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A Nameless Song. BE AN KUITOB. Air—“Old Hundred” “Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to liimseff hath said”— With kindling pride and native spirit land grand— “This is my own, my ? ” If such there be he offering. may not bring To us his cra ven We feel a glowing pride to own The beauty of our town alone ; For Newburgh-on-the-Hudson claims Pre-eminence in storied names. And while on relics of the past Our contemplative eye is cast, We feel a thr ill of grandeur, too, O’er what the present has in view. The burden of our song is seen In this—Wood’s Household Magazine. And while we place it in the reach Of every one, we ask that each Will take the time and look it o’er, And note the premiums in store Awaiting all who take this chance Our mutual interests to advauee. And first upon the list is seen— Our pride—The Davis Sewing Machine ; Next comes the Buckeye Mower, whose fame Is so world-wide we need not name ; The Organs, too, so fine in tone Are equal, sirs, to any known ; The Lady Elgin Gold Watch here, And Silver Elgin both appear Upon-our list, and, too, is seen The wondrous Bickford Knitting Machine, While Washers, Wringers, Scales and such Are premiums all value much ; Wood’s Magnifier, to aid your sight, An Opera Glass, to give delight, A Compound Microscope and Gun, Of quality A Number One, And knives, pens, pen-cases ornate, Too many to enumerate. Nor can we in the Silver ware Tell all the rich inducements there ; The Butter Cooler—something new— The Castors, and Cake Baskets, too ; The Fruit Baskets, the Napkin Bings, Child’s Drinking-Cup, aud other things, In way of Spoons and Cutlery That must induce your Agency. The Publications offered hero For club-raising, marvelously to cheap us appear and good, Most And just tliG thing for mcnt&l food* As Ladies’ Book the first and best, We introduce The Demorest’s ; And prominent upon our list Appears The Tribune Agriculturist; refuse, And if the you Why, here’s the World for you to choose ; Harper and Scribner both you’ll read ; The Herald of Health, of course, you need ; While Robert Merry’s Museum Should always for the children come ; Then there’s the Hearth & Home, aud Blade, With Harper’s Weekly here arrayed, While Journal Phrenological Lifts high its head above us all. And “Beecher’s paper (who but knows Tbe Christian Union) wiih Chromos Of “Wide Awake,” aud “l ast Asleep,” Whose pictured presence thus we keep Within our homes to gaze upon, When infancy and youth are gone. “Our Hope, Our Joy,” iu crayons divine, flue, And Easter morning theme Speak silently ; while on our walls Appears the Great Niagara Falls. With Webster’s Unabridged we close Our partial list, and here proposo To send a Catalogue complete, To all our friends who wish to see it; And if you want to take a look Between the covers of our book Why send at once your full addiess For sample number to S. S. Wood & Co., Newburgh. New York, Who do the Nation’s “ Household ” work. How Should Manure be Applied ? Observation and experience should determine the mind of the farmer iri regard to the best plan of applying manure, whether to apply it under deep, or leave it on the surface. The advocates of surface manuring speak against manure being* turned under too deep, while the advocates of deep manure charge surface manuring with fertilizing the atmosphere. But there is a medium course, nml each theory is supported by plausible ar¬ guments. However, there are true philosophical principles against bury¬ ing manure too deeply in the earth. The loss of the saline matter, or the manure by solution and infiltration will be great iu porous soil, aud the evaporation, to which so much is at¬ tributed by those holding opinions ad verse to surface manuring, would be only a drop in the bucket uompared to the loss by solution. Iu porous soils, it is well known that manure will penetrate to a great descend depth, and much animal matter may be¬ yond the reach of surface growing plants. Humus is formed by the decay and decomposition of vegetable matter, which in the philosophy of nature is manipulated on the surface; hence the. rule in the application of manure should be taken from the in¬ dications of nature and science. The decay and consumption of one crop for the nourishment