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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.. ’ Brewster, Sharp &Dowda, fuBLWBM cat THE CHEBOXSB ttBORGIAN, Real Estate Agents, Examine Titles, TAXES, FURNISH ABSTRACTS, Make OoUcetionß, ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL BUSI NESS IN OUR LIKE. ovrtes or THE CHE ROE EE GEORGIAN, CANTON-, GEORGIA. THE CHEROKEE GEORGIAN, A Weekly Newspaper, PUBLISHED AT GATsTOA, GEORGIA, And Devoted to the Interests of Cherokee Georgia. TTTZE G-ZEOZRG-I-ATISr W ill contain, from time to time, the Latest News, and will give its readera an interesting variety of LITERARY, MORAL, AGRICULTURAL, EDUCATION AL, TEMPERANCE AND POLITICAL, READING MATTER. It is a Home Enterprise, and every citizen in Cherokee and adjoin ing counties should give it his encouragement and support. Thk. Georgian will be AN EXCELLENT ADVERTISING- MEDIUM, and merchants and others, who wish to secure the vast trade from the mountain counties, would do well to avail themselves of tho advantages which it offers. Jo"b AVodR of vVll Kinds Will be executed at The Georgian office, in the neatest style and on: the most liberal terms. BARTER of all kinds taken for Job Work and subscriptions. TERMS OF TT-YIM CAmOFIGf One Year, Eight Months * Four Months A liberal discount will bo made to clubs. BREWSTER & SHARP, Proprietors. 3. 0. DOWDA, Business Manager. The Greatest Medical Dt-scoverv OF THE Nineteenth Century. HmaiAht, Bbactv and lIAI’PINRm Rmtombd TO MoDIMUr Dr. J. Bradfield’s Woman’* FEMALE REGULATOR. BEST FRIEND. RE AD I RIG? O I RE AD I It is well known to doctors and women tb it the latter are subject to numerous dis en/e* peculiar to their sex. such as Suppression ot the Menses, Whites, Painful Monthly Periods Rheumatism of the B<ck and Womb, Irregular Menstruation, Hemorrhage er Eloessive “Flow,” and Prolapsus Uteri, or Falling ol the Womb. The Proleseion has, in vain, for many yeans, sought diligently for s-nue remedy that would enable them ta treat this disease with succv.-s At last that remedy has l>een discovered, by one of the most skillful physicians in the State of Georgia. The remedy is t~st jE3ra.clflelcL , '£ : ' iForiYalo Regulator. o—O—o Blooming in al! Her Pristine Beauty, Strength and Elasticity—Tried BoHor nf ter Doctor. Rutledge, Ga., February 16th, 1871, This is to certify that my wife was an invalid for six years. Had disease of th* womb, attended with headache, weight «n the lower part of the back; suffered from lan guor, exhaustion and nervousness, loss of appetite aud flesh. Site had become so «x --hausied and weak, her friends were apprehensive she would never get well. I tried doctor after doctor, and many patent medicine —had despaired of the improvement when, fortunately, she commence d tak'ng DR. BRADFIELD'S ITKMALK REGULA TOR. She is now well; and three ot four bottles cured her. Improved in health, sp jierite and flesh, she is blooming in all her pristine lieuity, strength and elasticity. I re gard you as her saviour from the dark portals of death, and my bejcefacTO*. May your shadow never grow less, and you never bcCotna weary in well doing. aug26-ly JOHN SHARP Thankful for the very flattering reception the FEMALE REGULATOR has mst with from all portions of the country, the Proprietor begs leave to announce that i»* has largely facreased his manufacturing facilities, and hopo that before very long be will lie able to place within the reach of ev<-rv suffering woman this, the greatest boon to her sex Price, $1.50 per Bottle, Fur sale by all Druggists in ths United States. L. 11. BRADFIELD, Proprietor, Atlanta, Georgia-