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A Proclamation.
GEORGIA.
By 11UFUS B. B ULL O CK ,
Governor of Said State.
Whereas, The Alabama and Chattanooga
RaiUoad Company has failed to pay the semi
httnual interest dne on the first days of Janua
ry, and July ultimo, upon ceTtain bonds ol
that Company : and
Whereatt, The State of Georgia indorsed
for and guaranteed the prompt payment of
the interest and principal of said bonds, and
lias paid to the holders thereof die semi-an
nual interest due on the first days ol January
and July aforesaid ; and
Whereas, The said Alabama and Chattanoo
ga Railroad Company accepted, concurred in,
and agreed to the terms and conditions pre
scribed by law at the time said indorsement
was made by this State :
Now, therefore, liy viitna of the authority
In ms vested by the Constitution and Laws of
this State, I, Rufus It. Bullock, Governor and
Commander in Chief of the army and Navy of
this State, and of the militia thereof, do issue
this my proclamation malting known that the
State of Georgia is in possession of the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad, its track’
road bed, machinery, franchises, and property
of all and every descrip'ion, lying or being in
the State of Georgia ; and it is
ORDERED, That all officers oLikis State,
civil and military, exercise due diligence, to
the end that the agent of this State be main
tained In the peaceful possession of the said
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad and its
property within this S'ate, and restrain all
parties from any action whatsoever to dispos
sess the State until the further order of the
Executive.
Given under my hand and the great seal of
the State, at the Capitol iu Atlanta, this
12th day of August., in the year of our Lord
Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-one, and of
the Independence of the United States of
America the Niuety sixth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
By the Governor:
David G, Cotti no, Secretary of State
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A Proclamation.
GEORGIA.
By 11 UFUS B. B UL L 0 CK ,
Governor of said State.
Whereas, It lias been represented to me
that Walter Wilson, Joseph Iludo, Richard
Lazenby, and Radford Perkins, stand charged
■with the crime of MBasaalt, with intent to
iuitrder, upon Ephriam Gibbs, In the connty
of McDuffie, on the 13th day of May, 1871,
and that they have tied from justice, I have
thought proper therefore to issue this, niv
proclamation, hereby offering a reward of
One Thousand Dollars for all, or s3lio each,
for the apprehension and delivery of the said
Wilson, Ilodo, Lazenby, and Perkins, with
evidence sufficient to convict, to the sheriff'of
raid county and State, uud also a further re
ward of live hundred Dollais. upon the same
conditions above recited, for any accessory, be
fore the fact, to said crime.
Given under my Baud and the Great Seal of
the State, at :he capital, in the city of At
lanta, this othd iy of August, in the year of
bur Lord Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-
One, and of the Independence of tbe Uni
ted States of America the Ninety-sixth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK
By the Governor :
David O. Coiting, Secretary of State.
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A Proclamation.
GEORGIA.
By % UFUS />*. B TILL 0 CK,
Governor of said State.
WHEREAS, C)fficial information lias been
tri-ei veii at this Department that a murder was
Committed npon tlie body of John A Griffin,
in the cotinty of Heard, on or about the 18111
Os November, 1870, by Thomas Teal, Paschal
Griffis,'and Susan Knowles, as is alleged, an !
that the said Thomas Teal, Paschal Griffis,
and Susan Knowles have fled from justice.
Now therefore, to the end that they may be
brought to trial for the crime with which they
stand charged, I have thought prop: rto issue
his my proehuuaiion hereby off* ring a re
ward of one thousand dollar.-* each for the ap
prehension and delivery of the said Teal, Pas
chal Gtiffis, ami Susan Know!* s. with evidence
sufficient to convict, to the Shciiif id said
Comity of Heard-
Given in der mv hard, and the great Seal of
the Stale, at- the Capitol, in Atlanta, this
seven 1) day of August, in the > ear of onr
Lord Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-one,
and of the Inde|>eniicnee of the United States
of Ame ieatlic Ninety sixth.
KUKUS B. BULLOCK.
By The Governor*
David G. Gotti ho, SLcr-taiy id Sate.
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A FIXE
Assortment of Slates,
' Fur sale by T. S. POWELL, Trustee,
CUTHBERT f§§|§ APPEAL.
Fall and Winter Importation,
1871.
RIBBONS,
Millinery & Straw Goods.
ARMSTRONG, CATOR&CO.,
importers and jobbers or
Bonnet, Trimming, Velvet Ribbons,
Bonnet Silks, Satins and Velvets,
Blonds, Netts, Crapes,Ruches, Flowers, Feath
ers, Ornaments,
Straw Bonnets & Ladies’ Hats,
TEIMMED AND UNTRIMMED
SHAKER HOODS BcC,
237 and 239 BALTIMORE ST.,
Baltimore, MdL.,
Offer the largest Btoeb to be found in thi»
country, and unequalled in choice variety and
cheapness, comprising the latest European
novelties.
