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AGRICULTURAL.
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Capital in Agriculture.
bjo kind of business demands closer at
tdSXion to details than that of farming
many farmers are over-economical,
saving where wise economy requires invest
inPft. This subject is well handled in the
f<JHowing article from the Vermont Record
aijd Farmer:
Tn the middle counties of England, where
ordinary farming is done, and where the
principal products are wheat, barley, wool,
turnips and grass, it is usually estimated
that a floating capital of fifty dollars an
acre is necessary to cultivate it to good ad
vant|gp. In New England, if a farmer
has a thousand dollars, he either puts it in
the savings bank or buys more land, and
rarely considers how he can use it as cap
ital to make his farm more productive.
I have heard of a man who, when ad
vised to sow wififl?r rye, Objected that he
wanted to get his return the same year he
planted—that he did not exactly like to
trust Providence through a whole winter.
Many farmers act on this principle, if they
do nUQpcnly avow it. They know per
fectly* wiirtfc at market gaiilehers new the
city put SIOO and often S2OO worth of ma
nure on the acre, with large profit, and that
in their own experience the more they have
put on their land the greater their profit,
and yeIWMPeWWto take
SSOO or SI,OOO out of the savings bank and
invest it in drainage or. manure, though
they will readily admit that they would get
»larger interest by sb doing.
No farmer can reasonably expect to real
ize more than five or six per cent, from
investment of money in bonds or stocks.
If, by the favor of some speculating friend,
he is allowed the. privilege of taking a few
shares in a proposed railroad, or copper
mine, or coal mine, sure to pay ten per
cent, at least, be will be lucky if he does
' frrt ftwr his money and have to pay an as
sessment.
If, by spending SI,OOO in drainage and,
other product improvements, he perma-
Deii?Ty J llic fftlomeof his field only
sixty dollars a year,it is a good investment
and he need not look anxiously every morn
ing in the daily papers to ascertain whether
iVfclost. or mot. In annual crops, like mar
ket truck, if the use of SIOO worth of extra
Manure will raise SIOO wofth of extra pro
ducepit is a fair business transaction, as
good as the savings bank, but a'market
ggrjjyuT expects, and oftej) realizes, six
times six per cent, on such an investment.
wnarjgus or raw berries, es
fttlflir-hetl and maintained at an annual cost,
including rent for the land, of S2OO an acre,
and yielding an income of SSOO gives 350
per cent, per annum, and beats out of sight
the promises of railroad and coal compa
nies.
Put your money where it will do the
most good—into your best land close at
hom—in such away that it will yield an
income. If you invest SSO in a weather
cock on your barn, it may gratify yourself
and the passers-by, but will not add much
to your income. A horse that earns noth
ing costs $l5O a year at least, and this is
the interest on $2,500 capital. Expensive
dwellings and ,I‘ti luiutfc ate not good in
vestments of capital.
While every farmer should spend accord
ing to his ability for the comfort and pleas
ure of his family, he should not count as
capital in agriculture either the cupola on
his house or the piano in his parlor.
Time is money, and.labor is money on
the farm, and an invifetmeut that brings
water fi' yoyr hvusp and barn, that provides
for fftowmr Ate) dose to* your tire, that makes
the washing and drying of clothes easy,
and makes everything convenient out-doors,
is always profitable.
A friend of mine visited his father, who
was a farmer in New Hampshire. For
thirty years he had brought water from a
spring in buckets for household use. The
son proposed to put in an aqueduct, but
the father thought it hardly worth while.
He ashed the old gentleman how many
times a day, on an average, he had brought
his bwkets from the spring to the house,
and then measured the distance and found
he hart frp tdfd •'©*' tr.jk‘a dnv.,yqpt|iputed
•tVrAi e ftmmtnt 'oT travel, hbd smowed ■
him he had already performed the labor of
car ving his two buckets ten thonsnml nine
hundred and fifty miles, and that aq aque
duct would cost about SSO. This pilgrim
age, nearly half the distance around the
world, was not economical.
Capital is welP iUVest’Ad in good farming
implements, such as are of constant use. j
Iz.vak Walton says: “Whoso has the
wherewithal to buy a spade, yet prefers]
rather to borrow his neighbor’s and wear ]
out that, is covetous.” In fact, no man can ■
afford to live by borrowing cojnmpiqsimdl I
tod*.- I th Ain tefrSig JLd re- '
turning hem is worth more than their cost.
