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Jpariw & <gsarS»fw» «'KKTAI\ 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. TBEKS FOE 1868. One copy, one year $3 00 Two copies, one year ....... 5 50 Three copies, one year ------- 7 50 Four copies, one year - • 10 00 Five copies, 01,e year, and an extra copy to the pe>sou getting up the club, makingeix copies -.-.---..--•-14 00 Eight copies, one year, and an extra copy to the person .getting up the club making nine copies - -- -- -- -- -- 21 00 Eleven copies, one year aud an extra copy to the person gettiug up the club, making twelve copies ---------27 50 Godey’s Lady's Book aud Arthur’s Home Mag 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 Children’s Hour will be sent one year on receipt of .$5 Uo, L? r ' The money must all be sent at one time for any of the clubs, aod additions may be made lo clubs at club rates. The Lahy’S Book will be sent to any post office where the subscriber may reside, and subscriptions may commence with any month in the year. We can always supply back numbers Specimen numbers will be sent on re ceipt of 25 cents. IIOII' TO REMIT—In remiting by Mail, a Post-Office Ok motor a Dir aft, payable to the ouler cj L. A Gurley, is preferable to bank notes, as, should the order or Draft be lostorstolen.it can be renewed without loss to the sender. If a Draft or a Post-office Order cannot be procured solid United Stales 01 National Bank notes. Address L. A. GODEY, -V. E. Cor. Sixth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. NEW YORK CARDS. ANDREW H. H. DAWSON. 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, "NEW YOUR. Sept. 28tb 1867. 9 , f W. A. 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None genniDe unless branded in a trade mark Grafton Mineral Paint. Address DANIEL BIDWELL, 254 Pearl St. N. Y. Nor. 8th, 1867. 15 6m. ENCOURAGE SOUTHERN INSTITUTIONS! THE GLOBE INSCIUNCE CO.' Of f.«ni»viile, K,., Confines its business to the Southern States. Capital October 10, 1867, $288,437 34. 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 Fur any one of the Reviews.... $4 00 per annum. For any two of the Reviews. ...7 00 “ For any three of the Reviews 10 00 “ For all four of the Reviews 12 00 “ For Blackwood's Magazine ....4 00 “ For Blackwood and one Review 7 00 “ For Blackwood and any two of the Reviews 10 00 *’ For Blackwood and thieo of the Berviews 13 00 “ For Blackwood and the four 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, THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., PUBLISHERS, 9 140 Fulton Street, New York M ADAM GILLESPIE’S EMPOBI CM OF FASHION, No. 6 ClintoB Place, NSW YOBK. Dressmaking in all Branches* Perfect dreasea made in the latest Paris styles, with the greatest care, aud at' the shortest notice. Rrj'erenres— Mrs. Charles F. Deems, Mra. Mary E Tucker. 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It tusdone more business and paid more losses than any oth er two companies in the State of Kentucky, and by years of successful business has won the con fidence and renewed patronage of its policy-hold ers. This is purely a SOUTHERN INSTITUTION and Georgians will greatly advance their own interests by patronizing such corporations, in stead of sending their money North to swell the cofiers of those already grown rich on Southern money. D. RILEY KILBOURNE, State Agt. W. T. CONN, Local Agent can be found at his business house on Wayne at. Dec. 14th, 1867. 20 3m* SAVANNAH CARDS, A TVtrAJTCES O N COTTON, shipped through them to MESS- ROBT. LOCKHAKT Sc DEMPSTER, LI VE K POOL, (three-fourths value iu this market at date ot shipment,) will be made by TIS0N A CORDON, Cettm Factum & Seal Cemmia’n Merchants, 96 Bay at., Savannah, Ga. Jan. 34, 1868. 23 3m JOHN McMAHON & CO., DEALERS IN AV WBO&EIA&S, COHN, OATS, HAY, FEED, Ac., Comer of Broughton and Jefferson Street?- SAVANNAH, GA. 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