Orders solicited, and prompt attention giv
en. augll-4t
FOR SALE!
Three Plantations.
AS I have decided to change my occupa
tion, and my place of resilience, I oiler
for sale the following desirable property :
3Ty I^lantatioir
1 STEWART COUNTY, &A„
Seven miles south of Lumpkin, and fifteen
north of.Cuthbeit, on the road from the for
mer to the latter place, containing
1,631 ACHES;
A bunt three fourths cleared and in a high state
of cultivation. There are three settlements
on the place.
The Improvements are Good.
The dwelling has recently been recovered
and repainted in aud out side. It, has seven
rooms and a cook room, and pantry attached.
There are a plenty of good cabins for labor
ere, and the most of them with good brick
chimneys, a good gin house aud screw, new
stables and cribs, a large two story barn, a
good smoke house, dairy, curriage house, and
blacksmith shop.
There a e two good sprlnsrs near the dwell
ing. and many more on the plantation There
is a plenty of cane on the place to winter a
large number of cattle.
W. A. Moreland on the place will show the
plantation to any one wishing to see it.
Also,
MY PLANTATION
ill lU.\l)limiCOl\TY, GEORGIA,
Near Benevolence, containing three hundred
and twenty acres ; two hundred cleared and
In a good State of cultivation, with all neces
sary improvements, dwelling, Cabins, stables,
cribs, a good gir house Had screw, choice
fruit trees of different kinds, splendid well
aud spring water,
Convenient to Churches and
Schools,
And no'cd foi its health fulness.
Any one wishing to see the place, I refer
them to W. A. Moreland on my place iu Stew
art.
And
MY PLANTATION IN
RUSSELL COUNTY, ALA.,
Fourteen miles from Columbus, near Big
Uchee Creek, two and a half miles from the
flouri-thing town of Silver Run, on the Mo
bile A Girard R. K., containing nine hundred
and seYebty five acres, about one half cleared
and in a good state of cnlltva'ion, well im
proved, iu au
Excellent Neighborhood
ot the host society, and unsurpassed for health
fulness ; n plenty of srood spring water on any
part of the plantation ; a small creek running
diagonally through the main body of the plan
tation , The dwelling has six large rooms, and
a store room, bath room, aud two pantries, al
so a cook room com ected to the dwelling by
a ci lonade ; good framed cabins with lir ck
chimneys, two sets of stables, two carriage
houses, blacksmith shop, good gin house and
screw, and otl er buildings, fruit of d.fferent
kinds.
Mr P. 11. Perry who lives near the place
will take pleasure in showing it to any one.
My terms for either place is one half cash,
the balance In one and two years with interest.
Either place for rent after the first of Decern
for next, if not sold by that time.
My address will be Atlanta, Ga , until after
the first of October next, theu Cuthbert Ga.,
uutil the first of January next,
augll-tf A. F. MORELAND.
VALUABLE
Property for Sale
AT A SACRIFICE
For the Money!
I want to sell GRIST & FLOURING
MILLS near Fort Gaines, Ga., inn by wa
ter—never fai ling stream. The best Mills in
Southwest Georgia.
Also, my PLANTATION one and a half
miles from Cotton Hill, containing 660 acres
of laud, neat and comfortable residence, beau
tiful location, alt necessary out houses, negro
cabins, ect., together with STOCK of all
kinds
Cotton Hill is noted for its School. Place
as healthy as the mountains. Will sell cheap.
Applv for particulars to
JOHN CALLAWAY,
Cotton Hill.
Or W. C. GUNN,
Fort Gaines, Ga.
Enterprise R.R. Cos.
is hereby given, t'at Books for
_i_x subscription to the Capital Stock of the
Enterprise Railroad Company, will be opened
at Luui;kiu,on Monday the'lßth day ot Sep
tember next; and on the day thereafter, at
same place, there will be an election for Direc
tors (seven) to manage the affairs of said com
pany. L. BRYAN,
T. W. BATTLE,
W. R. HOLLIDAY,
J, (i. SINGER,
J. L. WIMBERLY,
ang 1 8 30d Corporators.
Extract Strawberry, Vanilla,
Pineapple and Lemon,
For Flavoring, at
B. J. JACKSON S.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1871.
Tubal Cain.
nr bro. Charles mackay.
