THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 191 
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1844. 
OUR PROSPECTUS. 
Friends and Patrons! below we spread 
before j’-eii tbe Frospectas for our Third Vod- 
?IME, ia which we aunounce the cennectioti of 
Mr. JAMES CAMAK, of Atheas, as the fu- 
ture Editor of this Journal. His fame as a man 
of science, and a writer of distinguished ability, 
who has devoted much time to the science of 
Agriculture, is too familiar to every Southern 
man to require commendation of his merits at 
our hands. 
We have, therefore, only a few words to ad- 
dress to the friends of Southern Agricultural 
Improvement — and we shall not only be brief, 
'bvX plain. To obtain the services of an Editor 
of such acknowledged abilit}q we have been 
compelled to contract a heavy responsibility ; 
and we look to our friends to stand by us in our 
■effort to promote this great and glorious work of 
Agricultural Reform. The price of subscrip- 
tion IS too small to authorise our sending out 
agents; we therefore rely upon the friends of the 
work to constitute them.selves agents in their re- 
■spective counties and neighborhoods, to obtain 
subscribers. To excite a generous rivalry, we 
have adopted the plan of offering a list of pre- 
miums to those who shall obtain the greatest 
number of subscribers, between now and the 
first day of March next. This is a novel enter- 
prise at the South, in the history of an Agricul- 
tural periodical, but we trust it will be the means 
of exciting our friends to an effort to extend our 
circulation. Of course we do not offer the pre- 
miq,ms as compensation for services, but simply 
as testimonials of our gradtude to those who 
shall win them hy their industry and zeal in the 
cause of Agriculture. 
What man would not dwell with an elevated 
and just pride in after life upon such a souve- 
nir of his efforts in the cause of Southern Agri- 
culture! But we promised to be brief— and we 
conclude by saying to the planters of the South, 
Come up to the rescue, and sustain us, if you 
wish an Agricultural Journal, worthy of your 
patronage, and the great interest of which it is 
the organ. Not only subscribe for it yourselves, 
but urge your neighbors and acquaintances 
every where to do likewise. Give it, in short, a 
hearty, zealous, and cordial support, and the 
work will go on improving in every department 
and extending its infiuences into every class of 
society. 
Planters of the South, and friends of Southern 
Agriculturel we commit the worR to your keep- 
ing — it will be the organ of your interests and 
vocations. Will you not sustain it as it may 
deserve 1 
13° W e request that those who make an ef- 
fort to obtain subscribers, will forward their lists 
as early as possible, 
PROSPECTUS 
[of the THIRD VOLUME OF THE 
I SOUTHERN CULTIYATOR, 
In issuing the Froepectus for the Third Ve- 
lume of the Southern Cultivator, the Pub- 
lishers have the high gratification of announc- 
ing to the public, that they have succeeded in 
engaging the services of 
- MR. JAMES CAMAE, 6f Alliens, Ga, 
to conduct the Editorial department of the pa- 
per. The high reputation ot Mr. C. as a gen- 
tleman, his acknowledged ability as a writer, 
his varied acquirements in science, together 
with the attention which he has always given 
to Agricultural Science and Improvement, af- 
ford the highest guarantee of the future excel- 
lence of the work. 
To the friends of Agriculture, therefore, 
throughout the Southern States, we address our- 
selves, to invite their co-operation in extending 
oar circulation, to enable us to meet the in- 
creased expenditure we now make to render 
our journal worthy the patronage of an intelli- 
gent Agricultural community. To you, then, 
friends of Agriculture, the future destiny of the 
“Southern Cultivator” is committed, and if 
you will that it shall be sustained, it will be. 
You must, then, every man of yon, “put your 
shoulders to the wheel” and aid us ia an en- 
terprise, which contemplates the melioration 
of the eoKdition and permanent prosperity of the 
Agriculturists of the Southern States. Each 
andallofyoueanaidusif you will Will you 
do it! 
As we contemplate some slight changes in 
the work, it may not be improper to advise our 
friends. It will be published Monthly, on the 
first of each month, (instead of semi-monthly, 
as heretofore,) and each number will contain 
SIXTEEN pages of ma'ter, just doable the 
amount in the present form. By this ar- 
rangement, the subscriber will have his volume 
in 12 numbers, and thereby will be subjected to 
only half the postage he now pays. The 
first number of the third volume will be issued 
on the first of January, 1845. 
