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The Farmers’ Index. All letters In .ended for the Editor of this De partment should Iw addressed, ’‘Farmers’ Index, Drawer 24. Atlants, Ga.” SMALL FARM-IN 7 UK SOUTH. Gen. Francis A. Walker, the Super intendent of the Census, has been draw ing eotne very gratifying conclusions from the results of his statistical labors. Among other things he gives tables showing the average size of farms in the six States, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, compared with the average in 1870. He says: “The marked feature of these tables is the immense increase in the number of small farms in the States treated of, owing to the subdivision of large plan tations of twenty and thirty years ago, except only in the case of Delaware, where no marked change has occurred recently. In i bis State the increase in the number of farms only corresponds to the increase ot population.” The conclusion drawn from the sta tistics presented, that a radical and permanent change has occurred in the size of farms in the South, is rather over drawn and not warranted by the facte as they actually exist. The een " -eng enumerators were probably misled, to some extent, in making up their returns, and possibly embarrassed by the want of adaptation of the census blanks to the circumstances. It would surprize many a comparatively small farmer—one of five hundred acres, so ’ instance —to find that the census ie ports him as having divided his five hundred acres into four, five, or six farms, because he happened to have that number of plow-animals, and found it convenient to make as many distinct contracts for labor, in the year for which the census was taken. Nine teen-twentieths of such contracts are made for only one year. A farmer, one year, may have four farms; the next year, six ; the next, only one, and so on, varying each year according to circumstances, and yet the aggregate area remain the same, and is known collectively as his “farm,” whether comprising one, or several, one or two horse allotments. Yet, it is not disputed that there is a decided movement in the direction of smaller farms of a more permanent character than a mere one-year occu pancy, and a tendency to reduce the area actually held by individual land owners. A comparative exhibit of the average areas of. land in farms— owned by individuals—would be interesting and instructive. SAL 2 AS a MANURE. After a full consideration of the sub ject of salt as a manure, the conclusions arrived at by the Massachusetts Agri cultural Society were as follows : That salt has the property of hasten ing the maturity of all grain crops; that wheat on salted land will ripen six to ten days earlier than on unsalted land, all other conditions being equal. That in increases the yield 25 to 50 per cent. That it stiffens the straw, and prevents rust and smut. That it checks, if it does not entirely prevent, the ravages of the chinch-bug; and that there is no danger of a man’s pock et permitting him to put too much salt upon his land, as two barrels per acre <~wi.ll injure no grain-crop. In answer to questions as to the best time and manner of sowing salt, as also the proper quantity to use, the follow ing replies were given: The best time to sow salt is in the spring; and it ought to be the first thing done on either fall or spring plowing, as all after stirring of the land assists in its equal distribution through the soil. The best and easiest method of sowing salt, in the absence of a ma chine for that purpose, is to sow it from out of the rear end of a wagon—the sower using both hands and the team moving at a slow walk. In this way thirty to forty acres can be sown in a day. ’ The quantity used may be from 150 to 300 pounds per acre; Lu’ the greater quantity is the better. We do not remember ever to have read so strong a recommendation of ‘■salt as a manure” as the above. It would seem that little more could be said in its favor. Yet, the experience of farmers here and there over the country, does not agree in regard to the good results of salt. It seems to be rather an open question, to be decided by experiment in every locality (which, after all, is the only conclusive test of the merits of any fertilizer). The claims are rather extravagant—accord ing to our own experience —and it is not stated in what condition the salt was used —whether the clean mer chantable salt, or the refuse from the packeries, or smoke-house. The latter is really more valuable as a manure and costs less than the former. We would be glad if a number of our readers would experiment with salt in both forms. Let strips of wheat or oats be sown with given quantities of salt alternating with clean salt, refuse salt, and none at all—and report the result. It is the only way in which the un mistakable truth can be reached, and not then after one experiment only. \Ve are constantly reminded of the great necessity for an agricultural sta tion, where all such questions may be tested and settled by the most careful and oft-repeated