Old Tubal Cain was a man of might,
In the days when Earth was young ;
By the fierce red light furnace bright
The strokes of his hammer rung :
And he lifted his brawny hand,
Cn the iron glowing clear,
’Till the sparks rushed out in scarlet rout,
As be fashioned the sword and spear ;
And he sang ; “Hurra! for my handiwork :
Hurra ! for the spear and sword,
•Hurra ! for the hand that shall wield them
well,
For he shall be king and Lord 1”
To Tubal Cain came many a one,
As he wrought by his waning fire ;
And each one pray’d for a strong steel blade
As the crown of bis own desire ;
And he made them weapons sharp and strong,
Till they shouted loud for glee,
And gave him gifts of pearl and gold !
And spoils of the forest free :
And they sang : “ Hurra! for Tubal Cain,
Who hath given us strength anew,
Hurra for the smith, Hurra for the fire
And Hurra for the metal true.”
But-a sudden change came o’er his head
Ere the setting of the sun,
And Tubal Cain was filled with pain
For Ihe evil he had done;
He saw that men with rage and hate
Made war upon their kind.
And the land was red with the blood they
shed
In their Inst for carnage blind.
And he said ; “ Alas ! that ever 1 made,
Or that skill of mine should plan,
The spear and the sword tor men whoso joy
Is to slay their fellow man! ”
And for many a day old Tubal Cain
Sat brooding o'er his woe ;
And his band forbore to smite the ore.
And bis furnace smouldered low ;
But be rose at last with a cheerful face,
And a bright courageous eye,
And he bared his strong right ann for work
While the quick flames mounted high.
And he sang : “ Ilnrra! for my handiwork,
While the red sparks filled the air,
Not alone for the blade was the bright steel
made,
And he fashioned the first plow share.
And men taught wisdomTrom the first,
In friendship joined their hands—
Hung the swerd in the ball, the spear on the
wall
And plowed the willing lands ;
And sang : “Hurra! for Tubal Cain,
Our staunch old friend is he.
And for the plow-share and the plow
To him our praise shall be ;
But while oppression lifts its "head,
Or a tyrant would be lord,
Tho’ we may thank him for the plow,
Wo 111 not forget the sword.”
Jasper and Jet.
ISY TENOROON.
Jasper Coombs was sick unto
death. The sun did not send its
golden light across the bed where
Jasper Coombs lay, for its bright
face was hidden behind dark, heavy
clouds, and the day was dismal and
dreary. The wind paid no atten
tion to the dying man but shrieked
around the house increasing the
gloom within : occasionally it would
mockingly sigh and sob and Jasper
would start uneasily, and sink back j
wearily.
The town clock strikes three and
the door ot Jnspe.’s room opens
noiselessly, and a strange, wild look
ing little creature with restless,
black eyes, and dark, tangled hair,
euters. “ Papa, papa, Jasper,” says
the selfish looking maiden, and the
sick man’s face lights up with a
smile of recognition, and his feeble
voice replies : “ My own little Jet.”
“ I’m coming up where you are,”
says Jet, and she perches herself on
the foot of the bed, and laughs a
strange little laugh that sounds like
a gurgling brook. Then she shakes
back her black hair from her eyes,
draws her little red cape more
closely around her sits and tele
graphs smiles to Jasper.
II
Jasper Coombs was an unpolish
ed honestliearted, noble man. Tall,
ungainly in form, awkward in ap
pearanoe, but very intelligent.
At twenty-five he married Grace
Elgin. She was as graceful as her
name implied, and a perfect con
trast to Jasper. Their courtship
had been a long one. Grace was
a fairy-like creature, bewitching in
manner, a little exacting and impe
rious in disposition, and somewhat
of a coquette. She had many ad
mirers, but Jasper, “through his
persistency,” it was said, was tri
uphant over all.
Jasper loved little Grace as his
life, loved her way down in his great
heart, loved her all, and her
only. It was thus lie supposed she
loved him, but little clouds arose
and darkened the hitherto clear sky
and he discovered his mistake.
. “I declare,” said Grace one day,
“how awkward you are Jasper,
when are you going to get a little
more polished? I am almost asham
ed to be seen in the street with
you, and you have never helped me
decently into the carriage yet!
Can’t you manage to have a little
more style ?”
Patient, loving, gentle awkward
Jasper looked down into his little
wife’s face and told her he would
try.
And he did try ; but Grace grew
more and more critical, move and
more exacting and Jasper grew dis
couraged. His brown eyes took on
a far away look, and his face be
came sad and sorrowful. In his
great love for Grace he blamed only
himself, and in his unselfishness
sighed to think he could not free
her from her burden. His love
seemed lost upon Grace ; she saw
only his clumsy exterior, and forgot
»the true devoted heart which it hid
and which beat only lor her.
