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^COS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1869.
Railroad to Abbeville.
railroad to Abbeville may now be re-
— ^thin the reach of the people of that
the country; and it will be built if
* : '\ Te not blind to their own interests. A
• {^0 route; as well as a profile of the
has been carefully made, from which
.'imate of the cost of building the road, as
** ibbcrffl+i has been made by the engineer c® re
^nlo superintendent of the Southwestern
^ and the entire coat will not exoeed three
The-Public Roads—The Heaviest
Taxation Known.
We were glad to observe, the other day, that
the county authorities are putting the road from
Macon to the Fair Grounds in good order and
making some substantial improvements. This
ia right, and we hope, by the time they get
through, we shall be able to say that there is at
least that much good thorough-fare in Bibb
county, and that the numerous strangers who
will travel over it daring the Fair may see at
least that much evidence of public thrift and
- ,^3 an a twenty thousand dollars.
^ o. Gordon, of Abbeville, and Judge
• rton, of Dale county, both men of means
Energy, 81170 to 111011 intore8ts flnd 1110 in *
their section, thoroughly realizing the
***. r 0 f the enterprise and the necessity
ttr iy completion of the road, were in this
Friday, and had an interview with Pre-
^Holtaud yj. Powers, the Superintendent
JT* gonthwestern Road. From these latter
* . _ iksw the
" pathy in the enterprise, and the fullest
U - -ce of material aid in the construction of
Tho grading of the road from Frank-
jr r (£) Abbeville will be heavy, costing more
f. doable per mile than to any other point
j’fj'rd tbgt to which the company may desire
—.jtend it.
jllabamians, President Holt and Super-
t p 0 were, are both theoretically and
^"ticallv railroad men, knowing how to hnild,
F*. j roads with success. These prac-
Tl men see tho importance of this enterprise
;CS on ^ the ultimate benefit to yourselves—
!Tthe interests they represent are wilUng to
jLrt yon of their influence with their com-
t0 * a id yon to an amount of at least one-
?£dof the entire cost of the road. Goto
r A therefore, like men of sense—raise the
g^M-start the enterprise, and avail yonr-
~> VlS of this propitious opportunity. Send
^ Gordon and Judge Yelverton(for they are
da men) to the next or second meeting of the
jjjnl of Directors, which occurs on the second
ftnrsday of every month, and let them receive
r^ttrer offers of assistance may be made by
^directors—and then go to work withcon-
and your efforts will be crowned with
they received the highest evidence of
From Brunswick.
Mr. T. F. Smith, of the Brunswick Seaport
ippeal, has been in Macon a day or two, and
«!e»ra from Mm that Brunswick is receiving
ggpiint accessions to her population by immi
-(ion, with the certainty of a mneb more
—ail increase when the Macon and Brunswick
rood opens. Her population now is consider-
,hlj upwards of three thousand and a good deat
f building and improvement are in progress.
Jr. Smith hopes to come through with the first
iinontho 15th of November next, to attend
JState Fair. The grading of the Macon and
jgmswick road is now pretty much all done,
id track-laying going from the river down and
'ran the Brunswick end up, at tho rate of over
rile per day. A gap of some twenty miles
’naked to be filled. Mr. Smith says the bean
ful car banled through Savannah the other
ij, and reported ns destined for the Brunswick
d Albany road, belonged to the Macon and
ungwick company. Wo trust our friend of
Appeal will soon find an up-country con-
nency and be compelled, by the rising busi-
iof his seaport, to change his paper to
There is nothing in Georgia in which we are
more behind the times that the condition of our
pnblie roads, and yet we pay heavier taxes np-
on them than almost any other people; but we
do not pay these taxes in. the right way. Let ns
explain: We pay oar taxes on the pnblio high
ways mainly in the shape of prematurely worn
ont and broken vehicles—accidents—strained
horses and mules—lost time and light loads.—
There is no telling how much, for example, our
carriages are racked and strained in going over
those little vexations cross washes on nearly all
our roads; but we suppose that every day in
the year, the public, even in the city of Macon,
actually pays twice as much money in waste
and damage to vehicles in going over these
washes as it would take to level them.
At Gumgall, for example, say there is one of
those mudholes, from the want of a sewer or
drain which would cost say twenty dollars and
last five years. It is a perpetual mudhole and
there is no getting round it You must go
through it and go nearly up to to the axeltreo
every lime yon pass. Twenty carriage* pass
through it a day and come ont of it a mass of
clay and mud. and it is certainly worth ten dol
lars to clean them after it, to say nothing of the
damage they sustain.
Moreover, a great many planters live on tho
road who haul by wagon. To these the Gum-
gall mudhole has been a heavier tax in tho way
of freight than they will readily conceive. It
has compelled them to reduce their loads about
a third each way or run the imminent risk of
getting bogged or stalled there. Now let us say
ten wagons pass and return every day and the
freight is worth six dollars to the wagon. We
will omit the strain of the mudhole on the wag
ons and mules and come at its loss per day on
freight, which is two dollars on each wagon.
Now let us state the case for fivo years:
The Gumgall mudhole in account with the
people of Bibb county, for a period of five years.
To cleaning of twenty carriages a day at fifty
cents each for 1500 days §15,000
To loss of freight on ten wagon loads
per day going and returning §2 each $30,000
oom-
Contra Cr. $45,000
By amonnt of cash saved on drain and
sewer. $20
rfto'8 Decp*Tillage and Subsoil
Plow.
* fa a plow of an entirely novel construo-
recently patented, and which look the
pr*im at tho Kentucky Fair. It is the in-
veiQ 0 { James W. Mnrfee, of Hale county,
Aland wo think it realizes precisely what is
reqtfi to mellow our Georgia red clay lands
with so to tho team and plow-holder. Mr.
JInri says a single mule will drive it with
ease % deapth of ten inches below the furrow,
and »ont committing ourselves on that point,
ire caiay that its construction should give i
in ear incisive power than any other plow
knoof. Its operation is to drive a wedge
or'nclid plane, handsomely secured to a cast
i*°n bio, horrizontally through the earth,
brealinjt on either side, for several inches ac-
cordirjjp jjj 0 character of the subsoil. Wo
«honld Mposo it finely adapted to deep culture,
as well asubsoiling before planting. See tho
alverliseont We learn this will bo operated at
fie State l; r>
benevolent Object.