experiments. W»mer'< Safe Kidney and Uver Cure. THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1881. CORRESPONDENCE. TOO MUCH AIVICE Editor Index —One can scarcely pick up a newspaper, whether agricultural,scientific, literary, politic.il, or religious, without find ing advice to the farmers somewhat like the following: “What you need in order to suc ceed is to cut down your farms -make them small.” Now where do these kind advisers live? For in my country they have got down already—whether cut down or kicked down or pushed down—they are down so small that theowner doesn't run agne-horse farm but has to be run. And they do not succeed yet Now how much smaller must we cut them 1 Now, some of these farmers, that have cut down their farms, have gone to other busi ness to keep from starving and are now scribbling in the newspapers, advising their brother farmers to do j ist what they have done—cut their farms down. W. A. Overton. Union Point, Ga. [Our correspondent is eviden'ly out ot patience with so many advisers. Well, we don’t much blame him after all, for there is a class of writers, who, though its sentimental sympathy with the farmer, have not “been through the mill” since the war; they have not had the struggles with old debts and new, free labor and no labor at all, droughts, storms and caterpiilffrs, low prices and poor crops, and are not prepared to fully appreci' e the em barrassments that surround the farm ers, and the difficulties that lie in the way of a radical change of plans and purposes—supposed to be necessary to success in the future. But, after all, advice from such sources is often good and sensible. It is said that “any fool can give advice—it takes a wise man to follow it.” And moreover such ad vice is not confined to the sources re ferred to. Practical farmers have adopted the “cutting down” process,— have made a success of it, and advise others to do likewise, —for instance, Maj. J. F. Jones, of Troup. The trouble with our correspondent’s neigh bors—according to his account—is, that some of them have persisted in the extensive plan until they have been “cut down, or pushed down, or kicked down” by their creditors, or by sheer inability to continue longer on that line. They did not “cut down” in pursuance of a well settled conviction that it was the best policy, but like a poor General, they have been forced from one after another of their un tenable and scattered positions, until they have been driven to their very door sills. Where a man is farming on a more or less extensive scale and is losing money every year, it is certainly about the wisest thing he can do to “cut down” at once, and thereby re duce the amount of his losses. Such a man may (and he often does) strug gle a long time before he goes to the wall, and generally the catastrophe, when it comes, is overwhelming, and ruin well nigh irretrievable. It were far better to cut down at once, before debt begins to embarrass, and failure discourage, adopt a self-sustaining sys tem, and avoid debt as if it were a deadly upas. As it is difficult to successfully maneuver a large army in a strange country, so it is to manage a large plantation profitably under the changed circumstances that surround the Southern planter and farmer. But if, after all, our correspondent thinks he can do better by following the example of those alluded to in the last paragraph of his letter, by all means let him do so. It is certainly wise in a man to follow any honorable business that gives bread, rather than starve to death on a farm.] From the Wilmington (Del.)Repu6- lican: Mr. J. M. Scott, corner Third and Madison streets, had a remarkably fine horse cured of the scratches by St. Jacob’s Oil. THE DALLAS WHEAT. Mr. Editor :—1 see an article in The Index of the 15th ultimo, sayirg that the Department of Agriculture oi Georgia, distributed a number of small packages of Dallas wheat among the farmers of Georgia, and from the re turns made by them to the department, the result as to it as a success are con flicting. Several packages were dis tributed by Mr. E. H. Edenfield, Sec retary of the Emanuel County Agri cultural Society, and among those who received a package was myself. I took it be< a ise it was claimed to be a hardy wheat, and not very subject to rust. I wished to test its rust-proof qualities more particularly, and sowed it broad cast in my oat patch, selecting a spot of land for it that oats, cotton and peas invariably rusted on, and corn would fire. I sowed it the first of November, while I was sowing oats. The result was that my oats got all killed by the big freezes we had just as they were coming up. The wheat was not killed, and when I seeded my oat land over in the spring, I reserved the spot where the wheat stood. It grew off finely and made excellent wheat, without one speck of rust. It has a full, plump berry, large, longhead, with stiff,flinty straw. E. W. Lane, M. D. When others are suffering, drop a word of kindness and sympathy. If they are suffer ing from a cold, give them Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup; a few doses of this valuable remedy will afford instant relief, and a twenty five cent bottle will cure the worst cough. Mayor’s Office, Leesburg, Va , April 19. 