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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
CONTENTS OF SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 
PLANTATION ECONOMY AND MISCELLANY. 
18^5— Tenth Fair of the Southern Central Agr'cultural So- 
ciety Page 265 
A Plea for A griculural Education “ 266 
Turpentine 
Cro. s in Mississippi ( » £70 
‘■Green Horn” waxeth hyp=r-cnticaland particular i 
Pish P nds in South Caro ina ( k 271 
Cui-e for Poll Evil in the Horse ) 
■Woodruff’s Patent Self-Acting Gate, (Illustrated) “ 2(2 
Crops in Whitfield Co , Ga.— A Good Farmer | » 273 
Dots or no Dots -again f 
A Chapter on Locusts 
Corn and Cob Meal for Horses \ u 275 
Drouth— Deep Plowing and Surface Culture j 
Egyptian Oats Scours in Colts I u £76 
Hydrophobia— how to use Poke Ptoot— Feeding Shucks, £c. f 
A Plow for Deep Tillage— to “J. F. M,” and others ( « 277 
Treatment of Prairie Land, or Plowing in Dry Weather. . f 
North Devon Cow, “Birthday,” (Illustrated) ? u £78 
A Home, &c I 
A Reply to Hollow Horn, again 1 
To Cotton Planters h 
Syrup -os Butter J 
Product of Wheat in Mississippi ] 
The Crops— Wheat in Mississippi — Turnips &c I, u £05 
Hollow Horn— Letter from California 
Hollow Horn — More about it ■ , 
Sea Island Cotton in Texas ~ How Gin and Prepare it for 
Market? I “ 236 
A Good Example - Sugar Crop of Louisiana.. | 
Fodder PuUing Defended J 
The “Rescue” and Tall Oat Grasses in Pennsylvania.... i 
Rescue Grass — Bromus — Cheat, &c > ‘ 287 
Remedy for Blind Staggers in Hogs, &c I 
Disease in Hogs 'and a Remedy j 
Culture of Lucerne n £88 
Dyspepsia I 
Snake Bite „ • • * * ■.* 
Smut in Wheat— Locusts— Will Cow Peas Kill Hogs ? . . . . / 
Gate Latches • • ) 
Working Girls, &c 
EDITORIAL. 
Answers to Inquiries. — Books, Pamphlets, &c., Received at this office. 
—To Correspondents.— Noah Warlick’s improved patent Plow, &c., 
&c.— Southern Agricultural Societies —Cotton Planters’ Conven- 
tion. — Domestic Economy. — Pickled Figs.— State Agricultural 
Shows for 1S55.— Fair Ladies and Ladies at the Fair.— The Fair- 
E vening and Night Sessions Page 280 — 285 
HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 
Work for the Month Page £9Q 
New Hedge Plants • I « 091 
Patent Office Novelties • ■ 
The Flowers of Texas k gg2 
Plants in a Bed-Room. 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Woodruff’s Patent Self-Acting Gate Page 2p 
North Devon Cow, “ Birthday,” “ 278 
1855! 1855 ! 
S0IJTMEEN CULTIVATOR, 
A MONTMtiY 
DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE 
EoHiculture, Stock Breeding, Poultinj, Bees, General Farm 
Economy, &c., &g. 
IIMstraied wMSi Nameroas Elegant EngraYisgs. 
ONB DOLLAR A YBAR IN ADVANCE. 
DANIEL LEE, M. D., and D. REDMOND, Editors. 
Tlte TliirteeiAlfe Volume will commence in 
.Y anxiary, 1865. 
The Cultivator is a large octavo of Thirty-two pages, forming a 
volume of 334 pages in the year. It contains a much greater amount 
of reading matter than any Agricultural journal in the South — em- 
bracing, in addition to all tbe current agricultural topics of tbe day, 
Valnafele Original Contribatioiis 
from many of the most intelligent ‘practical Planters, Farmers, 
and Horticulturists in every section of the South and Southwest. 
TERMS; 
One Copt, one year $1 I Twenty-Five Copies, one year. . $20 
Six Copies “ “ 5 1 One Hundred “ “ “ 75 
THE CASH SYSTEM will be rigidly adhered to, and in no instance 
will the paper be sent unless the money accompanies the order. 