“Mr. Coombs,” said Grace one
day, she never called him Jasper
now, “ you worry me ! Can’t you
sit down decently without sorooeh
ing over so, and can’t you display
those long arms to better advan
tage ? I declare, I never, never
saw a man- like you, and I wish--
yes Id I had never seen
yon ! ”
That night a lonely man went
out from his home, from his wife,
never to return. In his arms lie
carried a sleeping child, as on and
on he walked. His breath came
thick and fast and sounded like
sobs as he hugged the child closer
to his bosom. His dark eyes looked
sad, not stern, aud the expression
on his face was that of grief aud
deep suffering rather thau that of
revenge.
A little note on Grace’s table told
all there was to tell.
Dear Little Grace :
I am going far away. I have
been a curse rather than a blessing
to you, and now I am going out oi
your life, though you will ever be
in mine.
I take little Jet with me, for poor
little girl, she resembles her father
too much to gain your love, but you
have Edith who bids fair to be as
beautiful as her mother. God bless
you both. I kiss you, Gracie, a
last good-bye. JAsreß.
11l
“Jet, how old ?”
“Eleven, papa Jasper.”
Do you love any one Jet?” in a
sad, weary tone.
“Yon bet I do,” says Jet impul
sively—“just lots! Papa Jasper
comes first, you are the only one I
love just lots, the rest I lik> little
bits all around.
* ‘Shall you ever marry, Jet?”
“And have to mind ?” queries
Jet, and then not waiting for a re
ply she continues, “and make him
do all I say, and buy me lots of nice
things; and have a horse and car
riage? Oh, papa Jasper, just for
sure I certainly shall—some day !”
Oh, Jet, you are little, too little
to be left alone, but you must re
member what I say”—and Jet as
she was wont to do crawled up to
Jasper and nestled close to him as
lie talked.
“Promise Jet, little Jet, you’ll
never marry anv one you don’t ful
ly love, as much and even more
than he loves you.”
“All right,” said Jet, “I promise.” i
“A man insn’t worth marrying,”
continued Jaspar, “unless lie mar
ries you for your own self’s sake,
and because he loves you, and be
cause you seem to him the only one
in the world who can make him
happy—and, oh Jet, how would you
return the love of a person like
this, who loved you more than his
life ?”
“I dftn’t expect any one will ever
love me that much, papa Jasper,
but if there ever is such a person,
I’ll love him straight ahead aud for
get about the minding part.” < £
“ Will you be patient with h's
faults, Jet—will you love him just
all ? ”
“Just all— sure /”
“Oh, Jet, you are so little, why
aren’t you bigger, you can’t under
stand, but promise me over again.”
“ I promise you over again, over
again, over again, three thicknesses
—enough? papa, Jasper.”
“ Enough.”
“ Sing,” sa'd the tired, weary
man, “ sing Jet.”
And Jet took her position again
at the foot of the bed and com
menced a song without words. The
melody was Jet’s own, wild and
restless as herself, but Jasper loved
Jet, and Jet’s music. Tonight,
though, the man turned wearily
and uneasily, and in his eyes there
was a longing look and an expres
sion about his face almost beseech
ing.
“Jet,” I’m tired; sing Jasper
something that will rest him.”
The child’s black eyes ceased
their restless wandering and fas
tened themselves on Jasper. Her
face assumed a gentle look
and in a low, sweet strain, plain
tive and sat, she uttered in music
what she couldn’t speak in words.
It rested Jasper more than the soft
pillows, more than the flowers
which Jet gathered and brought to
him. It was heart talking to heart
a sweet child-heart singing of the
rest which this lonely, tired man
had sought in vain. The rest, tho’,
was just ahead, Jasper saw it as
Jet continued to sing, and when
she had finished he Culled her to
come close to him and in the gath
ering gloom of the night he told
the child Jet the sad story of his
life.
Jet sat motionless, almost stupe
fied with the weight of sorrow Jas
per’s revelation imparted, and w hen
he had told her all, she sat for a mo
ment speechless, with great tears
rolling off her face on to Jasper’s
hand. Sliding from the bed she
kneels down close to Jasper and With
his hand in hers she prays to the
God of All Comfort:
“ Oh, God, oh, God,” said Jet,
“ take papa Jasper straight home
to your heaven and make him happy
—he never, never can be so here !
Oh, it’s been dreadful to him, such
a long dreary life, and there ain’t
no help for it here as I see. Never
mind me, I’ll get along someway,
but take poor, tired papa Jasper up
to glory —and give him. rest.
