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FACT* ABOfT FAB M -
No one pretends that lands can be
tilled, from year to year, and crops be
gathered from them without occasion
ally replenishing the soil with some
kind of fertilizers. Every man of com
mon sense may know that manures ju
diciously applied to the meadow, the
pasture and the cultivated field, tend
to enrich them and render them more
productive, and thus to repay the ex
pense of the outlay. Does a man wish
to raise a good crop of wheat or corn
from a field that has been long tilled,
unless some fertilizers, as manure, lime
or plaster are used 1 Will old mead
ows continue from year to year to
yield a remunerative crop of hay, un
less they are treated in a similar way'?
Every experienced farmer will at once
answer these enquiries in the negative.
Suppose a considerable portion of a
man’s land is naturally wet aud clayey.
How shall such land be treated?
Why, ditching and draining are indis
pensable to render such a soil fit for
tillage. Meadows require more mois
ture than the cornfield; but the soil
may be too wet to yield a large crop
of grass. The draining of low lands
is, iri the view of a good farmer, not
only a work of utility but of necessity.
The man who neglects this work, neg
lects one of the elements of success in
farming.
There is a fact worthy of attention,
respecting the time when wheat, rye
and oats ought to be sown. These
kinds of grain are sown by some far
mers just when they happen to get
ready; and they are never ready in
season. Wheat, in particular, ought
to be sowed earlier than is generally
done. It is admitted that wheat
sowed on old ground at the close of
summer, is liable to be attacked by
insects ; but when thus sowed on new
land, it seldom is injured from this
cause. It will then have more time
to get deeply rooted in the soil, and j
thus be better able to resist the frosts i
of winter, aud in the following spring j
to start up with fresh vigor, aud grow j
and yield a large crop. Similar re- j
marks may be made respecting rye I
sowed in early autumn. Aud I may |
mention one fact about the oat crop, j
As soon as your ground in the spring ;
will admit of being plowed and har
rowed, let the oats be sown. As a |
general rule, early sown oats are found j
at the harvest to be heavier and more !
abundant than when sown weeks la- j
ter. Hence to sow late in May, and j
to plant corn in June, is the poor far-I
mer’s policy. Plowing and sowing j
must be done at the right time, or you |
may expect a lean harvest.
There is another fact which I com- |
mend to the notice of the superficial i
farmer. All the crops that require j
the plow and hoe in their cultivation,
must have the soil well prepared and j
pulverized, before thes^ed is commit- i
ted to it. In the case of beets, car- j
rots, onions, potatoes and corn these |
remarks are worthy of special atten
tion. lit a summer’s drouth frequent
stirring the soil and pulverizing it will j
enable tfie growing plant to imbibe
more moisture, and hence to resist the
blighting inlluence of the dry weather.
Facts like these which I have stated !
should not be overlooked and disre-,
garded by any who would profitably i
cultivate their lands.
But I wish now r to show how horses
and cattle are to be treated. With j
regard to the kind of feed to be given
to horses, there can be no great diver- j
sitv of opinion. The most important
feed for working horses is a mixture of
corn and oats ground. If this mixture ;
is wet and steamed, so much the bet- j
ter. Such feed keeps them in good j
heart, and gives them more strength ;
to work.
Remember that warm shelter must
be provided lor your horses and cattle
during the winter. Such shelter will
benefit your stock, and save fodder.
To expose your cattle to the severe
storms of winter—to the chilly East
winds and to the furious Western
blasts, is to cripple their energies and
impair their health, and retard their
growth. Be sure that you attempt to
keep no more stock in winter than j 7 ou
can feed well and provide for with a
good barn. Bear in mind that cattle want
no fast days, and that half starving
them is virtually filching money from
your own pocket.
But another topic I will suggest.
Do you keep fowls? If so, how are
you in the habit of treating them ? If
you expect to derive any profits from
them, tney must be well fed and cared j
for, like -ill other domestic animals, j
Such food as is adapted to their na-
tures, and meets their taste, must be 1
given them statedly and plentiful.
They must also have access to a box ,
of lime, plaster and gravel stones. By
such treatment you may expect them
to repay you with many a dozen of
eggs.
Finally, I may say, that the great
secret of success in every department
of fanning, istodo everything well, and
to doit in its proper season. By such
a course only can you gaiQ all the solid
advantages of farming.