We invite -pedal attention to Rev. S. Boy-
kbj a Card in tig morning’s paper. The object
intrhichheisiterestedisone of those char
itable enterprise in which all may participate
with pleasing seli-omplacency. But in this in.
stmce it is worthyjf noto that all who partici
ple obtain value rented. The book is worth
188 wwet. We lia-e seen it, and can speak
by the card. Call, thn, and buy a volume of
•he “Handwriting of Gtd;” or send the price of
•be book to Mr. Boykin hr mail, with 50 cents
«tra to pay postage, aid yon will get it all
right in correct schedule tine.
Discovert of a Coal Mike—The Dalton Cit-
uen learns that an inexhanstiUe coal mine has
recently been discovered near McLemore’s
Cove, Walker connty, on the mountain (have
forgotten the name) north of Walden’s Gap.
The coal is said to be of tho very best quality,
is found in fabnlous abundance for many
kindred yards along the mountain. Parties are
irranging to work the mine.
A curious suit is ain—t to be tried before a
Memphis Justice of the Peaoe. A white man
hu a yonng bull pnp. The pup bit a bare
footed negro in the heel as he was passing. The
negro jumped, and two of the pup’s teeth were
thereby extracted. The negro sues the white
■non for allowing a vicious dog to run at large.
The white files a cross bill, and sues the negro
for haring a heel tough enough to drag a dog’s
•noth out.
Coal at Montoomkhy.—The Advertiser says
tvo to three coal trains arrive in that city every
i»y. It is a strange fact that in regions of
renntry where more wood is going to decay
foaa can be burned by the people, we send off
•hiee or four hundred miles for coal.
Balance of tax to the people $44,980
Some will say that’s an extreme and impossible
case but we think we have seen several almost
or quite as bad. We should like to know, from
honest confession, how many neighborhoods in
the area of our circulation, have for many
years left a bad hill or mud-hole, on the road
between them and church, market, mill or
Court-house, and paid a thousand dollars al
ready for every cent it would cost to grade that
hill—build that culvert-drain that swampy or
boggy place, or make other improvement which
would enable them to add thirty-three and a
third per cent to their freights, and go clean
wheeled and easy ?
We say there is no tax so heavy in a country
where a groat deal of travel and transportation
must be done, os that imposed by neglect of
public highways. Often a single accident re
suiting from it will cost twenty times more than
tho needful repairs of the road—but tho taxa
tion is constant and heavy. Look at the enor
mous amounts paid for vehicles in this country
and their speedy ruin.
They understand tnese things in England,
and wo were much interested, a few months
ago, in reading calculations of money saved by
certain road improvements which would increase
by twenty per cent, the facilities of transporta
tion. If wo in Georgia had the English high
ways, four-mule teams could easily haul sixteen
bales of cotton and return with an equal weight
to the plantation. A single horse would trans
port four persons with greater ease and rapidity
than he now can one person. We are told that
the Swiss who lately settled in Tennessee,
among their first arrangements, agreed each
mnn to work two days in the week upon the
pnblie ways until they were placed in good con
dition.
Bnt wo cannot pursue these thoughts further.
Let the intelligent reader take np the subject
and make it the theme of reflection and figures.
When he sees a bad place in the road which
must give every passing vehicle and animal in
harness an injurious strain, compare the cost of
mending it with the constant hourly expense to
travelers in going through or over it. Then he
will leam a lesson in economy, waste and taxa
tion, and say, with the Telegram, that tho
heaviest taxation springs from bad roads, unless
wo except whisky and bad morals. Wo can’t
expect to make onr roads as good as they are
in populous countries, bnt we can improve them
vastly, and we are paying, as a people, many
many times as much in loss and waste as it
would cost to mako and keep tho roads in fair
order.
Look at that road to Clinton, which has been
next to impassable ever since wo lived in this
country, say fourteen years, and how much
longer we know not. Enough time and money
and property have been lost on that road to
make a smooth McAdamized highway, and we
imagine a good deal more, and yet it gets worse
ant: wuiov—i*wnw ° -tho time.
Think over tins subject
Get Away from Home to Learn the
- News.
Charlestown, Va.', October 19,1869.
Editors Telegraph : I am afraid I should be
suspected of an excess of vanity if I should as
cribe the correct morals and general good order
that prevailed in old Georgia a few month ago,
to the influence of my personal example while I
remained in that State. But I must say, judg
ing from the enclosed report, which I have jnst
extracted from the Massachusetts Spy, of the
8th inst., that yon have fallen into an awful
condition since I left. The atrocities therein
enumerated, I observe, have been committed
since “early in August,” the time at which I
took the cars, little dreaming of the horrid state
of things that was so soon to come over that fa
vorite State. Can there be any wonder, in
viow of these things, at the persistent spirit of
Puritan virtue, or any longer complain of Cap-
tains-general at the South?
Respectfully, J. F. A.
Georgia.—Georgia advices say that owing to
numerous outrages upon them, the negro labor
ers are rapidly leaving Warren county, and
hence the cotton is being lost for want of hands
to gather it. In Burke county the disorders are
on the increase. In Columbia connty several
negroes have been murdered since early in Au
gust, and no attempts have been made to arrest
the perpetrators, though some of them are
known. Two negroes saw another named John
son shot, and could identify the party. In Han
cock county there exists a terrible state of af
fairs. A negro was murdered about the 8th of
September, and the next night a party of twen
ty colored men went to the house of a white
mau, who was suspected of participation in the
mnrder, and shot at him. but ho pscapoH- “ —
hot! day tho whitea armed themselves and
mencea hunting colored men throughou
connty. Several men are reported to have
shot and beaten; one was hung, and sixteen or
more were placed in jail.—Mass. Spy.
Oar friend illustrates the adage that a man
must go away to learn what’B going on at home.
Wo, in Georgia continue as profoundly ignorant
as lie was before he came upon the Massachu
setts spy, about this horrid and sanguinary state
of affaire. Once, in a while, of course, a silly
and wicked thing occurs. Some negro does
violence to a white or white to a negro or negro
to negro or white to while, jnst as it always will
happen in Georgia and every where else to the
end of time. Bnt on the whole we never expect
to see a more orderly community than Georgia
now is, and feel assured it cannot be found upon
tho North American continent. We suppose
these stories maybe got np to prepare the
minds of the Northern people for some action
of Congress, looking to the radicalization of
Georgia, based and defended upon representa
tions that society here is in a totally disorgan
ized and murderous condition.
Professor Agassiz and the Book of
Genesis.
The New York Herald, of the 20th inst., has
the following:
We are informed that the first words of Prof.
