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& SjGMICtrATVM**. good Sip* ob OakttvrtfagCcn. Borne six or seven days after corn is planted, (a writer in South-Land says.yvon over it with a heavy iron tooth harrow, doable team. When it is about bond high go into it with the cultivator, the front tooth taken out, contracting the frame so that the ftrst two side teeth shall ran as close as possible without ploughing up. Straddling the drill with your double team pass rapidly through it. Take the hoe, rustle the dirt through the dtili and around the stalk, be- cause the cultivator has not thrown enough. Thin as you go, whatever distance apart you require for a stand one stalk in a place. Remember that a plant has no greater enemy than another plant of the same species. Having finished with the hoe, expand your cultivator (all teeth in) so as to cover ail the ground left in the middles. Double the team and go ahead. Thus, with wl at is only equal in time and labor occupied in running two furrows with a turning plough, you have dirted your corn, cleaned out and thoroughly stirred up, to the depth of the teeth, the ground before it has h td lime to bake and harJen, giving thus a mellow bed the full width of your middles for the tender rootlets to strike out in search of their prop er food. This, the first working of your corn, will just about bring you to cotton planting, which should be done when the blackberry is in /nil bloom. Having planted your cotton, turn right back on jour corn. No ques tions are to be asked as to whether it needs work or not. Don't be a shamed to work in it with neither grass nor weeds to kill, (most prob ably there are none,) even though the Work be condemned by some carp ing neighbor who “can see no sense in it.” Run around with the sweep. Judge from the growth whether the roots have spread across the middle. If so, then finish with the sweep. If not, and the stalks will not inter fere with the passage of the double team, hitch on the cultivator. Set the proper width to complete what ever the sweep left ; chop through (nothing more) the drill if there is anything worth cutting out. The weeds only will deserve attention. Co-operation among Farmers. We take the following from an ed itorial on the subject in the May number of that excellent magazine, the Rural Carolinian. We have, in a previous number, expressed the belief that the co-op cralion of capital and labor, in large agricultural companies is, in certain cases, perfectly practicable, and, in fact, essential to the higher success under the conditions existing here in the Low Country. We purpose, to call the attention of our readers to that subject again and again, and to urge men of practical talent and means to take action on it, and test the plan in the field. Our object at this time, however, is to speak of other forms of co-operation, of which the agricultural community general ly may take advantage. Our agricultural societies and clubs are examples of co-operative action for the exchange of experi ence, the comparing of notes, and the diffusion of agricultural inlorma tion. We are not among those who consider these societies and clubs utter failures. They have done, and are doing, some good, but they tall tar short ol what has been expected from them. There is something lacking in them, or in their man agement. What is it ? The agricultural magazine serves many of the purposes of a farmer’s club, and confers its benefits on thousands whom societies and clubs never reach. It also has its sphere and its work ; and it is a wide sphere and a grand work ; but it leaves something to be desired above and beyond. Farmers need a closer bond of union than they now gener ally possess—some organization through which their interests can be promoted, their rights secured, and the knowledge and experience of each be made available for all something that shall instruct, like the agricultural journal, bring farm ers into frequent contact, like the • club, and furnish a firmer bond of } union, and a surer guarantee of mu tual help and protection than either. It is claimed that we have such an organization in the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, which has also social features which make it attractive, and give it an elevating and ennob ling influence. We are not at all disposed to urge anybody or every body to connect himself with this organization; for it may not com mend itself to aft as it does to us, but we consider it a duty we owe to our readers to again call their at tention to it as one of the many means of securing the benefits of|co operalive action. - It is our own vanity which ren ders the vanity of others insupporta ble to us. Mr: Fetfcf BMttrsom in the Amtr ism Jgriadtnrut+gijtf* aqjatereiic ing sketch of a successful track far son for us ! If three crops