Unselfish, noble little Jet, rose
| and kissed Jasper’s face over and
j over again in the darkness, but he
| needed her not, for her prayer 'had
been answered, and heart-broken
! Jasper Coombs had gone to his rest.
Spaecli of Ex-Gov. Brown Before
the Agricultural Convention at
Rome on the 11th Day of August.
THE CULTURE OF CLOVER AND THE
GRASSES.
REST FERTILIZER —HILLSIDE DITCH
ING —STOCK RAISING.
Mr. President : I rise for the
purpose of seconding—which I do
most heatily—the resolution of
thanks to Dr. Janes, for the very
instructive and practical address
which he has just delivered on the
culture of clover and grasses in
Green county. It has been fully
demonstrated, by previous experi
ments and practice, that clover and
almost any of the grasses' grow
xvell in all the section above Atlan
ta to the Tennessee and North Car
olina lines; but it was still regarded
as a matter of doubt, whether it
could be profitably grown as low'
down as Green county. The ex
periments of Doctor Janes, how
ever, settle that question beyond
further caviling, and it is no doubt
true that clover and the other grass
es may be profitably' grown as low
dofvn as the red or clay lands ex
tend. The result of the Doctor’s
experiment is truly astonishing, as
the yield is one of tho largest I
have ever heard of. On my best
river bottom, in Cherokee, I had
never made but little over three
tons to the acre in one year, weigh
ed when dried and ready for the
market; aud this I have regarded
a very fine crop. Indeed, it takes
our best lauds up the country to
produce that quantity.
METHOD OF CULTIVATING CLOVER.
I am satisfied our people are neg
lecting their best interests, wheth
er they neglect to cultivate largely
of grasses, or it is scarcely any la
bor to make the grass crop, aud it
is the most available crop made on
the land when produced. A word
as to the mode of sowing and cul
tivating it. I have never, in a sin
gle instance, failed to get a good
stand when I have sowed in March
with oats. I prepare my land thor
oughly, then sow 7 the oats and plow
them in, and, after they are plowed
in, when I would be ready to leave
the field, if I only intended to make
an oat crop, I sow down the clover
seed upon the fresh plowed land, at
the rate of' a bushel oi clear seed
to six acres and brush them iu with
a brush cut in tho woods near by,
having a heavy top, which makes a
light load fer two horses, running
over, covering the seed, and level
ing the ground, as our‘ fathers for
merly did their turnip patches. A
bushel to six or seven acres is more
seed than is usually put upon land,
but I have found it iu the end much
the cheapest to put on enough seed
to be sure to get a good stand the
first year. Some object to cover
ing it with brush, aqd say it does
just as well to sow it on wheat, or
even on land unprepared, and leave
the seed on the top of the ground.
Ii sowed in the snow on wh’eat,
which we seldom have here, or sow
ed in a very rainy time, this will
do, but take one year w T ith another
and risk the season and it is entire
ly too uncertain. It is said that
the brush covers part of the seed
t*o deep and they do not come up,
and that xve thereby waste seed.—
This may' be true, but it leaves a
proper quantity the proper depth
under the ground, and when it
comes up, having some depth of
earth, the root is not so easily killed
by the hot sun as it is when the seed
is on the top of the ground. I find
it, therefore, decidedly best to brush
it in. Besides it leaves the ground
level and in good order for mowing.
The oat crop is the one to be look
ed to for that year, as we do not ex
pect a crop of clover the first; and
yßu should not pasture the land the
first y'ear, unless you do so very
late, say the latter part of Septem
ber or the first of October.
Os an ordinary seasoD, the clo-.
ver will, the year it is sowed, grow
up a considerable height, before
frost, if the land is good; and with
it will be a good coat of crab-grass
and a considerable crop of weeds.
Just before frost, I put my two-horse
mower in and cot all this down,
and dry it, apd stock it, and it
makes a fine crop of hay. The
stock will eat all the young clover
and the erabgrass, and even the
tops of the rag weeds, when they
are cut green and dried with the
hay. Bat not the least benefit from
this course is the fine order in
which your land is left for mowing
in the Spring. If you do not cut
down the grass and weed crop in
the Fall, you will find, in the Spring,
that the large dry weeds are very
much in your way, and it will be
necessary to employ hands to gath
er them and pile them out of the
way, before you can reap your crop
of clover.
CLOVER AS A FERTILIZER. *
In reference to the quality of laud
best adapted to its growth, I state
that, in my opinion, it does best up
on stiff black, rich river bottom,
which needs no manure to make a
good crep. If you put it on up
lands, and expect a good crop, you
mast manure your land well before
you sow; and it is once set with
clover, if you cultivate it properly,
you may keep it perpetually rich.—
If you have poor lands and wish to
enrich them with clover, you must
turn over several successive crops
in the green state, giving them to
the land, and, if you have the pa
tieDce, in this way you can soon im
prove it until it will produce a
good crop tor use, and may then
keep your lapd rich for the future.
