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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
•A GOOD COW. 
The following song, descriptive of the points 
of a celebrated Durham cow, was chaunted 
amidst great applause at the Darlington Agri- 
cultural Society’s m.QQimg.-~Gateshcads Obs. 
She’s long in her face, she’s fine in her horn. 
She’ll quickly get fat without oil-cake or corn. 
Hurrah! hurr, h for this beautiful cow! 
She’s clear in her jaws and full in her chine, 
She’s heavy in flaiik, and wide in her loin, 
She^s broad in her ribs and long in her rump, 
Has a straight and flat back with never a hump 
Hurrah! hurrak for this beautiful cow! 
She’s wide in her hips and calm in her eyes, 
She’s fine in her shoulders and thin in her thighs, 
Hurrahl hurrah for this beautiful cow! 
She’s light in her neck and small in her tail. 
She’s wide in her breast and good at her pail. 
She’s fine in her bone and silky of skin. 
She’s a grazier’s without and a butcher’s within. 
Hurrah! hurrah for the beautiful cowd 
SALTPETRE IN MEAT. 
In the 12th number of the last volume of the 
Cultivator, there appeared a communication on 
the use of saltpetre m curing meat, and the fol- 
lowing reason was assigned for abandoning its 
ttse, viz; — “It ought to be known, that saltpetre 
absorbed by the meat, is nitric acid, or aqua for- 
tu — a deadly poison,, whereby our salt meat be- 
comes, unpalatable and pernicious,, a .sufficient 
answer to which is found in the fact — that one 
of the constituents ot common salt, is muriatic 
acid, as deadly a poison as the nitric acid of the 
saltpetre, and we- might with as much propriety 
say, that the salt absorbed by the meat is muria- 
tic acid, as to say that the saltpetre is nitric acid 
or aqua fortis. Therefore, the objection applies 
with as much force and truth to the use of the 
one as the other. 
Saltpetre is the pi’oduction of a chemical un- 
ion between nitric acid and potassa, (potash,) 
and salt, of a like union between muriatic acid 
and soda — and in, these, as in all other cases of 
chemi'-al combination, the substances combining 
not only lose their properties, but the substances 
produced generally possess properties entirely 
different—- tfequently the very opposite of those 
of either of their constituents.. From which it 
follows, that a perfectly innocent compound may 
be produced by the combination of twm noxious 
substances— or a noxious compound by the com- 
bination of two innocent substances; and it is 
very improper, and well calculated to mislead, 
to designate a compound substance by the name 
of either of its constituents, as in the communi- 
cation referred to, in which nitric acid and salt- 
petre are several times used as if they were but 
different names for the same thing. 
Some persons think a small quantity of salt- 
petre very beneficiail to their meat — others think 
it useless — the former need not be- frightened 
from its use by the fear of being poisoned with 
aqua fortis — nor the latter detent from trying 
it. — Albany Cullivator. 
Core for Foot Rot in Sheep.— I take the 
liberty of sending you the following very sim- 
ple remedy for foot rot in sheep. 
I had occasion to procure a Spanish Merino 
Buck, a few months ago, from a distant part of 
the country, and on going into my sheep yard 
soon afterwards, I found him very lame in two 
of his feet, so much so as scarcely to be able 
to walk. I immediately removed him to the 
barn floor, and on examination found that his 
lameness was occasioned by that scourge of the 
Ovine race— the foot rot. I cleansed the hoofs 
thoroughly with warm soap suds, and fled to my 
books for a remedy. I soon found in the “Com- 
plete Grazier,” p. 165, several remedies for this 
disease, but as I had not at hand the ingredients 
of which they w’’ere composed, I laid aside my 
books, and took down that “cure all,” amono- 
farmers, my bottle of spirits of turpentine, and 
with a feather applied it to the parts affected, 
quite plentifully, twice or three times, in the 
space of three days, (keeping him upon the dry 
floor,) when I found that a perfect cure had been 
effected, and put him wdth the flock again, and 
have seen nothing of the lameness since. 
Now, Messrs. Editors, this is a simple reme- 
dy, and f®und in every farmer’s medicine chest, 
and I can safely vouch for its efficacy. 
R. Speed. 
Albany Cultivator. 
Fatting Swine. — The food of swine is as 
mv.ch better lor being cooked as the food of 
man. It is more palatable, more healthy, and 
much more nutritive. The digestive powers of 
swine are not as easily deranged as those of 
man, and the former can digest food which the 
latter cannot. Yet there is great economy in 
fatting swflne on cooked food. Like man, they 
require a change of diet for health and thrift, — 
From our own experience we have come to the 
conclusion, that there is a saving of one quarter 
of the food — more particularly in the article of 
corn. Some farmers have said that there is a 
saving ot one-third in soaking it for horses. 
But instead of grinding, scald your corn until it 
becomes soft, and salt it to your own taste. If 
your hogs lose their appetite, as they' frequently 
do, by feeding steadily on one sort of food, give 
them a change for a few times, and they w'ill eat 
greedily of the old dish again. Let their trough 
and feed be kept clean, and their lodging dry and 
warm, so that, as Cobbett says, you would be 
■willing on a pinch of a stormy night, to turn in- 
to it yourself, if you could not find a better place. 
