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The Farmers’ Index. AU letters intended for the Editor of this De nartment tbould tie addressed, "Fabmehs* Index, Drawer tM Atlanta, Ga.” farm work for ma y. The claims upon the attention of the farmer become more and more pressing as the reason advances. In our latitude planting—except a few late patches and low grounds—is generally over and the work of cultivation of the growing crop begins. The first plowing of corn has already been done by many farmers and the work next in usual order is that of CHOPPING COTTON. J ust at this point the practice of differ ent farmers commences to diverge—ac cording to the views of each as to what is the object to be accomplished. We agree with those whose practice is to commence when the seed leaves are fully expauded and go over the crop as quickly as possible. The planting of cotton is generally done so rapidly that it is frequently the case that the last plant ed will need work almost as soon as the first. Our own rule is, to endeavor to go over the crop with the hoes in the same time that was employed in planting it. If the ground has been properly prepared and carefully planted, choppers ought to average one acre each per day. On the level, light, stoneless lands of South ern Georgia we have had them to chop two acres each per day for a week to gether. To do the work so rapidly re quires good light, sharp hoes, and a clear understanding of what is to be done. Tue object is not to clean the cotton en tirely of grass but to thin the plants by “blocking out”- as it is called. The mo tion is quick, short and continuous, rarely striking twice in the same place, and without delay ing to reduce the plants to any given number. The aim should be to get over the greatest area possible in a given time, leaving the cotton in bunches of two to five stalks as may be convenient. In any point of view it is better thus to go over rapidly than to carefully count the stalks and clean away every restige of grass from each hill. The real work of hoeing cotton should commence as soon as it is chopped out, and will, in the end, be much expedited, by this first rapid going over and “block ing out.” It gives the grass, if there be any, a check, and at the same time starts the young cotton to growing by the thin ning and stirring given. SWEET POTATOES. Most of the sweet potatoes draws for the main crop will be planted this month. It is very important that the ground for draw's be freshly prepared. We were several years in finding this out by actual experience. In our desire to take ad vantage of the first “season” as soon as possible, we would have the ground freshly prepared and waiting for the rain, and commenced to “draw the bed” and plant as soon as the rain was over. But we found, after a few years, that those of our neighbors, who were not so “smart” as we, and had to prepare their potatoes after ihe rainfall, almost invari ably succeeded better. Their plants would live better, grow off quicker and require less work. We soon learned that plants, such as potatoes, cabb ige, tomatoes, tobacco, etc. should be transplanted into freshly plow ed soil. If the ground is in good condition when the plants are large enough, it is not advisable to wait for a rain. Let the beds be made airesh and set the plants deeply, carefully firming the soil around them. It is well to wet them in a batter made of top woods earth and water be fore planting. It should also be remembered that the plants should be worked very soon after setting out—especially where the ground was not fresh plowefi when planted. The soil should be kept in a loose, mellow condition until the vines have com menced to take possession. LOOK AHEAD. The work of the various crons should be pushed up in anticipation of the small grain harvest which will begin towards the list of the month. If extra hands will certainly be required to aid in get ting cotton to a stand, it is better to em ploy them at once while the price of day labor is reasonably low and when more effective work can be done, than to wait until fifty or seventy-five cents must be paid for a day’s work, and the grass has become so strong that only a quarter of an acre can be accomplished in a day. THE SPRING OF 1849. Our request for information of the exact date and reminiscences of the great killing freeze of 1849 has met with sev eral responses—from which we give the following extracts: “It commenced snowing and sleeting Sunday morning of 16sh of April 1849. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights, following, there was ice from Jto }of an inch thick. It was an unusually early spring. Cotton could be seen from one end of the row to the other. I had just finished plowing over a piece of corn. Wheat was in full bloom. Every thing in the way of vegetation was de stroyed. What makes me certain of the date, it was a memorable epoch in my history, I received a letter from Charles ton on Tuesday morning, the 18th, that I had goods landed there in a damaged condition. I started there immediately, arriving on the following Sunday, 23d. On the way, gloom was depicted on every face. Sinall-pox was racing in Georgia and part of South Carolina, which added to the general distress. In Charleston they were hauling out vege tables of every desciption and throwing them into the ocean. Speculators went forward and bought up all the flrur and other provisions in market. “Notwithstanding this great calamity the people cheered up and made good crops of corn, cotton, etc. Wheat, of course, was a perfect failure. I knew of but five bushels that were made in the county. Yours truly John Sawyer.” Alpine, Ala. “Fabmer’s Index. You said some thing in your last issue about the frost of 1849. The frost was successive for three mornings. The 12th was Sunday. I was then overseeing for Madison Hudson, in Elbert county. Sunday morning was cold and cloudy. Commenced to snow about 10 o’clock and nearly covered the ground—clearing off in the afternoon. The night was clear and still, and next morning, the 13th, we had a heavy frost nnd the ground was frozen J inch. Frost THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1881. on the 14 h and on up to the 16th, when it turned warm. “Our corn was plowed and hoed, cot ten generally up, and all was killed. Wheat was mostly in the dough. We expected to get 10 bushels per acre from about sixty acres. We got 212 bushels in all. For two or three days the whole farming fraternity—employers and over seers—were paralized; everything seem ed at a stand still —the blow was. so un expected by all. But the result was a good crop of corn and cotton. Oakland, Ga. A. J. Cooper.” Another: “Editor Index. In the Index of April 14, you refer to the frost which oc cured late in the spring of 1849, and ask some one to state the exact time and some remint sconces of the occasion. I can state positively that it occured on Monday he 16th day of Aptil. Sunday-- the day before--was E ister-Sunday, Snow fell a good portion of the day, but did not accumulate on the ground. I was then living with my father, Elisha Henderson, to miles east of Social Circle. Vegetation was quite forword at the time. Corn, on our place, was plowed out, a good s'and of cotton was up, wheat generally headed out, and every thing looked cheerful. A sad gloom followed the killing frost. Corn, cotton, wheat and all kind of vegetation was kil led. The woods turned black, and fair ly stank from the effects of the frost. We commenced replanting cotton on Monday, 16th. Just two weeks fiom that day, crop yeas up again and chop ping began. My father made the largest crop of cotton that year be ever made in his life. Corn crop equally as good. Wheat suckered out and made two-thirds of a crop. I was in Monroe county, near Forsyth, last of December following. Cotton blooms were numerous on 24th. Kil ling frost on the 25th of December. So much for the weather. The Sons of Temperance were to have a celebration, about Ist of May. Owing to the frost, killing everything, it was decided to postpone same. So quick and rapidly did everything recover from effects of the frost that the celebration was held in So cial Circle on the Ist day of May—a very large crowd witnessing the same. “On Saturday evening before the frost I dressed up in a linen suit, left home, feeling sufficiently warm. Brayed from home that night, being under promise to go with my sweetheart—as they were called in those days -to meeting on Sun day. I was true to my promise, arriving at her father’s house in due time. The day being so very cold, it was decided not to go to meeting. 