THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
183 
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEEl 1 3, 18M. 
OcTR Third Volume. — As the time is rapid- 
ly approaching for entering upon our third vo- 
lume, it may not be inappropriate to address a 
few words to our numerous friends and patrons 
in reference to the prospect before us, and to 
advise them of what they may expect from our 
future efforts in the cause of Southern Agricul- 
ture. 
Of the past we need not speak, for those whom 
we address are familiar with the manner in 
which we have discharged the responsible duty 
imposed upon us in the conduct of an agricul- 
tural journal. It was an e.xperiment, and one 
which, thus far, has partially succeeded. If 
our success has not fully equalled our most san- 
guine expectations, we feel well assured we 
have laid the foundation upon which a most 
magnificent and valuable superstructure may 
and can be successfully reared, for the benefit of 
our fellow-men. This is indeed an important 
point gained, and it has been attained too, after 
encountering, in our progress, almost every 
species of opposition which could be offered to 
such an enterprise. We have had to encoun- 
ter every species of prejudice which could pos- 
sibly be incident to minds never disposed to re- 
gard agriculture as a science, and in which had 
grown up the most inveterate hostility to every- 
thing which savored of '■'■hook farming^' as it 
has been sneeringly denominated hy that class 
of farmers. Happily for us, and for the well- 
being of society, during the now near two years 
in which we have been struggling to excite an 
interest and to produce an improvement in agri- 
cultural science, these clouds which overhung 
us with such a lowering aspect, are slowly, but 
certainly, disappearing before the sun-light of 
truth, sustained and supported by the results of 
experience and the well- attested experiments of 
practical men. And now the “ Southern Culti- 
vator” is finding its way to the firesides, and 
has become ihe companion, of those who but 
recently would not have admitted it into close 
intimacy. 
Thus much for our continued perseverance, 
aided, sustained and urged on at every succes- 
sive step by a few choice, but sterling and un- 
wavering friends. But our object was to speak 
of the future. Let us unfold then to our friends 
what are our designs and purposes. Conscious 
of our own inability to do ample justice to the 
great cause in which we have embarked as Edi- 
tor ot a Southern agricultural journal, we have 
been looking around for some one more capa- 
ble upon whom the responsible duties of Editor 
of the Southern Cultivator might be appropri- 
ately conferred, with a due regard to all the great 
interests involved in the issue. And we have 
now the high satisfaction to announce that our 
efforts have not been in vain. 'SVe have secu- 
red the services of a gentleman distinguished 
for his learning and research, who has devoted 
much of his time and directed the energies of a 
mind of acknowledged power to the investiga- 
tion ot the science of a:t''''u!tur-e, wita wuuse 
anility as a writer our readers are already fa- 
miliar. We have, therefore, additional claims 
upon the kind and favorable consideration ol 
our friends; and we trust that this renewed ef- 
fort of ours to meet their just expectations will 
not be permitted to go unrewarded. We there- 
fore throw ourselves upon the kind indulgence 
and generous liberality of our friends, and ask 
them to bestir themselves for the circula- 
tion and consequent improvement of our paper, 
for upon them we must rely, as we cannot in- 
cur the expense of sending round agents to col- 
lect and obtain subscriptions. Every man who 
reads the paper and desires to see it sustained, 
has an interest in its success, and in proportion 
to that interest should he endeavor to extend its 
circulation, for upon that and that alone are we 
dependent for remuneration. We do not, then, 
in consideration of all the great issues at stake, 
ask too much of every friend ol agriculture — 
aye, of every man in whose bosom pulsates a 
true patriot’s heart— to exert himself for the ex- 
tension of our circulation. 
The new arrangement will be announced in a 
prospectus, which we shall issue in a few days, 
in which we shall set forth, distinctly and fully, 
all the improvements, &c., &c., our friends may 
anticipate in the forthcoming volume. 
Statistics — “A Gzorgia Overseer .” — We re- 
gret exceedingly our inability to furnish the sta- 
tistics asked for by our correspondent “A Geor- 
gia Overseer ” — nor can we refer him to any 
source from whence he can obtain any portion 
thereof, save the returns of the census for 1840.- 
and even that will be found very deficient in 
much that it attempts, with regard to the Statis- 
tics of the State. 
