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US. A. WRIGHT; aG^NT.
THE WASHINGTON 6AZETTE.
Tr*n»—Three Dollars a year, in adeanee
THE LITTLE SOBS OF WHITE.
BY MBS). S. T. a'Kiiar.
cradle a baby ley ;
iTmother wai stitching, stitching away
t On a little robe of white.
One foot on the rocker, she hoped to keep
Her frolijsoroe baby fast asleep,
To finViiisgr work that night.
lit every stitch of the garment she wrought
That loving mother fastened a thought—
Hopei for that little (me—-
And smiled on her babe with a happy pride I
As it slept in its cradle by Wi side,
£ JTiH that little robe was done.
Then she folded up the cambric and lace,
And kieaed her little oneVi eßubby face.
That united in lie. infaut glee
Bha towed it op and daws ia
How pretty yWll look, L you j
That new little robe, said she.
In a roaewood coffin the baby lay—
Its mother bed wept the night away,
J Watching ita dying breath,
i/ Wilh It clasped to;her breast she prayed to
keep
Her darling baby from going to sleep
In cold trail of death.
they Wgk in (be garment just
WJwast. heflS a hopeful thought—
mot|kr*« sight.
with a (ear,
many
la that liuta •'
Fr«m its rote* away.
In the realms o?
The angels a garment had :.>{df3lShot»t, |
rW - -W6E* FOB THE KJUTH.
ra ' !;? SVisi -etduont
* of the early jin ri ofKarchjhaire
all the preparations for
j ydtting in crop*—but few days com
tv|>aratively in that month being fit for
and pton jhing, bedding or planting.
Cbr*.— I Though tbo cotton planting
season is at band, do not fail to put
in plenty of corn. All lands intended
for cotton, that are imperfectly and
rongbly prepared, bad better be de
voted to corn and other crops. The
necessarily high rates we aro now
paying for corn, when the expense of
several hundred miles of transporta
tion has to bo added to the original
post Os production; its current high
price where produced, and the fact
that our railroad communication with
the Northwest aro liable to bo brokon
up by such floods as we have had the
past month, admonish us to plant a
largo crop of this great staple. Make
our own corn cheap and abundant.
Corn will render labor cheaper and
easier to obtain. Cotton is a great
erop, but we have yet to seo the plant
er that from small beginnings has
made himself a fortuno, who has con
fined his Agricultural operations to tho
production of cotton. Tho thriving
planters of our acquaintance, while
they made cotton the main product,
lookod sharply after other crops, and
somehow did it, too, without seeming
to make little if any less of the staple
than their neighbors. Besides cotton
so sell, they generally managed to
have plenty of com, wbat, peas, po
tatoes and bacon for home consump
tion, and in their carefulness to make
a sure thing of this, ordinarily had
a£#omelbing over. We don’t think it
tbs present interest of the planting
States to make wheat, corn or bacon
far export, but wo do believe they
should produce enough for home con
sumption. The time spent in hauling
corn from the depot, would do a good
deal toward producing it at home, —
Add to this the fact that on most plan
tations, about corn enough to run
them can be made, without any mate
rial interference with the production
of cotton, and then the other fact,'
that the man who makes both com
and cotton has, in a bad year two
chances to escape utter failure ; for, if
bis corn is made at home, he has that
sure, while, if a planter depends on
cotton to buy his corn, and the cotton
crop fails, he is <‘dead broke,” having
no resource—neither corn nor cotton.
Make corn, then—produce everything
in the way of food and forage needed
to keep np youi 1 place, and let the
j cotton sold, above what is required
{ for the wages of the bands, represent;
| the net profit of the estate.
Then manure heavily—plow deep—
use the best and heaviest seed you mp
obtain. And lot your after-culturo be
of the most thorough character
working close and deep at the early
stage'of the crop, but very shallow
when the roots extend, so that they
may be unbroken. Indoed, these few
things constitute tho whole system of
corn growing ; deep breaking up, es
pecially under the row—planting tho
corn below tho genet al level—plenty
of manuro applied—thorough early
working and frequent shallow stirring
of tho surface, during tho growth of
the crop, with scraper and sweep.
