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TUB 80PTHEBN WORLD, MARCH 16,1882.
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TnK Southern World is the title of a
bright semi-monthly paper, published at
Atlanta, Georgia, a journal of industry for
the farm, home and workshop.—Indiana
Farmer.
The Southern World is a large sixteen
page paper, printed twice each month and
thoroughly devoted to the advance of all
Southern interest; each number is hand
somely illustrated and the subscription
price is $1.00 per year. It is an instructive,
bright, clean paper that will prove a wel
come visitor in every household in the
South.—Newbernian, Newbern N. C.
The Southern Would is neatly illus
trated, and conducted with marked ability
and as each number contains 16 pages and
64 columns, the price is extremely low. It
should, have a large circulation among
southern homes.—Lake Charles, (La), Com
mercial.
The Southern World a large sixteen
page paper printed twice a month at At
lanta, Ga., is one of the finest and most
practical publications devoted to the South
ern interest that has yet found its way to
our table. Each number is handsomely il
lustrated, and it is a cheap paper at the
price.—Friars Point, (Miss) Gazette.
The Southern World is one of the lead
ing journals of the South.—Ashland (Ala)
Banner.
Time was when the planter ridiculed what
he was pleased to call “ book farming, ”
and, indeed, there be many old fogies at this
day whose disgust is profoundly stirred if
any newspaper or book man presumes to
suggest to him that his system is stupid and
suicidal. In this respect, as in others, the
people of Georgia are far in advance of those
of the Southern States. It is undeniably
poorer, as regard to her soil, than any of its
sisters, and yet we hear no complaint of
starving among its people, though they suf
fered severely from the drouth of last sea
son.
However, we intended merely to notice
the Southern World, an agricultural jour
nal recently established in Atlanta. It is a
model of typographical excellence, is hand
somely illustrated, and the matter is alike
useful and interesting. It is a sixteen-page
paper, issued twice a month, and is only $1
per annum. We wish it abundant success.
—Shreveport (La) Daily Times.
We have received the Southern World, a
16 page semi-monthly, published in Atlanta,
Ga. It is devoted to the closer interest of
the Southern people, the farm, home and
workshop, and the paper before us bears the
impress of an able hand at the helm. The
agricultural and mechanical advancement
of the South and her social elevation can
never have too many advocates.be they ever
so numerous, and it is a duty that ea?h and
every one of them be liberally sustained. The
Southern World! See what the name im
plies, and think for a moment upon its vast
ness and its varied Interest, and then re
member that the publication bearing this
proud title is a fullmeaning champion of
those interests of real and distinguished
merit. Send your name to Atlanta for a
specimen copy.—Athens (Tenn) Post.
It is gratifying to know that the South
iscoming to the front in point of agricultu
ral and stock journals. Good papers of this
character are in demand and among those
supplying this demand is the Southern
World, published semi-monthly at Atlanta,
Ga.—Herald, Pulaski, Tenn.
It gives us pleasure to place upon our ex
change list the Southern World, a large
semi-monthly paper published at Atlanta,
G., at the low price of $1 a year. It con
tains a vast amount of useful and entertain
ing matter, and strikes us as being the very
paper for the Southern farmers.—Blue Grass
Clipper, Midway, Ky.
The Southebn World is the name of an
illustrated sixteen page, semi-monthly jour
nal recently started at Atlanta, Ga. It is
printed on fine paper and is a very credit
able specimen of newspaper excellencies.
It is a journal of the farm, home and shop.
We hope that it may live longer than did
Mathuselah, and exceed the prosperity of
Job in his latter days.—The Advance, Pitts
burg, Pa.
The Southern World, a Journal of In
dustry for the Farm, Home and Workshop,
Isa semi-monthly, published at Atlanta,
Ga., handsomely printed, and is worth the
dollar a year which is asked for it. It is
well edited, and muat be prized by all who
are so fortunate as to receive its visits.
Those who desire to know what the South
are doing on the farm, in the house and the
workshop, cannot do better than subscribe
for it.—Home Gunrdian, Boston.
