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Newspaper Page TextATHENS, GA. DECEMBER 23, 1870. VOL. XL.—NO. 17—NEW SERIES. VOL. *. Nfk % Farm Miscellany. afluds what is the best kind of mar riage demands these continued atten tions, which, voluntary offerings of the lover, become enforced tribute from the husband. She knows that as a wife, whom it is not necessary to court or flatter, she has a nobler place than that which is expressed by the attentions paid to a mistress. Wifehood, like all assured conditions, does not need to be buttressed up; but a less certain posi tion must be supported from the outside, wooing ened and reassured. % Jfarcnlp ftnintal—jptboteb to Uetos, itolitits, literature, Igricultare, ant % fntatstrial Interests -of tji rilRF.K DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. Souther rn manner. :••• •sv'<-nr.n wlrki.v. . . ri. A. ATKINSON, iilHEE DOLL A HS PER ANNUM, S Title TL r /.V A D VA A’CE. e, Ilrmxd st., over J. II. lluyyin . ItVTIN OP MIVKHTlMMi. i Ivrrtiaemcnts will b«Mn*crto<lat One Dollar and rtv Ceht* per Square of 12 linw, for the first, and r.-'tty-tivo Cents for each auli&eiuent Insertion, v»v ii »»•* underono month. For m longer period • al contract** will be made. Business Directory. - I . it II. GOBB, T T - , V Athe TTORNEYSATLAW, ieorsia. Office in the Deuprec Hall ig, over me More of 1‘ituer A. Hunter. ALF.Y S. ERAVIN, ~ TTORNEY AT LAW, Athena, 1 iCi r*ir\. M. VAN ESTES, VTTORNEY AT LAW -i. Homer, Hanks County, Ga. 1>. G. ANDLER, \TTORNEY AT ^ Y. ii. LAW, mer. Bank, Countv. Ga. Will practice untie, of Hunks, Jackson, llall, Haber- i and I r.tnkliu. PITTMAN & HINTON, \ T T O R N E Y S A T L A AV V .lcir» r> »n. Jackson county, Ga. Fireside Miscellany. The Sweets of Married Life. IX WIIAT THEY COX8I8T AND IIOW TO PRESERVE THEM. Marriage, which most girls consider the sole aim of their existence and the end of all their anxieties, is often the beginning of a set of troubles which none among them expect, and which, when they 001116, very few accept with the dignity of patience or the reasona bleness of common sense.—Hitherto the man has been the suitor, the wooer; dt has 5 his metier to make love, to ^u*to»hd; sieurity has f takeu the SAMUEL P. THURMOND. V TT ORNEYATLA W , A. At'-iens, Ga. Office ou llroad street, over Harry A to eaves I all claim i Store. Will glvo special attent Bankruptcy. Also, to thecolloctiou of entrusted to his care. ALBERT L. MITCHELL, A T T O R NEYATL A AV , At: «*n«, Gn. Office in Dcuprce’M llnll build* L tice in Clark Rnd the adjoining coun- Will pi J. J. k J DE LEI * ALEXANHKIt, IN HARDWARE, Steel, Nails, Carriage Material, Mining j%r., Whitehall Atlintt. A. M. COCHRAN, I> E A L E S T A T E A G E N T, I V Gainesville. Ua. Will give careful atten- rrmiust: and sale of minki:u. and vabs- INB HANDS. terest, BONES, BROWN & CO., I MPORTERS AND DEALERS IN L l oi reign anil Domotic Hardware, Augusta, Ga. \ AT iON A. L HOTEL, A TLA NT A, 0 BORGIA. Car. 1 Yliilelij.il St. and ll’.tf'.l. Ii. Ii. K. H. POXCJ, Pr.opui .tor. Cor hellvT.-s - AND— Agi’.cultural Imp] ‘meats. \v^ 3 ARE AGENTS r’OR THE followi Aland *rd Mach... -» : *OW|iCr nail M4D01 % »»<■?• ftarkhftn ’v 1V\ •» x Threshur : , *i . r ho u a-hi tic tV> '■ HU a id *♦:: \t . vj rs ; Tin Shop \n the re »r *»f thB store, til kind» <*f liu, c*:»**ri lrou and > a|s» iceep a good fL _ z of lin l, n»t ‘•the best in Georgia," but .a kits, Hudai low juices, ii.uty return our Miccre ihBuks to • ;ao > iieis in Athensaiidjtuo couu- Is ir’.ct nt»enti.m to bufliueto, l«» ,01. )f t.ieir m*i.».u. . n bl :.»intry strictly attend- broad street and COLLEGE AVENUE. HITCH & MORTON, | J A VE OPENED a largest.., I. I01I1 us ami Ftirnidiins « * which they invite public Attention. t»r*i eUvs cutter connected with the ment. Orders tilled at fthort notice. 01 d> We have u GHOVKRABAKER •SEWING MACHINES! ! I'UONOl .M FD TIIK BEST I S I SK. I >Y ALL WHO HAVE TRIED I -J them. These machines, with all the IMPROVEMENTS and ATTACHMENTS, at manufacturer's price*, freight BANNER OFFICE. n iv he had, ‘ l ied, at the Wagon Yard in Athens. TH KS LI B SC RI B ER II A S 1 a safe, comfortable and commodious Wagon Yard on lliver street, near the Upper Bridge, »here Corn, Fodder, am! all other necessary aj»- utter extravagant professions, to talk poetry and romance of an eminently unwenrable kind, and to swear that feelings which, by the very nature of tilings, it is impossible to maintain at their present state offerer heat, will be as lasting as life itself, and never know subsidence or diminution. And girls believe all that their lovers tell them. They believe in the absorption of the man’s whole life in love, which at the most cannot be more than a part of his life ; they believe that things will go on forever as they