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AGRICUI,TUR A. 1,.
BOOK FARMING.
Allow me to make further digres
sion to speak of a means of improv
ing our husbandry, which is too
much neglected, and too often con
temned and ridiculed. I allude to
what is sometimes, in dirision, term
ed Book Farming, but which, in re
ality, offers the most substantial fa
cilities to improvement, and the ac
quisition of wealth. Let us inquire
what this Book Farming is.
A German, by means of study and
observation, aided by a long course
of practical experience in husbandry,
has been able to ascertain the degree
of exhaustion in fertility, which soils
ordinarily undergo, from the growth
of common grain crops—and how
much their fertility is increased by
given quantities of Manure, and by
pasture : thus teaching how to main
tain, or to increase, the fertility of
the soil; and consequently, its pro
ducts and its profits, from the resour
ces of the farm.
Other men have assiduously enga
ged for years in studying, and have
satisfactorily ascestained the laws by
which heat, air, and water, are made
to exert their best agency in prepar
ing the food; and accelerating the
growth and maturity of plants —and
have published directions how to de
rive the highest advantage from these
primary agents of nutrition.
And others have invented new and
improved implements and machinery,
calculated to relieve agricultural la
bor of half its toils.
A farmer in Ohio raised 1,500 bu-j
shels of Swedish turnips on an acre
of ground, enough to feed and fatten
ten bullochs, seventy-five years. A
farmer in Massachusetts, by a new
way of managing his corn crop, has
realized a nett profit of 150 dollars,
on little more than an acre of land,
while his neighbors, in the same sea
son, and in adjoining fields, have not
been remunerated, in their crop, for
the expense of culture. A farmer in
New York has proved by experiment
that by a new process of making
hay, he can save ten percent, in wt.
something in labor, and other ten
per cent, in the quality of his forage.
Another farmer of my acquaintance,
has cultivated 20 acres of Indian corn
and eight acres of beans, the present
season; the former estimated to ave
rage forty bushels the acre, and the
latter giving more than an ordinary
yield-without employing a plough,or
a hand-hoc, in the planting or culture
—the whole work having been per
formed with the drill barrow and cul
tivator, implements of modern intro- ‘
duction, thus economizing from one
half to two-thirds of the labor ordi
narily bestowed.
These are all matters of recent ret
cord, but as‘they happen to be prin-i
ted, they very properly fall under the!
denomination of Book-Farming. But
are they, on this account, jess true,
or is the information they contain,
less useful in your practice ? If a
neighbor makes a valuable improve
ment, by which he doubles the value
of his labor, you readily avail your
selves of his discovery, though you
do it by stealth. Through the means
of agricultural publications, the en
tire farming community stand in the
relation to you of neighbors—you be
come acquainted with all their im
provements, and are enabled to pro
fit by their skill and science. I might
detain you for hours with details of
improvements in husbandry, which
are essential and accessible to the
farmer. Hundreds of men of pro
found science, and thousands of the
best practical farmers, in this and j
other countries, are engaged in im
proving agriculture—in making two,
three, and four blades of grass, and
two, three and four bushels of grain
grow, where but one blade, or one !
bushel grew before, and they are tcn- J
dering you the benefits of their labors
in the agricultural works of the day.'
The accumulated experience, and
the improvements of centuries, have
been registered by the Press, and the
benefits are tendered to all who will
read and profit by them, almost with
out money and without price. He
that will read, may learn.-JWg’e Buel.
SIBERIAN SPRING WHEAT.
Dr. Goodsell, of Utica, gives the
result of some experiment in the cul
ture of the Siberian Wheat, in the
Cultivator, of Dec. We extract as
follows:
The first week in May, I sowed
six bushels of clean seed upon four
acres of ground, which had lain to
pasture for four or five years, and
planted with corn upon the furrow
the preceding spring—the corn gave
a poor return, on account of the un
propitious season—the character of
unpropitious season—the character
of the season past, and the condi
tion of the ground, were both favor
able—the growth of the crop corres
ponded. I saw it several times dur
ing the summer, and was (perhaps
too much) gratified with the pros
pect of the final result. I was at the
farm about the middle of July, when
the process of vegetation was in its
pride, and the kernal in that stage
w hich the farmers denominate the
milk; a cloud came over the field with
heavy thunder, much rain, and more
wind, which prostrated the whole
crop, and that in all directions. From
this disaster (occurring when in the
fullest leaf, and perhaps, the heaviest
head) it never recovered but partial
ly. We however, harvested some
of it with the cradle, but much more
with the sickles, and with all, a sad
and wasteful gathering necessarily
resulted, and from its long prostrate
condition, much of it over the whole
field was shrunk more or less, accor
ding to the degree of prostration.
