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THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
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ELUJAY, GA., MARCH 8. 1883.
Oeficial Orgaw of Fannin Cos.
Official Organ of Gilmbk Cos.
Official Organ of Pickens Cos
FARMERS COLUMN,
It will be an interesting study
to make a calculation of the dif
ference of yield per acre of corn
which a slight change of method,
or a change of variety, produces.
Very tall growing corn must
have room and requires 5 feet
between the hills, and a lesser
height will do at 44 feet, and a
medium height will require 4
feet. We will leave out the
dwarf varieties because the pro
duction per stalk lessens, but
here are limitations within which
the yield per stalk, or tor each
hill, can be reckoned uniform.
To simplify the calculation let
ns assume that we have all good
corn, well growo and well ripen
ed, then we may take 100 ears for
a bushel and not be far out ol
the way, but it must be extra
good corn that will do this.
There are 43,560 square feet in
an acre. This is 208 teet 9 inches
each way, very nearly. This will
give for corn rows 4 feet apart
52,17 rows and 2721f hills to an
acre, if 44 feet apart we shall
have 46.39 rows and 2152 hills
per acre ; if 5 feet apart it will
be 41f rows and 1742 hills per
acre.
[f the land is good and strong
we can grow 3 ears to the hill,not
countihg nubbins. This will
yield, at 4 feet apart, and 100
good ears to the bushel as before
assumed, 81 6-10 bushels ; if 4£
Dari 64$ bushels, and if 5 feci
apart 62$ bushels per acre.
Here the difference between 4
feet and 6 leet, all other things
being equal, is over 29 bushels
per acre, an increase over the 5
feet space of something more
than 50 per cent , and an increase
in favor of 4$ feet over the 5 feet
space of 12$ bushels, or about 25
per cent.
It will be understood, of course,
that a very tall growiug variety
should not be planted close as
that would result in lessening the
yield, but the comparison is
made to show the value of a va
riety of medium height, that
yields the same size ears, and the
greater number of them that can
be grown on the same space.
Instead of allowing 3 ears to
the hill let us make the compari
son on the basis of 2 ears to ac
comodate poor land.
In this case the 4 feet space
will give 54 4-10 bushels; the 4$
feet 43 busnels, and the 5 feel
34 8-10 bushels—a reduction ot
one-third sll around.
This offers another point of
comparison to show how losses
count up from various causes. If
the ground is poor and an aver
age of only 2 ears can be gather
ed here is a loss of one-third of a
crop requiring just the same la
bor to make it as a full crop,
which in the case of the 4 feet
space is 27 bushels per acre.
27 bushels of corn at 50 cents
per bushel will pay for a good
deal of manure—enough to im
prove the corn on several acrs.
Manure is the source of the far
mer’s wealth. The- soil cannot
independently yield crops with
out feeding it. If you would
have large crops you must feed
the soil to restore its fertility and
return to it the equivalent ot
what you are taking from it.
WIRE WORMS -AND CUT WORMS.
These are both destructive to
the young corn, and both pests
are due to the same cause, viz :
letting the land get foul with
grasses and weeds that afford
hnanrting, plans and food for them.
When the plowing takes place
and con*.is promptly planted the
trouble begins shortly thereafter.
I?* 6 plowing has destroyed
enough of the fra*l and youug
weed* to snip '’lend scarce for
thMQ#Q gp tW attack the
ewf. JgfaM land is the
only remedy for this loss. It may
be accomplished best by fall
plowing and should be early
enough tQ. turn the trash under
while it is greeu. This will not
only destroy these worms in the
egg before they are born, but
the decay of the trash manures
the land lor the next year’s corn
crop.
Early spring plowing may,
perhaps, do as well to kill off
these vermin, but the benefit to
the soil ol having I he crop plowed
under green is lost. It the crop
of trash is dry and much of it,
instead of burning it off', a good
mould board turning plow should
be used as in the case ol the tail
plowing, and all the stuff should
be turned under. It will keep
the soil light and mellow during
the spring rains and warmer, too,
by letting the air tlitough it and
the water a couple ol inches low
er from the suriace. This helps
to hasten the early growth ol the
corn ; it takes deep root and
stands the summer drouth belter.