We have received the Southern World,
a magnificent Agricultural and Family
journal published at Atlanta, Georgia. It
is devoted to the interest of Southern plant
ers, and is the best paper we know of for
a Southern farmer. We are not in the
habit of clubbing with other Journals, but
as we are so well pleased with the World,
we will club with it, thinking our friends
will be benefited by reading this excellent
paper.—Do Soto Democrat, Mansfield, La.
The Southern World, a new journal of
industry, devoted to the interests of the
Home, Farm and Workshop, is published
in Atlanta, Ga., and a most excellent paper
It is. When a farmer is not able to take
more than one paper we are candid and un
selfish enough to admit that he had better
fail to subscribe even to his own County
paper than not to have such Journals as
the N. C. Farmer and the Southern World.
—Warrenton (N. C.) News.
The Southern World comes from the
growing city of Atlanta—a sterling pai>er.
You will like it.—Hiwassee (Tenn.) College
Paper.
The Southern World, published at At
lanta. Ga., isan excellent journal of industry
for the farm, home, and workshop.—Valley
Farmer, Staunton Va.
We return thanks to the Southern World
Pubmshino Co., Atlanta, Ga., for a copy of
their beautiful paper, the Southern World.
—Gilbert Hollow (S. C.) Monthly.
The Southern World, is a sixteen page
journal, devoted to the farm, home and
workshop. It is an excellent paper, each
number illustrated, and should be in the
house of every farmer.—Banner, Camden,
Ala.
The Southern World, is the title of a new
sixteen page semi-monthly paper started in
Atlanta, Ga. It is published in the interest
of the agricultural and mechanical indus
tries of the South. It is an excellent jour
nal and should receive the support of every
household in the South.—Evergreen (Ala.)
News.
We have carefully looked through a copy
of the Southern World, and must say that
it is one of the neatest printed papers in the
South. Every number is handsomely illus
trated, arid furnishes a vast amount of in
formation by which men of every calling or
profession may be benefitted.—Fayette (Ala.)
Journal. _
A New Standard of Time.
In response to the circular of tne general
time convention, asking for communica
tions bearing upon the matter of a standard
time for the railways of the United States
and Canada, Admiral Rodgers, superintend
ent of the United States naval observatory,
has written the following:
The various countries of the world gener
ally have their own prime meridian, as
Greenwich, Paris, Pulkova, etc., and the
national maps are drawn to the respective
national prime meridians. The maps of
the United States are drawn with reference
to the meridian at Washington. The ob
servatories of Europe—Pulkova, Greenwich,
Paris, etc.,—give time to their respective
nations. In England the differences of
longitude are not great, and all England
uses Greenwich time. But the extent of
the United States renders a single time im
practicable, for by the hour at any place is
only sought an expression for the relative
position of the sun in regard to that place.
At the noon of any locality the sun is on
its meridian; at 1 o’clock it is one hour
past meridian; at midnight it is on the
lower meridian, or just under the feet, and
at 1 o’clock at night it is one hour past the
lower meridian. All this is very elemen
tary, and is known to everyone.
By local time man must live, move and
have his being. Other standard for his daily
avocation is chimerical, fit for speculation,
but utterly Impracticable. Sailors have for
a long time kept on board ships, for their
practical purposes, two times—namely,
local time, for the daily uses of life, and the
time of the national meridian, for astro
nomical purposes. This is Greenwich, Paris,
Pulkova, or other, according to nationality.
This arrangement at sea is in constant use
by a community far from a learned one,
according to shore standards. The system
must be plain and practical to landsmen,
since it is plain and practiced by sekmen.
The plan of time zones seems to me a plan
for legalizing diversity. It is against diver
sity that the country protests, as applied to
railroad service. Two neighbors separated
by a fence may live in different zones, or
two villages near one another may have dif
ferent zones and different legal times, in
which case business will be carried on be
tween them with more difficulty than with
natural time, by which people dwelling near
one another will have, substantially, agree
ment in their watches. Two railroads on
different sides of a river may have different
zones, and trains collide for want of agree
ment. Except in a town of some size no
one would know his zone, for the zones can
not be marked. The state lines are too ir
regular in shape to serve for a guide, nor
have wo custom houses on the borders to
inform travelers of the name of the state
into which they enter.
