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The Cherokee Georgian.
LABOR.
Toil swings the ax, and forests bow ;
The seeds break out in radiant bloom ;
Rich harvests smile beyond the plow,
And cities cluster round the loom.
Where towering domes and tapering spires
Adorn the vale and crown the hill,
Stout labor lights its beacon firei, [mill.
That plumes with smoke the forge and
The monarch oak, the woodland pride,
Whose trunk is seamed with lightning
Toil launches on the restless tide, [scars,
And there unrolls the flag of stars;
The engine with its lungs of flame,
And ribs of brass and joints of steel,
From labor’s plastic fingers came,
With sobbing valve and whirling wheel.
’Tis labor works the magic press,
And turns tire - crank in hives of toil,
And beckons angels down to bliss ;
Industrious hands on sea and soil.
Here sun-browned toil, with shining spade
Links lake to lake with silver ties,
Strung thick with palaces of trade,
And temples towering to the skies.
AGRICULTURAL.
Cause of Failure in Farming.
It is a very popular idea that men of
quick, ordinary capacity, simple in their
ideas, inferior in discernment and frugality,
plainly ignorant, though industrious, are
capable of farming successfully—time lend
ing experience. Experience, At is true, is
the chart . aculturist
bases the assurance of his future success;
but, as in most other industrial pursuits, it
must be attended with skill, judgment, am
bition, and industry, in order that he may
attain the so-much-desired end.
Every farmer is liable to meet with ad
versity; it being beyond human control,
none can avert it. But the judicious and
experienced farmer can notice numerous,
unmistakable errors effected by the unskill
ed culturist. He foresees, and consequently
avoids, losses which the injudicious farmer
is left to realize. ... _ f »■
lOnfc of the cassis of figure it/ farming
i.<a want ofjadap tat ion ©f the productiofa
to the soil. Thus we notice farmers grow
wheat or corn in an exhausted, clayey soil;
grasses on the hillside, etc. This, the in
telligent reader will admit, is a very im
proper course. The reverse would be more
conducive to success. Another cause of
failure is practicing the special crop sys
tem. The disadvantages in this method of
soil cultivating are obvious. If the crop
cultivated provesn failure, it might be said
one season’s farming is a failure. Again,
constant successive cultivation of the same
crop will render the soil unproductive un
der the most judicious tillage, from the fact
that the proper nutritive elements requisite
in any particular case will become exhaust
ed. The soil obtains its mineral constitu
ents from the subjacent rocks, and some ®f
them are contained in very small quanti
ties, and thus would be very soon exhaust
ed. In mixed husbandly the nourishment
consunved in each preceding crop is eon-
Hsiorbd by the decomposition of
its subsoil. From this it may readily be
inferred that special-crop farming greatly
augments the liability of a fatal termina
tion.
Overstocking is also to be considered as
a cause of unsuccess. Especially is this
the case in the summer season, where farm
ers are m the habit of turning their cattle
out to pasture; this error is also modified
by turning them out too early in the sea
son. Too large a stock turned out to grass
too early a loss to the elaborate
fiirmef. The herbage of the field has not
yet attained its proper nutritious principles;
it is young and tender, and when the over
stock assails it, soon the field is laid almost
bare, rendering the pasture insufficient the
remainder of the season, at least under or
dinary conditions. Such proceedings will
also most assuredly deprive the soil of its
necessary protection against the reefs of
stein winter, and there will be continual
ing iprlng, 'which ftr very iftfunonixo tire
growth of the succeeding crop.
There is a class of farmers whose method
of tilling the soil appears to lie handed
down from fine posterity to another, and
presenting the same series of phenomena
throughout, namely, a lack of ambition
and enthusiasm as well as skill. Simply a
dragging along in a kind of rut which their
ancestors had already modeled and scooped
out before them. Any attempt to pursue a
dith a
fatal shock at once, in consequence of the
want of proper qualifications. Other causes
noticeable are waste, unnecessary fencing,
etc.; but as they are of less moment we
shall not enter into detail about them. —
[Rural New Yorker.
Corn. Oats, and Cotton.
From the consolidated reports of the
crops in Georgia, furnished by the Commis
sioner o( A6 the foHoW'
utg facts:- ;lJv ! '
The aw rage cost of producing a bushel
of corn in Georgia, under the present ad
verse circumstances, is reported at fifty
eight cents, or a little more titan one cent a
pound, while the average cash price al
which it has sold in Georg a for several
years bus been about two cents a juiund,
and the credit RWhWo and a half to
three cents a pound. Is it not remarkable
that <arm rs prefer paying twice or three
times as much tor Western corn as that
raised on their own farms coats them, in
order that they may enjoy the pleasure of
raising < pu.o,u l*>
'lnc ! «ls rt flreti myc a
oorutuentarv on the financial conduct of
com buyers hi Georgia.
Again on s are produced in Georgia al
an avera e C”st of twenty-nine cents a
bus!.< 1. or less than one erm a pound,
which > I ss than one-third the average
price at ivv’t th v h ire «o‘d in Georgia
f«»r s me • < .• V '1 : om< s». continue to
buy corn and oats at three times the cost of
raising them on their own farms?