have begun, and that the (ire and fervor of passion will never cool down to the more manageable warmth of friendship. And in this belie! ot theirs, lies the rock on which not a few make such pitiful shipwreck of their married happiness. They ex pect their husbands to remain always lovers. Not lo\ers only in the best sense, which of course all happy hus bands nre to the end of time, but lovers as ;n the old fond, foolish, courting days. They expect a continuance of the ro mance, the poetry, the exaggeration, the pet Us ho'dis, the microscopic atten tions, the adoption of thought and in- the centralization of his happi ness in her society, just as in il.e days when she was still to be won, or a little later, when being won, she was new in the wearing. And ns we said before, a wife’s first trial, and her greatest, is when her husband begins to leave oil this kind of fervid love-making, and settles do wn into the tranquil fr end in stead. I.OVE MUST BE FREQUENTLY EXPESSED. It is in the nn'urc of most women to require continual assurance, just as it is with children; and a very few be lieve in a love which is not frequently expressed ; while the ability to trust in the vital warmth of an affection that has lost its early feverishness is the mark ot a higher wisdom than most of them possess. To make them thoroughly happy a man must be nl vays at their feet; and they nrejealout- •1 everything—even of his work—that t .k. s him away from them, or give .im ca-ion for thought and interest outside themselves. They are rarely a’ile to rise to the bight of married friend-hip ; and if they belong to are- iccnt and quick-going man—a man who says “ I love you ” once for all, •nd then contents himself with living a life of loyalty and kindness, and no! alking als.ut it—they fret at what they call his coldness, and feel them selves shorn of half their glory and more than half their dues. They re fuse to believe in that which is not da! ly repeated ; they want the incense o. flattery, the excitement of love-making, and if these desires are not ministereo to by their husbands, the danger is that they will get some one else to “ under stand ” them, and feed the sentimentali ty which dies of inanition in the quiei serenity of home. Moonlights, and a bouquet of the earliest flowers carefully arranged and tenderly presented, ami the changing lights on the mountain or some gloomy anticipation of profes-l to-day is as yesterday ? Of one thing sonal trouble makes him oblivious of she may be certain, no wife who under- her presence, or, fretted by her impor tunate attentions, he buries himself in a book, more to escape being spoken to than for the book’s own merits. Many a woman has gone into her own room and had a ‘good cry’ because her hus band called her by her baptismal name, and not by some absurd nickname in vented in the days of their folly; or be cause, pressed for time, he hurried out of the house without going through the established formula of leave taking. The lover ^has ■ merged into the and an insecure self respect, aji uncer- t^,on the morning of the 5th woman does not take kindly to the transforma-J II0t ]i V e happily without being made tion. Sometimes she plays a danger- j l ove to, are more like mistresses than ous game, and tries what flirting with: w ives, and come but badly off in the other men will do. If her scheme great struggles of life and the cruel does not answer, and her husband is not! handlin of time. Placing all their made jealous, she is revolted, and holds j happiness in things which cannot con- herself that hardly used being, a neg-' tinue, they let slip that which lies in lected wife. She cannot except as a j t h e i r hands, and in their desire to re- compliment the quiet trust which cer- j tain the romatic position of lovers lose tain cool-headed men of a loyal kind' the sweet security of wives. Perhaps, place in their wives; and this toler- if they had higher aims in life than ance of her flirting manner—which I those with which they make shift to he takes to lie manner only, with no j satisfy themselves, they would not let evil in it, ami with which, though he. themselves sink to the level of this lbl- may not especially like it, he does not; ly t and would understand better than interfere seems to tier indifference they do now the worth of realities as rather than tolerance. Yet the confi- j contrasted with appearances, deuce implied in this forbearance is in j And yet we cannot but pitv the poor, the point of fact worth all the petit* | wea k, craving souls who long so pitv- soins ever invented, though this hearty j f u u y f or t h e freshness of the morning .aitli is just the thing which annoys her, to continue far into the day ami even- nnd which she stigmatizes as neglect. Jng, who cling so tenaciously to the It she were to go far enough she would fleeting romance of youth. They arc Lut by that taken by the glitter ot things—lovc- tind out her mistake. time she would have gone too far to profit by her experience. Nothing is more annoying than that • lisp ay of affection w hich some hus bands and w ives show to each in society. That familiarity of touch, those half- concealed caresses, those absurd names, making among the rest; and the man who is showiest in his affection, who can express it with most color, and paint it, so to speak, with the minutest touches is the man whose love seems to them the njost trust-worthy and the most intense.