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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
siubject in a future number; but we close for the 
present wutn me remaik that even Anderson &■ 
Co., the celebrated manufacturers of cast steel, 
are evidently unacquainted with all the merits 
of its peculiar properties. — Amcr. Mechanic. 
TO MAKE EEKMAKEKT MARKING INK. 
Take .■>ix and t; quarlm’ cents worth of lunar 
camstic, and, having put it in an ounce vial fill- 
ed with vinegar, cork it tight and h;-.ng it in the 
sun. In a couple of daj-s, it will be fit for u.se. 
To make the preparation lor the above, take a 
lump of pearla.sh the size oi a che.snut and dis- 
solve it in a gillof rain-w'ater. 
The part of the muslin which is to be written 
upon is to be w'et with the preparation, and dried 
and glazed with a warm liat-iron : immediately 
alter wnich it is ready for marking. 
A little vinegar, in which a rusty nail has re- 
mained for a lew d.nys, makes a mark on linen 
which is not easily obliterated — forming what 
is commonly called iron-mould. 
Louisville Journc 1. 
JosiAH Q,uincv, President of Harvard Col- 
lege, has one ol the finest farms in the vicinity 
of Boston. It is extensive and surrounded by a 
nourishing hawthorn hedge, but there is not an 
interior fence on the premises; the whole pre- 
sents a Single field, devoted to all the various 
purposes of agriculture. No part of it is al- 
lotted to pasture, properly speaking, as his cat- 
tle are fed in their stalls and never suffered to 
roam over the fields — and the advantages of his 
system are thus given: FonrierU there w’ere 
seven miles of interior fences to be kept in re- 
pair, but by keeping his cattle up the whole of 
this expense is saved, r'ormerly sixty acres of 
this farm w'cre devoted to ^ pasture; but now a 
grertii' number of cattle-'by one-third are kept 
on the products of twenty acres, and the cattle 
are in the best condition. 
The saving by these means is enormous, and 
the immense advantages arising ifom it are too 
apparent to need to be dwelt upon. During the 
summer the cattle are fed upon grass, green oats 
©r barley, cut the day before and suffered to wilt 
in the sun, but the manure which is thus saved 
will more than pay the extra expense and trou- 
ble. I he farm is most highly cultivated, and 
eveiy kind of grain and vegetable has a place. 
To Cure Sheep Skins with the Wool on. 
— Take a spoonful of alum and two of saltpetre; 
pulverize and mix well together, then sprinkle 
the powder on the flesh side of the skin, and lay 
the two fle.sh sides together, leaving the wool 
outside. Then fold up the whole skin as tight 
as you can and hang in a dry place; in two or 
thi’ee days, as soon as dry, take down and scrape 
with a blunt knife till clean and suple. This 
completes the process, and makes you a most 
excellent saddle cover. If when you kill your 
mutton you treat the .skins in this way, you can 
get more for them from the saddler than you can 
for the wool and skin separately disposed of oth- 
er'.vise. 
N. B. Other skms which you desire to cure 
with the lur and hair on, may be treated in the 
same wa)*. — Selected. 
New Method of Growing Asparagus. — The 
editor of the Horticultural Magazine, recom- 
mends a trial of the following method of growing 
asparagus, which is practiced at Nice, and of 
which a high account is given in the London 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. (,Take a .'quart wine 
bottle, invert it over the head of a stalk of aspa- 
ragus just rising from the ground, and secure it 
by three sticks so that it cannot be knocked over. 
If left in this state, the asparagus will grow up 
into the interior of the bottle, and, being stimu- 
lated bt" the unusual heat and moisture it is then 
exposed to, will .speedily fill it. As soon as this 
has taken place, the bottle must be broken, and 
the asparagus removed, when it will be found to 
have formed a thick head of tender delicate 
shoots, all eatable, and as compact as a cauli- 
flower. 
AGRICULTURAL FACTS. 
Let eveiy farmer and gaidner whose eye rests 
on the heading of this article, consider himself 
mo.st earnestly entreated by us to send us “facts,” 
or even a, single “fact” which may come to his 
knowledge, in his practice m his rural business. 
No matter how unimpoitant a “.‘^ingle fact” of 
this Rind may appear to tlm narrator, it may be- 
come of incalculable utilily to the community. 
No matter in how rude a form it may come to us, 
we can so polish the rough gem, that it may 
come out a diamond in value. What could not 
be effected for the common agricultural iiiterest, 
if the farmers of the West would only send us 
the unstudied results of their exj erience, in ev- 
ery particular instance of an apparently new dis- 
covery! If we could only get them into this 
most valutible habit, each would be reaping the 
benefit of the otlier’s labors, and be adding to 
the general store-house of information. We 
will leave it to their choice whether to sign their 
nam.es or initials only, to their communications, 
but ihenames seem the mo.st honest way. Come 
good friends of a common cause, send in your 
“facts,” or but one “fact,” in any manner you 
please, connected wuth the cultivation of the 
grains, the grasses, farm .stock, implements of 
husbandry, manures and the manner of applying 
them, and the rest of the innumerable points of 
interest relating to the great fundamental build- 
ing of man’s wants and happiness in this physi- 
cal department of his condition. — West. Farmer. 
OXFORD SAUSAGES. 
