Mobile register and journal., 1845-06-07

A gross feeder, threw into the check previous to dropping the seed snovel full of partially rotted stable manure, with whWh ieached ashes had been M evouslv combined while hcaping the manure in the barn yard Between each hail 0fihe sunAower, one stalk in the hl and in ihe four feet distance, Uhe ground being partially raised by drawing two ftrows together with Il bar sheer plough previous to crossing and making the bed fir the manure and seed,) dividing il, three i'antings of Ihe bunch sw eet poia,oe were droppel part uf the ltIe 6t Id. and three pndars by lhe same rule the baance, and the gIound po,9hed me way during the cultivation and kept clean with the hoe. The puia. foe panlngsas also the plnoars, were dropped about twelve inches apart, m consequence of which the ground between the sUnlowers, was filled up with potatoes and pindars preferred the bunch pota- Joe having no vine. By the usual time of hy ing by the corn found lhe sUntpwer crop was made, when with bar shear m ihe five foot distance, threw two lurrows together, and on the ridge created at
 step distance stnck in few cuttings of red pntaloe vines. The leaves of the sunhOwer dropping early, gave the sun all access 10 the potatoes and pntlars, and the crop of each was excellent. l had robbng crop and two improved crops ol the best kind The sunhpwer, wlen compared with the northern plant, discovered superiority, and on rough trlal the product equally superior-the pro duct most certainly regards quality, much supe- rior.
 An opportunity occurring, had the oil placed be- fore some gentlemen from New YOik and French citizen oi New Orleans, along wIh some splendid ice ettuce on tue taUlt. iht dttNhhoh UT hic idFt named gentleman was arrested by the oil, and after examining the flavor, promptly aNke il It was French Italian oil, adding, he did mol recollect to have seen any like precisely, but pronounced il delicious. On my producing a head of the sunho~er and stating the ih which the oil was produc ed he med astonshed, and alter being Tor min ute or TWO apparently involved in profound thought, pointing to two kinds of Alabama wine before him, with which the company were highly pleased. and | skein of silk made in the ntighborhnod, winch he had been previously aimirng, he exclaimed. "Mon Dieu what a coumtr, -ahal people you yankees are! before you finish you will not leave France article for her people 10 export" No danger, thought l, are hoi exacly that kind ot people; | we make the "grand Staple"
 From trial by that en'erprising agrlculturalists, Solon Robinson. Esq of Indiana, in 1889, it would appear that there is not any plant known capable of improvement regards quantity in production this plant I'hs gentleman presented Judge Buei with seeds from d stalk that had produced sixty-h heads, and had it not laen for close planting | the one side would have produced more This i'm | proyement regards production, appears 10 have been made by selecting the seed from the principal | head on the most prolific stalk. Sandy land tolera
 bly fertile Is hest for llr Sutl0wer The addition oi compost manure adts much to production. IL Is acted most favorabl by lime and leached ashes.
 Deep ploushing preparatory to planting is essential, as also free 10 tie rays oi the sun throughout | the day My experieme says that the Snniinwer IS benefited by Ihe potau and the vines of the
 pndar, relaining the moisture in the earh and keep
 ing the earth cool Tlese plants do not appear to
 dine out of lhe s,me ,ieh--above the ground this
 plan, appears To Iced the rays of the sun, ollow
 ing il from morning r night. The oil is purely
 white, mixes well win paint, and burns m the
 lamp most spendidly The flame is brilliant, with
 neilher smoke smell when II is well prepared.-
 The vast importance othese last facts must arrest
 the attention of every eheciiug person when they
 Ihink of the consumption of oil in the country, for those two purposes. Let the planters then, of Ala
 bama, in ihe exercised of common sense, instead oi hperniltng the cliiaan and people of Italy, France.
 Nc. 10 supply them am their brethren oi the North
 with oils, for lhe supply of which those countries
 wh ut any sound reason, have monopoly owing
 tn our want 0t enterprise, carry superior oils 10 1 Ihem as much as they want, p1e and anaduh6ated,
 for ignorant must he tn of the tricks of commerce,
 who supnoses that we get than one tenth o the
 wines or olls of Europe either one or the other 1 SOUTH ALABAMA.