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The Farmers’ Index. All letter* Intended for the Editor of title De- | f artment should be addressed, "Farmkmi' Indcx, ( (rawer 24. Atlanta, Ga.” UFLaND RICE CULTURE. Until within a few years past the idea was very prevalent that rice could not be profitably grown except on marshy or low lands. We remember, when a boy, some of the older negroes on our father’s plantation, especially some who came from the “low country,’’ used to have their li'tie crops of rice. It was their invariable practice to appropriate very low, wet spots about the spring heads—places considered too wet for any other crop—for this purpose. His tory informs us that rice has been grown in nearly all the countries of the world and on dry uplands as well as in the swamps. It grows in Siberia as well as in China. It has been found growing wild on the shores of the Northern lakes in this country. While it is undoubtedly true that rice grows and produces better on moist, low lands, it, by no means, fol lows that its culture must be restricted to tide-water regions. In every section of the country, east of the Mississippi, there are many situations that are adapted to producing large crops of this cereal. Even the high, dry uplands will produce good crops with favorable sea sons. The piney-woods region of the Atlantic ana Gult States is well adapted to its growth, and it is becoming a staple crop in many counties, under the stimu lus of the high prices that have prevailed as a consequence of the great demorali zation of labor in the old rice regions of tbeSouth. On the eld rice estate the prevailing system seemed to require, necessarily, a large force of laborers under one direction, and the shock of emancipation was more disastrous to low-land rice culture than to any other special industry in the South. Another fact—not generally appreci ated —is, that upland rice is really of bet ter quality than that grown in more Southern localities. The cultivation of rice is very simple. The variety best adapted to dry culture is known as Carolina white rice. A sandy loam is the best soil. The land may be prepared as if for cotton, and the seed may be sown and covered in the same way and at about the same time that cotton i« planted. One peck of seed is ample tor an acre. Even less will do if the seed be dropped—about ten or twelve in a place—every eighteen inches. If sown continuously, like cot ton, the cultivation may be almost pre cisely similar to that of cotton, barring ofithe plants, if grassy, with a turn-plow, chopping out with a wide hoe and thin ning to eight or ten plan s in a hill. The main object is to keep the grass down so that the rice may have undisturbed pos session. Toe time of ripening of dry culture rice depends on the character of the seasons, perhaps more than that of any other grain. The crop is ready to harvest wheh the grains at the top have turned ''' yellbw and are pretty barn and the bot tom grains are still in the dough state. The work is usually done with a sickle, though a stout grain cradle with a rather short, sharp blade, can be used if the straw is not very thick and stout, and with much greater expedition. The cut grain should be thoroughly dried in the sun before hauling up, and may then be threshed on any good spike wheat thresher. The cleansing of the grain baa been considered a great disideratum, and the want of a small, cheap mill for plantation use, has been a great draw back on rice culture on uplands. But if rice be grown for a money crop, the rough rice is considered a good market able form, and usually commands from one dollar and a quarter to one dollar and a half per bushel. If any of our readers can bear testi mony, from actual trial,to the excellence of any small rice cleaner, costing not more than twenty five dollars, he will do many of the readers of The Index a favor by relating his experience for the general benefit. W e woulu be glad to have such an article—giving also the results of rice culture as compared with cotton, corn, and other crops. THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR. This will probably be the last issue of the Index for the year of Grace 1881. Printers and editors must have their holiday season as well as other folks, and the publishers will doubtless adhere to their custom of in termitting one issue. In looking back over the past twelve months, wise and happy is the man who can say he has made no mistakes,and foolish he who has learned no lessons. The year’s record is made up, and it is as useless to pine over mistakesand resulting losses, as it would be to “cry over spilt milk.’J Neverthe less we should stick a pin here and there as memory spreads before our view the acts and doings, the triumphs and dis appointments, the losses and gains of the old year. We shall never see its like again—the same exact successions of season and circumstances, in detail and entirety. But if we are not watchful we may com mit the same errors, be caught in tbe same dilemmas, aud have the same sins of omission and commission to be sorry for at the close of another year. We did not use the word sins in a moral sense—a moment ago but we will not change it, for our little talk has a moral application as well, and may serve as an echo to the wholesome admonitions we may expect to find on the other side of The Index. Christmas should be a happy time, not only on account of the wonderful event it nominally commemorates, but because in all Christian countries it has been set apart for the meeting of friends, the re union of families, the exercise of the rites of hospitality, anithe eaio?n> it