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numnutus readi es, andm/uest some lover >f h‘s ran to
give the desired information.
l’lense give flu* cost of the requisite m ichine-q with
cost of manufacturing with facility.
JO IIX. IT. ROBERTS.
/I’oWf, Geo., April 20, ISOS.
Wo are very glad our correspondent lias called atten
tion to this subject, and hope that some of our reudt r~
will give us an article in which the questions, asked, vil!
he fully answered—so fully, that one, desiring to under
take the manufacture ofcotton seed oil, mav know thor
oughly how to proceed. r l'lic money realized from the
sale of this oil, would he almost clear gain, in as much as
the cake, left after the extraction of the oil, would have
about the some value, as manure, as the original seed
had.—Ens. So. Cult.
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to negeso laeou.
Editors Southern* Cultivator :— I notice that your
cot respondents are discussing the best plan to work ne
groes. The usual custom in this country, is to work on
shares, and failure has universally followed. In Decem
ber last, I purchased 000 acres of Brazos bottom land, as
rich as I would have it—22o acres cleared. Since “free
dom,” it has been allowed to go to waste, fences decayed,
and over-run with briers. I employed 10 good honest,
“/o*7” men, agreeing to pay each $lO specie per month,
furnish good houses, provisions, &c. Commenced 3d
January, and rebuilt the fence around the tract, broke
up with good mule teams and large turning plows from
S to 10 inches deep—(was considered by my neighbors to
be “ behind hand,” as they “ bedded up,” and planted
sooner; but to-day the thorough culture tells for itself.
My corn is now laid by—is 5 feet high, and is as fine
looking corn as can be found. Planted it in rows 4 feet
apart, and one foot in the drill. Heretofore, with bad
culture, the same land produced 30 to SO bushels. Now
the season is all that we ask, cultivation good; lienee,
SO to —is expected. (Os that hereafter.)
But to the manner of working the negro. About the
4tli day after starting, one old fellow- said it was not like
freedom, to have his cabin entered in the morning, and
be asked to “ get up ;” that was enough —he had viola
ted his contract —was that morning called np before the
other workmen, reprimanded, paid up in full, and dis
missed the place. During the season, two others shared
the same fate. Their [daces were easily filled, and the
others took warning. They saw the bacon in the store
room, plenty of corn in the crib, a large garden, cultiva
ted as the crop, and for the common benefit of all, neat
and comfortable houses—all of which they could not
give up. They were paid promptly at the end of each
month—have never allowed a word of controversy—all
things go quietly, and to-day the crop is laid by, as I cul
tivated 21G acres of the land in corn, and the negroes
are resting upon their laurels. planter adopts
the same method, and he lias the best crop in his range.
Others may devise better ways and means, but this will do
me. Yours, O. A. W.
Jfillicav, Brazos Cos„ Texas, May 12, 1808.
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Genius never soars too high to turn a downward
ear to the voice of applause.
SOUTIIKKN (TTI/n YATOIb
i nou fmsm.
Editors SorriiKßX Cultivator: — 1 received the May
nund> rof the South* rn Cultivator, and enclosed, also,
lotind t ’ all for the t resent years subscription. Now let
me say, Messrs. Editors, that-, with the bill, I found no
fault, as it should have been paid long ago—as I have,
heretofore, always paid in advance, and should have
done so (ID year, but, like many others, no doubt, who
are compelled to hire iivoiimen, lacked several hundreds
of dollars, of mailing a c ent by the last year’s operations.
<’onsequently. 1 was not able to send you the pitiful sum
of two dollars. But the most astonishing item, in your
bill, is the addendum, “if you do not desire the paper,
send back numbers, Ac.”—as if any body ever took the
Southern Cultivator and did not wish to keep it. That is
the worst slander I ever heard against the paper, (and I
have long been a sub eriber) and what makes the slander
more vile, it comes f'rc in the Editors. Send you the hack
numbers! indeed! 1 will do no such thing. I think
more of the back numbers than those not yet issued, and
I think your demand is absurd, if not ridiculous. Tlow
do 1 know that the future numbers will be worth read
ing? No, irs. 1 prize the back numbers of the Cul
tivator as an invaluable library'. And do you think I wilt
give it up for the pitiful sum of two dollars? No, sirs,
no. I’ll black bouts at a hotel first. I almost said I
would borrow the money first, but not knowing any one, in
our parts, that could eyre the amount, 1 thii.k 1 will just
say — we!’, no 1 won’t i can’t, do the Subject justice—
but I won’t smid hack numbers.” You may make as
many blue er» >on the paper as you please —no. that
won’t do—l can’t read it then, with a cleat* conscience—
I wish T could raise the wind some way 1 Ah ! here it is
—Mr. D. has just called and paid me a small amount.—
Here, take your money, and if your paper costs five times
as much next year, I’ll take it—l can’t do without n>. —
And now, Messrs. Editors, hold on. Hold on. Some
more of your patrons may be in my fix, and 1 sympathise
with them. They can not, (from my own experience)
read the paper with a clear conscience, until they do pay
for it. I hope they will soon send you the money —don’t
you ?
A indy Six, May, 18G8.
Our chief re a-ion for making the “ addendum” to tho
bills sent out, is that we arc very anxious to get the Nos.
for January, February, March and April of the present
volume. Our supply of them is entirely exhausted, and
scarcely a mail arrives which does not bring us one or
more requests to begin a subscription with January, 18(18,
We are anxious to gratify these requests, and prefer to
get these back Nos., rather than the money due for them,
in those cases where parties wish to discontinue their
subscription. But we would beg paper, borrow ink—do
almost anything, before we would deprive our friend
“ Flush” of his Nos.—Ens. So. Ci lt.
Successivk Croixs or Oath. —Editors Southern Culti
vator:—You may add to the facts given, p. p. 140 and
141 from the Southern Elan ter , that a Carolinian plant
ed 50 acres in oats 3 years only, in succession, and he
vows his land improved; and he tried first year, 3,4, 5,
G and 7 peeks to the acre—ll acres each—and the 7
pecks were the best. Afterward he tried, and kept to 2
bushels. The land carried 30 bushels of corn, and say
140011>@ seed cotton to the acre THOMAS*
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