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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2i, IS44. 
A Burke Overseer” has exhibited too 
much feeling in his reply to “ A Burke Plant- 
er,” to gain admission into our columns. Our 
object in publishing the “Cultivator,” is to 
elicit truth and diffuse light upon all and every 
subject connected with agriculture; and, as these 
are not likely to be accomplished by a heated or 
excited discussion, we will not permit such in 
our columns, Yv^hile, therefore, we shall take 
great pleasure, at all times, in giving place to 
temperate discussion upon all subjects, and on 
none more cordially than that of overseers, we 
hope our readers will approve our determina- 
tion to exclude whatever is calculated to engen- 
der ill teelmg^ 
|::^It is estimated, by the Vicksburg Constitu- 
tionalist, that the destruction ol property by the 
recent floods will amount to over twenty millions 
of dollars. The loss of cotton is said to be at 
least 450,000 bales, or nearly one-fifth of the 
W'hole crop of the United States. 
|:;;^A late letter from England to a house in 
Boston, states that vessels are in great demand 
—not less than 700 to 800 being engaged in the 
Guano trade alone. 
l^’As many planters in our own State be- 
stow an undue share of their attention upon their 
cotton fields, to the neglect of corn and other 
provisions, and thus, as we think, pursue an in- 
judicious system of husbandry, we commend to 
the perusal of such the following extract from 
Ruifin’s Agricultural Survey of South Caroli- 
na, 
“ It is a common opinion, that the cultivation 
ot rice and cotton is much more profitable than 
that of corn and other provisions, and that those 
planters having good lands for the former, can 
better afford to raise them, and buy provisions 
in part, or corn, sometimes, entirely. This 
opinion seems to me erroneous, almost without 
exception. It seems next to impossible, that 
there can exist, anywhere, a truly thriving 
agricultural class, which, as a regular system, 
buys, instead of raising, the necessary and most 
important articles of food. Such a system, pur- 
sued by the proprietors of rich rice "and cotton 
lands, may indeed present large incomes of mo- 
ney for crops sold ; and it may minister to en- 
courage great luxury and expenditure. But it 
will be apt also to induce a pinching measure 
of the plain and solid comforts, and even in re- 
spect to necessary wants, and a scant provision 
of proper supplies of aliment to man and beast, 
and also to the land, A thorough reform on this 
head, to be produced by the sufficient diminu- 
tion of each individual’s rice and cotton culture, 
and substitution of extended corn, and other 
provision culture, and grass and stock raising in 
general, is essential to the permanent, solid, and 
agricultural prosperity of the State.” 
US’It is easier to bring up a dozen children 
right, than to reform one grown scamp. Many 
have learned this too late to profit by it. 
|:;^Hungarian Yeast, says an exchange pa- 
per, will keep fora twelvemonth. During the 
summer season, they boil a certain quantity of 
wheaten bran and hops in water — let it ferment. 
Vv’’hen this has taken place, throw in sufficient 
of bran to form it into a thick paste, wfixich they 
make into balls, and dry by a slow heat. When 
wanted for use they are broken, and boiling wa- 
ter is poured upon them. 
THE GL.VNDERS. 
Mr, J. B. Cook, in the Albany Cultivator, 
says: “Whilst writing, I will mention a fact for 
your veterinary department. More than thirty 
years since, the glanders of the most virulent 
kind, was amongst the horses of the neighbor- 
hood in which my father lived. Great numbers 
died off. His horse was affected, and under the' 
belief that he also would die, my father com- 
menced an experiment on him with a strong de- 
coction of tobacco juice given internally. In a 
short time the horse broke out all over his body 
in sores. These cured up in a month or so, and 
the horse w'as .'■ound, soon fatted, and was, as 
long as I knew him afterwards, a sound and 
healthy animal. This wms the only horse in 
all the neighborhood that recovered. Some far- 
mers in this vicinity, noted for fine sleek horses, 
occasionally give Scotch snuff to them,” 
A NEW PUDDING. 
We yield to no man in our admiration of In- 
dian Corn, and the various culinary purposes to 
w'hich it is applied. But here is one of a nature 
rather novel to us, but we should not fear to en- 
dorse it upon the authority of the recommenda- 
tion of Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, 
whence we clip it : 
One of the very nicest things ever brought to 
the table, in the pudding line, is the green corn 
pudding, prepared according to the following re- 
cipe. Let every wife, who would like to sur- 
prise her husband by a rare delicacy, try it. 
Take of green corn twelve ears and grate it. 
