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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
PLANTERS’ CLUB OF HANCOCK. 
The Annual Fair of this Club will take 
place at Sparta, on Friday, 3d November, 1843, 
on which day all crops, stock, and articles that 
may be offered for premiums or honors, will be 
examined by the committees apjointed tor that 
purpose; and on the next day, Saturday, the 
committee Avill report, the public exhibition of 
stock and other articles will be made, and an 
address be delivered before the Club. Premi- 
ums av/arded an the following articles: 
For the best acre of Corn 00 
“ 2d best do 3 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 6th do — Honors. 
For the best acre of Wheat 5 00 
“ 2d best do 3 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best acre of Oats 5 00 
“ 2d best do 3 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do. — Honors. 
For the best acre of Sweet Potatoes 5 00 
“ 2d best do 3 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best acre of Tumeps 5 00 
“ 2d best do 3 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best acre of Cotton 5 00 
“ 2d best do 3 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
Competitors for premiums on crops will be 
required to give the modus operandi oi culture. 
For the best Stallion of lour years and up- 
wards 5 00 
“ 2d best do 3 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best 3 yeai old Colt or Filly 3 00 
“ 2dbest do .2 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do— -Honors. 
For the best 2 year old Colt or Filly ...... 2 00 
“ 2d best do 1 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For^the best sucking Colt or Filly 2 00 
“ 2d best do 1 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best brood Mare, with or without a 
Colt 5 00 
“ 2d best do do... 2 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best Bull . . 3 00 
“ 2d best do 2 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do— -Honors. 
For the best 2 year old Bull 2 00 
“ 2d best do 1 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best Milch Cow 3 00 
“ 2d best do...,., 2 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do— Honors. 
For the best 2 year old Heifer 2 00 
“ 2d best do .1 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best Tup 2 00 
“ 2d best do 1 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best Ewe 2 00 
“ 2d best do 1 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best Boar 3 00 
“ 2d best do 2 ®0 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best Sow 3 00 
“ 2d best do 2 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the heaviest fat Hog, from one to two 
years old, in proportion to age . . 2 00 
“ 2d best do 1 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the heaviest Pig, agreeably to age, from 
6 to 12 months old 2 00 
“ 2d best do 1 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best piece, of lO yards. Homespun, 
for gentleman’s wear 3 00 
“ 2d best do 2 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors, 
For the best Counterpane, 3 00 
“ 2d best do 2 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best piece of 10 yards of Domestic 
Silk 5 00 
“ 2d best do 3 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best article of Negro Clothing 2 00 
“ 2d best do 1 00 
“ 3d, 4th and 5th do — Honors. 
For the best article of Negro Blanketing — 
Cotton or Wool 2 00 
“ 2d best do 1 00 
“ 3d, -4th and 5th do-— Honors. 
The Club will award liberal premiums and 
honors on all articles which may be manufac- 
tured by ladies and offered for exhibition — such 
as needle-worked capes, caps, Avork-pockets, 
stockings, gloves, &c.; in fact eveiy article that 
may be sent by them. 
Tuttle H. Audas, Sec’y. 
Sparta, Ga. 
OVERTRADING. 
We have seldom, says the Central New-York 
Farmer, read a more graphic description of the 
troubles of a man of business, than the one an- 
nexed. And yet although all this is true, and 
probably falls far short of the reality, often our 
farmers are preparing their sons to rush into the 
vortex of mercantile life, and will soon be called 
upon to witness in their history the same results, 
which Avhen too late to remedy, they will most 
surely lament. We Ayould urge them noAv to 
pause — and prepare their sons not for the haz- 
ards and trials of mercantile life — but for the 
labor, the joy.s and happiness of agricultural pur- 
suits. 
“Overtrading. — What a lesson the grasping, 
anxious overtrading man of business receives 
during a panic ! His visions of wealth, the 
dream and hope of his life, the calculations of 
his brain for years, vanish — all die in a single 
day ! The glossy bubble bursts and its contents 
fly into thin air. When will men learn Avis- 
dom, and be content to do business within their 
means'? How much happier would a man’s 
life pass, could he divest himself of that greedy 
craving after riches, and be satisfied with ma- 
king money moderately, pay more attention to 
his health and comfort, the virtues of society, 
and enjoy the blessings within the reach of every 
one in this happy land ! 
“He who contracts his swelling sail. 
