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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1843. 
SPECIAL notice. 
According to the terms, the Cultivator is 
published og the Cash System, and all sub- 
scriptions terminate with the volume. No pa- 
per, therefore, will be sent to the address ol any 
gentleman until his subscription is paid. The 
absolute necessity for the adoption of such a 
policy on our part is so apparent to every man 
of common sense, that we need not enter into 
any defence of our course. We cannot afford 
to send a collector over the country to collect 
b 11s ol one dollar each, and shall not attempt 
such a piece of folly. Those who desire to 
subscribe can hand their dollars to the Post 
Masters, and request him to order copies for 
them, Avhich he can do free of any charge for 
postage. 
|;^A11 subscriptions must commence with 
the volume. 
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE SOUTHERN 
CULTIVATOR. 
The present number closes the first volume of 
the “Southern Cultivator,” and although we can- 
not flatter ourself that we have given satisfac- 
tion to all, yet we indulge the belief that no one 
has carefully read the volume without profit; 
and we shall, therefore, enter upon the second 
volume with increased confidence in the success 
of the enterprise. If we have accomplished no 
other good, we certainly have, to some extent, 
excited among a portion of our planters, a 
greater fondness for agricultural literature, and 
infused into a few a disposition to profit by the 
experience and practical operations of those 
who are far in advance of us in the science of 
agriculture. This we consider an important 
point gained; one, too, which we think will con- 
tribute greatly to the accomplishment of our 
great object — the introduction among southern 
planters of a more enlightened system of cul- 
ture. 
In concluding these brief remarks, we beg 
leave to refer our patrons to the terms which 
may be found on the last page of this number, 
and to assure them that the ensuing volume 
shall equal, in every respect, the one now clos- 
ei; and that it may be superior, we shall con- 
tribute all our efforts, and hope to be more gen- 
erally sustained in those efforts by the planters 
themselves than we have heretofore been. We 
make this last remark in no spirit of complaint, 
/ for, indeed, we feel gratified to those who have 
contributed to enrich our columns with their 
views. The writing for a paper was, however, 
a new thing to most, it not all, of them, and 
they naturally enough felt some delicacy in ap- 
pearing before the public. We are, however, 
much pleased to observe that this feeling is 
giving way before the lights of truth and a sense 
of dutyj and olir planters are now beginning to 
feel and acknowledge the necessity of giving to 
each other, through the medium of the “South- 
ern Cultivator,” the results of their experience. 
We therefore confidently hope, that our second 
volume will number a much larger list of con- 
tributors than the first could possibly enume- 
rate. 
Agricultural society in oglethorpe. 
The proceedings of the meeting at Bowling 
Green, for the purpose of forming an Agricul- 
tural Society, were received too iate for publi- 
cation in our last, they are, how'ever, contained 
in this number; and, in giving place to them, we 
should be doing injustice to our own feelings to- 
wards a portion of the citizens of our native 
county, not to welcome them most cordially as 
colaborers in the great cause of agriculture, and 
the consequent improvement and promotion of 
the general happiness of the laboring class. — 
The cause of Agriculture is eminently philan- 
thropic, and should enlist in its behalf, the en- 
ergies ( f the benevolent of every class of soci- 
ety. What higher or nobler purpose could en- 
gage the philanthropist, than the amelioration 
of the condition of the great mass of his fellow 
creatures. And by what means can he hope to 
secure, more cerlainly, the greatest good to the 
greatest number, than by introducing an improv- 
ed system of agriculture"? We invoke our 
Iriends throughout the country to contemplate 
this subject with reference to the happy influ- 
ence it will exert upon society, apart_^from the 
more sordid consideration of gain, in which it 
appeals in equally strong and forcible terms, 
and then determine whether or not your duty to 
your fellow man does not require you, as good 
citizens, to unite and form Agricultural Socie- 
ties and Clubs in every county and neighbor- 
hood. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Bowling Green, Oglethorpe county, ) 
November 25, 1843. ) 
Agreeable to previous notice, a portion of the 
citizens of Oglethorpe county assembled at 
Bowling Green, in said county, on Friday, the 
24ih of November, for the purpose of organiz- 
ing and forming an association to be known by 
the name of the Bowling Green Agricultural 
Society. 
