The Van Buren press., 1866-10-05

salt, sugar, -four, &c, was great.
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The Editor of the Herald would confer
favor on the farmers of Arkansas by call
ing their. attention TO the Southern Cultiva-
tor, published formerly at Augusta, now
at Athens, Ga It's merits are perhaps
best proved by the fact that it is the only
exclusively agricultural periodical south of
New York which was able to sustain itself
throughout the war. Its editors are emf
nently practical men. Mr.. White, who. at
present, has the principal charge, is the well
known author of Gardening for the
SOUTH work admirably adapted to the
wants of the inexperienced, and the only
one ever written expressly to meet the re-
quirements of gardeners in the cotton States
which it did so successfully that in a
very short time after its first appearance it
was out of print, the edition published be-
ing wholly inadequate to supply the de-
mand. The other Editor, Mr. Redmond,
has long been known as one of the best
Horticultural authorities in the South.
Under his auspices the former volumes Of
the Cultivator contained vast deal of re-
liable practical information on fruit cul
ture, and especially on the best modes of
cultivating grapes and making wine. In
his columns frequently appeared and still
appear communications from the Belgian
Pomalogist and millionaire, Mr.. Berckman
who. notwithstanding his vast wealth on
his arrival in America embarked in the
nursery business, first in New Jersey and
afterwards in Georgia where he now lives.
But the Cultivator is not and has never
been devoted exclusively or even principal
ly to fruit culture. Its leading object is and
always has been to promote the improve
ment of southern soil and southern agri-
culture in all its various branches. While
it has shed as much light as any other
journal on the best modes of raising and
ginning cotton-explaining with minute
detail how many q worn out cotton field in
middle Georgia has been proftably recla,
med and made more fertile than ever
it has always contended that our plant
ers have committed fatal error in confin-
ing their attention exclusively to one sta
pie. Long before the war it urged the i'm
portance of making each farm and planta-
ton as far as possible self-sustnining--in
other words of avoiding the mistake Of pro-
curing supplies from abroad which could be
produced at home. 1t was the first jour
nal in America that pointed out the value
Of Chinese sugur cane, and published in.
strnctions for its culture, and the manufac-
turc Of syrup. One of its editors for long
series of years experimental upon over
thirty varieties Of native and foreign gras-
! scs with such success that he obtained a
I special premium for q herd Of thorough
bred Devon cattle which had never tasted
even hay, fodder or grain, being raised ex-
'lusivcly by grazing in pastures OF his own
preparing, set in such grasses as his expe-
ricnce taught him were best adapted-not
to Kentucky or New York-but to the soil
and climate of a portion of Georgia close
~ resembling Western Arkansas If our
own farmers would follow his example and
proht by his instructions, they would soon
become satisfied that grass, properly man
aged would pay better than cotton at any
y price.
\ The Cultivator is published at Athens,
y Herqla.