CEBKJfT < I«iT1:K.V».
In household matters in the country
the use of raiuwoterin almost every
family is a necessity, because the well
water is rarely soft euougli for wash
ing purposes. To secure this rainwater,
cisterns are resorted to; and as I want
ed one or more, I consulted a mason,
who, after figuring and looking at my
ground, which is a stiff clay about
three feet deep, and then a shale or
soapstone rock, he decided he could
not build me a c j s t ern 0 f e jght feet
oeep and six feet diameter at a cost of
less than $25 or g:j 0 . Not disposed to
pay that amount, I set my hired man
to digging, and m one day he Jug and
shaped me out a cistern of the shape
of a common iron cooking pot, eight
feet deep, four feet diameter at top and
bottom, and widening to six feet in the
centre. This, in two hours’ time, the
next morning, I plastered once over
with one part water lime and two parts
sharp sand, and covered the top with
hewn oak posts. The next day, in
one hour’s time, I gave it a second but
thin coat of plaster, in all taking one
bushel and three pecks of water lime
and double the quantity of sand—
costing me, besides my owr time the
sum of not quite five dollars.
I practiced this course some 26 years
ago on clean sandy soil, and the cis
tern is to this day perfect, and has
never leaked.
Another cheap way of saving rain
water is to take an old cask, coat the
outside with coal tar, sink it in the
ground, bedding the bottom and sides
in clay well packed and at least six
inches thick. It is possible that in
sandy soil a mixture of the coal tar
with sand immediately around the
cask might make it watertight. Were
I now where I had sandy soil I would
try it?—Horticulturist.
From the Southern Cultivator.
MTKATE OV SODA.
Editors Softiiern Cultivator:—
It has been found by experiment, that
those substances act most powerfully
as manure, which are capable of yield
ing the largest quantity of nitrogen to
plants. Consequently, nitrate of am
monia ought to promote vegetation in
a greater degree than almost any other
saline substance; but the high price
of this salt, will ever prevent its em
ployment in the ordinary operations of
husbandry. In a scientific point of
view, it should be the care of the far
mer, to employ all the substances con
taining a large portion of nitrogen
which his farm affords, in the form of
animal excrements. Human urine is
the most powerful manure for all veg-:
etables containing nitrogen, and is
largely employed by the gardeners in i
Holland, for producing a rapid growth j
of vegetables. The quantity of food |
which animals take for their nourish
ment, depends on the amount of nitro- j
gen contained in it. “A horse may j
bo kept alive by feeding it on potatoes, |
which contain but a small portion of
nitrogen ; but life thus supported is a ,
gradual starvation—the animal in-!
creases neither in >ize or strength and!
sinks under every exertion.” So it is I
with plants. They must have suituble j
food, or they cannot be brought to a
high state of excellence.
As plants require many substances
for their perfect support, and nearly j
all natural manures, whether animal!
or vegetable, contain a mixture of sa-j
line substances, each of which exerts j
its special influence on the crop, so the
increase of produce, obtained by the j
aid of these manures, must be ascribed
not to the action of one of their con
stituents, but to the joiut action of
all.
Hence, the query : What mixture
of saline substances are likely to be
generally useful, and what especially
useful to certain crops? The n'trates ,
of potash andsoda, on account of their j
cheapness, have been largely used in ;
agriculture, and with manifest increase j
to the crop. Dr. Fleming, of Scot-j
land, found that the nitrate of soda ap
plied in a liquid form, at the rate of
1U0 to 200 lbs. io the acre, was a spe
cial fertilizer to strawberries.
The first visible effect of these ni
trates upon the crop, is to impart a
dark green color to the leave; second,
they hasten increase, and prolong the
growth; third, they generally increase
the growth and weight o( the foliage
and straw—though sometimes the
grain is not affected. In some cases,
the straw has been developed at the ex
pense of the grain.
Athens, Ga.,Jan. 1S6S.
nELOXM AO A IN.
Editors Southern Cultivator.—I
hope the readers of your journal will
not think melons my hobby. I mount- j
ed one or two and they took me into:
“the bog,” since which time I am op- j
posed to all ultra ism. Several gentle
men have request information as to the j
time and mode of planting, which to J
save a few stamps and a little time, I j
promised to give in your paper ill due j
time.
