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Cottou tirowli.g.
The following upon the subject of
©Cotton growing, we extract from the
■Concordia Intelligencer, it being from the
■pen of our friend and correspondent, Tho
■ mas Affleck, and knowing tvs \vc do the
■ interest he takes in the subject, we feel
I we cannot aid the cause of improvement
■ better than by giving circulation to tin
I statement contained in the article. Wt
■ have before expressed our belief in Dr.
I Cloud’s system, and we consider the ex
■ periment here made by Mr. Affleck, as
■ fully carrying out the views of that gen-
I tlcman.
K If we could, upon our hill lands, pro-
I duce even 2,000 lbs. per acre, by adopt
i ing a reasonable improving system, and
I by almost any extent of manuring, would
I we. not he immensely benefited ! Ilow
I many planters, cultivating hill lands,
I gather over 700 !bs. per acre ? Not ma
! ny. And yet, to do even this; requires
| incessant hard work from New Year’s
1 day until Christmas. The difference be-
I tween ploughing, planting, tending and
4 picking over, say 300 acres, and 100 is
very .great and would allow of much labot
. being bestowed in making and applying
manure, and in extra-deep ploughing.—
„*Nor need I descant upon the comfort and
advantage to the planter, of being able to
| plant and (end as much ground with one
I half of his hands as the whole of them can
| pick clean by Christmas—leaving him
■ the other half of his force for tire rest of
» the work necessary on a farm, including
§ of course, under such a system, manure
-5 making. *
I How it would astonish the farmers in
W my native country, to be told, that at this
* late day of Agricultural improvement,
5 their brethren in every part of America,
I and particularly amongst the travelled
I and enlightened Southern planters, it re
[ quired a lengthy argument to prove to
s them the value of deep ploughing and
abundant manuring!
1 Soon after reading Dr. Cloud’s com
munication, last spring. I had a piece of
i tolerably good hill land, containing three
acres, three rods and thirty-five poles,
\ cleared off the previous year’s trash—
some 200 bushels of manure per acre
added, consisting of the scrapings of the
cow-pen, partly decayed cotton-seed and
so on. This I scattered broadcast; then
threw tjp ridges, which average, from
centre to centre, five feet four inches;
then harrowed down by running a heavy
harrow lengthwise of the ridge. Here I
| planted some very superior Gulf-hill seed,
| presented to me by Mr. Compton, Sen.
* near Rodney. The seed I first dampen
' ed pretty well with brine, and then rolled
in dry ashes—dropping some ten or sis
teen seeds at about every 26 inches,
which were afterwards thinned out to a
single plant.
I am not certain of the amount of labor
bestowed upon this piece of ground the
tending was the same as that given to the
rest of the crop; further than that my
! overseer, Mr. Ventriss, has repeatedly
said to me, that he had not one half the
trouble with the grass on that piece, that
he had with any other part of the planta
tion—“that the grass did not trouble him
there. “I rather think that it did trou
ble some of us this year! This was of
course to be ascribed to the deep plough
ing!
Now, gentlemen, from the (scant)/our
acres of ground, Mr. Ventriss assures me
that he has already picked, 7,325 lbs. of |
superior 6eed cotton; and that there is I
vet cotton enough open, and to open, to 1
yield over 2,000 lbs. more. I know that l
he has been very particular both in pick- i
ing and weighing, and have every reason
to believe his report to be correct,
j Now here wet have, on a first hurried
experiment, 9,325 lbs. of seed cotton
from (scant) four acres of ground ; or
allowing 1,330 lbs. to make a bale, (and |
as it is a very fine article, I think it a fair
allowance,) we have seven bales of giuned ,
cotton!
I leave it to yourselves to draw your
own conclusions, as to the amount of
time, labor and manure, that one could
very easily afford to bestow upon such a
, small tract of land, to produce such a re
suit! It required at least twelve acres
of the same land immediately adjoining,
treated, planted and tended in the usual
way, to yield as much cotton; and the
staple is, to my eye , not nearly as good.