Learned societies may recommend artifi
cial time for the use of man, but it is to be
apprehended that the community may re
fuse to accept it. When the laborer, who
has worked from sunrise until noon, is
gravely told that noon comes at 1 o’clock,
will he not object? In short, men will con
tinue to keep natnral time for their daily
uses,whateverdifferent practice conventions
may recommend.
In conclusion, I beg leave to recommend
that in the railroad guides the time in
Washington, the nutionul meridian of the
United States, be published opposite to the
movements of through trains, leaving, the
trains to run on lkiston time, or Ogden
or San Francisco, or such other times ns the
directors may prefer. This plan invades no
right now enjoyed; it changes no practice;
it only adds to the table n few columns of
figures. I would also recommend that the
clocks at railroad stations be furnished with
two sets of hands; gilt handsfor Washington
time; and black hands for local time. These
hands, separated by a constant difference
equul to the diti'erence of longitude, will al
ways show at a glance the time required,
whether local or Washington.
A Georgia Farm.
| Augusta Chronicle unit GoiuiUlutionallst.l
Two and a half miles from the city, half
a mile to the right of the Sund Bar Ferry
road is ‘'Evelyn.” It is an exception to
most of the places we huve alluded to. in
that it still remains in the family which
half a century agocameintu possession of it,
and who still own and operate it success
fully. Originally secured by Mr. Oswell
Eve, this estate pussed to his son Wra. J.
Eve, who had itut the beginning of the war,
96 hands, and worked 60 mules. It wus
stocked with fine imported Durham and
Ayreshire breeds, and yielded up as plenti
fully of Indian corn as the prairie fields of
Kansas and Minnesota. There now remain
on the land evidences of former improve
ments. A brick church on the farm, well
finished, attest in what esteem his slaves
were held by the elder Eve, and it is stated
that during his lifetime no man was ever
mistreated on his place, and no slave ever a
fugitive.
There are in this farm twenty-two hun
dred acres of land—nearly all cleared up, as
level as a floor, withouta stump or a rock on
the place. It is susceptible of the most care
ful tillage. There's hardly an ucre on it
which may not be cultivated with most im
proved machinery, which is employed in
abundance; and the cost of planting and
harvesting is reduced to little or nothing.
Two-horse plows, patent harrows, cultiva
tors, screw pulverizers, reapers and self-
binders do the work, and farming has been
reduced to a science. At present the place
is worked by Messrs. Jno. Campbell, F.
Edge Eve and C. C.' Jones, Jr. The former
is one of the oldest, most experienced and
best planters in the state; and takes great
pride in every groath of grain or grass on the
whole plantation. There are at present 500
acres in oats, which in the luxurient growth
of the grain, looks like a sea of emerald.
This is one of the most productive crops
now grown by the Southern farmer, and it
is a significant fact that from the drouth of
last year the grain crop of the Union fell
off, with the single exception of oats. In
olden times this was too uncertain a crop;
but the discovery and improvement of rust
proof oats has rendered it of late years the
safest and most satisfactory growth on field
and farm. There are 60 acres in wheat grow-
itg beautifully—both yielding about 30
bushels to the acre; and after cutting in
June, a sowing of peas is made, from which
is cut annually over a ton of peavine huy.
A yield of $1.10 to $1.35 per hundred for
peavine hay, in addition to the oat crop is
a good return. Then there are the crab
grasses which grow everywhere, raaking.ex-
cellent hay, and which can be counted on
every September. These lands also yield
other hay grasses besides German millet,
while experiments are being made, witli
good show of ultimate success* in rice plant
ing. There is one “patch” on this place the
“Bar field” which was made by deposit from
the Savannah river, the waters gradually re-
ceeding and changing their course. Here,
where was once the bed of the river, are 120
acres, and any year 70 bushels of corn can
be procured. The field is a rich and rare
bounty from the river.