of another, the droppings of animals aud defoliation of trees and plants, are all left on the surface. This seems to contradict the idea of any loss by evaporation. It will, therefore, be best to adopt tbe plan of deep cultivation, but to keep the manure and vegetable matter near the surface as possible. There is al¬ ways some loss by evaporation, but much less than by infiltration But it should be a leading idea with farmers to be close observers of such natural operations in the growth of spontane¬ ous and cultivated vegetation, and accommodate their practice so as to imitate nature as nearly as possible. So writes oue o( the correspondents of that excellent paper, the Farm Jour¬ nal. Action of Potash on Fruit 7rees. Dr. George B. Wood, in a late com¬ munication to the American Philoso¬ phical Society in Philadelphia, pre¬ sented the result of certain experi¬ ments made by him upon the clients of salts of polassa, when applied to grain or fruit-producing soils In his view, the depreciation of the produc¬ tiveness of apple, peach and quince orchards is due to the exhaustion ot potash from the soil. Several such orchards, formerly very valuable, but which had, within a few years, ceased to bear much fruit, on being treated with an application of wood ashes to the roots of the trees, were completely revived, producing lull crops the fol¬ lowing year. A still more striking effect was seeu the second year, under u renewal of the application. He cited several other instances where the same results followed ; in one case where an apple orchard, plantc d on an old orchard’s site, which had never borne fruit, was made to pro¬ duce a good crop by the application of ashes. Those who have failing orchards and fruit trees that have quit bearing, should put ashes arouud the roots of their trees, which prows a sure remedy. Garden Moles .—Every gardeu is more or less troubled with moles, and eveiy homekeeper is under the ne cessity of watching out for rats, and almost everybody knows how tiou blesome they are when they take possession ol a house, granary or cel¬ lar. 1 have found that potash placed in their holes, runs, or places of resort, effectually cleans the premises in a very short time. 1 had the pleasure of seeing one large mole which had helped himself to a small dose of potash found iu his walk, and he look¬ ed like a dilapidated and superan¬ nuated scallawag. I don’t think he ever troubled anybody’s garden again. — Cor. Pomologist. Colic in Horses .— V veterinarian writes: ‘In some cases ol simple spasmodic colic, after a drink ol cold water, exposure and tue like, a stimu¬ lating and anti-spasmodic drink will relieve, and nothing further will be necessary. A good formula is one ti» two ounces of spirits of nitrous ether, twenty drops tincture of aconite, and ten ounces tepid water. In colic from indigestion, constipation, and the like, though this may temporarily re do lieve, it cannot be relied on to permanently. It is then preferable to give a laxative (four to six drachms Bat badoes aloes) to clear away the irritating contents of the bowels, aud thus remove the cause. In tympa¬ nitic colic (windy colic) au ounce of aromatic spirits of ammonia way be given in ten ounces of water. In all cases alike copious injections of warm water may be thrown iuto the rectum at We frequeut intervals.” never failed but once to cure colic, aud tbe sQ-cailed bots, with one or two tablcspoonsful of chloroform, as a drench, in a cupful of whiskey and warm water. One of the best Canadian pacers we ever saw (Sally i\,) died, though we used chloroform, and squealed most terrific—pains exceeding anything we ever saw. We were afraid to use enough. Keepintj Sweet Potatoes .