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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
Gestation in Animals. — In a recent Ger- 
man publication ofgreat research and accuracy, 
the period ofge.ilation and incubation in nearly 
all the domesticated animals is given, irom 
which we .select a few'. 
Animal. Shortest per’U. Mean per’d. Longest per’d. 
Mare, 322 days, 347 days, 419 days. 
Go tv, ‘240 “ 283 “ 321 “ 
Sow', 109 “ ll.‘> “ 143 “ 
Ewe, 146 “ 154 “ 161 “ 
According to the report of M. T'ei.ssier, of 
Paris, who had charge of the experimental 
farm established by the government of France, 
of 582 mares which received the male but once, 
the shortest period was 287 days, and the long- 
est 419, making the extraordinary difference of 
132 days. 
The most sati.sfactory experiment w'ith cows 
on record, is that made by order of Lord Spen- 
cer, in which the gestation in no less than 764 
cows was carefully noted. From this it appears 
that the shortest period in which a live calf was 
produced was 220 days, but no calf produced at 
a less period than •242 days could be raised. — 
The longest period of gestation was 313 days. 
From Lord Spencer’s tables, as given in the 
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, it 
appears that 314 cows calved belbre the 284th 
day, and 310 calved after the 285th day; so that 
the probable period of je.station in the cow must 
be fixed at 284 or 285 days. 
Land in Sight. — We believe that there has 
not been a time, since the general tumble down 
of prices, and the consequent agricultural dis- 
tress, when the prospect of relief was so fair as 
at present. Farmers have been gradually, but 
certainly, surmounting their difficulties, and al- 
ready they begin to breathe more freely. Dri- 
ven to retrenchment and economy, what at first 
seemed an evil, is found to have been a positive 
good to all classes of society; and if the severe 
lessons the community have been taught, have 
their proper effect, we shall find many days of 
prosperity are yet before us. Debts heedlessly 
contracted, and without any rational expecta- 
tions of meeting them, were the great cause of 
our personal or individual difficulties. The 
farmer has been slowly working his way out of 
these; and now better prices for his produce is 
coming to his aid, to complete the work. We 
would not intimate that the prices of 1837 are 
to be expected. They ought not to be desired, 
as they are inconsistent with a healthy and safe 
condition of things; but every thing indicates a 
gradual restoration of confidence, and prices 
that will be remunerating. We now, as a na- 
tion, sell more than we buy; our manufactories 
are getting into successful operation; new mar- 
kets are opening for our agricultural products; 
specie, instead of gewgaws, is flowing in upon 
us; money is becoming plenty for those who 
have any thing to purchase it with; and there is 
a general feeling that the “dark day” is at last 
passed. W e have only to avoid the errors of 
the past; to see our way clear before us; and as 
a nation or as individuals, to purchase nothing 
we do not need, and to pay down for what we 
do purchase, and we may reasonably hope, that 
if we do not become rich, we shall not be obliged 
to incur the disgrace of repudiation. — Al. Cult. 
The Working Mechanic. — We cannot say 
too much in behalf of the working mechanic, 
who constantly is striving to make himself 
known, not only in becoming a proficient in his 
business, but who is every day raising himself 
to eminence by the course of his habits. A 
young man who has nothing to depend upon 
but his character and the labor of his own 
hands, for his elevation in the world, can, not- 
withstanding, arrive to the highest pitch of 
greatness, to the most elevated ranks in the 
community, and not unfrequently to the highest 
grade of national honor. And while we re- 
mark thus, we are happy to place to the credit 
of the mechanic, the fact that he ranks with that 
class of citizens who are the most likely, with 
judicious management, to become the welcome 
possessors of American popularity in ev'ery 
grade and form it assumes. Roger Shermam 
was once seated upon the shoemaker’s bench, 
with his lap-stone upon his knees, and it was 
there, doubtless, that he first ruminated upon 
his first adventures. Are you a young me- 
chanic? Determine, at once, to trace his histo- 
ly', and resolve to make yourself a greater man 
even than Roger Sherman. — Farm, and Aleck. 
Facts for Cotton Planters of Georgia. — 
Will not the planters of Georgia encourage the 
use of bagging made from Cotton? Listen to 
these facts and decide for yourselves. 
The cotton crop of 1839, by the published sta- 
tistics, was from Georgia 163,000,000 pounds. 
Averaging the bag at 400 pounds, this made the 
crop 407,500 bags; this required, at 5 yards per 
bag, 2,037,500 yards, Avhich at 20 cents per 
yard is ^'407,500. If the bagging made from 
cotton be used in place of hemp, every dollar of 
this money is retained in the State; whereas 
with the use of hemp, every dollar is carried 
out of it, except the small items of transporta- 
tions and commissions. For safety sake we 
may say that S300,000 of this amount is taken 
away from the State entirely. 