But you need not expect a heavy crop
of clover on poor land, any more
than you may expect a heavy crop
of any other sort.
THE QUALITY OF LAND SUITED FOR
CLOVER.
And, iri this connection, I wish
to say a few words as to the value
of the clover crop as a manure.—
VVe have heard here a very icter
esting discussion on the subject of
commercial and domestic, or barn
yard manures, during which many
very valuable suggestions and in
teresting statements have been
made. My jndgment, however, is
that the clover is the best of all
fertilizers. It enriches the land,
and continues to keep itvich, if you
continue to alternate the clover with
other crops, or to run it a consid
erable portion of time iu clover.—
The first two acres which I sowed
in river bottom in Cherokee coun
ty, as an experiment, was sowed in
the middle of a corn field, that it
might be sure not to be pastured
the first year. With the clover I
sowed some Heard’ Grass seed.—
For three successive years I got
heavy crops of clover from the
land. The clover decidedly pre
dominated over the Heard’s Grass.
On the fourth year the crop Mas
pretty equally divided between the
two; and the fifth year it was about
three-fourths Heard’s Grass. This
shows that the Hoard’s Grass will
stand longer than the clover. The
latter should be plowed up every
third year. The Heard’s Grass
might be continued indefinitely,
were it not that briers, broom sedge
and other M’ikl growth, will spring
up and compel you to cultivate the
land to get rid of them. In the
Fall of the fifth year I had the txvo
acres above referred to turned under
with a two-horse turning plow, and
I afterwards sowed it, as I did the
corn land around it in wheat. Thefol
lowing Spring, when the wheat was
about maturing, you could see the
difference to the very row, from a
very considerable distance. That
where the clover had been was from
twelve to eighteen inches higher
than that around it. The next year
it xvas cultivated in corn, and the ten
ant informed me that he could shut
his eyes before he came near the
place and tell by the looseness of the
ground, the moment the plow struck
the part had been in clover. The
corn crop was decidedly belter on
the clover land than on the same
quality ot the land aroundit, which
had been in wheat the year before.
The third year, w hich was the last
summer, the field was again sowed
iu wheat and I could have carried
you into the edge of the wheat field
and said “Two acres of this has been
in clover,” arid asked you to point
it out to me, without my indicating
the place, and you could have show
ed me, to the very row', where the
clover had been, as the wheat on
that part xvas decidedly taller and
lookel better every way. The ef
fect of the therefore, has
been not only visible, but very
marked for three years after the
crop had been turned under.
HILLSIDE DITCHING AND DRAINING.
We have heard some very inter
esting statements here, on the sub
ject of hillside ditching and drain
age. Iu my opinion, the very best
hillside ditch that can be made in
this climate, is made of clover aud
grasses and deep plowing. If you
will plow your lands deep, and keep
your hillsides in clover and grass,
and use them mostly as pasturage
for your stock which will pay you
better than any other crop you can
put upon them, you will have no
use for hillside ditches and the deep
plow ing and the clover and grass
will prevent any w'ash.
A REPROACH TO THE PEOPLE OF
GEORGIA.
I desire to state a fact here
which is really a shame to the peo
ple of Georgia. The records of the
W. & A. Railroad show that there
was imported over the road into
the State, during the 6 months from
the first of January to the first of
July, in round numbers, H 3,000
bales of hay. This was worth
about sn’2oo,iK)o. if the same quan
tity should be imported for the last
half year, it, will be, say CG,oOO
bales, or $40u,000 worth.
pound of this should be grown in
middle and upper Georgia, and it
our friends who raise cotton in the
sandy lands should desire any hay,
we should certainly furnish it to
them. I trust our people will wake
up to this subject. Not only should
we raise all our own hay, but we
should raise our own stock. Where
we have our lands set with grass,
we can do this easily and cheaply.