Colton. — lf you aro suro you have
got onough of corn and other crops
planted to supply your wants—ma
king a liberal allowance for the un
| certainty of the seasons, then plant
cotton. Nip other crop produced for
sale if properly managed, will draw so
little from mother earth. There are
instances of level lands, with iio otljer
manuring thaif resting the land every
second or third .year, and tho return
of all the seed and plant to the soil, in
which the lost* crops picked were
ninth better than tho first. Wo have
Mr. Dickson’s word and cxamplo, to
: prove that a ootton plantation can be
!so managed that its productiveness
I will increase each year, and tho annu
al increase of tho crop will pay a
heavy profit on tho- monoy expended
in fertilizers. And, mark it, this way
of managing a couon plantation, after
a little, is tho only one that will pay
with any certainty.
-In planting cotton, it is a great
Ahin-g to have tho ground in proper
Ordec at fifjt—tho beds straight, if the
Bui face admits, or if not, without ab
rupt curve*. .Take time, tVfen, to
have the soil well jrftiparotl* oven il
you plaot fever rVeCii# • Tac4£jtro„w
will he found useful In pulveriz'r-ig tho
surface of tbo beds, when rough and
cloddy. While it is very Important j.o_
got an early stand, it ig butler secured
by a thoroughly prepared soil, than
by hasty, Untimely planting.
Swoet potatoes, bedded Inst month,
will soon begin to furnish “draws.”
Good, fair, sandy soils, and plenty of
manuro, are the prime requisites for
success. Break your ground very deep
—open wido and deep furrows—scat
ter good, well-rotted manuro, or rot
ted chips, ashes, &c\, thickly along in
this furrow, and throw on that a broad
and rather flat bed—run over this bed
lightly, with a rako to pulvcrizo and
level it, and you aro ready for plant
ing,. Tho “draws” should be caroful
ly taken—the roots dipped in a thick
batter, mado with woods earth, ashes
and fresh cow-dung, equal parts stir
red into water, and the plants set with
a “dibble” or other stick, about 15 or
18 inches apart in the row. If tho
weather is very dry, plant after 4 P. M ,
and pour a gill or 60 of water around
the root of each “draw,” leaving only
dry earth on the surface, to prevent too
rapid evaporation, from next day’s
sun. Tho after culture consists in
lightly scraping the sides of the beds,
to keep the weeds down, and stirring
tho earth a little, if it shows a tenden
cy to bake or become bard. As goon
as tho vines begin to cover the ridges
and spread across the rows, you may
lay the crop by. Close attention to
these hints, (with the blessing of
Providence,) will ensure a good yield ;
and the crop ought to be larger this
year than ever before.
Chinese sugar cane, for syrup,
should be planted as soon as the
weather becomes settled and warm—
a little after corn planting time. Tbo
people of the West, where the climate
is not so favorable for this plant as
with us, are still planting it largely,
for the production of syrup and fodder
—much more so than ourselves. It
may be planted much later than corn,
for a syrup crop ; but ifyou want, also,
an after crop of forage and (perhaps)
seed, you should plant soon.
Corn in tb6 drill, Millet, Hungarian
Grass and other forage crops must be
put in largely—but it is entirely use
less to plant these quick-growing and
exhaustive green crops, nnless you
prepare the ground most deeply and
thoroughly, and apply “any quantity"
of manure. Early crops of cow peas
WILKES roixfY, G*FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 19,1897.
may also be sown. For fodder, we
prefer to sow them in the drill, but if
'intended to turn under for manure,
sow broadcasts
Jerusalem Artichokes may be plan
ted in low spots, waste places, sides of
gullies, &c., ann will yield good food j
for bogs. -Y
Plant also, if your soil is sandy”a
few acres in “Goober peas,” which
will bo found very useful for your
fattening swinaa
Plant, also, fne Chufa, or “ Earth
Almond” largely. It is a most proli
fieground nut, highly relished by hogs,
ehiokens and—people generally 1
Southern Cultivator.
EXPERIENCE OF A PRACTICAL FARMER, j
Editors Telegraph— Gentlemen : 1 j
send you an extract from a letter re- j
ceived by me from David Dickson, ofl
Hancock county, The stress of tho
lifto war drove me into his neighbor
hood, and gave mo an opportunity of
learning much af the system and suc
cess of this enterprising planter. Fif
teen years beforo tho war, he com
menced planting oh what was consid
ered light sandy lands, much exhaus
ted, with a capital of #25,000. When
tho war broko out, his capital was
eighteen timos largor This result
was brought about by his energy and
system; by improved modes of cul
ture; by itnproveir in agricultural
implements; by ;Jiention to tho
health and comfort of his laborers; by
nursing and protecting his stock; jind
care bestowed upon his bees, bis or
chards and diary. Abovo all, and
mainly, his golden harvest was reaped
from tho judicious uso of fertilizers.
