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SiBEHTOK, Gii.
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the Northern* Circuit and Franklin county
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ELBE Hi ON, GA.
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and Supreme Court. Prompt attention
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EEAL ESTATE AGENTS
ELBERTOI GA.
WILL attend to the business of effecting
sales arid purchases of REAL ESTATE
as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS.
Applications should be made to T. J.
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Um CARRIAGES & BUGGIES.
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LOWKST PRICES!
CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE
OF 27 YEARS,
!;r Hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete
any other manufactory.
Good Buggifes, warranted-, - 3X5 to $l6O
R "PAIRING AND BLACKSMITHIXO.
lidc done in this line in t very best style.
The Best Karnoss
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Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold's Store,
ELBGRt’ON, GEORGIA.
NTCall and See Him.
TH E EI,BE lIT O N
IRUG STOKE
H. 0, EDMUNDS, Proprietor.
Has always on hand a fall line of
urc Drugs and Patent Medicines
MukO e.' srwciultv of
STATIONERY * SB
PERFUMERY
Anew nssoitment ot
'BITING PATER & ENVELOPES
. lain and fancy- just received, including a sup
ply ot LEGAL CAP.
O IGA Its AND TOBACCO
of all varieties, constantly on hand.
F. A. F. SOBLETT,
mmmKL mason,
ELBERTON, GA.
Will cg"tract for Work in STONE and BRICK
anywhere in Elbert and Hart counties. [jelG-tim
W. 0. PRESLEY,
HAM EM SIAKII.
ELBRRTON, GA.
Will make first class linrncss to order; war
ranted, and at prices to suit tlie timfs.
Will be glad to show specimens of his work
to parties, and no harm is done if ho work is j
wished. f
(Repairing Done Promptly.
F. W. JACOBS,
iOUSE i SIGN PASTER
Glazier and Grainer,
EL-BARTON, GA.
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dSTew Series.
From the Wheeling Intelligencer.]
ANTI-SL ANY SOCIETY.
The “Reform Club” is, the title of a
new organization in the West End, or
ganized by young ladies, for the purpose
of discouraging the use of slang phrases
in conversation. At a recent meeting;
while a member was addressing the so
ciety, she inadvertently made use of the
expression “awful nice.” and was called
to order by a sister member for trans
gressing the rules.
“In what way have I transgressed?’’,
asked the speaker, blushing deeply.
“You said it would be ‘awful’ nice to
admit young gentlemen to our delibera
tions,” replied the other.
“Well, wouldn’t it be?” returned the
speaker, “yon know you said yourself,
no longer ago than yesterday, that—”
“Yes, I know; but you said ‘awful
nice.’ That’s slang.”
“Well,” said the speaker, tartly, “if
you are going to be ao awful nice about
it, perhaps it is ; but I wouldn’t say any
thing if I were you. Didn’t you tell
Sallie Spriggms, this morning, to pull
down her basque f ”
“No, I didn’t,” retorted the other, her
face growing crimson ; “and Sallie Sprig
gins will say I didn’t. She won’t go
back on me.”
“This is a nice racket you are giving
us,” cried the President, after rapping
both speakers to order. Let us ask,
what is the object of*this society?”
“To discourage slang,” cried a dozen
voices.
“Iverect,” said the President, “go on
with the funeral.”
A member rose to explain that she had
been fined at the last meeting for saying,
“aivfnl nice” herself, but she hadn’t the
“stamps” to pay it now—would settle,
however, ‘in the sweet by and by.’ ”
“That’ll be all right,” said the Presi
dent; “pay when you have the ducats.”
Another member asked if a young
lady could say “old splendid” without
subjecting herself to. a line.
“You bet she can’t,” said the Presi
dent ; who was the original founder of
the society, and therefore appealed to
when any nice question was to be de
cided. r
“Then,” said the speaker, “I move that
Miranda Pew come down with the dust,
for I heard her say that her beau was
‘just old splendid.’ ”
Miranda’s face was in a blaze as-che
cried :
“Well, if my beau was such an old
hairpin as your fellow is I wouldn’t say
it.”
“Shoot the chinning,” Cried the Presi
dent, “will you never tumble?'’
But the confusion was too great to be
allayed. Miranda's blood was up; some
-sided with her and others against her,
and avoid the Babel that followed could
be heard such excl motions as “dry up,”
“nice blackberry you are,” “wipe off your
chin,” “hire a hall,” etc., when a motion
to adjourn was carried “by a large ma
jority.”
