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r /} / v / / J v l > / * / / / / VOL. V. $Jt SouiJjern ^jritnltarisl IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT Savannah and Augusta, Ga, By W. 0. Maomukphy & Oo. At the Low Price of 25 CENTS PEN IP Rates of Advertising. a .d •s ai B co Ui w ■*-> a < S3 o fi a O a o o p a o £ £ O' CM w CM CO to 1 $3 00 5 50j 7 50 15 00 25 00 2 6 00 11 00] 15 0CN 25 00 45 00 3 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 1260 00 «£0. P. HOWELL & CO., 40 Park Row, Sew lorfe, AND s . Id. PETTESCILL & CO., 37 Park Row, Sew York, Agrlcultu Are the sole agents for the Southern i.jgt, in that city, and are authorized to contract ior inserting advertisements for us at our lowest cash rates. Advertisers in that city are requeu ed to leave their favors with either of the abovo houses. Farm Work for the Month. It not unfrequently happens that crops which have been cultivated all through the growing season with vigilant attention and skill aro care¬ lessly and untidily gathered. While the plows and the hoes and the sweeps can be worked, the interest is un flaggiog. but too often when the crop is laid by, tbo race is considered over, and it is thought both reason¬ able and proper to take a rest. On the contrary, now is the season for work, for vigilance, aud for economi¬ cal use of time. A crop made should be well gathered, and particularly is this true of cotton. The days are shortening rapidly. Every hour is precious. Inclement weather is com¬ ing, and it behooves us then to make every working moment tell during the usually bright and genial month OCTOBER, 187«. now before us, and, when Winter comes, to have as much of the crop as possible carefully housed. To allow cotton to blow about and become trashy and stained until there is a good picking, is a very false economy both of time and money. Pick as fast as the cotton opens. Try to keep up with the fields as fast as they open, and though you may not pick as much to the hand as would be possible by waiting, what is picked will be far cleaner and of greater value. Pick, to >, as clean¬ ly as possible, while time permits.— Tho days are coming when yon It must pick rapidly, trash and all. is very probable that this year buyers will be fastidious—will look for “choice lots,” and will, therefore, pick and choose. Those who have had their early cotton carefully and neatly haudied, will have the advan¬ tage, and will secure a price which will recompense them well for their extra care and expenditure of time. produ¬ Besides, we think that the cers ought to take a pride in Rending their crop to market in the best con¬ dition that is practicable, both as to picking, and ginning, and packing. CORN. We do not advise any one, while the weather is fine and fit for cotton picking, to stop his hands and go to gathering corn ; but there aro days when cotton cannot be picked, and when corn can be safely taken from the field and brought to the house. It does not hurt corn to be a little wot, and while we would not put away damp corn in bulk in the dibs, we know that it is safer to take it out of the field. There is a class of onr fellow citizens which is very much at dieted to employing moonshiny nights in the pastoral amusement of slip-shucking others’ corn in the field, and thus enriching themselves, to ihe serious loss of those by the sweat of whose brow the pom was made. The cure for this, and the only one we know, is to gather ami house the crop as quickly as may be. wheat. It has been our experience, and we believe it to bo universally true, that this is the best month to sow wheat. If our readers have given heed to our repeated adcice in regard to thia most valuable crop, they have their land set apart for wheat already prepared for tho sower—deeply and closely plowed, and finely pulver¬ ized. If this has not been done, let *o man expect to make a good wheat crop by sowing seed upon a rough, cloddy surface, covered with tufts of grass and weeds, scratched over once with a “bull-tongue.” We believe that on many plantations made where the attempt is now to raise cotton, and where the attempt is rarely very profitable, wheat could be grown with advantage, when the relative expenditure of labor, time and money is taken into account. It is true that wheat cannot be re¬ garded as a certain crop in many parts of the South, but it succeeds oftcuer than it fails, and when it docs succeed it is the best wheat in the market. Wc do not repeat here the improvement to the land from a rotation of crops, and the Increased supply of material for making manure which wheat raising affords, because wc taka it for granted that the*e facts are universally known and ac¬ cepted. Wheat should bo sown whon the land is dry. “Sow in dust” is an old and true maxim. Souk the seed for a few hour? before sow¬ ing iu a solution of blue-stone and roll in lime. PEAS. Save as many peas as other en¬ gagements will allow; but at all events gather and put away those which are needed for seed next year. If this work is left fur a “ wet spell when cotton and corn are out of tho way, it frequently happens that moldy and spoiled peas are gathered Spring. which will not sprout in tho Too little value is attached to this crop. It is usually wasted to a great degree, and yet as food for man and beast there are few better or moro nutritive crops. RYE AND BARLEY. We renew our counsel to sow as large a patch as can be well pre¬ pared of barley or rye, or a patch of No. each, as Wintor pasture. It is of no use to do this on !* any sort of a pieco of land,” and in any sort of a way. It should bo well done or not at all, and the better and richer the land, tho better will be the crop, and the greater the comfort which it will afford. OATS. It is still timo to sow oats, though it would have been better to have sown last month. CLOVER AND ORASS SEED. Tins raonth and early in November are tho best seasons to sow clover and tho grasses. Will those who do not believe that clover aud grass can be rained at the South oblige us by making the experiment ou a small scale. If they d>, we kaow they will repeat tho experiment on a wider area another year. SWEET POTATOES. When tho vines arc blackcnol by frost the potatoes should be dug, This work should nof bo delayed until the frost has been so severe as to penetrate the earth and reach the tubers.— Ex. An Important Fact in Grape Culture .—Wc would moution a laot which has come within our observa¬ tion und experience, which, if gener¬ ally true, is of some importance. It is this: That tbfc fruit-bud from tho base ol the last year’s cane throws out larger and better developed grapes than cither the first or second. The grapes from these buds seem also better flavored, and generally superior to thoee on the first and second. In accordance with this hint we have adopted tho plan of cutting the cane at such length as to leave tho third bud, generally, and sometimes the fourth, when a good strong one, and then rubbing off the first aud second buds, and leaving tho third and fourth for fruit. Tbo number of fruit buds left on the vine. If the viucs are strong and vigorous at three years, from two to three bunches of grapes may be allowed to mature on each without injury —Rural Pacific Press.