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Cherokee Georgian.
A LEGEND OF HUSBANDRY.
tea* BY J. C. CLARK.
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.Elkan ah (styled the Noble), ere he died,
to his couch his grieving sons and
■«< '"said:
“ “Soon I Shall rest among the quiet dead;
Hear now my words, and I rest satisfied.
Would that ye all to bless the world might
» jive!.
'True riches are not measured by the
<£% purse;
Jehovah kindly lightens Eden’s curse,
And favors such as labor, love, and give.
These lands, the home of generations past,,
Shall well suffice for all who here abide
To till the soil, and thus their meat pro
vide ;
Rich gains ate sure while stiength and pa-
♦ ’twucc-last. • * 1 * A
What little wealth besides I have in store,
To those who choose life’s noisier walks
to tread
In equal portions be distributed.
With dilicence, what need have ye of
more?” oww
He bade them flee temptation, and be led
In wisdom’s ways; then vainly strove to
make
One more request—“ This dying counsel
take—”
But that was all. Elkanah’s soul had fled.
To honest worth the last sad rites were
paid
Then to his chosen field each' brother
turned.
The elder three the patriarch’s counsel
sphiWettJ* •* • It
While only one his parting words obeyed.
The first, ambitious for a statesman’s fame,
Sought public honors—popular applause.
That .height once reached, he framed op
pressive laws,
And fell MG th but a tyrant’s hated name.
Another, not content to work and wait
To build his fortune by industrious zeal,
By little learned in largest things to
steals
And died disgraced, imprisoned by the
state.
The third a merchant’s wearing duties
sought,
Neglected health and home, nor lived at
ease.
His vessels foundered in the stormy seas,
And care, at middle life, his ruin wrought.
The last and noblest son his father’s charge
Received and treasured to its full extent;
With slower gain he gladly proved con
tent.
‘‘Time makes the tender Sapling strong and
great.” •
While thus his life progressed, his joys en
larged ;
His well-tilled fields the products
hore; .
(Nor did the stranger perish by his door;)
With weighty .public trusts hie sons were
cliargtd.y
lie livpd with nature’s laws in strict accord;
When fourscore years had bleached his
thinning locks
lie walked his fields and fed his trusting
flocks—
A man of wealth, and every whit a lord.
Above the honored mound, encased with
srtd,
Wheie many years his noble form has
slept,
His childien’s children long this legend
kept:
“Who-tills the soil is surelv blest of God.”
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Protection of Stock in Winter.
“A righteous man is merciful unto his
beast,” snith the Bible. One of the great
est sins of the Southern farmer is his neg
lect of his cattle. We hardly know a tanner
in all the South who provides adequate
shelter for his cattle during the winter and
the chilling rains and cutting winds of
spring. Aitor piovidtaft, a stable for bis
horse* and mnles, with perhaps a shed for
his milk cows, the res', of the stock are al
lowed to shift for themselves by
such protection as the lee side of a barn,
crib, or outhouse can aflbid them. A good
farmer should take pride in his stock of
every kind, and they can neither look well
nor do well if e.4|HWd ? <tWbtiintly to severe
weather in any climate. Every animal
should have its own shelter in this southern
climate —sheep, hogs, cows, calves, oxen,
and out-cattle, as well as horses and mules.
It is often the case that enough fine ani
mals are lost in a single spring to pay twice
over for tltfj erecliotj of good ahelteis,
which would last thirty years.
This climate is quite as fatal to cattle as
more northerly climates. If cattle are fed,
they become inured to 'he cold of the North,
where the temperature is not so variable
and the changes not so violent as in the
South. The sudden northers of Texas
slaughter thousa«U*of entile every yeai,
and the herdsmen and cattle raisers are be
ginning to learn the value of shelters.
Cattle on the prairies, if they can have
their way, strive to get to shelters of tim
ber before a norther comes on, as their in
stinct, or perhaps natural reason, forewarns
theHR Wm tbefr less sagacious
human masters pievent them from set king
shelter, and they died by the whohsalc.
No good faimer should allow another
winter to come on Without having ample
shelter for all his stock.—[Louisiana Co
operativ«*Ne*e.
USEFUL Table. —The following table of
weights and measuies will be found very
useftil, and should be preserved :
H”-/<('». Z 2»«.