Very much benefit in the way
of fertilizing the land is lost to
the farmer from the habit of us
ing a bull tongue to scratch the
soil instead of a good mould
board plow. This obliges them
to burn trash because iney have
i o means of covering it, and in
case of grassy land to mtrely
tear it up without turning under,
which, if the weather is wet, does
little good towards killing it. A
“twister'’ is no belter than a bull
tongue for this purpose. What
is needed is a real plow that will
turn the land instead of scratch
ing it.
A No w el and Useful Invention-
From Commercial World.
The number and variety of improve
ments and inventions in which electricity
plays a leading part are constantly increas
ing, and seem in fact to have no limit.
One of tue most ingenious contrivances
of a very useful nature, to which this
agent has been applided, lias recently been
shown to your correspondent by the Port
able Electric Light Cos., of No. 22 Water
Street, Boston.
The valuable invention is known as the
Portable Electric Lighter. This lighter
is of the greatest utility in the household,
the shop, the factory, the mill, the mine
and in fact anywhere and everywhere that
a safe, economica and instantaneous light
may be required. Aside from its value as
above named, its principal merits is its ex
treme simplicity of construction and per
fect freedom from any possiblity ot explo
sion. It is ao entirely tree from compli
cating devices that a child can readily be
taugbt to use it. In the Portable Electric
Lighter we have the exemplification of
electricity for lighting purposes, being
produced by chemical action instead of
motive power. The chemicals are placed
in a glass retort, a carbon and zinc appa
ratus, with a spiral platinum attachment,
is then adjusted so as to form a battery,
and the Portable Electric Lighter is ready
for use. The mear pressure of a finger on
a little knob, which is connected with
the battery, produces an electric current
by which the spiral of platinum is heated
to incandescence, resulting in a clear white
flame. The demand for the Portable Elec
tric Light attained such astonishing propor
tions within sixty days from the lime of
its introduction to the public, that the owu
ner of the patents was induced to the ta
rnation of a joint stock company, with a
capital sufficient to meet all requirements
of manufacturing on a large scale, in order
that this valuable invention may be placed
within tbe reach of all The Portable
Electric Light Comyany was recently in
corporated with a capital ot fKKi.boo, and
Mr. David Miseli, under whose care the
Portable Electric Ligter has been brought
to its present state of perfection, was ap
pointed general manager in the Un : ted
States. Tbe undoubted usefulness of tbe
apparatus manufactured by the Portable
Electric Light company, and the low
price ($0) at which it is sold, will no doubt
result in its general adoption by tbe public.
Some of tbe promineut business men of
the Old Bay State are identified with this
new enterprise, which promises to develop
into an extensive industry.
How She Saved Her Darling.
“1 shall not teel so nervous
about baby’s teething.” writes a
grateful mother. ‘‘We almost
lost our darling from cholera in
fantum, but happily heard of
Parkdr’s Ginger Tonic in time.
A few spoonfuls soon cured baby,
and an occasional dose keeps us
in good health.’,—Brooklyn
Mother.
Farmers and others desiring a genteel
lucrative agency business, by which $5 to
S2O a day can be earned, send address at
once,on postal, to H.C. Wilkinson & Cos.,
198 and 19T Fulton Street, Mew York.
State
Selected from Oar Exchanges.
Columbus pays annually SIOOO,
000 in insurance.
There are 21 cases of small
pox in DeKalb county.
Waynesboro boasts of much
building going on there.
A negro female burglar has
been arrested in Grf!in.
There are 150 newspapers and
periodicals published in this
Slate.
An Oglethorpe farmer lihr
Irish potatoes as large ns bird’s
eggs.
The chaingang of Floyd county
is maeademizing the roads of
that county.
There is a small cork tree
growing in the yard of (J. M. Hay.
of Atnencus.
Only six deal Its were reported
in Augusta for the week ending
February 17th.
