people not to purchase goods of Massa- 
chusetts manufacturers, and Southern lawyers not to aid 
in the collection of debts due to citizens of that State, a 
committee was appointed to investigate the scheme for 
direct trade, and the convention adjourned, to meet at 
Jackson in January next. The commercial portion of the 
newspaper press does not speak encouragingly of the lead- 
ing object of this convention, it being deemed almost 
impossible to change the channels of a great commerce. 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Those who study and improve the every-day operations- 
of civilized life are at once the most practical and useful 
of all reformers. Regarded as a science. Domestic Econ- 
omy has the highest claims to the consideration of all 
thoughtful persons, and presents a boundless field of re- 
search, and numberless defects which demand either a 
cure or prevention. Social and household maladies come 
not directly under the head of medical, agricultural, or 
theological studies, and are apparently more neglected than 
many evils of far less consequence to the human family. 
“Common things” more, far more, than things uncommon, 
require a change for the better. Among thousands of 
families, it is common to want good fire-wood at tl'.e door, 
where it is needed for cooking daily and indispensable 
food. This lack of fuel delays each meal, causes many 
laborers to lose time, which is money: while it exhaust- 
the' patience and spoils the temper of the suffering cook. 
Many a valuable servant has been ruined for life, because 
the master or overseer failed to provide, as in duty bound, 
wood for cooking or washing, when these services were 
exacted. Servants either fall into the vicious habit of 
loitering by the way in picking up fuel, or they spoil by 
burning, or rawness, half the bread and meat which they 
pretend to cook. 
The writer has taken some pains to learn how the mil- 
lion live, as the ba.sia of reform in domestic economy. In- 
