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At the Low Price of 25 CENTS PER Rates of Advertising. «5 Months. <n Ui A rQ -a A a ♦J a a 0 c 0 0 0 a 0 a s O* , 01 CO f ~4 ca 3 <0 H 1 $3 00 5 50 7 50 15 00 25 00 2 6 00 11 00 15 00 25 00 45 Oti 8 9 00 16 50 22 50 40 00 70 00 6 15 00 25 00 40 00 75 00 135 00 12 25 00 50 00 75 00 140 00 260 00 «EO. P. ROWELL & CO., 40 Park Row, New York, AND s« 31. PETTENGILL & CO., 37 Park Row, New York, Ajrrlcultu Are the sole agents for the Southern ust, in that city, and are authorized to contract for inserting advertisements for ns at our lowest cash rates. Advertisers in that city are reques ed to leave their favors with either of the above houses: G-nano for Cotton. Our Agents are authorized to sell our Guanos, payable in money or cot¬ ton at option of planter, on the basis of fifteen cents for Middling, de¬ livered at Planter’s nearest depot by 1st of November. This is a great inducement for planters to use Guauos, as they are guaranteed a good price for suffi¬ cient Cotton to pay for the Guano. Give iu your orders at once. WlLCOA, G*3B3 & Co. MAY, 1872. Green Manures. Mr, Editor —The Southern plant¬ ers cannot afford to buy the artificial manures for their land in sufficient quantity to do them any permanent good. They may bo able to apply enough per acre to tickle the land into producing an increased \Lddof cotton, and if they could be sure of receiving pound from twenty to twenty-five might cents per for the cotton find a little temporary profit in the operation. But as to renovating the land, restoring its fertility, giving back to the land what the crop takes from it, the fertilisers do not do this. Indeed, I am satisfied in my own mind that if land which has been stimulated year after year by the ap plication of Peruvian guano, and which by the use of this stimulant has produced good crops, were planted of now without the application any fertilizer, it would be found t« be less fertile than when the guano was first applied. Therefore, if I am right— and l tbiuk I am—we must look else¬ where for an efficient renovator ot our worn lands. Fertilizers will not do it. Iu the quantities whioh we can afford to apply, they are but a tem¬ porary expedient, leaving the last state of the land worse than the first. If we couH afford to put from 1000 to 1500 lbs. of pure grouud raw bone upon every acre of our cultivated land we could benefit it permanently. But we canont spend from $30 to $]( per acre for manure. Neither can we, so long as cotton continues to be our main crop, keep and feed a sufficient number of stock on our places to supply a sufficient quantity of stable manure to improve our laud materially in the sense of renovating it. We may do a great deal more than we do, but do our best and we cannot do enough. There is no way open to us which is within our means and compatible with our productions which will per¬ manently improve our fafins but green manuring. This is within our reach. It cost* but little and it is ef¬ fectual. Indeed I am fully persuaded it is better than any artificial manure The growing plants bring up from ] the subsoil so far as their roots have penetrated substances which promote their growth, and they bold these sub¬ stances in their stems aud leaves. When they are ploughed under in a green state they give to the surface* the supplies of plant food thus brought up from b»*low, and in addition, they give to it all the elements which the}’ have drawn from the atmosphere, than making it it richer before, and iu organic thus, of matter was course, increasing its fertility. Ploughing under vegetable growth in its greeu state is preferable to the application of stable manure, because all the or¬ ganic and inorganic matter is saved -—nothing is lost by decay from percepti¬ expo sure to the air. There is uo ble limit to the euriching p >wer of green manuring il continually repeat ed, and the process is especially suited to our worn lands, the vegetable entirely mat¬ ter of which has been ex¬ hausted by the barbarous skinning which has been practiced f<>r many years, and has been called cultivation. Vegetable matter is what they lack most, and this is exactly what green manuring gives them. Of all the greeu manures clover is the best, because it not only eurickcs the soil by contributing to it what its roots have drawn from beneath and its leaves have drawn from above, but it acts mechanically as a subsoiler, loos eniug and aerating the soil. The next best, in my judgment, is the common cow-pea, sown broadcast and very thickly—about two bushels to the acre. Instead ol pasturing our grain fields after the grain is cut, which is a direct injury to the laud by tramping and robbing it ot all protection against the broiling sun, and which is. therefore, execrable fanning, let us immediately after the crop is cut. sow peas bro .dcast and plow them in with the stubble. In this way the land is shaded dutiog the summer and in the fall a large supply of the best manure is turned under ready for the use of anoiber grain cn>p or for a crop of corn or cotton In the following spring * # # Errors, to be dangerous, must hive a great deal of truth mixed with them No. 8 Going into the lien Business .— Richard Cop**, Cohoes, N. Y., asks’ ‘'Would you advise a young man who is not strong enough for farming work, with about $1000, to embark iu the poultry business? If so, how much land would bo requ'red, and ucar what market to locate V’ Warren Lelaud answers : “I advise him to go in, hut not to go blind, or attempt everything the first year. I have had great success with chickens, aid if he will take live or fax rules from me, rules that e »st mo many a dollar to learn, he is welcome to them : 1. Give them range enough. Allow not less than an acre to a hundred. 2. K«-ep their r >osts and nests free of bee. This you can do with sulphur smoke and curbol c acid in the white¬ wash. 3. Feed high and give variety wh at and oats, and wrap cake as well as corn. 4. Make the good mothers nurses and give them great families, and k<*ep a separate nursery yard sodded with grass th it is not long. 5 Change roosters every spring, 1>. S e that they have plenty of dry ashes to wallow in, and use plaster to keep the roosts sweet smelling.— L — • ♦ •---- Feeding Xr tiles fo laying Hens .— The Vienna Agricultural and Forest Journal states that hens t**d iu the winter with chopped and boiled nettle leaves, or with the seeds, and kept in a warm place, will continue to lay daring the entire winter. The ex¬ periment was first a iggeatcd which by no¬ ticing the eagerness with both domestic and wild fowl devour the nettle leaves and seeds whenever the opportunity fa afforded. This pro ctivity is believed to be the reason why, with the enormous yield of seeds on the part of the 11 *ttle, com¬ paratively so few plants ^ring. It is stated also that in Denmark the seeds an l leave* of the nettle are fed very carefully to horses, after having been collected.—-AV -—- Chicken Clbtlera. —Benjamin Shep¬ pard, Cumberland county, N. J., says he has had great aucccsa iu checking chicken cholera. by adm.iiiatering a strong decoction of black-oak bark. It wa.a given to the fowfa by moistening the 1 feed with it. — Ft.