In February and March, breakup'
the land close and deep, and if an ear-!
lv crop is desired, cross break and lay j
off 10 by 10 or 12 feet and dig out fiorn
a foot to 18 inches. Fill with well
rotted manure, composed of rich
mould, stable, cowpen or fowl house:
and leached ashes, after having well;
mixed. Plant from 3 to 5 seed in a bill |
if seed are plentiful, plant as soon as
the danger of frost is over. If the
ground be in a good condition the seed
may be soaked for two or three days
—never soak when the ground is very
dry. When the plants are a week old
thin out to two ana plow and hoe well.
As soon as the plants show signs of
running, thin to one, plow and hoe
again and do not interupt the vines af
ter they commence running, but work
carefully with hand and hoe.—If a suc
cession of melons are desired, plant
again the first of May and from the 15
to the 25 of June and be sure you plant
no squash, pumpkin, or other vines in
the same patch, if you wish to reap
good seed, &c. I believe for market,
tfipse planted in June will “pay” bet
ter than the early ones, because they
are generally larger and fewer persons
have them. Many persons prefer guano
and the phosphates for manure. I be-
live all the phosphates I have tried
are very near a humbug, but allow
others to think for themselves. It
won’t pay to purchase foreign man
ures when we can make “good enough”
at home.
It matters not bow poor the land be
for melons—sandy, old worn out clay
or broomsedge, I believe the best, if
one peck of well rotted manure be
put to each hill and distance be given
the vines.
I have two or three other varieties,
for the present year,said, of course, to
be ‘the best in the world.” I hope we
will be able to judge of that for our
selves the approaching season.
I have sent all a few seed, who have
applied, except my old friend R. J.
Gage, and if he will give me his post
office he shall not be forgottou.
Tnos. R. Center.
new POINT IN A fiOO!) row.
“Dairyman,” in the Practical Farm
er, for September, presents a point in
ehosing a cow; which is new to us, but
there is certainly sound philosophy in
it. Other thinks being equal, he con
siders a cow, which brings her first
calf at a season of the year when feed
is fresh and tender and most produc
tive of milk, as the month of June,
worth twice as much as one that brings
her first calf in winter. He says he
saw a very promising half Alderney
heifer which took a premium at the
Pennsylvania State Fair, for which the money we laid out for agricultural
theower asked SCO. He offered to'papers was the best investment of all.
put it in practice. We had a field
which in some places yielded famous
crops of corn, but there were spots in
it where the corn refused to grow,
manure and tend it as we would.
This was about the time when the ag
riculturist began to make a good deal
of stir about draining. From the des
cription which my father read he was
strongly impressed with the probabili
ty that this was what his corn-field
needed to make it produce equally well
in all parts. As soon as possible the
field was thoroughly under drained.
The increase in the next crop nearly
paid the expense, and since then a
hundred bushels of corn to the acre
have been taken from the field.
After such a successful issue of our
first experiment we took more interest
than ever in making improvements on
the old routine of farming. One dry
bill meadow which never produced
hay enough to pay for cutting was
treated to a coat of plaster, and where
one ton had been cut before we now
had twelve. Sometimes, it is true,
our experiments were failures, hut on
the whole we were well paid, and
Selves up before your father gets his
part of the work done.”
It was so new to hear that eliprrful
voice that the boys immediately did
as their mother hod suggested.
Had it seemed like an order or com
mand thev would have dallied and
waited their owu time, but now they
felt the inspiration of some new power
acting somewhere. They could only
guess that there was some secret ot a
surprise waiting, and were glad to be
among the first to participate in the
fun.
“Is somebody coming ?” asked John
ny. “Not that I know of, dear. 1
give the price provided she was to
calve in June, but finding she was to
calve in February $30 was all he would
offer for her.
Long observation and experience
with heifers and their subsequent char
acter as milkers have satisfied him
that commencing milk in early sum
mer is an indispensable condition to a
good milker in afteryears, and the dif
ference is fully one-half in any grade
It laid the foundation of our success in
farming, and secured to us a competen
cy which we never could acquire by
the old system of farming.
HOW -H It. JOAFA FOUND OUT.
BY JARVIS WILTON.
