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THE EXPRESS. Cednrtown, April 4th. Farm and Fireside. demonetizing of silver affcot you? X , turning shovel. The first plow CORN CULTURE. Views of a Prominent Georgia Ag- riculturaiiet. Oe it Hr men of Hibb County Associ ation:— In olj -<Uencf* to ymir request, us fXprt saeii iu li rt'bol in ion at your la, ‘ monthly meeting. i have the plettauiv ol' preatfuiin^ lor your con sideration the following hastily pre- j ^ p,. part'd essay: Indian corn is a native of this con intent, and since the advent of the white man in America, him been cul tivated ns a good croj), not only us constituting tlr. principle food for man, hut the unimaid, upon which muu is dependent, in the cotton states at least, subsist almost entire ly upon corn and the fodder produc ed from it. What is true in regad toils value for man, horses, mules and oxen up- l’lie* tn all the uninlaid and fowls found upon every farm. 'In looking over the fields and farm-yards every living tiling that w* see loves corn. When the master shows himself to the faithful horse and palie-ut mule and oxen, in language peculiar to them and understood by him, they ’imploringly ask for corn. The pigs around his feet are constantly send ing into his ears their plaintive cries ' for corn. When rlie good wife sends forth her voice in the poultry yard how quickly the fowls lly to get their think What benefit, is it to haven few silver dollars given you for cotton when before you can jingle them twice, your hand must be placed deep down in your pocket and the bottom dollar extracted to pay for Western corn? Is the picture over drawn? And am I not justified and don’t I speak truth fully when I say with you cotton planters, nearly all ! your ills, financially speaking, are | caused from the fact that your cribs j have not been filled with coni ? Did you ever, my friends, fhiv . out your whole neqiiuintni. . I.ichor ; or since the war, Kie v/ a tin uky mi • ; 11a those Upon every farm throughout-this broad land are wives and children, hired laborers and their families, ’’faithlul dumb brutes, pigs and poul try, all looking ’to, and having a riglit to expect of the head of the 'household an abundant supply of •corn. Wlmt. wonder is that we hear the complaint of lull'll times, ami hoc tlie dcop anxiety Hank'd upon the facts of those wlm lire only able to furnitfii corn lo them nod that grown by others in s.iaroi, and. scanty sup ply. lo tliu uloirity of my heart I can hot exclaim, God pity them. But such will he their fate until from their own production their cribs ure tilled with corn. All over the land is heard theory of hard times, and the deep anxiety depicted upon tiiu face of almost ev ery man we meet, clearly indicate lloit the complaint is not unfounded. I cannot, nor'do I pretend to solve u problem ’which is claiming so much of time and attention from oor ablest financiers and statesmen. 1 repeat that I do not claim for myself the power of looking through tlii'S great problem, nor to suggest a remedy for all this finaucial trouble and general prostration niili which the country is mooli ulllieted. The causes too numerous, and it would he trav- liog too far outside the subject mat ter Under consideration. Addressing mysell to you as Son them farmers, cotton raisers, men who try to make cotton prolilable, who depend upon it almost fxolnsi ly as their moneyed crop, 1 would say to all Such, that your iliiaocial troubles arise ttiore from thUohe than from all others, because your cribs have not been tilled with t We have must of the time since the war realized tine prices for cot ton, ranging Ironi do cents per pound flown to the present low standard. We liuvu in this bounty, at h made good average crops, and yet are hot excluded froih the distressed class Again 1 ask Mg is tins'/ Hate you thoughtfully and seriously asked yourselves the question, why is this? You would liuu'htless consider any inau u benefactor, if not to his en tire race, at least to yourselves, who could solve this problem. Speaking to yon and other cuttoii planters, were 1 called upon to. say •‘Watchman what of the night?” I)o tell tj's why it is that ive are not ex empt fro hi this large class at whose door the wolf is standing ? J would my friends, placing all the stress’and emphasis possible upon my tell you it is because your