To this add a quart of sweet milk, a quarter of a 
pound of fresh butter, four eggs well beaten, pep- 
per and salt, as much as is sufiicient; stir all 
well together, and bake four hours in a buttered 
dish. Some add to the other ingredients a quar- 
ter of a pound of sugar and eat the pudding with 
sauce. It is good cold or warm, with meat or 
sauce ; but epicures of the most exquisite taste 
declare for it, we believe, hot, and with the first 
service. 
It is said that there are some folks who write, 
talk, and think so much on virtue, that they have 
no time to practice it. 
To raise young turkeys, wet their food with 
sour milk, and let them have free access to a 
vessel of sour milk for drink. Use corn meal 
for their food. So says the Prairie Farmer, 
Comparative Nutriment op Food. — 110 
lbs. of wheat contain 85 lbs. of nutritious mat- 
ter; of rice, 90 lbs.; of rye, 80 lbs.; of barley, 83 
lbs.; of beans, 83 to 92 lbs.; of peas, 93 lbs.; of 
meat, average, 35 lbs.; of potatoes, 25 lbs.; of 
beets, 14 lbs.; of carrots, 14 lbs.; of greens and 
turneps, 8 lbs.; of bread, 80 lbs. Indian corn is 
about next to wheat. A pound of bread con- 
tains more than double the nutriment of apound 
of meat ; and seven pounds of potatoes ai e equal 
to five of meat. 
Sow millet one bushel to the acre ; cut it as 
the seed begins to turn yellow; cure it as other 
hay. Horses or cattle prefer it to clover or 
timothy. It matures in two months. Sow from 
April to August, 
135 
MANURES. 
The following communication upon this im- 
portant and very inlerestingsubject, from a high- 
ly esteen;ed correspondent, has reached us just 
on the eve of going to press, and we give place 
to it in preference to an}'' speculations of our 
own. 
For the Southern Cultiralor. 
Mr, Editor — In the early settlement of the 
lands in Georgia, the soil was sufficiently fertile 
for the farmer to make as much produce as his 
wants required, or he was willing to harvest. 
But, by continued cropping, lands became ex- 
hausted, because each crop takes from the soil 
some of the elements that enter into the compo- 
sition of all plants. Such is the case with many 
of the lands in this State, and most of them are 
approximating a state of barrenness. It then 
becomes the interest and the duty of every far- 
mer, to look out for a remedy to stop the wear- 
ing out of his lands, and the best method of re^ 
storing them to their original fertiliiy. Each 
and every part of the State should study out its 
own resources, and apply them to the improve- 
ment of the lands. The Northwestern part of 
the State has lime; some of the Southern coun- 
ties have lime and marl : while in the middle 
counties, we shall have to rely upon such ma- 
nures only as we can make on our farms. Co- 
lonus, in his excellent remarks on manures, has 
nearly occupied the w'hole subject, when he di- 
rects manure to be obtained “ from everywhere.” 
Every one will have to make and gather manure 
on his own farm, the best way he is able — and 
those v/ho commence first, will acquire the 
mosj skill and knowledge in making and apply- 
ing manures. 
Those manures that most naturally present 
themselves to the notice of the farmer, aregreers. 
manures, or vegetable matter in the green state. 
The plowing under green crops sowed for the 
purpose, or green weeds or grass, that grow 
spontaneously upon the land, has beenpractised 
in some countries with great advantage. Pro- 
fessor Johnston says, “ the plowin^-iq of ^reen 
vegetables on the spot v/here theyiiaylilgrdwn,' 
may be followed as a method of 
enriching all land, where other manures^are less 
abundant. Growing plants bring up fro"m be- 
neath, as far as their roots extend, tho.se sub- 
stances which are useful to vegetation, and re- 
tain them in the leaves and stems. By plowing 
in the whole plant, we restore to the surface 
what had sunk to a greater or less depth, and 
thus make it more fertile than before the green 
crop was sown. This manuring is performed 
with the least loss by the use ol vegetables in the 
green state. By allowing them to decay in the 
open air, there is a loss of organic and inorgan- 
ic matter: if they be converted into fermented 
(farm-yard) manure, there is also a large loss— 
and the same is the case, if they are employed in 
feeding stock, with a view to their conversion 
into manure. In no other form can the same 
crop convey to the soil an equal amount of en- 
riching matter, as in that of green leaves and 
stems. Where the first object, therefore, in the 
farmer’s practice is so to use his crops as to en- 
rich his land, he will soonest effect it by plowing 
them in the green state.” 