of good cheer and innocent festivities. Every arrangement should be made for convenience and comfort —anticipating, as far as possible, every provision there to that, may be required—and let ordina ry business and unnecessary labor be suspended for a while, not forgetting that deeds of mercy and beneficence are peculiarly in place, and in them selves provocative of the keenest pleas ure. To one and all of our readers we wish a merry Christmas. —The seeds of golden millet form an excellent grain tor feeding chickens during the first three weeks of their lives. Very small chicks need very small seeds, as is shown by their constant search for the minute seeds of grass. Nature is the best teacher. Small whole seeds are the best provision in the grain line for young birds. ... - ’ jft ir' ♦ - - - Secular Editorials—Literature— Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. SOUTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURE. We have received a pamphlet of 136 pages, entitled: “Proceedings of the Joint Summer Meetings of the State Ag ricultural and Mechanical Society of S iuth Carolina and the State Grange, P. of H.,” and have examined it with some care. The mere minutes of the meeting occupy but a few pages, while the remainder is filled with essays on quite a variety of topics of interest to the farmer. We do not r< member to have seen, in a long time, a publication of this character that was so full of in teresting and profitable reading. Georgia, the Empire State, must look to its laurels in connection with agricult ural progress and industrial develop ment. Our plucky little neighbor drank deep ly of the bitter dregs of war and recon struction, bu she has risen from her once forelorn condition and taken a prominent position in the march of progress and the resuscitation of energy and prosperity. We bid her God-speed in her career and will rejoice in her achievements in industrial progress. SMALL GRAIN—CROAKING. Mr. Editor: —Tn the six counties im mediately surrounding that of the writer, there is better preparing and more sow ing of small grain than he has noticed in thirty years past. And yet there is a school of croakers amongst us who can almost see starvation, with pale cheeks and sunken eye-balls, standing at their doors. Now a few items of counsel to this class: First, Live frugally until the sum mer harvest is gathered. Sec >nd, And, for the fear of a failure in this coop, plant largely of sorghum; and, if the worst comes, when the sor ghum is ripe, grind tbe seeds and make btead and with it sop the syrup, and thereby bid defiance to starvation. 3. Quit croaking and go to work. W. A. Overton. Union Point, Ga., Dec. Bth, 1881. [We commend the above prescription those for whom it was intended.—Edi tor.] COTTON SEED MANURE. Assuming that, on an average, 1,350 pounds of seed cotton make a 400 pound bale of lint, the analyses shows that the 950 pounds of seed contain ten times as iniicU soii.- irgredi s'tß as does the lint. So he wli3“ wSKte.', or sells for a trifle liis cotton seed, thereby deprives him self of the chance of raising ten crops of lint. This is literally and strictly true; and it has been shown by actual experi- 7 ment, that when all the cotton seed has been returned to tbe soil from the first, the soil improves, instead of being dete riorated by cotton culture; whareas, if this is not not done, cotton is by far the most exhautive crop that we raise at the South, for the stalks of corn, the corn, the straw of wheat, the vines of the sweet potato, if removed from the soil, deprive it of the equivalent of on ly one crop, and that only a little over a half of the amount of soil ingredients contained in a crop of seed cotton. I know no other crop that admits of main taining the soil’s fertility with so little outlay, and in whose cultivation the omission to do so is so promptly fatal to the soil’s profitable culture. As to the best mode of applying cotton seed as a manure, I have ascertained that if the seed is killed by heating in a pile, or buried so deep as to prevent its sprouting, more' than three-quarters of its ingredients remain inert tor the first yeat; the hard hull preventing the access of the roots ta the kernel. Again, it looses important ingredients when fer menting in a pile, It will, therefore, be most profitable when applied fresh, and either crushed, or so as to allow it to sprout and then turn under. Hence the great efficacy of the cotton seed cake mtal, as returned from the oil factories. And, considering the increased conven ience of its application in that form, I do not know that the exchange for fresh seed at the rate of three to one, is not a pretty fair one both ways. Unfortu nately, few farmers ever get the meal corre-potding to the seed they sell back to their fields. Were the factories lo cated in each agricultural district, so that transportation would be inexpen sive, the farmers might profitably let them have the seed for nothing, on con dition that the cake be integrally return ed. The latter being less bulky and more easily kept and applied than the seed, and always available as feed for cattle, whose manure will do as well on the fields as the cake meal or seed itself. Nothing is lost to the soil in the oil. But so long as the seed, once sold to the oil factory, rarely finds its way back to the fields where it grew, I think the interest of the farmers would be better served by declining to sell at all, and giving it in exchange for a correspond ing amount of cake. Just as in Europe, no one who rents land is allowed to sell any of the manure made on it, so no cotton planter can really afford to sell seed