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Fresh Points About Fertilizers.
Charles W. Dabney, Jr., Director of the
North Carolina Agricultural Experiment
Station, sends us the following information,
which he has issued in the form of a circular
to planters:
“Just at this time the important question
with farmers is: llow can the best manure
be made at the least cost ? All will find it
necessary to supplement their natural home
manures with fertilizers or with chemicals.
In answer to this question, I must say, first,
a good manure can only be made out of good
materials, and good materials cost something.
The recipes which are hawked about the
country for making manure out of worthless
materials are humbugs.
“Tue farmer aims to supply the four great
elements of plant-food—phosphoric acid,
ammonia, potash and lime—all, or in part,
according to the demands of his soil or the
crop. If he does not get these already mixed
for him in a fertilizer he must buy chemicals
and mix them for himsejf; using at the same
time all the home materials he has. The
question is, in what form can he buy these
things cheapest? The best and cheapest
sources of these substances now within reach
of our farmers are, for available phosphoric
acid, dissolved S. C. phosphate ; for ammonia,
sulphate of ammonia or potential ammonia
in fish scraps, slaughter-house offal, etc.; for
potash, muriate of potash, (for fine tobacco,
sulphat of potash); for lime, ground plaster.
YV here dissolved bones or S. C. phosphate are
used it is generally not necessary to buy
sulphate of lime in addition, as these contain
it. Some of the costly chemicals called for
by formulas supplied farmers by the dealers
are comparatively unneeded. The money
often putin sulphate of magnesia and sulphate
of soda, for example, had better bo put in
more of the more valuable ingredients. Ido
not recommend buying nitrate of soda or
dinarily now, either. At present prices
sulphate of ammonia affords nitrogen cheaper.
Nitrate of soda, at six cents per pound, sup
plies nitrogen equivalent to only seventeen
per cent, of ammonia, while sulphate of am
monia, at five and a half per pound, supplies
twenty-five per cent, of ammonia. The nitrate
has a further disadvantage, too, of being so
very soluble in water that it is in large part
washed out of the soil aud thus lost to the
plants. Lawes and Gilbert established this
for their clay soils at liothamstead by careful
experiments. It must be much truer of our
soils. Similarly I recommend muriate of
potash (except for fine tobacco) in preference
to the sulphate. ‘ High grade’ sulphate of
potash, at two and a half cents a pound, con
tains only about twenty-seven per cent, of
potash, while the muriate, at three cents per
pound, contains fifty per cent.
“ Farmers should write to mo and tell me
what materials they have at their disposal or
can get, and I will make up formulas for them
-suited to the crops they want to cultivate. I
have recommended the following formulas
'frequently this season:
“ For corn—Dissolved bone containing 15
• per cent, available plios. acid, 800 pounds ;
muriate of potash, containing 50 per cent, of
•potash, 100 pounds ; mould, 1,100 pounds;
total, 2,000 pounds; 400 pounds per acre in
the hill. This would cost per ton (800 pounds
dissolved bone $13.60, 100 pounds muriate
-of potash $3.00) $16.60.
“ For cotton—Acid phosphate, 12 per cent,
available plios. acid, 600 pounds ; sulphate of
ammonia, 25 percent, ammonia, 100 pounds ;
muriate of potash, 50 per cent, of potash, 100
pounds ; twenty-two bushels cotton seed, or
about 600 pounds; rotted stable manure,
muck or mould, 600 pounds; total, 2,000
pounds. The sulphate of ammonia and
muriate of potash to be dissolved in water and
sprinkled on the heap. This will cost: 600
pounds acid phosphate, $9.00; 100 pounds
of sulphate of ammonia, $5.50 ; 100 pounds
of muriate of potash, $3.00 ; 22 bushels of
cotton seed, about $2.75 —$20.25 per ton.
Three hundred pounds per acre. Directions
for composting will be gladly supplied on ap
plication.”—From Cotton.
What a Boy Knows About Girls.