[ Western Farmer Gardner.
Valuable Cows.
At the meeting of the Agricultural
Society of New Castle County, Delaware,
m September last, Mr. Holcombe exhibit
ed 8 beautiful native Devons, among
them the celebrated Cow “The Lady.'
The result of twelve weeks’ trial with
’ this cow, gave 174 pounds 12 ounces of
1 butter, averaging 14 lbs. 9 oz. per week
1 —the highest product in any one week
! being 19 lbs., and the lowest 12$ pounds.
I To Mr. Holcomb for this Cow, the com
-1 mittco unanimously awarded the first
premium.
Her feed the first part of the time was
■ hay, dry oat and corn meal mixed —sub-
■ sequently this was changed to slop: two
‘ buckets a day was regularly given her,
■ containing about two quarts of corn meal,
and as mucji wheat bran, mixed in a buck
■ et of warm or tepid water, with a little
' salt. The week of her great trial, in
* June, she was fed for about ten days on
* three gallons of meal a day, at three feeds,
mixed as above. She had the run of a
good pasture, and she was also, for a
‘ lime, fed on green oats, and again with
s corn fodder that had been sown broad
* cast.
The Weeling Times gives an account
* of a cow, the property of Dr. H. W.
- Chaplinc, of Ohio county, Va., w-hich
1 was milked three times a day, and yield-
I ed in the months of May and June, for
' 16 days, upwards of 34$ quarts of milk !
and during two weeks that a record was
1 kept of the amount of butter manufactur
' ed from the milk of the same cow, showed
! a yield 0f29 pounds, an average of 14$
* [tounds a week. These facts are sub
stantiated, the Gazette says, by the affi
' davit of an individual whose word alone
‘ would gain credence for more extraordi
nary statements.
i Warts on the Teats of Cows.
, A subscriber wishes us so tell what is
, the best remedy for warts on the tecta of
i cows. Milk-weed will often carry them
■ off; and we believe there are various veg
) etablc substances which will kill them at
I once as soon as they come in contact with
the warts.
In Ploughman of January 9, 1842,
[ may be seen a certificate of a man who
' had tried a prescription of our recom
, mendation. This was to make a poultice
-of the scrapings of a carrot and apply it
! to the warts; salt was put into the poul
‘ tice, and three poultices cured the warts
lin three days. Some ot our correspond
i ents stated to us that they had tried this
i remedy and found it effectual. If our
; friend# finds there is so much virtue in
r the carrot, he will repay our trouble by
communicating the fact. And if in his
, case it fails he will do a public service by
making known the failure.
Salting Horses.
A curious fact is mentioned in Parker’s
, Treatise on Salt: “ A person who kept
sixteen farming horses, made the follow
ing experiment with seven of them which
had been accustomed to eat salt with
: their food. Lumps of rock salt were laid
in their mangers; and these lumps, pre
viously weighed, were examined weekly,
to ascertain what quantity had been con
sumed, and it was repeatedly found that
whenever these horses were fed on hay
and corn, they consumed only about 2$
or 3 ounces per day; but that, when they
were fed with new hay, they took six.!
ounces per day- This should convince
’ UB °f the expediency of permitting our ,
cattle the free use of salt at all times;;
and it cannot be given in so convenient
a form as rock salt, it being much more
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1844.
| palatable than the other article in a re- 1
i fined state, and by far cheaper. A good I
lump should always be kept in a box by |
the side of the animal, without fear that i
it will be taken to excess. i
Effects of Perseverance—Never Despair.
The Providence Chronicle furnishes
the following account of success from
untiring perseverance, morality, aad hon
est labor. *,»
In the fall of the year 1830, a young
man just out of his time, landed at White
hall, New York, ter seek employment as a
journeyman printer. He was compara
tively poor and friendless, and after three
months spent in seeking work, was about
ready to give up all hope of success, but
resolving still to persevere, he at length
obtained employment as a journeyman,
nt eight dollars per week, in the office of
the N. Y. Evangelist, a weekly paper
published iu that city. He continued in
that situation (ill the spring of 1832,
when he procured a press and a few type,
on credit, and opened a very small print
ing office to print cards and circulars.