1 came so near freezing that day, dressed in my linen suit, that my love for my sweetheart act ually died out, and I wentbackbutor.ee more. The good lady, however, survived and is now the amiable wife of a prom inent member of the church at Social Circle. “I wish to add, that since that time I have been a very close observer of the weather. I have observed, that it has invariably been cool and if sufficiently damp, frosty, about Easter-Sunday. It is not safe Jo have cotton up at that time. Frost rarely, if ever, occurs after Easter, sufficient to damage vegetation. This has been my observation, carefully noted, every year since 1849. E. W. Henderson, Sardis, Miss., April 26tb, 1881.” “Suscriber” writes from Grantville, Ga.: “On the night of thelsth of April 1849, there fell a killing frost. (I think it was on Sunday night.) On Monday morning everything in the way of vege tation was dead. Frost continued each night to the 22nd, killing all the cotton that came up each day. It was a fine crop year." Our correspondents differ a little as to the day of the month, but agree as to the day of the week on which the frost began. By easy calculation it is found that April 16th, 1849, fell on Monday, and without doubt this was the date of the occurence. THE SORGHUM BUSINESS. The indications are that the farmers of the Northwest will succeed in estab lishing the growing of sorghum and the manufacture of sirup and sugar there from as one of the great industries of the country. It is a little remarkable that the United States, possessing such a wide extent of territory, embracing climate and soil similar to those of Ger man and France, where the beet sugar interest is successful, as well as a large section along our Gulf coast capable of producing the tropical cane, should be dependent on foreign importation for more than four-fifths of the sugar and sirun that we consume. France is now supplying her own con sumption and exporting largely of sugar made from beet?. The recent improve ments in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum, the experience gained in the manner of growing and handling the crop, and the new varieties introduced, indicate that in a few years this country will make its own sugar. Already, it is said, sugar producers in Cuba are be coming uneasy at the prospect of nqt only losing one of their best customers, but at the same time gaining a lively competitor in the markets of the world. Meantime it is interesting to inquire, will we of the South permit the North and West to supply us with sugar in ad dition to the long list of supplies that wc can produce as well and more cheaply than they? Will tne farmers of the South never learn that they must diver sify their crops, and especially that they must produce everyth Ing needed at home that can be done successfully? We have fallen into the idea that sugar and sirup were peculiar products of tropical and intertropical and that it was in the range of probability that in the fu ture—whenever we made a determined effort—we would supply the whole country with sugar. But the indications now are that in a few years we will be using sorghum sugar from the West as we have been glucose (corn sirup) for several years. Will we never get well of the cotton fever, and realize the fact that we are very slaves to the kingly tyrant? Broad Webels for Farm 'Wagons. —The surface over which loads are drawn upon the farm is soft, as a rule, and a wheel with a broad tire will not sink so far as a narrow one. A load of manure or hay can be drawn across plowed er other mellow ground, upon a wagon which has tires four inches wide, when it would be impossible to do so with the old narrow wheels, often leal than two inches wide. The usually heavy, muddy country roads of early spring, are much more passable with the wide wheels than the narrow ones; and even upon smooth, hard roads the