Believing the views he advances will
nteresting to your agricultural j
reaJets, the extract from his letter is
submitted, with tho hope that his ex
ample may be imitated by our planters*
e lours, respectfully,
JAMES A. NIS BET.
f
EXTRACT.
During tho lust year, I loarnt some
valuable new lessons: Ouo was the
truiniug of hands to double tbo amount
of work, with more ease and less
waste of sweat and muscle. My for
mer hands being better trained than
otbrs, had better offers than I could
give, and nine-tenths of them left mo.
1 then employed hands from as many
as forty plantations, and got none
that know how to work to any advan
tage. I had Imuda before the war
that could pick 600 pounds of cotton
in a day, all by day-light, and ail
bands that went to the field averaged
300 pounds per day, without a lick or
a white man in the field. All of my
trained bands have now applied to
come back, preferiing one third of the
crop gathered on my place, to one
half on the places worked last year.
Whilst 1 owned them they told me to
plant 33 acres in corn and cotton, and
17 in wheat and oats, and they would
cnltivate it with my aid, in preference
to 20 acres under an overseer, and
could do it with more ease. My crops
before the war averaged me 81‘000 per
hand. I divided thus : S2OO for ma
nure ; 8200 for horse power, tools, &c.;
#3OO for land and S3OO for labor. My
estimate is now, wheu hands work
well, to divide as follows :
First take pay for all purchased ma
nure—the balance to go one-third for
land rent—one-third for borse-power
and all tools, including gin, wagons
carts, wheat-thrasher, &c., hoes and
axes excepted, which each hand should
furnish—and one-third to the laborer,
being divided among the bands that
produce; the cotton seed to be return
ed to the land, and all crops left in the
field angalhored, to go to the owner
of the land.
Now as to commercial manuros, &c.
I am written frequently to know of
whom I purchase, and what kind I use.
John Merryman & Cos., of Baltimore
are my agents, but there are other
parties who will do justice. Money is
so plentiful at the North, that specu
lators purchase each cargo aB soon as
it arrives, and hold it for an advanco,
so that the planters and farmers mast
act npon some uniform plan. The
ooly plan I see now, that will do any
good, is this: Bend your check on to
Baltimore, with instructions to pur
chase any manipulated or mixed ma-
nures. Many' of them, no doubt, have
merits, bft the.planter had better do
his Then he will know
what ho las got, and save the profit.
The bosun*anures bring the bolls on
cotton eafly, and a drouth then, with
half a cwdj would check the growth ;
whilst thj ootton with an inferior ma
nure, amibut few bolls, would bo injur
ed ; the yams setting in would injure
tbo first far more than the last. (?) The
manuresU am now using are composed
thus : Hbruvian Guano, Bonos, Salt
and Piaster—one hundred pounds of
the last/ Bones are but es limited
supply) yesort must bo had to some of
| the phosphatic Guanos, of which Co
lumbia paid best, but is now exhausted.
The true plan, is to try all manures
on thei* own merits—then do your
own so|ecting and compounding.—
There a|e somo ot tho phospbatio Gu
anos thit I have cot tried, but my
opinion is, that they aro too high to
pay a profit. Manure should yield at
least doable the cost, to pay for capi
tal, labor, taxes and all risks of worms,
drouth, flood, &o.
-< Very truly yours,
DAVID DICKSON.
Hancock County, Jan. 2, 1867.
[Southern Cultivator.
FOUR THINGS.
We hope our readors will not think
that we are unseasonably ‘harping upon
one string,’ when we again insist upon
the necessity of laying delinito plans
for work to be done. This makes the
difforooce between success and failure
betvieou thrift and unthrift, provi
ded, oj‘ course, that such plans ure
may be, and are, carried out.
An oft' funner knows by experience
done, by what has been,
unii itjs well for the young farmer not
to undertake too much. Depend upon
it, time will not hang heavy on your
bunds,. ; l)o what you u undertake thor
oughly. well, but ao not “'putter*’ anil
fuss to no account. Especially regard
four things : First —“ Your own health
and that of tho family, especially that
of tbo good wife—relieving her in
every possiblo way, by servants, by
washing maebiuo and wringer, by sew
ing-rauchino, by your own helpful care,
solicitude, and interest in her work
and cares. Second — System: Having
everything go according to a precon
certed plan. Third — Time: Being
prompt, up early, having choies done,
breukfust ready at tho rnomont, and
the work of the day begun as nearly
as possible at the same hour daily—
and so Ibrough tho day. Bosidos, al
lowing full resting spells, permit no
loitering of men or teams. Fourth :
If you employ one or more hands,
impose a Strict responsibility in regard
to ccriain work, and enforce tho sumo.
