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NOTE FROM ITll£. GIFT.
Editors Southern Culti vakor : —Owing to the delay
in receiving the June number, I shall not be able to file
inv replication in the cause of llomk Made vs. Commer
cial Manures before the 15th ; hence I ask for further
time. Rest assured, however, that I will be on hand,
fully prepared to recapture and hold every position occu
pied in my first paper. By the bv, you may mention to
“Tanola,” the Cokesbnry Critic, that I am pickling a tol
erably heavy rod for him and his kind —your “ wont"
and your “ can't do” fellows. I’ll make him lie still
for awhile, whether his land does or not.
Yours, GEORGE W. GIFT.
Memphis , Tenn ., June 10, 1868.
Mr. Gift’s reply to the strictures on his article ou j
home made manure reached us after the above, but too ;
late for tins No. Will appear in our next. —Eds. So. I
Cult.
For the Southern Cultivator.
SSO REWARD !
Is offered for information that will enable me to make
a living, and make the ends meet on my farm, by the use
of negro labor. I have a good farm and all the neces
sary appliances, and have been trying to do the above
up'hill task for three moital years of freedom, but haven’t
done it—have exhausted nD my own theories and those
of my neighbors, and am about giving the matter up for
good. Now I wish to be understood. Ido not offer the
above reward for a theory , for I can get them free gratis.
I want a well established fact, and I must have the exclu
sive right and title to it, for I mean to protect it, if among
all the bureaus devised by Yankee brains, there is any
circumlocution office taking jurisdiction in such matters.
I want someone of the countless numbers of farmers
and planters, who arc in this business, and who are stick
in" to it with a pertinacity worthy of a better cause, to
tell me in detail —in minute detail —how he manages to
keep his farm up to the- required standard, and make a 1
living for himself and family by the use of free negro la
bor ; and let him employ only so many figures ns arc ne
cessary to elucidate the facts deduced by his accomplish
ed operations. I make this a condition precedent, for
the reason that in all mv theories, tlie figures employed,
lied as bad as the negroes. I therefore want the state
ment to be made upon the basis of what he has actually
- done. This question has now been in agitation '•for three
years, and I am sure it is time we were having the results,
and knowing something of what we are doing. ,
Messrs. Dickson, Gift, et a/, are replete with the most
charming theories about manures and many contingen
•cies of the farm ; but they dont, touch the question of
vital importance to that large class that may be denomi
nated the “unknown public”—farmers, who are strug
glirg for bread and meat for themselves and their fami
lies, and may be for a little spare change to buy some su
gar and coffee, and a little sundry fixings for Tolly and
the children.
I want some gentleman who has succeeded, to “take
stock” in January, lands, hogs, cows and every
thing appertaining to his farm, in a strictly Dr. and Cr.
way, and show mo how be did the thing. B.
j ßutler, Ga. y June , 186$.
SOIJTIIEKN CULTIVATOR.
BUCKWHEAT.
Editors Southern Cultivator: —Will some of your
contributors be so kind as to take up the Buckwheat
question, and ventilate it fully for the benefit of those un
acquainted with its culture. It is one of the products
which, to some extent, is superseding in the Trans-Mis*
s’ssippi country, our late lamented and dethroned King.
In the absence of all practical knowledge upon the sub
ject, I sowed on the Ist day of March one gallon buck
wheat upon Jof an acre of land. I reaped it yesterday,
found a great many blooms, many immature grains, but
upon the whole, a pretty fair crop of ripe wheat—enough
perhaps to sow sor 0 acres. Wliut shall Ido with it?
sow it now or wait until next spring? A complete ex
position of the whole subject, by an experienced contri
butor, will be very entertaining, to at least a few subscri
bers in this section. 11. M. DILLARI).
/Slash Cottage, Clarendon P. 0 ., Monroe Co s., Ark.
We should be very glad to have an article on this sub
ject. There arc numerous regions in the South, (those
for instance in the vicinity of the mountains, where the
summer comes to a close rapidly,) in which buckwheat
could be raised very profitably. It should be sown ns
late as possible in summer, giving just time sufficient to
escape frost. This will make the largest number of seeds
ripen at the same time.—En. So. Cult.
Extract from a Private Letter.— The wheat lmrvest
has commenced herein good earnest, with fine weather
for saving the same. The yield per acre will be light,
owing to the hard freezing of the ground in the w inter,
but the breadth of ground sowed last fall, and the supe
rior quality of the grain, w ill, in a great measure, help to
make an average crop. There will be more attention
paid to the growing of both corn and wheat, fliis tear,
than ever before, by the farmers of West Tennessee. —
King cotton has lost his sceptre and, henceforwaid, stock,
grain and fruits, will be the leading objects of the farm
!or s care. .... - ■ A. J. D. 1.
j fvinboldt, Tam., June, 1868.
—
B kes—r-Rice. —Editors Southern Cultivator : —I see
! in-June No., of your paper an article from G. Major Tn
j her, of Ala., on bees ; and he proposes to give anew
method (to me) of managing them, Ac., Ac., if any of
your readers should .wish. lam a dear lover of honey,
and have just commenced trying “my hand” in raisiifg
honey, and I would be very much obliged if our friend
G. M. T. would give me a full history of bees and honey,
and would like to see it out in the July No. Can you
give it a place?
An article on rice I would like very much to see. I have
a notion of trying it. Yours, truly, A. A. N.
Delhi, Wilkes -Co., Ca., Jane 4, 1868.
Trie. —Referring to the fact that Ilenr Ward Beech
er, Lyman Abbot, and Bishop Coxe, Os Western New
York, are writing lives of Christ, an exchange -
“There is a very good one in the New Testament, which
was written by poor fishermen.”
“Mv son, would you suppose that the Lord’s Traycr
could be engraved on a space no larger than an area of a
nickel cent ?” “Well, yes, father; if a cent Is as big in ev
erybody’s eyes as it is in yours, I think there wouli
be r.o difficulty in putting it on about four times.’
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