-' Thev often make the that prodignlitv ot endearing epithets, ; mistake of confounding this show with that devoted attention which they flaunt! the substance, of trusting to pictorial in the face of the public a- a kind of. expression rather than to solid facts, challenge to the world at large to come! And they often make tne mistakc'of Second Report of a Committee of the Hancock County Agricultural Club, No. 1, on Fertilizers. October, 1870. Gentlemen of the Clvh:—Your com mittee have complied with your wishes, expressed at our last-regular meeting on the 17th September, and having again carefully inspected the results upon com and cotton, of the home made fertilizer usually known as the Bryan. Compound,” beg leave to re- that has been under constant cultiva tion over 50 years. Upon this 80 acres he put this season $2.53 worth of his home made manure per acre. The result (taken as a whole) is aliout as fine a crop as either of us have seen during the season. He estimated that its yield will be at least 50 heavy bags, and in this opinion we entirely coincide with him. In compounding his mate rials, he first mixes his salts (in solu- instant we proceeded to the village of White Plains, (our President, J. S. Newman, Esq., again lending us the aid of his presence,) and examined carefully the Experimental Plat of Mr. R. Tappan, noticed at length in our last report. Mr. Tappan, awaiting our return, had made 110 pickings from this plat, hut proceeded, in our pres ence to have three rows each of the following fertilizers picked out. These pickings we carefully weighed and noted: Three rows, each 188 feet, fertilized with Lot Manure, weighed 42 pounds —cost per acre $111.80. Three rows, each 180 feet, fertilized with Pendleton Manure, weighed 45 pounds—cost per acre $19.80. Three rows, each 188 feet, fertilized with Peruvian Manure, weighed 31 pounds—cost per acre $22.50. Three rows, each 186 feet, fertilized with Bryan Manure, weighed 40 pounds—cost per acre $9.00. Three rows, each 186 feet, fertilized with Sea Fowl Manure, weighed 43 pounds—cost i>er acre $23.03. Three rows, each 186 feet, fertilized with Iloyt’s Superphosphate, weighed 35 pounds—cost per acre $21.00. The top crop of this plat had been cut off, either by a drought, or by an injudicious plowing. The committee were universally of the opinion that the number of unopened bolls on the Brvnn were in excess of the other fer- whole mass. -This fixes the ammonia tons has been reoeived: and yet tire and prevents its escape in the atmos phere, as occurs when differently pre pared. He uses about 300 lbs. per acre, and thinks, from experiments on his own place and by others, that more than this, unless broadcasted, would be prejudicial. He insists that the great est virtue of this compound lies in the permanent benefits it bestows upon the soil, and declares that this lienefit has been permanently noticed wherever used. Upon rows through his fields, left this season unmanured, we re marked a difference of 100 per cent. and admire their h:Tppme.-s, is always; cloying their husbands with personal j tilizers noticed and laughed at; and sometimes i half-childish caresses, which were all essence of married happiness and part of their dearest privileges. They be lieve themselves admired and envied, when they are ridiculed and scoffed at; r COUTH y Tirol Tier, amt hank bill* rocriv.'d in ux- - hangc for good*. ..... vv ti.v.ii WILEY IIOOD. Lumber!! Lumber! \ YTE have at the Steam Saw Mill, > V near the ujij>cr bridge, at A them*, ■-’00,000 FEET OF 1’INE LUMBER 1 hand, a portion i*f whirl) Is seasoned, and are iff its ‘••ntimiinff its manufacture Wr are itrepared to deliver on short notice, to any 1 i:it in Athens, or at the Athens Depot, at the lowest prices. Also, l^aths, Furrowing, Strips, and a quantity of rough lumber, suitable for out houses -m l cheap fences/ J. K. PITTMAN A CO. All orders wiil receive prompt attention if l-ft with ,1. E. Pittman, It. J or J. F. Wilson, or '• ith Col. J. H. Huggins, No. 7 Broad street. July s—tf ^ and they think their husbands are j whole happiness of their lives is dead, models lor other