The superior court dockets ol
Murray county are now lighter
than since the war.
Filty pounds of dynamite was
found stored under a railroad
bridge in Atlanta.
The Legislature will be asked
in July to charter a cotton facto
ry at Gainesville.
A Clay count v negro was fined
twenty-five dollars and costs for
cruelty to animals.
The body of a while child was
found buried in a flour sack in
the streets of Augusta.
The bridge across the Chatta
hoochee, near Gumming, will
soon be rebuilt.
It is prophesied that the fire
men’s parade in Macon, on April
16lb, will be a grand success.
A ma;i in Chattahoochee coun
ty over seventy years of age, is
the father of a bran new pairs of
iwins.
The report, that a man named
Timberlake had attempted sui
cide in Covington last week is
without foundation.
The increase in Augusta’s cot
ton manufacturing properly since
the census of 1880 has been about
$3,000,000.
There is a man living at the
Rock who has not combed his
head in ten years, and the cock
le-Durs are in his hair.
There were 465 more liquor
saloons in Georgia in 1881 than
1882. There are still 2517 saloons
now in the Slate.
A piece of General George
Washinglon’s hat is among the
curiosities of a Murray county
family. And Albany lias a Jock
of his hair.
A Jackson man hauled five
skunks out of a hole in success
ion, and then filled the hole with
water and sold it for a mineral
water spring.
Ex Governor and Senator-elect
Colquitt, of Georgia, lectured in
Cleveland, Ohio, recently and
was introduced to the audience
by ex-Presidenl Hayes,
The Geargia Pacific Railroad
has been finished lrom Atlanta
to Anniston, Alabama, with the
exception of about h mile and a
half at the tunnel, aud some
fifteen miles east of Anniston.
Catoosa Courier : We under
stand Mr. J. M Lee has offered
to build at Crawfish Springs a
SIO,OOO court house, and give it.
to Walker county, provided the
county site is moved to Crawfish
Springs.
A Marietta man bought an
empty whisky barrel to make
tubs trom, and on sawing open
the barrel found a lot of rotten
tobacco and other stuff. Yet
peouie will drink ibis poison and
refuse to vote for prohibition.
A committee has been ap
pointed by the Town Council of
Cedartown to consider the
sceme of suDplying water to the
towp in case of fire bv means of
the force pump of the Cherokee
Iron Works, and pipes conveying
water into the town.
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
A rather singular and let ua
hope for the sake of humanity
improbable rumor has made its
appearanc apropos of the panic
in the German Catholic School on
Fourth Street. It is claimed that
the fire which caused the disas
trous alarm was not the result of
an accident, but the work of a
findish incendiary, and that the
villain was a member of the So
cialists and Communists whose
headquarters is in the German
section ol the city. One of the
sisters claims that when she came
out ot her schoolroom after the
alarm had been give.i, she was
knocked down by a strange man
who was in the corridor at the
lime, and the first ot the would
be rescuers, who rushed into the
building and did so much harm
that they could not have done
worse iiad they tried. The po
lice are quietly working up the
matter, aud should it be found to
be true it will go bare with the
fiend. These German Socialist’s
are a verv hard set, aud although
they profess to be wonderfully
et.lightened in their views, ami
liberal in their ways and ideas,
they as a body (for they aie
of course superior exceptions)
manage to show as tiller a hearl
lessuess and mental depravity as
to tairly horrify one. When the
lourteen little victims ot the dis
aster were buried last Thursday,
a man in the crowd, who was
known to be a shining light in
the parly yelled out, “may fire
and destruction come down on
every church, every convent and
every school in charge of the
priests and nuns,” aud the by
-1 slanders in Ihe vicinity took lh s
as a matter of course. The ru
mor alluded to above may not be
true, but certainly the source to
which the alleged ciuue is at
tributed is so thoroughly bad
that it readily receives credence
among the uou-cominunislic res
idents of “Lillie Germany.’’
