The Cherokee agriculturist : and patron of husbandry. (Dalton, Georgia) 1875-????, August 01, 1875, Image 1
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SCIENCE ARD INTELLIGENCE HELPED BY ENERGY AND INDUSTRY WILL SECURE TO CHEROKEE GEORAIA WEALTH AND FAME.
BY IL A. WRENCH.
STAND BY YOUR COLORS, PATRONS!
Stand by your colors, Patrons, stand!
Firm as the Spartan hero band,
And high unfurl them to the breeze,
From Northern lakes to Southern seas ;
From where Atlantic’s billows roar,
To old Pacific’s verdant shore,
Oh ! let them waye, and proudly wave,
All o’er a nation free and brave;
And never let them trail in dust,
For man ne’er had a cause more just.
Ye hardy, stalwart sons of earth,
Though e'er so humble be your birth,
Echo afar the battle cry,
And flaunt your streaming banner high,
And never yield unto the foe,
For the result is weal or woe ;
But make the welkin ring with song,
As you the battle cry prolong,
And ever let your chorus be,
“ The Patrons’ cause and victory!”
Stand by tfie Grangers’ creed,
And practice what you preach, indeed,
And teach the men who laugh and scorn
That you were truly freemen born;
That you will dare your rights maintain,
Though foes enraged your cause disdain;
And when you shajl have reached the goal
Os all you labor to control,
Your triumph to the world proclaim,
Then enemies will blush with shame.
Long has the farmer toiled in vain,
White fettered by oppression’s chain,
And writhed beneath the deadly stings
Os strong monopolies and rings ;
But the glad day begins to dawn
When at their feet he’ll no more fawn •
But bursted with those fetters be,
Then you’ll proclaim the captive free,
And all the farmer hosts shall come*
To shout the ransomed prisoner home.
Your warfare now is just begun,
And though it is a bloodless one,
You must be manly, strong and bold,
Intrepid as the braves of old;
For lurking foes there surely are
Who would the timorous ensnare,
And lay your noble Order low
At one malicious, fatal blow,
And Blast your prospects, hopes and all,
Then mock at your ignoble fall.
But when the mighty structure’s reared,
No foes*without will then be feared;
And when its lofty dome shall rise,
And bathe itself in sunny skies;
When all's secure for self-defense,’
And Grangers swear true allegiance,
Then will Flora strew her flowers
All o’er this happy land of ours;
Pomona yield her precious fruit,
The most exqisite taste to suit;
And Ceres scatter golden grain
O’er mountain, hill-top, valley, plain.
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LINES WRITTEM UNDER THE DOG STAR.
The following question was asked in the cat
echism of the Commissioner pf Agriculture,
returnable June 15: ‘-What is the principle ob
stacle to sheep raising ?”
The response from tha correspondents was
souniformally “dogs,” that Mr. J. A. Stewart
(who happened to be in the Commissioner's of
fice during the conversation in reference to it)
was requested to write something on the sub
ject. After a short absence, Mr. Stewe.it re
turned with the following, which he entitled
“DOGGEREL.”
‘•Let dogs delight to bark and bite,”
Or chase the buck and ewe;
Let dogs eat sheep, while farmers sleep,
“For God has made them so.”
Let dogs come forth to fill the earth—
The lean, the lank, the low—-
Or track at night the weather’s flight,
“For God has made them so.”
Let lop cared hounds range pasture-grounds,
Or scent the buck or ewe :
Let curs yelp round, as well as hound,
“For God has made them so.”
Let every man keep, it he can,
A dozen dogs in tow ;
And let their greed on mutton feed,
“For God has made them so.”
Let man eat hogs—feed sheep to dogs—
Raise mutton here below ;
To feed to dogs, while men eat hogs,
“For God has made them s».”
As these lines were written in the interestof
mankind—and sheep—by Mr. Stewart, by my
request, I would recommend that they be sung
at all the Granges. Tunc, “Old Father Grimes.”
T. P. Janes,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
AN APRIL VIOLET.
Under the Larch with its tassels wet,
While the early sunbeams lingered yet,
In the rosy dawn my love I met.
