THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
95 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1S43. 
Back Numbers. — Ail new subscribers to the 
^■‘Southern Cultivator” can be supplied with the 
back numbers. 
OUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 
To our iriends in v'arious sections of Geor- 
gia, South Carolina, ALAB.iM.i, Mississippi 
and Tennessee, who hare interested themselves 
in extending the circulation of the Cultivator, 
vie beg to return out most sincere and cordial 
thanks, and to assure them that the work is 
daily receiving a degree of favor for which we 
did not dare to hope. V/e trust however they 
will not relax their exertions until it is placed 
upon a most secure and stable foundation, which 
it is rapidly acquiring. 
CURING SWEET POTATOES. 
in this number of the Cultivator we present 
the reader with two communications on the 
subject of curing this valuable esculent, for 
which we thank our friends “Copeland” and 
^‘Agsicola, Je.,” and hope they will continue 
to enrich our columns with their views on any 
subject calculated to interest and instruct the 
planter. 
To the enquiry of “Agricola, Jr.,” we have 
to remark, that at present we are unable to give 
him the best and simplest mode of anal3’^sing 
:e3ils, but as soon as Ave can procure from one 
who has much e.xperienee on this subject the 
best mode, we shall communicate it through 
our columns. 
have been furnished by our friend, 
B. H. Warren of this place, with the follow- 
ing list of the jueld of wool as taken from ten 
^half blood) Lciscestcr sheep, thit< spring, and 
which were last spring lambs; 
No, 1, 6l pound-s. 
No. 2, Gl- “ 
No. 3, G “ 
No. 4, 5t 
No. 5, 5 1 
No. 6, “ 
No, 7, 5 “ 
No. 8. “ 
No. 9, if “ 
No. 10, 4i 
55 
Making an average of 51 lbs, of wool to each 
sheep. 
The above jueld is eertainh" a very fine one 
for this section of country; and we should like 
to see many more of our planters turning their 
attention to this stock. 
These sheep are spoken of in the highest 
terras by those who have seen them, as being 
large, well formed, clean limbed, and easy to 
fatten, and their yield of wool is certainly very 
good. And it is further to be remarked, as we 
are informed by Mr. W., that they have no*- 
been fed but once during the whole of the past 
winter, which was during the snorv in March. 
Having been put on a rye lot the first of No- 
vember, they have done well and kept fine on 
rve the AA'hole time, and even to this date, 
AGRICULTURAL WORKS. 
“The American Agriculturist” is the title 
of a most valuable and interesting publication, 
issued monthly in New York, edited by A. B. 
Allen, Jr., and, as its name imports, is devoted 
to American agriculture. The work is rapidly 
acquiring a large list of valuable correspondents 
throughout the Union, and bids fair to be a u'ork 
of no ordinaiy merits in its department. The 
typography is unexceptionable. 
Farmer’s Encyclopedia. — No. G of this val- 
uable dictionary of rural affairs, is on our ta- 
ble. We have before alluded in terms of com- 
mendation to this excellent work, and we need 
now only repeat that it should be in the hands 
of every planter. 
Cure foh Worms in Ckiloren. — A writer 
in the Farmers’ Register, rvho being a slave- 
holder has a large family under his care, says 
that for nearly thirty years he has found the 
following preparation a certain cure for worms; 
•“Take the fat of old bacon, sliced and fried in a 
pan until the essence is all out of it. take out the 
rind first, then put in as much rvormseed (vul- 
garly called Jerusalem oak.) as is necessary, as 
much sugar or molasses as will make it palata- 
ble, and give it three mornings in succession, — 
The children will eat it freely — some you wiJ 
have to restrain from eating too much. Incred- 
ible as it may appear, I liave known as many 
as one hundred and twenty or thirty large worms 
come from a child three or four years old. I 
usuall}^ give the medicine spring and fall.” 
Industry. — E/eiy young man shouldremem- 
ber that the rvorld always has and always will 
honor industry. The vulgar and useless idler 
whose energies of mind and body are rusting 
for Avant of exercise — the mistaken being Avho 
pursues amusement as a relief to his enervated 
muscles, or engages in exercises that produce 
no useful end, may look with scorn on the smut- 
ty laborer engaged in his toil. But his scorn is 
praise. His contempt is an honor. Honest 
industry wiii secure the respect of the wise and 
good among men, and yield the rich fruit of an 
ea.sy conscience, and give that hearty self re- 
spect which is above all price. 
Toil on, then, young men. Be diligent in 
business, irnprov'e the heart and the mind, and 
you. will find the Avell-spring of enjoyment in 
your OAvn souls, and secure the confidence and 
respect of all those whose respect is Avorth an 
cflbrt to obtain. 