The following recipe for making the celebrat- 
ed Oxford Sausages, so much desired by the lo- 
vers of good eating in England, is from a late 
English publication: 
Ingredients. — One pound and a half of pig 
meat cut from the griskins without any. skin, and 
a half a pound of veal. One pound and a half 
of beef .suet, the yolks and whites of five eggs. 
A dessert spoonful of sifted sage, alter being 
Avell dried. Pepper and salt to taste. 
To MAKE the above INTO SaU.SAGES. Chop 
the meat into small pieces and then pound it to- 
gether in a marble mortar till it is short and ten- 
der. Chop the .suet very fine, and when the eggs 
are well beaten together, after the white specks 
are taken out, pour the liquid over the pounded 
meat and chopped suet, well kneading it together 
with a clean hand, throwing in the sifted .sage, 
and pepper and salt from a coarsish pepperbox 
during the operation, so as to let them impreg- 
nate the whole mass without being predominant 
in any part of it. 
Press the whole rvhen well mixed together 
into a wide iriouthed jar, and keep it from the 
air in a cold place. 
Roll the sausages on a flour board and use 
very little grease in frying them, as they will be 
fat enough to fry themselves with the aid of a 
flying pan. 
Distemper in Dogs. — We published in a 
late number a remedy for this disease, copied 
from the Southern Planter. We have often 
succeeded in curing the disease, by administer- 
ing do.ses of salt as recommended therein; we 
have, however, whenever we discover-ed a con- 
stipation of the bowels to supervene, given eve- 
ry other day boluses of castile soap, with the 
very be.st effects. If castile soap cannot be had, 
brorvn soap will answer equally well, the object 
being action upon the intestinal viscera. In ob- 
stinate cases, where the discharge from the nos- 
trils is obstructed., or the cough heavy and tight, 
we have alwa5’s found the patient greatly reliev- 
ed by introducing a seton in the loose skin just 
back of the head; which operation is perforined 
by threading a coarse darning needle witli a 
double thread of coarse yarn, and running it 
through the .skin and confining it by a tie. The 
thread mu.st be moved every morning to keep up 
irritation, and encourage a di.scharge of the vis- 
cid matter, which should be daily washed off 
with a little wann water and soap. 
American Parmer. 
Founder. — 1 lalely had ccca.sicn to try a re- 
cipe published in j our valuable peiior’iccl, with 
the most complete success. Not long .since, my 
barouche hcr.se being bacly loundeied, 1 iiad 
holes dug in the giound, nearlj" knee deejy rnd 
filled with water; the water was then heated 
with hot .stones, and the horse led into it, vhere 
he was kept fortwo or three hours. At tlie sur e 
time, 1 had him well bathed u]. to his .shoulders 
and hips with hot water, and then rubbed ary. 
On the second morning, he started on ajourney 
of two hundred miles, which heperfoimed viih- 
out any apparent inconvenience at all. 
Your obedient servant, W. H. Dufuv. 
Southern Plcnter. 
Beeswax. — The neatest waj', says the Far- 
mer’s Cabinet, to separate beeswax from ihe 
comb, is, to tie it up in a linen or Avoolk-n cictli 
or bag, with a pebble or two to keep it Irom 
floating ; place it in a kettle of cold water, which 
hang over the fire ; as the water heats, ti e wax 
melts and rises to the .surface, while all the im- 
purities remain in the bag. 
AUGl'STA MARKET. 
Wednesday a. w., March 22. 
Cotton — Since our last report the weather has 
been so unfavorable for business that but lew 
.‘iales have been made, and the market cannot 
be said to have fairly settled down since the ac- 
counts per Great Tv estern from Liverpoi.h — 
The prices range from j to 6 cents as extremes, 
while the great majority ol the sales are Irom 
4^ to 5i cents. 
Trade — The unfavorable character of the 
weather has also operated upon the general bu- 
siness, and but a limited amount of trade has 
engaged dealers for the past week. To-day, 
however, we have a bright, clear sky, with a 
bracing west wind, and as our merchants in 
everj' branch of trade are being replenished dai- 
ly with seasonable goods, they hope for a cheer- 
ing spring trade. 
Exchange — The market continues abundantly 
supplied with sight exchange at par on all 
points north and east of us. Central money is 
stationary at 2.5 to 30 per cent discount — pnnei- 
pal sales 27. Alabama money is at a di.scount 
of 20 to 25 per cent. The amount of other de- 
preciated money offering is so small that there 
are no fixed rates. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
PAGE 
Remarks on the Manufacture of Cornstali 
Sugar 
Remedy for Cholic in Horses 
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19 
Hon. W. C. Rives’ Address 20 
Rust in Wheat 21 
Recipe for making good Bread; Foot Rot in 1 
Sheep; Cofiee from Sweet Potatoes; Im- > 
mense Successive Crops of Wheat } 
Editorials; Brine; the Potato; Blacksmith’s 1 
Work ^ 
To make Permanent Marking Ink; President ' 
Q.uincy’s Farm; to cure Sheep Skins with 
the Wool on; New Method of growing As- 
paragus; Agricultural Facts; Oxford Sau- 
sages; Distemper in Dogs; Founder; Bees- 
wax; Augusta Ma’ket 
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