“Why don’t you keep these children
. _ . _ , cleaner, and better dressed ? I’m sure
of stock. The philosophy of the dif-. j buy clothes enough to keep them
ference in favor of heifers comimr in foi ] 00 kj n g better than they do. And
the first of June, he states as follows:; tbe house is always upside down. It
I seems as if you might have your house
jin better order, and that our chil
dren might look as well as other peo
ple’s.”
! “I’d like to know what more I can
The grass being then in the best con- i
dition to produce a full How of milk,
all the parts, that tend to the secretion
of milk are developed to their utmost
capacity. The udder, the teats, and
milk veins become enlarged, perma
nently: and the best cows 1 ever raised
we had to commence milking several
weeks before they calved, to prevent
garget.”
The theory seems to be that the
milk vessels become fixed in their ca
pacity by their first use, or at least,
that their subsequent development
will be after the type they are first
made to assume. It is not reasonable
to suppose that a heifer two years old,
under any circumstances, will give as
much milk as the same animal will at
four years old, and with the same ante
cedents, and in this sense the milk
vessels cannot be fully developed with
the first calf, if the heifer be quite
young. But it is reasonable to sup-
their troubles and complaints to him
is this: %
The happiness of your wife depends
upon the continued demonstration of
your kindness and love towards her.
She cannot live without it, unless it is
a mere mechanical existence. To
make your home bright and cheerful,
and to keep your wife’s cheeks rosy as
ever, her smile fresh and sweet as new
blown roses from day to day, let her
be assured that you regard her as the
dearest and sweetest woman in the
world, and cannot live without her.
Mrs. Jones finds time to do her work
and instruct her children. They are
am hurrying to get the roOm in order (as boisterous as any other boys, but
so that we can all have a pleasant i there is something of gentleness in
evening together. But,'dear me ! The I their ways for all that. They look
babv is crying, and now it will all be ; upon tbeir mother as the fairest angel
spoiled.” 1 out of paradise, and are very careful
A little light shone into Johnny’s \ not to cause unnecessary trouble on
mind. His mother called him “dear” their account.. They are fast grow-
as she used to call him as long ago as i ;g into young men. but they do not
he could remember. He bau perhaps spend their evening around the corner
outgrow® it; it might bo only a word grocery nor sit on the fence gathering
suited to babies and small boys, but news. There in a cozy sitting room
it sounded very pleasantly in his ears, at home with books and papers, full of
and made him feel nearer to his moth- new things, aud with pleasant conver-
ers heart. sation and reading, they find the even-
80 he hastened to quiet the baby iug pass away more cheerfully than by
and amuse it, while his mother finished sitting on a barrel or wood box at the
her task. corner grocery.
Mrs. Jones never fails to put on that
‘Ah, hard work you soldiers have
do than I am doing every day. I
slave and toil from morning till night
from one year to another. If you
j was in my place I should like to see
if you could Jo any better.”
“I was at Mr. Gresham’s this morn-
, ing, their house was in perfect order
'and the children as clean and happy
as any one could ask for. They have
a larger family than we, and must
| have more work to do. It seems as |
j if you ought to do as well as Mrs. j
Gresham can.”
1 -“Yes. There it is. I thought you
1 had been at Mrs. Gresham’s or some- !
j where. I am sure I do the best I
can. The children are so noisy and :
troublesome, and I get so tired with \
the work I have to do that I have lit- '
had to-day. But it is done, and you particular dress and a fresh collar be-
may put on your clean jackets, if you fore tea time at least, if not for dinner
choose, for the evening.”
Mr. Jones sat milking. He had vvhis-
iled long enough.”
‘ Mary does work hard that’s a fact.
She looks tired and care worn. She
used to be so bright and cheerful,
singing from morning to night. Per
haps I was too hasty. She seemed
hurt by what I said. And well she
might when I, like a dunce, compared
her to Mrs. Gresham, and told the wo
man I have chosen above all others and
from all others, that another excels
her in the keeping of her house. She
is much changed from what she was.
It may be that I have changed
too.
She used to meet me so gladly when
I came home at night—but, well, i
don’t know as I have more to complain
time, and a neat white collar graces
her neck with any dress, whether in
the kitchen, dairy, or parlor.
She lias no desire to get into care
less habits of dress or of housekeeping
again, tor she found by experience
that they made her grow old too
fast
The last Milk from the Udder.—Dr.
