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ELBERTON, GA.
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ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
ELBERTON, GA.
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ngisr Applications should be made to T. J.
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OE 27 YEARS,
lie hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete
any other manufactory.
Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O
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Work dono in this lino in t very best style.
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ELBERTON, GA.
Will contract for work in STONE and riUTtJK
anywhere in Elbert and Ilaft counties. [jelG-Gm
W. C. PRESLEY,
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ELBERTON, GA.
Will make first class harness to order, war
ranted, and at prices to suit the times.
Will be glad to show specimens of his work
to parties, and no harm is done if ho work is
wished.
Repairing Done Promptly.
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ELBERTON, GA.
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THE GAZETTE.
New Series.
BE STUB.
’Tis better far to speak no word at all
Than murmur all the changing heart may feel 1
The sweetest words may sometimes taste like
gall,
And solt hearts turn to citadels of steel!
The silent then are safest too, for such
Will never say too little—nor too much.
’Tis better far to leave tbe thoughts uncoined
In words, for then they cannot be purloined,
Nor mixed with baser metal, thus to be
Palmed on the public, a false currency 1
A thought unspoken never loses power—
Outspoken, it may perish in an hour!
THy heart is thine own castle. Lock the gate !
’Tis better far if it be desolate
To be sole witness of its empty shrine 1
And if 'tis peopled by a world of thine,
Let it be silent 1 Who can understand
The language spokQn in that mystic land ?
If thou must speak, of others speak but good,
As of thyself. Let this be understood :
If thou canst not of them a good recall,
’Twore better far thou didst not speak at all!
Be still! The silent are the wisest; such
Will never say too little nor too much 1
tix and polly tix.
Mr. Editer’ of The Gazete.—My deer
Mr Editer : i Beg leav threw you tew
interduce a subjeck which perhaps haz
bin very little thort on. And on which
i think desurvs a notch in science—it
seemz to hav thro.wd itself in my way
particklar ! to which i taken a prodigal
fancy, and conkluded to gott down a
few spontanous thorts on-My Diskevery?
thar Seemz tur bee A greater varyity of
Tix in the phalt Woods this year than
cornon ? last year i thort they was big
ger but not so Many of them; i notis
lesser of the old Fashun sort with a Big
Whit spot in the meddle of His back
but a New Stile haz took liiz plas ;
which i shall kali tlAsentenal issur they
r of a liter Mahoginy kuiler—sorter
oblong in sbap, with 2 more Behind legs
—lesser fring around the eg and Thick
er than the old stair bak: Partiekler af
ter ono haz Tugged at a Phellers Heel-
String all nite ? after one evning kow
hunt i rolled upp my Britches nee deep
an diskevered 13 diferent sorts to sa
nothin of the number of Itch, the New
Invensun seemz tew bo very segashus
an haz all of the prezistent kurag of a
New ingland yanky ?
a phellor in sodum told me one would
klime tew the topp of a Bush an lissen
for the approachin Kow Bell Ii notis az
sune az tha git in jMgphuu tha strike,
for oyi at wunir
shuns ar more time of
this Writin bein tha phoxth of July an
ny dommino—lß7G tha are bavin a golly
old time—doin the phorth i reckon—
tha ar marchin on the phianks at rout
step while a litle ban of patreotts haz
rallied on the senter—fased outwards
and peer like gordin agin kattle—jugin
from what wc no about war matters tha
need dissiplin—but az a mob would sa
it is a suckcass—after mature deliber
ashun wo have kum tew tho konklew
shun that thez demonstrashuns ar in
dickativ ov sum big ockasion—mast
meetin ? convehsion! Gnvners elecktion
15 or 20 Kandydates on tho feel ? or a
nashunal Sentennal. But we r ov the
opinun that thar indypendens reeches
further bak than 100 yeei-s to this boun
ty—Mr editer, in conklewsion we would
sa if 3’ou kould only experence a sun
down attack of phlatwoods tix on a col
lumbians shin, you would at leest hav a
more (korreck idy of fiEdin the squar
rute of a tiks noze.
after a plee for my eclukation haven
been to skool but won da and that da
the teecher wernt thar, will clos. tho
must justyfy my spellin by.sain apheller
is a phool that kant spel a word more
than won way.
bavin every confidens that your pro
gressiv slieat will hand this utopia of
Hystory down to the blossom end of
posterity and further—acksept our pa
tronizin regards.
