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THE fIWIILTIW ffEEKLV VISITOR.
[Written for the Visitor.]
Facts, Figures, Fertilizers, and
Food for Body and Mind.
Prepared by an Old Farmer , upon
Rainy Pays.
A BOOT GUANOS.
Guano, or huanu, means, in the
Quickua language, manure excre
ment ed by terns, cranes, pelicans, fla
mingos, men-of-war birds, garnets,
mews, divers, etc., and by turtles and
seals—the exuvae of the last, accord
ing to Humbolt, having accumulated
ou the uninhabited islands and rocky
promontories to the depth of sixty
feet, at the rate of a half inch in 300
years; or having accumulated for the
last (or first and last) 432,000 years.
Humbolt, in 1806, sent a sample to
some Parisian chemists. Mr. Skin
ner, editor of the American Farmer,
in 1824, received two barrels. It was
first experimented with in England,
in 1810. The enormous crops it pro
duced induced a fear among the far
mers that it would exhaust, or pull
out, all the strength of the soil. But
experiments proved there was no in
jury, when a plentiful supply of veg
etable matter was furnished.
In England, from its permanent in
troduction, within fifteen years, there
were used 1,564,915 tons.
There are, a great many kinds and
names of guanos, with varied degrees
of fertility. The Bolivian, or Peru
vian, Ichaboe, Anagamos, Chilian,
Columbian, Galapagos, Mexican, Pat
agonia, Saldanha, of the native, or
origiual kinds, and of the manipula
ted, the Pacific, Patapsco, Phcenix,
Eureka, Chesapeake, Lobos, Zell’s,
Dunham’s, Stonewall, S C. Fertili
zer, Dickson’s, Pendleton’s, Logan’s,
Hunt, Rankin & Co.’s, Holt’s, Mo
ses’, Bryan’s, Hood’s, and perhaps as
many more—all and each of the afore
said originals and manipulations ex
ceeding, in their superior qualities
and properties, all others, and each
respectively or combined, and forti
fied in their extraordinary claims by
the best and most orthodox farmers
of this and all other lands ; each and
all yielding, in increased crops, from
100 to 500 per cent, over the unaided
soil; so that, in their general and
universal use, we may look out for a
speedy return to that stage of the
world or earth when sin, not having
entered and “ brought death and all
our woes,” it brought forth sponta
neously, and without diminution or
reserve, whatever was most useful,
and only useful, in support of life and
fullest blissful administration to every
sense and taste of seeing, smelling or
tasting, without a briar to scratch or
thistle to impede. Indeed, it may
not he improbable that in the near
future, into which we have already
cast Half our living and all our expec
tancies, we may be funning on the
last bout of the great circle in and
by which all nature moves, from the
acorn that springs a tree on which
the acorn forms and falls again to re
produce the tree, to the sun, moon
and stars, which, from lime’s begin
ning, have never failed, in their yearly
and monthly and daily rounds, to
bring, as of old promised, summer
and winter, seed time and harvest;
and having performed the great circle
of time, go back to primitive fertility
and abundance.
Science is exploring amid the ruins
of cursed nature, and extracting the
scattered fertilizing agents from their
hidden; deposits and utilizing them
for that universal spontanietv which
distinguished the thornless state.
Like all things else of wonderful
effects, these guanos have borne high
prices, and, in the midst of the fu
rious demand consequent, an imita
tion was as good as an original, bat
ing a slight discount in price, to give
credit to fairness in confessing the
imitation, but not one jot nor tittle
in abatement of its resulting effects,
Peruvian guano is confessedly a
pure guano, and the purest, perhaps,
of all others. In a ton of this guano
there is about 17 per cent of ammo
nia, equal to 340 lbs., at 12£c., would
make of ammonia $42 50
About 23.48 per cent of phos
phates, equal to 470 lbs. in
a ton, at lsc 7 05
$49 55
If I remember right, most all the
manipulated guanos never claimed
more than from 3 to 4 per cent of
ammonia, and perhaps not more than
6or 7 per cent of phosphates. Four
per cent of ammonia wonld make, in
a ton, 80 lbs. of ammonia, at 12£
cents $lO 00
7 per cent, phosphates wonld
make about 140 lbs. phos
phates, at
sl2 10
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1873.