men to copy, when; and all that makes marriage beautiful ;hey are taken as samples for all to at an end. What is to be done to Lal- ivid. Men who have any real mar li- \ anca things evenly in this unequal world e s, lo e or, do not give into tlin I of sex ? What, indeed, is to be done ,ind of thing; though there are some, at any time to reconcile strength with is effeminate and gushing as women | weakness, and to give each its due? hemselvcs, who like this effu; ivencss j One thing at loast is sure. The more of love, and carry it on to old age, fond-, thoroughly women learn the true Datum ing the ancient grandmother with grey : of men, the fewer mistakes they will hair as lavishly as they had fondled the create for themselves; and the more youthful bride, and seeing no want of j patient men are with the hysterical cx- haruiony in calling a withered old dame Stability, the restless craving, which if sixty and upwards by the pet names j nature, for some purjiose at present un- iiy which the)’ hail called her when she i known, has made the sjiecial tempera- vas a -lip of a girl of eighteen. The | ment of women, the fewer femmes in- [•liancTTi*, it .in Ik, pnrchamxl on rtrr.*omible lermv— , , • t |.„ < 'i irgr, moderate. The bixbcst market price paid tips, mill tllC exquisite . Ollg ot tilt Ul o n. Notice. To the Citizens of Frauklin and adjoin ing Counties. M V. GURLEY, QUIIGKON DENTIST Has recently located at Carnesville for tlic pur|K>*eof practicing Ids profession. Persons dcair- >ng work in his line will give liiiu a call. Teetn >DM,rtt*d on theiuo>t improved basis for from $7 50 t *$«v»oo. Office ill Franklin limine, over A. I>. Fuller's Store. . Not. 11, 1870-Cm Notice. W E HAVE THIS DAY SOLD our entire stock of stove*, and everything Jmti lining to that brand) of our business to Mr. b. b. Join*, who will conduct that business nt his for- nu*r%Lu)l. Thankful f«»r the patronage bestowed “P»>n us in that line, we respectfully «*k b eon tin u- aoo rtf the U» our suctvcsaor. Th> tnn-ftyha* rn’diUjd tr- to m !:«• r»mn for*? Large and Well Selected Stock /HARDWARE! < all kind*, to public. Ulch wo invite the attention of the rillLlkS NICKKUMIX & Gk pjAVING PURCHASED THE Lurgr and Well Selected stock of »■>' ?i ^ cijb w as: ism ' f iln- nbnvit firm, • am prepared to weoal all <le- maiid, fur that claMOf goodi, and horn by fair deal- lag and Mrl-.t uvtefitloii w mr.’t z sh’ro of public K ?0>T’' ingale—at two o’clock in the morning —and all the rest of those vague and suggestive delights which once made the meeting-places of souls, and turn ished occasion for delicious ravings, lie- come by time and use, and the wearing realities of business and the crowding pressure of anxieties, pnerileand annoy ing to the ordinary man, who is not. a poet by nature. “ When all the world was young,” by reason of his own youth, and the fever of the love makinj time was on him, he was quite as ro mantic ns his wife. But now he is so bering down ; life is fast becoming a prosaic thiug to him ; work is taking the place of pleasure, ambition ot ro mance ; he poohpoohs her fond re- meiuberances of bygone lollies, and prefers his pipe in the warm library to a station by the open window, watchin the sunset because it looks as it did on that evening, and shiveriug with incipi ent catarrh. All this is very dreadful to her; women unfortunately for them selves, remaining young aud keepiu. hold much longer thru meu do. A GOOD CRY. The first defection of this kind is a pang the young wife never forgets; but she 1ms many more, and yet more bit ter ones, when the defection takes a personal shape, and some pretty little attenten is carelessly received without its due reward of loving thanks. Per haps some usual form of caress is omit ted in the hurry cf the morning's vork, more than laughed at. Yet lo some, very well in the early days, but which omen this parade of love is the very become tiresome as time goes on and the gravity of life deepens. And then, when tire man cither quietly keeps them off or more brusquely repels them, they are hurt aud miserable, and think the ontinuancc of love from youth to old lge is very lovely, very cheering; but •ven “John Anderson my Jo,” would ose its pathos if Mrs. Anderson had ignored the difference in the raven looks ind the snowy brow. This public dis play of familiar affection is never seen imong men "who pride themselves on making good lovers ; as certain men do —those who have reduce the practice of love making to an nrt, a science, and know their lesson to a letter. These men are delightful to women, who like nothing so much as being made love to, as well after marriage as before; but men who take matters quietly, and relv in the good sense of their wives to take matters quietly too, sail round those