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AGRICULTURAL. a~« -» 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. » THE CHEROKEE GEORGIAN, A Weekly Newspaper, PUBLISHED AT CUST T O ZISF, GEORGIA, ' And Davoted to the Interests of Cherokee Georgia. TTHZE G-EORGIAK ( tv 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. It is a Home Enterprise, and every citizen in Cherokee and adjoin ing counties should give it his encouragement and support. Thb 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 advantages which it offers. fa Job Work of All Kind=» Will bo executed at Thb Georgian office, in the neatest style and on the most liberal terms. BARTER of all kinds taken for Job Work and subscriptions. TEJFUNZLS OF 1 THE G3-EIOJFLG-TFA IST One Year, Eight Months 1 o<> Four Mouths A liberal discount will be made to clubs. BREWSTER & SHARP, Proprietors. J. O. DOWDA, Business Manager. ~ ‘ The Greatest Medical LDiscoverv OF THE Ki ne teen th. Century. llkalth, Beauty and Happise* Restojikd to Modhhn Womamioub! Dr. J. Bradfield's Wwnan’s FEMALE REGULATOR. BEST FRIEND. READ! READ! READ! It is well known to doctor* and women that the latter are subject to numerous dta enne’ peculiar to their sex, such as Suppression of the Menses, Whiles, Pnir.ful Moclbly Periods Rheumatism of the Back and Womb, li n gular Meuiirualion, Hemorrhage or Excessive “Flow ” and Piolapuus Uteri, or Fulling oi the Womb. The Profession has, in vain for many years, sought diligently ine remedy that would enable them to treat this disease with success At last that i<ne<iy has been discovered, by one ot the most skillful physicians in the State ot Georgia. The remedy is IDT- Female Regulator. “ ■- o—O—o Blooming in all Her Pristine Beauty, Strength and Elasticity—Tried Doctor af ter Doctor. Rutledge, Ga., February 16th, 1871, This is to certify that my wife was an invalid lor six years. Had disease of the womb attended vnth headache, weight ! n the lower part of (he back; suffered from lan ’mor, exhaustion and nervousness, loss of appetite and flesh. She had become so ex hausted and weak, her friends were appr-nensive she would never get well. T trfrsl doctor after doctor, and many patent medicines—had despaired of the improvement when, fortunately, she commenced taking DR. lIRADFIELD S FEMALE REGULA TOR. She is now well; and three oi four bottles cured her. Improved in health, ap petite and flesh, she is blooming in all her pristine beauty, strength and elasticity. I re gard you as UKit saviouk from the dark portals of death, ana my benefactor. May your shadow never grow less, and you never become weary in well doing. aug2«-ly JOHN SHARP Thankful for tie very flattering reception the FEMALE REGULATOR has met with from all portions ot the country, the Proprietor begs leave to announce thtl he haa largely increased his manufacturing facilities, an 1 hopes that before very long he will ba abii to place within the reach of every suffering woman this, the greatest boon to hor sex Price, sl.l® Bottle. For safe by all Druggists in the United States. L. 11. BRADFIELD, Proprietor, Aflsnltt, G»x> .tp *.