From waste and shrinkage, I appre
hend we could not have suffered less
than ten per cent, loss, besides it was
all threshed during the reiny season
of the last week in October, and the
first week ip November, by which
we suffered some further loss; and
yet amid all these drawbacks, we ob
tainedbetween 36 and 37 bushels to
the acre. The seed, when sown,
was remarkably clean, berry full and
perfectly dry, aud weighed 68 pound
to the bushel. So much for the pro
ductiveness.
Byway of experiment as to the
time of sowing, and different strength
of soil, I reserved a small quantity
of seed, and sowed one part of it the
middle of May, on the side of my
pea field on land originally good, but
much exhausted by at least ten years
tillage, without a holiday. This was
a fair growth, bright straw, and fair
berry, and was, I should judge, equal
to 24 bushels to the acre,
The remainder of the seed I solved
adjoining my white bean crop, on
land not long in tillage, but naturally
thin and unproductive. The straw
grew well, and I began to think the
Siberian Wheat would grow on any
soil, and might be sowed at any time,
but at the harvest I was corrected :
the straw, although not rusty, yet to
tally destitute of lustre, and the heads
were poorly filled, and kernels badly
shrunk.—G enesce Farmer.
COW TREE.
Mr Lockhart, a celebrated botan
ist, in a letter from Trinidad, speaks
thus of the milk tree in Colombia,
“ I have just returned from an excur
sion to Carraccas, where i collected
the juice of the Cow tree (Palo de
Va.) and I have now the pleasure of
sending you a phial of the milk, to
gether with a few leaves, and a por
tion of the tree. The Palo de Vica
is a tree of large dimensions. The
one I procured the juice from, has a
trunk of seven feet in diametar, and it
was 100 feet from the root to the first
branch. The milk was obtained by
making a spiral i mission in the bark.
The milk is used by the inhabitants
wherever it is known. I drank a j
pint of it without experiencing the
least inconvenience. In taste and
consistence, it much resembles sweet
cream, and possess an agreeable
smell. 1 was so foriunate as to pro
cure some young trees and roots of
the Pale de Vaca, which I will endea
vor to increase.”
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For all or any of the above lots apply to
the Subscriber at Cuthbert Randolph County,
Georgia. A. HOWARD.
Jan. 26. —2.-4 t.
LAW.
THE undersigned will attend the Courts in all th»
Counties of the Cherokee Circuit, Habersham
and Raburn of the Western, and Cobb of the Coweta
Circuit, and also the Counties of Benton and Chero
kee Ala. All business directed to their address Cass
ville, Ga. will receive prompt and punctual attention
WILLIAM H. STEELMAN,
JOHN W. 11. UNDERWOOD.
Feb. 10. 4. w. 6mo.
Professor of Anatomy, Medical College, S. C.
Charleston sth Feb. 1838.
To Journeymen Tailors.
ONE or two good Journeymen will find constant
employment by calling on the subscriber at La
fayette, Walker County, Ga. Beat of wages will be
given, and a comfortable Shop to work in—lmme
diately application would confer a favor on the under
signed.
G. W. BROWN.
Lafayette Ga. Feb. 10, 4. it.
GEORGIA, PAULDING COUNTY.
WHEREAS Elizabeth Sparks and Thomas 11.
Sparks, apply to me for Letters of Adminis
tration on the Estate of Martin Sparks, late of eaid
county, deceased.
'These are thereforo to cite and admonish all and sin
gular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be
and appear at my office within the time prescribed by
law to shew cause, if any exist,why said letters should
not be granted. Given under my hand at office this
29th day of January, 1838.
B. PACE, c. c. o.
February 2. 3 30d.
Dr. A. PATTERSON
BEING permanently located in Roma, Floyd
county, tenders his services to the Citizens
generally, in the practice of Medicine and its collate
ral branches.
Rome, Jan. 13—1—ts.
