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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.” Georgia Laud for Sale. No. 169, r 29 Dist. 3. Section. 73, 14 “ 3. Do. 309, 7 « 3. “ 195, 7 “ 4. “ 231, 'l3 “ 4. “ 285, 27 “ 2. “ 209, - 8 “ 2. “ 85, 26 “ ‘ 2. “ 2,7 “ 2. “ 19, 7 “ ’2. “ 128, 7 “ 2. “ 169, 8 “ 1. “ 40, 20 “ 2. “ 582, 21 “ “ “> 195, 21 “ “ “ 102 21 “ “ “ 490* 21 “ “ “ 157, 1 “ 4 “ 281, “ “ 4 “ 444, 15 “ 1 “ 464, 12 “ “ “ 784, “ “ “ “ 309, 18 “ 3 “ 1075, 3 “ 3 “ 1158, 3 « 3 “ 434, II “ I “ 265, 2 “ 3 “ 1163, 3 “ 4 ‘ 1243, 4 “ 3 “ 248, 4 “ 3 “ 71, 2. “ 3 “ ! 4«5 } . 4 « I “ 34, 3 “ I “ ’ ' 938, 3 “ ] “ 607, 17 “ 2 “ 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. STEPHEN JONES, Sh’ff. 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. Rome, Feb. 2. 3. ts. 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.