THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
197 
From the Southern Shield. 
B.A.RBOUH COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A meeting of the Agricultural Society of 
Barbour county, was held on Wednesday, the 
22d of November, in the Baptist church ; the 
President, Col. McDonald, in the cliair. An 
eloquent and interesting addres.s, aboundin? in 
valuable agricultural inlormation, was deliver- 
ed by Col. John L. Hunter. At the request ol 
the President, the chair was then taken by Gen. 
Shorter, and Col. McDonald read the lollowing 
^ report: 
T’o Mem ers of the B irbour County Agricultural 
Society : 
Gentlemen : -On the first of April last, I re- 
ceived through the Po.sl Ofiice, Irom the Hon. 
D. H. Lewis, Me liber of Congress from this 
district, the following seeds, directed to the Pre- 
sident of the Barbour county Agricultural So- 
ciety : 
The English Dwarf Pea, Tobacco Seed, from 
Trinidad, the Alverado Wheat, the Blue Stem 
Wheat, and the Potatoe Oat. Owing to the 
small quantity ol each kind of seed, and there 
being no meeting of the Society until June, I 
determined that the object of the donor would 
be more certainly carried out by sowing the 
seed and turning over the amount gathered to 
the Society, than by keeping them until a meet- 
ing took place anddividingthem. Consequent- 
ly on the first day of April I carefully sowed 
them in my garden in drills. I had some fears 
at the time, that the wheat might be injured by 
the frost, owing to its being sowed so late in the 
season, but as I might succeed in raising a 
small quantity of seed for each member, 1 
thought it best to risk the sowing. 
The following is the result: The peas came 
up, but owing to their having been sowed late 
and a spell of dry weather about that time, they 
failed; the tobacco sowed never came up; the 
Alverado and the Blue Stem Wheat, and the 
oats, all came up quickly and grew ofi finely, 
and for a time promised to do well ; both kinds 
of Wheat were attacked with rust so severely, 
that I was enabled to save but a very small 
quantity of seed. 
I succeeded much better with the oats ; they 
came to maturity. I was enabled to save a suf- 
ficiency of seed to furnish each member of the 
Society with seed from the Potatoe Oats sowed, 
.sufficient to secure seed. I consider the Potatoe 
Oat a valuable grain; they are said to weigh 
forty-five pounds to the bushel, and from the 
rapid growth and fine straw, I am of opinion they 
will do well in our climate and soil. The Oats 
and Wheat saved for the use of the Society I 
now present. Alexa.vder McDonald. 
The Report was on motion unanimously re- 
ceived and adopted. 
On motion of Col. McDonald, the following 
resolution was unanimously adopted: 
Resolved, That the thanks of the Barbour 
county Agricultural Society are due to the Hon. 
Dixon H. Lewis, for his kindness and attention 
to the Society in furnishing it with different 
kinds of rare and valuable seeds. 
Col. McDonald then offered the lollowing 
resolution, which was unanimously adopted: 
Resolved, That the Barbour County Agricul- 
tural Society has sustained by the death ol Maj. 
W. H. Snipes, 1st Vice President, the loss of one 
of its rnost active, useful and valuable members; 
and this community a citizen who enjoyed its 
confidence, and who was universally esteemed 
by all who enjoyed the pleasure of his acquaint- 
ance. 
On motion of Col. Hunter, the resolution was 
directed to he communicated to the family of 
the deceased. 
The President having resumed the chair, sug- 
gested to the Society the propriety of electing 
delegates to the State Agricultural Society at 
Tuscaloosa. 
On motion of Col. Hunter, Gen. Shorter, Mr. 
W . B. Moore, and Dr. DuBose, were appoint- 
«d a committee to nominate delegates. 
The committee reported the names of Judge 
S. Williams, Col. A. McDonald, Col, John L. 
Hunter, Col. John Gill Shorter, and John A. 
Calhoun, Esq. 
On motion of Dr. DuBi)se, a committee was 
appointed by the chair, to distribute the seeds 
alluded to in the report. The chair nominated 
Dr. DuBose, Gen. Shorter and Mr. Flournoy. 
motion of Dr. DuBose, it was vored that 
each member wishing seed leave his name with 
the Secretary. 
On motion of Gen. Shorter, a committee of 
five be appointed by the chair to make arrange- 
ments for the celebration of the Anniversary of 
the Society on the 22d February next. The 
chair appointed Gen. Shorter, Messrs. Tread- 
well, W. Beauchamp, John M. Moore, and T. 
Flournoy. 
The Society then adjourned to the next regu- 
lar meeting. A. McDonald, President. 
E. C. Bulloch, Sec’y- pro. tem. 
At the Agricultural Fair held on the after- 
noon ol 22d Nov., the following premiums and 
honors were awarded; 
Best brood mare, Robert Ricks, ^3. 
Second best do., Mr. Posten, honors. 
Best bull, Robert G. Ricks, S3. 
Second do., Gen. Shorter, honors. 
Best milch cow, Robert G. Ricks, $3. 
Second do., G' n. Shorter, honors. 
Best boar, Thomas Flournoy, $2. 
Second do.. Col. J. G. Shorter, honors. 
Best Sow, Thomas Flournoy, $2. 
Second do., Thomas Flournoy, honors. 
Heaviest pig, six to tweh^e months old, W. 
. Moore, ^^3. 
Best counterpane, Mrs. W. Bates, $2. 
Second best do., Mrs. W. Bates, honors. 
Best article of negro clothing, Mrs. J. A. 