scientific adorers for both depth and manliness. And if women knew their liest interests they would care :. ore for he trust than the science. WOMEN ARE FOX’D OF PETTING. All that excess of flattering and pet" ting of which women are so fond be comes a bore to a man if required as part of the daily habit of life. Out in the world as he is, harassed by anxieties of which she knows nothing, home is emphatically his place of rest, where his wife is his triend who knows his mind, where lie may lie himself without the fear of offending, and relax the strain that must be kept up out of doors; where lie may leel himself safe, understood, and at ense. And some women, aud these hv no means the cold est or the least loving, are wise enough to understand tiiis need of rest in the man’s harder life, and, accepting the quiet of security as part of the condi tions of marriage, content themselves with the undemonstrative love into which the fever of passion has subsided. Others fret over it, and make them selves and their husbands wretched be cause they cannot believe in that which is not forever paraded before their eyes. Yet what kind of home is it for the man if he has to walk as if on egg-shells, every moment af.aid of wounding the susceptibilities of a woman who will t«l« nothing on trust, and who has to be contionually assured that he still loves her, before rho mil believe tl comprises there will lie in married homes, and the larger the chance of married happiness. All one’s theory of domestic life comes down at last to the give and take system, to bearing and forbearing, and meeting lialt way indiosvncrasies, which one does no( personally share.—London Saturday Review. A Funny Affair. We wont over a field of some 50 acres of cotton, upon which Mr. Tap- pan had used 2(J0 pounds per acre of the Bryan, which, under a judicious cultivation showed even better results than his plat, and contrasted with some 4 acres in same field, left, un manured, so sterile naturally is the soil upon which these experiments were made. Upon the Experimental Plat of Mr. Seaborn Jernigan, also noticed in our last report, he had unfortunately kept no account of the pickings from each row, the committee had therefore only to count »V»»efully the remaining bolls upon the stalks, opened, unopened and picked out. This they did for a-dis tance of 24 feet, with the following re sults : 1 Un manured had 187 bolls—cost per Unitied States; and he seriously ridi cules our Greene county friends for af fording gratuitous information respect ing a preparation, the general use of which would cut off their own supply except at a ruinous cost This comes well from a “ merchant of fertilizers,” but need have no terrors for us or our friends in Greene. We are credibly informed that this year there has been ordered, through one firm alone at tion) with his base of stable manure, j Greenesboro’, enough of these salts to with earth, &c., and then applies his phosphates of ground- bone, plaster, &c., thoroughly incorporating the compound 150 tons of this fertilizer, while at the other end of the county, at White Plains, enough for 200 more prices, as tested within a month by two of our own members, are somewhat less than previously. Professor George Ville, certainly known to each of you as the most noted of European agricul tural chemists, observes that “where humanity depends u]M>n a problem, lie assured at the proper moment the pro blem will be solved,” and lie asserts that the salts complained of by our “Reviewer” nmy be found, if applied and prune fruit trees and grapevine* to cheek the natural tendency to form on* desirable wood, and encourage tha w- ganization of fruit in iU place. Root-pruning corn with the plow or cultivator is quite practicabk, but a rather uuaafe operation in our clituate, in the judgment of the w/itcr. Prob ably an infusiun of the dwarf habit and obvious fruitfulness of the best Northern corn into the constitution of our native seed, by a cross, would give acclimated plants a peculiar value.— To obtain a cross of this character. Northern seed should be planted i» hills of ftwtkeni corn some thirty after the latter is planted; otherwise the silk on the early Northern corn will be dry and dead before any other dust is formed on the tassels of thskii Southern plant. Some varieties of North corn, ray those grown 300 miles north of toy farm, in Southern Ohio and Indiana, need nut be planted more than ten days later than ours to have the organs at reproduction in both simultaneoudy formed. Having developed there at tor chemically, in “unlimited quanti ties.” Of course, we are sorry not to j the some time, two kinds of have the published sanction of Dr. Pernl-, the vital principle are easily made. in favor of the adjoining rows. From , upon ollr fo