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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
Coriander grows wild near the Mediterranean. 
Saffron came from the Levant. 
The Onion out of Tgypt. 
C hickory grows wild in Geirnany. 
Tobacco is a native of Virginia and Tobago; another 
isipecies has also been f)und wild in Asia. 
Hemp is a native of Persia and the East Indies. 
The Garden Cress is from Egypt and the East. 
The Currant and Goosebeny came from Southern 
Europe. 
The Peat and Apple from Europe. 
The Cherry, Plum, Olive, and Almond came from Asia 
Minor. 
The Mulberry Tree from Persia. 
The Peach and Walnut from the same. 
The Quince from the Island of Crete. 
The Citron from Media. 
The Chestnut from Media. 
The Pine is a native of America. 
The Horse Chestnut from Thibet. 
Celery originated in Germany, 
The Chestnut came from Italy. 
Parsley was first known in Sardinia. 
Tiie Pear and Apple are from Europe. 
The Spinach was first cultivated in Arabia. 
The Gourd is probably an Eastern plant. 
The Cucumber came from the East indies. 
The Radish is a native of China and Japan, 
Peas are supposed to be of Egyptian origin. 
Plorse-radish came from the .south of Europe. 
The Zealand flax shows its origin by its name. 
Dyer’s weed is f peculiar to southern Germany, 
The Jerusalem Artichoke is a Brazilian product, 
The Cranberry is a native of Europe and America. 
The Parsnip is supposed to be a native of Arabia. 
The Potatoe is a well known native of Peru and Mexi- 
co. 
The Whortleberry is a native of both Asia and Europe. 
Buckwheat came originally from Siberia and Tartrry, 
Linseed originally appeared as a weed in the ordinary 
grain crops of southern Europe. 
Turnips and Mangold Wurtzels, came from the shores of 
the Mediterranean. 
The white Turnip is supposed to be a native of Ger- 
many. 
The Can*ot is, by some, supposed to have been brought 
from Asia, others, however, maintain it to be a native of 
ibie same country as the turnip. 
CoNPiDENCU IN One’s Self. — When a crisis befalls you 
and the emergency requires moral courage and noble man- 
hood to meet it, be equal to the requirements of the mo- 
ment and rise superior to the obstacles in your path. The 
universal testimony of men, whose experience exactly co- 
incides with yours, furnishes the consoling reflection that 
difficulties may be ended by opposition. There is no 
iflessing equal to the possession of a stout heart. The 
magnitude of the danger needs nothing more than a greater 
©Sort than ever at your hands. If you prove recreant in 
the hour of trial, you are the worst of recreants and de- 
serve no compassion. Be not dismayed or unmanned, 
when you should be bold and daring, unflinching and 
resolute. The cloud whose threatening murmurs yoii 
lisr with fear and dread is pregnant with blessing, and 
the frown whose sternness now makes you shudder and 
&emHe, will ere long be succeeded by a smile of bewitch- 
ing sweetness a«d benignity. Then be strong and manly ; 
laippose equal forces to open diflicullies ; keep a stiffupper 
tip, and trust in Providence. Ureafe?^ 
achieved by tJiose who are tried. Tlie condition W iHat 
aclfievement is confidence ki one's — Richymnd 
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PEAS AHB S'WEET POTATOES FOR FATTENING HOGS. 
Mr. Nathan Winslow, of Perquimons county, fattens 
his hogs for slaughter and sale, as well as for his own con- 
sumption, almost entirely on peas and sweet potatoes. 
From the 1st to the 15th of September, the hogs are 
turned on a pea field. At the same time, a small portion 
of sweet potato ground is close at hand, and the hogs are 
turned therein every day. This is done because he deems 
it better for the health of the hogs. Every night alternate- 
ly the hogs are turned into the pea field and the potatoes 
— new portions of the latter being brought in as the first 
enclosed are exhausted. Thus kept on the peas and po- 
tatoes alone (for he supposes they get very little from the 
woods) the hogs become very fit. For change of food 
and late in the tlittening, swill is added to the food, made 
of turnips boiled with a little corn meal and seasoned with 
salt. r. Winslow is confident that all the corn consumed 
during the whole time of fattening does not exceed the 
average of a peck for each hog. Therefore the fattening 
is due in a very slight degree to corn, and almost entirely 
to the peas and potatoes. Peas alone will fatten very con- 
siderably, but not enough to make good pork. But with 
potatoes the hogs are not only made very fat, but their fat 
is even more firm and white than ot hogs fattened on com. 
After cold weather requires that potatoes should be dug, 
they are boiled before being fed to the hogs Mr. Wins- 
low is a very large and successful raiser of hogs and seller 
of pork I learn from others that his pork, fattened as 
above stated, is deemed the best in the markets . — Smitkcrn 
Planter. ^ 
LEVELING OE GRADING lliSTETJMENT. 
Editors Southern Cultivator. — According to my 
promise, I send you a description of a Leveling, or, more 
properly, a Grading Instrument that I have invented. The 
drawing that accompanies this communication represents, 
as attached to a measuring compass, the part that I call 
my invention. It is a figure of my own instrument as 
first made, the compass having been made for its ordinary 
use before I devised the attachment. I will tell what the 
instrument consists of, and then describe my construction 
of it. And from the description of the manner in which 
it was constructed, it will be seen tliat its operation and 
indications will necessarily be with mathematical accu- 
racy : 
It consists, first, of a compass that Strides thrsd feet 
(This was the stride of my compass at first, and I prefer it 
