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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. R. 11. JONES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, gißsmm, ga-. Special attention to tbe collection of claims, [ly L, J. GARTRELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATLANTA, GA, "PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES CIR -1 cuit and District Courts at Atlanta, nnd Supreme and Superior Courts of tbe State. SHANNON & WORLEY, ATT ORNEYS'AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. W r ILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF the Northern Circuit and Ffanklm county jgggP’Special attention given to collections. J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly ELBERTON BUSINESS CARDS. '~T. J. BOWMAN & CO-, REAL ESTATE AGENTS ELBERTON CA. WILL attend to the business of effecting sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS. ngisr Applications should be made to T. J. Bowman. sepis-tf LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. m§ J. TP. A-XJTjD ®abriageto[anufact’R ELRERTOI, GEORGIA; WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OE 27 YEARS, lie hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O REPAIRING AND BLACKSMIT II ING. Work dono in this lino in t very best style. The Best Harness TERMS CASH. ASy22-1 v _ ' s ; ; , m 7 I 'SELI), r JiM 4 |i g? tub real live Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA.' .s^Call and See idinn TILE ELBERTON DRUG STORE R. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. lias always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of STATIONERY „ D PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES Plain and fancy, just received, including a sup ply of LEGAL CAP. CIGARS AINU) TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. F. A. F. KOBLETT, SAifKAL MASON, ELBERTON, GA. Will contract for work in STONE and riUTtJK anywhere in Elbert and Ilaft counties. [jelG-Gm W. C. PRESLEY, S ABN ESS MAKER. 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. F. W. JACOBS, HOUSE S SIGN PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, ELBERTON, GA. Orders Selicited, Satisfaction Guaranteed. PEASE’S PALACE DINING ROOMS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Ike Champion Dining Saloon of tho South EVERYBODY IS INVITED TO CALL. 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.