1850 SOUTHERN PLANTER. Important Virginia Tobacco Plantation Periodical. Slavery, Farm Innovation, etc.,

Scarce entire periodical published for Southern Farmers with many articles showing a recurring desire to organize farmers and plantation owners to help produce legislation favorable to their interests; on the treatment of white laborers [seemingly to prevent charges of "white slavery," technological advances [it was a big year in guano research]; heavy emphasis on tobacco cultivation and new innovations in farming. 

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Gooch, Richard B [ed.] The Southern Planter. A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts. Richmond. Printed and Published by P. D. Bernard. 1850. 383pp.

Contents include: The Cultivation of Hemp in Eastern Virginia; Causes of Potato Rot; On the Use of Guano; God Bless the Plough by Lavinia S. Weston [Poem]; Immigration to Virginia; History of Kentucky Cattle [Extensive]; On the Use of Putrescent Manures [Extensive]; Cider; On the Cultivation of Tobacco; Alpaca Raising; Guano for Tobacco; On the Cultivation of Indian Corn; An Address of Dr. James W. Thompson to the Intelligent Famers of Today; On the Preservation of Fruits for Winter Use; The Manufacture of Maple Sugar; The Use of Molasses in Fattening Hogs; Turkey Raising in Tennessee; Apples as an Article of Human Food; The Urine of Animals; The Honorable Willoughby Newton on Profits of Farming in Eastern Virginia; Causes of Diseases in Children; The Cultivation of Irish Potatoes; Moon-Ology - Superstitions and Humbugs; The Use of Salt in Curing Tobacco; Cotton Manufacture of the Union [On the treatment of white laborers]; The Death of President Zachary Taylor; The Oppression of the Fence Law of Virginia; Coloring Pine to Imitate Black Walnut; Transmutation; Domestic Wine; Proposed Remedy for Fruit Thieves; The Shepherd's Dog; Electro-Magnetism and Motive Power; Lithography; The Greyhound; The St. Bernard Dog; Experiments with Guano; Means for Mental Improvement; Tobacco Manufactories; The Legislative Farmer's Club; Iron Coated with Glass; etc. 

Good - condition internally and binding only fair; heavily rubbed with spine deteriorates as shown. Interior generally solid and clean with toning throughout.