Agassiz, in his opening lecture of the Harvard
course were: “I do not wish any one to,,come
to my lectures who believes the Book of Gene
sis, as given in tho Bible.” Although the posi
tion of scientific men with regard to the Scrip
tures has long been regarded as committing
them to the substance of this, we have not had
any declaration of so plain a purpose to make
an issue against the writings that are still class
ed as the Word of God. We have not had this
declaration becauso scientific men were too wiso
to make it; because they did not want to put
science at the disadvantage of arraying a reli-
gious war against it $ bccanso they perceived
that properly science had little to do with what
writings beyond her immediate circle might be
disproved by accumulating knowledge of na
ture’s laws, and cared not to go aside to wage a
war in which even victory could be of no advan
tage. But it is characteristic of the brnggodocio,
boldness and vanity of tho New England philoso
phers to thus precipitato unnecessary conflict
and parade their contempt of that which has tho
respect, to say the least, of the religious world.
roiHth Rvral Carolinian.] . '--f'
David Dickson, undoubtedly the best and
most successful planter in. Georgia, if not the
whole South,.is of English descent, and was
bom in Hancock connty, Ga., July Cth,_1809.
Tfm father, Mr. Thos. Dickson, was a native of
Virginia, served in the Revolutionary army, and _
soon after the close of the War of Independence : manure, or with very lit)
Darfo Diclson and Unwed Fanning,
turned in. Land thus prepared admits the sir,
' T “ rathe re
holds moisture and allows the roots of plants to
penetrate deeply, and thus ensure themselves
against drouth. Do our farmers generally pre
pare their soil in this way, or make any approxi
mation toil?
In the seoond place, everybody, knows that
manure ia a very good thing for growing crops,
bnt we go on, year after year, planting without
' H “fleoi
it. Mr. Diokson,
removed to Georgia, where he diedin 1827,at the knowing that manure, judiciously applied, will
age of a little over seventy years. His wife, the pay, uses it freely. But what kind of mtnure,
mother of the subject of our sketch, was bora and how much! In the first place,.he turns
inN. Carolina in 1777, and survived her husband everything to the land (after being eaten or
many years, dying in 18C4, at the age of about used) which he has taken from it, exoeptiDg the
eighty-seven years. Mr. Dickson, therefore, Hnt of the cotton, and, in addition, gathers
oomes of a long-lived stock, and inherited from leaves, pine straw and the scrapings of swamps,
his parents what has been of more value to him, and digs mnek to spread in his stock yards and
and contributed more to his success than the to scatter broadcast on his fields. Then he
largest fortune could have done—an excellent makes nj» the required amonnt of the fertil-
constitution and a strong, well-balanced brain—
a sonnd mind in a healthy body. Beyond this
he received little, his share of the paternal prop-
erty amounting to only $1200. His educational
advantages were quite limited, but his clear,
comprehensive intellect, his close observation,
and the best use of his opportunities for reading
and study, have enabled him to acquire a stock
of practical knowledge, snch as few with better
Advantages can boaBt.
Mr. Dickson commenced his business-life as a
small country trader. In 1835 he entered into
partnership with Colonel Thos. M. Turner, and
opened a store in Sparta, Ga., where they were
Buccessfnl; doing a heavy country business,
which they continued to push with great energy
for five years.
In 1846, having finally closed his mercantile
business and made all the necessary prepara-
lzing elements by the application of a concen
trated com pound composed of Peruvian guano,
dissolved bones, common Balt, and land plaster
in equal proportions by weight, miring the in
gredients himself. Of ibis compound he has
used this season, if we mistake not, about 8Q0
pounds ;er acre (except on rented land) at a
cost probably, of not far from $25 per acre. Is
snch manuring an old thing—in' practice, we
mean—among onr planters and farmers?
HOW HE PLANTS COTTON AND CORN.
But it is in the planting and working of his
crops that Mr. Dickson’s practice differs most
strikingly from that of most planters. Let us
see how he does it:
1. Cotton.—He makes the rows four feet
apart, opening with two farrows a trench about
eight indies deep. Into this deep farrow the
manure is scattered and covered with a scooter
tions, Mr. Dickson returned to the place where plow, going as deep as the other two furrows,
he was bora—his father’s old homestead—and and followed, on each side of the scooter furrow,
commenced farming with a capital of $25,000,
acquired in trade. When the war broke ont his
■nrns valued at $500,000, all ma^" ta
planting. Hin plantation in Hancock ana
Washington counties (adjoining) comprises
by a turn-plow running seven inches deep. He
opens lh« Doe ? furrow with a bull tongue plow,
Dickson sweep, running shallow—the last plow-
IMPORTMT TO MEM FARMERS.
THE UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS OF THW
about 15,000 acres, »nd V be owns another of j ing not half an inch deep—and the plowingand
13,000 acres in Texas. These figures speak for j hoeingis ^repeated^^as^often^as 1
In the South, during the past Season, has opened up a new and profitable branch of
Agriculture. THIS SEED HAS NOW BEEN THOROUGHLY AND SATI8FACTO-
RIALLY TESTED in every Southern State, and leading Agriculturalists in those Statea
have urged us to devote a portion of the limited quantity of SEED, that will be of
fered this, year, to their sectibn. ’ • • r>;-. ;rjpnhtr eq-xi
The following letters, from prominent and well known planters, will' prove in
teresting :
Thanks in the Xffame of the Partners of Bast Tennessee.
D. W RAMSDELL— ......
Dkar Sie: I desire to vive you a brief account of the success of the NORWAY OATS in this section.
First, however, allow me to thank you most heartily in the name of the farmers of East Tennessee, a few of
whom have become practically acquainted with your Oats this season through the agency of Dr. J. P. Oreyes
Ralph Church. Esq., and myself. t n r your perseverance in propagating and developing their wonderful -
merits. I became interested with Dr. Groves last spring in the introduction of forty-five bushels in the
vicinity of Knoxville. I confess I had some misgivings as to their snccess South, notwithstanding tbeir su
perior qualities over all other varieties seemed to be thoroughly established in the North, for I had observed -
some doubts expressed by members of the New York Farmers’ Club as to their being grown successfully in
he South. In order, however, to make a full and fair test of what they would do in our climate and soil, we “ .
concluded to scatter them among a number of plai.tera in different localities and on different kinds of lands.
