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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR 
manure have been recuintnended. Plowing in 
grass siuble immediately alter haying, and 
sowing in fresh grass seed, is one excellent me- 
thod ot improving Jdie soil. If grazing lands 
that are cleared of obstructions to die plow 
v.’ere managed in the same wg^ the farmer will 
find his labor to be w^dl Applied. Plowing in 
crops oi clover at fuj-l^ngth, and the using of 
Plaster of Paris to aid the growth ot the clover 
should in some cases be practiced. Every 
tanner should take an agricultural paper, and 
these should give out to the people in plain, un- 
varnished language the necessary knowledge. 
It young lawyers multiply upon us and con- 
trive by vile intrigues to sit in high places and 
hold agricultural skill and industry in the most 
sovereign contempt, there will yet be found a 
“redeeming spirit in the people.” J. E. R. 
Rumlord, September, 1844. 
Carried Away by Intense Feeling, — An 
anecdote ot ihe Attorney General of Massachu- 
setts is told in a late Boston paper. The 
worthy old gentleman must have been complete- 
ly carried away by his feeling.s, yet who can 
blame him! Read the story : 
The Attorney General, now eighty years of 
age, and said to be more competent to the dis- 
charge of the ardous duties of his honorable 
station than almost any practitioner, by expe- 
rience, as well as a remarkable retention ot 
mental power, was managing a case in behalf 
of the commonwealth in Middlesex county, 
where a man was indicted for gouging out the 
eyes of a girl, because she made oath that he 
w'as the father of her illegitimate child. 
Her brother, an intelligent lad ot nine years 
of age, was on the stand, as a governnaent wit- 
ness, and his relation of the fact which he saw 
produced an electrical effect on the whole au- 
dience. The girl w'as also present, in tolal 
blindness, and every ciicumstance attending the 
investigation of the horrible barbarity, was high- 
ly exciting. The boy stated the preliminary 
circumstance, and then said ; 
“I was cutting bean poles behind the barn, 
and my sister was milking. I heard her scream, 
and then I ran with a pole in my hand. As I 
came up I saw that he had pulled her over; then 
he looked over his shoulder, to see who was 
coming, and I struck him with the pole and 
broke his jaw.” 
“ Why did you not repeat the blow I” exclaim- 
ed the Atterney General, carried away by the 
remendous interest — why did you not repeat 
the blow, and knock his d— d brains out 1” 
“Mr. Attorney,” said the Judge, ‘^you well 
know that profanity in court is a high offence, 
pnnishanle with imprisonment: but in conse- 
quence of the unusual excitement of the case, it 
will in this instance be overlooked.” 
Mile . — There is a great difference in the num- 
ber of yards contained in a mile in different 
countries. The following table, showing the 
difference will be very useful to many persons 
as a reference : 
Mile in England or America 1760 yds. 
“ Russia 1100 “ 
“ Italy 1476 “ 
“ Scotland and Ireland 2200 “ 
“ Poland 4400 “ 
“ Spain 5028 “ 
“ Germany 5866 “ 
“ Sweden and Denmark 7223 “ 
“ Hungary 8800 “ 
Cut and Come Again. — A lady passing 
through Chartres-sireet yesterday, whose dress, 
in diversity of hue and richness of coloring, re- 
sembled a peripatetic flower-pot, dropped, un- 
known to herself, from her bonnet a snow-white 
plume, A gallant — with a turf of hair on his 
chin as large as that on the scalp of a Crow In- 
dian — who saw it fall, hastened to pick it up. 
Presenting it to her, he said — 
“ Madam, you have lost your wit; permit me 
to restore it to you — I say your wit, madam, 
because, you know, Pope says — 
‘A wil’s a iftalher — ’ 
Ha! ha! ha!” and he laughed at what he as- 
sumed to be his own smartness. 
“Yes, .sir,” said the lady, taking her plume 
from him, “ and the same author remarks, in 
connection with your quotation that — 
‘ A fool’s a rod — * 
Now, excuse me, sir, il, while thanking you 
lor my plume, candor co npels me to say that I 
look upon you as \.he greatest kind of a sapling.' 
Picayune. 
A Swinish Multitude. — The Cincinnati 
Chronicle says that at least 50,000 Hogs will 
reach that city this season from Kentucky alone. 
The larger portion of them have already ar- 
rived there. 
One house in Cincinnati cut up two thousand 
Hogs one day last week. 
Tender Mercy. — The N. Y. Evening Mir- 
ror states that a gentleman of that city bought a 
piece of property some years ago, lor S'20,000. 
He paid SIO.OOO “down,” and for several years 
the interest < n the balance. The mortgage he 
had gave was foreclosed, the property was bought 
tor a small sum and a decree entered tor the 
balance, which was about $10,000. The mort- 
gagee, not content w ith having his land back 
again and the $10,000, has filed what is called 
a creditor’s bill, to see if he cannot find some- 
thing more on which to lay his hands! This is 
the mercy which some creditors exhi dt. 
Sufcessful Railroad Managemont . — The Phi 
ladelphia U. S. Gazette says that the business 
ot the Western Railway, between Boston and 
Albany, will astonish many this season. The 
total revenue for 1842 was $522,688, last year 
$573,882, and this season it bids fair to reach 
one million dollars, being already $272,828 
aheatd of the amount received to a correspond 
ing period of 1843. 
COMTEMtS OF THIS HUMBER. 
®:ontniunfcatton». 
Remarks ot an Old Correspondent, 206 
Berkshire Hogs, 206 
Oration, delivered before the Alumni Society 
of Franklin College, by the Rev. Geo. F. 