As an illustration—l keep upon my
farm neither a mule nor a horse to
aid in doing the work, but I work
mares entirely, and I have a jack
and raise mule colts. Last Fail, in
November, I was on my plantation
in Gordon county, and my manager,
Capt. Finley, asked me how 1
should treat the colts. I told him
to turn them into the bottom land
upon a clover field where we had
mowed it for the winter, and let
them ran there as long as it would
support them, and then give them
a plenty of hay and some corn, if
necessary, for the balance of the
winter. The Fall had been a fa
vorable one and the clover was up
a very considerable height and
thick over the ground. The winter
was "wet and but one really very cold
spell came about Christmas. The
result was that there was enough clo
ver for them to feed uponall the win
ter. I again visited the farm first of
March, and went with Captain Fiu-
ley to see my colts, and found them
in good growing order, doing well,
and he told me he had not fed them
a ear of corn, during the whole Win
ter, and that they had run there up
on the clover field and had had
nothing else, eicept that they had
probably eaten about half a cart
load of my seed clover, under a
shelter. This was cut when it was
rather dry and hard for hay, when
the seed got ripe, and they did not
like it, and indeed they did not need
it. They are now going On two
years of age, and I do not suppose
they know what corn is. A mule
colt, on a clover farm, I find costs
me less than a bull yearling to raise
it.
lIOXV TO OBTAIN SEED.
A word now on the subject of
seed. Until last year I have been
buying my seed each successive
year, from Kentucky, because I did
not wish to have the trouble of
cleaning the seed. Last summer I
had the second crop on ten acres
set apart for seed. I let it stand
until the seed was ripe and had it
mowed as I would mow hay, and
hauled it up and put it under a
shelter. In the spring when I wish
ed to sow, I had it thrown out with
forks upon the hard ground near
the barn, and a couple of hands
took flails, such as our fathers for
merly used in threshing wheat, and
a few licks would beat off all the
pods from a considerable bed of it.
That was thrown aside and another
portion thrown down, and by con
tinning in tho same way I had the
seed thrashed off of the entire
quantity. With the seed which
grew off the ten acres, I sowed
about sixty acres the past spring,
and got an excellent stand. It was
sowed in the rough seed chaff and
all together, from seven to ten bush
els to the acre, on fresh plowed
land, sowed in oats and brushed in,
as already stated in the case of clean
seed. The seed off of ten acres, if
I had purchased it from Kentucky,
would have cost me about §IOO I
therefore recommend every farmer,
of the first year to save his own
seed. Buy your seed and sow the
first few acres ; then set apart a por
tion of the second crop of each
year for seed, and save it and pre
pare it and sow as above stated, and
you will have no difficulty about it.
You need therefore, after the first
year, spend nothing for seed ; nor
need you spend any labor on the
clover crop, except the simple la
bor of cutting and housing it. This
is certainly much better, under the
present labor system, that our old
habit of breaking up our land, plant
ing corn and cultivating it all sum
mer, and pulling fodder and then
gathering the corn, hauling it up,
shucking*] t and throwing it into
the crib and carrying it out in our
arms in baskets, and throwing it to
our stcck. Instead of all this la
bor, sew your hillside lauds, such
as you cannot xvell mow', turn
your stock upon it in the summer,
and, unless in case of drought, they
will do xvell upon it all summer,
xvithout any of your labor. Set
apart some of your land, bottom if
you. have it to mow; cut and sax e
the crop there, and you have noth
ing to do but to throw the hay to
the stock, with a little corn, and
you carry them through safely.
There is, therefore, no comparison
between the two crops, so far as
your stock is concerned.
If you will sow a lot in clover
and grass near your stables, and
will plow your horses during the
summer, giving them plenty of clo
ver hay', and allow them to run in
the pasture at night, with one, feed
of corn each day, you may' keep
them in good order and w'ork them
all summer.
CLOVER AS PASTURAGE FOR IIOGS
This is not confined to cattle or
horses. A clover field is a most
excellent place for your liogs. I
set apart a field for that purpose,
and have now from 130 to 140 hogs
uppn it, and they have been doing
well all summer, with scarcely any
corn. When the weather is very
wet, the best plan is to move them
off from it to prevent them from
rooting up the laud. They will
graze on the green clover all the
while, and it is an excellent food
for them. The cheapest way to
make meet in the up country is to
have a good clover pasture for your
hogs, and after you cut your small
grain in the summer, turn them in
for a time and pasture them there.
Taking the two together, you need
feed them very little corn until
August or September. Then as
soon as your corn is in roasting*
ear, fence off a small piece at a
time (for which Mr. Charles Wal
lace Howard’s portable fence, a
model of which is now before the
convention, would be very conven
ient,) turn them upon it or cut it
and throw it to them, stalk and all.
They will eat tfie car and chew up
the cob, the stalk and fodder, and
it is all nutritious. You will find
it will start them off to thriving,
growing and fattening as fast as
dry corn, and they get a great
deal more out of the stalk, includ
ing the fodder, ear, &c., tiian they
do out of a dry ear of corn. In
this way they may be carried on
until corn-gathering time, and then
feed them a short time upon dry
corn, and they are ready for the
butcher.
HOW TO TURN A CRC& UNDER.
