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FOR THE PLANTATION, THE OAHHEN AND THE FAMILY CIRCLE.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year ISOO, hv \\ m. N. White, in the Clerk’s Office of the IbsLiet of
the United States, lot the Northern District of Georgia.
VOL.. XXV.
TUB SOLTfIERN (CLTIViTOR.
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I>. UEMIOND & WITC, N. WZSITSS, Editor*.
CONTENTS OF PRESENT NUMBER.
AGRICULTURAL.
ork for the Month. . 95
My Crops, 96
Sheep for the South,. . 96
Cultivation ol Cotton, 97
Manure, 90
Manures. . . 100
Spaying Cows 101
Experience of a Practi
cal Farmer 101
Grass for Sandy Land, 102
Letter from an Expe
rienced Planter.... 102
Ohio Sorgo Associat’n, 103
Corn and Fodder. .. . 103
Peruvian Guano 103
Kitchen Garden,.... 113
Culture of Vegetables, 113
Fruit Garden 114
Onions, 114
Calomel for Trees. ... 115
Cutworms 115
Hedge riant Wanted, 115
Gardening for Women 115
Scuppernong Grape. . 116
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.
Keeping Hams, 121
Spear’s Solution 121
Drying Clothes 121
John Hickson 122
Bress de Lord I’se Free 123
Our General Agent. . 125
Notices, 125
Egyptian Corn, 126
Hock Island M’f’g Cos. 126
University of Georgia, 126
The Situation 126
The Wheat Cr0p,.... 127
Abortion of Cows.... 127
Advice of an old Man, 104
Raise Food Crops,. . . . 104
Design for a Dwelling. 105
GemesMunro Again.. I<>7
Herds Grass, &c 108
Agricultural Implcni’ts 109
Texas Grasses, 109
What ail may d0,.... 110
Grasses for the South, 110
What industry will do, 111
Deep Ploughing 11l
Farming not Planting, 112
Tea.... . 112
The Steam P10w...... 112
HORTICULTURAL.
Peaches in Texas,.... 117
Notes on Grape Cult. 117
Howto Raise Onions, 118
Weeds, 118
riant Protectors, .... 119
Queries for Fruit Men, 119
Wine 119
Scuppernong Grape,. . 120
Superphosphates, .... 120
The Piano Forte,.... 121
Pastry 121
Cisterns 121
THE FIRESIDE.
Books and Exchanges, 124
EDITORIAL.
Livingston F’mer’s Club 127
Editorial Notices 127
Inquiries—lmplements 128
Don’t Feel Easy 12S
Chinese Cabbage Seed, 128
Keeping Turnips,. . . . 128
Journal Horticulture.. 128
ATHENS, CA., A FISK., 1867.
AGXIIOU LTTJ R A L
AVOIIKL FOR THE 2TZOKTH.
The heavy rains and consequent Hoods of the early part
of March, have much retarded all the preparations for put
ting in crops—but few days comparatively in that month
being fit for ploughing, bedding or planting.
Corn. —Though the cotton planting season is at hand,
do not fail to put in plenty of corn. Ail lands intended
for cotton, that are imperfectly and roughly prepared, had
better be devoted 10 corn and other crops. The necessa
rily high rates we are now paying for corn, when the ex
pense of several hundred miles of transportation lias to
be added to the original cost of production ; its current
high price where produced, and the fact that our railroad
communications with the Northwest al*e liable to bo broken
up by such floods as we have had the past month, admon
ish us to plant a large crop of this great staple. Make
our own corn cheap and abundant. Corn will render la
bor cheaper and easier to obtain. Cotton is a great crop,
but we have yet to see the planter that from small begin
nings has made himself a fortune, who has confined his
agricultural operations to the production of cotton. The
thriving planters of our acquaintance, while they made
cotton the main product, looked sharply after other crops,
and somehow did it too, without seyming to make little
if any less of the staple than their neighbors. Besides
cotton to sell, they generally managed to have plenty of
corn, wheat, peas, potatoes and bacon for home consump
tion and in their carefulness to make a sure thing of this,
ordinarily had something over. We] don’t think it the
present interest of the planting .States to make wheats
corn or bacon for export, but we do believe they should
produce enough for home consumption. The time spent
in hauling corn some miles from the depot, would do a
good deal towards producing it at home. Add to this tho
fact that on most plantations, about corn enough to run
them can be made, without any material interference with
the production of cotton, and then the other fact, that
the man who n akes both corn and cotton has, in a bad
year, two chances to escape utter failure ; for, if his corn
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