Ex-Governor Tilden’s new
house in town—for that it prac
tically is—is rapidly approaching
completion. Something over a
year ago Mr. Tilden decided to
transform his two fine houses
Nos. 13 and 15 Gramercy Hark
into one, and proposed to ex
pend about $50,000 lor that pur
pose. The work has been going
on since then, but the expendi
ture already foots up nearly
$201,000. The new structure is
not one of those pretentious and
showy affairs which the Vauder
bill’s, the Californians and the
nouveanx riches generally affect
but it shows generally good.laste
and farnilaritv with architecture
The main style is Gothic, al
though the excellences of every
other known styl e of architecture
is introduced. The house has a
frontage ot 60 and aidepth of 110
leet. On a basis of Jersey brown
stone rises the superstructure of
delicate pink Scotch sandstone.
Narrow belts of highly polished
Maine granite unite the two.
The main entrance which is the
Gov’s, old house is a fine specimen arch
itectural design. -Four columns of polisn
ed Maine grauite support the porch. On the
columns rest tour half length figures rep
resenting the seasons of the year, They
uphold a granite slab forming the roof of
the porch. Two bay windows run up the
third floor, and between is a panel of
brown atone, in the centre of which is ciJ
the head of Benjamin Franklin. The
heads of Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe aud
Dante, occupy the four corners. Stained
glass windows will admit the light in all
the revived art. The interior is finished
throughout in hardwood, and particularly
the library ia being fitted up with all that
a quiet and refined taste can suggest. Mr.
Tilden has not exactly a large or a rare
library. It contains about twenty thou
sand volumes, but outside of bis law books
it contains a large number of valuable rare
volumes Immeasurably useful to the stu
dents, There are no curiosities there sim
ply for the sake of being curious, every
thing must have a purpose.
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Poor Oirls.
The poorest girls in the world
are those who have never been
taught to work. Rich parents
have petted them; they haye been
taught to despise labor and de
pend on others for a living and
are perfeetly helpless. If mis
fortune comes upon their friends,
at H ofton does, their case is
hnpelflis. Tlje most, forlorn and
miserable women upon earth be
long to this class, it belongs to
parents to protect their daugh
ters lrom this deplorable condi
tion. They do them a great
wrong it they neglect it. Every
daughter should be taught to
earn her own living. The rich as
well as the poor require the train
ing. The wheel of fortune turns
swiftly aronnd—the rich are like
ly to become poor and the poor
rich, Skill to labor is certainly
no disadvantage to the rich, and
is indispensible to the poor.
Well to do parents must ed
ucate their daughters to work ;
no reform is more impeiative
than this. — Ex.
The murder of Mr. Jacob Shatt
er, which was perpetrated in the
campus of the Georgia Female
Seminary, in Gainesville, on the
night ol the 29ilt ol January lasi,
which has been shrouded in mys
tery ever since, lias been ferreted
mil by Detectives Hildebrand
and Blackslock, and the parlies,
Mrs. Sallie Mathews and Bill
Miller ol Gainesville, and Frank
Bowles of Jackson county, are
now in jail. Miller made,a full
confession. Sliauer had display
ed his gold at a bar room in
treating Bowles and Miller, who
allerwurds got llie Mathews wo
man to decoy Sliauer out at night,
when Bowies and Miller mmder
ed him lor his money, but the
noise lie made in the agonies ol
deatli scared them off and they
say they did not search him, al
though Shanei‘s money was miss
ing when he was found.
CONSUMPTION CURED.
An old physician, retiring from active
practice, having had placed ill bis hands
by an East India Mis-ionary the formula
of a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and |iermanent cure of Consump
tion, Brnnchittis, Catarrh, Asthma, aud
all throat and Lung affections, also a
positive and radical cure for General De
bility and all nervous complaints, after
having thoroughly tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands of cases,feels
it is his duty to make it known to bis fel
lows. The recipe, with full particulars,
directions for preparation aud use, and all,
necessary advice and instructions for suc
cessful treatment at your own home, will
he sent you hy return mail, free of charge,
by addresing with stamp or self-addressed
envelope. DK. J. C. If AY MON D,
164 Washington St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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