He had no sooner commenced business
: in this way, for himself, than the Cholera,
that awful scourge appeared in the city.
He was compelled, with a heavy debt, to
close his office, and go to work as a jour
neyman on tho Evangelist, to procure
bread for his little family. After a few
months, when the Cholera had subsided,
nothing daunted by so unpromising a be
gining, the persevering young man re
opened his little office, and obtained, oc
! casionly, a job or two of work. His first
• attempt at publicity was “the World at
' one view,” a geographical chart, of which
> lie published three or four thousand cop
> ies. He found, however, that his chart
■ would not sell; he was using the sheet
for wast paper, when a friend suggested
1 to him that he ought to advertise, that if
• the sheet was known it would doubtless
i meet with a very large sale. Acting up
-1 on this hint to advertise, to which so
1 much of his subsequent success is to be
i traced, he sent an advertisement to the
■ New York Sun, (then just started) head
ed, “The Would for twelve and a
1 half cents!!!” This caption took well.
■ HiS little office was the next day crowd
• cd with customers to buy the World for
• the small sum of twelve and a half cents !
This sheet was followed by another call
fud the “New Family Receipt Book,”
- which, by similar efforts, met with simi
■ lar success, and altogether about thirty
' thousand of these useful sheets were sold!
i Encouraged by his success, he conceived
■ an enterprise of still greater importance
■ —the publication of three beautiful vol
umes, entitled “Pictorial Illustration of
• the Bible.” Most of his friends dissuad
ed him from this expensive undertaking
predicting a failure; some mocked, and
others smiled, but in vain. In the fall
’ of 1840, the work appeared; and owing
1 partly to its intrinsic value, partly to the
1 beauty of its illustrations and outside ap
' pearance, and partly to its being so exten
-1 sively advertised, it met with an almost
1 unprecedented popularity.
Not to extend this article too much,
’ the reader has already surmised that this
1 enterprising and persevering young jour
' neyman printer is no other than Robert
' Sears, the well known author, writer,
compiler, printer, publisher and bookseller,
of the three beautiful volumes of the Pic
! torial Illustrations, which succeeded each
other at intervals of about six months,
' and of which, by the aid of about SSOOO
expended in advertising, the almost in
-1 credible number of 30,000 were sold in
less than eighteen months; and also of
’ two other elegant pictorial volumes—
“ The Bible Biography,” and the Picto
rial Wonders of the World.” These two
volumes, are received with a popularity
nearly or quite equal to that of the Picto
rial Illustration ; and in addition to these,
Mr. Sears is now the Editor, Proprietor,
and Publisher of “Sears’ New Monthly-
Family Magazine”—a most valuable pe
riodical publication, which has already
obtained an almost unprecedented circu
lation, How striking an illustration is
afforded in the uphill progress of this
friendless journeyman printer, of the truth
of the adage— " Labor omnia vincit .”
The Good Man.
What can produce, happier reflections
than a well spent life? If we have pass
ed the morning and the noon of our days,
and arrived far into the evening of exist
ence, how blissful is the contemplation ot
a virtuous and active life! No vicious
propensities have been gratified; no un-
hallowed deeds have been perpetrated ;
but all behind is as beautiful to contem- 1
plate as a glowing landscape in the dis- s
tance. How beautiful has Blair express
ed the last days of the good man :
“ Sure the last end
Os the good man is peace. How calm his exit!
Night dews fat! ni t more gently to the ground,
Nor weary, worn-out winds expire so soft.
Behold him in the eventide of life!
A life well spent! whose early care it was
His riper years should not upbiaid his green;
By unperceived degrees he wears away;
Yet, like the sun, seems larger at his setting.”
