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104 For the Southern Cultivator. WHAT AN OLDMAN ATOULB JEJO 3F HE WERE NOW He would marry a clever, respectable, good-looking, in. tellectual, health}’, well-connected young woman, and love her and nerve her with the utmost fidelity, as lone an life should continue her to him as a wife. If any fool does not understand the sense and duty and pleasure of this, upon the naked suggestion, he would not understand the argument in support of it, and I therefore pro termft it. He would try, in an humble modest way, to do the will of God ; and in his relations to all men, lovingly to “ work righteousness.” He would b) some hom st moans—for cash, or on credit — by purchase, gift, or inheritance, own a “ tract. ” of land in middle Georgia, or 3 quuiter sections in Alabama— not less than 200 acres, nor more than 210. Here he wouid fix his earthly home, for the whole term of hi* natural life., and having plain, substantial houses, and commodious out houses and she'tors, with one hundred ami fifty acres of open land, besides orchards, garden, patches, lots, Ac., lie would begin to cultivate his farm. This farm he would divide into three equal fields, of 50 acres each, and employ 8 hands, and give them 4 good mules, and a yoke of oxen to cultivate it with. He would plant 1000 walnut trees. Twenty or thirty years lienee, their yield of nuts and timber, would be worth a large sum, lie would plant 5 acres in fig trees, and learn how to dry, preserve and pack the figs into boxes for market.— After a few years the proceeds would be n profit of a thou sand dollars annually. [Fortunes will yet be made in the preparation of fig preserves and pickles at the South, for Northern markets.—Ed. So. Cult.] He would plant 5 acres in Scappernong Grape Vines. In a few years the wine would be worth several thousand dollars annually. lie would plant 5 acres in Sugar Cane, and manufacture his own Syrup and Molasses, and a little surplus. lie would cultivate 6 acres of Cabbages, with the plow, and use them in making sloj>s for milch cows, and to fat ten hog*. This, with plenty of turnips, sweet potatoes, (none are half equal to the yam,) and hay , would always secure milk and butter in abundance. He would level his land—gather all the loose rocks to the low places where the soil would wash out of his fields, and if rock was at hand, would make rock fences at those places, so that no .soil should escape, and no rain-water either. lie would cut his ditches on a -perfect level, draw the dirt on the upper side, fill up low places, use the ditch es for guide rows, end to protect bottoms from inundation, and he would manure the hi//-tops. lie would manufacture fen tons of compost, at a cost of not more than one ton of Guano, or any popular Super phosphate, possessing, in value to crop and soil, .twice the value of the single ton of commercial manure. In anotli cr article, he will tell something about how to do this. lie would read the Bible, pray and play with Ins chil dren—comfort and encourage his wife—be just and libe ral to to his laborers—avoid political prejudices, and the bitterness of party strife, and as to the corrupting, dr moralizing diabolism ts rcliglen,s sectarianism, ho would try to forget that. bunian nature is capable of it. SOUTHERN CULTI VAT(>R. lie would do his part to respond to the smile of God, and make his country a garden — a home—a temple—a tower of strength ! Os beauty and of guidance top, a Star ! May ages contemplate my native land ! V Idle tempests shake the warring world ajar, God shelter her, beneath His mighty hand ! T he maiden flowers, within her quiet vales, Bloom safely, far from where rude War prevails f W Alt WICK. The /fills, near Auburn, Lee co., Ala., Feb. 26, 1867. — •*> ► ■*£*—« - ■ - -* 12A8SIS FOOD CHOPS, Editors Fouthkhn Cultivator :— Will von, as a favor to our poor Cotton stricken countrymen continue Irving to impress upon all that plant a seed of cotton this year, the absolute necessity of raising plenty of provisions first, and then what cotton they can. For.as you sav they will get more money for a small crop than for a large one, and have less tax to pay, be independent of extortion prices from our V estern corn raisers, and make them feel less independent— stop the flow of Southern wealth into Nor thern pockets, and instead of being the poor dependant fools that we arc likely to become, if we rely on the North and A\ est to feed us, wc can, by raising plenty < f provisions of all kinds, have more time to raise manure, to ditch, and to improve cur farms in various ways, and thereby conduce to our comfort and happiness, ami be and feel as independant as any people can feel, occupying cut political position. We should also become our own Man ufacturers, and encourage all enterprises that aid in estab lishing the independence of our section. Here we arc, although the war lias been stopped so short a time, cloth ing our families with Northern-made calico and homespun and hats and bonnets strutting ourselves around in North ern made boots and shoes—riding in Northern busies patronizing Northern tailors—wearing Northern made coats, pants, Ac. Who could believe that so short time ago, we were trying to cut each other’s throats, and hav ing Northern mercenaries robbing us of our spoons, knives and forks, watches, gold and silver, and even to our baby wearing clothes—to say nothing of our blood, and the deprivation of the right of choosing our rulers? And now five-sixths of the very men that were engaged in deadly conflict against the North, are exerting themselves in every possible way, to enable those who are evidently still our enemies, to buy clothing cheap, and to sell every thing they possibly can make to us, at as dear a rate as possible, by depending on them, even to raise our bread and bacon—to say nothing of the thousands of other things. May Providence awaken our people to a sense of their true situation, and give them foresight and sense to per ceive what is the proper course for them to pursue, in re lation to this momentous subject. Marion Cos., Ga. — The Cambridge (Ga.) Argus says there is a decided im provement in the Agricultural prospects of that section.— I here are fewer merchants , and more farmers than lost f a Paj d thetreedmen are improving .m their habits and manners, and seem to realize more the necessity of work ing for a living.