Under the Larch, when the sun was set,
He came with an April violet;
Forty years—and I have it yet:
Out of Life with its fond regret,
What have Love and Memory yet?
Only an April violet.
—Scribner’s Monthly.
-AJSTID OF Z&FTTSZBJYZDTTDZRTY - .
(General gajriailture.
Some of the Elements of Successful
Farming.
The essential elements of prosper
ous farming arc the same which com
mand success in all other vocations
—honesty, temperance, economy and
industry. Possessed of these cardi
nal virtues, and aided by intelligence,
energy and application, any man may
reasonably hope, not only to be a
successful farmer, but to take his
place among those who are consider
ed the benefactors of their race.
Every farmer who has proper pride
should aspire to be more than a mere
tiller of the soil, whose only knowl
edge consists in his ability to hold
the plow, and reap only the fruits of
manual labor, lie must educate him
self and children to such a degree so
as to perform any of the duties that
may devolve upon an American citi
zen. lie must make better use of
the brains God has given him.
In these days of enlightenment
and progress, when science has be
come the handmaid of agriculture, if
we hope to keep pace with the ad
vancement of the age, if we wish
a grander dignity in the calling of the
farmer, and success to its operations,
we must use all of the mcaps and ap
pliances which scientific researches
have developed, and mechanical skill
and genius invented, It is of course
not to be understood that, in recom
mending every farmer to seek assis
tance and skill, we expect him to be a
practical chemist or skilful mechanic.
The knowledge that would qualify him i
for either the one or the other would
doubtless be of great value to him in ,
his vocation, but it is not essential!
that he should possess these acquire-j
ments. It will be sufficient for him to j
have the intelligence to recognize the
importance of these helps, and to use
■ them advantageously. /This he can
only do by making himself a thorough
master of his business. He must
know, not only all the practical de
tails of that business, but the laws
which control its operations; not the
effect alone, but the cause which pro
duces the effect. Without this practi
cal knowledge theoretical attainments
will be of no avail.
The Practical Man and the Theorist.
“ That looks very pretty and plaus
ible on paper,” remarks farmer Jones
as he lays down his agricultural jour
nal, after reading one of Prof. Brown’s
well written articles on rotation of
crops. “It looks well, but I’d like to
sec the Professor try to carry out his
ideas on the cotton plantation. I
reckon he’d find out the difference
between theory and practice.” Well,
suppose Prof. Broun should attempt to
carry out his ideas in the field, and
should make a failure? Would that
prove his theory false? By no means.
It takes something more than correct
theory to make a crop —good general
management and an experimental
knowledge of the details of field work.
Perhaps farmer Jones himself, work
ing on the same plan, would attain the
highest success. An inventor may
devise a machine which is to revolu
tionize the industry of the world, yet
he may not be able, on account of de
ficient mechanical skill, to construct
his machine in such away that it will
work. The practical man—the me
chanic—comes to his assistance, and
the work is done. So it is in every
department. The man of ideas has
the force to move the world but he
needs the man of practical common
sense and skill to help him in putting
his ideas into working shape. Far
mer Jones should not jump to any
such conclusion as his remarks seem
to indicate.— Hural Carolinian.
DALTON, GEORGIA, AUGUST, 1875.
What Not to Do.
A farmer should not be so land
grasping as to imperil the title of
what he now owns, in the attempt to
possess all that joins him.
lie should not attempt to cultivate
more than he can attend to thorough
ly, nor keep more stock than he can
feed well.
lie should not put off his purchase
of an implement he needs, until the
work is mostly done that requires it.*
He should not let his stock run
down in winter so low that it takes
all summer for them to recruit.
He should not go to sleep at night
until his plan for the morrow’s work
is thoroughly matured, and his help
acquainted with their morning duties.
lie should not allow his help to at
tempt a job until he has made plain to
them the details of their work.
He should not require too many
hours labor from his men, and should
give them some privileges, and take
an interest in their welfare and pros
pects.
He should never give way to pas
sionate language when errors are
committed. Vile words never repair
a fault and do not lessen the chances
of its repetition.