Hence I am enabled.to speak of their success on a variety ef soils, having furnished seed to twelve planters
in this and adjoining counties. The various crops having now been harvested, and having seen a large por
tion ot them since und before the harvesting. I am prepared to say that tho Norway Cats have proved an
eminent success, although exceeding my expectations, and that in my opinion they possess all the merits you
claim for them, and that they are admirably adapted to the soil and climate of this section. _ _
Most respectfully yours. CHARLES RICE.
Knoxville, Tenn.. July 31, 18G9.
Tho Opinion or a ttarounvr: oir* tjr' Peara’ Sxperienco.
Kg _ • ■“* -v-vtm 6. iSflq.
Kta JWl ti 1 . been a gardener for forty years, five of which was in the qjnrloy of Hon. Hen
jexlngton I voluntarily say ur* — - -
without which such grand results could
been reached in any branch of business.
In person, Mr. Dickson is above the medium
height, well formed, stout and robust. His com
plexion is fair, fresh and ruddy, and tho expres
sion of his countenance grave, serious, thought
ful and benevolent, with a vein of quiet humor,
however, underlying the whole, reminding cftie
of the best typo of the Quaker, though he is not
a member of that respectable and peaceful sect.
He is plain in Ms dress, unpretending in bis
manners, speak3 Ms mind freely and without
fear or favor, and has very decided opinions on
most questions of general interest. He looks
younger than the figures we have given show
him to be, aid has all the activity and energy
of a man of forty years of age. Long may he
live to teach the South, by both precept and ex
ample, his sjstem of improved farming.
During the first week in August last, with the
interests of the Rural Carolinian and its fifty
thousand prospective readers in view, we made
a brief visit to Mr. Dickson’s plantation, situa
ted on tho Little Ogeechee River, in Hancock
county.
From the beautiful town of Sparta, a drivo of
Mne or ten miles, through a pleasant rolling coun
try, the wooded portions of which presented a
mixed '* " ’ ’ J
either plow
the ground is nearly level and smooth.
2. Com.—The land being broken up at least
eight or nine inches deep and subsoiled if practi
cable, he lays off furrows, with a long shovel
plow, seven feet apart : then, commencing at
the opposite end, he opens out the furrow with
a longer shovel plow, leaving the farrow open
seven or eight inches deep. Whatever manure
he uses is deposited in this farrow, three feet
apart, and the corn dropped three or four inches
from the manure. He covers with a light har
row ono and a half inches deep. Observe that
we have here deep planting, but not deep cover-
lie gives Ms com three thorough workings,
keeping the field clean and free from grass, and
planting a row of peas between each two rows
of corn. The details of his cultivation we in
tend to give at a future time. It is sufficient to
say here that the same principle of shallow plow
ing is applied to corn as to cotton. There is no
hiUing np, but a smooth, level surface.
Does not the reader now see why Mr. Dick
son’s com does not suffer seriously from any
ordinary dronth? Having for several years
planted com on a similar plan, though not quite
so deep, we can add onr own testimony, were
s v v jay than never*™* eood Oat* a* those frown from yo»* . oe d by Mr. Divine
of this place, and I advise our people to sow no other kind. *’ rlr
Respectfully yours, . WM. GEORGE.
Card from Pro£ .Francis M. Grace.
* Fast Tkxnksske TTnivirsitt, August 6,1869.
I take pleasure in certifying that I witnessed on last Tuesday the operation of thrashing the crop of
Ram-dell Norway Oats, produced on one acre of the farm adjacent to the university, and known as the Agri
cultural College fenn,an4 that the yield far exceeded anything which I have ever known in the history of
S .uthern agriculture. Theland was good upland and has not been manured, that l am awaro of. for a num
ber of years. I consider the seed of the Norway Oats as by far the best t have ever know
Jb KANCIo M. GRACE.
Prof. Eng. Language and Literature, E. T. University.
From Col. James AX. Toole, well known throughout the Southwest.
Knoxville. E. Txns., August 2, 1869.
Ms. D. W. RAMSDELL- _ . ■ ......... .. .. .
Pin: Having, for th. past thirty years of my life, watched with interest the growth and pres
sed growth of pine, oak and hickory brought any further evidence needed, in favor of deep
to Mr Dickson’s homestead. The soil of the j planting and shallow cultivation.
mtrv through which wo passed, like the forest Mr. Dickson’s rotation m cropping his land is:
° ‘ ■ ’ First year, cottons
country through which . .
growth, is of a mixed character, red clay and
gray sand alternating. Vfo passed several neat,
well cultivated plantations, wMch seemed to in
dicate that Mr. Dickson’s precept and example
had not been without their influence. Cotton
was here, as we had observed it elsewhere du-
ring our journey, the principal crop.
Those who think our ancient king has been
deposed are greatly in error. He yet lives and
reigns in spite of war, emancipation and re
construction.” . , , . „ ..
As we approach Mr. Dickson s plantation the
soil loses its mixed character, the land becoming
what is called gray, and tho forest growth being
mainly long-leaved pine. . ,
On entering the plantation we observed that
gates and fences were all in a serviceable con
dition, and that there was that undefinable air
of thrift about the place too generally laoking
" -n I it. — vnnil onrl tho
Emigrating.—More people are going West
fois fall than ever before. Sixteen wagons
Puaed through Rome on the 14th. The roads
fo North Alabama are literally lined with emi-
frfcnU. Northerners are coining South equally
f«sl—Dalton Citizen.
Havens and Bbown.—At this establishment
*2 be found Harper’s Magazine for October,
together with all the other late magazines, illos-
bited newspapers, and a great variety of late
Publications. Call early.
Macon Telegraph, oomes to ns enlarged,
? D 'l as usual brimful of news and pleasant read-
Its veteran and genial editor regreta the
change, and promises to shorten sail again,
*hen the pressure of a few weeks is past. We
^ngratulate the public that they have a bigger
instalment of brother Clisby, at the same
We owe Mm one however for that fling at
“lean and hungry editor of the Appeal,” and
riu in due season rein np this frisky old Jeshn-
bin who having waxed fat kicketh.
We shall not spare the liberal use of the seal-
P«1 upon this sleek and pampered representative
01 Daily press.—Cuthbert Appeal.
1>e 8 it into the local, Colonel. He’s the rascal
*ho did it
On the Tales of the Slantler Mill.
The editor of the Albany News adds the fol
lowing to onr remarks upon the Albany (N. Y.)
