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SOUTHERNCULTIVATOR. 
GARGET, OR SORE TEATS IN COWS. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — If any of the readers 
of the Cultivator, through its pages, would inform us of 
a remedy for the Sore Teats, or Bag, in milch cows, they 
would confer a great favor and profit on many of us, as 
that impediment is very prevalent and affecting (or in- 
jurious) in this section of country, and probably elsewhere. 
Also, we wish to know of an antidote for Crickets, as 
they are only a shade less annoying than the Locusts of 
Egypt were. R. K. B. 
Webster, Texas, Oc^.,1855. 
RICE~ITS CULTURE, &C. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have made this 
season a considerable quantity of Rice and wish in after 
years to turn my attention to the production of this article 
on a more extended scale, but before doing so desire some 
information on the subject of cleaning it and preparing it 
for market ; and I hope you may be able to give me the 
modus operandi in the rice districts, or put me on the 
track of obtaining it. 
What I mostly wish to know is the sort of mill or 
machinery which takes off the chaff and the prices of 
the different kinds used, if there be such different varieties. 
I would be pleased also to learn the manner of cutting 
the crop as I have thus far used the ordinary reap hook. 
If you are prepared to give an opinion as to profits of 
lands cultivated in Rice as compared with Cotton at, say, 
8 cents, I will thank you' for such opinion. 
Very truly yours, &c., H. D. 
Haruburg, Ala., Nov. 1855. 
[Will our friend, “R, C.,” of Beaufort, or some other of 
our Bice planting subscribers, be kind enough to reply to 
the enquiries of H- D., through our columns, and oblige 
US'? Pending these replies, and to oblige our friend, “H. 
D.,” we give the following advertisement a gratuitous in- 
sertion. 
T© Rice Planters. — The subscribers are desirous of 
calling the attention of those interested in the Hulling of 
Rice, to their newly invented Machine, which surpasses 
all others now in use. The advantage of these Macliines 
consists in its simplicity, durability, and the great amount 
of work which it will perform without the least injury to 
the grain. The Machines are portable, and well adapted 
to hand or steam power; can be transported ready for use. 
These Machines can be made to hull from 20 to 500 
bushels per day — varying according to size. All neces- 
sary information will be given by addressing the Inven- 
tors, at their Manufactory, 114 Cliff-street, New York 
City. Robert & John E. Anderson. 
Do our Rice Planters know anything, practically, of 
this machine, and will they report on its merits, compared 
with others — Eds.] 
Sweet Potatoes are excellent in making bread, and 
makes a pie nearly or quite as good as the squash. It 
has a peculiar, agreeable flavor, and is called easy of 
digestion, is wholesome and nutritious. 
The recipe for making pies of the sw’eet potato is as 
follows : — Boil soft, peel and mash them. To every quar- 
ter of a pound, put one quart of milk, three tablespoon- 
fuls of butter, four beaten eggs, together with sugar and 
spices to the taste. 
The sweet potato is an excellent crop for milch cows, 
and they are very fond of them. 
PLANTING IN JEFFERSON—LETTER FROM MAJOR 
DOUGLASS. 
The following letter from a friend in Alabama, and the 
reply of Major Douglass, will explain themselves. Major 
D. is the very competent and gentlemanly manager of 
Mr. Warren’s plantation, to which brief allusion was 
made in our October number : 
Editors Southern Cultivator — In the Oct. number 
of the Southern Cultivator, or page 3l3, you state that 
L. C. Warren, Esq., cultivates, in cotton and corn, from 
fifty to sixty acres to each hand and mule ; which has 
much surprised me, and, no doubt, many others. 
One of my neighbors, who about half cultivates his 
crops, says he can cultivate 40 acres, to the hand and 
mule, which I doubt very much; but, I do not doubt his 
ability to cultivate 30 acres to the hand and mule, in the 
way he does it : which would not be done by any ope of 
his neighbors. 
Will you please inform me by letter, or through the 
columns of the Sonthern Cultivator, how Mr. Warren 
cultivates from 50 to 00 acres to the hand and mule, the 
kind of land cultivated, the kind of stock and implements 
employed &c., &.c. 
Your ob’t servant. N. T. S, 
Forkland, Ala., Oct. 1855, 
Upon receipt of the above comunication, we addressed 
Major Douglass, who replies as follows ; 
D. Redmond — Dear Sir : In answer to your request, I 
give the following statement: 
The amount of land cultivated is about 14 hundred 
acres, and it is equally divided in corn and cotton. The 
number of hands is 44, and 22 mules, employed in the 
culture of the same. The mode of culture is as follows : 
The corn land was well broken with Turning Plows, in 
the winter and planted 5 1-2 15y 3 ft, — plowed first time, 
by running an 8 inch plow next the corn and finished 
with 18 and 22 inch “Buzzards” and well hoed, — 2nd 
time, run an 18 inch Buzzard next the corn, and finished 
with the 22 inch Buzzard; 3rd time run the Turning 
Plow next the corn and follow with the same and finish- 
ed with the 22 inch Buzzard, which leaves the corn in a 
situation that 1 am not ashamed to show to the world. 
For cotton, I bed- my land with good Turning Plows 
and plant the 1st of April ; work first time by running the 
bar of my Turning Plow next the cotton, and hoe — 2nd 
time, run 18 inch Buzzard next to the cotton and left until 
hoed second time; and then split the middle. For 3rd 
working, plough with 18 inch Buzzard next the cotton 
and finish with 22 inch — 4th and 5th time in the same 
manner. 
Our soil is light as you know ; our mules are good, and 
they are well driven. 
Truly yours, John M. Douglass, 
Milton Place, Jefferson Co. Ga., Nov. 1855. 
The Cranberry Cure for Erysipelas. — The New 
Haven Palladium records another case of the complete 
cure of Erysipelas by the simple application of raw cran- 
berries pounded fine. The patient was a young lady ; 
one side of her face had become so swollen and inflamed 
that the eye had become closed and the pain excessive. A 
poultice of cranberries was applied, and, after several 
changes, the pain ceased, the inflammation subsided, and 
in the course of a couple of days every vestige of the dis- 
ease had disappeared. 