Random. H.- String.
RATHER* ROMANTIC.
Several days ago a beautiful young
lady arrived at the Lindell Hotel in this
city. Registering herself as Miss |lda
Hermanee, San Francisco, she engaged
the handsomest parlor in the hotel at S2O
a day, together with the bridal chamber,
a circumstance which created quite a
sensation among that large class which
take an interest in lonely women. She
was magnificently dressed, and wore
upon her person several thousand dol
lars worth of dimonds, and she dispensed
her funds among the waiters of the hotel
as if she were a princess. On Saturday
she published an advertisement in the
daily papers directed to E. G. Crippin,
stating that a lady at the Lindell Hotel
desired to see him. Crippen heard of
the advertisement to-day, went to the
hotel, and found in the lady an old
sweetheart he had known for many years.
The meeting resulted in a hasty marri
age, which took place at Dr. Schuyler’s
church this evening. Crippin is well
known in Cincinnati and Chicago as a
seller of safes. The young lady is said
to be the only daughter of a millionare
widow of California. She ran away
from her mamma about two weeks ago
to Crippin. The romantic episode has
created quite a sensation here.—St.
Louis Special to the Chicago Tribune.
Potash in Coen cobs. — Dr. Herbert
Hazard says there aro 7.42 parts of
carbonate of potash in 1,000 parts of
corn-cobs.
ESTABLISHED 1359.
ELBERTOI, GEORGIA, JULY 26,1876.
From Mark Twain’s New York.]
TOM SAWYER'S DIPLOMACY.
Tom Sawyer, having offended his Solo
guardian, Aunt Polly, is by that sternly
affectionate dame punished by being set
to“whitewash the fence in front of the
garden. The world seemed a hollow
mockery to Tom, who had planned fun
for that day, and who knew that he
would be the laughing stock of all the
beys as they came past and saw him, 6et
to work like a “nigger.” But a great
inspiration burst upon him and he went
tranquilly to work. What that inspira
tion was will appear from what follows.
One of the boys, Bon Rogers, comes by
and pauses, eating a particular fine ap
ple. Tom does not see him. Ben stared
a moment and then said :
“Hi yi ! You’re up a stump, ain’t you?”
No answer. Tom surveyed his last
touch with, the air of an artist, then he
gave another gentle sweep, and surveyed
the result as before. Ben ranged up
alongside of him. Tom’s mouth water
ed for the apple, but ,he stuck to his
work. Ben said:
“Hello, Old chan. You got to work,
beyi”
“Why, it’s you, Ben. I wasn’t notic
ing-”
“Say, I’m going in a swimming, I am.
Don’t you wish you could* But of
course you’d druther work, wouldn’t you?
Course you would!”
Tom contemplated the boy a bit and
said:
“What do you call work?”
“Why, ain’t that work ?”
Tom resumed his whitewashing, and
answered carelessly:
“Well, may be it is, and may be it
aint. All I know is, it suits Tom Saw
yer.”
“Ob, come now, you don’t mean to let
on that you like it ?”
The brush continued to move.
“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I
oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a
chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
That put the thing in anew light.—
Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom
swept his brush daintily back and forth;
stepped back to note the effect; added
a touch hero and There ; criticised the
effect again, Ben watching every move,
and getting more and more interested,
more and more absorbed. Presently ho
3aid: *
“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”
Tom considered; was to con
sent, but he altered his mind#
• “No. no. I reckon it would hardly do,
Ben. Ifoy so?, Aunt Polly’s awful paf
&&*&** fefieo
the street yon know—but if it was the.
back fence I wouldn’t mind, and she.
wouldn’t. l r es, she’s awful particular
about this fence. It's got to -be done,
very careful. I reckon there ain’t i>ne
boj in a thousand, maybe two thousand,
that can do it in the way it’s got to be
done.”
“No—is that so ? Oh, come now;
lemme just try, only a little. I’d let
you, if you was me, Tom.”
“Ben, I'd like to, honest Injun ; but
Aunt Polly—well, Jim wanted to do it,
but she wouldn’t let bin. Sid wanted
to do it, but she wouldn’t let Sid. Now,
don’t you see how •! am fixed ? If you
was to tackle this fence, and anything
was to happen to it”—
“Oh, shucks: I’ll be just as careful.