can be no&deio one. season in New Jersey, shaft we be extent with one, and often a poor one, in South Carolmia or Georgia? Mr. Henderson aays: I bad almost thought ihufXMew all about market garde* ing }a this vicinity, that was worth knowing; but a successful experiment, maj|e last fall by one of my neighb<gf, John Reilly, proved to my satisfac tion that Iv« as not yet too old to learn. The neighbor in question Is an old foreman of mine, wbo culti vates about eight acies, in the way usually practiced here: first, plac ing the spring crops of early cab bages, beets, lettuce, onions, radic es, etc., which, being sold off by .fit ly, the land is again planted with the second Crop, which is usually ceJjEj ry. Tmkis all that we have* been requiring of the soil, to give us two crops in one season. Bui this neigh bor of mine is a man of more than ordinary shrewdness, and a close observer; he saw that the long-con tinued drouth of last July and Au gust was certain to seriously impair the fall cabbage crop, snit that the consumer in cosequence would pSy high for a substitute. He knew that an excellent substitute vifis spinach, but his small farm of eidt acres was already planted with cel ery or other fall crops, and no other land rich enough to grow the spid ach was accessible. He also saw that the drouth that was destroying the cabbage crop left the celery but little larger in September than when it was planted in July, andjhethuje feetot space between the rows pf celery were left uncropped; thi3 suggested that a row of spinaih might be sown between each two rows of celery ; at any rate,| it might be worth trying. Twenty pounds of seed Acre pro cured, and about six adfes of the ground planted with celery were sown with spinach. Mr. Reilly told me that the experiment net ted him $1,500 clear of all expenses, and that, too, without detriment to the celerv crop. The s*pinach was sown Septem ber Ist, and was all cut off, and marketed in six weeks from the time of sowing, which gave yet am ple time to do the work on the celery crop. I have not (he figures giving the profits of the three crops per acre, but judge it to be not less than SI,OOO in the hands of Mr. Reilly. HOPE FOB BCOFCEXEOT. For a veiy cheap and durable cement far ro#fs pfjiouses and other buildings, v t6 prevent leaking and the danger of fire. Good li*r any kind of out door work, and for farm ers’ carls, wheels, sleds, tools, fences foe It will tighten old shingle roofs where the leaks or cracks are not too large, and will prevent tbegrowth of moss, rotting and sparks of fire kindling. Good for new as well as old wood work. Composition—Four parts of coal tar.; one of air slacked stone or shell lime, and one of hydraulic cement or water lime. The cost of the ma terial is about three or four cents per {;allon —a quantity sufficient for a arge roof costing only a trifle. Put the tar into au iron pot over a slow fire and when moderately hot, sift in the lime an 1 the cement. — Stir and mix well. Apply it warm. Any one of common understanding may apply it with an old coin-broom or brush—-saving the extortionate price of a skilled mechanic, oi the still more extortionate price of a “patent shaver.” A second coal will be well to make sure the covering of St 4 the leaky cracks and to increase its du rability. To improve the color and lasting, siTt on a coat of while or yellow airy sand soon, or about as fast as it is put on, a3 it soon becomes hard.—Ex change. Ground Peas. The ground pea has never been properly appreciated in our State; it has no equal for fattening hogs. I have had six months old shoats to gain two pounds daily, when run ning on ground peas and sweet pota toes in the same field. I have been cultivating this plant for twenty-five years and can say from experience, that there is no correct way of as certaining land that exactly suits it, except by experimenting. I have had fine ground Deas on very sandy land, and poor ones on stiffland and vice versa. They should be shelled and plant ed on land that has been well broken up, but not bedded up as they do not require -a 'ridge. The 'rows should be 2 feet 8 inches or 3 feet wide, not wider on poor land, and may be checked and cultivated en tirely with the plow. With one hoeing and twice running round— once with a scooter and once with a sweep in the middle of the row, f made as fine a crop tbis past year az I ever have made, although they got very grassy after I quit working them. The, work they receive, should be given early before they have become so grassy as to be in jured in getting the grass out of them. Land that contains lime is the best, but almost any land that j have seen soutlr of Macon, except .iTVI AifiqA 5 * » jfew* >iaUing Ao4 tbeVj feme piece, tbaLwheq h«ii wejjijillowed io root toem 6utoftne patch that the lamdl wm hpyfijtfj. -So .much so, Inal life poorest part ola field of 10b acres that wgrisnted for five years io ground per 8, became actu ary <3 bri best**- Having lost fifty bushels of seed and a crop, frdiH hrit knowing that a freeze would ia. th erg ,*iulei a J£ , e~ i£y metnoa saving seed or peas for vaarkeL-*- When the vines seem fully matured; and begin shed their leave/ i. am#’ the vine, plow them up and have v aoMpbi dirt out of the vines,; let the vines and have them placed not exactly in a pen or house when fully dry.