Indelible In,k for Linen, &c. — Put half a 
drachm of lunar caustic, (nitrate of silver,) 
into a small vial of water: add a piece of Gum 
Arabic of the size of a pea, and a little of the 
paint called sap green, to make it more legible 
Avhile Avriting. When the Avhole is dissolved, 
it is fit for use. The part of the cloth to be 
written on must be previousiv wet Avith a mix- 
ture of a small quantity of saleratus and gum 
Arabic, dissol\’’ed in Avater, and pressed smooth 
with a hot iron. The Avriting should be expos- 
ed to the sun, Avhich Avill cau-e it to dr)" darker 
than in the shade. 
DISEASE OF COWS. 
Messrs. Editors — A friend of mine lately 
lost a veiy valuable cow, soon after cahung, un- 
der the following circumstances. She calved 
and did well to all appearance at first, but soon 
began to be affected in her fore quarters; if she 
attempted to walk, her fore feet remained sta- 
tionary, Avhile her hind ones moAmd around cir- 
cularly. She soi'n died. She had been kept 
well for three or four years, and was so fat, that 
Avhen she died 100 lbs. of tallow w'ere taken 
from her. As it is an uncommon case among 
us, permit me to inquire of j’ou, or some of 
your numerous subscribers, the nature of the 
disease, the remedy, &c. s. av. bartlett. 
Scantick Village, Ct. 
The case noticed by our correspondent is one 
of puerperal fever, or as it is termed by veterina- 
rians, ‘■'■dropving after calvingi” Cows in high 
condition are most subject to this di.sease,which 
usualty appears in from one to fiA'e days after 
cah'ing. The first symptoms are decidedly fe- 
brile; the animal is restless, shifting her feet 
and breathing laboriously. The nose is hot, 
and the uddeiris inflamed, "enlarged, and tender, 
from the A'ery commencement, 
REMEDY. 
Bleeding, from six to ten quarts, to be regu- 
lated by the impression made on the circulation, 
must be resorted to at once, and the bleeding 
must be followed by physic, for Achich purpose 
a pound or a pound and a half of Epsom salts 
are best, and half pound doses et^ery six hours, 
till the boAACls are opened. If the disease is not 
attended to in the outset, and it is too frequent- 
ly neglected, the nerA'ous system is speedity at- 
tacked, Avhen the symptoms of staggering, &.C., 
noticed bj’ our correspondent, usually occur. It 
is occasioned by a pailial paralysis of the fore 
or hind quarters, most commonly the last; the 
animal soon falls, her head is bent back to her 
sides, and death soon supervenes. In the last 
stages, there is little hope or chance of relief- 
but if the pulse is such as to indicate lever, 
bleeding may be resorted to till the Last, with a 
bare possibilitj' of saving the animal; but great 
care is lequisite, as the bleeding, carried too far, 
is fatal at once. In some papers in the Veteri- 
narian, Mr. Field relates sev'eral instances suc- 
cessfully treated by Eps®m salts in large quan- 
titie.s, followed immediatety by Croton seed and 
sulphur . — Albany Culiivaior. 
ENGLISH AGRICULTURE. 
WhatcA'er opinion Ave may form of Britaii , 
her pride, arrogance, insolence, presumption, 
Inanity — faults, too, that will have to be amended 
Avilhin ten years by the eompulsoiy process of 
a general alliance of nations against her — j-et 
Ave must all confess that her agriculture is the 
most stupendous thing under heaA'en! When it 
is remembered that the crop of turneps grown 
in Norfolk alone is greater than the value of her 
trade rvilh China; that the market price of geese 
brought from the Lincolnshire fens is more than 
her trade Aviih Denmark; that you shall see, as 
a common thing, a hundred acres of turneps, or 
a hundred acres ol beans, or thirty acres of cab- 
bage in a single field — a farm of three hundred 
acres all moAvn, or a farm of the same size, 
(three hundred acres) ail in crops — the live stock 
on a single farm Avorth SnOjOfifi — tAventy horses 
employed on one farm eA*ery ivorkingday in the 
year, and b\' means ol thrice ploughing, (heai’y 
clays,) turning nine hundred acres in a single 
A'ear — I say, when this is remembered, it will 
be seen that “great” as Britain is in everv thing, 
the .superlatiA'e degree of greatness is in her ag- 
riculture — in her .soil, naturally poor, but made 
rich bv the applicalion of capital and unAA-eari-. 
ed assiduity, good sense and enterprise. While 
in this countrj’' Ave fail most from the Avant ot 
capital, and from the ciroura-stance ihat agri- 
culture does not rank as an employment Avith 
others (especially Avith trade ii is not valued) as 
it ought to be. The English contend thatit Avas 
never so valued in a democratic country; agri- 
culture being, in their estimation, snbstantiaity 
an aristocratic employment; and it must be eon- 