There are some other agents, such
as ammoniated salts, lime, sulphuric
acid, alkaline salts, silicum, etc.,
amounting to a dollar or two more.
And yet we have paid from SSO to
upwards of SIOO a ton, in the last
three or four years, and feel, even
now, ve y much disappointed, and
fearful of a failing crop, if we fail to
get it at some of these prices. I said
per ton. Very lately it has come to
pass that some took it into their
heads to weigh it in the country, and
the difference in the country steel
yards and the manufacturer’s scales
is about from 200 to 300 lbs. in the
ton in favor of the manufacturer’s
scales vs, the countryman.
But most all of it has gone into the
ground, honored and trusted in the
brand. And why not?
I have heard of someone having
experimented from 200 lbs. down to
150, to 125, to 100, and to 75, and
could detect no difference—7s is just
as good as 200. I trust my friend
will be spared long enough to come
on down even to the number that
would have saved Sodom. lam in* -
duced to think it will soon come
down to that number, in the dollars*
ifnotin the pounds. Indeed, I look'
for it in both the dollars and po’ujifljMi
I confidently expect, by Prof. Me
sa’s contributions of science in this
line, who is now in Paris getting np
a book, in a few years we shall be
able, with a can and suitable appara
tus or machinery, to go forth into,
the fields and pump into the soil the
combination of nitrogen, phosphorus,
potash and lime, and the atmosphere
and the soil furnishing the other ten
agents which enter into the organism
and growth of all plants, we shall
have spelt through from Alpha to
Omega, and “time shall be no more?
this side of the new heavens and the
new earth.
I feel under many and great obli
gations to Prof. Mussa, of Italy, for
his late revelation; for I had entered
upon the-plan of supplying my liwle
farm with all the vegetable matter I
could in the form of leaves, straw;
and trash of eyery description;
Studiously avoiding toll ‘fire, t?ven to
the burning of briars and small brush;
but thrusting them into every liule
or big break, wash, or barr en spot,
thereby thinking to furnish some solid
food for the tired soil to preserve
and recuperate its wasting strength
under the heavy stijuulants bestowed
from year to year.
There being but fourteen ingredi
ents necessary and afctual in
and the soil and air furnishing ten of
these always, and no prospect of ex
haustion of them for centuries 'io
come, if ever, demonstrates very
clearly that in any or all soils there
can lack but four, and they, nitrogen,
phosphorus, potash and lime, being
supplied, the ultima tlinle offertiliza.
lion is readied, and we may . expect
to see turnips raised as big as they
were in Pliny’s time, weighing forty
pounds; or big as Amalus mentions
them, weighing fifty pounds; or as
Mathiolus mentions, weighing nearly
one hundred pounds. Indeed, I think
California has produced them weigh
ing forty-live pounds. Now, they
knew nothing about nitrogen, phos
phorus, potash and lime as fertilizers,
when they raised those turnips. Let
us see how many turnips we could
raise on an acre, a tnrnip to a square
foot, weighing 25 lbs. There being
43,560 square feet in an acre, we
have the yield of 1,059,000 lbs., or
upwards of 544 tons. Heretofore,
we have been able to raise perhaps
400 or 500 bushels, or about 30,000
lbs., or 15 tons, by using about 400
lbs. guano, 20 bushels bone dust, 6
bushels bones dissolved in 100 lbs.
sulphuric acid, 250 lbs. superphos
phate of lime, 30 bushels wood ashes,
and 1,000 bushels well rotted barn
yard manure, or about 60,000 or
70,000 lbs. manure.
