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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. —aci-a <>- • - - 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 NO. 4,