Thus things will go smoothly.
There is one thing farmers aro very
apt to neglect, and that is tbo kitchen
garden—many of them hardly glance
at the hints in another column. A
good Vegetable garden is the most
profitable part cf any farm. Manure
will pay best applied there, and labor
will produce more comfort, food and
gratification if oxpended in tho garden
than elsewhere. And in tho neigh
borhood of villages there aro always
quick sales for fresh vegetables, and
by the preparation of a little more
ground and a small additional cost for
seed and tillage, no inconsiderable in
come may be derived. Think of this
while making plans for March and
April work.— American Ayriculturist.
Deep PLOuoniNa—We have our
self experience in deep ploughing.—
Our experience is that one good mule
can turn over the best of our land
quite as deep as it is judicious to turn
it; but let a subsoil plough follow in
tho same furrow without turning np
the earth. The best crops we have
ever made were by this method, and
we tbiok we will be backed by far
mers generally that we are correct in
our experience and judgment.
A lew Northern plauters thepastyear
came South to teach the people how
to farm, but in the sequel they have
found out to tbeir cost that what can
be done North, is not practicable
South. They have failed in their an
ticipations, notwithstanding occa
sional boasts before the had seen the
results— Milledgeville Recorder.
ROTHSCHILD AND WATERLOO.
Rothschild's greatest achievement
n over-reaching distances and his fel
low-spooutatora was in 1815. He was
near the chateau do Hougoumont on
tho 18th of Juno, watching as eagerly
as tho leaders, Bonaparte and Wel
lington themselves, tho progress of
the battle of Waterloo. All day long
ho followed the fighting with strained
eyes, knowing that on its issue depen
ded his weltaro as well as Europe’s.
At sunset ho saw that tbo victory was
with Wellington and tho Allies. Then,
without a momont’s delay, ho moun
ted a horse that had been kept in
readiness for him, and hurried home
wards. Everywhere on his road fresh
horses or carriages wero in waiting to
help him ground.
Riding or driving all night, ho
reached Ostond at daybreak, to find
the sea so stormy that tho boatmen
refueod to trust themselves to it. At
last he prevailed upon a fisherman to
mako the venture for a reward of £BO.
In that way ho reached Dover. At
Dover, and at tho intermediate stages
on the road to London, other horses
wore in waiting, and he was in Lon
don before midnight. Next morning,
tho morning of tho 20lh of June, ho
was one of the first to entor the Stock
Exchange. In gloomy whisper ho
told those who, as usual, crowded
round him for nows, that Blucher and
his Prussians bad been routed by Na
poleon before Wellington bad bee i
able to reach tho field; by himself ho
could not possibly succoed, and, there
fore. the caußO of England and her
allies was gone.
Tho funds fell as they were meant
to fall. Every one was anxious to
sell, and Rothschild and his accredit
ed agents sooffod at all who brought
them scrip for purchaso. But scores
of unknown agents were at work all
that day, and all the next. Before
the Stock Exchango closed on tho af-
Eernodn'or tfio second day,'when Na
than Rothschild’s strong boxes were
full of paper, ho announced, an hour
or so before the nows came through
other channels, tho real issuo of the'
contest. Vory soon tho funds were
higher than they' had boen during
many previous weeks; and Roths
child found that he had mado some
thing like a million pounds by his
quick traveling nnd clover misrepre
sentation. Other millions wrro col
lected, rather more slowly, by other
transactions of a liko nature.— Nathan
Meyer Rothschild. By 11. R. Fox
Bournn.
INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SOCIETY-
It is better for you to pass an eve
ning now and then in a lady’s draw
ing room, oven though tho conversa
tion bo slow, and you know the girl’s
song by heart, than in a club, tavern,
or pit of a theatro.
All amusements of youth to which
virtuous wonion aro not admitted—
roly on it—are deleterious in tbeir
nature.
All men who avoid female society,
have dull perceptions, and are stupid
or have gross tastes, and revolt
against what is pure. Your club
swaggerers, who aro sucking the
butts of billiard cues all night, call
female society insipid. Poetry is in
sipid to a yokel; beauty haß no
charm for a blind man; music does
not pleaso a poor beast who does not
know one tune from another; and as
a poor epicure is hardly over tired of
-water sauchy and brown broad and
butter, I protest that I can sit for a
wholo night talking to a well-regu
lated and kindly woman, about her
girl’s coming ont, her boy at college,
and liko the evening’s entertain
ment.
