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BUY EARLY. We would urge upon Planters the importance ol making early purchases of Fertilizers for their next crop, so they can save time, labor and expense in hauling it home when they send their crops to market. To encourage their doing so, and specially to induce tlfem to use the PHCENIX GUANO MIXED WITH COTTON SEED, which, as will be seen from the statements following, has been proved to be the best and cheapest iei tilizcr that can be used, we will sell our Guanos on the fol¬ lowing liberal terms: • $57.50 • Ton. Phoenix Guano, - - per Guano, Salt and Plaster Compound, 65.00 Wilcox, Gibbs & Co.’s Manipulated, 70.00 ($1 per ton drayage added.) On Credit to let of November , 1873. A discount, at rate of H per cent, a month will be de¬ ducted for Cash, or payment may he made at any time before the maturity of the notes, and a discount at same rate (1J per cent, a month) will be allowed for the unexpired time. WILCOX, GIBBS & CO., Charleston, S. C., and Savannah, Ga. Extraordinary Yields from the Use of the Phoenix Guano and Cotton Seed Mixture referred to above, taken from tne sworn statements of the awarded contestants by the for Cotton Special States Premiums M. & A Fair Association, held at Augusta, Ga. October 22, 1872. MR. J. W. STORY, of CLAYTON CO., GA., received the first premium, $200—his yield being as follows, from the use of 400 lbs. of the compost, per acre: Yield on 5 acres with the compost, seed cotton, 6,500 lbs “ “ 5 “ without manure “ - 1,750 “ Increase on 5 acres, - 4,750 lbs or 050 lbs per acre, nearly 300 percent, over natural production, giving a net profit at present price of cotton of over 600 per cent!! MR. J. W. F. LITTLE, of HARRIS COUNTY, GA., received the second premium, $150—his yield being as follows: Yield on 5 acres with the compost, seed cotton, (>,802 lbs u a “ without manure, - - 2,437 “ Increase on 5 acres, - 4,455 lbs or 891 lbs. per acre, giving a net profit of about 550 per cent!! Dr. W. B. JONES, of BURKE COUNTY, GA., received the third premium, $100—his yield being as follows : Yield on 5 acres, with the compost, seed cotton, 4,680 lbs “ “ “ without manure, - - 1,556 u Increase on 5 acres, 3,124 lbs or 625 lbs. per acre, giving a net profit of about 375 per cent 1! on very thin, gray, sandy land, which had been long exhausted from continued cropping seventy years, and which had never received an application before of any commercial ifcrtilizer. MR. W. D. SCARBOROUGH, of SUMTER CO. S. C., received the 4th premium, $50—his yield being as follows, with 320 lbs. of the compost, per acre : Yield on 5 acres, with the compost, seed cotton, 3,810 lbs « “ 5 “ without manure “ “ - 1,510 “ Increase on 5 acres, - 2,3u0 lbs or 460 lbs. per acre, giving a net porht of about 350 per cent!! Plaster for as Strawberries. a Special Manure An Illinois fruit grower having been reported in the Praric Farmer as raising astonishing crops of berries by the use of plaster as a fertilizer, and considerable interest beiDg elicited thereby, ho publishes the following statement, which we deem of sufficient interest to reproduce : Tiiou The place is near South Pass, 1 county, Illinois, on a high dry ridge. Soil a very highly comminuted,highly silieious loam, forty years in cultiva¬ tion, without manure, and pretty thor¬ oughly worn ; too poor to raise corn; not capable of raising a crop, as proved by trial, producing but a meagre show of stalks and nubbins. Knowing it would not be worth the labor of setting it in strawberries without special care, I had it subsoiled with a Mapes the subsoil plow, which follows in furrow of a common plow and lifts the subsoil without turning it on top, the whole worked fourteen to sixteen inches deep Plants set in Spring, as soon as plowed, and a very little rotted barn¬ yard manure added on tlip surface after the plants were set. More would have been be tter. I sent to Chicago for land plaster, which cost, delivered at our station, 325 miles by rail, $3 50 per bbl., and applied it to the strawberries at the rate of half a tablespoonful to a hill. They were set in rows three-and one-half feet apart and fifteen inches in the row. Rows four feet apart is a better distance. Kept clean