difference in the draft is so slight as to be no argument against the use of wide tires. Most of the leaning upon the farm is upon soft ground, and the light draft of broad-tired wagons should make them preferable, because they are a sav ing of animal and strength. One of tho first things that strikes an intelligent European in coming to this country, is tho very frail look of onr vehicles, espe cially the narrow wheels. While these may be desirable in road wagons, those for farm use may well be with broad tires. Contractors for road always use broad-tired carts, as they find them most profitable. The “American Agriculturist.”— Among our exchanges there is none that we prize more highly than the above published monthly by Orange Judd Company, New York, at $1.50 per an num. It is especially valuable to the plain practical farmer for its great vari ety of short, practical, ilhiatrated-articles and the singular absence of long, dry theoretical essays—which the average farmer finds little time and less inclina tion to read. The illustrations of simple implements and contrivances for the comfort and convenience of home and farm are alone well worth the price of the paper. We advise our readers who may desire to take a first illustrated far mers’ paper to subscribe for it. A Losing Joke. —A prominent physician of Pittsburgh said, jokingly, to a lady pc tient who was complaining of her continued ill health, and of his inability to cure her, “try Hop Bitters 1 ’ The lady took it in ear nest and used the Bitters, from which she obtained permanent health. She now laughs at the doctor lor his joke, but he is not so well pleased with it, as it cost him a good patient,—Harrisbnrg Patriot. 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Among these improvements may be mentioned: AN IMPROVED BELLOWS, simplified in con struction, of which tne action upon the reeds is m re direct, with beneficial effect upon the qual ity of tone, while the blowing is rendered EASIER. AN IMPROVED KEY-ACTION reducing the force necessary to manipulate the keys nearly one-half, rendering the whole action more elas tic and perfect, and saving fatigue to the ptayer, as well as almost certainly avoiding some of the commonest faults in organ playing. AN IMPROVED STOP ACTION; simple but eilicient ami sure in working. SEVERAL NEW CASES are offered, combining grace and elegance of design, with simplicity and stability of construction. AN IMPORTANT PRACTICAL ADVANTAGE of these and other improvements effected tills season Is in GREATER ECONOMY OF MANU FACTURE, Uy which lower prices of many styles are rendered possible. The MASON & HAMLIN ORCAN CO. now offer the following EXTRAORDINARY LOW PRICES, which certainly have not before been even ap proached for organs of such highest excellence. THE: BABY CABINET ORGA s (see cut at lie ginning), three and a quarter octaves, suffi cient compass for the full parts of popular sacred and secular music generally, having the charnc terls'lc tone and excellence of the Mason & Ham lin organs; net cash price, $22. The same four octaves, net cash price, S3O. a FOUR OCTAVE OR GANS, FIVE STOPS, (di apason, viola, melodta, flute, full organ, with knee swell); catalogue price. SBS; net cash price, ssl FIVE OCTAVE OR GANS, SEVEN STOPS (diapason,viola, melodla, seraphone, voix celeste, full organ, tremulant, with knee swell); cata- Prlces, ssl and S6O. logue price, $100; net cash price, S6O. That standard of merit which has won for the Mason & Hamlin organs the HIGHEST DISTINCTIONS at EVERY ONE OF THE GREAT WORLD’S INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS for thirteen years, at no one of which hag any other American organ ever been found equal to them, is not only rigidly main tained but MATERIALLY ADVANCED. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES (32 pp. 4to), with price lists, free. Masoii&HaiiillnOrgan Co., TremoitSt.,Boston; 46 E. UthSt., New York; 149 Wabask At., Chicago. ap2l eow4t READ THIS! NORTH GEORGIANS AND OTHERS. THE CELEBRATED LIQUID ENAMEL PAINT, MANUFACTURED BY NEW JERSEY ENAMEL PAINT COMPANY, HAS been sold in your State EIGHT YEARS—thousands of gallons having been disposed of. In no case has It failed to give SATISFACTION. The Flntat Public Buildings In Baltimore are painted with this Elegant Paint: The Carrollton Hotel, The New American Office, Sun Iron Building, The Armstrong, Cator & Co.’s Building, The Trinity M. E. Church, South, ANDAMAN! PRIVATE RESIDENCES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. 