Now lemme try. Say—l'll give you the
core of my apple.”
Well, here. No, Ben ; now don’t: I’m
afeard”—
“I'll give all of it ?”
Tom gave up the brush with reluctance
in his face, but alacrity in his heart.
And while Ben woi'ked aUd sweated in
the sun the retired artist sat on a*barrel
in the shade close by, dangling his legs,
munched his apple, arid planned the
slaughter of more'innoccnts. There was
no lack of material; boys happened
along every little while ; they came to
jeer, but remained to whitewash. By
the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had
traded the next chance to Billy Fisher
for a kite in good z’epair • and when he
played out, Johnny Miller bought it for
a dead rat and a string to swing it with;
and so on, hour after hour. And when
the middle of the afternoon came, from
beiDg a poor, poverty-stricken boy in
the morning, Tom was literally rolling
in wealth. He had, besides the things
I have mentioned, twelve marbles, part
of a jew’s-harp, a pieco of blue bottle
glass to look through, a spool cannon, a
key that wouldn’t unlock anything, a
fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of
a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tad
poles, six a kitten with only
one eye, a brass door-knob, a dog-collar
—but no dog—tho handle of a knife,
four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapi
dated old window-sash. Ho had had a
nice, good, idle time all the while —
plenty of company—and the fence had
three coats of whitewash on it! If he
had’nt run out of whitewash be would
have bankrupted every boy in the village.
Tom said to himself that it was not
such a hollow world after. He had dis
covered a great law of human action
without knowing it, namely, that in’or
der to make a man or boy covet a thing,
it is only necessary to make the thing
difficult to attain. If he had been a
great and -wise philosopher, like the
writer of the book, he would now have
comprehended that work consists of
whatever a body is obliged to do. And
this would help him to understand why
constructing artificial flowers or perform
ing onja tread mill is work, while rolling
nine pins ox* climbing Mont Blanc is only
amusement. There aie wealthy gentle
men in England who drive four-horse pas-
senger coaches twenty 'or thirty miles on
a daily line in the summer, because the
privilege cost then! considerable money,
but if they wero offered wages for the
service, that would turn it into work,
and then, they would resign.
f- " .
The following story is found in one of
the London papers :
The faculty of remaining in the water
for a greater or less period of time,
which has been enjoyed by mankind
ever since the existence of the element
itself, seems likely to be extended to fire,
in the eTenk of a flre-preof dress, the
invention of a Swedish oflicei*, Capt.
Ahlstrom, and which has hitherto come
triumphant out of every trial, proving
ultimately successful. At a recent ex
periment in Silesia, four heaps; consist
ing of logs of wood, were arranged in
the form of a square, well covered with
shavings and saturated with petroleum.
They were then set light to and speedily
became a mass of flames. Into this fiery
furnace, the glowing heat of which kept
the spectators at a respectful distance,
stepped Captain Ahlstrom, clad in his
fire-proof dress. He moved freely about
in the restricted space—some four feet
square—formed by tbe heaps, leaning
from time to time quite unconcernedly
against the blazing piles, and, finally,
taking his seat upon one of the heaps,
glowing with intense heat, he reclined
there with as much nonchalance as
though it had been a sofa. He remained
thirty minutes in the flames without suf
fering jrf; the smallest degree from the
heat. Ijlxtjday an experiment was made
in the Kohenzollern mine, with the view
of seeing whether the apparatus would
avail in the event of an explosion of
firedamp or any analogous accident.—
The principal of the gymnasium, who
volunteered to test it personally, de
scended "unto a space which had been
shut off from the rest of the mine and
filled with gas, and remained there for
twenty minutes without experiencing
the slightest inconvenience fr im tho
poisonous atmosphere. Captain Ahl
strom his sold his invention to Prussia
for 50,000 marks.
Sweet On. for Poison It is now over
twenty years since I heard that sweet
oil won! < cure the bite of a rattle snake,
not kiiSjpJjjg that it would enro other
kinder..poison. Practice and exper
ience -H4i§N4aught mo that it will cure
poison ■ftfcfuiy Juad, both cn man and
beast. jape p&tiont must take a spoon
#ql at. .Jm au§s* and bathe the wound,
.a: HPn man. 'One
of the most extreme cases of snake bites
occurred eleven years ago. It had been
of thirty days' stafcding, and tho patient
had been given up by bis physicians. I
gave him a spoonful of the oil, which
effected a cure. It will cure bloat in
cattle caused by fresh clover. It will
cure the stings of bees, spiders or other
insects, and persons who have been
poisoned by a low running vine called
ity.