Eludes the fury of the gale.” 
What a life of abject slaA^ery do the generality 
»if our merchants lead! Dependent on their 
credit, dependent on the banks, dependent on 
their customers, dependent on their friends, what 
happiness do they know ? None. Up early — 
they scarcely take time to swallow their break- 
fasts, and hurry to their stores, where their minds 
are immediately engaged deep in business, and 
they are subject to the constant disappointment 
and harrassing results of an over extensive trade 
on small means. They have no time through 
the day to enjoy peacefully the dinner hours, 
but, with their brains full oi calculations, hasten 
through it, and again to business, as if their very 
lives and souls depended on the making of mon- 
ey. When evening comes, tired and worn out, 
perplexed and weary, they seek their homes, not 
to partake of recreation, and the comforts of 
social intercourse with their families, but to a 
feverish, sleepless night’s rest, and in the morn- 
ing to a repetition oi the scenes of aggrandise- 
ment and ambition which every succeeding day 
brings forth. 
Lightwood from Old Field Pines, — Mr. J. 
H, Fugua, in writing for the Southern Planter, 
makes a few remarks on old field pines, the cor- 
rectness of which we hope some of our corres- 
pondents will put to the test of actual experi- 
ment and furnish us with the result. 
He remarks, “I consider a grove of such pines 
exceedingly valuable tor garden posts, or posts 
of any kind; if properly prepared, they will last 
as long as locust or any other timber. My mode 
oi treatment is as follows: I take a drawing Icnife 
and draw off the bark as the tree stands, as high 
itp as I want to use it: in this situation, the tree, 
Avhich will net die, remains a twelvemonth, 
when, in consequence of the sun hai'ing drav/n 
the rosin to the suriace, it will become a solid 
bulk oi lightwood, and will be ready for use.” 
Planter. 
Planting Large Potatoes. — We haAm been 
of the opinion, that if large potatoes were plant- 
ed instead of slips, a much finer crop would be 
made, and we requested a friend, who raised 
unusually large potatoes to tr}'- the experiment 
last year, of planting both kinds — theA’ery large 
and the slips. The following is a letter receiv- 
ed from him on the subject. — Planter. 
Dear Sir — I promi.^ed you the result of an 
experiment in planting the lull grown and larg- 
est size sweet potato, instead of the smallest 
size, such as are u.sually planted. As you are 
aAvare, I alternately planted one row of large 
and one of A^ery small potatoes. In harA^esting 
I could not perceive any advantage AAdiatever 
from the large over the small seed. This result 
was contrary to my expectation, particularly as 
there was a marked difference in the vine, dm 
ring the early part of the summer, those from 
the largest seed appearing much more vigorous 
AUGUSTA MARKET. 
Tuesday p. m., April 25. 
Cotton — Since our report of last Tuesday, the 
market remained in a very inactive, quiet state, 
until after the receipt, on Sunday night, of the 
accounts Irom Liverpool to the 4th instant, by 
the Britannia, at Boston, which were deemed 
more favorable, and quite an active business 
engaged dealers on Monday, at an advance of J 
to f oi a cent, but to-day that feeling is subsid- 
ing, and the market seems to be quietly drop- 
ping back to its former position, though it has 
not yet reached that point. 
Exchange is at par on all points. Central 
Bank, Alabama notes, and State 6 ^ cent Bonds 
have undergone no change since our last report. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
PAGE. 
Mr. Foote’s Prize Essay 57 
Mr. Bommer’s Manure; Management of Ma- ) -o 
nure 5 ° 
Friendly Advice to the Small Farmer; Culti- i 
vation of Wheat; Liming; Catting Aspara- >59 
gus > 
Gama Grass; Value of Agricultural Products \ 
in the Urnted States in 1842 ^ 
Broomcorn; Tomato; Necessity of a change } 
of Crops 5 
The Planter; Mr. Foote’s Essay; Mules; } 
Jacks, Jinnys and Mules 5 
Directions for forming a Dung Pit; Hints for I 
Hard Times; Cure for the Red Water in 
Cattle; to relieve Choked Cattle; Carbon, ^63 
its properties and relations to Vegetable j 
Life j 
Premiums of Planter’s Club of Hancock;! 
Overtrading; Lightwood from Old Field i 
Pines; Planting large Potatoes; Augusta f ° 
Market J 
THE SOUTHERN CUUTIVATOR 
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