rmu ia f but wc feel in i prefer to have the more fruitful parent Mr. Bryan’s we drove to the plantation of Iris neighbor, Mr. Win. Oliver, who has cotton with 300 lbs. per acre of tire home made under it, tlrut will make 600 lbs. of lint to the acre. Hence we returned home. We have thus, in simple and untechuicul language, en deavored to give you tire final results this season of a fertilizer within easy reach of us all at a very moderate cost. We furnish you the experience in its use of pluin, hut eminently practical and successful farmers—men who pos sess and employ more bruins aud corn- some measure consoled hv the support I for the mother, und therefore impreg- of sueh “ new lights” iti agricultural j the silk of northern corn with tit* chemistry as Professor Joseph Jones, j pollen of southern. A different *r«t»* George Ville, and Dr. Rislev—backed hv the testimony of manv who have i will be made if we fertilize the silks of | southern corn with pollen from the probably enjoyed far longer and more spikes of nortliern. In doing tins with successful experience in raising crops than the “ Reviewer," even though they labored under the terrible disad vantage of not using the “ Pendleton Guano ComjMjund.” The Doctor queries as to how wc can possibly do the earliest varieties of northern, l have to raise my hand dust from the low stalks of small northern corn, several feet to reach the nascent ears on tall southern. Not one year in tea is it low enough at harvest ftnr me to without these (this) commercial fertil- j it without bending down the stalk, izers, when they pay so enormously on i When connected with the University mon sense in the preparation of their | the iuvestluent * ' It f 3 withi „ * t he of Georgia, I made many new seedling* Bryan -had 362 bolls—cost per acre $3.35. Pendleton had 326 bolls—cost per acre §5.35. Mr. Jernigan expressed himself as even more pleased with the manure than when we last visited him, and rei terated his purpose of using it largely iu the future. crops than money in the purchase of fancy commercial fertilizers at extrava gant figures. The great effort now of Southern agriculture appears to he in the attempt to borrow as largely as may be from philanthropic science, and yet escape the crushing burdens im posed by the same benefactor through the hands of a few monopolists. In the common effort we invite your co operation. But we regret to add that at the very outset we are met by a rebuke that seems to challenge atten tion. Dr. E. N. Pendleton has seen fit, in a recent communication to the lime* and Planter, to criticise our last report upon tills subject with severe and, as it appears to us, unmerited harshness.. We must positively de cline entering iuto a scientific discus sion with Dr. Pendleton. This is not our object. We, moreover, ore plain farmers, and he, as is well known, a re gular “ Jupiter tonaDs” in the chemi cal and agricultural world, borides being a gentleman for whom, person ally, wc entertain much respect. Our last report, as to this, was sim ply by a committee of gentlemen to a Farmers’ club, stating a few fads in re gard to a fertilizer other tluui the Pen dleton Guano Compound, and recom mending that our members experiment with the same. The Doctor styles his published communication a “ review” of our last report; but to many of his readers this nomenclature is palpably Driving some 12 miles further into enonmls > ** rea< * H t0 them very much like an—advertisement. If our dis- A funny affair occurred in Pittsburg, Penn., the other day, illustrating the importance of business men looking on both sides of scrap paper upon which they may write orders, receipts or mes sages. A well-known merchant having a small lot of damaged and almost un saleable goods remaining from a large consignment, at last succeeded in “ working them off,” and, sitting down at his desk, wrote a note to the con signor, announcing the gratifying in telligence in these words: “ I have at length succeeded in closing out those, by selling the whole lo to old Scroogrind for a hundred dollars, and glad to get rid of them at any price. I’m so afraid, even now, the sharp old codger will back out, that I won’t let him have the goods till lie pays me the money.” At this point the merchant was in terrupted, and turning the note sheet face downward in his portfolio, went out into his warehouse to attend to a customer. An hour or two afterward, as he returned, having forgotten the note entirely, fscroogrind’s clerk en ters, hauds a hundred doll r hill aud asks for a receipt. The mercliqpt seizes the first piece of paper before him, dashes off the receipt and hands it to the clerk. What was his consternation half an hour afterward, when the grinning clerk returned with the message from his master, “ Mr. Scroogrind wants to know if you won’t give him another receipt ou a dean piece of paper,” to find that he had inscribed the acknow ledgment upon the back of the very letter announcing the sale to his cor respondent. Scroogrind gpt an amount of private information with this first receipt that he didn't count upon. Greene county we spent the night with the Rev. W. Bryan, of the Methodist church, a gentleman widely known as enjoying an unimpeachable character, enlarged views, and great practical in formation, particularly upon agricul tural subjects, to which lie has devoted a long and wellspcnt life. From him we learn that the Formula No. 1, as given in our previous report, first ap- peared in the columns of that standard review, the Southern Cultivator, about the year 1860, and was analyzed and perfected by Dr. Joseph Jones, then State Chemist and Professor of Che mistry and Geology in the State Uni versity. The 2d Formula of our 'ast report originated with that well-known and distinguished chemist T)r. Risley, formerly of the firm of Haviland & Risley, of Auguta, and a member of several other large apothecary houses in New York and elsewhere. Dr. Risley, after much experiment, first made public this Formula about the close of flic late war. The 1st For mula Mr. Bryan had experimented with successfully, and when that of Dr. Risley, came out, assimilating so closely to the first, ho tested it most carefully for a sufficient period with a number of the most popular commercial fertilizers, and the result is that he has abamloncd all others, and for the past 3 or 4 years used exclusively (except for the pur poses of further experiment) the For mula of Dr. Risley. The first to use it iu his county, his unprecedented suc- cessrapidly induced its useby his neigh bors, until there are now, he informs us, at least 50 or 75 of the most prom inent planters iri Green county largely manufacturing and using the same pre paration, with the most uniform and satisfactory results. Mr. Bryan exhibited to us in oo&ton I Kane 80 acres cf naturally this soil tinguished resident agricultural M. D., rebuking our ignorance, had treat ed the subject like a chemist (as we all know him to be) the club would doubt less have been grateful to him, but we are mortified, when like a mere char latan (ns wc all know him not to be) he seizes the occasion of the uuiutcuded publication of a private report to rush into print and crow so lustily over his own pet Bttntum—which Bantum, be ing now just one year old, ought to be able to crow a little for itself, elsewhere than in the hands of the “ reviewer” and its owner. memory of the oldest inhabitant that from parents acclimated in different the same distinguished querist at uue j parts ot this continent; but their pr time spoke aud published terrible warn ings against the use of such experi ments in farming. This proves noth ing, of course, save a radical change of view on his part upon this important subject, aud the fact that he was not then, as now, manufacturing and sell ing the “ Pendletou. .Guano -Com pound.” To qnote further from Professor Ville’s admirable course of lectures, translated and published in The Plan tation, he says: “ Find the real price of products loudly extolled for great virtues by certain merchents of fertili zers, and you will find them burdened with a profit that the inott scandalous usury has never attained.” But in his advertising article, our Doctor gravely assures a credulous public that he re tails his produce at 7^ per cent profit —this when money is worth to him and the public 18 or 20 per cent, per annym. This speaks volumes 4br hi* philanthrophy, and at the same time explains the retirement from the busi ness, as stated, of his partner, Col. Dozier. Finally, our thundo.cr launches his bolts, and in a twinkling dissolves our whole compound into “ mere dirt and water.” After this, it only remain for us, gentlemen, to learn, by actual ex perience, whether it may not prove cheaper for us to carry our own “ dirt and water” from our barn yards, at a cost of $15 or $20 per ton, than to haul the same material from Raltomore, furnished us kindly by a “ merchant of fertilizers” at a cost of $70 or $80 per ton. Respectfully submitted, H. A. CuNcn, ) U. B. Baxtkr, > Com. Frank White, ) tical value had not been satisfactorily determined when a calamitous war m* rested my experiments. Problems re lating to the constitutional value of new agricultural plants often require years for their solution; andflotitisy is more common than to give to it**» too large or too small A meaning in «#t ' profession. That the vital activity and * fruitfulness of com may bn gttnlly changed by simply changing ita climate, are facts of far more significance tbutt any superficial thinker will