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THE Ijhtral plantation, PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE SOUTHERN PUBLISHING CO., Corner Mitchell and Pryor Streets, ATLANTA, _ - - - GEORGIA. W.IZE. JV. Td ZMZ S .A.Y Editor and Proprietor. Corresponding Editors : JOHN H. DENT, A. C. VAN EPPS, J. VAN BUREN, RICHARD PETERS, WM. JENNINGS, J. F. RIDAY, G. C. PLAYER, B. W. VAN DYKE, E. VAN GOIDTSNOVEN, J. J. TOON. J. C. GOODRICH, MARK W. JOHNSON. MRS. B. A. HARPER. JOHN R. WALLACE. Advertising Rates. 1 Insertion. 3 Months. 6 Months. 1 Year. 1 inch space, $2 00 $5 25 $8 75 sl4 00 6X “ “ 11 50 31 00 51 75 82 75 Column, 23 00 62 00 108 50 165 00 Special Notices, per line, each insertion, 25 cents. Reading Notices, per line, each insertion, 30 cents. Outside page, 25 per cent, additional. TERMS. Single Copies, 1 year, postage paid, - $1 00 Single Copies, 6 months, “ “ - 50 Single Copies, 3 months, “ “ - 25 club rates. Six Copies, 1 year, postage paid, - -$5 00 Fifteen Copies, 1 year, postage paid, - 10 00 Twenty-five Copies, 1 year, postage paid, 15 00 MONEY. In sending small amounts, send either a Mon ey Order or Registered Letter. Large amounts should be sent by Express, or by Draft payable to our order. Correspondence Solicited. We call upon our readers to write down their experience in every branch of agriculture, hor ticulture, stock and poultry raising, fruit cul ture, domestic recipes, etc., and give it to us from time to time, so that we may publish it for the benefit of others. We want all to feel as friends, aiding in the good cause of Progress and Industry. Be brief, practical, and to the point. If you have made any new discoveries, give us the facts and we will publish them, and thus benefit all who are seeking knowledge. Act Un Agent. If there is no agent for the Rural South* krn'eh in your locality, please become one in forming a club. Y«u will be doing your neigh bor a kindness as well as benefiting yourself. IVIIKHK WAS HIE ADVEHTINEMENT ! Purchasers who road the advertisements in our columns, and make their purchases there by, will do us a kindness by stating to those of whom they purchase, that they saw the adver tisement in the Rural Southerner. Our agricultural friends are respectfully in vited to write for the Rural Southerner and Plantation upon all practical questions inter esting to farmers. Their communications upon any branch of farm pursuits will be gladly wel comed to our columns. - -♦ —•————• Grangers. We do all kinds of book and job printing, book binding, ruling, etc. You can save money by having your work done at this office. The Southern rnbli«hing Company. 11 It is the only house in the South that prints books for Northern houses. Our subscription books are printed on our own presses and shipped to Northern subscription book pub lishers and sold by them through agents, thus showing that we have the facilities for compe ting with Northern publishing and printing houses, and that it is to the interest of every man in the South to patronise us. m WM. SWWtt & F WAIW TO ADVERTISERS. THE EURAL SOUTHERNER and PLANTATION. HAS OVER 30,000 READERS. The Rural Southerner and Plantation is a combination of three journals, and the only Ag ricultural Journal published at the Capital of the State, in a city of 35,000 inhabitants, and has the largest circulation of any publication in the South. We have greatly increased its circulation du ring the past year, and having recently made several important changes, and reduced the price of subscription to $1 00 per year, we feel confident of a still further increase. Our facilities for extending its circulation are far greater than any other paper published, for the reason that it is in the hands of over one thousand book agents, who are canvassing for it in connection with our popular and fast-selling subscription books. Hence, it is shown and “talked up” to thousands monthly, and speci men numbers left with all who desire. All advertisements will receive liberal edito rial notices. Copy of the journal mailed free to advertisers. Lippincott’s Magazine For February, handsomely illustrated, now ready, containing: Following the Tiber, con cluding paper, illustrated ; Six Months among Cannibals, illustrated ; An American Girl and Her Lovers; A Japanese Marriage in High Life; The Lost Baby; Three Feathers, part 7 ; Fever; Sonnet; Some Recollection of Hiram Powers; Corn ; Gentleman Dick ; A Singular Family ; The Matchless One—A Story of American So ciety, in four chapters—Chapters I and 2 ; The Stranger Within the Gates of Paris ; Our Monthly Gossip ; Literature of the Day. Ladies and Gentlemen who will devote their leisure or entire time to soliciting subscribers for the Rural Southerner and Plantation, will be allowed special terms. Sadie Darling, A beautiful new song and chorus. Words by Jno. T. Rutledge. Music by Charlie Baker. This song and chorus is the last production of the rising young author, Mr. Charlie Baker, who has written some very popular music, and his name is well known to mostly all lovers of good songs; can be played on Piano or Organ. The title page is very neat and handsome ; printed in gilt and blue, and will be sent to any part of the United States upon receipt of 35 cents, by addressing F. W. Helmick, Music Dealer, 278 West Sixth street, Cincinnati, O. Pictorial Home Bible. The Southern Publishing Company want agents for the Pictorial Home Bible, with Patent Adjustable Album, the cheapest and best in America. Southern Enterprise. We take pleasure in calling the attention of our planters to the Diamond Cotton Chopper, Cultivator and Planter, which we learn has been demonstrated to be a practical success. It bears high testimonials from gentlemen who used it last season. The machine is sold under a guarantee to give satisfaction, or money re funded. The company who thus sell it, are endorsed by the leading hank officers of North Carolina, as entirely responsible and reliable. See advertisement. Hou to Make Bees Pay Is the title of a valuable book, by J. W. Pag den. Alfreston. Sussex, England, and published iby Loring, Boston. Price 25c. Peson* wishing . information on Bee Culture should have a copy. The Galaxy. Every number of the Galaxy has a distinctive feature, the specialty this month being paetry. | There are seven poems of superior excellence. Brother Patrons, Farmers. Planters, Gardeners, Seedsmen, Florists, Nurserymen, Stock and Poultry Raisers, and our readers in general: we solicit you to correspond with us, giving us your experience and views. We want all to feel that they are just as much interested in this paper as the proprietors are. It is only by mutual exchange of thought and expe rience that an agricultural paper can be made of value to its fullest extent. All of you see or practice something every day that would be of great value to others ; let us have it, and help us make our paper what we intend it shall be —the best ever published. The Home Guardian. No magazine is more welcomed to our table. It is devoted to a good and noble cause, and should be in every household. It is devoted to moral purity, holding out the light of divine truth. Aiding in the right training of children and youth, exposing the prevalence of vice, ex tending the hand of sympathy and kindness to the friendless and homeless, and reclaiming the wanderer. $2 to $lO Per Day Can be made, by canvassing for the Rural Southerner and Plantation. Send for special terms. St. Nicholas Is decidedly the best Child’s Magazine pub lished in the world. The typography, illustra tions and general arrangement are unequaled. The Editress deserves unlimited praise. LADIES,*READ. Dr. A. M. Ramsay, an eminent practitioner of Medicine, in Philadelphia, Pa., of many years experience in the treatment of diseases peculiar to Females, (such as inflammation, ulceration, falling of womb, whites, irregularity, etc.) has found a certain cure for those diseases no matter how long standing. Hundreds of cases have been cured by his remedy. Sent to any address on receipt of sl, the price per package. Cure guaranteed. Correspondence strictly confiden tial. Office, 327 Spruce street, Philadelphia, Pa. Extend our Circulation. We ask each subscriber and friend of the Rural Southerner and Plantation to try and get us one new subscriber, as we want to double our circulation. The union of two journals makes this the most useful and desirable monthly published. We ask our numerous readers to aid us by show the paper to their friends, and by talking about it as they mingle with them. Show them a copy when opportunity offers, and induce them to subscribe, ami thus help on the good work. Sugar Creek Paper Mills.