HOY/ IS THIS TOE HIGH 7 ;
People just now can talk of but little
besides the heat. The thermometers
‘divide public interest with the stock
lists. Some very learned meteorologic
al conversations result. This morning
a Chronicle reporter heard this one be
tween a depressed young man rind a
rough-looking old fellow:
‘Tm told,” said the youth, “that it’s
harder to bear heat in high latitudes
than low ones, because the atmosphere
is light and dry. Water boils at a much
lower temperature here than m Frisco.
How high's Virginia ?”
“Dur.no ; yer’s a map.”
The map is scanned, ah cl the gentle
man ascertains that B street is just
6205 feet above the sea level.
“Bo yon see that wafer boils here at!
twelve degrees lest than tit the Bay.!
Every 550 feet you rise counts one de
gree.”
“Yes,” began the rough looking man,
“I’ve often .noticed that 'ere circum
stance. When I was in Chili in 'SS me
an' two more chaps went prospectin' in
the Ancles. Well. sir. p’raps yon - won’t
believe it, but one night when we’d dim
up two-thirds N of Mount Aconcaqua,
which are the highest pile o’ dirt in the
world, the air got so darned light that
there wasn’t pressure enough to keep us
on our feet hardly, and curse me if our
hair did’fc rise straight up, and no amount
6f combin’ and weltin’ could get it j
down. All we bad with us in way of j
grub was some jerked beef, which’’was j
Sd hard and dry that you might as well j
Chaw- into a pine knot as to go fo: it j
without boiling. I.was cook that night. \
When I put the pot on the fire it wasn't
Ia minute before it began to boil and
j bubble, an’ I chucked in’a’ few pounds of
! beef. I let her boil for about half an
hour, and then I poured the water off.
• As true as I am standrn’ here that thar
j meat was just as hard as when it went
i into the pot, and it wasn’t wanner than
1 fresh rhifk. You see the air was so thin
: there wasn’t no pressure onto the water,
and though it ’ml boil, there wasn’t no
heat to it- I’ve often washed my face
in boilin’ water on the Andes. I cop
pered the game after a bit though. Nest
trip I went on I took a force pump
; along, an’ there one of us utl sit an
; pump the air into the pot on to the wa
! ter’ an’ we could get all the pressure we
1 wanted, do you see?”
[Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.
About the only thing a man can
borrow'in these enspiolms days with
out giving security m
ELBERTOI GEORGIA* AJTGUST**, 18*76.
WANTED A EASM,
A Detroit real estate agent was waited
on yesterday by a tail man with a weed
on Lis hat, who said he had the cash to
pay for a farm, provided he could get
one to suit. The agent smiled him to a
seat, and brought out his register cf de
scriptions. He had several Firms reg
istered on his books, and ho had no
dqhbfc that he could suit the would be
piirehnser. The stranger remarked
What I want is a farm of about three
hundred acres.
I’ve got it, replied the dealer.
I'd like about six big bibs oil it.
Here she is, with exactly six hills on
And I'd like- aiSikd'iieiir the center.;
Here you .fire. Hero's a farm with a
hikeVxaFth-i’r. the center.'
And I want a big natural cavern .in
one of the hills.
Here you are. There’s a cavern on
this farm that can't be beat in this sec
tion.
The stranger drew a long breath and
went on.
I want a. farm of three hundred
acres, but one hundred acres must be
marsh land:
Hero she is, was the* reply. Just
three htiridred acres on the farm, and
just one hundred acres marsh land.
1 must have a waterfall iwent-siz feet
high on the farm, continued the stran
ger.
Hero you are. This farm has got a
natural waterfall of twenty-live feet,
eleven inches. I don’t suppose an inch
more or an inch less amounts to much.
Well, no, but I wan t a w indmill on the
hills.
That was put up last year, was the
reply.
Jt was some tune before the stranger
thought of anything else, but finally
said :
There must be a Baptist church
right Across the road from the house.
One built there a year ago last sum
mer, sir.
It must be a brick church.
So it is.
Has it an organ,
It has.
Then I can’t buy the farm of you.
said tiie stranger, raising to go. If
there is anything I hate, it is a church
organ and you see for. yourself that I
.wan’d be in a slate of confhrual mForyT
The farm suits'me first rate but 1 can't
go that organ. •
Just what estimate those two men
placed upon e; eh other's veracity as
they separated may never be made
known.
AN OLD TRADITION OP MAHOMET.