A Valuable Recipe. —At tbo request
of a correspondent the N. Y. Journal of
Commerce republishes the famous for
mula of the so-called “Sun cholera mix
ture,” which many years ago proved so
efficacious. The following is the pre
scription: Tinct. opii, tinct. capsiei,
tinct. rhei co., tinct. menth pip., tinct.
campho. Mix equal parts each. In
plain English, says the Baltimore Sun,
it consists of equal parts of tincture of
opium, red pepper, Thubarb, pepper
mint and camphor, and the Journal
says it is the best remedy extant for
summer complaint, diarrhoea, cramps in
the bowels and similar ailments, and
affords almost instant relief. Tho dose
is lrom three to ten drops for a child,
according to age, and ten to thirty drops
for an adult, according to the severity
of the attack.
Dio Lewis is camping out in Cali
fornia, and every time a mosquito takes
a nip of him, the disgusted insect sticks
out its under lip, spits out the tasteless
morsel and ejaculates, sneeringly:
‘'Chopped straw and oatmeal: I’d as
lieve bite a sawdust doll.”
A western paper announces the illness
of its editor, adding: “All good paying
subscribers are requested to mention
him in their prayers. The others need
not, as the prayers of the wicked avail
nothing.”
—
“You must have lived here a long
time,” said a traveling Englishman to an
Oregon pioneer. “Yes, sir, I have. Do
you see that 'mountain ? Well, when I
came here that mountain was a hole in
the ground.”
A minister traveling through the
West some years ago asked an eld lady
on whom he called what she thought of
the doctrine of total depravity. “Oh,
she replied; “I think it is a good doctrine,
if the people would only act up to it.’,’
-4 4 •
“Henry,” shb said, “you don’t know
what a soothing influence you have on
me.” “My darling,” he whispered
softly, while a glad light came into his
eyes, “can it be so!” “Yes,” she said,
“when you are around I always feel
like going to sleep.”
“Oh, my dear sir!” said a poor suffer
er to a dentist, “that is the second wrong
tooth you’ve pulled out!” “Very sorry,
my dear sir,” said the blundering opera
tor ; “but there were only three when I
began, I’m sure to be right next time.”
"Vol. V.-No. 13.
THE GIBBS PLUG.
Some time ago they builtja new reser
voir tip on top of a high hill in order to
supply th's tolvh of Conshohocken with
water. Just after the pipes were laid a
man named Gibbs cam a out to try to
sell to the town council a patent fire
plug. There was no water in the pipes,
the reservoir having just been completed
and filled, and after setting the plug and
attaching it to the main, Gibbs explained
the machinery to tho Council, and show
ed. When ho got through ho sat down
on top of the open plug and remarked
to the councilmen :
“You see tho advantage of the Gibbs
Plug is this : Suppose now a fire should
break out in this town, and everything
was all frozen up, and you couldn’t got
a drop of water from anywhere, .and es
pecially from t.e old-fashioned plug-,
which always freezes tho first thing.
Well, sir, after you’ve tried all round,
you como to the Gibbs Plug, you ”
Just at that moment the man at the
reservoir, about a mile distant, turned
on the water for the purpose of washing
out tbe pipes. The head was tremend
ous, and when the stream struck Gibbs
it hulled him into the air, balanced him
there a couple of minutes, tossing him
over and over like a ball, and thou shot
him down in the mud and poured over
him like a young Niagara before ho could
pick himself up.
pf Presently he crawled out, wet and
sickly, going up to Councilman Brown,
ho shook his fist in Brown’s face, and
said:
“Never you mind, old feller ; I’ll settle
with you for this. I’ll be even with you.
But blame me if you shall have that plug
for a thousand dollars an ounce. I’ll
bust the whole machine shop to flinders
first.”
Then Gibbs pulled his moist hat over
his eai’s and took the first train for the
city. The next day ho sent a man up
to take the plug out, and now Consho
hocken has none but the old fashioned
kind.—Philadelplua Bulletin.