Wheat I Blue grass set-d.. .14
fihclled . .56 f li fCkwheat 52
Gora in the ear.. .7u i D».c«l apptes 34
Peafc.. ’. .*..... . fle ’ Di ie I pesu in5....38
Oaks... 50
8ar1ey..........17 , Jir-mc Oba!. .■■. .£8
Irish potato^... .68 Ma1t...... 40
Swet'fc poi <<•><;».,. ( ikau 10
- .
('■•star .. 46p l?>t i-bair.. ...' .8
< (Over ..'•<♦ ’... ( ; 0" Vns’-fi-kiM litre.. . B’>
Too. • a d.,, .. 46 j; Corti meat...... 47
-«* I '»> 54
.Ist. at,... .. i . .. ..UC p l . •.•. • o
The Largest Farm in the World,
Mr. George Grant, of Victoria colony.
Kansas, is the owner of the l:irg< st farm in
the world, wiih the exception, perhai s, of
that of the Duke of Sutherland, whose
broad acres consist largely of hill and
heather. Mr. Grant’s domain covers about
576,000 acres in the heart of Kansas, about
290 miles west of Kansas City to Fort
Hays, the center of the tract. His aim is
to establish a model farm, for which great
credit is due him, as well as for his success
ful efforts in introducing imported stock,
and showing the results in crossing import
ed with native stock, and also the best
methods of sheltering and feeding cattle in
the winter. Mr. Grant is going back to
Europe in a few weeks to arrange for the
bringing out of more people, and a large
portion of high-bred stock, which he will
exhibit at the Centennial, with the inten
tion ultimately of shipping to Victoria.
Mr. Grant states that one herd of eighty
one short-horns of the Booth strain sold
five weeks ago, at the sale of the late Mr.
Torrs’s property in England, at an average
price, from young to old, of $3,C00. They
were of the same family that he has at
Victoria, and many of the animals were
bought for America.
Mr.. Grant’s colony has largely swelled
this season by immigrants, and another En
glish company has just bought 40,000 acies
adjoining the Victoria colony. One of the
New York Gunthers has started with 5,000
acres, and Mr. Dickinson of St. Louis has
bought two miles square. Mr. Giant says
he is more than satisfied with the produce
of his crops this season. The rains have
been abundant, but last year the grasshop
pers swept everything.
One field of eighty acres of Hungarian
grass on bis farm has produced 776 tons of
fodder and 5,114 bushels of seed, giving a
profit of 500 per cent, on the cost of put
ting in the seed. He put in 300 acres of
alfalfa, a kind of fodder much used in Cali
fornia. The land will grow three crops of
this grass in a year, at the rate of six tons
to the acre, but it affects a deep, dry soil.
Mr. Giant has increased his flock of sheep
to 16,000, and has 1,000 cows. In less than
five years he expects to increase his sheep
to 100,000. His wool alone, this season,
biovght $11,700 in Boston, at 33 cents per
pound. Sheep farming is evidently des
tmed to be a profitable business in Kansas.
What will Make Hens Lay.
Put two or more quarts of water in a
kettle, add one large seed pepper and two
small ones, then put the kettle over the
fire. When the water boils, stir in coarse
ground Indian meal until you make a thick
mush. Let it cook an hour or more. Feed
hot. Horse radish chopped fine and stii red
into the mush has been found to produce
good lesults. Four weeks ago we com
menced feeding our hens with mush as pre
pared by the above directions, and for the
result we are getting from five to ten eggs
per day, when, previous to feeding, we bad
not an egg for a long time. We hear a
great deal of comp’aint from other people
about not getting eggs. Toallwerecom
mend cooked food fid hot. Boiled apples
seasoned wi’h red pepper, or boiled pota
toes seasoned with horse radish, are good
feed, and much better than uncooked corn.
Corn, when fed by itself, has a tendency to
fatten hens instead of producing the more
profitable egg-laying. A spoonful of sul
phur stirred into their feed occasionally
will rid them of vermin and tone up their
systems. This is especially good for young
chickens or turkeys. Out of ten chickens
hatched the last of November we lost but
one. They were fed on cooked feed most
ly, and grew finely.