Comparatively little cotton is raised on
this place; a surplus of 100 acres is usu
ally planted and cultivated at th? rate of 3
acres to the mule. There are generally work
ed here 32 mules, and besides a few regular
hands, 70 or 80 day laborers are employed
during busy seasons.
Poison Sumach.—There Is another shrub
belonging to the same family as the Poison'
Ivy, than which it is said by tome to be
even more poisonous. We refer to the
Poison Sumach (proper), Poison Elder, or
Poison Dogwood, all of which names are
commonly applied to the plant. I have
spoken of the Ivy as being the most potent
of our poisonous plants, but perhaps that
remark might be allowed to apply to these
too plants, inasmuch us they both affect
different |iersons .similarly in a greater or
lesser degree, thus rendering it difficult to
decide between them.
The Poison Sumach, unlike the Ivy, Isa
tullshrub, often attaining the height of fif
teen feet. Its leuves are composed of from
six to thirteen smoothish leaflets, arranged
on a simple stem. The flowers grow in lit
tle clusters from the base of the leaf-stalk,
and are greenish in color.
The poison of this plant acts much more
quickly than the Ivy, but the symptoms
are very similar, and it frequently happens
that tlie hands und arms, and even the
whole body, becomes greatly swollen from
the simple act of touching or carrying a
branch of the shrub. It is also affirmed
that the poison may be communicated to
some by merely tmrlliny the plant, while
others may handle it witli impunity.
An interesting story is told by an English
botanist of two sisters, one of whom could
do anything she desired with the tree with
out ever being affected with its venom,
while the other felt its exhalations on ap
proaching within ten feet of it, or even at
a still greater distance when to the wind-
yvurd of it.
The same authority says that lie himself
was perfectly proof against the poison, and
that once some of the juice from a bent
twig of the tree squirted up into his eyes
without subsequent trouble, while the
hand of another person, which wus sprink
led with the same juice, became as a piece
of tanned leather, and thu skin afterwards
peeled off in scales. This will show the
marked difference in its effect on different
persons, but, as a general rule, it is not
safe to experiment with the plant, as proba
bly the exceptions of poison-proof indi
viduals are rare.
The manufacture of agricultural imple
ments has been the subject of government
inquiry and census. The figuresgiven show
a remarkable increase. In the United States
there are nineteen hundred and forty-two
establishments for the production of agri
cultural implements. Of tnese, two hun
dred and twenty-one ure in Illinois, two
hundred and sixty-five in New York, two
hundred and twenty in Pennsylvania, one
hundred aud fifty-five in Ohio, one hundred
and thirty-three in Michigan. The total
capital employed is $62,315,966; paid in
wages $15,499,114; worth of timber used,
$5,791,916; wortli of iron and steel, $18,424,-
052; worth of other material, $7,878,202;
total, $32,094,107. Tiie largest number of
persons employed during the year was
49,180. The total value of all products was
$68,373,086. In 1850 the total product was
$6,842,611. In 1860 it was $17,487,960. In
1870 $52,066,875. During the year there
were made 825,037, cultivators; 131,003 bai-
rows; 280,654 dozen of hoes; 212,147 dozen
of shovels; 380,732 dozen of hand rakes;
1,361,443 plows; 211,738 dozen of hay forks;
1,244,264 scythes; 43,717 scythe snaths;
mowers, 72,000; seed sowers, 20,289. In
1850,7220 persons were employed; in 1860,
14,814; In 1870, 25,249,and in 1880, 49,180.
The New York Christian Advocate gives
some good advice to girls. It says: “Give
your best sympathy. There is no greater
human power than the tenderness of woman.
If you can minister to some one in sickness,
lessen somebody’s distress, or put a flower In
some poor home, you have done a thing you
will always be glad to think of. You will
be remembered, and woman asks no grander
monument than to live in hearts.”