—A cor¬ respondent of Southern Planter says: 1 have been a little surprised at some late statements in the Plantrr and Farmer, about tbe difficulty of keep¬ ing sweet potatoes through the YViu ter wheu there is nothing more easy; and yet it is so importaut to every farmer that l will repeat what I had published in the Southern Planter, perhaps tweuty years ago, wheu in charge of Mr. b\ G. Kuffiu. Iu a few words, the simple secret is to put them in the cellar the same day they are dug, and line them well with dry oak leaves at the sides, say six inches thick, and cover them a foot thick ou the top. But as some cellars admit water, you may go into a topsack and make a eouo on the grouui/ and aud cover and with then leaves, till and boards, earth, up with shucks Or you may go iu the garden aud elevate the earth six inches or mure lor your cone and put bn leaves, boards aud earth, and tbeu make a four square pen of fence rails, and fill it with leaves and cover it, to keep out rain and snow. Some people wait too late to* dig, or keep them out of the cellar too long ; but if they cannot bo put in the same day, they ought to be kept iu a warm place and welt coveted VVe in this vicinity have long adopted ib'-s plan aud seldom lose a peck. ------. . Feeding Sows.—Sows should not be fed ou dry corn, just before or just after having pigs. They should be fed on something loss heating, such as potatoes, bits ot cabbage, or bran aud shorts mixed with milk aud kitchen slops. If all farmers would attend to this, we would hear less about sows eating their pigs, or over¬ laying them. j PHOENIX GUANO Per Ton 2,000 Pounds, Cash. Price at Savannah and Charleston........$47 50 At Augusta................................ 62 60 WILCOX, CIDBS & CO.'S Manipulated Guano! Per jon 2,000 Pounds , Cash. Price at Savannah and Charleston........$60 00 At AugAsta...............................05 00 GUANO, COMPOUND. SALT it PLASTER Per Ton 2,000 Lbs. Cash. Price at Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C.$55.0 At Augusta............................... CO.O $10 per ton added for credit to November Is t> with city acceptances or approved security. Also, Dissolved Bono, Laud Plaster, aud Agri¬ cultural Salt, at market prices, for cash. FOR SALE BY WILCOX, GIBBS & CO., Importers and Dealers in Guano, 148 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, 64 East Bay St., Charleston, 8. C. BAKER & ANSLEY, No. 267 Broad St., Augusta. Also for sale, at same prices, with necessary expense? to interior points only added, by the fol¬ lowing Agonta : NORTH CAROLINA. W II Oliver, Newbera DeUosset A Co., Wilmington SOUTH CAROLINA.! G T Scott, Newberry. James Lipscomb, Chappell’s Depot. James M. Richardson, Ninety-Six. David A Stradley, Greenville. Mills A Co., Lauren* C 11 Foster A* Judd, Spartanburg. W S Sharpe, Anderson. Msg. Geo. Seaborn, Pendb-tou. Wru. Butler A (Jo., Pine House., W. G. Keruaghuu A Co.,Bato*villo. O.AA.R.R. ALABAMA . W M Murphree, Kennedy Troy Hudson, A Co., Selma F U Wardlaw, Opelika li 0 Hart, Etifaula Smith & Riddle, Oxford M B Locke, Union Springs Felton A Sadler, Loacliapoka Townsend A Cain, Wetmupka. )i H Araistnng, Nota.su Iga J S Mcmullan, Greenville FLORIDA. W Isaac R Harris A Dro., Quincy it Wilson A liro., Tallahassee TENNESSEE. Rootes, Vance A Co, Memphis Combs A Anderson, Chattanooga. I. GEORGIA. 1 II.rrisA Co, .Macon zanders A llyle, Gordon L Carrington, MUledgcviile KJ. S O'Brien, Barnett C. 1>. Anderson, Fort Vslley 1,. O. Perry a Co, Dublin H. P. A 1). M. Alniand, Conyers A T Taylor A Co, Thomasvilio J W Carswell, 11 Central R It U F Adams, Eaton ton W A Graham, t ort Gaines \V II Willi* A A li Greer, Oglethorpe a. J. Baldwin, Dawson h McDonald A Co, Cuthhert Brantley A Pringle, Kaudi-rsville Bozeman A Pate, Hiwkmavlllo James K Redd A Co., Columbus W S Jackson, West Point John N Cooper, LaGrange Garrett Jones, A Z» liars. New Grantvlllef Jas K nan Am A South A Co., Valdosta Garrett A Walthall, Palmetto W F Landrum, Fair burn H Goodman, Atlanta A Lieeks, Griilln J; Pye A Sou, Foray th Win Root A Son, Marietta Win H Gilbert, Cartersviiio M McMurrwy, Kingston Gray A Venaole, Adairsville Foster A Harlan, Calhoun T. M. Gordon, P. ingold licbsA Kenner, Dalton Berrys a Co., Rome B F Veal, Stone Mountain Anderson A Hunter, Covington P R Thomason, MadtaJh E A A J W L Smith, Monroe C C Norton, Greeust oro (i F Piatt, Lexington Child*, Nickerson A Co., AlLt ns Wynn A Siurs, Washington T O A Del, Turner, Mparia Stafford Blalock A Co., Barueaviiie Goo F Hudson, Davisboro Warren A Hopkins, Lmisvilie G C > burke. Bainbndge K I. Felder, Perry, Ga. W p Drumright, Montezuma, Ga. L> U (Jurculi A Co., Quitman. Ga. C Li Seymour, Lumpkin, Ga. M B. DeVdSghu, Jonesboro, Ga. John J Eckles, Social Circle Juo E Benton, Thomson Harr»J.l. Johnson A Co, Aniericu# Todd A Coleman, irwmgton. a M- Shields, Warreutoin L. A. Lowrey, Web*ter County. Ga.J