Arrival and Departure of Mail*.
HpHE Milledgeville Mail, carried by Stage,
■- from Decatur to this office arrrives eve
ry Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 5 o’,
clock, P. M., and leaves on every Tuesday,
Thursday and Sunday mornings, at 5 o’clock.
The Stages from Carrollton & Spring Place
meets at this office on every Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday, at 6 o’clock P. M., and
leaves on every Tuesday, Thursday and Sat
urday mornings at 4 o’clock. The mail for
the above routes is invariably closed at 9
o’clock, on the night previous to their depar
ture.
The mail from this office to La Fayette,
Walker county, leaves on every Tuesday
morning, and returns on every Saturday eve
ning at 5 o’clock.
The mail from Jacksonville, Alabama, car
ried by Stage, arrives at this office on every
Tuesday and Saturday, at 12 o'clock, and
leaves in an hour after its arrival on each day.
The mail conveyed on horse-back from
Fayetteville to this office, arrives on every
Wednesday at 6 o’clock, P. M., and departs on
every Thursday, at 6 o’clock, A. M.
Rome, Geo., Feb. 5, 1838.
State Hights Hotel,
CANTON, GEO.
THE eubscriber respectfully informs his friends
end :.he public, that he has removed from his old
stand upon the west part of the public square to the
house formerly occupied by B. F Johnson. He as.
sures those who maj- favor him with a call, that noth
ing will be wanting on his part to render them com
comfortable. His Table and Stables will be furnished
with the best the country affords.
B. F. DANIEL.
Canton, Jan. 19—1—w6w.
Watch Repairing.
D. EDWARDS respectfully informs the pub.
AH • lie that he has established himself in Cass
ville as a Silver Smith, where he intends to remain
permantly. He will also, attend at Rome on the first
Wednesday of each month, and oftenerif necessary,
to do such work as may be offeied. Persons haying
work to do in his line, will please send it by the dif
ferent mail routes to Rome, with the directions and
owners names, and deposit it at some place in town
and it shall be punctually attended to.
All watches warranted toperform well for one year
January 13 I—ts.
GEORGIA, WALKER COUNTY.
WHEREAS Robert Allen applies to me for
Letters of Administration on the Estate of
John Gilbert, late of Jackson county, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors, to be and appear
at my office within the time prescribed by law,to shew
cause, if any exist, why said letters should not be
granted.
Given under my hand at office, this 22d day of Jan
uary, 1838.
JOHN CALDWELL, o. c. c. o.
Jan. 2G. 2 30d.
IqoticeT
THE Sheriffs of Murray county, will in future ad
vertise in the Western Georgian. Letters ou
business connected with their office, must come Post
Paid, otherwise they will not be attended to.
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February 2.3 4t.
L A W.
THE Subscribers will attend the Superior Courts
of the Cherokee Circuit, Georgia, and the Courts
of Cherokee and Benton, in Alabama. All business
entrusted to their care, will be promptly attended to.
LUMPKIN & WRIGHT.
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WAIJJIES
NOVEL AND IMPORTANT
Literary Enterpise—Novels, Eales,
Biography, Voyages, Travels,
Reviews, and the news of
the Day.
IT was one of the great objects of “ Waldie’s Li
brary," “ to make good reading cheaper,” and to
bring literature to every mans door.” Their object
has been accomplished; we have given to books wings,
and they have flown to the uttermost parts of our vast
continent, carrying society to the secluded, occupa
tion io the literary information of all. We now propose
still further to reduce prices, and render the access
io a literary banquet, more than .wo folds accessible;
we gave and shall continue to give in the quorto li
brary, a volume weekly, for two cents a day. We now
propose to give a volume in the same period for less
than four cents a week, and to add as a piquant sea.
soning to the dish, a lew columns of the shorter ! * -
rary matters, and a summary of the news and events
lof the day. We know by experience and calculations
that we can go still further in the matter of reduction,
and we feel that there is still verge enough for us to
aim at olleriug to an increasing literary uppetite, that
> mental food which it craves.
The Select Circulating Library, now as ever so
great a favorite, will continue to make its weekly vis.
its, and to be issued in a form for binding and preser
vation, and its price and form will remain the same.