Taking into consideration the cost of
production, the chemical analysis, and the
comparative freedom from stealage, oats
are cheaper as stock food than corn. One
bushel or 56 pounds of corn costs 58 cents,
while one bushel or 32 pounds of oats costs
29 cents, making a difference of 13 cents in
the cost of 100 pounds of the two. Chem
ical analysis jbows that oats contain 12 per
cent, of albuminoid or flesh and muscle
producing principle, while corn contains
10 per cent. It will thus be seen that for
work animals oats are more valuable than
com as food when equal, are used.
Consider, now, that 100 pounds of oats
cost 13 cents less than 100 pounds of corn,
and the case stands decidedly in favor of
oats for work stock.
In fat producing properties corn has 7
per cent., oats 6 per cent It will be seen,
therefore, that when equal weights only are
compared, corn has the advantage as a fat
producer, but taking the cost also into con
sideration, there is no choice in this respect.
Another decided advantage of oats for
our climate, and especially for summer use.
is that, while they supply more muscle,
they are less healing and more invigorating
to tbwwork animal consuming them. Still
another advantage is freedom from rotten
grain and weavil. which frequently cause
corn to injure stock. Still another item in
ffcvor of oats is that freedmen do not eat
them, nor can they*so readily sell them
when stolen.
The average coat of a pound of cotton to
the producer is reported at eleven cents,
which varies very little from the average
selling price, on the farm, of the present
crop. This corresponds with the fact that
ninety-six per cent, of the correspondents
report that cotton can not be raised at a
profit on bought supplies, and eighty-four
per cent, say that cotton can Ire raised at a
profit at present prices on aupplles made at
home.
This is readily understood, in view of
the facts that bought corn and oats cost
from two to three times as much as home
made ; that, as reported by correspondents,
only 47 4>er cent, of a home supply of pork
is raised in the State, and that, while it
costs an average of S6O per head to raise a
mule or a horse on the farm, $1,000,780
were expended in their purchase from dn>|
vers, at an average cost per bead of more
than twice the cost of raising them.
Farmbrs Want and Need. —We doubt
not that farmers want much, and need more.
They want their burdens lightened, both as
to direct and indirect taxes. They need
better reward for their labor and products.
They want no monopolies fostered by the
State and National governments vThey
need Ao increase of offices or salaries.
They want fewer officers and lower salaries
in many ot the fat offices. They need less
and want better legislation. They need
men in office whose aim i» not money
making, but serve for the good of the pe -
pie. They want men who will not seek
office so constantly, but will wait till asked
to take office by those to be served. They
need more systematic, industrious, ener
getic lal>or, and want no idle hearts, heads,
or hands, in any department of business.
They need less extravagance in govern
ment and among individuals, and want
more of good common-sense economy, and
the people educated to the industries and
necessities of the times. They need a gov
ernment to do the greatest good for the
greatest number of her people, and they
want the people to feel proud of that gov
ernment.—[Rural Sun.
To Bk Rembmberwd—Three things to
. love : courage, gentleness, and affection.
Three things to admire< intellectual
power, dignity, and gracefulness.
Three things to hate: cruelty, arrogance,
- atjd ingratitude.
Three things to delight in: beauty, free
dom, and frankness.
Three things to wish for: health, friends,
and cheerful spirit.
Three things to like: cordiality, good
huraot, add mirthfulness.
Three things to aveld : idleness, loquaci
ty, and flippant jwting.
Three things to cuhtva£i good books,
good friends, and good humor.
Three things to contend fof*: hbnbr, coun
try, and friends.
slid conduct
Three thjnjp to think about; ,life, de»!h,
and atenflty.' '
Twbi.vr Renas bob Swcaasaeh FarV;
iNO.—l. Drain and irrigate- & Plow *h4p
and loosefi the subsoil. 3. Provide good
storage room for solid manure, yml state ms
for the liquid manures. 4. Choose com
mercial fertHtecrt inlelligerrtiy, and do not
use one in exoesa ol another, simply be
cause others have used it. 5. Manure ev
ery <rop which benefits by it; and manure
high, (i Cultivate every crop upon your
, fields, and in the proper rotation. 7. Till
no more laud than you can work thorough
ly. 8. Cnllivato more and l>eli«r fodder.
9. Feed plentifully, auftoC Ute test fodder.
10. Brpvd slock, pad no pierc,aceidetl
aWtHd Mte inertwe. if. S^pp*nt breeding
and feeding by proi'tr care. 12. Keep ac
counts. • »*/ i ; tr
UssniXLED Corn.—Com loses one-bflh
by drying, and wheat one-fourteenth. Frsrf"
thht the estimate is Wtade that it is mw
profitable for the farmer *o sell Unskilled
corn in the fall at seventy-five cents than
ala dollar a bushel in the following asm-
that wheat at $1.25 in December
;is equal to |IJSO in the succeeding June,
In the ease of potatoes— taking those jlal
rot and are otherwise iMk together with
the shrinkage —there is no doubt that. be.
tween October and June, The kWtdfljc
’ one who holds them is not less than thirty- ’
three per oru*. - •
A Heroine.