—Nearly all the book and all the newspaper used by us is furn ished by these mills, and we take pleasure in recommending all who wish anything in their line to give them a trial. The proprietors are shrewd business men, prompt, courteous and liberal in their dealings. Special Notice. Poultry raiser*, breeders, and importers, should remember that a specialty is made of all matters touching their interests in this journal, and that not less than seventy leading poulterers in the country have just sen' us their advertise ments in view of the larjze and increasing de mand for the best breeds of fowls coming from the South. Advertise without delay. Now is the time to get up clubs for the Rural Southkrner and Plantation. Show the paper to your neighbors and friends, and get them to subscribe. We have the largest circula tion in the South and are determined to double it. Scribner’s Monthly . as usual, is crowded with entertaining and valuable ma 1 ter. Blank applications for membership will be furnished to the Grangers for one dollar per hundred, postpaid. All other printed matter for our brother patrons at first cost. Globe Flower.—We invite special attention to the advertisement of Dr. J. S. Pemberton & Co. We endorse what is claimed for Globe Flower Syrup. It cannot be too highly recom mended, as we have used it in our family with great benefit. We are personally acquainted with Doctor Pemberton and Mr. Gay, the pro prietors, who are men of high standing and in tegrity. We cheerfully commend them to our readers. Be sure to read advertisement of Charles F. Gailmard & Co., Atlanta, Ga. Their stock of plants, flowers, fruits, greenhouse and bedding plants, flowering shrubs and evergreens, fruit trees of all kinds, are very fine and of the best varieties. Send for their Illustrated Catalogue. Persons in want of Mill Stones, findings, etc., should consult their interests by addressing Wm. Brenner. Consumption cured by Dr. T. E. Burt, New York. Read his advertisement. White Pine Doors, Blinds, etc., can be had of Messrs. Parkins & Jennings, Atlanta, Ga. They can sell a superior article lower than the lowest. Satisfaction guaranteed. Read their card; they are business men, and mean business. Mr. G. McGinly is proprietor of the Grand National Hotel, Jacksonville Fla., and the H. I. Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga., two of the largest and best Hotels in the South. See advertisement of the Nurseryman’s Di rectory and Reference Book for the United States, in another column of this paper. We call attention to the fact that E. Gustavus & Co., Nurserymen, of Holston, Ya., are selling the celebrated Mammoth Japanese Seed Corn, which they offer on the following terms and warrant every grain to grow : By mail, post paid, SI.OO per pound, put up in neat packages 15 packages for $10; 50 packages for S2O; 100 packages for S3O. Elegant Chromos, 19 by 24 inches, together with a stalk of “ Japanese Corn,” having no less than twenty full-grown ears of corn on it, some of them measuring ten and twelve inches in length, will be sent free of charge when 15 or more packages of Corn are ordered at one time. Mr. J. 11. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass., has an advertisement in our columns, that we would advise all, who are interested in vegetable and flower seeds, to read and send for his Catalogue. H. E. Hooker & Bro., Rochester, N. Y. Illustrated Catalogue. Illustrated Floral Guide, published by James Vick Rochester, New York, should be read by every one. Dreer’s Garden Calendar for 1875, Philadel phia. A very useful publication. Directions for planting evergreens, especially small forest plants or seedlings, Wm. Newton A Son, Allen’s Corner, Deering, Me. OPIUM HABIT CURED. We call attention to the card of Mr. B. M. Woolley, agent of Dr. 8. B. Collins’ Painless Opium Antidote. Mr. Woolley is a gentleman of standing aud intelligence, strictly reliable and respectable and worthy of the confidence of any who are afflicted or may have friends afflicted with the opium habit, and desire privacy and fair dealing. The remedy is having a most remarkable run, and the cures effected by it are becoming the wonder of the day. We feel that too much cannot be said in its fuvor. Let every one interested write to Mr. Woolley for full par ticulars. The valuable magazine and other printed matter he sends free to applicants will certain’y amply pay yon for writing, stamp, etc , should you never order the remedy. The American Newspaper Advertising Agency of Geo. P. Rowell A Co,, New York, is the only establishment of the kind in the United States which keeps itself persistently before the people by advertising in newspapers. They evidently re ceive their reward, for we have it from a reliable source that advertising orders issued by them for their customers have exceeded three thousand dollars a day since the commencement of the year—and this is not a very good year for ad vertising either ! Wanted at Once! —15,000 trial subscriber 3 for the Rural Southerner—the farmers’ friend. Only 25 centa for three months. Send in your names. 7