But we shall in the first week of Jannary, 1837, issue
a huge sheet of the size of the largest newspaper of
America, but on very superior paper; filled with books
of the newest and most entertaining, though in their
several departments of Novels,‘Tales, Voyages, Tra
vels. &c. select in their character, joined with read
ing such as should fill a weekly newspaper. By this
method we hope to accomplish a great good- to enli
ven and enlighten the family circle, and to give to it,
at an expense which shall be no consideration to any,
a mass of reading that in book form wonld alarm the
pocke's of the prudent, and to do it in a manner that
the most sceptical shall acknowledge, •• the power
of concentration can no further go.” No book which
appears in Waldie’s Quarto Library, will be publish
ed in the Omnibus, which will be an entirely distinct
periodical.
TERMS.
Waldie’s Literary Omnibus, will be issued every
Friday Morning, printed on paper of a quality superior
to any other weekly sheet, and of the largest size. It
will contain,
Ist. Books, the newest and best that can be pro
cured, equal every work to a London duodecimo vol
ume, embracing Novels, Travels, Memoirs. Ac. and
only chargeable with newspaper postage.
2d. Literary reviews, tales, sketches, notices of
books, and information from “ the world of letters,” of
every description.
3d. The news of the week concentrated to a small
compass, but in sufficient amount to embrace a know
ledge, of the principal events, political and miscella
neous of Europe and America.
The price will be two dollars to clubs of five sub.
scribers, where the paper is forwarded to one address.
To clubs of two individuals, five dollars, single mail
subscribers, three dollars. The discount on uncur.;
rent money will be charged to the remitter; the low
price and superior paper, absolutely prohibits paying
a discount.
On no condition will s copy ever be sent until the
paymoat is received in advance.
As the arrangements for the prosecution of this
-great literary undertaking are all made, and the pro-1
prietor has redeemed all his pledges to a generous pub
lic for many years, no fear of the non-fulfillment o!
the contract can be felt. The Omnibus wiil he regu
gularly issued; and will contain in a year, reading mat
ter equal in amount to two volumes of Ree’s Cyclopc.
dia for the small sum mentioned above.
Address post paid,
ADAM WALDIE.
46 Carpenter St. Fhihdelphia. (
COMMERCIAL hotel,
Rome, Floyd County, Georgia.
• r T , HE Subscriber having opened his
H- new Brick House in the Town of
• E° me » as a Hotel for the purpose of ac-
commodating permanent boarders, and
trancient customers, tenders his services to the public,
lie trusts that his accodations will be such as will sa
tisfy the most fastidious. His table will at all times
be furnished with the best the country affords, and ev.
ery exertion will be made to conduce to the comfort
and convenience of all who may call upon him. He
will also he prepared to accommodate Families with
board and retired Rooms during the summer season
His stables will be attended by a faithful and attentive
Ostler, and provinder supplied in plenty. He there,
fore feels himselt authorised in soliciting public pat.
ron age.
FRANCIS BURKE.
Rome, Jan. 19.—1—ts.
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN REVIEW.
TO be published nt Washington, quarterly, in an
Bvo No. 0f275 to 300 pages, price $5 per an 1
num, payable in advance. The place is chosen, not
only for its facilities of information, literary and politi
cal, but as that at which the Southern States can be
united upon the undertaking, with the greatest ease,
and with the completes! exemption from all State or
Party jealousies.
Os the matter, thrce.fourths (say 225 pp.) shall con
sist of regular Reviews, making about 9 of 25 pp each.
These must, as literary works at least, return as age.
neral rule, somewhat towards that older method, now
almost forgotten, and give a regular analysis of the
hook reviewed, if it be of any merit. In Politics and
upon Occasional Topics, there maybe a greater liber,
ty of deviating into mere disquisition.
In this portion of the Review, there will be given,
in each No. a paper historical ofthe Politics and gen.
eral events of the day; to serve as a Historical Regis
ter. Its execution will a’ways be committed to the
strongest hands only; and its purpose, to give a unity
and consistency to the Public Doctrines of the Review
such as can scarcely be so well effected in any other
matter.
Occasional Retrospective Reviews will also he I'm.
bodied in this part of the plan, with a view of favoring
in a certain degree, the more curious studies; or *o re*
vive the knowledge of impo, tant books, forgotten in the
confusion of modern learning.