believej—v There are thousands of Southern farm* era who annually procuae their snsfr* ■ ' potatoes from the North because the - vitality in these tubers is best devel oped in a horthem climate. At thf ^ risk of being mistaken, I remark that ** were my land — — seed corn so that a six ' V How to Improve Southern Corn. th man i reach the highest ears without I down the stalks, the yield would i blv be an average of’some eight cr tort M more to the acre. rifrnatft- Knox eo., TentK ^ D. Lkk. Demarest & Woodrul*, (Snceruora to ToMUMnoa-DiaiAKEeT Co..) 628 Sc 631, Broadway, 9f.T* manufacturers of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, EtftSLallj OUR STOCK COSintlSKM LIGHT VICTORIAS, PHAETONS, CABRIOLAS, ROCK A WAYS, i And *11 liber (tjlm of Flno Currliga*, For ono or two bone*. TOP & NO TOP BUGGIES, Oa Elipt Ic aad Side Springs. CONCORD BUGGIES, Mail Uaciutand Jersey IPngona We are also sole manufiarturexs of tko Woodruff Concord Buggj It is unusual to notice (mints that may be made in a self-laudatory com mi nicatiuu like this, bat we trust that this report may meet his main objec tion, viz: that our previous visit was made “at a time when recent rains had stimulated the ammoniated crops to a size of weed quite deceptive, when con trasted with the phophatic com pounds.” He asserts that the cost of our “ Home-made” is underrated—the figures given only paying for 1300 pounds instead of 2000. This is a fic tion, as may lie proved by any one properly compounding it; but it is more—it is an idle effort to escape one of the main issues iu such investiga tions, viz; the cost per acre required to produce like restdt. Wc aver, upon unimpeachable testimony, that one dol laris worth of this home-made prepara tion will produce better results upon crops generally than two, or may be three dollar's worth of the Pendleton guano compound. This is plain talk, gentlemen, and enough of it Wc re gret to learn further from the Doctor of the extreme scarcity of the salts used in our formulas—that there axe only 20 tons of the sulphate of ammon- Dr. D. Lee, of Tennessee, contrib utes the following to the Country Gen tleman : In 1848, while residing in Augusta, Ga., I measured corn plants growing on the Savannah, bottoms which were eighteen feet high, with stalks and leaf ia proportion. Had the yield of seed corresponded with this magnificent de- velopement of stem and woody tissue, the harvest should have licen at least 200 bushels of corn per acre. But instead of this it was only sixty bush els. Coming from the rich valley of the Genessce in Western Now York, where similar land produces seventy- five to eighty bushels to the acre, it occurred to mo that by planting the best seed corn to be had in New York or New England, it might not be diffi* cult to lessen the growth of what ap peared an excess of stalk and loaf, and increase that of grain. Where the climate and soil are very favorable to the longevity of a plant, nature ap pears to regard any provision for the next generation, through the mediate of seeds, as ot secondary moment.— Under such conditions, fruitfulness is often suspended or indefinitely delayed. Unfruitful apple and pear trees are familiar instances of this kind. Plant ers often , top cotton plants to make them more fruitfuL They pinch off the terminal buds of Lima beans, Mulatto* Warn for 1, -. 4 m*S • Hon*-. The brat Bufgj and Wagon iu Autvrira for ’ha Money. We hare had an expcrUnae of thirty year* la making work for the MHithera Stairs, amt know exactly what la -ranted to ataad the road-. Wo tavitr all to aend for Circular*, and panic* xialllag York we capccially inritc to call at nur W*ro- roora*. Wo aolicit the trade of merchant* aad dealer*. Illustrated Circular*, with price*, sent h* —" A. T. DEMAuLst. It. Y. ; ia and nitriate of sod* in all these shorten tho runners of strawberries, s> July 29-ly W. V. wTwDRtV>% OA. ESTABLISH ED 1811. Cushingft & Bailey, TDOOK8ELLKRS and Stationers, JJ 242, BALTIMORE ST., HALT (MORE, hat* the large** and ben tunorted atnek to th* • by, *f School, Medical, aad law, Dental, CUaaicmt An immenao (upply of General Bank and Ceonta ng Houic STATIONERY. Blank Book* mad* to order In any atyl* of Blad ing or ruling. The aame eanfol attention given to QBDSRB a* to personal purehaaer*. IXSIDK riOVRBS always. Send for Catalogues, Ac. »«p3(Qm Cotton Gins, Gin Feeders, Cotton Seed Duller & Separator. THE UNDERSIGNED are man- ufae turer’a agent* for th* axle of THE BROWN COTTON GIN, HALL'S PAT. COTTON ©IN FJSEWffifc { ——asd——— H PEABODY’S PATENT Coll fieeia Roller and separator. u&cturar’i j Sold at CO. r<vi AlAfitl. Ot., Aufiult,

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Southern banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1832-1872, December 23, 1870, Image 1