with horse cultivator and hoe. What few runners appeared, cut off. As tin* season was dry, they were set late, and didn’t make much progress. One year after they were set out, a second application of plaster was made, rather less than bef re. Would have also applied barnyard manure lmd it been obtainable. Cultivated as before, and this season, 1870, they make a splen¬ did growth, runners 'veil clipped ; and the following year, 1871, or two years from time of planting, was rewarded with the finest yield probably ever seen in that section. The whole quant ity "f land was one acre and nine-P nths. Of this amount about ouc-half an acre did not k<'< ive as good treatin' nt as the b.dunce and produced coujp.uutiv ly less, it probably did not yield m< rc than twenty bushels. The whole quantity produced was 242 0 10 bushels. Of this amount, 141 bushels were given away to friends. The balance realized, gross, $1,128 Go; net, clear of everything, $817.00, They were marketed in the usual way commission in Chicago, by consignment to a merebaut, and not being among the earliest, took the average price, except so far as their fine size and appearance helped their Bale. bed Variety is Wilson’s Albany. The was not properly cultivated last year, and a full yield is not expected this season, that might have been got from it with good attention. At the same linn- piaster was a; plied yield to a piece of corn of s;x :xuv- . The ize was largely merer* !, b th in of stalks and ears. Yot being there at the time of gathering, no re¬ liable figures as to the amount wore obtained. To those not familiar with the use of plaster, I would say its best ''fleets are apparent on light soils, and those much worn, and to have a continued good result, manure must also be added, or the laud will be stimulated into a worse exhaustion. As a means of renovating worn land, with the aid of clover, it is very valuable. Sow clover and stimulate its growth with plaster, sown lightly broadcast, over it, and when fully grown, turn it under. r l his may bo done late enough to make tlie clover re seed the land, and wlicu it is set anew the following Spring, plaster agaiu. There is no other way as cheap as this to renovate old land, or to improve the quality of good quality. — Horticulturist. Pruning the Raspberry. Canes which have once borue fruit bear no more. Hence, these should be removed as foou as the fruiting season is over, cut off close to the ground, so that the young canes may have more room aud air. At the same time due regard must bo paid to the thinning out of the new ones, removing all that promise to be weak¬ ly or slender. Since wo depend on the strength of the current year’s growth of wood for our next year’s crop, any process which will conserve the vigor and concentrate the energies of the young plant is deserving of regard. Summer pruning and pinch¬ ing we deem a valuable means to this end. The young plant, when it has attained about the height of three feet, should be pinched off branches at the tip; this will cause the side to dev lop, which in turn should bo subject to similar treatment when from six to eight inches long. This pinching should be repeated, it neces¬ sary, but should not b>’ continued too late in the Fall, since it would cause a late growth of tender wood. which would sutler during Winter. It might bo practiced safely enough till about the beginning of September, aud any .subsequent growth not wonted might be removed by a light Hpiiog pruning. This method we regard on mm h less wasteful than that of al¬ lowing the Hammer'd growth fo pro¬ ceed unchecked throughout the sea¬ son, aud then prune hack in the Spring to a preper height. l>y this latter method the plant is allowed to waste its strength m the unnecessary pro¬ duction of wt>od, which must be re¬ moved, and the growth is often long and slender ; while in the former ease all its energies arc coneentiab d in the development of a stocky, well ripened cane, far better fitted to bear its des¬ tined weight of fruit the ensuing sea¬ son. This treatment is equal,y appli¬ cable to the black caps, unless- where it is desirable to rais * new plants ; tint; the natural extension of the cane, or portions of it, must be allowed. IF. Saurufcrs, in Er.