— Pack the vine&. vyijbujhe peas on them always iu a dry place and pick off at your leisure. The viues will be fine food oxen or horses ami mtijba,", : 3Fhe peas can be in mark& if » frifeuneifAing price the cows amfrflW'ses wUI eat the vine, or the horses and cows can have peas, vjne and all. In the manner described, shands can gath er from 3 to 500 bushels a week and house them away. The poorest land will produce them, ana belter without manure than with ft. 4 The blue grass and, clover men may count'up tfiedost of raising pock, jvill take our common land in South-west Georgia and by having peaches, ground peas, field pea’s, potatoes, oals, millet, rye, &c., guarantee that I can make more-'prvir W flieGtarid than hecan and at less cost. I have raised a thousand pounds to the hand every year since the war and a full crop of cotton besides, sold SISOO wort more than I needed for my tmfl use, and lost 10 or 12 head by bad management, dis ease and accident. I mention this to illustrate my preaching, that there is no necessity of our buying any thing to eat or any stock. Instead of that we can make good cotton crops, some bacon and corn to sell, and a few horses every year; aud one of our Georgia raised horses is worth two bought ones. * G. W. C. Munro, in So. Cultivator. SOW TO UTILIZE BONES, A correspondent in the Country Genllemam } asks the following ques tion: “Can whole bones be dissolved and worked, down by beingjnixed with untfeached* wooa 'ashesj and whether in this condition they will be good as a fertilizer- Will you al low me to give you my plan for mak ing one of the very best fertilizersi have ever used, either in the hill or otherwise? And here let me state that lam as ca,refill in looking up and tak ing care of the bones about the farm as the rag-gatherer ot the cities is in picking up and caring for the rags, and when I have bones in sufficient quantity, I treat them as follows: Take a water tight box or cask of a suitable size, and in the bottom put a layer ot ashes, say three inches in depth, then on this a layer of bones, and so on alternately until the cask is nearly or quite full, the last layer or bones being well covered with ashes. I then have my family pour upon this, all the urine from the house every day, and on washing days pour on a quantity of the strong soap-suds. In a few months this cart be taken but with a shovel all dissolved, ex cept it pay be the large enameled joint bones, which may have to be broken and put through another sw'eat in the like manner. It is un derstood that the ashes must be good hard wood ashes, unleached, or the job will prove a lailure.” WASH FOB INSIDE AND OUTSIDE WOEE. In answer to a correspondent, the Maine Farmer gives the following directions for making a good white wash for ifiterior works, and also for outbuildings, fences, &c., if desired: Os course every farmer knows how to slack lime for making the wash. Select a large clear lump of lime, and in slacking it use only boiling water. Turn the water on slowly, and when fully slacked dis solve in water a small quantity of sulphate of zinc and a little salt. This causes the wash to harden.— The sulphate of zinc sbould he used in all wash .intended for outside work, but nrtay be omitted—if, salt be used—ls that for interior Walls. For colors use the following : II a pleasant cream color is desired add yellow odhre until the desired lint is Obtained. For fawn color add four parts amber one part Indian red, and one part lampblaok. For gray or stone color, add four parts raw amber, and two parts lampblack.’ 'These lints wjll he fipnd more dt»j rable than Common whitewash, and fences outbuildings, Am*, look very well ooverej with tha®». a toh l < TbeVe ere growing in Trenton, N. J., two cork trees raised from acorrts sent oql Xcom Washington a few years jjfy fiy the patent office.