How Very Choice to Bea Frog! in
These Fervid Davy —We feel impressed
during these fervid days that it would
be very nice to be a frog. So far as wo
knew, the frog never toils, and wo feel
quito certain that he doth not spill j but
he goes in swimming whenever he feels
liko it, and he has n passion that way
that tha most rcstlest school boy can
hardly emulate. What could bo more
refreshing than to plunge to tho bottom
of a cool pond, when the summer sun
grows iffeifife WSd tfefiefrYP; ' ami * trrere
meditate on the advantages of amphibi
ousness? What a luxurious place would
the bottom of a lake be for passing
one’s fourth of July in peace and quiet!
Oh! that we were a frog. And tho
youthful batrachian lives in a perpetual
summer retreat in sodgy streams and by
purling springs, in the cool shade of the
umbrageous trees and among tall grass.
[Boston Glcbo.
* <Jj> ♦ ——
Fixed Up. —A wild-looking old man,
with a confused nose and an ugly-look
ing scratch down his left cheek, went
into a drug-store on Main street last
Friday ahdjsaid to the clerk : “I am go
in’ ter git set up ter day; cuss me if I
don’t. Gimme somethin’ that’ll make
rne’s ugly as Satan—whisky, kerosene,
anything, so’s I can git rip courage ter
pertect myself from my wife. Great
Scott, I’d like ter chaw giant power, vul
can powder, rend rock powder, dynamite,
or suthin’. I’d like ter be as strong as
a steam ingine, and, and I’d make things
different in my house ! She’s was’n a
pirit.” The clerk said : “Will you take
your oath that you’ll never tell if I give
you something strong enough to rend
the ramparts of the word? ’ The old
man bowed his head and solemnly made
the promise. The clerk gave him a
glass of plain soda, and the man went
out to chaw lip things.—Boston Courier.
♦
An Affectionate Husband. -The wife of
a villager in Pootou, Ireland, after a pro
tracted illness, fell into a state of coma,
believed to bo dead. As is usual
atiiohg the very poor peasantry there,
the body wfi3 folded in a sheets* and car
ried to tho grave uncoffined. On tho
way to tho graveyard the body had to be
carried through a thicket, where the un
derwood consisted principally of thorn
bushes, and in passing through, the sup
posed corpse awakened from tho trance
by the prickles. Fourteen year.3 after
wards the woman really died, and on the
way to the grave the same route was
taken. As the mourners approached
the thicket the hUnsband called out vig
orously : “Tako care—don’t go near the
thorn bushes!”
“You come well recommended, I sup
pose ?” said a gentleman to a boy who
wanted an easy place. “O, yes, sir; the
man I was with last recommended me;
he recommended me to leave, and get
work more congenial with my disposi
tion.”
*
H Western newspaper nays: “Talk
about th§ wind blowing the grorshop
pers away ! One of thein faced tho gale
the other day for an hour, and then
yanked a shingle off a house for a fan,
saying it was awfully sultry.”
San Francisco papers complain of the
machinations of a huge grain ring,
which has $8,000,000 to $10,000,000
capital, has locked up all other available
1 funds, and is endeavoring to control the
grain trade of tho Pacific coast.
AGRICULTURAL.
GARNERED FOR THE GAZETTE.
By D. A. M.
The Rcta Baga as a Food tor Stock.
Our crop should be planted fr.nn the
latter part of -July through August. I
have made fi,no Ruta Bugas p’anted the
last of September, where the winters
were mild and favorable. The best time,
however, for planting to secure an early
crop, and a sure ono in this latitude, is
through July and August. And what
makes it the more valuable with us, it
need not be housed or protected after
being made. Cold winters that freeze
and rot other varieties of the turnip,
rarely injure this. And, if the top3 are
eaten off by sheep during tho oarly
spring, they will remain sound in the
ground till Juno, after giving tender
sprouts for tablo uso before other gar
den salads come in. One can hardly be
extravagant in his estimate and praise of
this plant, after giving It many years
trial. And, though planting it so long,
I never realized fully its value with us
till last winter,lwhen I fed it “ad libicum”
to cattle, sheep, and hogs, and my mules
even would not refuse to eat them,,as A
change frou their continual feed of corn
and fodder. Hogs, with a very little
grain, will thrive woll on them. And
now, being compelled to keep enclosed
all stock, tc secure it from being depre
dated upon, and from depredating upon
our crops, we must learn to uso tho
cheapest food, and that l’aised with
least labor. As we inolre perfectly do
mesticate our stock by feeding in close
quarters, we change and improve, some
what, their taste for those things, which,
in a semi-wild condition, they would re
fuse to cat, aud really starve upon.