cribs have not been tilled wiili Suppose that the planters of Hibb county lmd now thy money that has e,oe the war liven paid for burn uud carry this same enquiry throughout the cotton Stales, would you or they Have any cause to 'complain of hard M ould the not filled with known a tilrnn disasters oiliei to planting, who ever complained ol hard times and scarcity of mum y, tilled with corn? If yon find a funner who think., well of himself, is a good husband, kind father, nod wlm loves ins neigh bors, are not Ins cribs always filled with com? If a neighbor invites you to liis 'boose, don’t yon somehow feel tliut would rather you would slay at me of uoh.'e on foot, unless iiin bs are filled with euro? Have you known any man to sell out and quit lamniig to emigrate, since llie war, whose cribs were filled witli corn? When you hear liie oft repeated expression Iruui a fanner that he can’t raise bugs, negroes steal tlieni they die with choleru, don’t y-ai know it is because Ins dribs are not; tilled with cum? U lien you see poor motes, poor rses and no leg.-, don’t you know that they belong to a pour loan and he reason of iiis poverty is heoaose Ins cribs are not filled with com? Did yon ever know or hear of a farmer whose smoke house was filled null bacon whose cribs wore out till ed with com? When the tint went forth that the ox knowelh his owner and the lies his master's crib, we are oldig d to. infer thatsuch cribs wereriiliviiys lili ed with corn. 'Should an ox know his owner or no ass any muster's crib which is UOl filled with o »ru? Much more might Ik- Qaiduptm ihc subject ol’coni, and especially the great value to cotton planters. 1 will not, however, detain you any iouger-- Hut proceed to give you, very briefly, the plan of cultivation practical by myself, which 1 understand to lui\ been mainly the object ol your reso lution, lo the cultivation of corn m, go end Hindus opernndi call lie that will applicable io every section; hut 1 have lound it to do well uo lands that 1 cultivate, which are commonly known as mulatto pine lands, with a good day subsoil. • J cultivate about equal quantities in corn and cotton, and about fifty aerie to the mole. The fields tire aoourate- ly surveyed and so mapped out that the u'efUid acres ure fcnoWn. 1 eoiiiiiieii'ce ploughing tho 1st ol January, breaking all the land both for corn and cotton, broadcast with a I wo horse plow as deep us the mules can poll it—this being the on ly limit as to depth. For cotton the land is always bedded before plant ing, hut the corn land is never bed ded, except in bottom land. 1 have such land, which is first broken broadcast and tlieii bedded! i usually commence jiluntingubout the 15th, sometimes as late us tiie 20 ol Mtuoli, and never plant any iuud that lias not just been thoroughly broken; Hi the preparation lies the great secret of success io making corn. When reu'dv to plant, my rows are run first wiili a large shooter or small shovel,' ntoiil six feel wide and ill very thin laud seven feet, follow ing in the same furrow with a large shovel plow made lor the purpose, and to this plow I work two moles. Oil all Op land, my corn is dropped three feet apart io the drill, two grains io the hill, and nfiei ivtiids thinned to one stalk. On bottom lands the rows are laid oil'five feet and planted from eighteen inulies to two l'eet apart. The richer the laud the more stalks, and vice versa. Ma nure with cotton seed a handful to the hill, and which are dropped in the furrow with the corn, and from six to eight inches on either side of the lull. Dover very lightly with a harrow with two teeth set about ten inches apart. The cottonseed is heated so us to prevent germination, might be done quit more economically with Koine of the improved ]>1u\vr working l wo or more plows on the aiime bt* ck. The two lust plowing* arc done entirely with a sweep, and very light the object being to stir the land lightly on top and keep down the weeds and grass, but not to break the roots of the corn. Plant pens immediately after the second plowing and always in the mid Me • < the ov, opening with a -i."