Anderson, in “Dickerson’s Practical
Agriculturist,” says he has found by
practical analysis, in one instance, that
the cup of milk drawn from the cow’s
udder contained sixteen times as much
cream as the first one The separation
of cream from milk takes place in part
in the udder of the cow, particularly if
she is suffered to stand at rest for some
time previous to milking. If there are
sels in thair proportions to the age and
general development ofthe animal will
become fixed at the period alluded to,
and the idea is well worthy the atten
tion of every farmer.
Wisconsin Farmer.
well
; look well, and to
clean and sweet.
house
have my children
I can’t spend my
dependent in her nature than a man
anyhow, and she needs sympathy and
tenderness to keep her bright aud
cheerful more than lie does. It I ask
all this of her, I must give back bright
ness and love to make her burdens
lighter. I made a fooi of myself to
night. 1 will try ag; in in another
way.”
The tune he whistled going back to
pose that the type of the lacteal ves-, tle t i me for extra pains at fixing things ! f )a j wont to^ing^nthe Xysof
up nice, though mercy knows I like as I hig w0oin „ }Uld Mrs. Jones’ heart beat
as anybody to have my house j gJad , y ag ° he heard it. She hastened
: to the door to meet him, and before
, . „ , , r , - i , i they had thought of the strangeness
time to keep them out of the mud and j f the We i colue greeting had been
i water. They will play in the dirt. I j • 0
, ■■ Mr* Jon'« 'butTvc'set'.'fyou'ZngX i " T . h , is s , eems ,ik * , o1 J ‘T*’ “"fr”
_ , , , , c . “T. Jones, out j. ve seen juu uomg me gai( j \] r . Jones, as he sat down in the
“Some school teacher of excellent same when you wasn t quttelarge j tranaformed aittinR room,
observation and long experience 111 his nor so old as you are uovv. Children ;
profession, says that he has found it to are a great trouble, as every moth-
be the universal fact that those scliol- er of them finds to her heart’s content,
ars of all ages and both sexes who j though I don’t know as it is right to
have the privilege of a newspaper at call them troublesome. \Ye wouldn't
home are better readers, can pronounce [ike to have the little troubles taken
more correctly aud read more intelli- away from us and never hear their
gently, can spell more accurately, de- voices about our house any more.” 1
fine words with more precision, have i\ “Well, Jane that is true. We can
more practical knowledge ol geography bear many things, but we won’t think
which is acquired in half the time ne- of that. I don’t want to be hard or f
cessary for others, as the newspaper 1 too exacting, ouly a man likes to have |
teaches them the location of impor-} his owu house as pleasant and inviting
taut places of the nation, and the cur- as his neighbor’s in every respect,
rent events of history; are better gram- “Perhaps you are not so strong and
marians, can more readily compre-^ so well able jto do as much as Mrs.
bend and analyze the construction of Gresham. 1 know your house used to
language; can write their thoughts j be the tidiest, and most cheerful of any
more smoothly, more fully and more
correctly, and after an habitual read
ing of the newspaper can take more
of there than she has. But she ought people who doubt that there is a differ-
to keep herself and the children dress- 1 ence in the richness of m ilk first drawn
ed more neatly. A woman is more | from cow’s and that last drawn
Jecided part in conversation or debate,
exhibit a wider and more varied knowl
edge of subjects, than those who are
deprived of this advantage.”
We heartily endorse all that is said
in the above paragraph about newspa
pers, aud now let us add a little, in
particular, of what we know con
cerning the effect of “Agricultural p.t-
pers.”
My father was a retired physician,
he had been brought up on a farm
There was but one thing wrong,—
that was his wife’s dress,
worn the same old calico through all
her kitchen work of the morning. It
was faded, and not so clean as it should
be for an evening dress at home. He
wished his wife to dress so that no one
could say she was either shabbily or
slovenly dressed. He wished her to
be the same bright,smiling, and cheer
ful woman he had chosen to adorn his
home and share his life. He wished
bet to be nently and tidily dressed for
his sake.
There was a time once, within the
memory of man, when ayoung girl
took special pains about the style of
and in being dressed in good
their doubts will be speedily removed
by milking a half dozen cows and set
ting the first half drawn from each
cow separate from the last half.
A sharp tongue is the only edged
tool that grows keener with constant
use.
GODEY'S LADY’S BOOK,
For 1S6S.
The Cheapest of Ladies’ Magazines,
because it is the best.
