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Is an essential at this time to successful farming. We
must use manure of all kinds, in lieu of the negro. It
will not get lazy, it will not steal, it will not require feeding
and clothing, nor will we have to pay taxes for it. It is
all profit and no losses; for it works as faithfully when
we are asleep as when watching it. There are, beyond
doubt, other weeds in abundance, as valuable as those we 1
have mentioned, and possibly more valuable. Experi
ment alone will deeide for us, and if we can find upon cur
own lands, in a green manure, a potent substitute for
guano, w t c should by all means make use of it, in produ
cing bread, instead of wasting it, as we have heretofore
done. J. VAN BUREX.
ClarJicsville , Ga.
FLAK'” PROTECTORS,
Coverings for plants conduce greatly to rural economy,
and rt is a matter of surprise to us, that they are not more
generally used. An unexpected frost comes and nips the
cucumber and other vines, which, with a suitable protec
tion, would have been unharmed, The protectors arc easi
ly and cheaply made. A mere top-piece, say twelve dr
fifteen inches in lengtn’ with two end pieces, forming a
little stool, is sufficient. Whenever a frost is feared, the
young plants, with a very little trouble, can be covered
Willi them. On account of the night frosts, farmers gen.
erall v delay longer in twinging forward their garden vege
tables. than they would otherwise need to, if they made
use of coverings. They may also be used to advantage in
transplanting. Another use of them is, when the weather
is so dry that hills'of melons, squashes, &c. will not come
tip. Water Che hills with a fine rose watering pot, and lay
the protector over the hills, and the young seedlings will
soon make their appearance. When above the ground,
take off the protector and let the dew fall upon them at
night, and in a day or two dispense with it entirely.—
Tney are excellent, also, to put over the patches of new
ly planted flower seeds, causing them to come up much
sooner. Remove them when necessary, to admit mild
rains, and entirely when the plants appear. Try a few
of them, and you will find that they are better than flower
pots, which are generally used for these purposes, excel
ling in cheapness, convenience, and utility.
QUERIES FOR FRUIT MEN, NOIiTII OR
SOUTH,
Editors Southern Cultivator :—Will some of your
readers who have tried, please give information on the
following questions ?
Working men of 50 years of age, sav they have tried,
and know all will do, and do admirably. These men have
worked for large establishments—they are foreigners, but
been in the United States some 20 years or more.
Will the root of the crab-apple make a good stock for
the apple? Will the trees be as large as others, or semi
dwarfs ? Will the Osage Orange root make a good stock
for the apple ?
Will the Pear take, on the root of the red haw ? Will
the trees be dwarf?
This haw idea was first suggested by a Nurseryman,
who says, a farmer had trees thus grafted, and assured
him the junction was better than on the quince, and the
trees were really more healthy. I beg for light.
HENRY.
The Osage Orange will certainly be worthless for a
Btoek for the apple, belonging to a different natural fami
ly. This objection does not apply to the other stocks, but
we should not like to work upon them, except for experi
ment.—Ed. So. Cult.
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR.
Atples. —There is scarcely an article of vegetable food
more widely useful and more universally loved than tho
apple. Why every farmer in the nation has not an apple
orchard, where tiro trees will grow at all, is one of tho
mysteries. Let every family lay in from two to ten or
more bands, and it will be to them the most economical
investnunt in the whole range of eulinaries.
A raw mellow apple is digested in a hour and a half;
while boiled cabbage requires five hours. The most health
ful dess< rt which can he placed on the table, is a baked
apple. If taken freely at breakfast with coarse bread and
butter, without meat or flesh of any kind, it has an admi
rable effect on the general system, often removing consti
pation, correcting acidities, and cooling off febrile condi
tions, more effectually than the most approved medicines.
It families could be induced to substitute the apple,
sound, ripe and luscious, for the pies, cakes, candies, mid
Other sweetmeats with which their children are too of cn
indiscreetly stuffed, there would he a diminution in tho
sum total of doctor’s bills in a single year, sufficient to lay
in a stock of this delicious fruit for a whole season’s use.—
Hall's Journal.
Y ink. —Commenting on an article in the Cultivator,
the editor of the Macon Journal and Messenger says:
r lhe subject of grape culture and winemaking has
attracted much attention, for many years, in this State,
and it is time the question was settled, as to what grapo
is the best and most, sure of a profitable result to the culti
vator. Not bein', duly constituted a judge on this sub
ject, the writer will give his individual opinion. He has
now vines of the white and black Scuppernong of thirty
years ol age, from seed procured by Scott Cray, from
North Carolina—also vines from other sources. The
black is now extensively cultivated in some sections, as
producing wine of a better or more strength of body than
the white but does not yield an equal quantity of juice.
'1 here is a variety of the black but recently come to notice,
in the vineyard of Col. John Rutherford, in the vicinity
of this city, which ripens a month later than any other.
It is of an oval form, with a thin skin, very juicy, and ex
tremely productive. The writer would give, it as his view
of the subject, that every other vine might be abandoned
lor the Scuppernong, from Atlanta to the coast, as a mat
ter of profit.
The juice of the two kinds lias been mingled in the
making, and some consider it an improvement of the wine.
For this, the writer obtained the premium at the last Ag
ricultural Fair held at Augusta, over ull the other wines
exhibited.
3. ©. Mathewson & Cos.,
Formerly of Stovall , McLaughlin & Cos.
general commission merchants
AUGUSTA, GA.
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jManmi'e Depot!
HOYT’S SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIMB
5 Ton Lots, #63 00
Less, 68 00
BAUGH’S RAW-BONE PHOSPHATE.
Per Ton #7O 00
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
Per Ton. #BO 00
PERUVIAN GUANO, BONE DUST, &e.
Constantly on Hand.
Sept 1866
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