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Jlg&p . .. 'vSSjk % Jjnutkil nnb Skirntific *lhga;iiit, FOR THE PLANTATION, THE GARDEN AND THE FAMILY. CIRCLE VOL. A:xvi. See GovCi: Terms, &e. WM. A W. L. JONES, Editors and rnontiKTous. I). REDMOND, Augusta, Ga., Corresponding Editor . Agricultural flcptinnit. MGISk FOR r riftl£ .MONTH. Rate coni will be laid by this month. r i’he last work ing should be very carefully done—the plow furrows run so close to each other that no irregulaiity of surface can l)e seen—and the hoes should follow and kill every sprout, weed or spear of grass ; the corn needs every thing in the land to enable it to develope its grain. Re member that its roots are now to he found everywhere ; be - careful not to cut them, when the intense heat of the sun, acting upon its full grown leaves, is causing an immense evaporation of moisture, which must be supplied through the roots. All are familiar with the experiment of Hales on the evaporation of water from the leaves of plants.— He'‘planted a sunflower in an air-tight vessel, the top of which was sealed hermetically, by a leaded cover. This cover was pierced by two holes: one for.the passage of the stem of the plant, the other for the introduction of the water necessary for its growth. For a fortnight, the apparatus was regularly weighed, and our ingenious ex perimenter found that the green parts of the sunflower ‘threw olf about twenty ounces of water in twelve hours of the day< The evaporation was always increased during dry and warm weather ; moist air lessened it; during the j night season, the evaporation was sometimes no more than 3 ounees,and it occasionally happened that it was nothing. Such facts point out the necessity of giving plants, that develope in the summer, plenty of elbow room to enable them, in dry weather, to gather moisture from a greater breadth of land—of deep plowing in tile preparation of the land, to enable them to gather moisture from a thicker Stratum of soil—arid at this season ol the year, of stirring only the surface, to avoid cutting the roots, which mu-t ramify in every direction to collect the scanty supply. — The oftener the surface can be stirred the better, in «.s much as surface soil retards very much ATIIBCNS, «A., JULY, 18«8. j evaporation of hater from that surface. All that has . been said about corn applies to sorghum also, the two crops requiring the same general treatment. Except in the rich alluvial lands, of the West, cotton is still small ■ enough to demand frequent plowings and hoefngs—these should he continued as long as no injury results from breaking off of limbs, Ac. Tney should be repeated fn </uent/f/} to insure continuous , steady growth, so essential to the retention of itw fruit; nnd here again, wo urge shallow plowing—all that is needed, is a pulverised sur face,.to admit air and gasdfc, and to prevent too 'rapid evaporation. With cotton, it is more important, even i than in the ease of corn, that not a bunch of grass re main unkilled. For the management of the sweet po tato crop, consult the articles published in previous j numbers' of the Cultivator, of this year, Tn the warmer parts of the South, where the seasons are long, slips and j cuttings of the vine may still he planted, with good prospects of making roots. In the more northern and elevated regions, they seldom produce much, when put out later than dune—with very favorable seasons, how- I ever, they may succeed. Wheat should be threshed as i early as possible, and thoroughly dried in the sun—the thorough drying not only prevents destruction by insects, . but adds greatly to the value of the flour produced from it. About noon, when the wheat is hot, burn out bar rels or boxes, bv setting fire to a little straw Irk. them and whilst they are still h-% store away the wheat in them. ’r* % Sow down with peas broadcast, oriu drills, the land from which wheat and oats have been taken, either for turning under as a green crop or for hay. He -veur We drilled peas upon an oat Hold, running one furrow U pping the peas and listing on tfiem with. u rroWjL Jioutany further plowing or hoeing, gathered oof vines for hay. Remember that reCeiindicate this month to be one of the best for'OfcUwKffinafaer to make it last well. If opportunity offer all the posts, Ac., that will be needed next %*.£,■ r, one tell us \vheth-> er rails split at this scuttojf last4*vtlC*i it ill those, split iu, . w inter i ■ - Z if' Nothing so adorns the face as cheersi * wftetk the heart is in flower, its bloom and oeuuty pass to tip* features, J fs - * ' > * NO. -r.