With tho diffusivo system of stock
husbandry, as well as planting, (under
the old slave regime, now shattered and
destroyed,) wo must build up the futuro
again with other means and resources
a kind Providence has given us. We
are not poor, if wo will oppreciato and
utilize the many crops our climate (ivith
our soil) will produce through every
month in tho year; and this crop can be
made to extend ns a valuable food crop
through six of the hardest and most
expensive, with us, in stock husbandry.
As to the manner of planting, I think
there is but one good, sure way to
secure the greatest yield. Breaking
and pulverizing any ordinary laud deep
and well, lay off in rows throe feet
apart, open these wide and deep, and
drill in or fill with manure. My favorite
is composted cotton seed with a com
mercial fertilizer. Bed and Harrow off
tho beds well, and drill in the seed with
one of tho simplo, useful scod and got
them so Uniformly planted as to make
the cultivation afterwards very easy.
With two hocings and tho use of the
sweep oiice or twice aftorwards, your
crop is left in a lino condition to grow
and remain good tho entire winter, par
ticularly in this latitude. Seed that are
produced with us thus far south are
worthless. They must be brought an
nually from tho northern seed-growers,
who often, themselves, import seed,
when improved variotloo _ *>— g-~ 1
hnXTriH'grreafest peffectr&r
is secured. W. B Jones.
The Importance of Root Culture.—
Mr. Day, of New Jersey, writes that,
taking into Consideration the vicissitudes
and casualties of raising grain, coupled
with the advanced price of lands at tho
East, grain-growing and graes-farming
must, in a measure;, bo remitted to tho
great prairies, and eastern cultivators
must begin to give attention to the cul
ture of root crops for fattening pur
poses. Five pounds of carrots and six
pounds of oats have been considered
equivalent to ten pounds of oats. Tho
average cost of raising carrots in the old
way may be reckoned at fifteen cents
per bushel. , One thousand eight hun
dred biicheis of mangels have been
raised from one acre, at a cost bf seveil
and a half cents per bushel, of which,
according to experiment, four hundred
pounds were equal to one hundred
pounds of hay. Allowing sixty six
pounds to the bushel, the crop was
equivalent, in nutritive value, to twelve
tons of hay. An ordinary crop of win
ter cabbages, planted three feet apart
each way, will yield 4,785 heads to the
acre, which, at the retail price of fifteen
cents each, would net $7lO 75; and
even at ten cents, would bring $478 50.
Mr. Heberling, of Ohio, wrote on tho
saih'o subject, saying that, after an
experience of more than thirty years m
feeding cows and stock ewes, lie is con
vinced that roots —nature’s substitute
for green pastures—are not appreciated
to half the extent they deserve. With
one peck or more of chopped roots to
each cow, morning and evening, his
cows aj’e in as good condition, and
yield as much rich milk and butter dur
ing the winter and spring as in summer
and autumn. Again, breeding from
four hundred to five hundred ewes,
commencing to drop lambs about the
middle of March, he can raise as many
lambs as owes, because thero is no
starving for want of milk. Ho finds
that one acre of sugar beets furnishes
as much food as ten acres of oats, and
saves his cows from hollow horn,
staggers, abortion, protracted parturi
tion, and other diseases cf similar char
acter, which he believes are frequently
caused by tho feeding of fermented,
stimulating, unnatural slops.
Gardening in California.— An Ama
dor County (California) paper states that
on Jackson Creek, in that county, tliero
are four acres which have been under
tillage for tho last twenty years, and
which are now owned and worked by
six men and cultivated in vegetables,
grapes,and fruit. The following is a s'ato
meht of annual products: 375; loads of
vegetables, for tho counti’y markets aver
aging sls in value per load, $5,C25;
800 gallons of wine, sold on the prem
ises at an average of 75 cents per gallon,
$600; total sales, $6 2 5, or $1,550.25
per acre, besides vegetables, fruit, and
wine for ten persons, and the fee 1 of
three c j\vs and four btrscs.