Indeed, the whole system of liorrowing, nst
a rule, is a bad one. With expensive iin-.
pkments, like mowers, owners of small*
films may often provide themselves by 4 ,
hiring thv tMchift-V. ir grass'
cut by those having teams and implements.
While I would not usually be a liorrow-i
<r, 1 would always cultivate such relations
with mv neighbors that we should al all j
' n anv eurr ’
fcVjcy F ,I.U' jKiri'uwu'g IrtoW an im
p. situ a. One of my neigh-lxmi haau field
i dFel, u’ihm 1 have uo doubt is worn out
4-wle*: as much by being hauled Over the',
1 t<*rfarr» ns ij js.bwnse
id ftiVm one *wcfi* iiftinAutirt, rxfx'u
s v,«tc rcpntr i O>'U linw u# hoiise. is
en- u h for a nei hb.wlb'O'l, but its use
sb vdd te t Jd .or l»y all otnwviK
v . ”1 vd- ' v,< ol -dta -f his ?i >v ‘ :
|t j, a d.v spjMhs *■ Ui.OCJ? wdio.is
p- :>s tv. a> to other :n»lta Uoyingatul,
svl’it n". ’ it the i f.t time finnan
important element of success in all farm
ing, and this requires capital. We need
ready money to buy when cattle and corn
are cheap, and to be able to hold our hay
and such other articles as are not perish
able for a fair price. Some of our farmers
bought S3OO and S4OO worth of corn in the
fall of 1873 at 64 cents a bushel, while we
poorer men were obliged to pay 90 cants a
bushel for it, and the same is true of all the
grain and feed for our cows.
No man can make money off of poor
land. As you travel, you have usually ob
served, other things being equal, that good
land makes thriving farmers, while families
brought up on hard, poor land, are gener
ally poor. Many men have spent their
lives in plowing around stones, and died
poor, who on good land might, with the
same labor, have been independent. With
us, no land which does not produce a large
crop is worth cultivating. Small, or even
middling, crops will not pay for the labor
and the manure.
The point which I urge is to apply your
capital so as to raise large crops, whatever
they arc, because only large crops are prof
itable, and if your field is not in proper
condition to produce large crops, make it
so, or buy a better farm. Do not spend
your life in the unprofitable business of
raising small crops.
What we can reasonably afford to expend
for books, for works of art, for traveling,
for rational amusements for ourselves and
families, though not capital that yields a
cash return, is yet a good investment. And
this is especially true of what we devote to
making our homes pleasant to our families
and friends.
It has been said that no man is so poor
that he need have his pig-trough at his
front door ; and I may add, that no farmer
among us is so poor that he cun not have
not only a pleasant house but pleasant sur
roundings, with a neatly kept door-yard or
lawn, with shade-trees, fruit-trees, and flow
era—and finally, such attractions, as well as
such conveniences about home, that farm
ers’ daughters need not resolve, as has been
so often stated that many do, that they will
never be farmers’ wives.
Experience Teaches.
The following advice of an old man who
has tilled the soil for forty years, is taken
from the Texas New Yorker. If every
farmer would follow it, hard times would
be kept at a distance;
I am an old man, upwards of three score
years, during two scores of which I have
been a tiller of the soil. I can not say that
I am rich now, but I have been ri h, and
have all I need, do not owe a dollar, have
given my children a good education, and,
when called away, will leave them enough
to keep the wolf away from the door. My
experience has taught me that —
1. One acre of land, well prepared and
manured, and well cultivated, produces
more than two acres which receives only
the same amount, of manure and labor used
on one.
2. One cow, horse, mule, sheep, or hog,
well fed, is moie profitable than two kept
on the amount of food necessary to keep
one well.
3. One acre of clover or grass is worth
more than two acres of cotton where no
grass or clover is raised.
4. No farmer who buys oats, corn, wheat,
fodder and hay, as a rule for ten years, can
keep the sheriff from the door in the end.
5. The farmer who never reads agricul
tural papers, and sneers at book farming
and improvements, always has a leaky roof,
poor stock, broken-down fences, and com
plains of “bad seasons.”
G. The farmer who is above his business
and intrusts it to another to manage, soon
has no business to attend to.