at anything like the price paid at present. If he does, he will soon have to buy commercial fertilizers to keep up his land, paying for the same ingredi ents which he sold in his cotton seed, justabout twicethe price he obtained for them, at the rates mentioned by you. By returning his seed, or the meal cor responding to it, the hull is not of so much consequence, he saves all the freight charges back and forth, cost of manufreture of fertilizers, packages, and no end of commissions, etc. It seems to me still, as I have fre quently insisted heretofore, that co-op erative oil factories in the large cotton raising districts should pay admirably— the oil paying interest on investment in ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1881. buildings and machinery, while the seed cake would go back to ’ the fields in a most efficacious condition, whether ap plied directly or through the manure of cattle fed with it. Thus a system of re turns to the soil would be inaugurated which would prevent the fearful waste of lands that has alm >st desolated so many of the fairest and originally fertile regions of the South. And so soon as the overfl >ws of the rivers are prevent ed, even the bottom lands will follow in the same ruinois track, unless a sound er system of culture is generally inaugu rated. Very respectfully, Eug. W. Hilgard. SMALL NOTES. —Fine butter can only be made by churning at a favorable temperature. If the temperature of the cream is too low, the butter will be long in coming, and will be hard in texture. If the temper ature is too high, the butter will come very speedily, but the product will be greasy, destitute of grain, and deficient in quantity. —Green manuring, or the plowing in of green crops for the purpose of enrich ing land, is especially adapted for light, sandy soils, which need humus to in crease their retentive power. Sheep husbandry in the Western States and Territories is becoming one of the most profitable industries of the dav. Under proper management the same might be said of other sections of the country. —When you see a horse’s head drawn up by the bearing rein, and see him stepping short and champing his bit, and flinging foam flakes to the right and left, tossing hie head and rattling the harness, you need not conclude that he is acting in the pride of his strength and fulness of spirit; the animal is really suffering agonies of pain, and is trying to gain, by these movements, momentary relief. —The horse has the smallest stomach in proportion to his size, of any animal. Fifteen or sixteen quarts is its utmost capacity. Horses are generally overfed and not fed often enough. A horse’s digestion is very rapid, and therefore he gets hungry sooner than a man. When he is hungry he is inefficient, and wears out very rapidly. Biographical Compendium. —This work, History of Georgia Baptists, with Biographical Compendium, ought to be in tbe home of every Baptist in Geor gia. It is a thesaurus of Baptist his tory and a gallery of Baptist faces. Full of incidents which ought not to be forgotten, and gleaming with faces and names the memory of which should not perish. It has been prepared with great care, and is the production of an amount of mental labor that passes conception. The fingers have been weary, the brains have reeled, the heart has grown sick, and the very spirit has often drooped in getting this book be fore the public. It represents industry, enterprise and a large investment. Ten thousand copies ought to be sold in sixty days. Published by Jas. P. Harrison & Co., Atlanta, Ga. 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WHAT THE MEDICAL PKOFESHIOA SAY ABOUT 11, AND— The «ood Results Attending Its Use i« Headache, Neuralgia, Nervousness, Indigestion, Sleeplessness, and Paralysis. CEIJIRY has come into public notice within the last few years as a nervine, but scientific ex perimkuts and experience have proved beyond a doubt that It controls nervous irritation and periodic nervous and Bick headaches to a marker Bro*n-Bquard says that Celery contains mon nerve food than any other vegetable or substance found In nature Celery was first discovered and used as a nervine by French physicians about 1867. But a combination of the EXTRACT OF CELERY AND CHAMOMIi-E, which has been but recently Introduced to the profession and the public by Di C. W. 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W illiam*, 279 Vine St., Cincinnati,O. huvlU 131 <T3 2 w 13fi Writing Leiters,Type,Figures, KKSBEST PRESS! • Ink, Reglets.Golu.Nippers. Case. Rack, 100 Cards, outside case: Ail for *O.OO. f w C. EVANS, 60 N. Ninth St., Phila delphia. Pa. ap!4 ts DIP T> A VTo sell our Rubber Printing I>IVT lAI Stamps. AGENTBOUTFIT, with your name lor marking linen, etc.,H.sO, which amount we refund after you send ns *lO net for goods. Sample sheet, terms, etc... Free. Address oct2o ts E. TAYLOR & CO., Cleveland, O. X Bouquei, Horse Shoe, Chromo,and Bow OvJ Caivis with name 10c. Elm City Printing Co., New Haven, Ct bct27l3t FADDUANFC TbeDJ£A ‘' »o HKA » LMnrnUll CO send Siamp tor ciicuiar. sep2»Bm PROIT 8. NORTH, Syracnse,N Y. a eek in your own town. Terms and *5 outfit free. Address H. Hai.i.ktt* Co., Portland, Me. nov24 ly C> nt a wee* In your own town. Terms and *i ipv" outfit free. Addiw H Halutt A Oct, Portland. Maine. » -nav 2*-ly. • r asuionßote cards, no two alike, with &•) name 10 cents, poet paid. Gio. E. Rrko A Co. Nassau. N. V. octlß.lv <f 70 A WEEK. *l2 a day st home easily made costly outfit free. Add—ss Titu* A Co. 1 August*, Me. nov24 ly * wee* in yonr own town. Terms and Ipriri »6 nut# Address H. Hau.it A Co. Portland, Hains, myjrt.lf