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V ■■ W ■ ■ ■ I W Bp (Formerly McHaffie Direct Steel Castings Co.) septlfi ts Works, CHESTER, Pa. 407 Library BL, PHILADELPHIA' UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. The session begins on the first of October, and continues until the Thursday before the fourth day of July ensuing. The Institution is organized in separate Schools on the Eclectic System, embracing FULL COURSES OF INSTRUCTION in Literature and Science, and in the professions of Law, Medicine, Engineering and Agriculture. THE EXPENSES of the student (except such as enter the prrctical labortories), exclusive of the cost of text-looks, clothing and pocket money, are from $356 to $391, according to Schools selected; or, for those who economize by messing, these expenses are from $266 to S3OO. No charge for tuition to candidates for the minlstiy unable to meet the expense. Apply for Catalogues to ws. Wertknbakkr, Secretary, P. O. University of Virginia, Albemarle county, Va. mr-104m JAS. F. HARRISON, M. D., Chairman of the Faculty. FIVE OCTAVE ORGANS, larne and elegant case, ■AHTOjS richly ornamented aud embellished ; eleven stops, I7S[ J@| (viola, viota-dolce, diapa- J IBs— —ctmuHl son, dulclana, oboe, darl se9Li!(<_ Iwl onet, melodla, clara'oella, I voix celeste,tremulant,full •vr-l ’ -JLI organ, with knee swell); -..Q1 catalogue price, $170: net !i S'jjs eSSsjMjq cash price, $lO2. Observe that the number oj stops tn 1 All — an or oan is no criterion of 3 r/.n its capacity. A Mason & J JI pt 11! pi Hamlin organ may be ex- JBjlSwalpj peeled to have very much J» 1-I La. greater power, variety, and iiliuuium in .nUMIoIF capacity every way, than Price, $lO2. one of the ‘ cheap” organs with two or three times its number of stops. LARGER STYLES of greater capacity are furn ished in extensive variety, in very elegant cases, black walnut, ash orebonlzed, paneled, carved, richly decorated and highly polished bv hand ; up to S9OO each. SUPERB DRAWING’ ROOM i STYLES, $lO2 to $570 and up. FOR LARG -1 CHURCHES, $570. S4BO, $360 and lesz. FOR : SMALLER CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, etc., S3O to S2O) and up. POPULAR STYLES, $22 to SIBO . and up. THE LISZT ORGAN, 1 of large scale and i capacity; the best organ which can be construe * LS - . >'< — ,rom reeds. Suited I for any use and adapted Tl 1° any position. Price, * 3 ' l9 - THE SAME, two H Y/A manuals twenty-two JM+sll2^.Stops: price, $570. EBO NIZED CASES, exactly IF imitating ebony, are J Liszt Organ, $360. now ver y fashionable; 1 sll7 and up. THE MASON <k HAMLIN ORGAN CO. now 1 regularly manufacture MORE THAN ONE HUN DRED STYLES, including the lowest as well as the highest priced instruments of this class in the . world; all of which, considering quality, excel lence and real value, are the cheapest organs made The prices given in this adwrliscmenl are the i louYSt net cash prices from our own warerooms, except where otherwise stated. FOR EASY* PAYMENTS.—Organs arc also furn ished fob easy payments, at only sufficient ad vance in prices to compensate for extra time and expense. After a first payment of one-tenth of the price of the organ, other payments may be $5 or more per month or quarter, according to value of the organ. _ ADVERTISEMENTS. A SKfN OF BEAUTY IS A JOY F IREVER. DR. T. FELIX GOURAUD’B Oriental Cream, or Magical Beaatifler m a H « « TLw * dSiHu i Removes Tan, pimples, freckles, Moth-Patches, and every blemish on beauty. It has stood the test of thirty years, and is so harmless we taste it to be sure the prepay Hon Is properly made. Accept no counterfeit ol similar name 'J he distin guished Dr. L. A. Sayre, said to a lady of the naut ton (a patient)"As you laities will use them. I recommend ‘Gouraud’s Cream* as tfae least harmless of all sklu prepara