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The Cherokee Georgian.
CcLXLtOZI, Oct-
"WEDNESDAY, - - AUGUST 25, 1875.
Batter •making in Winter.
When a large majority of persons en
gaged in any business follow a certain
plan, it is fair to assume that this plan is
the best one under all the circumstances.
A large majority of farmers of the North
west have their cows calve in the spring,
and make butter up to mid-winter. The
presumption is that this is the best w r ay,
but there are certainly strong arguments
against this plan. We refer only to the
case of 'lie ‘average farmer,’ who does not
make dairying a leading pursuit, and who
has not the best of conveniences to sell it
about as fast as it is made.
The plan in question gives the largest
product at the time when butter is lowest,
and requires the milking of the cows and
the care of the butter and milk during the
busiest and hottest time of the year, when
the flies are most troublesome, and the
cows most uncomfortable. Yet it also re
quires milking through at least half the
winter, with a small product.
It seems to us that better results would
follow having cows calve in early fall, in
September, for instance. This would give
& good flow of milk during much of the
time when butter commands the highest
price. The cows, of course, would require
good food and care —but they require some
attention in any event, and under the com
mon plan they are giving a little milk dur
ing part of the winter. With comfortable
quarters and good food, the yield of butter
need not fall much below that obtained
from grass, While* the price will be much
higher. Some extra trouble is required to
make good butter in winter, but this trouble
is not greatly increased by increasing the
quantity made. In the spring, the flow of
milk can be revived when the cows are
turned on grass, and then when the hot
weather, and the busy season of haying
and small-grain harvesting arc connng on,
and prices are so low that there is little or
no profit in selling butter, the cows can be
dried off and allowed to rest during the
hot season.
For those who can conveniently pack
and hold the butter, this plan has fewer ad
vantages, but for very many, the evidence,
both on general principles and from the
experience of some who have tried it, is
very strong that its adoption would be de
sirable.
Sheep on the Farm.
Sheep are undervalued by the mass of
landholders as a means of keeping up the
fertility of the soil and putting money into
the pockets of fanners. The moment one
begins to talk of sheep husbandry, the
listener or-reader begins to look for wool
quotations —as if wool were all that yields
profit from sheep. One might as well look
for wheat quotations alone when there is
talk about the profit of farming.
Sheep on a farm yield both wool and
mutton. They multiply with great rapidi
ty. They are the best of farm scavengers,
cleaning a field as no other class of animals
will. They give back to the farm more in
proportion to what they take from it than
any other animal, and distribute it better
with a view to the future fertility of the
soil. Provo this? There is no need of
proof to those who have kept sheep, and
know their habits and the profits they
yield. To prove it to those who have not
the experience, it is necessary they should
try the experiment, or accept the testimony
of an experienced shepherd.
But the live stock of a farm should not,
necessarily, be sheep exclusively. Cattle,
horses, swine, have their respective places
in farm economy. I low many of each to
keep, is a question that locality, character
of markets, adaptation of soil, predisposi
tion, taste and skill of the husbandman,
‘ must decide. But one thing ought not to
be forgotten: that the more, stock a man
keeps on his farm, the more grass and
grain it ought to, and, if properly managed,
will grow. The rates of increase will cor
respond with the business tact, technical
and practical know!' dge, and skill of the
husbandman.—[New York World.
Turning Points fa Physical Life.
