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Cherokee Georgian. A LEGEND OF HUSBANDRY. tea* BY J. C. CLARK. •** .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. O 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, HAIR WORKER, 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 Brewster, Sharp &Dowda, rtTBLXKHKRB 09 TUB CHKROEM GBOBGIAN, Real Estate Agents, BUY AND SELL REAL ESTATE, Examine Titles, FURNISH ABSTRACTS, Make Collections, ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL BUSI NESS LN OUR LINE. OFFICE or THE CHEROKEE GEORGIAN, CANTON, GEORGIA THE CHEROKEE GEORGIAN, A Weekly Newspaper, • It PUBLISHED AT CATN’TONL GEORGIA, -w i. - And Devoted to the interests of Cherokee J, • e / i THE G-ZEOZRGKLA-lSr < W ill contain, from time to time, the Latest News, and will give its readers an interesting variety of LITERARY, MORAL, AGRICULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, TEMPERANCE AND POLITICAL, * READING MATTER. • -a • It is a Home Enterprise, and every citizen in Cherokee and adjoin ing counties should give it his encouragement and support. Thji Georgian will bo 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 the advantage# which it offers. Job Work of A.ll Kinds • I Will be executed at The Georgian office, in the neatest style and e» the most liberal terms. BARTER of all kinds taken for Job Work and subscriptions. TERMS OF THE GEORGIAN. •» One Year, $l6O Eight Months 1 00 Four Months 50 A liberal discount will be made to clubs. BREWSTER & SHARP, Proprietors. ’ J. 0. DOWDA, Business Manager. The Greatest Medical OF THE • Nineteenth Centurv. Health, Beauty akd Happiness Restored to Modern Womanuoob! Dr. J. Bradfield’s Woman’s ‘ “* * FEMALE REGULATOR. BEST FRkEKD. RE AD I KE AL) I LEAD! ’ Il is well known to doctors and women that the latter are subject to numerous dis eases peculiar to their sex, such as Suppression of the Menses, Whites, Painful Monthly Periods Rheumatism of the Back and Womb, Irregular Menstruation, Hemorrhage Excessive “Flow,” and Piolapsus Uteri, or Falling oi the Womb. The Profession baa, in vain, tor many years, sought diligently tor some remedy that would enable thetn to treat this disease with success. At last that remedy has l>cen discovered, by one of the most skillful physicians in the State of Georgia. The remedy is Er. Female IRegrutlfiLtor. Blooming in all Her Pristine Beauty, Strength and Elasticity— Tried Doctor as ter Doctor. Rutledge, Ga., February 16th, 1871, Thh is to certify that my wife was an invalid lor six years. Had disease of the womb, attended with headache, weight ’n the lower part of the back; suffered from hn guor, exhaustion and nervousness, loss of appetite and flesh. She had become so «x --haus’ed and weak, her friends were apprehensive she would never get well. 1 tried doctor alter doctor, and many patent medic in<-s—had despaired of the improvement when, ibrtunately, she commenced tak'ng DR. BRADFIELD’S FEMALE REGULA TOR.’ She is now well; and three oi four bottles cured her. Improved in health, ap petite and flesh, sue is blooming in all her pristine beauty, strengih and elasticity. I re gard vou as her saviour from the dark portals of death, and benefactor. May your shadow never grow less, and you never become weary in well doing. aug26-ly JOHN SHARP Thankful for the very flattering reception the FEMALE REGULATOR haa met wiU» from all portions ot the country, the Proprietor l>egs leave to announce that be hae largely increased his manufacturing facilities, an 1 hopes that before very long he will be able to place within tne re tch of every suffering woman this, the greatest boon to her tex L. H. BRADFIELD, Proprietor, Atlanta, Georgia.