Author: Lee, Daniel (editor)
Title: Southern Cultivator, Volume VI, 1848 ( 10 monthly issues, Nos. 1-2. 4-7, 9-12)
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 was quite popular, especially across the South. The ten issues cover major areas of maintaining plantations and farms--practices ("Horizontal Planting", "Hints on Making Manure", "Management of the Cotton Crop", "Renovation of Worn-Out Lands", etc.), equipment ("Gin-Gearing", "Tanning Leather--Making Boots and Shoes"), architecture ("Design for a Farm House" and "Barns and Stables"), threats from nature ("Wheat Fly and Hessian Fly" and "The Turnip Fly"), animal husbandry ("The Horse" "A Good Animal--Improvement of Stock" and an article on the "Durham Bull"). These articles are only a sampling of the wealth of information contained in these historic publication. They shine a bright light on the creation and maintenance of Southern plantations and farms of the South. Quite rare in their first editions. Near Fine.

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