There is an old tradition of Mahomet
that he was once standing beneath a
palm tree and teaching his followers,
saying : “Ile.who clothes the naked shall
be clothed by God with tho green robes
of Paradise-' If a good man gives with
his right hand and conceals it from his
left he overcomes all things.” "While he
said these words, a man drew near and
cried: “Oh, Pro;Lot, my mother, Bad,
is dead; what is. the best alms lean
give away for her sonl ? ’
Malic met bethought him of the pant
ing heats of the desert, and said, “Dig a
Well for her, and give water to the
thirsty.” The man dug n well, and said.
“This is for my mother ” Ido not know
whether Mr. John met with
this old story, but he has just performed
a kind gentle action which has reminded
me of it. A little way from Croydon,
near London, there has been a dirty,
marshy little pond, which is now an ex
quisitely clear spring of running water.
Mr. Buskin has expended five hundred
pounds in making this, spring, which is
not far from the home of 3ns childhood,
and surrounding it with trees and flow
ers, named it, after lii3 mother, Marga
ret's Weil. On the neat tablet over it,
are inscribed the following words: “In
obedience to the Giver of Fife, of brooks
and fruits that feed it, of the peace that
ends it, may this well be kept sacred for
the soj vice of men, flocks and flowers,
and by kindness bo called Margaret’s
Well.” —Con way's let ter.
AN .ACT TO PREVENT UNLAWFUL TRAF- :
TIC IN FARM; FRODUOTS,
IN Tins STATE, AND TO PRESCRIBE -A PENALTY j
FOR THE SAME.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General j
Assembly of the State of Georgia, That
whenever ady person shall buy any
corn,'or cotton 'in' the seed, from per
sons residing on the land of another, as
tenant or laborer or such other person, or
from the age nt of such tenant or laborer,
when said tenant or laborer had no right
to sell, after notice of such disability fo
sell by such tenant or laborer ha? beeu
giving.in writing by the landlord, or em
ployer.’to such buyer, and the notice is
in fact the truth, then the person so buy
ing, after such notice, shall begniliy of a
misdemeanor, and on indiemenfc, or a
presentment and conviction, shall be
punished as prescribed in section -lb 10
6f the Code of 1873.
Sec. 2. Repeals co flic ting laws.
Ho waltzed out of a Liberty street
front door yesterday, followed by a
wasW*>ard and two bars of Babbitt’s
soap ; and as he straighened himself and
walked firmly street, ho re
marked: “A man must draw the line
! someuh re, or he can’t be boss of t’n-3
house ; and I’ll be hanged if I’ll pump
mwe than one barrel of water for no
washing, and there ain't no woman can
make me do it, unless she locks mo in.”
MRQ-.YOUE.-OWN BUSINESS.
. f C ( J a
Whemyoa* first begin life make two
resolutions, and stick to j hem; First, to
mincTypur own busincwF; second, ,to let
! the busfpass-of' ofc.:er people alone,
j The -fi.]€9ple who are always meddling
j with .tljtfs&ffairs of others are .a, nuisance,
and cfpt to be. legally - abated like any
other liuieafide.
r:\tber live near a' soap fat
b oiling totaldish men tor petroleum re
■ finery fchjm near one of thorn-.
If yoat belong to that class of nuis
ances you, for your life is an un
easy and Unsatisfactory one. You can
ueverjKhwppy, it is utr. Gy im-
you can ever find out
every t!p%-that is going on in your vi
cinity.* '
What fs,it to' you if your neighbor
does brriig. home a brown paper package
and a covered_ basket ! You will live
just as jkmg' if- you never know what
they coafaincd. It is none of your
business
Sappl&o Tlrs. B. has anew bonnet,
how do#; that concern you ? Your life,
liberty and sacred honor arc in no way
injured®" djm fact. Suppose she did
pay sl|jpfor it. The money did not
come cjfit of your pock t,, and comic,’
is. none of your business.
Whai||i' the minister does call on Ann
Eliza Sl&ih’twic'e'a week? Why ex
y o u|.biy;u’ over it? What if he is
courting-her ! Let him court away.
Suppose she has an awful temper and
powderwlier face, as you say she does,
lic-r temper will not trouble you.
Don’Sbn forever poking your nose
into ever‘body's business. If one young
lady “cd;s cut ’ another young lady it is
nothing huy-u. ! I : : : . ; I
to you ir-rany of your-folks.
Wind; If the;, do have three pairs of
stocking;. apfSce over at Squire Hill's.
