THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1844. 
POULTRY. 
It IS scarcely credible how valuable is the 
poultry in the United States. By the census of 
1340, it was returned at S12,176,170. N. York 
contributes $2,373,529, which is more than the 
value of all its swine, halt the value of its sheep, 
the entire value of its neat cattle, and five times 
more than the value of all the horses and mules 
in the State. These facts are derived irom a 
publication of Harper’s, called the American 
Poultry Book. 
CHEA.P GIN-BAND. 
A planter residing in the parish of Tensas, 
(says a Louisiana paper,) informs us rhat du- 
ring the present ginning season, he has dispens- 
ed with the use of leather for gin-bands, substi- 
tuting in its stead a band made of stout Lowell 
cotton. The strips are cut to the proper length 
and doubled four times, and require splicing but 
at one place, and are sewed with strong thread. 
It is superior to leather from the fact that it runs 
more slack and is materially lighter, and can be 
used at least two seasons; the saving in cost is 
alone sufficient to induce any one to try the ex- 
periment. We are assured of its success by the 
gentleman to whom we are indebted for the in- 
formation. 
A NEW SUBSOIL PLOW. 
We saw, a few days since, says the Boston 
Cultivator, a s*ubsoil plow of novel construction, 
designed and made by Capt. Chandler. It is 
well constructed for strength, for running steady 
and keeping its true position with very little la- 
bor of tne plowman, and fora thorough and deep 
pulverization of the soil, with a moderate 
draught. It will run fifteen inches deep below 
the wake of another plow. He has subsoiled 
several acres with this plow, running from 12 
to 15 inches deep after a common plow that 
went 6 inches deep. The soil was clayey, full 
of small stones, and now and then one of a good 
size. A team of three horses was amply suffi- 
cient, and some over an acre was plowed in a 
day, leaving the soil so light that it was difficult 
to walk on it. 
|3=The Cincinnati Atlas states that their 
market is bountifully supplied with strawber- 
ries, at 5 cents a quait, some of which measure 
from 4 to 5 inches in circumference. — Oh, our 
mouth ! 
writer in the Tennessee Agriculturist, 
states that chickens or fowls fed with corn 
ground coarse, as for hominy, will never have 
the gapes, 
H^Panes of glass may easily be removed by 
the application of soft soap for a few hours, 
however hard the putty has become. 
For the Southern Cultivator. 
Cam.4K, Ga., June 27th, 1844. 
Mr. Editor — As I do not recollect to have 
ever seen any remedy in your valuable paper 
for the blind staggers, I have thought proper to 
send a remedy which was never known to fail 
when applied in time. 
For Blind Slaggers.— Fi'CHt. bleed freely; then 
take 4 oz. of aloes, 1 oz. gum-myrrh, dissolve them 
in spirits and water, or spirits weakened with 
water: a quart of spirits is sufficient, and the 
same amount of water. When well dissolved, 
take about one-fourth the amount, and drench 
the animal, and continue to give it every fifteen 
or twenty minutes, until the animal is relieved. 
Respectfully, &c., 
Wm. H. Edwards. 
TREATING CUCUMBER BUGS TO EGGS. 
A writer in the Newburg (N. Y.) Telegraph 
says that he has found a way to save his cucum- 
bers from the bug, (whether striped bug or any 
other, he does not say,) by giving them a good 
dinner of shad’s eggs. They like fish eggs so 
much better than vegetables, that they leave the 
latter for the sake of eating the former. He had 
put some of the above material around some 
grape vines to increase their growth, and he 
thought he would apply some to his cucum- 
bers, when lo! and behold! the bugs which had 
resisted all attempts to drive or choke them off, 
immediately left the vines and attached them- 
selves to the fish offal. 
Now, if fish eggs will lure them from mis- 
chief, tve presume the fish itself would ; and if 
fish, perhaps other animal matter would. We 
see but one objection to this course ; that is this: 
it is not much of an object to raise bugs by feed- 
ing them high, and letting them go scot free, to 
come out in swarms another year to eat up your 
gardens, if there are no fish eggs spread for 
them. 
NUTRIITVE PROPERTIES OF FLOUR. 
A correspondent of the N. Y. Central Far- 
mer gives the following statement of the nutri- 
tive qualities of the Flour of various countries 
I have noticed lately, some experiments which 
have been made in France, that seem to be im- 
portant ; at all events, they are interesting, and 
1 think useful. The nutritive quality of flour 
has been ascertained by a French chemist, from 
a variety of samples which he has analysed, and 
the following is the result: 
Nuremburgh bread is equivalent to 100.00 
Dresden,, 115.31 
Berlin, 116.04 
Canada flour, 117.23 
Essex, 12133 
Glasgow unfermented bread, 123 15 
Sothian flour, 134.06 
U. S. flour, 145 03 
U. S. flour by chemical analysis, 150.00 
By this it will be seen that the U. S, flour is 
far the most nourishing of any in the world. 