From 25 to 35 is the time for nil the en
joyment of man’s best powers, when phys
ical vigor is ever at its highest. Daring the
last half of th is deca lea mm shoal I be
assiduous to construct a system of philoso
phy by which to rule his lite, and to con
struct a chain cf habits intelligently, so that
they should uot sit too tightly upon him.
yet cautiously so that he should not be their
slave nor 100 easily east them aside. The
exact proportion ot physical ant intellectual
Strength should be gauged, and the consti
tutional weakness oi, in other words, the
disease toward which a tendency exists,
should be ascer! fined. Preserve, ii possible,
the absolute necessity fm excteU , and have
your place ot business two or three miles
away, over which let nothing tempt you to
an omnibus or carriage s ive rai l. The day
on which a m *dical in vi gives up riding to
see hh patients, or the use ot his own legs
to see his patients in town, and takes to a
close brougham, fixes the date when seilen.
tnry diseases are set up—while if to utilize
hb leisure, he reads as he drives, his eye*,
sight beonnes seri ufiy affected. From 35
to 45, a man should tvrmge with h>s food,
and avoid hypochondria. He car uot, it is
true, change his diathesis, but ho cm man
age it The habitant character of food, no
less than its quantity. »■ giiw to tell whether
it cliangvs the svstetn with tat. muscle, siu
evr, filler. «>r whatever r .nicies. From 45
lofij, the r « - eive p »Wvfssh mhl bo en
courage I ; ,t»•: develop d.
Tbnv i nothin • likcwoit l > keep an ukl
horse sound. Sporting dogs should be
thin, but obesity will set in. Anxiety ought
. to be starved off, hope encouraged, sordid
cares avoided. If a grief exists, it should
not be brooded over, but talked over with a
friend, ganged, estimated at its worst, and
dismissed to absorb itself. It a man at this
tune is much occupied out doors, and lives
wholesomely and temperately, be is pretty
[ sure to be clear of sedentary disease,
j Rheumatism, coughs, and inflammatory
diseases, arising from exposure to wet or
’ cold, a man ot 45 will have to contend with,
but his blood will be in a condition for the
> struggle. Moderate exposure to hardships
of this kind, never naimed man yet.
» An Ohio Narrow-Gauge Experiment.
t The Painesville and Youngstown narrow
, gauge railroad, in Ohio, is nearly completed
t to the latter place, and has already begun
transporting coal to its northern terminus
at Fairport, on Lake Erie. It will soon be
in full operation, and the test it will afford
[ of the relative economy of the three-feet
, and ordinary gauges will be watched with
' interest. The line is about sixty miles
, long, and runs nearly a little west of north
from Youngstown to the lake. It will have
, in the coal traffic the active competition of
three roads of the usual gauge of five feet.
I According to the claims os its officers, the
! advantage of the narrow gauge is, that on
, a car weighing only four tons it can carry
j eight tons of coal, while the five-feet-gauge
roads transport only ten tons on a car
. weighing ten. Thus the narrow-gauge
' g -»s pay for four tons as freight on each
car which its competitors must haul for
nothing in the shape of rolling stock. The
, cost of building the line was about two
hundred thousand dollars, probably one
fourth less than a wide-guage road would
L have cost. There is not much saving in
, operating expenses, as it takes just as many
, hands to run a narrow train as a wide one.
, Considerable saving is effected, however,
f in the equipment. As a passenger road,
, the line answers all the requirements of
the country it traverses. Its cars are com
fortable, and, as soon as the road-bed be
comes firm, the trains will inn with as
' ' much steadiness as on other roads.
,! Foreign Capital in Georgia.—The
! Augusta (jonstitutionalist discusses the ques
tion why foreign capital does not seek an
. I investment in Georgia, and thinks that it is
j largely due to the fict that the laws are
' | uncertain in their duration, and changeable
. I by variant constructions of the courts —
particularly the Supreme court, which has
j more business before it than the present
I force of the court can properly attend to.
jII says of the laws themselves: ‘Our laws
j. ■ are not honest; they arc not certain; they
I are not business like up to the age. The
' ' very definition of law is, that it is a rule of
’ action ; but what sort of a rule can be con
-5 , etructed out of the interminable contradic
' tions and distinctions which
I disgrace our legislation and make our courts
pretty much so many Turkish divans,
‘ where each Cadi does as seems good in his
s own eyes? While such a state of things
exists, we can not hope for, and do not de
serve, the introduction of foreign capital.