Smail Farmers—We have often had
occasion to call attention to the fact that
those we are accustomed to call “small
fanners” are generally the most prosperous
fanners in the South. They are not so be
cause small farms and very limited opera
tions are, in themselves, best, but because
these farmets are working in harmony with
their circumstances. They have acct pted
the situation, and put their own hands to
the plow. Having small capital, and often
very limited knowledge and skill, they go
safely, as they see the wav clearly before
them. The larger planter, on the contrary,
often without any capital at all of his own,
attempts on borrowed money (at fear f ul y
high rates of interest) to conduct large op
erations, without closely counting the cost
or the risks, and fails, as any sound-minded
man, not infatuated with cotton, would see
that he must. This docs not prove that
small fa'ms and small rarming are neces
sarily most profitable, but that our opera
tions, both as to method and to extent,
must correspond with our capital and other
circumstances. —[Gainesville Eagle,
Lnnj improves the quality of any grain
crop grewi g on land to which it is ap
plied. The gra ns have thinner skin, me
heavier, and give more flour. The flour is
said to be richer in gluten, but there is
much difference of opinion on the subject.
It is said to hasten the ripening of wheat,
but our experience is quite different on this
point, as we have known it to delay the
ripening of grain crops. A more marked
improvement is produced in both the quan
tity and quality of the spring-sown than of
the winter-sown crops. Il hardens the
straw of cereals, and prevents it from fall
ing down under the weight of the ear.
Potatoes, turnips, peas, beans, mpe, colza,
an.l all the tribe, are gtcatly im
me. On.fl n alone it i« inf Ul i- ■
ons, diminishing the strength ol the fiber.
Hence, in Bdgiuni flax is not grown on
limed land unbl -even years alter the lime
has been applied.
■»'» - ■ ■&-
Pvt off repentance t.ll to-nv rrow, and 1
you have u d<y more to repent i ", ..nd a ,
d.»y loss to apgnt in.
MONEY MADE.
I desire to call the attention of all
those who owe me anything, that
lheir accounts and notes are now
due, and that I am compelled to <
have money. We have been bless
ed with bountiful crops, and all
can pay who are so disposed, as I
will take corn, fodder, wheat, oats,
rye, cotton, peas, potatoes, pork,
and almost everything, in payment
of debts due me. So 1 hope my
old friends and customers will re
spond liberally to this call, for by
so doing they will save cost and
their good name at the same time.
I mean business, when I say that I
am compelled to have money. All
those who are indebted to the firm
of McAfee & Moss must pay their
accounts and notes at once. Those
failing to do so, or to make satis
factory arrangements, will certainly
find their accounts in the hands of
collecting officers.
I want to purchase 10,000 bun
dles of fodder and 1,000 bushels of
corn, for which I will pay goods or
cash to those not indebted to me.
I have now got, and am receiv
ing daily, one of the largest and
best selected stocks of goods ever
exhibited in North Georgia, which
I propose to sell very cheap for
cash or barter. I am determined
to sell as low as the lowest, as my
experience in business and facili
ties for buying are not excelled by
any in this country. We—l mean
myself and clerks —invite all the
children and ladies to call before
purchasing elsewhere, as we will
give all the children candy and
love all the ladies.
9 J. M. McAFEE.
CiIEAP CASH STOKE.
W. M. ELLIS,
Second door west from corner Gainesville
and Marietta streets,
CANTON, GA.,
Dealer in
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE.
Will also do a general Bartering business,
and allow the highest market prices for
country produce. It will be to your inter
est to call and examine my stock and prices
liefore purchasing dsewlwre. You will
find goods at the old prices, tor cash.
8-ly W. M. ELLIS.
W. A. BRIGHTWELL.
CARPENTER, CONTRACTOR AND
BUILDER,
Residence, Canton, Ga.
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ALL work done by me will be done with ne«t
nMs and dispatch, trices reasonable—satisfaction
guaranteed.
Aug 4, l-6m
J. M. HARDIN,
HOUSE AND SIGN
PAINTER,
Canton Ga.
Aiig4, 1-ly
Mrs. M. A. Smith, Canion,
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MANUFACTURES hair into all kinds
ot braids, ringlets, setts. bracelets,
watch-guards. necklaces. etc. Will insure
sjitist action in quality of work and price.
A!) grades of mounting furnished when de
sired Call and see style of work, on Ma
rietta street. 4 3m
IF '"YOU’Wv'aN T "IPRINTING 'DONE,
1 with neatness and dispatch, call al this
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