Calhoun, $4. 
Best 3 year old colt, Robert G. Ricks, $2. 
Best mule colt, John W. Johnson, $2. 
One wolf-skin, Mr. Hendricks, $2. 
RULErf FOR WIVES. 
1. Always receive your husband with smiles 
— leaving nothing undone to render home agree- 
able — and gratefully reciprocate his kindness 
and attention. 
2. Study to gratify his inclinations in regard 
to his food and cookery; in the management of 
the family; in your dress, manners and deport- 
ment. 
3. Never attempt to rule, or appear to rule, 
your husband. Such conduct degrades hus- 
bands — and wives always partake largely in the 
degradation ot their husbands. 
4. In every thing reasonable comply with his 
wishes with cheerfulness — and even as far as 
possible anticipate them. 
5. Avoid all altercations or arguments lead- 
ing to ill humors, and more especially before 
company. Few things are more disgusting 
than the altercations of the married when in 
the company ol friends or strangers 
6. Never attempt to interfere in his business 
unless he asks your advice or counsel; and ne- 
ver attempt to control him in the management 
of it. 
7. Never confide to gossips any of the fail- 
ings of your husband, nor any of those little 
differences that occasionally arise in the marri- 
etl state. It you do, you may rest assured that 
however strong the injunctions of secrecy on 
one hand, or the pledge on the other, they will 
in a day or two become the common talk of the 
neighboihood. 
8. Try to cultivate your mind, so that, should 
your husband be intelligent and well informed, 
you may join in rational conversation with him 
and his friends. 
9. Think nothing a trifle that may produce a 
momentary breach of harmony, or the slightest 
uneasy sensation. 
“Think nought aitrifle, thought it small appear; 
Small sauds the mountain, moments make the year. 
And trifles, life. Your care to trifles give 
Else you may die ere you have learned to live.” 
10. If your husband be in business, always 
in your expenditures bear in mind the trying 
vicissitudes to which trade and commerce are 
subject; and not expose yourself to the reproach, 
should he experience one of them, of having 
unnecessarily expended money of which you 
and your offspring may afterwards be m want. 
11. While you carefully shun, in providing 
for your family, the Scylla of meanness and 
parsimony, avoid equally the Charybdis of ex- 
travagance — an error too common liere, as re- 
marked by most ot the travellers who visit this 
country. 
12. If you be disposed to economize, I be- 
seech 3 ’ou not to extend your economy to the 
wages you pay to seamstresses or washerwo- 
men who fparticularly the latter) are too fre- 
quently ground to the earth, by the inadequacy 
of the wages they receive. Economize, if you 
will, in shawls, bonnets and handkerchiefs — 
but never by exacting labor from the poor with- 
out adequate compensatioo, incur the dire ana- 
themas pronounced in the scriptures against the 
oppressors of the poor, — Valley Farmer. 
Inoculating Cheese. — What will the inge- 
nuity of man not contrive 1 A method has been 
di.scovered ot inoculating cheese; or in other 
words, of transpo.sing the character of an old 
cheese into a new one. This rather curious idea 
is brought lorward in a communication to the 
Agricultural Journal, by John Robison, Esq., 
Secretary ot the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
“If it be required,” says he, “to communicate to 
a cheese the flavor and appearance of an old 
one, it may be done by the insertion in the new 
cheese of proportions of the old one containing 
the blue mould. The little scoop which is used 
in samples of cheese, is a ready means of per- 
forming the operation by changing ten or a doz- 
en rolls which it extracts, and placing them to 
disseminate the germ of the blue mould all over 
the cheese. 
‘A new Stilton cheese treated in this way and 
well covered up from the air a few weeks, be- 
comes thoroughly impregnated with the mould, 
and generally with a flavor not to be distin- 
guished from the old one. I have sometimes 
treated half a Lancaster cheese in this way, 
have left the other half in its natural state, and 
have been much amused with the remarks of 
our friends on the striking superiority of the 
English cheese over the Scotch one.’ 
If this ingenious plan be found really success- 
ful on repeated trials by others, Mr. Robison 
will deserve our thanks for bringing it forward. 
The next invention we shall hear of will proba- 
bly be that of inoculating legs of mutton, and 
turning them into beef . — Maine Farmer. 
SauASHEs. — It has been asser.ed, as the re- 
sult of an accidental experiment, that squashes 
sown in the fall will survive the frosts of winter 
and spring, and will ripen much earlier than 
any which can be raised by sowing in the spring. 
Those sown in the spring and those sown in the 
fall, were, in the case alluded to, exposed to a 
severe frost ; the former were killed, while the 
latter survived. It m^ be worth a more satis- 
factory experiment. The earliest sallads we 
know, are grown in this way. The same has 
been said of a species of beans, and even of pota- 
toes. 
To preserve good squashes in perfection, 
great care is necessary to keep them from the 
neighborhood of others of an inferior kind, and 
especially of pumpkins. If grown together, the 
good uniformly deteriorate, and the best squash- 
es become bastard pumpkins. However mys- 
terious this fact may appear, it is unquestiona- 
ble; and it is probably to be explained on the 
same principles with a fact no less unquestion- 
able. that the different species of corn and of 
grain alwmys mix when they grow in the neigh- 
borhood of each other. — Selected. 
An exchange paper states that the father o^ 
an interesting family, near Detroit, Mich., not 
long since stopped the only newspaper that he 
allowed himself or family, and solely on the 
ground that he could not afford the expense, — 
This man chews $14 60 worth of tobacco a 
year ! 