True, we give it the same measure of pro
’ tection that we have ourselves, and this
’ equality is the only bright spot in a dark
1 picture ; but it is a reflection on our capaci
-1 ty for self-government that all our internal
ndustries are regulated not by law, but
[ legal chance.”
1 The Greatest Crop in the World. —
The hay crop of the United States for the
: last year is reported to have been over
1 27,000,000 tons cured. This, at twenty
dollars per ton, is about $500,000,000, and
does not include what was eaten but not
> cured. The live stock of the United States
, was worth $1,525,000,000. These animals
’ had to get their living out of grass. The
’ value of animals slaughtered for food in
that year was $309,000,000. The butter
’ crop was $511,000,000. This all came from
> grass. There were produced 335,000,000
’ gallons of milk, worth $25,000,000. This,
1 Loo, came from grass. Next, 100,000,000
I pounds of wool, at $25,000,000. This got
• its living from grass. Next, 58,000,000
pounds of cheese, worth $5 0)0,000. Put
• all these items together, and the grass prod
’ uct of 1874 of the United States was no
less than $1,262,000,000. The total value
of all agricultural products iu the United
: States was $2,447,538,655. In other words,
. 1 the grass crop of the United States can
pay off the national debt in two years.
A Big Corn Farm.— A correspondent of
an agricultural paper stales that Mr. M. L.
S illivant, a farmer in Central Illinois, was
, at the time of writing preparing to plant
' his corn. His men were ploughing five
’ | Hundred acres a day, using twq hundred
_ | and fifty teams, and ho had then ready
about twelve thousand acres. Mr. Sulli-
: vant is one of the larg st ami most sys
' tomatic farmers in the United States, who
| made a present to a railway company of
’ I twenty-eight thousand dollars, to construct
'■ an iron road to and acros u i- plantation of
1 some forty th,>.:<and ■ r < . Uc emigrated
! from tl.e Scioto bot'.uns, near Columbus,
where, like many other Ohio farmers, he
' learnt the art of raising corn at a small
' cost to the producer. At the time of the
' organ z.atiou of the United States Agricul-
I tural society he was a distinguished Ohio
firmer, yet not unwilling to sell a large
estate at one hundred dollars per acre to
' lav the foundation of a much broader one
on the rich prairies of Central Illinois, at
the Government price for Isn i.
A man slid down a pillar outside the La
clede U »td, St. L mis, in his night shirt, at
t’Acting a Urge and amused assembly. He
was sure that several rattksaakes were
writhing down after him,and that a monkey
was sitting on bls back am! making faces.
IHe is opi»se.! to the Tempe.ance move-1
Sad But True.
How often some rude circumstance de
stroys, in a single moment, a friendship
that has been nurtured for years. There
was one who was our playmate in the
bright long ago. Together we played upon
the village square, shared our lunch with
one another, smoked in unison our first
cigar, and groaned in the same measure
throughout the subsequent paroxysms. The
sea of life cast a wave upon our playground,
and swept us from the embrace of our bo}'
companion. But wherever we have been
tossed, iu sunshine and in stormy weather,
we have fondly borne in our heart of hearts
the image of our boyish playmate. We have
cherished his memory as a sacred thing, and
kept it green and bright to gladden our eyes
in weary moments. Had he come to us any
time, ragged and hungry, we would hkve
clothed and fed him, would have taken
him in our arms and thanked heaven for
the opportunity of proving our love.