Fierce, 201—202 
Selections, Hrtuacts, fcc 
Botany, • • • • 202 — 203 
Meiino Sheep, 203- ‘201 
Fruit at the South, 204 
Night-Soil, 204 
To our Pattons 205 
Who will get the Premiums, 205 
Views from the Pyramids of Egypt, Anecdotes, 
Facts, &c., 205 
New System of Manuring, 205 
The Smithsonian Bequest — Model Farm, 206 
Growth of Cotton in India- 206 
In Farming— Manuring is the principal thing,. 207 
Accumulation of Manures, 207 
Manure, .207— ‘208 
B ACON’S L.AKD 1_AMPS. — A new 
article, superioi to all others for this pur- 
pose, emitting a good clear light without smell or 
smoke, and at an expense, counting Lard at 8 
cents a pound, of about a quarter of a cent an 
hour. 
These Lamps have been satisfactorily tested, 
and are recommended as “just the thing” for 
the use of planters, and all others who study utili- 
ty, neatness and economy. 
A supply of the above Lamps, with Fillers and 
Wicks for them. For sale by 
HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO. 
jy 24-d.c&Cultf 
TEXAS COTTOX SEBD. 
T he subscriber offers for sale, Cot- 
ton Seed of very superior quality. The 
original stock was procured in Texas, and culti- 
vated on his plantation in Newton county, for 
the last three years, with extraordinary success. 
The yield is much larger, and the quality superior 
to the Petit Gulph or other kinds of Cotton usu 
ally grown in this section of country. 
Planters who purchase a supply of the seed 
may rely upon sufficient increase in product of 
the first crop to refund the outlay for seed. 
Planters who take an interest in improvements 
of this sort, are referred to the annexed certifi- 
cates, and the Cotton raised from the seed may 
be seen at me wareiiuuses oi Adams Ot Hop‘'.in3 
and Clark & Roberts. 
JOHN W. GRAVES. 
A supply of the above described Cotton Seed 
is offered lor sale at the following places, at five 
dollars per bushel : 
Adams & Hopkins’s Warehouse "I 
Clark & Roberts’s do. ( 
D’Antignac & Evans’s do. ^Augusta. 
Hand & Williams’s Store, J 
McKinley & Martin’s Store, Madison. 
Hill, Morrow & Hill’s Store, ) o 
D. Dickson & Co.’s Store, ^ Social Circle 
Georgia, Newton County: 
I hereby certify that 1 obtained from John W*. 
Graves, of this county, a sack of Cotton Seed, 
(which he represented of superior quality intro- 
duced from Texas,) which I planted last spring, 
and find to exceed my most sanguine expectation. 
I planted it two or three weeks after my other 
cotton, (which is the Petit Gulph,) and notwith- 
standing the season w s dry and unfavorable 
throughout the year (the growing season) yet it 
is by far the best cotton I ever made. I think by 
the time it is all gathered, the best part will yield 
2000 to 2500 pounds per acre. My neighbors who 
have seen it are of the same opinion. From the 
trial I have made, I believe it will yield double as 
much as my other cotton on land of the same fer- 
tility [Signed] Jackson Harwell. 
24th October, 1844. 
Georgia, Morgan County: 
This is to certify that I am neighbor to JehnT 
McNeil, Esq., and that he last spring got a lead 
of Texas Cotton Seed from John W. Graves, 
Esq., oi Newton county, and planted them on 
what I consider average land of his farm ; aad 
from frequent observation of the crop, with his 
other cotton, (which is the Petit Gulph,) I do be- 
lieve it will far excel any other cotton I have ever 
seen raised in this section of country. And I 
also believe that the staple ex.’els any other I 
have ever examined, as to fineness and color. 
[Signed] John P. Evans. 
This will certify that I acted as overseer for 
Mr. John T. McNeil for the year 1 844. My know- 
ledge of farming induces me to believe that the 
Texas Cotton, raised by Mr. McNeil this year, is 
a very superior article, and with me preferable to 
any other cotton I have everraised. It is of long 
and fine staple, and well boiled, and easily picked 
out, and has withstood a drought this year better 
than the Petit Gulph Cotton. It is, in a word, a 
valuable cotton I have ginned eight bales of the 
Texas Cotton on Mr. McNeil’s Carver Gin, and 
find that it yields one pound of clear cotton from 
three of seed cotton ; and from my experience of 
thirty years in cotton growing, I have never rais- 
ed any I think equal to the Texas Cotton. 
[Signed] Allison Kent. 
Augusta, October 30, 1844. 
John W. Graves, Esq.: 
Dear Sir — Having been called on by you to 
make a statement in relation to your Texas Cot- 
ton, w’e take pleasure in saying, that for the last 
two or three years we have received at our ware- 
house your cotton crops. The quality has inva- 
riably proved very superior, both as to color and 
length of staple. On sale, it has always brought 
the highest market price. We consider il a very 
superior article in the cotton line. 
Your obedient servants, 
Adams &, Hopkins. 
Mr. John T. McNeil : 
Dear 8ir — We have received the two bales of 
Texas Cotton sent by you to us, and take pleas- 
ure in saying that in color and length of staple it 
is superior to anything we have seen ; and cheer- 
fully recommend it as such as will always bring 
the highest market price. 
Your obedient servants, 
n5-wp&Ctf Clark & Roberts. 
PRINCE’S 
liinnsean Botanic Garden and Nurseries, 
flushing, L. I., near new YORK. 
^ THE New Descriptive Cata- 
I? logues (which have cost over 8700) of the 
REES, Plants, and Seeds at this Establish- 
ent, will be sent gratia to every post paid ap- 
icant by addressing 
WILLIAM R. PRINCE & CO. 
FlusWagi Dec. 4, 1844. 