TERMS. 
ONE COPY, .SI. 00 
SIX COPIES, 5-00 
TWENTY-FIVE COPIES, 20.00 
GNE HUNDRED COPIES, .75.00 
The CASH SYSTEM will be rigidly en- 
forced in all cases; and in no instance will the 
paper be sent, unless ihe CiASH accompanies 
the order. 
l^’All subscriptions must commence with 
the volume. 
PREMIUMS OFFERED; 
The Publishers, desirous of expressing their 
gratiiude in a more tangible form than by mere 
acknowledgements to their numerous friends, 
who may make an effort to extend the circula- 
tion, offer the following premiums to those 
who may send them the greatest number of Sub- 
scribers to the third volume, up to the first of 
March next 
I. For the laigest nnmber, not less than 100, 
a Silver Goblet, with appropriate 
Agricultural designs and inscription, 
worth §25 00 
II. For the next largest number, not less than 
80, a similar Goelet, worth 20 OB 
ni. For the nest largest number net lees than 
65, a similar Goelet, worth 15 OC 
IV. For the next largest number, not less than. 
I 50, “Loudon’s Encyclopedia of Agneul- 
ture,” worth. 10 (K) 
V. For the next largest number, not less than 
40, “ Johnson’s Encyclopedia and Dic- 
tionary of Rural Affairs,” worth 5 03 
AH. For every man who sends ns 30 subscribers, 
the two back numbers of the Southern 
Cultivator, handsomely bound. 
All communications de.sigued for publication, 
must be addressed (dost paid) to James C amak, 
Esq., Athens, Geo.; and those on business, to 
the Publishers at Augusta, 
j. w. & W. s. JONES. 
13= Papers throughout the Southern States, 
friendly to the cause of Southern Agriculture, 
j will probably advance that cause by giving this 
Prospectus a few insertions and calling atten- 
tion thereto. 
Large yield of Cotton. — On the first of 
September, we received a letter from A. M. 
Cliett, of Houston county, in which he stated 
that from one acre of land, planted and cultiva- 
ted, in part, on the plan of Dr. Cloud, he had 
gathered in the month of August, 1028 pounds 
©f nice seed cotton, and that the stocks were 
bending under the weight ot the unmatured 
bolls. Mr. C. promised to furnish us at a subse- 
quent time with a more detailed account of the 
culture, &c., and the yield. We hope he will 
not omit to do so, when we shall take pleasure 
in laying them before our readers. 
Recipe for making Soft Soap. — Soft soap, 
of excellent quality., is made with 18 pounds of 
potash, 2 pounds of powdered rosin, and 2G 
pounds of strained grease. Pat the grease into 
the barrel first, and sprinkle the rosin over it; 
dissolve the potash in hot water, let itsettle, and 
pour off the solution upon the grease ; stir well, 
and add water to make one barrel of soap ; stir 
it weil every day for three or four days, and set 
it aside for use. 
Sheep. — The Hon. J. S. Skiuner, in a letter 
to the editor of the Prairie Farmer, makes the 
following remarks ; 
“ I am of opinion that the best sheep walks 
will at last be found in the hilly and mountain- 
ous portions of Virginia, the Carolines, and 
Georgia. 1 was lately in the Middlesex Mills, 
at Lowell, in which establishment alone they 
manufacture the fleeces of 1200 sheep a day 
throughout the year. And I was told by one of 
the proprietors that they got from the progeny 
of the Saxon sheep transplanted to Ohio, a sta- 
ple longer and as fine as that of the original 
stock. The workers in the factory own -SSO,- 
000 of the stock.” 
Cooking Food foe Swine. — Dr. Lee, in an 
article on pork making in the last N, G. Farm- 
er, says I — “From some experiments of my 
own, and considerable research into the publish- 
ed results of the experience of others. I am sa- 
tisfied that ten bushels of boiled potatoes, tho- 
roughly mixed with the pudding that can be 
made from three bushels of corn or peas, will 
make as much pork as twenty bushels of pota- 
toes, and six bushels of corn or peas fed raw,” 
