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SOUTHERN PLANTER.—ADVERTISING SHEET. CONTENTS. Guano Cnntroveisy, . - 385 Sex of Eggs, - - - 387 Meteorology i« its Connection with Agri- culture, - - - 388 Hair of Children, - - 395 Adorn, - - * 396 The First Silk Mill, - - 397 Less Land and Better Culture, - 398 The Robin, - - - 399 Hill-Side Ditching, - - 399 The Law of Sex, - -400 A Statistical View of American Agricul- ture, - - - 401 Increase in the Cost of Food, - 413 The CofTec and Sugar Plantations of Cuba, 416 Country and City Life, - - 419 Wearing out Land, - - 421 Agricultural Science ; Mechanical Tex- ture of Soils, - - 422 Seed Saving, - - - 424 Enlarging a Farm without Buying Land, 425 Mental Labor, - - - 425 Effect of Bones and other Manures on Plants, - - - 426 Relations of Air, Water, and Light, to Ani- mal aud Vegetable Life, - 427 Enterprise and Obstacles, - - 428 Francis Gillet on Gravel-Wall Houses, - 429 Mr. Bakers Apples, - - 430 Investigation of the Sugar-Bearing capa- city of the Chinese Sugar-Cane, 430 The War in Europe, - - 433 A Manual of Scientific and Practical Agri- culture, for the Farm and the School, 434 Southern Field and Fireside, - 435 Natural Agriculturist, - - 435 Acknowledgment, * - 4^5 Scientific American, - - 435 Fruit-Trees, Shrubs and Evergreens, - 436 The Principles that should Guide the Farmer in Breeding Stock, with more especial reference to Horses, - 437 Treatment of Peach Trees- Extirpating Thistles from Grass Land - Pitch Phenomenon at Sea, Reclaiming Clay Soils; Deep Plowing. When to do it. Rotation and Deep Soii.a Corn Experiment Subsoil Plowing, A Hole in the Pocket, Tb« Blind Boy, Water Mn - 443 - 444 , 445 - 446 - 447 • 448 TO ADVEETISERS. We call your attention to the "Soutmrrn Planter" as offering to advertisers one of the best mediums which this State affords of reaching the Farmers of Virginia and Worth Carolina, where it has a large subscription list, and of the other Southern and Western States, where it is extensively circulated. Those who take it are substantial men who live in the country—the best customers to every trade—the very class whom adveertisrs desire to reach. To Boarding Schools and Academies, to the Merchantj the Mechanic, the Hotel-Keeper, the Druggist, the Dentist, the Nurse' ryman, and in short, to all who have LANDS, or anything to sell or anything to make known, the " South-em Planter" is recommended with confidence, not only on account of the substantial character of those who subscribe to it, but like wise by the fact that possessing the additional advantage of being printed in book form and stitched, it is therefore more apt to be preserved than an ordinary newspaper, and gives to advertisers a better chance of keeping themselves before the people. The increased business of this department of the "Planter' since it has been undertaken, proves that those who have tried it, find it to their interest to encourage the enterprise. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following rates: For each square of ten lines, first insertion, One Dollar j each continuance Seventy-Five Cents. A liberal discount to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements out of the city must be accom* panied with the money to insure their insertion* AUGUST & WILLIAMS, Proprietors. Richmond, February, 1859. THE BEST REAPING MACHINE, I have in store, and for sale, C. H. McOormick's American Reaper and Mower, which is warranted to be the best Machine made for cutting Wheat, and will be sold with that guarantee. A "sample of the Reaper in working order, can be seen at my store, and farmers are invited to call and see it. Also on hand, Atkins' Self-Raking, and Hursey's Reapers, with Threshers, Horse Powers, Wheat Fans, and a general assortment of agricultural machinery of my own manufacture. 'Warehouse, No. 14, Main Street, Richmond, Va. June 1859—2t H. M. SMITH. ALEXANDER GARRETT, 38 Main Street, RICHMOND. VA. General COMMISSION MERCHANT, AND DEALER IN GEOCEEIES, PERUVIAN AND SOMBRERO GUANOS, PILASTER, «&c. WILLIAM 6. MILLER, Who is associated with hiin, devotes his particular attention to the sale of
TH E Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts. Agriculture is- the nursing mother of the Arts. 1 Tillage and [Xenophon. J the Pasturage State.--Sully. are the two breasts of J. E. WILLIAMS, Editor. AUGUST & WILLIAMS Prop' RS. Vol. XIX. RICHMOND, VA., JULY, 1859. No. • Mr. Editor : For the Southern Planter. Guano Controversy. I am at a loss for a " caption" to this ar- ticle, that will designate my subject at pres- ent, and still bear some relation to the original inquiry, out of which these collat- erals have sprung. One would scarcely suppose from the points now under discus- T sion between } our correspondent " B." and myself that the discussion had its beginning in an inquiry into the " Stimulating properties of Guano j" and yet the connection is natural, inasmuch as its operation for good or evil depends in a great degree upon the susceptibilities of vegetables to these unwonted effects. And thus we are led off into a physiological discussion concerning the susceptibilities of plants, and as susceptibilities imply functions and functions organs, it brings us directly to the ques- tion, Do plants possess an organization analagous to the nervous system of animals ? Says " B.," " I have not asserted that there exist an organized nervous system, but such susceptibilities as sustain to the vegetable, a relation similar to that of a nervous system to animals." The meaning we extract from the foregoing sentence is, that plants either possess a nervous appa- 25 i ratue or some organized structure whose functions bear a certain relation to the functions of a nervous system : for what he calls susceptibilities must be the properties or functions of some organ from which it derives its susceptibilities. Now, if he hesitates about calling it a nervous system, we must call upon him for a name for this new structure in the anatomy and conformation of plants, and then to demonstrate its functions and show us its relations to this system in animals. In the meantime, we will endeavour to show that plants do not possess certain functions or properties that are possessed by all animals, in greater or less degree, and that arc universally referred by all physiologists to an organized system of nerves, viz : sen- sation and locomotion. U B." stated in syllogcstic form in a previous communication, that as some animals do not possess locomotion, they, too, must be destitute of nerves; but wc deny the fact that there are any animals totally destitute of either of these functions. Wc are ready to admit that they are very feeble and of the lowest order, but that they are totally absent no physiologist has ever asserted. In the higher orders of animal existence, both the functions and their organs are so palpable as to be read- ily demonstrated, and always bearing the
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