This mode of fatting is very agreeable to the 
swine, and economical for the feeder. If every 
farmer in our country will adopt our directions, 
what an immense annual saving would it be to 
the nation. — Exchaiige Paper. 
True Female Nobility. — The woman, poor 
and ill clad as she may be, who balances her in- 
come and expenditure — wffio toils and sweats 
in unrepiniag mood among her well-trained 
children, and presents, them morning and eve- 
ning, as offerings of love to her husband, in 
rosy health and cheerful cleanliness, is the most 
exalted of her sex. Before her .shall the proud- 
est dame bow her jewelled head, and the bliss of 
a happy heart dwell -with her for ever. If there 
is o-ne prospect dearer than another to the soul of 
man — if there is one act more likely to bend the 
proud and inspire the broken-hearted — it is for 
a smiling wife to meet her husband at the door 
with his host of happy children. How it stirs 
up the tired blood of an exhausted man, wffien 
he hears a rush of many feet upon the staircase 
— when the ermv and carrol of their young voi- 
ces mix in glad confusion — and the smallest 
mounts or sinks into his arms amidst a mirthful 
shout. God! it was a hallow from every coun- 
tenance that beamed around the group! There 
was joy and a blessing there. — London Jcntrnal. 
Important to Farmers. — Hart Massey, Esq., 
of this village, took a small portion of the seed 
corn with which he planted a field, and soaked 
it in a solution of salt nitre, commonly called 
saltpetre, and planted five rows with the seed 
thus prepared. Now for the result; the five 
rows planted with corn prepared with saltpetre 
yielded more than twenty-five rows planted with- 
out any preparation; the five rows were un- 
touched by the worm, wffiile the remainder of 
the field suffeed severely from their depreda- 
tions. 
We should judge that not one kernel saturat- 
ed with saltpetre was touched by the worm, 
while almost every hill in the adjoining field 
suffered severely. No one who will examine 
the field can doubt the efficacy of the prepara- 
tion. He will be astonished at the striking dif- 
ference between the five rows and the remainder 
of the field. 
Here is a simple fact which, if seasonably 
known, would have saved thousands of dollars 
to the farmers of this country alone in the arti- 
cle of com. At all events, the experiment 
should be extensively tested as the results are 
deemed certain, while the expense is compara- 
tively nothing. — Washington Standaid, 
For Corn — A Recipe. — Mix pla.ster, un- 
leached ashes, and quick fine lime together, in 
the following proportions: — two parts plaster, 
two parts ashes, and one part lime, and apply a 
small quantity of the mixture to each hill of 
corn immediately after the first hoeing, and see 
if it don’t go a “leetle” ahead of any thing you 
ever tried to tnake corn grow. Be sure to leave 
one row Avithout the application, “jest” to see 
the difference. — Con. Farm. Gazette. 
AUGUSTA MARKET. 
Tuesday p. m., April H. 
Cotton. — The market during the latter part of 
last week Avas quite animated, and prices ralli- 
ed till an advance of i to | cent AA'as obtained 
for all descriptions, upon the prices which ruled 
during the two first days of the Aveek. Yester- 
day and to-day, howeATr, the feeling has been 
rather easier, and the tendency is rather down- 
ward, yet we quote at the advance rate of the 
latter part of the week, 4 to 61 cents, extremes — 
principal sales tai 5l cents; remarking, how- 
eA"er, that these rates were not so readily obtain- 
ed yesterday and to-day as a few days previous. 
Trade and Busmess. — Since our last; spring 
has opened upon us, and the business parts of 
the city begin to assume that quiet appearance 
which denote the presence of the planters among 
their fields, preparing for the new crop. There 
have, therefore, been feAv arrivals of planters 
during the past week, and consequently a limit- 
ed trade has engaged dealers. 
Exchange. — The market is abundantly sup- 
plied Avith exchange, which continues at par on 
all points north and east of us. The amount 
of Central Bank money offering is not very 
large, and the safes range from 2’? to 30 ^ cent 
discount — we hear of no sale below our lowest 
figures. State 6 If cent Bonds are in demand, 
and command 50 cents in the dollar verj' readi- 
ly. Alabama notes are from 20 to 25 ^ cent 
discount. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
PAGB, 
Sugar from Corn - 41 
Soaking Corn, for Horses; Keene’s Marble > 
Cement;, the Orchard; Pruning Fruit Trees I 
To protect Fruit from late Frosts; Extract i 
from H. Colmards Address; Agricultural > 45 
Schools - ) 
Industry; Cure for Scours in Cattle; Duties 5 
of Farmers; to destroy Lice on Fowls ) 
Farming without Rum; Cultivation of Cern; 1 
Making Manure; Milking Cows; Preserva- >45' 
tion of Health ) 
Prognostics of the Weather; the Roller; to ) 
cause Cabbage to Head in Winter; Culture I 
of the Strawberry; value of Seasoning ( 
Fire Wood j 
Editorials; Description of Cultivator; to de- 1 
stroy the Cut Worm; Horizontal Plowing; > 47 
Dig about and Dung it; Maxim of Health- j 
A good Cow; Saltpetre in Meat; Cure for) 
Foot Rot; to fatten Hogs; True Female I 
Nobility; Important to Farmers; for Corn; ( 
Augusta Market J 
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