■ pm’ and which makes u fin- The i•-1. iI'i'oY/ of ilie second pk u ing. Drt.p ; ‘ in eight to twelve peas ill a hill an i cover the mime as Corn. Tnu ] consider the cheap ,-•' tc on e larm, and if T '•frilled no lull- need hi app:• bended. (m more oflielails might but it you will as before ud pure your land thoroughly plant Enough uf it—and cultivate directions, th nigh ft* given, you will complaining of hard times, and not till then will y filled with corn. — “ d f'0-. W. Feallterntor, & Co. Singer Sewing Machines. — 202,310 SINGER MACHINES SOT.l) TN 1870. The Largest'Sales beam sc the Must 7’i am tar. /■v/uilur hw.,.. the /lest up grown unted as Over 2,000,00fi now in Daily IT T’HK SIPIGSR STILL TRIUMPHANT! D—E—A—L—E—It—S I—N oof) Are now receiving their mammoth stock of new Fall end Wftnfor Goods. TH!) .ftTOCHSC Ift <•<>»!! i».IxKTK r Prices in Keeping with the Times, and Goods Musi be Sold. Call uirlv ami make your selections Kr We also BUY COTTON, and pay the highest Cash price tor »uho Ommlry Produce out, 5, 1877-ly XiXFK t The Following Table, being a partial List of losses paid by the rrs;;2.:3s^SSS3SS.]IIol)ile Life Insurance Company, Wlmiv nmcliliii'H arc ordered bv Kxprrn*. C. O. I». SL^l-iaWsr •An Guarantee Satisfaction, ori I'-r.'VcMr'i *1 u red lc; ifif'oVx ii>r our now ITIl'o-LIsI ami Pt?rchat»e SINGER aulhorizod A^uts only. PRINCIPAL OPFICR. OUK. li. W. LEONARD, Ag.-H. AGENTS WANTED.^ u;i board, HtnbJe Or livery bilR.uto. L. G. ItAV, C. i.r.t.e ing Agent, P'dk county. S. 1’. fill Ki’AKD, so, hut so-,riling everythin!; which is Canvassing Agent, Cleh mie county false or deceitful. And when old Ala. jan. 31-fiui j .,11 your, fi'uris I Youth.—Youth, like everything ; Cll j™ else, must he cherished, mo, sqoftn-j p. tiered; and, if wo waste it frivolous dissipation, ago iv before years. The luster we travel . 34 UNION SQUAUE NEW the sooner will we pet lo the soil of oW journey. Enjoy youth in every reasonable way whilst we have it, hut always remember that eve y time yon overdraw on 'it yon are ooiiiraelmg a debt oliieli most be repaid ivilli heavy interest in the fiuiiru. itelaiiii youth as long as yon nan, oegl.-ciiiil; nothing which will ass 1 yon io doing Atlantic and 1 will, despile contrary—110- cepl the inevitable grncclnlly, and do out attempt lo disguise nuv to disown it. I never hurry in first plowing— preierVing. that the corn should have sufficient height and stalk to slum! ns much dirt us possible. In plow ing the first time 1 side wiili aud long hull tongue, breaking tlii middles with a large The Weekly Cunsiitu.ion. Wiihin the course ol a month we shall begin the pnhlieaUon of a sto ry of Southern file and elmi'aclor, entitled “Tin-: lioMANon in; Kuck- vil.Ui.” from the pen of Air. .1. O. Harris, author of Uncle Remus’ lie- vivul Hymn, and I lie must popular writer in perhaps, nil the 8qntli.— ' id X His abundant humor anil graphic descriptions uie well known in Hour- at Home gin. The nmv story will lie liisnmst uiuhiliousellbi't, and Tin: Co.Ns'mu- ■ri.i:, confidently promises its patrons a t-.i)-• - filer, ry treat. Thu story ivi.ll a1.1 ar m The Weekly Uoostitotion nor, and will run tlirogli several a:.,. Clubs should lie made op a- single suhseriptiulis sent io willi am delay by all who desire to read this story of Georgia’s favorite hu morist. The price of the Weekly is SfiJ a free. Address Tun OuHb'muTioH, Atlanta, On. 1.1?. miss, DEALER IN Stoves and Tinware, 'CM DART OWN, GA. FA V OIUTK 1’ U13 LIU AT i ON S 1 1101 now prepared to sell STOVBS ^ rvr xj W .4 SI Et ?rices. nil kinds of r i’iii uml Slice!, Iron Work. T;OOJ'IX(i 'and gctteiunu bom* a 13 fihuip as an y «• ne. 1 solicit the tmde ol Mcrchnuls. ; - If you don’t buliqvc f sell TIN OluMip, comound geo for ./your self and lit convinced. ,1., i.c-.- ESTABLISHED IN 1851) mcGEfliJi&SS’S Temple cf Music. W ooom.o.-en,;,- ' oy A STEJXWAV, KNAI3E DUk'li VM, ., IIACON & KARR and J. & C. Ft SI IE R Depot, 104 EEADE STREET, New Yorls. vAixiiirs }. ©. d/i}1 oAAgd, d^roprietoG J GA„ The. Table Supplied With th /Jest the iJarhl A finis. itSTkA stiai'c uf Dublin Patronage Solicited. Terms Rcnsonabl Bn im *.«UUIJ| ^ ii mmt lull ll.'julv, \ ’ir W.E.Ireadaway, Charges Be stiro and give 1 yon n ant to take a ; W. F. TRIAD A Way. fob. 28 3m .0® Painodelod, Refurnished and Remonetized- “Where the Hungry cease from Huff ring, and the weary find a rest.” tjgK'The patronage ol the public respectfully solicited.-ful rr-szsxFtjvrEs esast 1 . MILLAR, Proprietor, jan.l73ui CEDARTOWN, GA. WILMS DOWELL, WITH B. H. G©©BS ^ CO. 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