We have no account of the pump
kin (cucurbita pepo) beyond the mid
dle ages. Pliny, and those other
turnip men, either forgot to mention,
or had never seen them. In our own
country we have raised them from
80 to —well, big enough for a sow
and pigs. Now, if we can restore
the size of the ancient turnips, which
were twenty times as big as any we
ever saw, what sort of pumpkins and
all other cucurbetaceous vegetables
may we raise under the influence of
nitrogen, phosphorus, potash, and
lime? Why, as big as tobacco hogs
heads, or bigger. And then, think
of the corn and cotton in proportion!
Peabody corn will grow big enough
to toss into a wagon body on a windy
day, and hold in a close log crib; and
Dickson will issue a hew Book of his
life, on narrow rows and close-bear
ing couton, of which he will have a
few thousand bushels to sell; and as
I am a little ambitious, I just wish to
predict the ho very great improbabil
ity of making two crops of cotton in
a year, in middle Georgia, in a few
years’ lime.
A not far off neighbor made a small
crop last year, planted the first of
August, and another gentleman found
that cotton in six-feet rows made
more than in three-feet rows—there
being the same number .of stalks per
acre. Plant your-cotton in six-feet
rows, the first of April, and Dickson’s
select, improved, concentrated-bear
ing cotton, in the middle, about the
first of June, and, by the aid of a
little nitrogen, phosphorus, potash,
and lime, all. the world will be clothed
with cheap material by that broad
and unselfish philanthropy that gen
erously concludes that it is as right
to be clothed well as fed well.
We may revert to taxes at another
time, and how about cotton at ten
£ents next winter, etc., etc.
What Shall We Do with Our
* Daughters 1
; - Apropbs of Mrs. Livermore’s late
lecture! Oil the'above important ques
tion, the Davenport Democrat thus
sensibly makes answer:
Bring them up in the way they
should go.
Give them a good, substantial,
common education,
Teach them how to cook a good
meal of victuals.
Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.
Teach them how to darn stockings
and sew on buttons.. j
Teach them how to make their
own dresses.
Teach them to make shirts.
Teach them to make bread. i.
Teach them all the mysteries of
tha kitchen, the dining-room and the
parlor. tioi-i • ’
Teach them that a dollar jsionly.
one hundred oenlfo,
‘Teach them tHWt the more otic lives
within their income, the, more they
will save.
Teach them that the further one
lives beyond their income, tlie nearer
they get to the poor-house.
Teach them to wear calico dresses,
and to do it like a queen.
Teach them Jl-hat a round, rosy
is worth fifty delicate-con
.stimptives.
Teach them to w’ear thick, warm
shoes.
’ Teach them to do marketing for
the family.
Teach them to foot up store bills.
Teach them that God made them
in His own image, and that no amount
of tight lacing will improve the
mode.
Teach them every-day, hard, prac
tical common sense.
Teach them self reliance.
Teach them that a good! steady,
greasy mechanic without a cent is
worth a dozen oily pated loafers 'in
broadcloth.
Teach them to have nothing to do
with intemperate and dissolute young
men.
Teach them to climb apple trees,
go fishing, cultivate a garden, and
drife a road team or farm wagon.
Teach them accomplishments—mu
sic, pointing, drawing—if you Irate
the time and money to do it with.
Teach them not to paint and pow-
der. r- ...
Teach them not to wear false hair.
Teach them to say “ no,” and mean
it; or “yes,” and stick to it.
Teach them to regard the morals,
not the money, of the beaux.
Teach them the essentials of life—
truth, honesty uprightness—then, at
a suitable age, let them marry.
Rely upon it, that upon your teach
ing depends, in a great measure, the
weal or woe of their after life.
'(The most important teaching of
all is omitted in the aftove. It is to
bring your children early to the Sa
viour of sinners.—En. Visitor.)