Finally, the farmer who makes a
mild decision the rule of his house,
who plans his business properly, has
personal care of his work, is satisfied
with small, sure gains, will pass
through life serenely and leave a fair
legacy to his children of worldly goods,
and better still, an unsullied reputa
tion.
Prosperity of Small Farmers.
Mr. Daniel Pratt, who has been
travelling in Mississippi and Louisi
ana, reports through an agricultural
paper some cases illustrative of the
prosperous of the “small
farmers.” He says “one small pine
land farmer informed me that he al
ways makes plenty of corn, pork and
hay, and has made five bales of cotton,
500 pounds each, from four acres of
pine land, by the use of home-made
manure. He has money to lend, and
is r'*‘H very hard worker. Another
small farmer made thirty-five bushels
of corn from three quarters of an acre
of manured hind. He said three acres
of such land would give him an ample
supple of corn for a year, and he
would have a surplus. A farmer in
the pine lands, in clearing his land,
put the brush and sapplings in wind
rows, and cultivated between. The
next year he moved all the windrows
that had not decayed and plowed in
bark, rotton canes and decayed wood.
He made a handsome property in a
few years, cultivating pine lands.
Another says, ten acres of poor
land to a hand, with plenty of leaves,
trash, and home-made fertilizers to
plow in, will produce more corn and
cotton than forty acres as they usual
ly manage these lands. One farmer
in the poorest part of the pine lands
has this year the greatest abundance
of pork, corn, sweet potatoes, rice,
sugar, molasses, milk, butter, fowls,
eggs, etc., all produced on his own
farm, and he not a man of wealth, nor
of more than a fair amount of intelli
gence. He is simply a man of com
mon sense, and a farmer.”
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Pip in Chickens.
Feed your chickens with raw, fine
cut onions, once in three or four days
—that will prevent pip. Also color
their drinking water with tincture of
iron occasionally. Bread soaked in
vinegar is healthy. Get all the egg
shells you can for your fowls, keep
the hen house clean, and give plenty
of range during the day.
Profits of 135 Acres of New York.
Mr. James R. Mead, who cultivates
a farm of 135 acres in Tioga county,
New York, reports to his Farmer’s
Club the following result of his ope
rations for 1874:
Oats, 750 bushels; wheat, 60 bush
els; buckwheat, 100 bushels; hay, 55
tons; corn fodder, 8 tons; oat straw,
8 tons; butter, 2,100 pounds; wool,
40 pounds; apples, 200 barrels; pota
toes, 280 barrels; beef cattle, 3; pigs,
11; lambs, 5; calves, 9; corn, 150 ;
chickens, 100; turkeys, 8; gosling,
1? e gg s , dozen; bees, 5 swarms.
There were also some pears, garden
vegetables, etc. The cash proceeds,
alter reserving for use of a large fam
ily and feeding and seeding purposes,
$1,750.50. Amount of labor employ
ed in producing the above and hauling
to market, was one pair of horses and
one man for eight months, besides
myself, a share of my over time being
devoted to the heavy work of the
dairy. The outlay, including some
extra work in haying and harvest, was
$200; capital invested in real estate
and personals, about $10,000; taxes
and other farm and family expenses,
$350.
Fence Posts.
The following experience on the
mooted question whether fence posts
will last longer when set in the same
position in which they grow, or vice
versa, is given by a writer: Some
twenty-three years ago I set a fence.
The posts were sawed from a good
sized, first growth, red chestnut tree.
To saw them tapering to set big end
in ground, one end must go top down,
and the other half bottom down.
The posts were set promiscuously,
and to this day there has been no dis
tinguishable difference in their lasting
quality, unless it be where some of
them had ipore .sap on than others,
and these gave out first, without re
gard to which end was set down.
Chicken Cholera.
As the epidemic known by this
name is now “in season,” says the
Country Gentleman, we would sug
gest, after trying various remedies,
for several years, that a strong de
coction of red or black oak bark is
the most reliable. Given in time it
is an effectual preventative, and in
many cases will actually cure. It
may be mixed in the feed or given as
a drink. The absurd device of pull
ing off the scale which naturally
grows at tne tip of the tongue in all
fowls, to aid in securing their food, is
too preposterously silly to be worthy
of serious notice.