If you wish that such an end may be
yours, live an upright and virtuous life,
and you may depend upon joy and tri
umph at last. The good man dies in
peace. His thoughts are not filled with
dread, when he contemplates his end, but
his heart is full of peace. Ho looks be
yond the bounds of existence, and feels
there is in reservation for him joys which
the heart of man cannot conceive.
[Portland Tribune.
A Heroic Woman.
Mrs. Child, in giving an account of
an interview with Miss Dix, the heroic
woman who has visited so many prisons
and alms-houses in this State and New
. York, relates the following anecdote as
illustrative of tho power of religious sen
timent over insane people:
, On one occasion this missionary of
_ mercy was earnestly cautioned not to
, approach a raving maniac. He yelled
. frightfully day and night, rent his gar
ments, plucked out his hair, and was so
| violent that it was supposed that he would
_ murder any one that ventured within his
. reach. Miss Dix seated herself at a little
I distance, and without appearing to notice
I him began to read, with serene counlen
, ance and gentle voice, certain passages oi
Scripture tilled with the spirit of tender
[ ness. His shouts gradually subsided,
I until at last he became perfectly still.—
j When she paused, he said meekly. “ Read
Ime some, it does me good.” And when,
. after a prolonged season of worship, she
_ said “ I must go away now he eagerly
j replied, “No you cannot go. God sent
, you to me ; and you must not go.” By
j kind words, and a promise to come again,
_ she finally obtained permission to depart.
k “Give me your hand,” said he. She gave
it, and smiled upon him. The wild ex
pression of his haggard countenance soft
r ened to tearfuluess, as he said—“ You
I treat me right. God sent you.”
On another occasion sho had been
> leading some twenty or thirty maniacs
into worship, and seeing them all quiet
, as lambs gathered into the Shepherd’s
I fold, she prepared to go forth to other
j duties. In leaving the room, she passed
, an insane young man, with whom she
had several interview's. He stood with
j hands clasped, and a countenance of the
deepest reverence. With a friendly
, smile, she said, “Henry, arc you .well
j to-day ?” “ Hush ! hush !” replied he,
j sinking his voice to a whisper, and gaz
, ing earnestly on the space around her—
! Hush ! there are angels with you! They
have given you their voice.”
Snarling.
I For a man to enjoy himself, he must
take the world as it is, mixod up with a
, thousand shades and a thousand spots of
s sunshine—a cloud here and there—a
- bright sky—a storm to-day and a calm
r to-morrow —the chill piercing winds of
. autumn, and the bland reviving breath of
, summer. He should realize too, that*hc
- is surrounded by individuals of different
l disppsitions and characters, and take the
, mass as they are, and not as he fancies
) they ought to be. He should look up to
- heaven in gratitude for what he enjoys,
) and not censure God for what he has not
granted. Then he will cease fretting
- and snarling, and not before. If there is
■ one character on this earth who deserves
> the appellation of the fool more than ano
r ther, it must be that person who continu
. ally frets and snarls, and nevet sees a
, moment’s peace while surrounded with
, every thing to please and instruct.
Said an old gentleman the other day,
“ 1 have been forty-seven years in busi
ness, and can say what few can after such
experience: In all that time, my friend,
I never disappointed but one single credi
tor.” Bless me, what an example for
our young mercantile community,” re
joined the person addressed ; what a pity
that one time occurred—-how was it ?”
“Why,” responded the old gentleman, “I
paid the debt wheu it became due, and I
never saw a man so much astonished in
my life as the creditor was. It’s a won
der it did not throw him into convulsions;;
for my part I did’nt get over it for three
weeks.” j
[Oke Dollar a Year.
Be Liberal. —Friend, would you be
happy? Would you erase the lines of
sorrow from your brow? Would you
have the cobwebs of gloom swept from
your brain ? The way is plain and easy.