JEST* A drummer went mad at In
dianapolis lately, and puzzled his em
ployer in New York by telegraphing
to send on immediately one oarrql of
condensed beef, thirteen steamboats,
one medium white elephant, and ten
gross of J une bugs, assorted.
If you get on horseback be
fore the sun is up, it is a sign that
you will have a band in a bridal.
What is that which makes
every one sick bui those who swal
low it? Flattery.
From the Franklin News.
MY CAMP MEETING SCRAPE.
BY SANDY HIGGINS,
I used to have one grand objec
tion to the camp meeting business,
and that was the way they had of
watching a fellow to see if he had
any whisky about his dry goods. I
always attended all of the occasions
that were in reach of me, because I
was hound to be wherever there was
a crowd. A meeting, or a barbecue,
or a circus, or anything else that
brought peoj 1c together, was the
place for me, and I hardly ever man
aged to get away without showing
the crowd what a fool man can be,
when he has the right kind of a
chance to let out what is in him.
But, as I said at the start, I objected
to their way of nosing around for
whisky, heoanse that was the staff of
life with me, and I didn’t like to have
it interfered with. I remember that
1 once got into a beutiful scrape by
taking liquor to such a place, and
I'll ease my conscience by relating it.
I had been very hard at work, and
couldn’t get off till Saturday morn
ing, and then I joined in with two
other fellows, and wo hitched up an
old mule tq a little wagon, so that
we could take our rations and drink
along with us, and be independent,
for we were so infernally mean that
nobody would ask us to stay at their
tent, and we were so full of devil
ment that we didn’t want to put up
with decent people, so honors were
even on that score.
When we reached the place we
found a general turn out; everybody
was there, and most of em’ had their
wives and ohildi en along. Wo found
they had a guard appointed, with
strict orders to destroy all the whisky
they could find, and keep the owner
under arrest till the meeting was
over. This was a pretty light law,
and I and Bill Sanders and Tom
Long decided that one of ns should
keep watch at the wagon, while the
other two were prowling about.
You see we only had one gallon
along, if that was destroyed'' tvA"
knew we’d have to leave the place,
for it was simply out of the question
to stay there without red eye. So
We slopped our train outside of the
crowd by the edge ef a big swamp,
arid arranged the order of business.
Bill was to stand guard till dinner,
then Tom was to take his turn, and
I finish the day.
While I was knocking about in the
crowd ! noticed along-legged, lank
riided preacher named Faggs, who
always gave the bojs more trouble
than all the guards that could be
posted. He could smell a bottle of
whisky three quarters of a mile,
against a March storm, and when he
did get his nose set on it he’d march
as straight to it as a crow could fly, and
then good bye, tangle-foot! I never
could tell what use he put it to, for
fie Wtts never known to throw any of
it aWay, and there was a tumor
among the boys that he could hold
as much of it as a family churn. He
didn’t get much preaohing to do, for
hi was not very popular among the
women; 80 he spent most of his
spare time hanging around with his
nose in the air, trying to catch a
scent. I kept my eye on him during
the day, and when my time came to
watch, I told the boys not to lose
sight of him, or he’d catch us sure.
Well, about sundown I was sit
ting in tlie wagon, about half asleep,
wishing for night to come so I could
he relieved. I had just taken a good
drink, and was leaning back with the
jng between nay. legs, when I heard
steps, and: before I could bat my
eyes, old FaggS was peeping in at
me like he wg* watching a mouse.
“Well, Sandy, l ’ said he, “what
have yon got in tbatjug?”
“ Buttermilk,” said I. “ You see,”
I continued, by way of explanation,
“I doit never drink anything but
buttermilk, and I thought I’d bring
some along with me.”
“Avery good idee,” said he, “and
I’m precious fond of buttermilk, so
I’ll just taste it.”
“Well,” said I, holding the jug
tight between my knees, “it ain’t
good buttermilk, by any means: in
fact, ifs awfu' sorry milk.”
“Nevertheless, I have a strong de
sire to taste it,” he continued, and
reaching his long arm in, he pulled
the jug out and took a good long
smell at it.
