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sand worms on osage orange, and they have all spun —tohe. box of cocoons I sent you being an average sample of the crop. This is the third season I have fed and propagated the same worms entirely on osage orange, and they show no signs of deterioration; on the contrary, it was remarked by many this season, who had seen them during the past three years, that they looked largerjand better than they had ever seen them before. That portion of my crop fed on mulberry the past four years, shows no percepti ble difference, hatching out and spinning about the same time as those fed on osage orange. I would like to have the relative qualities of the silk thus differently fed thoroughly tested, and would be pleased to forward specimens of each to any one who could do so. My worms hatched out this season on the Bth of May, and spun on the 19th of June, feeding forty-two days, this being seven days longer than previous seasons, owing to a cold storm that oc curred in May, lasting about one week, render ing them almost inactive during that time ; and I have no artificial heat either at hatching or du ring the feeding time. I have paid particular attention to cleanliness and ventilation in my cocoonery, keeping the doors and windows almost constantly open, even during the night when the weather was favora ble. I attribute my success mainly to our line dryelimate. We have no dews, and rain and thunder storms are of rare occurrence during feeding season.—Samuel Coknaby, in Monthly l&jx/rt of Deft of Agriculture for October. *<*► OOTTOX SEED FOB STOCK. Editors Southern Cultivator, —I see cot ton seed spokeci of frequently in the Cultivator as food for stock. 1 will give my experience with them. I have been farming for eleven years. I have kept three or four cows and a yoke of oxen all the time. I have fed them on nothing but raw cotton seed and a few shucks* and they are always fatter in the spring than they are in the fall. My oxen worked all the time from the first of last September to the first of March, and they had nothing to eat bnt cotton seed a few shucks and a few cane tops, and they were in fine order when I stopped working them. The cane tops were the common ribbon cane.— When hauling my cane out the oxen seemed so fond of them, I had some gathered up after they were cured and fed to the oxen in the winter, SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. and they seemed to like them better than any thing else. We have always let them remain in the patch and rot, but 1 don’t think I will evertlo it again. And I believe in five years from this, peo ple will take corn to manure their land just as soon as they would cotton seed, provided they have any cattle to feed. Tell your correspon dent to plant his sasafras patches in sweet pota toes two years, and he will see no more of them. I have destroyed two patches on my place in that way. * A YOUNG FARM Ell Ykw.v, September 'Sith , 1870. Editors Southern Cultivator: —The arti cle published over my signature in Sept. No. 1809, was not intended for universal adoption As, however, the plan recommended, will not be generally adopted, I still contend that in our sandy hind regions, or any regions where corn is always high, the farmer who will pursue the course there recommended, will in ten years far out-strip the one who pursues our present course of farming. I must say, however, l am not now farming. I have sold the last hog, on ac count of thieving, and have had deems Munro’s experience with Sethly white men. J. B. 11. Oct. 31st, 1870. Clover, the Grasses, etc. —Editors South ern Cultivator : —ln the September number of the Cultivator, your correspondent G. L., Morehead City, N. C., complains of rust in wheat. For thirty years, I have used the fol lowing mode of preparing my seed wheat, and" never had rust: “ Take one pound of blue vitriol to ten bushels of wheat, dissolve it in twelve quarts of boiling water, and stir it well. Sprin kle the solution over the wheat with a watering pot, stirring the wheat well during the operat ion. Next day the wheat is ready for sowing. If not sowed that day, spread the wheat over the floor. G. L. also inquires about manuring grass. I would advise him not to use top-dressing—it is a waste of manure. If lie manures his wheat well with cotton seed, no further manure is needed on his land. L. 11A NSE N. Egypt, Miss., Sept. 1870. pgp Do you want to know the man against whom you have the most reason to guard your self? your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face. — Whateley. 425