TO MAKE WATER COLD. 
The following is a simple mode of rendering 
water almost as cold as ice : 
Let the jat, pitcher, or vessel used for water, 
be surrounded with one or more folds of coarse 
cotton, to be constantly wet. The evaporation 
of the water will carry off the heat from the in- 
side and reduce it to a freezing point. In India 
and other tropical regions, where ice cannot be 
procured, this is common. Let every mechanic 
or laborer have at his place of employment two 
pitchers thus provided, and with lids or covers; 
the one to contain water for drinking, the other 
lor evaporation, and he can always have a sup- 
ply of cc'ld water in warm weather. Any per- 
son can test this by dipping a finger in water, 
and holding it in the air of a warm day; after 
doing this three or four times, he will find his 
finger uncomfortably cold. 
Dr. Franklin recommends a young man, in 
the choice of a wife, to select from a bunch, 
giving as his reason that when there are many 
daughters, they improve each other, and from 
emulation acquire more accomplishments and 
know more, and do more, than a single child 
spoiled by paternal fondness. 
The following article, on Farming in Con- 
necticut, from the Albany Cultivator, will apply 
with equal force to many planters in Georgia : 
Farming in Connecticut. — Our friend 
“ Quercus,” alter stating some of the difficulties 
and perplexities attendant on commencing farm- 
ing operations on a soil w'hich had been worn 
out by bad management, says : — “ So the year 
has gone round — all the avails not counting 3 
per cent, on any respectable estimate of the va- 
lue of our 300 acres ! ' This is not a fancy sketch. 
1 can even count dozens in no better condition, 
from my window, now; but nine out of ten are 
mortgaged. None of their managers take the 
Cultivator, you may be sure. But how do they 
live ? They sell a little wood, and burn coal, 
and live cheap, and buy nothing lor money, and 
shoot foxes ; starve their cattle and eat the car- 
cass ! But ‘my man,’ some bluff westerner 
wolud say, ‘give away your land, (for I know 
it can’t be sold,) and get you a bit of our unex- 
hausted .soil, and begin again.’ It is the easiest 
thing in the world to give advice to those of 
whose circumstances you have no knowledge. 
Still if there were no circumstances in the wajq 
I should be loth to think and act upon the 
thought, that a proper degree of energy and skill 
and foresight, will not spread fertility like a 
mantle, all over these rocky hills and these 
mossy meadows. Beside, there are attractions 
here — there are warm hill-sides in winter, and 
cool, rustling breezes in summer, and glori.ous 
old oak woods, and a hundred brawling brooks, 
{you may laugh if you have a mind to,) if the 
memory of their noisy prattle runs back to boy- 
hood, call louder on a man than the yellowest 
mint-drops. 
“ At any rate, I will try what can be done to 
make my farm worthy of a history. If the re- 
sources which such men as Mr. James Johnston 
have opened to view, benothumbug; it the.sys- 
tem of changing crops, of multiplying manures, 
of more effectual tillage, of adequate protection 
to cattle; it careful feeding be not wholly im- 
practicable; if the history of your most success- 
ful croppings be not fairy tales, and the locum in 
quo a. fairy land, why, somelhing shall be done 
here. The progress of my trial, 1 shall open in 
scattering continuations of this history, neither 
exaggerating or concealing, in the hope that it 
may possibly be useful.” 
From the Mercantile Journal. 
HEN’S EGGS. 
We have received from a subscriber a couple 
of hen’s eggs of immense size — being a speci- 
men of the productions of a breed of hens 
brought into this country from Guilderland a 
few years since, by Capt. John Deveraux, of 
Marblehead. They weigh 3 oz. and 3-4 a piece, 
and measure 7 3-4 inches in circumference one 
way. and 6 1-2 the other. If any one has any 
larger hen’s eggs, bring them along ! 
We learn that these Dutch fowls are of a 
large size, some weighing 7 pounds a piece, of 
a coal black color, may be easily fattened, are 
delicate food, and first rate layers. Their eggs 
are usually one-third larger than those of our 
ordinary fowls. One of the hens which Capt. 
Deveraux brought home, layed 160 eggs, daily, 
in succession ! 