“ Ah,” said he, turning up his eyes
till I could nearly see the roots of
them, “it’s vile whisky, just as I ex-
pected. I’m sorry to say that I feel
it my duty to destroy this accursed
stuff, and take you back to the stand.”
I thought I’d try the the bluff
game, so I replied: “And I’m soriy
to say if you don’t take yourself back
I’ll double your head and heels to
gether and stick ’em! ”
But he MjHfc scare worth a but
ton ; he justßpko the jug with one
hand and reSSKed out after me with
the other. I had a good notion to
sail into him, but didn’t, for there
was entirely too much of him, so I
broke for the swamp, and he after
me, calling for help. I soon reached
the timber, and about the thiid jump
landed waist deep ; n the mud, where
I stuck. It was so dark iti there
hat old Faggs couldn’t see me, and
after peeping about a li: lie be took a
good pull at the jug, and marched off
How I did wish it was a bomb shell,
and I had a chance to touch it off!
But I couldn’t help myself, so I set
about consideiing my position. It
was 100 late in season for moccasins,
which took some of the dread off my
mind, but the mud and water wore
cold, and after wailiug awhile to see
that nobody else wps com>ng. I pulled
myself out in no very pleasant state
of mind, you may swear. I felt,
“ wet, ma’am, very wet,” as Mr. Ouiy
said when ho fell into the creek, and
I was cold, and my now breeches
were muddy, and the whisky was
clean gone! That was the worst
slam of tho whole thing, and I
groaned with vexation of spirit., and
ground my teeth together, and swore
a right smart chance. While I was
thus enjoying myself, Bill and Tom
came up to get a drink.
“Where is tho whisky, Saudy?”
‘nquired Tom, when he found the
jug gone.
“ Ask old Faggs,” said I savagely.
"For God’s sake, Sandy!” Baid
Bill,, “ you don’t mean to say that
you’ve let that old bean pole tote off
all the linker ? ”
“No, I didn't let him,” said I; “he
done it without any letting about it,
and if I hadn’t got into the swamp
he’d caused me with it’A-
“Here is the d—11” said Torn,
setting down on the wagon body,
and looking as if he was in the last
stage of the toothache. “ Here we
are ten miles from home, and it Sat
urday night, and no whisky! Wh3t
in the dingnation will we do ? ”
I tried to console him, but he re
fused to be comforted, and swore jie
had a good notion to turn the whole
camp ground over. However, it ail
did no good, and as there was no
prospect of anything to drink, we
tumbled into the wagon and went to
sleep.
I was determined to have satisfac
tion out of somebody* so when Sun
day came 1 watched everything that
was going on, waiting for a chance
to do something to somebody. I
found out that Faggs was to preach
at night, and during the evening I
saw him walking out to the thickest
part of the woods, back of the tents.
Whipping around, I got where I
could watch his movements, and saw
him take a black bottle from under a
log and turn it up to his mouth. He
held it there till I thought he’d lose
his breath, but finally cut the drink
off, and, putting the bottle back,
stole back to the crowd.
As soon as he was out of sight, I
went up, and I’ll be blessed if he
didn’t have nearly a quart of peach
and honey! Here was a discovery,
flhnd,it didn’t take me long to empty
part of the good stuff into my stom
ach. Then I hurried back and hunted
up Dr, Wilson who was as mean as I
was, and got enough calomel to phy
sio an elephant, and made my way
back to the woods. After taking
another pull at it, I poured in my
medicine, and hid myself to watch
the course of events.
Well about dark he sneaked back,
took a huge drink, and hurried off to
begin his preaching. Then I pitched
the bottle into the swamp, and hunt
ing up Bill and Tom, took a seat in
front of the pulpit, where I could
watch the proceedings. Presently
Faggs rose and said:
“ Brethren, I feel very much re
vived to night.”