The Bills of all specie-paying 'Banks received at par. All money 
remitted by mail, postage paid, will be at the risk of the Publisher. 
AdV€3Ftl*®IK©ntffl 
Inserted at One Dollar per square of twelve lines, each insertion; 
One square per annum Ten Dollars. 
Address WILLIAM S. JONES, Augusta, Ga. 
Persons who will act as Agents, and obtain Subscribers, wiD 
be furnished with the paper at club prices. 
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR TOR 1854. 
B OUND volumes of the CULTIVATOR for 1S54 may now be ob- 
tained at this^office. Price, $1.50. Or we will send it by mail, 
post-paid, at $1.80.' Address WM. S. JONES, Augusta, Ga. 
MCUSTl SEED STOHE. 
T he Subscriber has received his regalar supply of Turnip and 
other SEED required for the season, which are fresh and 
genuine : 
PURPLE TOP RUT ^ BAG A TURNIP, 
LARGE ENGLISH NORFOLK TURNIP, 
LARGE WHITE GLOBE TrRNIP, 
EARLY FLAT DUTCH TURNIP, 
RED TOP FLAT TURNIP, &c., &c. 
July— St J. H. SERVICE. 
PEE3IIUM STEAWlSmiY PLANTS! 
money, promiitly attended to. Address 
AugSo— tf D. REDMOND, AugnstaiGa. 
TO THE FARMERS AND PLANfEES GF TEEhSOUTH 
T he undersigned have received the exclusive Agency for th etunti re 
South an i. Southwest for the very best CORN an^d COB-C’RUSH- 
ERS now in use, and tbe only articles of the kind that will Hiake fine 
meal, suitable for the table — this they are guaranteed tb' do'. These 
Mills will effect a saving of 33 per cent., or fully bn e-third, in crush- 
ing the food prepared for stock, as has been satisfactorily tested. 
Pr ce from $56 to $75. Every Farmer and Planterin the land should 
have them. 
Manufactured and for sale by W. S. Henert & Co , Meeting street 
near Line street, Charleston, S. C.; McCrbery k Hooke, Brown’s 
Wharf, Charleston, S. C., and J. A. Anslky, Commission Merchant, 
Broad street, Augusta, Ga. 
LANGLEY k CO., General Agents, 
Aug56 — 5t Charleston, S. C., and Nashville, Term, 
MEETO EAI18 FOE SALE, 
the Subscriber offers for Sale several full-blood 
MERINO Rams. Having reduced the number of my 
flock, I have more rams than I need. They are from two 
gD-ljSsJelia of the best flocks in New York, and their fleeces, both in 
fineness and quantity, running from 9 to 14 lbs. 
July— tf J. B. JONES, Birdsville, Burke co., Ga. 
mm COTTON Lmm m salei 
T he Subscriber offers for sale Forty Thousand Acres cf the mos4 
productive CO * TON LAND, in the Sout*‘ern country, situated 
in the counties of Lee, Dougherty and Baker, in bodies of five hun- 
dred and two thousan(l Acres each, a part of which is partially im- 
proved. 
For certainty of crops and dxirability these Lands are unequalled 
in the Southern States. Similar lands contiguous in cultivation, are 
yielding an average of seven bales Cotton, per hand, for a series 
of years, and eighteen to twenty-five bushels Corn per acre. 
Terms liberal. If desired, a credit of one to five years will be 
given. WM. W. CHEBVER. 
Albany, Ga., March 15. 1855. April — tf 
EEgCUE GRASS SEEP. 
A LIMITED quantity of this SEED (crop of 1855) for sale by 
D, B. PLUMB, k CO., 
Aug55— tf Augusta, Ga. 
SCOTT’S LITTIE GIANT CORN AND COB MILL. 
N O . 8 , warranted to grind 15 bushels p'^r hour with one horse, 
price $65 all comp’ete, ready to attach the horse. No. 4, 
grinds 2 j bushels per hoCJf with two horses ; price $75. 
CARMICHAEL k BEAN, Agents, 
April56—Cly Augusta, Ga. 