The Country Gentleman says: “For
fifty years I have seen salt fed to hogs, and
in the last twenty years I have fed many
heavy hogs, tanging from three to six hun
dred pounds net; I fevd them all liberally
with salt, and have never lost one nor has
one been sick an hour. These hogs have
been fattened in a close pen, and their
principal food was corn meal made into
dough. This dough I have salted at least
once a day. Sometimes my hogs would
fail to clean the trough; in that case 1
would put a handful of salt in my bucket,
with some water, pour it in their trough,
and they will soon lick ft np with much
relish. In addition to salt, fet'd coals from
the stove oi fire-place. I make it a regular
custom to feed coals, and it is astonishing
what a quantity a hog will eat. and how
healthy and robust it will make him. Let
the hogs have plenty of salt and charcoal,
and we shall hear less of the bog cholera.”
On rainy days there are many objects
requiring attention. See that all tools and
implements have been brought in from the
field ; clean and scour them ; oil the wood
en parts with crude petroleum, soaking
them thoroughly, which will add greatly to
their durability. Sen w up all bolts and
j nuts —breakages of implements are often
caused by leaving them loose. Keep cel
i lars perfectly clean and sweet through the
' summer, and never allow any rubbish or
decaying matter to remain. Vaults may
have all odor removed by throwing in two
or three times a day a mixture of coal ashes
atul road dust, or either separately. It will
render the removal of deposits an easy
task. Collect a few barrels of road dnst
whenever the weather is dry enough to
furnish it
For hog cholera, brown sugar has Iteen |
successfully used »s a remedy. By giving
shout two pounds to a hog as soon as it
shows signs of sickness, the sugar acts as a
physic and carries off a quantity of pin- !
worms, and affords immediate relief.
Ostoxs sown lor sets last September
-houid l>e gathered now, or al any time be-,
f>re diep fleering, and dried before swing.
DOMESTIC.
Kitchen and Pantry.
o)i<jinal Contributions of mnt'er for
this Department are solid ed of our lady
readers.
Squash Pie. —Three tablespoonfuls of
stewed (or pumpkin), one small ta- |
blespoonful flour, two heaping spoonfuls
sugar, one egg; salt, cinnamon, nutmeg
and ginger to the taste; milk to make one
pie. . .. . I
To Make Sausage —Thirty pounds of ,
chopped meat; salt, eight ounces; two tea
cups of sage, and one and' three-quarter
cups of sweet marjoram. Pass the two
last through a fine sieve. Thyme and sum- j
mer savory may be substituted for the latter.
Lemon Pie.—The juice of one large |
lemon, the yolks of two eggs, one cup of
white sugar; stir all well together, bake as I
custard, then beat the whites of the eggs to
a froth, add three tablespoonfuls of pow
dered sugar, spread over the pie when done,
and brown lightly in the oven.
Pigs’ Feet. —Boil four pigs’s feet until
the bones drop out. Draw out the long
bones and place them in a dish to cool, j
Split each fooi, take the liquor in which it ,
is boiled, add the jsice of a lemon «nd I
some salt, and turn upon the feet. They
may be dipped in batter and fried in sa t
pork.
llebbard’s Brown Bread —One heap
ing cup of Graham flour, one heaping cup
rye meal, one heaping cup corn meal, one
cup sour milk, two cups Sweet milk, two
thirds cup molasses, one egg, heaping tea
spoonful soda, a little salt; steam about
three hours. Set in the oven about twenty
minutes before eating. .
To Keep Bread Moist.—Place in the
bread-pan a board pierced with holes, and
so supported as to be a couple of inches
from the bottom of the pan ; let there be
an inch depth of water in the pan ; put the
bread on the board and cover the pan with
the lid. The inclosed-air will then prevent
the bread from becoming too dry.
To Make Tough Beef Tender —To
those who have worn down their teeth mas
ticating poor, tough beef, we will say that
carbonate of soda will be found a remedy
for the evil. Cut the steaks, the day before
using, into slices about two inches thick,
rub into suitable thicknesses, and cook to
notion. The same process will answer for
towls, legs of mutton, etc.
Stuffed Beefsteak —Prepare a dress
ing of bread scalded soft, and mixed with
plenty of butter, a little pepper, salt, sage,
a little onion, and an egg. Lay it upon one
side of a round of steak, cover with the
other, and baste it down with a needle and
thread. Salt and pepper the other side of
the steak and place in a dripping-pan, with
half an inch of water. When baked brown
on one side, bake the other.
Watch closely that it does not burn.