I know of, and the sweetest and dear- ^ er ^ ,aI1 , . . , T .
est woman in the world used to meet taste to plea.-e his eve. . ov\, ta-uo-
me at the door with a welcome kiss ’ man had become dearer than toe mai-
when I came from work.” H«n was then, but was the hero she
And Mr. Jones stopped, as ifto wliis- 80U S ht to , P ! , ea f Iess noble tl,a, r ! theu ’
per something in her ear, but reullv j F^hap 8 be had ceased to mam est anv
, his lips touched he. s, as they had not care for these things, and so she had
done before in a long time. Then * wearied of striving to look charming
with the milk pail 011 his arm, lie went i * n bis eyes. _ bhe might have come 10
whistling toward the barn. j the conclusion that he cared nothing
Mrs. Jones was in a state of despon- i ^ or this now, that life \vas too teal and
rw*tr SU„. nrAnr>nn«‘miu r,f nnfljrr. I hard a filet tO be Used Up 111 USOltSS
cares and foolish trifles.
dency. She was conscious of unflag
ging labor on her part from day to day.
Still she could not keep things in such
order as she had once doue. Every
and knew how to manage a farm very thing seemed to go wrong,
well, after the old style, and being a j get breakfast and wash dishes, then
strong, athletic man, could do almost sweeping and dusting. By the time
all kinds of work faster than any man ; this was'done, Johnny or Freddy would
he could hire. I was a small boy then, ( have a torn jacket or coat to be rnend-
and I remember that, though our farm j ed, and when it was done she would
was, as a very expressive term has it, I find that while waiting for the gar-
rundown,” we had it in afew years meat they had been roiling mud mar-
in very good order. The fences were j bles across the kitchen floor or cutting
all relaid, the meadows were cleared j papers in the dining room. Oh, this
of stones, the outhouses repaired, the j trouble of a woman’s life in house-
brook confined to its proper channel j keeping. And worst of all, to have
by dikes and ditches; and by dint of j ber husband think another womau’s
hard work we soon had our farm in ; bouse was better kept than her own.
prime order. Beyond this we really Perhaps he repented having ever mar-
kr.ew very little about farming. As
to keeping any account ot the pro
ducts of certain fields or making any
notes of the effects of manures, or re
cording the pedigree of any of the
stock, or noticing the results of cross
ing, we never thought of such a thing.
We plowed and sowed as we supposed
had been done from time immemorial. j it had been. There was nothing to
Trying an experiment was not thought | cheer, but much to depress. Once
of. We raised about as good crops as ; s be had thought it would kill her to
our neighbors, and we never thought j have that dark, impatient frown and
clouded look come into the face of her
ried her. No. The old memories
were too true and sacred for that; be
sides, his reproof, though harsh at first,
was kind; lie had surely felt sorry
for having wounded her feelings by
them.
She would try to do her best, but
what use ? It would be the same as
“ I think I’ve been as much to
blame as she. But I’ll say nothing
It was ! more to her about it as words might
ouly make matters worse. I’ll get her
a new dress for home wear, something
pretty and becoming, and tell her how
to make it to suit me, and that when
she is happy I want her to wear this
particular dress when I come home io
tea. If that does not please that flut
tering little bird-heart of hers and as
sure her that I love and care for her as
a lover still, notwithstanding the ten
years of our married life, then I am
greatly mistaken.”
The next day when he came home
there was a smile and greeting for him.
The dress was uufolded and the special
directions given for trimming aud
wearing it. It may be we have no
business looking “ behind the scenes”
Edited by I£rs. S. J. HALS, and
L. A. GODE7.
In the Lady’s Book, Literature, Fashions and
Art arc equally treated. It contains fourteen
beautiful bieel engravings each year. Several of
the most popular lady writers in the United
States coiuiibute to iis literature. Marion Ilar-
laud will furnish anew novel for 1868 called Phe-
inie Rowland, which will run tbiougb the year.
cj _ The Fashion plates, of the latest style, drawing
■ let - s0,iS ' music and receipts upon every subject,
*'* diversify and enrich the pages of the Lady’s
Book.
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the person gettiug up the club, making
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azine will be sent one year on receipt of *4 00.
Godey's Lady’s Book and The Children's
Hour wiii be sent one year ou receipt of $3 50.