Do good. Search out your poorest neigh
bor, and carry him a little ofyour abund
ance. You cannot tell how much better
you will feel, until you try it: a good
deed will be cordial to your spirits. At
night it will smooth your pillow, and
drive dark melancholy from the mjnd.
How true is the language of poetry—
He Tfco will not give
Some portion of his prse, nis blood, his wealth,
Forothers’ good, is j poor frozen churl.
It is true every word of it. Give then to
the poor—give liberally and heartily,—
and if you do not find vour reward in this
world, we are sure you will find it in tho
next. —Portland Tribune.
An Abolitionist Bitten.
We find the following in the last num
ber of the Cincinnati Enquirer:
“ A few months since, an Abolitionist
' of thi,s city, like many of his brethren, an
: ardent friend of the “poor slave,” when
’ liberty can be made a source of profit,
enticed a young negro man from his
* master in Kentucky, living a few miles
■ back of Covington, and induced him to
enter his service in this city as an apple
* pedlar. The slave was entrusted with a
3 wagon and two horses, and in time was
J suffered to hawk his fruit about unattend
• ed by his new master, till becoming tired
3 of service quite as laborious as that under
the chain of Kentucy servitude, and
s through the parsimony of the employer,
3 equally as scant in compensation, he took
' into his head one day lately to return to
' his old home; so, determined to go as
* other gentlemen sometimes do, he went
• in borrowed state—taking wagon mid
> horses with him, and the change in his
" pocket which he had obtained on his last
apple tour. When he arrived at home
• he told his old master where he had been,
; and what he had been doing; and the
master being willing to receive him back
1 again, and considering that the wagon
and horses would baa very good reconi*
» pense for the service done the apple mer
• chant by his slave, he determined to
3 settle accounts in a regular business way,
‘ by keeping the property and passing them
'to the humane gentleman’s account. Os
1 course the latter is in a quandary how to
regain his property, and we care little if
1 he don’t succeed.”
1 Copy of a young man’s advertisement
s who had attended more to the cultivation
r of his heels than his mind :
1 DAN SING SKULL.
miss ster lightioot propoises toe o pan a
i dan sing skull that witch hellegunt hart
: will bee tort in the new west iashun. Lad
dies an gentlemun hoo ma sea fight to
I patrun eyes him in his under take in,
, pleas to sin their nains to this papur.
■ Skull toe bee o pan as soon as twen tao
- sinner do sin.
r
To make good Rolls and Biscuits. —
Put two tea-spoonsful of cream of tartar
into one quart of dry flour, and dissolve
( three-fourths of a tea-spoonful of super
* carb. soda in warm new milk, sufficient,
1 when'mixed with the flour, to make paste
1 of the ordinary consistence for soft bis
-1 cuit; then mix and bake in the form of
. biscuits or rolls for about twenty minutes.
These directions, if strictly followed,
“ will render the bread extremely light and
1 of superior whiteness and flavor, and is
1 much more healthy than the bread baked
5 in the ordinary way.
3 The recipe above has been for some
> time in use by many families in this city,
’ and I am sure that any one who flies it
5 once will not resort to the old fashioned
3 way of preparing the staff of life.— Nat.
3 Intelligencer.
For Burns.-*- Burns or scalds may be
i relieved, and speedily cured, by an appli
i cation of ink and raw cotton, to taka out
the fire, arid a salve of lard and James
town weed, to heal the wound. The salve
is made by stewing the leaves or seeds of
the weed in lard, and straining through
any thin cloth. This is an excellent ar
ticle for sores of any kind. Fresh cuts
are soon healed by its use, and if you have
a horse with gall or sore back this is a
superior remedy. Every family would
act wise to always have the salve in readi
ness.
For Croup. —Roast an onion, slice 'St,
and press ont the juice; mix this with
honey or brown sugar, forming a syrup,
and a tea spoon full every fifteen minutes
till your child is relieved. This is con
‘Venient and a good remedy.