Havcn'fphey-r; right to ? As long: as
you dorAdo-the washing it heo 1 not
tri atTdl. If Hill’s shirts are
three inf-iSes longer than common, don't
excite F<%rseli: about it. If you hadn’t
been wishing the clothesline you never
would lievo known anything about if,
and “vvpfte ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly
to kewriae.”
* i—- —; * <3S> . r — _
A SPECIMEN - FAMILY.
.-Mk£i.
Datix|ti celebrated —you hot your
mo did*-! As Y-Fj c vkd rr
of how the celebrated, take, for instance,
the Mi merlin family. Early in the
morning the old gent fell from a eccond
siory window while putting out a flag,
broke three flower-pots and a rib, und
lemonade, doctors, brandy, sky rockets
andvtho Declaration of Independence
were all tangled up around his house all
day. Then his wife fell down the back
stairs while hurrying to cant on Johnny
not to shoot crackers in the oven. She
didn’t break any bones, but she couldn’t,
hollar for liberty half as much as she
wanted to. The boy John held one fire
cracker in his mouth while he shot off
another on a.hitching post. Owing to
some misunderstanding, the two wen toff
together, and then John went off. He
didn’t say much with his mouth during
the rest of the day. A younger son
fooled around with some loose powder
in the morning, went out to cool hi:
blisters in the afternoon, and was brought
homo to supper with a hole in his leg.
Mr. HaiAerlin’s grownup daughter
didn't meet with any accident-of any
account. Someone hit her in the year
with a torpedo, and a strange boy fired
a shot gun so close to her other ear
that when any one now addresses her,
she puts her hand up and reum- ks :
“Hey? What ju say? Speak a little
louder, if you pleaso.”
It won’t boa month! efove the Hamer
lin family will be as good as new, and,
as he yesterday remarked :
“Why, its's worth SIO,OOO to leave a
patriotic record to posterity.”
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AN ABSENT-MIN DIN) BENEDICT. .
An exchange prints the fodowing : A
prominent business man, whose name we
will call Yates for short, had lived an c’d
bachelor, bn) jin ally yield to the charms
of a young lady about twenty years of
age, and submitted his neck to the mat
rimonial halter. In tho days of his
bachelorhood, the hero of our sketch li: and
occupied f. room over a business house,
but after his marriage he stopped at the
hotel. When be had been married about
two weeks, one evening his bride awaited
his coming until a late hour in the night.
Finally, filled with horrible misgivings,
and the dread of foul play, she sent
friends in search of the missing one.
All cearck proved unavailing, and the
friends, nearly distracted with doubts and
and dread, were about to give up, when
someone suggested, just for the assur
ance of the- thing, that his bachelor
quarters be searched After raising
quite a racket about the door a noise
was heard inside, and finally the missing
man made liis appearance. The fact
was the man had gone to his old quar
ters in a state of absentmindedness, and
had retired and gone to sleep, without
discovering his mistake.
The latest story of a 1 rave though
childlike [[form, faithful at. tho post of
i duty, comes from Olyo. Ho was tl e
son' of a village editor, and having
1 discovered a broken rail just outside
of the town, sat /or five hours on a
I fence near by waiting for the train,
1 so that he might be fii*t to, carry the
particulars of tho accident to his fa
-ther. Such devotion to tho paternal in
terests is very aiiegfing.
Vol. V.-aNTo. 14.
MISSISSIPPI ARITHMETIC.
List winter a negro in my employ.
sayskTcorrespondedt in Mississippi, con
.eluded to go to Mississippi and went
One day this winter I saw the .me no
gt _> approaching my house, the follow
ing colloquy look place:
‘•Well-’'""Hilliard?”
“Howdy, boss ?”
“So' you have got back have you ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“How do you like Mississippi ?”
and Well, boss. nint the land rich ?” Why
its rich enough to sprout niggers.”
• “Then what’s the matter? Didn't you
get enough to ea't?”
“0 yes, boss, 1 toll you I didn’t like
the Mississippi arithmetic, for the very
day I got to Aberdeen, a white man
hired me for half Um. cotton and one
third the corn 1 could make. I was to
pay him for what ho furnished me.
Mo and Abner and John, my two boys,
got plenty to eat; and -thought wo was
doing bully—for we made 15 bales of
cotton and 500 bushels of corn, and
other truck according. When we got
the,crop ail githeret, Mr. Williams,
the man- we worked with, call mo up
and said: Well Hilliard, 1 have let you
have 200 pounds of moat. I ivill charge
you 23 cents a pound for that. I let
you have so much meal. I charge you
two dollars a bush* 1 for that. I let } >u
have so many plugs of tobacco. I will
charge you forty cents a plug for that,
and so on.