The exports and imports of Georgia cannot 
be arrived at with any near approximation to 
truth, unless by the aid of guessing a man should 
happen to come near. It is true, the exports and 
imports of Savannah might be obtained, but then 
we could not ascertain what portion of the ex- 
ports were the growth of South Carolina, nor 
could we arrive at what portion of the exports 
of Charleston and xVpalachicola were the growth 
of Georgia. 
Neither do we know how many Agricultural 
Societies there are in the State, although we are 
well aware that they are quite too few for the 
well being of society and the rapid and success- 
ful improvement of Agriculture. We have pro- 
bably two thousand subscribers to the “ South- 
ern Cultivator” which ought to be increased 
to twenty thousand in Georgia alone, besides 
what our friends in Alabama, South Carolina 
and Mississippi can and will do for us. 
Here there is a wide field for our friends to 
operate in, and we should like to heer a unani- 
mous resolve go up from every subscriber we 
have in Georgia, “ that each one would obtain 
TEN subscribers to the ‘ Southern Cultivator.’ ” 
What say you to this, friends of the cause 1 
Will you not enter the list of a glorious rivalry 
in such a noble enterprise'] Some — aye, many 
of you, can obtain ONE HUNDRED. Will 
you do it 1 
Texas Cotton Seed. 
On our last page will be found the advertise- 
ment of our friend John W. Graves, offering to 
dispose of a very valuable article of cottonseed, 
to which we refer the reader. It would be need- 
less for us to add any thing to what is there af- 
firmed by the very respectable gentlemen whose 
statements are appended to the adveitisement. — 
They are all men whose characters tor truth and 
integrity raise them high above any suspicion of 
countenancing or aiding in the practising of a 
humbug upon the people, and their statements, 
therefore deserve, as they will doubtless receive 
the favorable consideration of the public. 
Professorship of Agriculture. — A Pro- 
fessorship of Agriculture has been established 
in Amherst College, Mass. The Professorship 
is conferred upon Alonzo Gray, author of “ Sci- 
entific and Practical Agriculture.” 
From the Caltivator. 
IMPROVl^fG LAND BT GREEN MANURES, 
It is believed by some, that the best kind of 
vegetable growth for turning in, in the form of 
green manures, is Indian corn sown broadcast. 
If it be intended to apply lime to the land, it would 
be well to do so the fall before. Then as early 
in the spring as circumstances will permit sow 
corn broadcast, say three or four bushels to the 
acre, and as soon as it has grown as high as it 
can be conveniently turned under with a deep 
working plow, turn it under, and immediately 
sow another crop in ihe same way, turning that 
under as before, but with a medium plow run 
crossways of the previous farrow. In the mid- 
dle and southern States, three crops can thus be 
turned under in one season. It is believed that 
no system of manuring or renovation, except 
the heaviest application ot stable manure, can 
compare with this plan in its results. If the 
land be very poor the first crop will be very 
light, but light as it may be it wiU yet add a 
considerable portion of the elements of vegetable 
nutrition to the soil ; and thus the second crop 
will be greatly improved, and the third will be 
all that can be desired. It is believed that in 
this way four times as much improvement will 
be effected in one season, as can be by means of 
clover in three or four years. For this purpose 
farmers in the north should use the tall kinds of 
southern corn, as being of more rapid growth 
and furnishing vastly more matter lor the soil. 
From the Southern Planter. 
THE HAW OR HOOKS. 
We had supposed that the absurd and cruel 
practice of catting out the haw from the eye of 
the horse for the purpose of relieving a fancied 
disease called the hooks,had ceased amongsteven 
the most ignorant of veterinary practitioners; 
but a gentleman assured us that the plan was 
frequently resorted to still in the country by 
those who should know better. 
The haw is an expansive membrane with 
which nature has provided the eye of the horse 
for the purpose of removing the dust and ether 
impurities that may chance to fall upon that 
delicate organ, and to cut it off under any cir- 
cumstances, is not less cruel than ridiculous. 
This membrane, sympathizing with other dis- 
eased parts of the eye, frequently becomes in- 
flamed and swollen, and then it is, that, instead 
ol bathing it with cooling solutions, it is called 
the Iwoks, and is cut out by ignorant quacks; 
and thus the horse is deprived of this natural 
appendage, and is subjected to all the pain and 
misery that the introduction of foreign substan- 
ces is calculated to inflict upon that sensitive 
organ, the eye. We would condemn the man 