1879. Messrs. Hutchinson & Bro.—lt affords me pleasure to testify to the great virtues of your "Neuralgine”.for the cure of neuralgia and sick headache. It is the best remedy for these most distressing complaints I have ever used. It should be in every family in the country. Yours truly, Geo. R. Head, Mayor of Leesburg, Va. ADVERTISEMENTS. WOMAN’S TRIUMPH! MRS. LYDIA E. 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For the cureuf Kidney Complaints of either sex this Compound is unsnrp .sea. LYDIA E. PINKHAM’ VEGETABLE COM. POUND is prepared at Utt and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, J.ins. Price *l. dix bottles for Sent by in ah in the f irm of pills, also i the form of lozenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box for either. Mrs. Pinkh •-i freelyanswers all letters of inquiry. Send for pamph let. Address as above. Mention this Paper. No family should be withou ; LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation, biliousness* and torpidity of the liver. 25 cents ver bcx. lebßtf SOLD «Y ALL DRUGGISTS. ~A.P. TRIPOD SIGN, FRESCO AND HOUSE PAINTER, 13 Broad St., ATLANTA, GA., DEALER IN PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, WINDOW GLASS, Elc. 0 T. R AYNOLDS & CO.’S COACH COLORS AND MIXED PAINTS. septlS ts TUTT’S PILLS INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN, AND THE AFFL’CTED EVERYWHERE. THE GREATEST MEDICAL TRIUMPH OF THE AGE. SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. 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It imparts a natural color, acts Instantaneously, bold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of sl. Office, 35 Murray St., New York. Dr. TI’TT’S MANI Ab of Valuable Information and h Vlki’fiil KeceipU will bo mailed HI EE on application., m tyl2 ts Wan ted for GOLDEN DAWN Or Lighten the Great Future in this Life through the Dark Valley and in the Life Eternal. ILLUS TRATED. Sells lost, fays over A MONTH FOR AGENTS. Send for circular an d terms. Also send address of two or more book ng.nts and 10 cents for cost of mailing, and receive the People’s Magazine of choice literature free for six months. Address P. W. ZIEGLER & C 0.,? lebß-tf 915 Arch St., Philadelphia, P ACADEMIES, COLLEGES, SEMINARIES. Are you preparing?— Think of Colgate Academy. Are you prepared ? Look to MADISON UNIVERSITY. Are you to take Theology’ ? Consider Hamilton Seminary Second Term begins January 3d. Commence ment, June 22d, 1882. «WSend for Catalogue to DR SPEAR, Box 630, Hamilton, N. 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January *T’HE village of DeLand is located five miles east 1 of our landing, on the St. John’s river, where all river steamboats pass; very near the geo graphical center, north and south of Volusia county, and almost in the center of THE GREAT ORANGE BELT. This place is about twenty-five miles from the Atlantic and is almost constantly favored with a tempered «KA BREEZE, and from its elevation above the river, its location among the pines, ami its isolation from all stand ing water, it is peculiarly adapted to the necessi ties of invalids. This belt of land is about twenty miles long, and averages about five miles wide, is gently undulating, an , in our immediate vicini ty, somewhat hilly. Our lands are Unsurimssed In Fertility by any pine region in the State. Iti our village which is only sou r years old, we have a Fine School Building, used also for union Sunday-school and church services. We have dally mails, three genera I mer chandise stores, one of (he largest in South Florida, a drug store, millinery and notion store. The Florida .i grlcullurall-t, a large eight page weekly, is published here, and H. A. BeLAND, Fairport, Monroe Co., N. m vlfi ts finlv LADIES’ SOLID GOLD WATCHES. If II I I ZjF Alraostovery younggontleman prides himself upon csrrylngawatch of some kind, (J cJm and gentlemen can with perfect propriety, carry a silver watch an imitation gold, or j y-—k a nickel watch, provided it la a good time keper. Although ladiea have the same pride 111 411 J 9 about carrying a watch, and take tho same pleasure in doing so that Gentlemen do, hIZ still tho great majority of Ladies do not carry watchea. There are two reasons for their 111 I /1 notdolng no. First it is not considered quite tho proper thing for a Lady to carry any but i a Gold Watch, and second, Gold Watches have heretofore been so high In price that die majority of young ladles could not afford to own one. Realizing thlscon dition of things, we have, atty much time spent In Experimenting, and at great expense perfect*! a beautiful Ladles* Watch with Solid Cold Hunting Cases which we aro enabled to sell at thoox tremely h»w price of Twelve Dollars, making It tho cheapest Cold Watch In tho World, and thus placing It within the reach of /(.