Ono of tho great benefits a man
derives from woman’s society, is that
be is bound to be respectful to them.
The habit is of great good to your
moral man, depend upon it. Our edu
cation makes most of us selfish men
of the world. We fight for ourselves,
we push for ourselves, we yawn for
ourselves, we light our pipes and say
we won’t go out; we prefer ourselves
and our case; and tbo groatest good
that'ieomes to man from woman’s soci
ety, is that he has somebody to
think for himself, somebody to whom
he is bound to be constantly attentive
and respctful.— \Thackeray.
VOL. I.—NO. 52.
RULES EOR A MINISTER.
Rule 1. It becomes a m i Ulster’s do
ty at all times to be serious and pray
erful.
2. His conversation should be such
as he would expect from a St. Paul or
St. John.
3 A minister should not fool that
bis work is accomplished when ho has
preached to a congregation; but h*
should warn each man privately with
the same zeal that he displayed in tbo
pulpit.
4. Watch your brethren of like pro
fession, or they will jest and talk the
Spirit of Christ entirely out of your
heart—a dangerous enemy your friend
will prove.
5. Do not bo satisfied with merely
saying your prayers, but wrestle with
God in secret, and He will manifest
Himself to you in public.
6. Examine yourself at the close of
each day, and ask yourself if you have
been as earnest in serving God as you
have been to procuro tomporal bles
sings.
7. At the close of every Sabbath ex
amine and ascertain whether you havo
warned your brethren faithfully.
8. Spend half an hour every morn
ing in secret prayer and meditation.
9. Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy. When you visit on Sun
day, or call to take dinner, instead of
looking at gardens and talking of
crops, be bent in your mind to leave a
blessing, and - do not leave until you
havo prayed with the family.
Death at the Bekakfabt-Tablh
—Robert Bruco, a celebrated Scotoh
minister, sat at his broakfast-tablo one
morning. Having oaten a boiled egg,
ho turned to his daughter and said :
“I think lam you hungry; you may
bring me nnotbor egg.”
He then grew thoughtful a moment,
and musing a little, added ;
“Hold, daughtor, hold 1 my Master
calloth me!”
Here his sight failed him ; but cal
ling for a Bible, lie requested his
daughter to place his finger on Ro
mans 8 : 38, 39. This being done be
repeated tbo vorso, dwelling especially
on, “I am persuaded that neither life
nor death shall bo able to separate me
from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus my Lord." He then
said:
“God be with you, my children. I
have bronkfasted with yon, and shall
sup with my Lord Jesus Christ this
night 1”
These wore his last words, lor, with
out a Bhiver or a groan, be at once
started on his flight to everlasting
glory.
Roudor, you broakfastod with your
family circle this morning. Suppose,
like the good Mr. Bruce, you should
die suddenly to-day, with whom would
you sup to-night ?—Good Newt.
Wiiat Industry Will Do.—The
Waco (Texas) Register says last year
a young man living near that place—
let his namo bo known—Albert Sears
rented a piece of good land, hired one
good old froedraan, and with his own
hands went to work to cultivate the
soil. Ho worked manfully and well,
and now for the fruits of his industry:
Ho has gatberered twenty bales of
cotton, two thousand bushels of corn,
and made four hundred gallons of
molasses from sorghum. He has also
some corn to spare. He has sold six
teen hundred bushels of corn for
twelve hundred dollars in gold, ob
tained threo hundred for his molasses,
and his cotton is good for eighteen
hundred more—making in all throe
thousand and three hundred dollars.
He was at some trifling expense da,
ring the cotton picking time.
Absurd. To make 400 gallons of
syrup in cotton picking time besides
gathering all that cotton would wo
should think require “ some trifling
extra expense,” for labor, above what
any two hands could do.— Ed. So.
Cult.— S. Cultivator.
The New Yobk Chubcues and Soltiibrs
Relief. —A New York letter to the Philadel
phia Ledger eaye:
“There is every reason to bslieve that the
contributions of the churches to-morrow, iu
response to the Southern Relief Committee,
will be on the most liberal scale. Tbs Catho
lics, for once, will cordially unite with Protes
tants, and Protestants with Catholics, ia the
good work.