Before I conclude, a word more
in reference to turning under the
clover crop. As already stated,
you do not pasture it the first year,
uud your first crop is saved, the
next spring after it is sowed. That
NO; 36
year you may mow it twice. Tbc
third year, you should cut the first
crop and sax r e it for hay, and you
should turn the second crop under
xvith a two horse turning plow, giv
ing it to the soil, and either sow it
in wheat that fall, xvhioh is proba
bly best, or cultivate it in corn, this
next spring. It should not stand
more than three years, without be
ing turned under, as the fourth
y'ear’s crop will not be a very good
one, aud the wild growth and broom
sedge will become troublesome bf
the fourth year. I may also remark
that the first crop cut each year,
which m Cherokee, Ga., is ready
for the mower about the last oi
May, is much the best for hay.—
The second crop will make your
horses slobber, though the hay is!
very good for cattle. The proper
time to moiv the crop, is when it i3
in full bloom, and a few blooms,
here and there, of the earliest,- ard
beginning to fade, preparatory id
ripening the seed. The old theory
xvas to let it stand until a third of
half tho blooms xvere fading, but
this is not the best, as the stalk be
comes rather hard and the hay in
not as good. If cut in full bldtfra;
xvlien only half of the earliest blos
soms are changing color, your hay
will be more nutritious and better.
But I have already detained yon
too long, Air. President. My ob
ject xvas not to make a speech, as
I do not care to do that further
than to ofter a few practical sug
gestions, the result ot my own ex
perience. If by any effort I can
make, or you, or this Convention;
xve can wake up the people to thfe
great importance of this subject, we
will not have labored in vain. I
thank you and the Convention for
tho attentive hearing which yon
have given me.
VARIETY.
Mary had a little corn
Upon her little toe,
And everywhere that Mary went
«Xhat corn was sura to go.
Connecting link between tlitf
animal and x'egetable kingdon—
hash.
A volume that will bring tears
to your eyes-—a volume' of smoke.
The man xvho “couldn’t find
his match” xvent to bed in the dark.
A woman is seldom so badly
cornered as a man, for she can gen
erally make a sh'ft.
What sculpture is to the block
of marble, education is to the hu
man soul.
On a gay widow giving up
her weeds for colors—“ Behold how
brightly breaks the morning.”
Tbe ladies say that all the bus
tle that is made about the Grecian
bend is newspaper staff. That’s
so.
An avaricious man, after hav
ing kindled his fire, stuck a cork in
the end of the bellows to save a
little wind that was left in them;
A child tied crape on the door
knob to sec if the carriages would
come to take her out riding, as they
did the family across the street
“Auntie,” said a little three
year old, one day. “I don’t lile
mine aprons tarehed so drefful. So
much tarchness makes the tiffnees
track my bareness.”
A man who was told by a cler
gyman to “remember Lot’s wife,”
replied that he had trouble enough
with his own, without remember
ing other men’s wives.
“Jim, what makes your cats
keep up such a cursed mewing all
the night ?” “Don’t you know, Bill;
I suppose, though, it’s on account of
their mew-cuss membrane.”
This remark was made by a
young lady : “It is wisely ordainecf
that the same wind that sweeps our
dresses aside also fills the eyes of
naughty young men with dust/ y
A gCDileman expressed to a
lady bis admiration of her toilet.—
She said she supposed he had bceni
impressed by her angel sleeves.—
He answered with effusion: “No,
but he’d like to be;”
Teacher.—“ Tommy, what does
h-a-i-r spell ?” pupil.—“ Du
nno, sir.” Teacher—“ Why, yad
numbskull, what have you got on
your head?” Apt pupil.—“l dunno,
sir, but I think it bees a flea 1”
Out West they tell a story of
a dog who was grealy interested in
music. lie attended a singing
school, and was subsequently fodnd
in the yard with a music book in
front of him, beating time with his
tail on a tin pan, and howling “Old
Hundred.”
A little boy had a great liking
for the water. His mother told
him not to go on the wharves or
near the water—•“ for Freddy if
you should get drowned we should
never know what become of you.”
Oh, yes, you would, cause 't would
be in the papers.
A country fellow went to a
city to see his intended wife, and
for a long time he could think of
nothing to say. At last, a great
snow falling, he took occasion to
tell her that all his father’s sheep
would be undone. “ Well,” said
she kindly taking him by the hand,
“ I’ll keep one of them.”
A quaint old gentleman, of an
active stirring disposition, had a
man at work in his garden who was
quite the reverse. “ Jones,” said
he, did you ever see a snail ? ” —=
“ Certainly,” said Jones. “Then,”
said the old boy, “ you must have
met him ; for you could never over
taken him.”