On motion of Ferdinand Phinizy, Mr. Wil- 
liam Lumpkin was called to the Chair, and Jas. 
H. McWhorter appointed secretary. 
After the meeting was organized, and its ob- 
jects made known by the chair, Dr. Thomas 
Moody moved, that we now p.ioceed to elect, by 
bBliot, a President and three Vice Presidents, 
together with a Secretary and a Treasurer, to 
preside over this Society lor the next tw'elve 
months. 
It appeared that John W. Moody was duly 
elected President, and William Lumpkin Ist^ 
Giles Young 2d, and Thomas Howard 3d Vice 
President, William Lewis, Secretary, and Wil- 
liam Beasly, Treasurer. 
The President, on taking the chair, addressed 
the Society in a brief but very appropriate ad^ 
dress, in which he urged the importance of the 
agricultural interests, and the great neces.sity for 
an improved and enlightened system of culture, 
He concluded by offering a Constitution and 
bye-laws to goVern the bodv, which were adopted. 
On motion of Jacob PhiniS}', Jr., 
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet- 
ing be signed by the President and Secretartq 
and a copy furnished to the editor of the South- 
ern Cultivator for publication. 
The Society then adjourned to meet on the 
third Saturday in December. 
John W. Moody, President. 
Wm. Lewis, See’y. 
Gwinnett Co., October, 1843. 
Mr. Jones — Being a reader of the Southern 
Cultivator, I have noticed several articleson the 
subject of the manufacture of cotton bagging 
from cotton, and having some practical know- 
ledge on the subject, I avail myself of the in- 
vitation given in your paper, to give the result 
to the public through its columns, with the hope 
of contributing something to render the planters 
more independent, and add to their comfort. 
During the late war with England, when bag- 
ging was scarce and very high — one dollar per 
yard — I purchased a sley made for the express 
purpose of weaving bagging, forty-two inches 
wide, sixteen "bier.” At that time I grew flax, 
and made several pieces of bagging, as good 
as the imported article, which I sold for one dol- 
lar a yard. Twelve or thirteen years ago, I put 
up a screw for packing cotton, since which 1 
have made all my bagging, rope and twine of 
cotton, which was spun upon a common w'heel, 
and wove in a common loom in the old sley. 
The warp should be sufficiently stout to work 
two threads in a reed, and the filling coarse 
enough to keep the cloth the full width of the 
sley. Every girl that can draw a thread can 
spin the filling, and if the warp and filling are 
sufficiently stout, the bagging will be of as good 
quality as may be desired. I make mine to 
weigh from IJ to 1| pounds per yard, and in 
four and a half yards I pack 330 to 350 pounds 
jof cotton. I always save the inferior cotton to 
make the bagging and rope, and my bales look 
as neat as any bales I see in market, and gene- 
rally, I believe, command as good a price as any, 
according to the quality of the staple. None 
need fear of success if the thread be sufficiently 
stout, and the sley be of the right kind. I there- 
fore think that almost all planters, particularly 
small planters, may supply themselves with an 
excellent article of bagging and twine of their 
own make. 
There is another article I find greatly to my 
advantage to manufacture at home, which is 
wove in the same sley and loom — I meatyblan- 
kets for servants. If made heavy and' well 
wove, they will be as warm as, and much more 
durable, than the imported article. They may 
be made of any convenient size, and if the fill- 
ing be slack twisted and neatly carded after be- 
ing wove, the blanket wil do no discredit to the 
bed of a/gentleman and his lady. My family 
have made their blankets for many years, and 
(hose wives and daughters who feel a desire to 
