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SOUTHEEN CULTIVATOR. 
«nce, that the hollow horn produces the disease in the tail ; 
for I have never seen a case of hollow tail but what tiie 
horns were hollow. I agree with Mr. Hakrison as to the 
symptoms and in his mode of curing, only I deem it un- 
necessary to fill the horns with salt and water. Just pour 
on the horn a little spirits of turpentine to prevent the 
flies from interfering with it. This should be attended 
to every day for a week and the horn examined where it 
was bored. Sometimes they fill up with blood and dirt, 
it should be kept opened well. Your correspondents 
speak frequently of a preventive; they mostly recommend 
good feeding and good sheltering, &c,; but that we must 
do with stock of all kinds. 
My preventive, Messrs. Editors, is to do away with 
the horned stock entirely and raise butrheads. The no- 
horns never have this disease at all. They are more 
hardy and generally better disposed. This has been 
fairly tried on the road from Tennessee and Kentucky to 
Virginia by beef dtovers. They pay one dollar more per 
head for the buttheads than the horned stock. 
1 could mention many more advantages that the butt- 
heads possess over the horned cattle, but for fear that 1 
weary you I shall close. Respectfully, A. S. 
Brooklyn, Ala., July, 1855. 
SEA ISLAND COTTON IN TEXAS— HOW GIN AND 
PBEPAEE IT FOE MAEKET? 
Editors Southern Cui.tivator — You, or some one of 
your subscribers, will oblige me and many others in tliis 
vicinity by publication, in your very valuable paper, of 
some information as to the best and most economical 
mode of preparing long staple cotton for market. From 
experiments made it has been found that this region of 
country is well adapted to the growth of Sea Island cotton, 
and u nutnber of us have planted it, believing that the 
Parkhurst G.n would separate the lint from the seed with 
out injury. But, from the best information had, it is sup 
posed that this gin will not answer the purpose. An agent 
has just passed over tins country for the purpose of selling 
McCarthy’s gins; but there are so many humbugs iiow- 
a-<iays I am afraid of new things. Is this the best gin 
for the long staples 1 Ifitis, I would like to know how 
much per day it will gin 1 — what power it will take to 
work' it?— and what is the price of them in Georgia or 
CaroHna ? 
An m-ticleon the culti\hition, picking, gining, packing, 
&c., and the state of the rn.irket, present and pl• 0 !^pet‘tive,^ 
of Long Staple Cottons would be read with mu'rh interest 
by the subscribers to the CxallivaXor in this region of 
country. 
Very respectfully your obedient servant, 
‘ . P. VV. BhuW4V. 
Cdlctlo, Goliad Co., J'cxns, Ju'ty, ljB55. 
VVill some of our Sea Isfitnff friends be kind enough 
to answer the inquiries of Mr. BROWfJ, through the CaUi- 
vator^ .Fanners and Planters should neglect no oppor- 
tunity of teaching each otiier, — Eds. 
A GOOD EXAMPLE-6UGAE CEO? OF LOUISIANA; 
Editors Southern Cui.tiv.ator — Several of your sub- 
scribers liappening to meet in Alexandria a short time 
-since, (your humble servant being one of the number) and 
the good tnat bad and was likely to continue to arise 
from the circulation ory(>ur valuable piper being the topic 
of conversation, we resolved, among ourselves, each to 
add, if possible, one new subscriber to your subscription 
hst; and from the enclosed you will see that I have kept 
my promise, hoping, as I fervently do, that th« balance 
may also succeed. 
1 wish some of our old and experienced Sugar Pfenters 
in Louisiana could be induced to give you, for publication, 
their experience in the saving of sugar cane for seed; the 
best mode of planting; cultivating, &c. 
The Sugar crop on Red River cannot possibly exceed a 
half crop, and it is thought by some that it will not be^ 
on an average, more than a third, owing to the seed cane 
spoiled. 1 have neither the talent nor education for it, or 
1 should make a strenuous effort to arouse the Sugar plan* 
ters upon the subject of saving seed cane, and, if possibly 
endeavor to guard against the recurrence of the calamity 
that has befallen the sugar interest in Louisiana the pre- 
sent season. With the best wishes for your success, I re- 
main, Your friend and obedient servant, 
G. G. MoE 
Alexandria, La., July, 18.55. 
FODDER PULLING DEFENDED. 
Editors Southern Cultivator— It is not pleasing fw 
me to differ in opinion from those whom I hold to be cor- 
rect in nearly every opinion advanced, but I am one of 
those who must be convinced by reason before I give in t* 
any opinion you believe or expressed. In the July num- 
ber of the Cultivator, you say that the saving of fodder 
in the usual way is a useless practice,* and that the plant- 
ing of a separate piece of land for that purpose is far pre- 
ferable. Now, in this we differ widely, and I would say, 
why give up that already made? viz : the fodder on your 
corn crop, for a new crop that, of course, would need ad- 
ditional cultivation and have to save it many limes while 
your corn or CO ton nedded work; and more than that* 
the stalks of corn I find hard to cure, and while we can 
make a crop of corn, fodder and peas on the same land 
and have the balance of our land in pastures for our stock 
there will never be in the South many separate crops of 
corn and peas made expressly for fodder and hay. 
1 make much better peas to plant them with my cor* 
crop in hills between the rows, say from the 25lh of May 
t » the 1st of June and give them one working which the 
corn 'aLogets inlaying it by, and I pulled and saved, last 
.year, fifty stacks of fodder in one week, enough to do my 
plaiifation twelve months, and also made corn to sdl, and 
the fodder saved in a leisure time when nothing needed 
work. Some think that taking the blades off injurrs cora. 
i admit it will do so if judle'd too green ; but by waiting 
until the milk leaves the grain and the shuck commences 
to turn yeliqvv I think little or no injury is done to it. A 
^iece of good land prepared and sow^ed in some suittfblo 
grass for hay— and kept a,s a meadow for that purpose — 
would, no doubt, meet the, farmer’s views better than yojir 
plan; but sepafatg' crops of ce)rn and peas cultivated for 
tiidder and hay especially, \^il!, I think, I'Kver be prs.e- 
ticed rndch in the South while t he sanie land brings to per- 
fection all under the same cultiyL 
Peas are called the clover of the South, and much advaa- 
tage, no dbuot, njay be derived by sowing them on worm 
lands and turning them under while green, as a fertilizer. 
All farmers shouKl endeavor to keep up their land by 
horizontal plosving, hill-side ditching and manuring 
some sort ; after thejt, the one who makes the most by, the 
least labor I consider the best farmer. E. JiNKiNm. 
Horse Pen, Ckoctaic Co., ^ Miss , July, 1855. 
* We did not say “useless”— our language was, “Fod- 
der pulling, we consider a slow, laborious and poor bnal- 
ness,” &c. For our reasons see “ fri>rk for the AJouthf im. 
July and August numbers. Let our correspondent tact 
the loss of weight and substance from the grain, by 
fodder pulling, one or two seasons — trying, at the 
time, a few acres of drilled corn for green forage and hay 
— and, our word for it, he will acknowledge himself 
vinced. — Ecs. 