— There are others in North Carolina 1 ana Florida, , a . D J Stances of about jseven feet, set small cedar posts, fpr an or dinary board fence, but much small ter. Then commence to lavjm the walfo, ana’-form ilie fourieftkfc#'2A jfeeuikdajiE the base. Mnch-Je this (ginning right. ] iTkft ■foaes'dtfit bffJCarefoliy yet •quickly placed jn their position; practice will soon enable the build er to avoid having to fit them,, or move* *theib j a second tirfte. - The Iway a stone is laid is, also of great cbbqpquencetAs it must always be so placed as to have the largest end outride, to it&tall the stories will have a tendency to fall inwards in stttd pf. outwards. The 'two -slo pingsldes thus formed will, ir the large enough* bear one jagainst the other; or if toe small, thejrWill press the middle stones used to fill up wuh ; gradual and: w£en ihe i wall reaches three feet high, the top is about 12 to 16 inches wide, and is finished with a rounded capping of smaller stones. These fences are permanent aad good, and when one or two fence boards are nailed along the top from post to Abfiatrtvo feet through boards may jbe narrow, and placed several inch es apart, as smaller animals are not likely to lie templed to get on the )op of the wall, and the boards ef fectusjjyl prevent largej ones from disturbing the stonC/—G., In Can ada Farmer. BU* Expedients zed their Besalts. In January, 1870, I commenced on a piece of pine food .which had been in cultivation thirty years, with little rest or manure during the time. It had been cultivated in cotton the year before. ,1 laid .off my rows four Ifct aparl with* ft rihbvel plbugh, running in the same furrow with a jtemporary subsoiler made by knock ing the wing ofl of a common bar and sword turning plough, using the bar fon# little altera tibn as a subsoiler. This ran down to the depth of about seventeen inch • es, I then applied cottonseed, green or sound, at the rale of 1,000 lbs. to the acre, lUftwing two turn plow furrows otJ.|» seed, aad left further preparation until April, when I broke out the regaining land with a turn ing plough running in every turn plough furrow with (he yubsoiler to the same depui as before. Another piece, I prepared in like manner except that I applied about. 350 bushels of stable manure to the aerp|he first of April. To another ptged} with the same preparation, 1 applied Isaac Reynold’s phosphate 250 lbs. to the acre. I cultivated with what is called a Buzzard Wing Sweep, shallow, leav ing, when Uotie ctfltivaiing, the land ahrToM,% not nltagefher, Hat. Col ton planted middle of April did well and promised finely until the middle of July,, when it began to wilt and burn, apparently for want of rain, but not so; for in spire of the fine showers it continued to burn and ihrawrtftTpntil almost dead. It was not excessive drouth nor excessive wet that caused it to fail, neither was it rust, or at least it was not like any rust I ever saw. Perhaps it frenched as Mr. Booker, of Marengo, Alabama, remarks, at least mine took French leave, sure; and nothing was made after the 25th of July. The result^ after being gathered wns as follows:' FERTILIZER USED. YIELD PER ACRE. Stable Manure 920 pounds, Phosphate Guan0.*....300 «« No Manure. 115 “ I have laid off my rolling land with grade ditches, from 1& to 2 inches fall in 12 feet, borizontalize my rows so as to compel each row to hold and absorb or drink ifs own water, not intending to allow the ivater to go running over my land : but as soon as 1 put Mr. Dickson’s theory of flat culture into practice, away goes all the water whiriiqg down the first ditch, sometimes filling it up, caus ing it to break over, and on down to the second dftchj&ifogiit vzarse than the first. I like the plan of fiat culture for several reasons. I approve of hori zontal rows in order to hold the wa ter where it fajls, and to do both is what I would like to learn. THE SOBE EEAD IN POULTB7. I notice in the March number, a cure for “Sore Head” in Poultry, and desire to give your readers the benefit of a remedy which has never failed me. In the absence of a belter cogno men, I have called the disease the “swell hea,d.” The first symptoms are a watery and frothy collection of matter in the eyes, often accom panied by-> warts or sores on the head, if riot attended to, the for mation, a white, tough matter be gins inside of the eye lid, and always below eye, aeqampanied by con sideable inflammation. Theswelling increases rapidly, frequently extend ing to the inside of the throat, which becomes ulcerated. The fowl be comes blind io-one, or both eyes— as the diseaaoaanetimesHttaciU on ly death ensues. The disease is highly con tagious, and' frequently sweeps the poultry yard ts not I have never * csge even when the fowl’s eyes were completely shut from the swelling. The frothy matter first collects To the front or outer,corn,er.pf ‘the eye, then to some extent impairing the vision, which will be percieved by the (owl striving often to wipe it a* way on its feathers. ~ • Poultry thus affeeted shoe Id at once be placed in a coop by them selves! Make a strong Bribe Itt i* old cup, or some other suitable rear sel, and waslvthe bead at least twice a day, using a sou rag. Suffer the brine to go hito the eye, as it seems to arrest the formation otbard tough matter alluded to. It