> Writers will be led, of regular purpose to give their
papers, wherever the subject will permit, the form of
a service; in order not only that they may thus afford
a completer body of information, serve, also, to reprint
apart, for popular circulation; a method that will much
augment both the reputation and usefulness of the Re.
view.
A body of Miscellanies fsav some 50 pp.) will form
the Bubordinate‘nnd in.- e .amusing part of ih<* Journal.
Its contents will be somewhat various; but will, for the
most part, consist of short Literary Notices; Biblio.
graphical Ar'i«*les; a critical list of N<-w Publications,
foreign and domestic, and general Literary Intelli
gence.
In Communications, the most compressed mode of
writ.ng will be .every where required. Papers in
which the works do not bear a just proportion to the
information conveyed or the effect intended, will be
either rejected, without scruple, or abridged, without
mercy*
To warrant this exaction, the ostial rate of compen
sation to writers will be advanced to 2 1.2 dollars per
printed page; a price that will offer fair remuneration
to the talents and labor which we wish to secure.
Os this revival of a Review of the South, the pur.
pose is. to give once more to our region, tnow emin
ently needing it) an Interpreter and a defender ; the
common Representative of our Institutions, and of the
Mind itself among us. Such in that great Congress
of Opinion, where the fates of civilized nations arc now
so largely settled, we do not possess and we have al.
ready suffered much for it. It is time to make our.
selves understood nnd respected there. The Journal
which shall d<« this, must combine the general strengh
of all who, throughout the South, love the country,
and are capable of doing it intellected service. Jt must
then be, not the Champion or the propagandist of lo
cal opinions, but the friend of all that pursue the pub.
lie good. Into the vulgar methods of Politics, debas
ed by Partisan rancour, or corrupted by the interest,
or overborne by the popular passion of the hour, it must
not fall—From it, the pride ofthe Nulbfier must re
ceive no diminution, the fidelity ofthe Unionists no
reproach : It must be no vantage ground to either part,
nor serve but as an equal field, where they will only
contend which shall most advance the cause of the
South, and of that older doctrine of Jeffersonian State
Rights, avowed by both parties alike, and now the
only hope of rallying and of rescuing the country.
To vindicate, then, our peculiar Institutions; to re
bel with argument, lest presently we be forced to re
bcl with arms, all interference with ou. domestic con
dition, against the wild rule of mere Chance and Cor
ruption, to uphold a Republican and Federative, a sdis
tinguished from a Democratic and Consolidating ad
ministration of the National affairs, from the disor.
ders ofthe Central government. Where Reform is
hopeless, and even useless, till you have given your
selves stronger aud wiser local systems—to dried the
public view towards a home policy ofthe State, capa
ble, through itself, to confer upon us the blessings of
well ordered Liberty, expected in vain from the Fe
deral Power; from the delusicuol Party Politics abroad
to call home the wise and bravo have often raised
petty States into noble and prosperous Commonwealth :
to attach men, if possible, to their birth place, and
convert them from wandering and selfish adventurers,
into citizens, the lovers of civilization, to re.animate
public spirit, and give it purpose, as well as energy;
to hold, over parties and Politicians, the tribunal of a
Public opinion far different from that idle and corrupt
one, of which the newspaper Press is the voice; for
these purposes, to diffuse through the land, sound and
well considered public doctrines, with knowledge and
Taste, their natural allies, such will be the general
aim of that literary league, among the best talents of
the country, which has been set on foot in the present
undertaking.
Os its critical purposes, it is not necessary to speak
so minutely. In general, it will of course strf«e to
guide the popular taste towards the best sources
knowledge, and the truest models in Elegant Letters.*
Its judgments will however, found themselves upon!
the dent of his temporary renown, nor that of his birth/,
on this or the other side of the Atlantic. Toward® J
the few good writers, the want of cultivation has yetj
permitted us have in America, it will know how to b®/
respectful. But in Literature, as lately in Trade,
shall insist that no man’s bad commodity be forced upr ’
on us, under patriotic pretences. Upon all that schools
of writained.
Upon the Literature of mere amusement, existence <
enjoyed by thia literary grass, which flourishes green i
ly in the morning, and is cut down and flung away be.
fore the night. Life is too short, Art too long, and I
Learning grown too prolific, for people to occupy then#, /
selves more than an instant with bad books, while
sush great bodies of good ones ace at their ccmmaad.