Monday he came, but oh, how different
from what we could have wished. All
smiles and store clothes, he approached our
desk, and as our heart went joyfully out to
meet him, he pulled forth a canvassing
book, and spoke : ‘I am agent 4br the sale
of that wonderful work, “Ten Nights in a
Bed-room, or the Mysteries of a Chicago
Boarding-house.” ’ A book agent I We
sank back m our seat and engaged in sad
retrospection, while the friend of our child
hood, now changed to the friend of our
manhood, enlarged upon the merits of hi>
infernal book. His words passed over our
mind like a mighty torrent, and swept
away every vestige of th at friendship we so
long had cherished for him. When he fin
ished, winding up with the hope that, for
the sake of old times, we would favor him
with our name, we arose, seized him, and
flung him through the window. He struck
upon the picket fence below, and his man
gled body now sways upon the creaking
pickets, a ghastly warning to those who
would trifle with the heart’s best affections.
—[Brunswicker.
Immigration.—Colonel Daniel Dennet,
in a newspaper article on immigration, ex
presses the following hopeful views: ‘ln
spite of the predictions of politicians, bad
State governments, high taxes, negro rule,
‘kuklux’ and bandits,’ the immigrants are
preparing to enter the South. The seven
hundred thousand square miles of southern
territory yet uncultivated will be, in a
great measure, settled up by industrious
farmers from other lands. The vast min
eral resources of the South will be turned
to valuable account Our beautiful South
is not doomed to be either Africanized, or
utterly destroyed by demagogues, or al
lowed to go back into a wilderness state
Its future will be more glorious than its
past. It will yet be the garden spot, the
glory and pride of this continent. It will
be prosperous and rich in due timje, or the
writer does not truly understand the signs
of the times.’
Hadn’t Toie. —A citizen of Vicksburg
who wanted a few hours’ work done about
his yard the other day accosted a col
ored man and inquired if he would like the
job.
‘l’d like to do it, but, I haven’t time, was
the answer.’
‘Why, you don’t seem to bo doing any
thing.’
‘I don’t, eh! Well, now, I’ze gwine a
fishin’ to-day. To-morrow I’ze gwine obter
de river. Next day I’ze gwine a-huntin’.
Next day I’ze got to get my bu'tes fixed.
Next day I’ze gwine to mend de table, and
de Lawd only knows how I’ze gwine to get
flew de week unless I hire a man to help
me.’
Losing His Brains.—Somewhere about
the 4th of July a Newburyport man was
the victim of a singular coincidence.
While passing along the street a l>oy ex
ploded a common cracker just behind him,
while at the same instant a roltcn banana,
thrown from a neighboring fruit store,
struck him on the back of the hea l. lie at
once screamed, “I’m shot! I’m shotand,
taking a handful of the decayed fruit from
his head, exhibited it to a horror stricken
bystander as a sp' cimen of his brains. A
great crowd assembled, and a doctor was
called, who soon explained the matter to
the satisfaction of all.
Salt Lake City is in a valley surrounded
on all sides by precipitous mountains. I
should judge, it has 20,000 inhabitants and
is admirably built and well laid out. Be
tween every street and side-walk is a stream
of clear water brought down from the
mountains, and from these branches the
people gel their water supplies. Salt Labe
is a very large body, of water, a few miles
from the city. Il is perhaps one hundred
miles long ami thirty or forty miles wide.
The lake has no visible outlet. The waters
are very salty and everything around is per
fectly dea I. A mote dreary looking place
could not be imagined.—[Ex.
What was in the Programme.—A
colored man employed as a deck band on a
propeller was rushing around tow: yester
day. inquiring where the polls v. re.
‘Polls? Pulls?’ repeated aci I izxn. ‘Why,
there’s no election going on now !’
‘There haiu’t?’
‘No, sir.’
The man stood for a moment, looking
greatly disappointed, and then turned to
the river with the remark:
* And now de programme is to find dat
sleek young man who said dcy was paying
six dollars apiece fur votes!’—[Detroit
Free Press.
‘After al],’ says an old doctor, ‘there arc
only two kinds of disease—the one of which
you d e, an I the other of which you don’t?
Mr. Lewis of Detroit, says of his forth
c jming book tliat “it is highly rveommeud
cl by all h.; rc.a'.tvc.. ’
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