Again, to manufacture this bagging, each 
yard requires two pounds of raw cotton, which 
makes an amount of 4,077,000 pounds. JN^ow 
if we use hemp bagging, we add j ust this amount 
annually to the supply from the crop for manu- 
facturing purposes, and it tends to diminish the 
demand just so much. Suppose we convert it 
into bagging, we furnish a new demand for that 
amount; in other words, we withdraw from 
market that amount, diminish that portion of 
the supply — reduce the crop so much, Avhich at 
400 pounds per bag, is 10,192 bags, and thereby 
increase so much the demand for our cotton. In 
addition to the large amount of cotton thus con- 
sumed, there is also a considerable quantity 
converted into rope and twine. Will not the 
farmers study these faits and take the hint? — 
Read this article again and see how you like 
my suggestions. May not we reduce the price 
of bagging to 16 or 17 cents, if we encourage 
entirely our own manufactures in making it, 
and save commissions, profits and freights now 
made by commission merchants, and ships and 
steamboat owners. Putnam. 
Southern Recorder. 
Labor. — Whence originated the idea that it 
was derogatory to a lady’s dignity, or a blot upon 
female character, to labor? and who was the 
first to say, sneeringly, “Oh, she works for a li- 
ving?” Surely, such ideas and expressions 
ought not to grow on republican soil. The time 
has been, Avhen ladies of the first rank were 
accustomed to busy themselves in domestic em- 
ployment. Homer tells us of princess who 
used to dr iw water from the springs, and Avash 
with their own hands the finest of the linen of 
their own respective families. The famous 
Lucretia used to spin in the midst of her atten- 
dants; and the Avife of Ulysses, after the seige 
of Troy, employed herself in Aveaving until her 
husband returned to Ithaca. And in later times, 
the wife of George III. of England, has been 
represented in hemming pocket handkerchiefs, 
while her daughter Mary sat in a corner darning 
stockings. Few American fortunes will sup- 
port a woman Avho is above the calls of her fa- 
mily; and a man of sense, in choosing a com- 
panion to jog Avith him through all the up-hills 
of life, would sooner choose one who had to 
Avork for a living, than one who thought it be- 
neath her to soil her pretty hands with manual 
labor although she possessed her thousands. — 
To be able to earn one’s living by laboring Avith 
her OAvu hands, should be reckoned among fe- 
male accomplishments; and I hope the time is 
not far distant when none of my country wo- 
men will be ashamed to have it known that 
they are better versed in usefulness, than they 
are in mental accomplishments. — Selected. 
To Cure a Snake Bite. — Mr. Pi. who has 
lived many yearsin the South aa here rattlesnakes 
have ev'er been exceedingly troublesome, caus- 
ing frequent and sudden deaths, reports the fol- 
loAving as a sovereign remedy for the bite: Put 
about a tea spoon full of the Nitrate of Potash, 
(^Saltpetre') into AA'arm milk, or Avhen this is not 
convenient, into water, and after it is properly 
dissolved, let the patient drink it and relief will 
soon folloAA'. This is perfectly Homoepathic, or 
in a little more learned style, similia, siniilibus 
curantur, or in plainer style, “a hair of the dog 
AA'ill cure the bite. — Tcnn. Ag. 
Horn Distemper. — A “Practical Farmer” 
in the Boston Cultivator, while he admits that 
the application of spirits of turpentine is good, 
asserts the use of hot brimstone as still better 
for the horn-ail. He puts one spoonful, boiling 
hot, into the cavity just betvA'een the horns. 
Good Farming. — “Sambo, is }'our master a 
good farmer?” “O yes, massa fuss rate farmer; 
he make two crops in one year.” “How is that 
Sambo.” “Why, he sell all his hay in de fall 
and make money once; den in de spring he sell 
de hides of de cattle dat die for Avant of de hay, 
and make money tAvice.” 
AUGUSTA MARKET. 
Tuesday p. m., July 18. 
Cotton — Since our notice of the market in our 
report of the 4th, the business amongst our cot- 
ton dealers has been to a A'erj' limited extent. — 
The receipts have been very trifling and the 
stock on hand is very much reduced. We give 
the folloAving as the present selling rates, viz: — 
inferior to ordinary 4| ® 5, middling to middling 
fair 54 ® 6, fair to good fair and choice 6|: i® 
6| cents. 
Money — Checks on New York, Philadelphia 
and Charleston cannot be had at less rate than 
i ^ cent premium. Central Bank notes con- 
tinue to improve, and sales have been made as 
low as 7 ^ cent discount. State 6 ^ cent 
Bonds AA ould bring 75 cents, and 8 cent Bonds 
92 (® 93 cents. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
PAGE. 
A Proposition 113 
Cheap Sugar Boiler; Cultivation of Corn- •• -114 
Importance of Hogs 115 
To prevent Smut in Wheat; Bommer’s Ma- ? 11 /? 
nure; Cotton Bags; Mules ) ° 
Butter Making 117 
Experiments with Salt 118 
To Readers and Correspondents; Morgan ) 
County Agricultural Society; Utility of >119 
Locusts, &c; Cultivate Small Farms- • • • ) 
Gestation in Animals; Land in sight; the j 
Working Mechanic; Facts for the Cotton j 
Planters of Georgia; Labor; to Cure a >120 
Snake Bite; Horn Distemper; Good Far- 
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