Small Farms in Favor.
The New York Bulletin thinks that
there seems to be a marked tendency
among California farmers to abandon
the old ranch system, by which im
mense tracts of land were over-run and
but partially occupied without tilling
or improvements, under the ownership
and management of one party, and to
subdivide them into small farms. This
is but the natural result of enhanced
value of farming land, and is what has
always occurred in the progress and
development of new countries. Yet,
its application to California will mark a
new era in the farming industries of the
Pacific coast. The usual causes have
forced this step; for, in addition to
the enhanced value of land, it is found
to be so much more profitable to till
and cultivate as well in California as
elsewhere.
Take advantage of modern facili
ties, and accomplish as much in a sin
gle day as required weeks, months or
years, formerly.
VOLUME 1— NO. 1.
The New South.
The Chicago Tribune takes cogni
zance of the improved condition of af
fairs in the South, arising from a di
versity of crops and improved meth
ods of agriculture. Among other
things it says: “A new and promising
era has dawned upon the States where
once King Cotton held undivided
sway. Southern planters have experi
enced in the way of diversity of pro
ducts, and the experiment has proved
a wonderful success. If it had been
predicted ten years ago that any of
the cotton raising States would in the
year 1875 have a surplus of cereals,
the existing facts and prospects of the
time would hardly have borne out the
prophecy. Yet such is the fact. The
States of Tennessee, Arkansas, Missis
sippi and Alabama will this year have
enough and to spare, and the southern
farmers are proud and happy. In ad
dition to this unprecedented grain
yield, the old staple, though reduced
in acreage, has by a more thorough
system of cultivation rewarded the
planters as never before, and they
boast of an independence that has
heretofore been unknown to that por
tion of the country.”
Damaging Weather to Crops.
For startling climatic phenomena ;
great convulsions of the earth from
center to circumference; tornadoes,
storms of wind, deluges of rain, and
unheard of electrical displays, this
year of 1875 stands unrivaled in the
memory of the oldest inhabitant. The
floods of March, the storms of May
and June are now being supplemented
by other Hoods and storms of greater
violence, anh scarcely less destructive
of life and property. In addition to
these we hear of earthquakes in Geor
gia and Connecticut; “the land of
steady habits” and the abode of fiery
Toombs, both shaken and rocked
about like the billowy restless sea.
Our own locality has been in the
-line of the storms and floods and has
experienced the most wonderfully ec
centric changes of temperature.—
Spring we had none. It was a bleak,
sloppy and disagreeable compromise
with winter, until the middle of May,
when we jumped into midsummer
heat and drouth at a bound. Them
came the storms and long continued
rains, just when the wheat was cut,
blowing the sheaves hither and thither,
and soaking them with water, until,
the total destruction of a fine crop
was imminent. But the climate worn
ders have not ceased. Last week was.
hot, sultry, prostrating. Sunday was
slightly cooler, though sufficiently
warm to pass as a first-class summer
day. Yesterday morning opened with
an October atmosphere, which suggest
ed parlor fires and woolen clothing—
and old Probs, and Prof. Tice tell us.
the end is not yet.— Chattanooga Com
mercial.
None but a lazy teamster will al
low the harness or yoke to remain on
teams while they eat their mid-day
meal. Teams will perform more labor
on the same feed in a given- time by
giving them water every two or three
hours. The water should stand in the
sun if practicable. It should not be
cold on any account.
A gentleman in Lancaster, Pennsyl
vania, recently built a two-story brick
house in that place in 19" hours, and he
now proposes to build a similar house,
24x40 feet, on the centennial grounds
next summer in eight hours.
A Spanish Man-of-War forcibly took
a passenger named Luis Venegas from
the steamship Elder, a British vessel,
at Porto Rico on the 29th, and shot
him. The charge against him was that
he had held a position in the Spanish
I army and absconded with public funds.