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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. -♦ « B 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 119