Evening Journal’s report of outrages “down in
Georgia
For the information of the Journal we tell it
that we are in the heart of the very best cotton
and nigger country in the world; that in our
connty there are 2600 colored male adults and
lessthan 600 white male adults; that peace,
harmony and good will prevail between the ra
ces ; thlat the negroes are treated kindly by the
whites;'that their wages are promptly paid;
that they are employed at fair wages; that the
negroes treat the wMtes with proper respect,
and work for them nearly as weu as in times of
slavery; we have bad bnt one difficulty be
tween a wMte man and negro in the connty in
fifteen months, and that resulted in a most atro
cious murder of the wMte man; and that every
line and word in Ms article, above quoted, is
false, absolutely false, false as hell, and only
comparable in falsehood, to Southern Radi
calism.
The New York Gold Ring.
A special to the Charleston Daily News, dated
Washington 21st, says:
The developments wMchhavebeen made pnb
lio in New York to-day implicating Butterfield,
the Assistant Treasurer of the United States,
and Mrs. Grant in the recent gold speculations,
created a tremendous flutter among the friends of
the administration in this city.
President Grant sent his private Secretary to
New York to investigate the matter. He return
ed to-day and made Ms report
The following ispublished as part of a letter
of Mrs. Grant to Corbin, wMch Corbin showed
around quite extensively in Wall street: “My
hnnhAT'd is very much annoyed at vour specula
tions. He tries not to be influenced by them, bnt
I fear that he is. Another reason why they must
be closed ia, because Cuban matters will soon
oome np in the Cabinet, and the action of onr
government in that regard will influence the
price of bonds.” ~ ’ l
Second year, com;
Third year, small grain;
Fourth year, the land lies fallow.
The resting of the land allows it to accumu
late humus or vegetable matter, which may be
increased by planting peas, (or clover, where it
will succeed,) to be turned in at the proper
time. *
It would not seem very difficult to follow Mr.
Dickson thus far, so as to keep within sight of
him at least, bnt when we come to what we have
called Economy and Labor, there are brought
into play certain natural gifts with wMch few
are so largely endowed as he.
“ Tho farmer must make every stroke tell,
Mr. Dickson says, and he does make every stroke
tell. Not satisfied with increasing the produc
tive capacity of the soil, he develops also, and
l t must soon add millions yearly to the value of this important produot: 3ll the result of placing one
grain in a rich and secluded spot in your garden on the 2d of May, 1861. Truly we live in a great country,
and in no common age. I procured several bushels of this seed last year, and gave them out to gentlemen
to sow for me, with a view of testing them in our foil and climate, and while growing and harvestine they
have been the wonder and admiration of all who have sera them. They were sown 15th to a)th of Maroh,
and the yield is three time3 greater than that of other oats in thesame land. Parties who hare not hesitated
to pronounce them a humbug are now willing to accord to them all yon olaim. They overcome a difficulty in
the production of small grains in this country on oumoh lands, beingcapable of thehighest culture on deep
est soil, bv their great development of strength in stalks to support a corresponding length and weight of
beads. Many now and good varieties have been introduced into the South, but have nor the strength of
stalk tosnpport them and lodge or fall before the grain manures. In saying to you that I believe that the
Ramsdell Norway Gray Oats is to work still more astonishing results, and occupy a proud and envious place
in the prosperity of our extended country, I say no more than what I believe the future will attest. X wuh.
sow two or three hundred acreB of them next year. „ TnnT r.
Respectfully yours, JAMES M. TOOLE.
A Well Known Tennessee Farmer Responds.
August 12,1869.
I certify that I cultivated thirty-one acres of Norway Oats, the present season, on my farm near Con
cord. I gave them the same cultivation and the same soil that I gave my black oats, and the result has been
that the “Ramsdell Nnrways” yielded more than double mv black oafs. The stalks are very large and
strong, and the heads yield more than double the number of kernels of the ordinary varieties. I am of the
opinion these oats are well adapted to tho soil and climate of the South generally, and that our farmer*
should not fail to raise them, and on their richest soil if they choose, as the stalks are f ufficiently strong to
prevent lodging. I hope the farmers in this section will not fail to secure seed, at an early day, firrtelrgen
eral introduction. I shall cultivate no other variety of oats on my farm. G. W. M A K B1. •
£L Prominent Mississippi Planter Endorses Them.
Capt. H. A. Rice, widely known in the South, says: • , , ,
I sowed one bushel of Norway Oats on about three fourths of an acre. They came up and prew finely.
In fact the prospect for 75 bushel* from the sowing was vesy flattering, until they began to head out, when
IIAVI-. I . < j !a. .11 .11 «** «ai*4 thnm thaw rlAeirnueH •! 1 AVnent
__ ire nearly as large as my little Unger, and very
euccolent, VhicbY think was one cause of the rats being go destructive. Notwithstanding my misfortune, I
am fully convinced that the Norway Oats are as g ^od a« they are represented to be by Mr. Kamsdell. I saw
no sign of rnst. I shall endeavor to select a more suitable place to sow them next year, and not sow them so
thick. I noticed a few grains that were not so much crowded, and I counted as high aa 54 tst&lks from a sin-
SlC Maicon, Miss., August 16,1S69.
of tnritc aDont tne puiue wu hcuoioaaj Auw»».« b . r;— —,—. * * ..
amonc us Between the main road and the still more wonderfully, the productive capacity
housewo passed a large corn-field—the largest of the laborer. TMs he accomplishes by using
and tho best we had seen during our journey. ~
Personal Appearance of Fatkcr Hjrw
clntbe.
The New York Sun says: This distinguished
fathers’ costume is that of a civilian—black hat,
coat and pantaloons; and invariably in Ms hand
he carries a missaL The hope of many of see
ing him in a long serge habit of a Carmelite
monk, with naked feet shod with sandals, was
disappointed. Father Hyacinthe was found to
be a short, thick man, of five feet five, with
short, crisp, black hair, retreating from hisfore-
head. His face* was florid with tho hues of
health, and his teeth brilliantly white. His
nose was aquiline, bnt rather small in propor
tion to Ms fully rounded visage, and his eye
wore the introspective aspect frequent among
those who have experienced strong stirrings of
the spirit. His age appeared to be forty. He
was in citizens’ dress, and completely in black.
The hair upon Ms tonsured crown had grown
again. He had been occupied in reading a
email Duoay Bible, with red edges, which lay
on the marble table beforo Mm. Evidently, the
voyage had interfered with his self-alloted tasks
in that respect, and the necessity of recovering
lost time was tho chief cause of Ms desired se
clusion. He appeared somewhat impatient of
interruption, and spoke only in French.
Moee - Murders in f Jackson Cotjntv, Fla.—
TVe clip the following paragraphs from the Ma
riana Courier^ of the 14 th inst:
On Thursday morning last Matt Niekles, sr.