tions.” Also Poudre Subtile removes super fluous hair without injury to the skin. Mme. M. B. T. GOURAUD.SoIe Proprietor, 48 Bond St.. N. Y. For sale by ail Druggists aud fancy goods dealers in the United States, Canadas and Europe. Beware of base Units lions which are 1 abroad. We offer SIOOO Reward-tor the arrest and proof of any oue selhug the same. For sale by ST. CYR FOURCADE, I. L. LY ONS. New Orleans, and other druggists. mrlOeowflm WOLFF’S • ACME BLACKING FOR LADIES’, CHILD REN’S & MEN’S SHOES. TIIA POLISH Comes of Itself without rubbing or friction, and remains from one to two weeks. Shoes should be well greased the night before applying the Acme, then use as Uttle as possible to give the polish. When dusty or muddy clean your shoes with a very wet cloth dr sponge. Acme W aTERPROOFS the leather and makes It keep the feet dry u if rubbers were worn. If it should accumulate from too free use. remove by rubbing with a Uttle alco hol on a cloth. Manufactured only by WOLFF, RANDOLPH <St CO., ap7 ts 169 N. 4th St,, Philadelphia. I fiend for our LOW-PRICED List (maHedf ■ free on application) and see the number of H PLANTS "Vr 11 sll ■ Our Greenhouses (covering 3 acree in Glass) B ■ arc the largest in America, I Peter Henderson & Co,I | 35 Cortlandt St., New York. g feblo-18t HOOK & HASTINGS boston, Mass, Builders of the Grand Organ for the Cincinnati Music Hall; the powerful Centennial Organ; the great Organ lu Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and of over 1,000 CHURCH ORGANS For every part of the country We invito atten tion to our new style of Parlor Organ (of pipea only) at prices varying from $450 to SI,OOO, and upwards. MUSIC COMMITTEES, ORGANLBTB, and others are ißvited'toapply to us direct lor alllnfor mation connected with our art. Descriptive dren lars and specifications furnished on application. Second-hand Organs in great variety for sale at bargains to purchasers. feolO-eow26t I Suh nkLßii. ■ ■J 11 <-om*hte lUttrry on Baek. ■ Khi umatkin, I’arnhXit. ■ BuhlMUMk i*»t Vitality. HcaiteiSie, B I NrrvouMVy vuknemt, Dvnpondtuicy. ■ Cun«tipat4oii. Sand to- Onr filer!rn-Magnefte Jawrnal. cantata- B -•1 Ing dra<Tiphons, trMimoniak. etc., Urtsc <• *U- B J. W. W EAKLEY, Jr. & CO., < IntlnnMtk O. B mr24 eow6t NORTHERN TEXAS Offers greater attractions in way of good, cheap lands, healthy country, mild climate, abundanoo of timber and water than any other aectlon now open to settlement. In it the TEXAS AND PA CIFIC RAILWAY is now being extended west ward over one mile per day, and is now offering for sale at low prices and on easy terms over 4,000,(i00 acres of land. For descriptive circular! and maps giving truthful Information, address W. H. ABRAMS, Land Commissioner T. & P, Ry., Marahall, Texas. ap7 eowSt ♦ STOVE PIPE SHELF AND UTENSIL STAND. A.HBNTS WANTXD for tta most convenient article ever oAkraa to housekeeper.. Agent, meet w*b greeter .neceu then ever. Om wmol ■Ude MM In IS days, anoiherlM In Bdays. another in 1 day. Boxlnm nnw Frelsh* Free to Agent.. Send for circular, to MWWi address. L E. SHEPARD A <Nk- Ctnolnnati, 0., or *L LoulaTllat augl eowß9t R. F. Lawton. Pro’r. | Bixby E. Ribs, Caahier. IL F. LAWTON, BANKER AND BROKER. 40 SECOND STREEI, MACON, GA. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS, IN all its departments, attended to with care and promptness. Securities bought and sold on commltrfon. Collections made on all accessible pointe, with dispatch, at lowest rates. mr2s ly 14-BTOP ORGANS, CiTTIS *n A CiC! *■ Oct. Coupler ' »WJ9 JOjXOS« Bet R.ede, $M Pianos SIHS A upwards sent on trial. Catalogue free. Address Daniel F. Beatty, Washington, N. J. je!7 eowly ADD AM v »W- icYI.W: to 82 STOPS vKbr Ass 8 dec»-tf Washington, N. ftjrt All Gold, Chromo A Llt’g Cerda, (No two OU Alike,) Name on, 10c. Clinton Bros ClintonvHle, Conn. oct2Beow26t 52 aepUeowMt ts <Y CHRONOS, name In new type,loc. by mail. 0 U 40 Agts. Samp’es, 10a U. 8. Card Co. .North fordTUt dert-eowly r/Y Gold, Ftoured. and Acfrws CHROMOB,IOa 0(J Agent’. Sample Book, 25c. SEAVY BROS., Northford Ct dec#-eowly trn Lithographed CHROMO CARDS, no 2 PU ‘‘’lk’. btg Oulfit, 10c. Glom Cabd Co..Northford, Ct.- dec»-eowly 7