Author: Lee, Daniel (editor)
Title: Southern Cultivator, Volume V, 1847 (10 monthly issues, March - Nos. 3 - 12)
Description: Augusta, GA, 1847. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. These remarkably preserved periodicals have survived almost 2 centuries with only minor wear (light foxing). Each volume is preserved in an archival plastic sleeve. This was "A Monthly Journal, Devoted to Southern Agriculture" and were quite popular, especially across the South. The nine issues (Numbers 3-12) cover a variety of agricultural topics: "On the Principles of Artificial Manuring", "Use of Lime as a Fertilizer", "Study the Soil-- Magnesia" and "Rotation of Crops". Another popular topic is animal husbandry: "South Down Sheep" and "The New Leicester Ram" (both illustrated with beautiful engravings. Also covered is architecture on the plantation/farm under the subject of "Rural Architecture" with subjects like the English cottage, an article printed with a fine engraving. Also covered are "New and Improved Plows". among other instruments. As to be expected, slavery is a topic as well with the rare article on the state of "typhoid pneumonia" plague among the enslaved. Named articles are just a sampling of all that is covered in these 10 issues. They gives us, nearly 200 years later, a clearer picture of everyday life on the Southern plantation and farm. Quite rare in their first editions. Near Fine.

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