Matt Nickles, jr., and Maria Niekles, wife of
the former named above, all colored, living
about three miles from this place, were taken
from their house to the woods, a short distance
off, by three white men and murdered. Vie un
derstand that the party came to the house and
conversed several minutes, pretendifag to have
orders to bring them to town to make oath be
fore an officer, and started toward town, but
changed their course after getting a short dis
tance from the house, and led them to the spot
wbnro found. .
On Saturday last, while Mr. Samuel Fleish-
man was on Ms way to this place, on foot, he
was overtaken by some unknown person, tMr-
teen or fourteen miles from this place, and
murdered and robbed. The perpetrator of this
foul deed had walked in company with Mr. F.
for over a mile and a half before committing
the deed, and was, from the size of his tracks,
over medium stature. There is no clue to Ms
detection. . i . . ■-
The Roll Call in Heaven.—An incident is
related by a cnapiaiu who »m in tho army du
ring one of onr hard fought battles:
The hospitals had been filling np fast as the
wounded men had been brought to tho rear.
Among them was a young man mortally wound
ed and unable to speak. It was midnight, and
many a loved one from our homes lay sleeping
on the battle-field—that sleep that knows no
waking until Jesus shall call for them.
The surgeons had been their rounds of duty,
and for a moment all was qniefc. Suddenly this
young man, before speecMess, called ont in a
clear voice, “here 1” The surgeon hastened to
Ms side and asked Mm what he wanted. “No
thing,” said he, “they are calling the roll in
heaven, and I was answering to my name.” He
turned Ms head and was gone—gone to join the
great army, whose uniform is washed wMte
with the blood of the Lamb.
Reader, in the great roll call of eternity, your
name will be heard, can you answer “here ?”
Are you one of the soldiers of Christ, the great
captain of salvation ?
The number of LUtell’s Living Age, for the
week ending October 23d, contains articles on
the following subjects: Spain and the United
States; Hall’s Arctic Journey; A Trip to the
Shetlands; Arthur High Clough; Torture or
British Citizens in Paraguay; The Life of a
Scotch Metaphysician, (Sir William Hamilton);
The Byronizers; The Political Importance of
Trees; Lady Palmerston; Mountain Architec
ture- The Philosophy of Catholic Infallibility; a
combination of Olivia’s Favour, a Tale of Hal
lowe’en; and the conclusion of a County Family-
etc., etc. Littell & Gay, Publishers, 30 Brom ;
field street, Boston. ^
Fisk’s Popolabitt.—A New York correspond-
ant of one of onr cotemporaries, thus writes
A scene at the Opera House oocurred Ut4
evening, wMoh the musical critics have failed io
notioe. Whether right or wrong, it cannot be
denied that Fisk’s fight against the President
and Corbin, has made him quite popular. I*ut
evening, when he made his appearance m the
theatre, the audience arose and gave him three
hearty cheers. More than Grant ever had while
visiting a New York theatre.
It was good com, bnt the condition of the field
slightly disappointed ns. It was not free from
grass, and had not been worked in tho most
skilful manner. We afterwards learned that it
was rented to freedmen whom Mr. Dickson had
not been able to induce to do the work just
right; so when wo referred to the field as the
best we had seen, he said that it ought to have
been a great deal better, and that he would not
own it as a specimen of his farming at all.
We met Mr. Dickson at the house—a very
modest cottage, such as you may see on many
a small farm in Georgia or South Carolina,with
nothing remarkable or pretentious about it in
any way. EverytMng for use and comfort, and
notMng for show is evidently the rule. The
farm buildings and negro quarters are more
likely to attract attention than the dwelling, as
they are decidedly better than are usually seen.
A MODEL COTTON-FIELD.
The first thing that attracted onr attention as
weapproachedthe cotton-field wasitssmoothness
of surface—the entire absence of those ridges
and Mils, made by the plow and the hoe, ■which
mark the rows in onr fields generally. The
next noticeable peculiarity was its perfect clean
ness. No fringe of crab grass and no straggling
weeds were to be seen. Mr. Dickson does not
attempt to make a crop of cotton and a crop of
grass on Ms land at tho same time. The cotton
was a sight worth travelling all the way from
Charleston to see. We had seen notMng like it
daring our journey. Some small patches on
town lots in Sparta and elsewhere could show
plants quite as tall perhaps, bnt the preeminence
of Mr. Dickson’s cotton lies in its stocky growth,
its numerous heavy brsnehes—and, above all,
in its prolific fruitage—lolls and squares cluster
ing thickly in double rows upon the branches.—
“ido not cultivate cotton for tho weed, Mr.
Dickson remarked, “but for the bolls.”
There had been a severe dronth, and much of
the cotton we had seen elsewhere had shed
leaves, squares and bolls to a greater or less ex
tent, but here we observed no loss of this
kind, tho plants being fresh, healthful and
vigorous from bottom to top. In brief, here w^s
cotton that promised a yield of two bales to the
acre; and it was not on rich bottom land, but
on what tho people are pleased to call a “ pine
barren”—not fresh pine barren either, bnt land
that has been under cultivation for seventy
years, and was so poor and worn ont when Mr,
Dickson bought it, wo are told, that no one else
would have it at any price. With these facts in
view, one begins to appreciate the results of his
improved system of farming.
The field of which wo have been speaking will,
under Mr. Dickson’s cultivation, prodnee forty
bushels of corn to tho acre, and Ms corn crop
never fails! No drouth bums it np. I can
tell in the spring,” Mr. Dickson said to ns,
“where the dry streak will fall in summer. It
always follows the bad farming.” The ‘“dry
streak*’ never falls on 7ii* corn-field. ^ We shall
see why when we come to examine his mode of
planting and cultivating com.
We might speak at much greater length of
what we saw and heard during our brief visit to
Mr. Dickson’s plantation, bnt what our readers
will be most interested in learning is, how the
results wo have described are attained. Mr. Dick
son is successful. He makes heavy crops on
poor land. He has acquired wealth by planting.
Every planter and farmer, it is presumed,would
like to be and do the same, and each is anxious
to know how the thing is done.
mb. dickson's system.
We can tell our readers, in brief, how Mr.