Godey's Lady’s Book. Arthur’s Magazine, and
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of doing more. About this time the
adjoining farm changed owners. The
new comer proved to be an intelligent
man, a good neighbor—soon an intima
cy sprang up between him and my
father. He believed in book farming,
and soon, through his influence, we
took and studied very carefully several
agricultural “Journals.” They were
something new to us; our curiosity
was awakened; we had never heard of
such things before; we began to think,
that it would be a nice thing to try
experiments and notice the results.
One t iing I remember attracted my
father’s notice, and be determined to
husband, and to hear him speak as he
had done but a few minutes before.
She rose from the table, cleared it,
and washed the tea things. Theu she
went to the door. John and Freddy
were busy throwing up entrench
ments around an imaginary fort. It
had rained t the night before.
“Boys,” she called in the soft, mild
tones of the old time. Instantly they
looked up from their play to see what
caused that change of tone from the
usual one of impatience.
“Bring in the wood and kindlings
for the morning fires, and tidy your-
BRITISH PERIODICALS.
Y1Z
The London Quarterly Review (Conservative)
The Edinburgh Review (Whig),
The il'estnifuster Review (Radical),
The ^ or lb British Review (Free Church),
AND
Eia;hwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (Tory),
The foreign periodicals above enumerated are
regularly republished by us iu the same style and
with the si>no pioiuptness as heretofore. Those
who know them ai d who have long subscribed to
them, need no reminder from ns ; those whom the
civil ar <>t the last few years has deprived of their
once wtleomo supply ot the best periodical litera
ture, will be glad to have our publications again
hrongkt within their reach ; and those who, resid
ing tar inland, remote from the centres of com
merce ami :teratt:re, may never yet have met
with t! cm. wilt assuredly be well pleased to have
the means pointed out of bringing accredited re
ports of the progress of European science and lit
erature to their homesteads in the Wester* prai
ries or the Southern plantations. The Four Re
views and Blackwood, comprising the series sbove
on such occasions ; but positively, Mrs. described, arc Republished at the following rates,
Jones threw her delicate arms around
DAWSON & HAM,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
NO. 229 BROADWAY,
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OTTPiTS, cfcc,
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6 ly.pii
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T HIS HOTEL is centrally situated in the bus
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Oct. 10,1867. lll vr
POEMS, BY MARI E. TCCKER,
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(Governor or Georoie.)
Published by
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*.* The second edition is now in press and will
hortly be ready for delivery.
For Sale in Milledgeville by J. II. Nichols.
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Mr. J’s neck, and with a face full of
joy, kissed him. Something glistened
in her eyes very like tears as she did
so.
“ Why these tears, my darling ?”
“Oh, I am so very happy. You
have come back to me and care for
me now. It seemed as if I had lost
your love and had nothiug to keep my
heart up. That was why I
please you so well with my house
keeping. You don’t know how much
lighter the burdeus are now since I
feel sure; that you love me as you used
to when we were first married.”
Mr. Jones carried a light heart - J
thereafter. He had learned the secret
of domestic happiness. His home was
more pleasant and attractive, his chil
dren in better humor and cleaner since
he had made his discovery. The ad
vice he gives to those who confide
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For all four of the Reviews 12 00 “
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the Reviews 10 00 *’
For Blackwood and thieo of
the Berviews 13 00 “
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Reviews ...15 00 “
Considering that the cost of printing has more
did IlOt than doubled since 1861, these prices are extreme
!y low. Tlie original English Editions would
cost in U. S. Currency mare than treble these rates
at the present time,
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PUBLISHERS,
9 140 Fulton Street, New York
M
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> TICIPATING POLICIES
ON FARM AND CITY PROPERTY,
As Low as the Prompt Payment of Losses will permit
CF*No extra chargefor insurance against Lightning
and Tornado.
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J R EBK1NGER, Jr., Vice Pres’t.
JOHN M. WINSLOW, Sec’y Sc Tr.
J. W. SEXSON, Gen'l Ag't for Ga.
W. J. AKERS. Special Agent.
JAS. C. SHEA, Local Agent.
T. D. WRIGHT, Travelling Agent.
Dec. 24,1867. 21 3m.
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OF
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Assets, July 10th, 1867—$469,808.10.
JOHN S. VAN WINKLE, President.
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T HIS COMPANY issnes policies against loss,
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By Fire, Lightning and Tornado,
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