“If you knew what was in that
bottle, old fellow,” thought I, “you
wouldn’t revive much!"
“I say, brethren,” continued he,
“ the spirit of the Lord worketh in me
mightily.”
“Never mind,” thought I, “there’ll
be another spirit at work in you
pretly soon!”
“Aud I tell you, brethren,’’ he went
$2 A YEAR
on, “ my bowels yearn over this con
gregation.”
“Just keep on,” I thought, “and if
your bowels don’t ‘yearn’ with some
thing else pretty soon, there’s no vir
tue in old Sampson.”
After going on this way a few min
utes, I saw him put his hands about
a foot below his stomach, and loan
over like something hurt him, and 1
said to Tom:
“ I’ll be hanged if I don’t believo
he’s going to shut himself up like 4
barlow knife.”
Tom told me to be quiet, hut the
scene was getting so interesting that
I could hardly keep my seat. Thef
old fellow would roll up his eyes likd
a calf choked with a corn cob, hut
the commotion going on in his “in-'
erds ” was not very favorable to puto
pit exercises, and I knew his preach
ing would come to a close rather
sudden. Finally he gave a grunt
that would have done credit to a wild
boar, and with a mighty leap htf
cleared the pulpit and struck for tall
timber, groanmg at every jump with
surprising energy. The women think
ing he had gone crazy, went to scream
ing and shouting, the men to praying,
while I enjoyed the fun, not even let
ting Tom and Bill know what was the
matter, though they guessed pretty
well at it.
It didn’t quite kill him, but next
day he didn’t look bigger about the
waist than a yearling deer, and it
was said that he couldn’t even eat
fixed chicken. Whether he sus
pected mo or not I can’t say, and
didn’t care, but I thought I was
about even.
A Noble Girl,
Notwithstanding the fact that metl
receive higher wages for labor than
women, there are more girls laying
up handsome sums of money than
there are young men who save tt
cent.
Not long since, a delicate-looking
girl Bent home to Ireland money to
pay the passage to America of another
irrember of the family, who dfllircd
to come here and work and earn a
home. Said a lady to 1 the girl:
“ Why does not your brother send
the money? He has been in the
country longer than you, and ought
to have saved quite an amount.”'
“Oh, ma’am, my brother would never
send it; he spends as fast as he earns*
and roost always foolishly : in drink*
ing and unfitting himself for work,
I am willing to deny myself clothing
for the sake of the little ones at
home.”
you share your wages with
them all the time ?”
“ Yes ma’am, I send money home
every three months—more than half
I earn.”
“ Does your brothor ever send
any?”
“ Not much: once or twice since I
came to America, four years ago, he
has sent ten dollars.”
“Are you not afraid if another
brother comes to this country,.he
will follow the example of his older
brother, and become improvident and
addicted to drinking?”
“ Sometimes that fear troubles me*
bat I believe he will do better* for be
was always a wteer boy.”
That girl is brave and noble.
Quietly she pursues her dutie, and
denies herself adornment and pleas
ures, although she is pretty, and may
be supposed to delight in gratifying
the vanities which possess almost all
comely women.
The helpless ones at home are find
in her heart, and for their sake* she
toils from year to year, perhaps think
ing that some time the right man
will come along who will marry her
and take her to h s home.
As the habils of young men now
are, there is not one among a thous
and worthy of becoming her hus
band, and the wisest thing she can
do is to remain single, unless she
meets the one who has the manhood
to resist the temptations that beset
the youth of these times to steal away
their senses with rum, aud rifle
tbe ; r pockets of wages.— Elm Orlov.
4 ■ l “
LF 1 “ Bob, where’s the State of
matrimony ? ” “ It’s one of the Uni
ted States. It is bounded by bug
ging and kissing on one side, by ba
bies and cradles on the other, lit
chief products are population, broom
sticks and staying out late of nights.
It was discovered by Adam and Eve
in trying to find a northwest passage
out of Paradise.’*