“And bless the Lord, that white man
sot down w.d pulled out his bock and
pencil and commenced making figgers.
1 heard him say :
“Ought's or ought and nin As or nine,
and all the .corn and cotton's mine:
“That's tho reason boss,-I d'd-.i't l : k -
Mississippi aritbem'otio,- and that’s elm
reason I came back to old Alabam.”
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A REBUKE.
The following is related of the late
Walter T. Colquitt, one of Georgia's
greatest.men in* his day! He was a
strong Methodist, fervent in prayer and
zealous in the class meeting, but ho
would frolic with tho children.
On one occasion he was found by his
: prr siding elder'playing marbles with his
boys. •Ho was a proficient:-in the game,
Mid the boys iili delighted to' get him
.. is 1k..:, .id. p; esiding- rider was
one of the straight faced, long-faced
kind,who “crucified the fio-h,” in every
possible way, and who believed that
p'ayihg marbles was a great sin. Tho
elder, whose name we believed was
Hodges, rebuked Mr. Colquitt for his
course, but tho great lawyer kept on
with 'his game. Finally Mr. Hodges
said, “Brother Colquitt, I fear that I
shall have tc bear witness against you
at tho great court of high Heaven,” and
turned to go off, when Colquitt said,
‘ hold, on a moment, parson, just step
into ray law office, and 1 will take down
youi- interrogatories in the case, for
fear you might r.ct be at the court. ’
♦
DYSPEPSIA.
A correspondent of a Boston paper
offers a remedy for a very distressing
complaint as sot forth below. It is giv
en for what it is worth : Will you please
insert for the benefit of those who suffer
from dyspepsia or indigestion that four
tabls spoonsful of limo water, mixed with
a glass of cow’s milk, will cure tho worst
form of the above distressing disease in
a few days. I know by experience, be
ing a sufferer for threo years. The first
dose acted like magic, and I have felt
like a new-born man ever since.
Vance on Billy Smith. “They
tell me,” said Vance, “that Smith
charged last night that I ran away
from Raleigh on a barbacked mule.
Wei), I confess I did leave, but I left
on a horse and retired in good order.
Smith was in Johnston and had lost his
horn, and couldn’t got liis dogs up, and
what was I to do but run for it ? There
was no one to signal the one ny sap
pi oich." [Roars of laughter.]-
“Shall I hit him again, or lot him
alone?”
“Give it to him,” yelled the crowd.
“No, I can’t do it, gentleman. Bill
Smith was my light hand man during
the was. He was the fiercest officer
after conscripts and deserters I had, and
helped me weed out the red strings. No,
I can’t do it. T feel like the Irishman
when he killed his pet pig and held it
up by the tail while his son held the
axe to knock it in the head, “Kill ’im
ai.-.y, b’jarlts, ho feels nigh to me.”
. ' * [Raleigh News
“Have you children ? ’ demanded a
house renter. “Yes,” replied the other,
solemnly, “six—all in tho cemetery.”
“Better there than here,” said the land
lord, consolingly, and proceeded to ex
ecute the desired lease. In duo time
the children returned from the cemetery,
whither th -y had been sent to have a
nice play, but it was tco late to annul
t; o contract.
An exchange wants ladies to take off
their hats in church, but as long as half
the ladies go to church, for- the purpose
of displaying their hats, it is hardly pos
sible that the suggestion will be adopted
—unless a idass case is placed alongside
of the pnlpfe for their accommodation,
and the name of the owner is prominent
ly affixed to each hat. <
All efforts to make hay by gaslight
have failed ; hut it was discovered that
wild cats can be sown under its cheerful
rays.
AGItICULTUIUL.
GARNERED IOR THE GAZETTE.
By D. A. M.