aoßMriimes occurs that this, formation has at* ready taken platte before the disease is discovered. In such cases I sharpen a piece of chip, and by daft fully inserting it between tbe eye and the lid remove it entirely. If not removed by an operation, though the eye become will al ways be an unsightly protubersncp. If the head and gills have Warts on them, the scabs should be remov ed by the finger nail, or by a pock et knife previous » washing. Plte not remember of ever losing but One case, under this treatment, though I have often bad to feed them by hand for two or three days, on acdount of blindness from swelling; and this case was so far gone whetl I took it in hand, that ulcer had gone in the windpipe. In addition to the above treatment, the nostrils must be kept free of matter by pressing with a rag outward along the beak.—H. D. M.ln Rural Carolinian. From the Southern Farm dqHome Food for Milch Cows. Few of our farmers are aware, I believe, how the quality of the milk varies according to the kind of food upon which their cows are ted. Cer tainly, very few give much apparent attention to the subject further than to give “a little bran and slops” to their cows, and even this is an ex ceptional case of tender considera tion. Wheat bran is, however, an excellent milk-producing article of food. It has been found by careful experiment in some of the great dai ry-farms at the North, that wheat bran will make more milk, pound l for pound, than corn meal, or wheat or rye shorts ; but it would be very injudicious to feed milch cows on bran by itself for any length of time, because the inevitable result wouldi be that they would fall off in strength, and cease to give milk. Tbe strength of the animal must be adequately sustained as well as the flow of milk encouraged. Tbe one depends upon the other, and when the former fails, the latter necessarily fails also as a consequence. Therefore I recom mend as the best food I know for milch cows, two parts of wheat-bran to one part of coarse corn meal, ground with the cob, and a small a mount ol chopped hay or fodder sprinkled with salt and water. If the stables are kept warm, clean and well ventilated, this food will keep the cows in good condition and in full milk. Turnips cut up coarsely, beets and carrots, are first rale milk produc ers, and are also strength-sustaining food. Irish potatoes and refuse ap ples are also good. In very cold weather milch cows should never be allowed to drink perfectly cold water, which retards digestion. The water given them should be at blood heal. I would always place a lump of rock salt in the feeding troughs. In this way the cows eat as much as they need and never suffer for want of salt. Free access to water, or if they are kept in the stable, a plenty of water three times a day, i3 essential to & full flow of milk. i The Almond. There is no apparent reason why the culture of the almond should not be pursued to a profitable extent in the warm and favorable climate of some of the Southern Stales. It so strongly resembles the peach tree, that it is difficult to distinguish it by the leaves and wood only. The chief distinction between the two in our gardens lies in the fruit, which, in the almond, consists of little more than a stone covered with a thick, dry, woolly skin, while the peach has in additiou a rich and luscious flesh. The almond thrives best in a warm, dry soil, and its general cul tivation iu this country is precisely like that of the peach. The Common Almond, the Hard Shell, Sweet Almond, and the Bitter Almond, are hardy in. the latitude of New York, and bear tolerable crops without care. The Soft Shell or Ladies’ Almond is the finest of all the varieties; it is the very vari ety common in shops of tbe confec tioners. These cap be obtained of any of the nurseries. Lime for tour Fruit Trees.— It is a good plan for fruit growers to apply lime freely in their orchards every two or three years. A half bushel to each tree, or 100 bushels broadcast, per will suffice.— Upon land particularly tenacious, we have know as high as lour hun dred bushels per acre; but this was used for a truck garden. Light loamy lands will be best benefited by the lime, and shell lime is belter for fruit trees than the usasl atone hme.—HorticvUnrut, Books,. Mttflte, Bt&£ioii6ry Ac. | ? ’ ll - 4 It 1 ----- • - I- ■- .* r - ' ■> H£sa &&» 36*** Knowing m advantage aftqbdipTn maxi m*. ’ •■■ Tzr . - r 1 * -j ¥ Soiflwn Brawl Book aw} Music Dejwrt,, f 7 a® tihs (Ss®n®u®t ~ ®f if i^efit H»nssa.>y ■Ma.inuiwlviiw onoklodfafsßtspj r.j ftlhriiiuail I IMS, Mask, Masks! InstnneiU, SiMkaery Ac i v; , jj'. , r X sis fi-ii ’ & '■ tu '*' ’ s '' !r * olKsw YWfeprieeo. , 7(nr ,,., -i.!. '.*? .. t .-.*,«!• f nr osr Book Department we o«0r at lowest publishes*' rales. 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