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Southern Agriculturist 18 PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT Savannali and Augusta, Ga. By W. 0. Maomubphy & Uo. At the Low Price of 25 CENTS PEN Rales of Advertising. p o* A a p o rP a co P o Months.! 3 S cii p o X 3 cs o C a H w rH c* i3 to rH _ _ , 1 $3 00 5 50 7 50 15 00 25 00 •2 6 00 11 00 15 00 25 00 45 00 8 9 00 10 50 22 50 40 00 70 00 fr 15 00 25 00 40 00 75 00 135 00 12 25 00 50 00 75 00 140 00 2 GO 00 <15!0. P. ROWELL & €0., 40 Park Row, Sew York, AND s« ITI. PETTESr.ILL & CO., 37 Park Row, Sew York, Aro tlio sole agonts for tho Soutliorn Agrlcultn pst, in that city, and aro authorized to contract for inserting advertisements for us at onr lowest cash rates. Advertisers in that city aro requested to leavo their favors with either of tho abovo houses' Farm Work for the Month. There is no month in the entire Autumn which can bo so entirely de¬ voted to cotton picking as September. The time for gathering the corn crop has not arrived. It is too soon to sow wheat. The job work about the place is, or ought to be, all done, and except sowing rye, barley, oats and turnips for the stock, all hands can give their undivided time and energies to which the great work of saving tho crop has cost so much to make, and for the sake of which so many sacrifices are made. If planters would begin flicking early in September, and try to keep up with the crop as it opens, the work would l>e much better done, and the staple would be much cleaner and more valuable than where the work is delayed until the open cotton gots SEPTEMBER, ahead of the laboring force, and is then done in a hurry, involving trashy cotton full of hulls, leaves and dirt, which necessarily depreciates the value of the staple. Especially is this tho case in years of heavy crops when buyers, always ready to make the standard as low as possible, arc more than ordinarily fastidious and discrimi¬ nating. We are no prophet, but we shall bo much surprised if, unless some unfor seeu calamity occurs, tho cotton mar¬ ket opens as brisk and as high as many sanguine producers seem to think. Let us, therefore, do all that is in our power to maintain the valuo of our cotton by clean picking and neat handling. The first pickings, while the seed aro green, if put away in bulk, aro very liable to heat, unless they are well sunned and occasionally stirred, so that the air can get through them. A slight, heating, such as will extraot a small portion of the oil from tho seed, and give the lint a creamy tint, is desirable, but great care must bo taken that this heating is not over¬ done. Cotton put away wet from rain or dew should not bo allowed to re¬ main so long, but within a short time it should bo stirred thoroughly, sunned aud aired. If cotton is gather¬ ed in good condition, we think that allowing ic to lie in the gin-house for somo weeks before it is ginned, im¬ proves tho appearance and quality of the staple. CORN. Toward the end of this month, corn should be gathered ou all laud in¬ tended to bo sown in wheat next month or in November, so that plenty of time may be given to prepare the ground thoroughly. BARLEY, RYR, OATS. This is the month to sow barley and rye for pasture. It will take but little time to sow a large barley or rye patch, and nothing ou the tarrn pays better in money or oomfort. These grains, sown this month, afford the best pasture during the winter and as lato as March, and after that a good crop of grain besides. While there is yet time, let provision be made for an abundance of food for th« stock in Winter, so that wo may not bo reduced to tho alternative of half feeding them, or buying the bales of Northern rubbish commonly called hay, which not only costs a great deal in actual cash outlay, hut almost in¬ variably involves factors’ advances, liens, mortgages, and ultimate ruin. Tho best and heaviest crops of oats wo have ever raised, and we have ever seen, were sown about tho middle or end of this month, on ground which had been previously well prepared and well manured. Wo reoommend thick sowing on rich land. Before severe frosts come, tho oats will have attained growth and strength to resist, but even if they arc winter killed here and there, enough will be left to yield a fiue crop next year, which will ripen early enough to escape rust. • We strongly adviso our friends to plant as largely as circumstances will permit of this most valuable of all crops for stock food. We aro satisfied from repeated experiment that food oats are a better and healthier for horses and mules than corn, and it needs no argument to oonvinco any one that they aro a much cheaper crop than corn. T EAS Should bo picked as fast as they ripen. Turning tho hogs looso among the peas is a wasteful and expensive operation. It is much botfor to gather the peas, cure the vines for hay, and let the hogs only do tho work of gleaners. TURNIPS. It is time still to sow turnips and make a good crop. If the seed sown in July and August has failed to pro duce a good stand, sow over again, and if on looking ovor the place you find a nice rich spot that you overlooked in July, put it in turnips by all means. The more turnips, rye, barley and oats pasture you have, the fuller will to your corn crib when planting time conies again. We have recently seen it recom¬ mended to sow turnips in July or Au¬ gust in a seed bed, just as you bow cabbage for transplanting, and when the plants arc largo onoRgh to trans¬ IV o. 12 plant them as you would sweet potato slips. The advantages of this mode aro said to be a great saving of seed, a certain protection against drought, because tho bed can bn constantly ‘watered, and un effective preventive against the fly, became within the limited bounds of a seed bed this pest can be easily destroyed. Besides this a stand can bo always secured, the expense of thinning avoided, and a large yield of good sii d roots of oven size obtained It is too' late to try this mode of planting this year, but it may be worth a trial next year, and in the meantime its advantages and disadvantages may bo discussed. CLOVER IKED. Order and obtain a Huflioicnt sup¬ ply of clover seed from an honest seedsman fur sowing next month. Let every reader of Ibis paper have a clover patch at least, and before long tho patch will grow into a field. WOODLAND r ASTW IlK.H, On days when cotton cannot be piekctL the time may bo well and profitably employed by preparing a piece ol woodland for a pasture. This preparation consists in cutting out trees not lit for lumber, grubbing up the undergrow th, and breaking up tho ground with a bull-tonguo. Later, when the time oonies to sow the seed, the ground should be harrowed before sowing, and then the seed should bo covered by running a brush harrow over it. Orchard grass and red clover mixed are the best seed to sow.— So. Farm and Home. - - • • • — An old woman observing a sailor going by her door, and supposing it to be her son Billy, cried out to him : “Billy, where is my cow gone ?” The sailor replied in a contemptuous man¬ ner, “Gone to the d—1 for what I know.” “Well, as you are going that way," said the old woman, “I wisli you would just let down the bars.” “Pattick, has your sifter got a sou or a daughter ?" “I know not,” ."aid he, “whether I am an uncle or an aunt.” •