Cross Breeding of Grain.— lff this ago.,
of enterprise and thought, when science
s c is ring so"much light upon the opera
tions of men, and when the study of tho
best and mest profitable modoi of per
forming the work of the world is becom
ing more essentially necessary to tho
production of successful results, tho
farmer is especially called upon to be
stow industrious thought as well as
laborious labor upon the work which ho
is daily called upon to perform. It is
not enough that he should know that
seeds cast upon tiie earth will germinate,
grow, ripen, and produce fruit, but that
his hand, which?guides, 'aids, and stimu
lates this natural process, should itself
be guided by the knowledge of the na
tnre of tho seed itself, how it gei minutes,
how it grows, how it ripens, and how
and why it produces fruit. This knowl
edge will enable him to givo a right di
rection to the effort and labor which ho
bestows upon it, in order to obtain tho
most profitable results. The thought
and conviction that frequent plowing
j and stirring of tho soil is important to
I its fertility, because the earth itself is a
set of mouths and lungs which feed
upon tho natural elements of the air,
and imbibe its moisture and light and
heat, induces him to the performance of
the‘work in tho promotion of his own
interest. That seeds are characterized by
good and bad is a'thought which should
always lead to a careful selection, for as
like will, throughout all nature, produce
like, so will the hopes or fears of tho
farmer bo realized by tho character of
the seeds he sows or the tree he plants.
A small and shriveled grain of wheat, ■
•when sown, produce a weak and unheal
thy stock, and a corresponding failuro of
product, while a plump, bright grain
will exhibit its healthy and vigorous
growth and abundant product. It is
certainly true that many of the maxims
of farmers, upon which they thought-
U-M-ly base their action, have no founda
tion m sound reasoning. That to change
seed from one kind of soil to another
will produce a profitable result is a max
im of almost universal acceptation, nor
does the'farmer stop to reason with him
self as to its soundness or fallacy.
Hero is the point at which farmers fail
to bring into requisition their own pow
' ers of reflection., or even to use the evi
dence of their own practical experience.
They do not stop to inquire as t'o tho
effect of removing seed from a soil and
climate .to which it has been naturalized
and, adapted, to that to which it is not
natural and to which it has not been ac
customed ; and they fail to remember
that when they go abroad for seed, and
pay a higher price for it, it is to obtain a
quality better than their own, and com
mensurate with- the price they pay for it,
and that herein lies its superiority; that
!‘-it 'jummntra to nolLing un/iu ILewa. * *—
perfect mode of selection.
Another maxim which farmers gener
ally accept as an axiom is, that by sow
ing wheats of different qualities togeth-
that they will so hybridize as to pro
duce a mixed breed ; while even a little
observation would teach them the error
of this conclusion, and that each grain
produces its own like, and that really no
hybridization takes place at all, and that
tiro mixture of seed produces the unmit
igated evil of mixing wheat which per
haps ripen at different periods, or per
haps require different treatment when
they come to be reduced to Hour.
A little study of the nature of plants
would scorn to bo necessaiy to a knowl
edge of the proper treatment during
their growth. ' Of the flowers of plants
some are male and some female. In
some the staminate and pistillate flowers
occupy different parts of the same plants,
as in Indian corn. In the larger num
ber of plants the male and female or
gans mature at the same time in tlio
same flower ; and of these some are sub
ject to self-fertilization, and others to
cross fertilization. Such peas,
beans, wheat, and barley have the male
and female organs within themselves,
and are not subject to cross-fertilization,
and therefore it is that wheats do not
mix their qualities at a 1 ! by being plant
ed together; and as it is objectionable
for there reasons, it should never be done.
The leaf or flower which protrudes from
the glume of wheat is neither an anther,
a pistil, nor a stamen, nor neither emits
nor receives the fertilizing pollen.
Land Plaster for Potatoes —Aston
ishing results are obtained from plaster,
by dusting the vines with it as soon
■ s they are fairly through the soil ;
again immediately after the last plowing
and hoeing and at intervals through
the whole growing season. The first
application may bo light, the second
heavier, and after that more bountiful,
gay two hundred pounds to the aero.
The action of plaster is not easily ex
plained, but the results are undoubtedly
benelicial, particularly in season of ex
treme drought. It renders plants less
palatable to insects, and appears to bo
fatal to many of the fungi family. The
vines retain a bright, lively green color,
and the tubers continue swelling until
growth is stopped by the frost; besides,
potatoes thus grown are so sound and
free from disease as to be easily kept for
spring market, without loss by rot. Mr.
Compton has seen a field, all of the same
soil, all prepared alike, and all planted
with the same variety, at the same time,
on one-half of which, that had received
no plaster, the yield was but sixty bush
els per acre, and many rotton; while the
other half, to which plaster had been ap
plied in the manner above described, _
yielded three hundred and sixty bushels
per acre, and not an unsound one among
them. *
Loss of Ammonia, by exposure. —ln a
recent experiment lien manure allowed
to dry slowly in the air lost in one
month five-sixths of its ammonia, indi
cating the value of applications of
gypsum or other preventives of waste,
and tbo difference which is likely to,
exist between the fresh and commercial 4
1 article.