■''FtiaXdT" ~,m" s t every younglady in tholand. Young gentlemen who have desired to "“‘k’’ their tavurlto sister or sweetheart a pi esent ot a U atcb, (ami. by t lie way, a nice Watch Is ono of tho prettiest and most desirable presents that can bo given,) and who havo boon prevented by tho high price of watches from bll,Cltn,l>,w l‘ ur(,, 'iu*o an Elegant Cold Watch, without tcei ln »J impoverished a whole year afterward. We make t lie cases of our New ‘ \ Ladies’Watch of Solid Cold, Elegantly Engraved, ami In very truth, they aro ‘ 'Things of Perfect Beauty." They havo fine Nickel Movements, T and are fully guaranteed for time. Every Watch Is put up in beautiful velvet ■' 1 lined Caso. ’ Sent by Registered mail, on receipt of $ 12. 00. IfJ "u <>t der 4 before jf'lirlstnias, nnd send fnil amount of cash, wo Will ENGRAVE Yolß 1N- ITIALB FREE of cost. Wesonda Double Extra fine Ccld Plated Opera ,,r Long Chain with the Wai<ti on receiptof $3,00 additional. SeiKl money by Registered mall, I’. (). Money Order, or Draft on New York.’ WORLD MANUFACTURING CO. 122 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. SO CENT'S A YEAH THE FARMING WORLD. NO PREMIUMS. NO PRIVATE TERMS. NO PUBLIC FRAUDS. Simply an 8 page Semi-Monthly Journal, national in circulation, and unri valed in the extent and ability of its Agricultural correspondence. ON TRIAL—3 MONTHS, 10 CENTS. To ministers and widows 25 cents per year. Let all who read for knowledge or work for money, address for FREE Specimen, (naming The Christian Index), nov24 2t T. S. GARDNER, Editor, Cincinnati, Ohio. aE*n D N OrTOUS Weakness, fieafhesa, Loss ot lUn Voice, Sense of Taste and Smell, Neural gia, Faint Feelings, Disgust- 1 Ing Odors, Weak Sight, Sore VsK. Throat, Coughs, Bronchitis, Asthma, t_— AND ALL DISEASES OF RESPIRATORY ORGANS, USE B«n4 /«• C'treulara, Term*. ***, Ce , J. W. GURLEY, M. D. Atlahta, Ga. septis ts IBIG. CHAS. SIMON & SONS, 68N. Howoard St., Baltimore, Md. DEALERS IN Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods. would call special attention to their extentlve stock of DRESS GOODS. LINEN AND COTTON GOODS, EMBROIDERIES. LACES, GOODS FOR MEN'S AND BOYS WEAR, CORSETS, LADIES READY-MADE UNDERWEAR, etc., etc. SAMPLES SENT FREE. Also, to their DRESS-MAKING DEPARTMENT. CLOAKS, DRESSES, etc., etc., made to ordei promptly in a superior manner, and in the latest styles at moderate rates. Orders solicited, Rule* for seif-measurement and samples of materials, with estimates of cost, sent upon application. TERMS CASH. AU orders amounting to 820, or over, will be sent free of freight charges by express; but par ties whose orders are not accompanied by the mon ey, and havin. their goods sent C. O. D., must pay fc. return o! money, and if strangers to us, must remit at least one-half of the amount with the order. feb26 ly rnicHllWi Parsons’ Purgative Pills make New Rich Blood, and will completely change the blood ii .heentiresystem in three months. Anvperso; who will take 1 pill each night from 1 to 12weekt> may be restored to sound health, i f such a thing be possible. Sent by mail for 8 letter stamps. 7. 5. dOJl\ SON CO,, Poston, j!tlass», formerly Pangor, Me, my 26 ly OHUROH AND SCHOOL BELLS. b SIZES AND PRICES. Diam of Wg’t ivith. Cost of Bell. yoke & Hell <t frame. Hang's. 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Manufacture Wire Railing for Cemeteries balconies, etc., sieves, fenders, cages, sand ,nd coal screens, woven wire, etc. Also iron bedsteads, chairs, settees, etc,, etc. feb!9-ly Bth, 1881. is a valuable paper <or those desiring Information about Florida A railroad from our landing via DeLand to the Atlantic coaat is chartered and work commenced ; also, materia] on hand for a Telephone to our landing. Our hoarding houses affor good fare at reasonable prices. For the information of invalids, we will add that several good physicians are settled in our midst, cultivating oranges as a business, but affording excellent medical aid when required. They re port the following Remarkable Health Records “During the years 187 H, 1879 ami 1880, within a circuit of six miles diameter, DeLand being the center, with a population averaging over 250, many of whom came here invalids, there have been but four deaths. Two were infants under six months, and two were men who came here sick.’’ A Chain of Lakes northwest of us affords protection from frost so perfect that the extreme cold of December 29th, 1880 did not injure our orange trees or fruit. We are offeiing these choice lands to actual settlers at from to SBO per acre. Village lots and improved property for sale also. I For further particulars call on or address Y., Or J. Y. FAROE, DeLand. Volusia Co., Fla., S** mj, 4. » '1 no Host Fragrant and ■ 10l USIOSI Lading of all I’ertumea. « CVi H De | ig htfiil A Faahion- I able. Sold bv dealer*iu Drug* €8 W H 6 a “ li >’"fumery. # His-ox Y, ► All Farmers, Mo.hers, Business Men, Mechanics,, r&c., who arc tired out by work or worry, and all who« Laremiserable with Hyspepsi i. 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