Iletiseholtl Economy.
Ammonia is the best and cheapest appli
cation to remove grease spots. Wash with
clear soft water, after cleansing.
To Prevent Rust —If lusty iron be
rubbed with boiled oil in which some red
lead has been mixed, on a warm day, the
rusting, process will thus be arrested.
A reed for clothes-lines is a great con
venience, and easily made. A strong box
nailed to the end post, or against a build
ing, with line to the crank in the box, and
you can always have your line in good con
dition when washing-day comes.
Soap—Good soft soap can be made in
the following manner: Toone pound of
saponifier, to be had al the groceries, add
three gallons of rain-water. Set it boiling,
and then put in four pounds of soap tat
(any offal fat saved in the kitchen), or tal
low. When the solution is clear and the
fat all combined, which is known by the
disappearance of all fatty eyes or spots in
the liquid, add twelve gallons of soft rain
water, and when cold yonr soap is ready
for use. The saponifier. being concentrated
lye. is better than wood ashes and potash,
and is by no means dearer.
A solution of pearlash and water thrown
upon a fire extinguishes it instantly. By a
knowledge of this fact, every one, and
especially the farmer, who is removed from
the benefits to be derived from water works
and fire-engines, may make himself a cheap,
handy and efficient fire-extinguisher with
but little trouble. The pnvportions arc four
ounces of pearlnsh dissolved in only such
hot water as wifi thWonghty dissolve it,
and then reduced by mixing with it a
bucket of common water. Any quantity
may be made in the snmu proportion.
Here is a hint*for housekeepers, and a
very important one. Merely covering up a
bed with blankets and efunterpanes will
no more protect it front d impress or ke*p
it dry than a glsas pane wiU keep out light.
The atmospheric mouture will penetrate
' all woven fabrics. Hence, the importance
! of keeping (he boils in spare rooms regularly
airetl. Many a dear; fr!*nd or wdpqme vis
itor has been sent tb »w untimely grave, or
] afflicted for life with diseases by being
' put into a bed which had been permitted
]to stand unrx.cnple I Keep the spare bed,
] when not in use, free from all covering
1 but a light spread.
To Vurift a ?inx —ln hnt wedther it is
impossible to prevent sinks from Ixroming i
foul, unless some chemical preparation is *
used. One ;xmnd of copperas diss<«lve<l in
four gallons of water, and poured over a
sink three or four times, yill completely)
destroy the offensive odor. As a disinfect- j
ing agent, to scatter around the premises
affected with any unpleasant odor, nothing
is better than a mix tire of four parts dry
ground plaster of Paris to one part of fine
charcoal, by weight. AH sorts of ghi-s
vessels and other utvnsds may be<ffectunlly
purified from offensive smells by rinsing
them with chiireoai powder, after the gross
er impurities have been scoured off with
sand an!
MONEY MADE. 1
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 aro so disposed, as I
will take corn, fodder, wheat, oats,
1 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
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 ihair
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
I
i 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, xvhich i
I xww ||
I propose to s=\ell 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
i . .
, any in this country. We—l mean :
myself and clerks —invite all the !
. children and ladies to call before
purchasing elsewhere, as we will
1 give all the children candy and
love all the ladies.
9 J. M. McAFEE.
CHEAP CASH ¥TORE.
W. M. ELLIS,
Secend 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 Imj to your inter
; eat to call and examine my stock and prices
, Iwfore purchasing elsewhere. You will
find goods at the old prices, for cash.
MyW M. ELLIS.
W. A. BRIGHT WELL,
CARPENTER, CONTRACTOR AND
BUILDER,
Residence, Canton, Ga.
O
ALL work done by me will lie done with neat
ness and dimpatch. Pr.cos reasonable—eati»tactM»ii
guaranteed.
Aug 4, 1-6 m
J. M. HA Hl)IN,
HOUSB AND SIGN
PAINTER,
Canton Ga.
-ly
Airs. M. A. Smith, Canton,
i •
HA I R WO R K ER,
MANUFACTURES hair into all kinds
ot braids, ringlets, vrtts, bracelets,
watch-guards, necklaces, etc. Will insure
satisfaction in quality of work ami pricu.
All grades of mounting furnished when de
sired. Call and see style of work, on Ma
nevil street. 4 3m
IF YoT’ WANtVrINTING DONE,
1 with neatness and dispatch, call at this
offlee. »
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