Dickson farms, but we cannot ensure every
man who may essay to follow his example the
same snccess. Few possess Ms ^intellectual
capacity,-his sound judgment, or his executive
abilities; bnt all may improve and approach, if
they cannot reach, Mr. Dickson’s Mgh position
among the great agriculturists of the present
day. ,
The principal points in Mr. Diokson s system
aa they struck us in our examination of Ms
improved implements; by time and labor-saving
modes of working, and, more than all, we think,
by Ms peculiar talent for training and manag
ing the laborer Mmself. This peculiar trait is
most strikingly illustrated by the fact that under
the old system, when labor was perfectly under
control, he was accustomed to cultivate thirty-
three acres to the hand, wMle other planters, as
a rule cultivated only fifteen; and to accomplish
this he employed no overseer or driver.
Such is Mr. Dickson’s farming. A general
adoption of Ms methods, with only an approxi
mation to Ms executive efficiency, would at once
more than douple the products of the South, and
at tho same time increase, year by year, instead
of diminishing the fertility of the soil.
operations are:
1. A deep and thorough preparation of the
soil;
2. The liberal use of manures;
3. Level and shallow cultivation;
4. Rotation of crops; %
5. Economy of labor. . _
Do you says that there is nothing new in all
tMs? Perhaps not. In theory the principles
which underlie the system hare, in the main,
been long since accepted by the best informed
agriculturalists of Europe and America; bnt onr
practice, with few exceptions, has been diame
trically opposed to them, as will more strikingly
appear when we look at the matter somewhat in
d< Fiist, then, in regard to the preparation of the
aolL Mr. Dickson's maxim is, “plow as deep as^
you can,” or aay irom eig*
subsoil everyfonrth year,
vegetable matter you
let! iciu;; «■» * V"' V
Jinle ol'the Kenl Estate of Ex-Govern-
or Hammond.
The Chronicle and Sentinel of the 21st re
ports the sale of property belonging to the es-
state of Ex-Gov. Hammond, deceased, in Augus
ta, on Wednesday. That paper says:
Major Harry Hammond then came forward
and stated the terms of the sale to be one-half
cash, one-fonrth payable January first, 1870,
and balance January first 1871. Auctioneer
remarked that the sale would commence with
the Radley Place, situate in Southwestern Geor
gia. No offers being made, the auctioneer said
is would put up any tract advertised, if solicit
ed ; that there was no regular order of sale, but
that the property would be sold as upon the
conditions specified. Aside remarks were made
by spectators, one asking who is judge in this
district? Another answering Platt; andatMrd
“What constitutes a jury in South Carolina ?’’
To which tho answer was given, eleven colored
entletnen and ono wMte man. It was not
jifficult to perceive, among those in attendance,
an evident distrust; and the consequence was.
that in the main the bidding for some of the
most valuable lands adjacent to our city, bnt
lying in the State of South Carolina, was spirit
less among the company. We noticed quite a
groupeof New Yorkers and Pennsylvamans,
among whom were Messrs. Brown, ClaTke, Orr
Orth and McPherson. One of these named
gentlemen objected sotto toee to. a “reserve
bid,” unless first announced. The Radley
Place, in Southwestern Georgia, which the auc
tioneer had been asking for bids, was with
drawn. The places, “Cold Wade and Cowden,”
Silverton, Cedar Grove, Cathwood, Silverton
Marsh tract, etc., were successively put up, as
per list. As each place was announced, the
auctioneer stated the product of corn and cotton
per acre for several years back, as well as the
product of the current year. Bnt with these
exceptions, the places were all bought in by the
executor. The plantations sold were Cedar
Grove, containing 1,534.acres, to Major John
B. Camming, of Georgia, for $10,000; Silver
BInff, 1,900 acres, to Major Paul F. Hammond
for $17,000, and “Marsh Tract,” 2,100 acres,
George G. Chapman, Esq., of New York, for
$6,500. The places sold were sold at the mini
mum reserve bid, as it was understood, of the
Executor. The Executor, at the conclusion of
the sale, announced that the places were, by
consent of heirs, now in his hands for lease and
private sale. The estate comprises some of the
finest lands on the Savannah river. Snch lands
on the west instead of the east bank of tMs
river—in Georgia instead of South Carolina,
some of wMch included the famous lands re
claimed by the late Governor Hammond, and
wMch have yielded him ninety-one bushels of
com and twenty-five hundred pounds of seed
cotton to the acre, unmanurec—would have
been eagerly sought after and bought at fabu
lous prices.
The Pope and Protestant Visitors.
A number of Prussian tourists, consisting of
preachers and their wives, professors and _ art
ists, recently made a journey to Italy, availing
themselves of the excursion trains which left
the principal cities of Germany for the Italian
peninsula. Upon arriving at Rome, these gen
tlemen applied for an audience to the Pope,who
granted it immediately. The tourists now asked
each other whether their dignity would permit
them to comply with the ceremonial that .re
quired them to kneel down before his Holiness
mid kiss Ms foot The Holy Father, upon being
informed of their scruples, said, “Let them do
Tfhat their heart prompts them to do.” The
audience took place. The tourists enter, and
the Bimple, yet so majestic attitude of the Po|
his mild glance, the sympathetic sound of
voice, male snch an impression on them that
they involuntarily complied with the rales of
the eeremonisL The Pope then spoke to tiiem
of the hopes of . the churoh, and expressed his
joy at seeing about Mm Christians who, he said,
despite their dissensions among one another anc l
with him, yet were his cMldren. He then added,
in a voice trembling with emotion: “I will
west:
D
Over One Snndred and Fifty Snshelt from an Acre. ' 1
The following two letters are from one of the most prominent and widely known planters in the South-
. Chattanooga, Tenn., July 31,1869.
Dkar B Sib: S About the first of February last. I ordered from your agents in New York five bushels of
you- Norway Oats I received them about the first of February, and sowed them immediately on five acres
of Tennessee River land, and cut them about the!5tb of July. I think when thrashed I shall have about 140
bushel* to the acre. Tho average heisht of the oats was over 5 feet 6 inches. The heads will average from
18 to 22 inches in length, with from five to six hundred grains to the head. The representations in your cir
cular of last year fall far below my crop of this year; in fact, they surpass anything on this Continent, and
are well adapted to this climate and soil. I am satisfied they are an improvement of vast importance to tho
country. Very respectfully, etc..
SECOND LETTER.
JOHN L. DIVINE.
Chattanooga, Tsnn., August 3, 1869.
DKAR^Sii^ShHmmy last, I thrashed my crop. They have turned out something more than one hun
dred and fifty bushels of oats to the acre. I J?ied a dozen sheafs taken asthey fomef ro m the st.ck: the
Idonot'write tbisfor adve'itisipg or publication, as I have none for sale, what I spare will be gratuitous to
my friends. I believe I can excel anything of the oat kind in tho world with this feed next year.
