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Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 18: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, December 1858Roots put away in rainy, damp, or foggy weather, have a poor chance of wintering well, if bulked under such unfavorable conditions, they éshould be afterwards dried by the sun and wind, or by the fire.No damp situation will answer for the safe keeping of root creps. The digging should be effected, if possible, in dry weather, ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 21: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, June, 1861To interest on $25 for two years, ploughing one acre with double plough, raking, laying off and planting, ploughing once and raking twice, working with hoes twice, gathering and shucking four barrels corn, damage to land.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 18: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, December 1858Roots put away in rainy, damp, or foggy weather, have a poor chance of wintering well, if bulked under such unfavorable conditions, they éshould be afterwards dried by the sun and wind, or by the fire.No damp situation will answer for the safe keeping of root creps. The digging should be effected, if possible, in dry weather, ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 21: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, May, 1861On my way to Richmond, in crossing the Pamunkey river, at the Pipentree, I was delayed, and my friend in 'the course of our conversation on the subject of guano, informed me that most of the surplus of his crops of corn and wheat, were loaned out to farmers to purchase guano with, and that he did not believe that they had realized...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 18: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, November, 1858It has been stated above, that all petres ce'nt manures, (in whatever stage of the progress of fermentation and decay, and also in the freshest and soundest state of the materials, before fermentation has be gun, consist partly of soluble matter al 1eady fit to serve as food for pl, ants and pat-¿y of ha1d, insoluble matter, ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, May, 1860For all drainage purpose he reprehends shallow trenches, observing, in 1e8pect to bog-drainage, But for these common and many trenches, oft times crooked too, that men usually make in their bogg oty grounds, some one foot, some two, never having re spect to the cause or matter that maketh the bog, I say, away with them as a great ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 18: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, August, 1858D1. Playfair afterwards went on to tell them, in regard to warmth, that it was up to a cer tain point an equivalent for food. He said, The average tempe1ature of the bodies of our cattle is about 100 degrees, 01 more than 40 deg1ees higher than the ordinary temperature of this climate. Hence there must be some provision in the ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 19: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, October, 1859Tissues OF plants - The various organs of plants are composed chie¿y Of several kinds Of structure, called tissues. These are made up of fibres or membranes, or both to gether.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from Southern Planter, Vol. 19: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, May 1859But this is.not all The tobacco planter, for the want of corn, has not only to buy meat and bread, but for the want of grass to raise them, has also to buy his mules and work horses, virtually being made a tribu tary by his tobacco, for a primary necessity in is calling, to the western drovers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publish...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, November 1860But a more common and serious dificulty under which we labor, is' the romulgation of seedlingsby individuals an associations that have not the information requisite to form an intelligent, and therefore reliable judgment. Another evil which increases with the mania for what is new and rare, is the exposure for sale, by ¿aming ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 18: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, November, 1858It has been stated above, that all petres ce'nt manures, (in whatever stage of the progress of fermentation and decay, and also in the freshest and soundest state of the materials, before fermentation has be gun, consist partly of soluble matter al 1eady fit to serve as food for pl, ants and pat-¿y of ha1d, insoluble matter, ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, April 1860Tobacco-barns should be closely planked, or in some way made close, having windows for ventilation, which may be opened or. Closed at. Pleasure. Smaller, and hence safer fires, will be sufficient in such houses. Curing yellow tobacco with charcoal at a high temperature, kept up day and night, is recommended.About the PublisherFor...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, May, 1860For all drainage purpose he reprehends shallow trenches, observing, in 1e8pect to bog-drainage, But for these common and many trenches, oft times crooked too, that men usually make in their bogg oty grounds, some one foot, some two, never having re spect to the cause or matter that maketh the bog, I say, away with them as a great ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, November 1860But a more common and serious dificulty under which we labor, is' the romulgation of seedlingsby individuals an associations that have not the information requisite to form an intelligent, and therefore reliable judgment. Another evil which increases with the mania for what is new and rare, is the exposure for sale, by ¿aming ...

Excerpt from Southern Planter, Vol. 19: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, April 1859An old negro horizontaler lays off the' rows, and attends to one plantation where there are between six and seven hundred acres under the plumb, and manages it astonishingly well for a man of his under: standing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, October, 1860The extensive importations of bones, and the application of the native mineral phos phates, (coprolites, &c., Together with the introduction of guano, have obeen the main dependence of agriculture ln Great Britain during the last twenty five years. Science, indeed, has aided in making these supplies more active and efficient, ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, February, 1860Of all agricultural subjects, this perhaps is the most' important, and t01a Virginian, the most diificult. Experience affords us little light upon the subject. 1 The practice in Virginia, heretofore, has been to culti vatc our lands more with a view to imme diate. Profit, than with any regard to the future. All the various so...

Excerpt from Southern Planter, Vol. 19: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, May 1859But this is.not all The tobacco planter, for the want of corn, has not only to buy meat and bread, but for the want of grass to raise them, has also to buy his mules and work horses, virtually being made a tribu tary by his tobacco, for a primary necessity in is calling, to the western drovers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publish...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 18: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, August, 1858D1. Playfair afterwards went on to tell them, in regard to warmth, that it was up to a cer tain point an equivalent for food. He said, The average tempe1ature of the bodies of our cattle is about 100 degrees, 01 more than 40 deg1ees higher than the ordinary temperature of this climate. Hence there must be some provision in the ...

Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, June, 1860This idea is so fundamental, that I beg to illustrate it with all possible simplicity, even before this very intelligent audience. As the occasion is somewhat elementary, I will no doubt be excused for introducing, at this point, a few very plain and elementary sug gestions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of...