The latest exploit of Ida Lewis in rescu
ing a man from drowning in Newport har
bor, recalls the earlier achievements which
gave her the title of the Grace Darling of
America. Miss Lewis first came into prom
inence in 1866, when she saved the life of a
soldier who had set out for a sail in the
harbor in a light skiff. It was one of the
coldest and most blustering days ever
known in that latitude, yet a girl but
twenty-five years old, impelled by the no*
blest spirit of humanity, ventured to the
assistance of a man who had brought him
self into a sorry plight through sheer fool
hardiness. One day during the autumn of
the following year, while a terrible gale
was raging, two men set out to cross the
harbor with several sheep, and, m trying to
rescue one that had fallen overboard, came
near swamping their boat. Seeing their
peril from the window of her father’s light
house, Miss Lewis went to their aid, and,
after landing them safely, went back and
rescued the sheep. But her greatest ex
ploit was perform'ed on the 20th of March,
iB6O, when a boat containing two young
sailors and a boy was struck by a squall in
the harbor and overturned. Though ill at
the time, Ida rushed out of the house,
launched her life-boat, sprang in, with
neither hat on her head nor shoes on her
feet, reached the wreck just in time to eave
the two sailors as they were about losing
tbe>r hold from exhaustion, the boy having
meanwhile perished, and rowed them to
the lighthouse. Miss Lewis’s repeated aeta
•f philanthropy have been recognised by
gifts at vartoua.4imes4 but no national tes
timonial has been offered to her, and it is
suggested that among the first to receive
tie new decoration to be bestowed by Con
gress for heroic deeds in saving fife should
be the heroine of Newport harbor.
It is computed that eighteen million
hogs will have gone into the pork barrels
of this country by January. The figures
bring a grunt of satisfaction from every
corner of the land .
-MONEY MADE.
I desire to call the attention of all
those who owe me anything, that
iheir 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 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 A Moss must pay their
accounts and notes at once. Those
failing to do so, or to make satis
factory arrangements, will certainly
find their accoixht/in thl ’hlflls ot
collecting officers.
I want to purchase 10,000 bun
dles of fodder and 1,000 bushels of
corn, for which I wjU 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
exhtMtdd tn North Georgia, which
I propose to sell very choap for
cash or barter. I am determined
to sell as |pw as the lowest, aa my
exj>c|i«|nfoin buss a ess aijd txili-
buying not excelled by
any in this ctwntry* We—l mean
myself and clerks—invite all the
children and ladies to call before
purchasing elsewhere, as we will
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give all the children candy and
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l<we all the ladies.
™ ,X M. McATEE.
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FEMALE REGUtATOR. . BEST FBI END,
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READ I 111-3 AD I It CAT.) I
It m well iuiowa to doctors and women that the latter are l <> numerous die-,
eases t»eciiliar to their sex, such as Suppression of the Menses, Whites, 1 aitnur MoCthly
Periods of the Back and Womb, Irregular Meintrualjoii,
Excessive “Flaw ” and Proiapsuk Uteri, or Failing ql the AV oinb. Ihe I
in~r>in for mattv T<*r* sought dilixeuily for some remedy that tvoukl rt. Able tbem*to'
treat Ihi* diseam with success. At last that remedy has been discovered, by one of
must skillful physicians in the Stole ot Georgia. The remedy is ,
Dr. Regulator ; '
Blooiuiag la all Her Pristine Beauty, Strength and Elasticity—Tried Docter as.
ter Doctor.
• Rutledge, G a., Fcbruaiy ]Gtli, 1871,,
This is to certify that my wife was an invalid tor six years, ifad disease of tie
womb, alieoded with headache, weight in the lower part of the back: sutiered from la«-
guor exhaustion and nervousness, loss of appetite and flesh. She had become-ewea
baua’led and weak, her friends were apprehensive she would never get well. I tried
doctor after doctor, and many patent medicines —had despaired of the improvement
when, fortunaieiv, she coainru-ticed taking DR. IJILA DFIELD’S FEMALE KEGb’LAe
TOR.’ Sheisno'w well; and;brce oi sow boules cured her. Improved iu health, ap
petite and flesh, she is bioomir gin al| her pristine beauty, strength aud elasticity. I re
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vour shadow never grow fess, and you never become weary in well doing. * - ••
aug2*-ly JUIIN SHARP ,
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frtfsa all portioas of the .country, the Proprietor liegs leave to auuouoqe Ihcl he ha*,
largely increased his manufacturing facililio*, and hopes that belore very lon» hp iyilJ »4
able to place within the reach of every suffering woman this, the greatest boon t 6 her sei
tIF Price fI.W per Vtflle. fVwmie bv all Dftlggfrts In lhe United sime«v. -
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