Respectfully yours, JOHN L. DIVINE.
One Hundred Per Cent. Better.
Knoxvil- e. Tenn., August 12, 1869.
Gkntleken : I have no hesitancy in saying that, after a careful examination of the Norway Oats, made
whil*t growing in the field, and since harvested. I am satisfied that their introduction will be attended with
great benefit to our farmers. The increase in the yield is fully. 100 per cent, over the other varieties, and the
Quality is also better. The great strength of thestraw preventing, to agreat extent, lodging, especially adapt*
these oats to this latitude where severe wind storms are not unusual during har^s Mmaom
Tonr *' S. H. Davis Sl Co., Grain Dealers.
Fully Up to Expectation. 4
Middleton, Baltimore Co., Md., July 31, 1969.
I purchased of you. last spring, one-half bushel of your new Oats, and thesamewcresownaboutthelOthof
April on about half an acre of ground in a fair state of cultivation. The result is fhlly up to my expectations
of this grain from vour description of them! The spring wa* backward and cold weather continued until
May 10th. whioh of course kept back the oats, but after once started they grew rapidly. My neighbor farm
ers admired them much, and estimate the yield from the half bushel at SO bushels. The yield would have
been much heavier if sown in a clear patch. I put them in a peach orchard and the ground was too much
shaded. I heartily endorse and recommend them.
I am,gentlemen,yours, etc., -. - “• i
“The Way to Heaven is Open to All.”
; • ; t i Selma, Ala., July 26, 1869. y.
D ' reference to those Norway Oats, we prepared one acre to snit ourselves in a field of «0
acres ofdiffercnt kinds of oats, and wehave cutoffS.000 rounds of Norway Oats and straw. It is nowstacked
up. and we can’t tell what the yield will be until thrashed. IVe enclose a piece of the butt or lower end off
V of tho stalks. They grew six feet high on an average, with broad leaves resembling oorn blades, and
ds about one foot long. Wo had an excellent season for oat* and fine crops, but the Norways were much
thobest. We propose to show what we do to all our farmers who wish to see. and then let them think and
act for themselves. The way to Heaven is open to ail the world, but very few take,the trouble to steer by
that compass, and it is so with farmers. ,
Wo have at this time, a splendid crop of cotton: our neighbors have very poor, indifferent ones, but if it
suits them, being none of our business, we shall try to not lose muoh sleep over it.
Yours truly, j
GEO. O. BARKER tc CO.
Jas. F. Groves, XUK.of Tennessee, on the New York Farmers* Olnb.
Drar Sirs : After carefully examining the testimony of your agents. Messrs. Jones A Clark, given in
tho New York Tribune, I became satisfied that you had been successful in lntroducy g a new and valuable
variety of oats, and I resolved to try what could be done in tbe “Sunny South.” A little conversation with
m.I.i.htinAVaulted in our ordering 160bushels. The proper time to sow here 13 last of February,
Mid weather we were two or ihree weeks late. They were put bu different farms withfa
a range of twInty-“vemHel of Knoxville. Two farmers put it in by drillingjthe otherabroadcasL the 160
bushels covoringl80 acres in all. The crops are now harvested butnot thrashed.' The result thus far aseer-
ta ' n Rt. ln The*wgesTpart ^was iseeded witlTone bushel to the acre, some three pecks, and in one instanee half
a bushel^ growth wa3 T a pi a, n , 0 ta striking deep, and putting up often as many as twenty stalks from each
,e0< 3d. The height of stalk* was from four and a half to six feet, heads from ten to twenty inches long, leaves
hal 4th. in Theui!ne<l testimony of the farmers who grew our crops is. that they will yield more than twioe u
mn< 5th* ^he°iw>rnelis we*ll fi!ledhthe?nll thin, and the flour very white. •» v . O
Cth' In consequence of the sixe and strength of the stalk it can be grown on the richest land without
of losing which cannot be said of any other oat known m the South. ■ ■ ■
^ an 7th° We arVsatisfied that not over three peeks should be sown to the acre, while by drilling one-half
buS Tnc i nnctofio < n t allow me to *ay that certain members of the Farmers' Olnb ef New York have done you
gndns neat ininstice in representing that the Norway Oat* could not bo grown at the South suecomfnlly.
have based their opinion upon a knowledge of facts, when it is well known here that
ton^^aralfgoodvarirtTes heretofore grown at the North have succeeded equally welt here, while the Nor-
way"* hare exceeded our highest expectations. » «» OJ *A
Knoxville, July, 1869. '
Would not Fart with his Meed at any Brice.,.* ^
. Lexington, N. C.. August 1, 1869.
. T ia nnnnds of your Norway Oats, half on a poor piece of land by the side of some bleak
El*i: . Asowedl 6lK)tmi <nr rich tobacco land. The first were at least a third higher than the oth-
epnngoats. and the balance on s^ome^r.gu^ ^ heads . Th , drought damaged our oat orop seriously; in
fMt by ithTbont a ftflure. but I find on measuring that I have 14 bushels. I am so well pleased with them
abeam ^ ■
Forty-five Snshelt from One-half Bushel of Seed.
Nbwbuboh, Md.. Jnly 29, 1869.
n.iiiienehl T purchased half a bushel of your Norway Oats from Jones A Clark, New York. They
fntored bv* the brought to a considerable extent, but 1 find on measuring that I have a yield of ferty-
h *>feVip f eotfMiy ^a. nP “ ab0Utthe 8ame Ume “ tbe00 1? l i“ 0 Lf OONTSr*
hoarier.
for
Ferfeetly Satisfied.
r with the Norway Oats. Iflnd there i* from three to tonrumes as many senieis on tea needs
of Norwiys m there are on the other varietie*. We generally sow in the fall season. Will it do to *ow these
in the&ll_? w# neTer known of their beingiown in the fall, hat we can tee no reason why they'win not
do well and even better in some section*. ,-M , ■ Mtrit
Adapted to the South. retail
80%f.Iam SSsfied thatthey wUi yield at least double that of any other variety known to ns. 0a the tame
A few acre? will prove a rich harvest. Judging from the result or tne
liive *5Wwouldboa low estimate of the profit, of a single ncre. The demand to oertain.
The Seed will be furnished nt the;following ratee : ■ - .
PER g»KCK_.
PER HALE bushel...
BY THE BUSHEL.,
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