Girls are the most unaccountablest things
in the world—except woman. Like the
wicked flea, when you have them they ain’t
there. I can cipher clean over the improper
transactions, and the teacher says I do first
rate ; but I can't cipher out a girl, proper or
improper, and you can’t either. The only
rule iu the arithmetic that hits their cases is
the double rule of three. They are as full
of Old N ; ck as their skins can hold, and the}’
would die if they could not torment some
body. When they try to be mean, they are
as mean as pulsy, though they ain’t as mean
as they let on, except sometimes, and then
they are a good deal meaner. The only way
to get along with a girl when she comes to
you with her nonsense is to give her tit for
tat, and that will flurnmux her, and when you
get a girl flummuxed she is as nice as a pin.
A girl can sow more wild oats in one day
than a boyxian sow in a year, but girls get
their wild oats sowed after a while, which
boys never do, and then they settle down as
calm and as placid as a mud-puddle. But I
like the girls first-rate, and I guess all the
boys do. I don’t care how many tricks they
play on me—and they don’t care either.—
The hoitytoityestgirl in the world can always
boil over like a glass of soda. Hy and by
they get into the traces with somebody they
like, and pull as steady as an old stage horse.
That is the beauty of them. So, let them
wave, I say ; they will pay for themselves
some day, sewing on buttons and trying to
make a man out of the fellow they have
spliced to, and ten chances to one if they
don’t get the worst of it.— Ex.
Given up by Doctors.
“Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up and at
work, and cured by so simple a remedy?”
“ 1 assure you it is true that he is entirely cured,
and with nothing but Hop Hitters; and only ten
days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must
die!
NEW GOODS!
I HAY E in stock, and will continue to receive,
a full line of
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, &c.,
WHICH I WILL SELL AT
ATHENS PRICES!
with freight added.
Call and price my cash stock of
MAGNOLIA IIAMS,
BULK MEATS,
CORN and MEAL,
CHOICE FAMILY FLOUR,
SUGAR and COFFEE,
MOLASSES.
RICE, SPICE, PEPPER, Ac.
ALSO
vs\aY\Ac WYvA
IDiry Goods!
I sell for the CASH, and sell LOYV.
A. 11. BROCK.
April Ist, ISSI.
Outfit furnished free, with full instruc
tions for conducting the most profitable
business that anyone can engage in. The busi
ness is so easy to learn, and our instructions are
so simple and plain, that any one can make great
profits from the veiy start. No one can fail who
is willing to work. Women are as successful as
men. Hoys and girls can earn largs sums. Many
have made at the business over one hundred dol
lars in a single week. Nothing like it ever known
before. All who engage are surprised at the ease
and rapidity with which they are able to make
money. Y T ou can engage in tliis business during
your spare time at great profit. You do not have
to invest capital in it. We take all the risk.
Those who need ready money, should write to us
at once. All furnished free. Address True &
Cos., Augusta, Maine.
RTfTPAY AGENTS
JU?JLVAJL V/ANTED.
YYE YY ANT A LIMITED number of active , ener
getic canvassers to engage in a pleasant and prof
itable business. Good men will find this a rare
chance
TO UVEALIKZE MONET.
Such will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what
business they have been engaged in. None but
those who mean business need apply.
Address FINLEY, IIARY V EY & CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
€£ tef Outfit sent free to those who wish to cn-
J gage in the most pleasant and profitable
business known. Everything new. Capital not
iequired. YYe will furnish you everything. 810
a day and upwards is easily made without staying
away from home over night. No risk whatever.
Many new workers wanted at once. Many arc
making fortunes at the business. Ladies make as
much as men, and young boys and girls make
great pay. No one who is willing to work fails
to make more money every day than can be made
in a week at any ordinary employment. Those
who engage at once will find a short road to for
tune. Address 11. Hallett & Cos., Portland,
Maine.
TOT' IT "O Yourselves by making money
when a golden chance is offer
ed, thereby always keeping poverty from your
door. Those who always take advantage of the
good chances for making money that are'Afiered,
generally become wealthy, while those who do
not improve such chances remain in poverty. We
want many men, women, boys and girls to work
lor us right in their own localities. The business
will pay more than ten times ordinary wages.
We furnish an expensive outfit and all that you
need, free. No one who engages fails to make
money very rapidly. You can devote your whole
time to the work, or only your spare moments.
Full information and all that is needed sent free.
Address Stinson & Cos., Portland, Maine.
THE TEABE!
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A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
BLANK BOOKS
AND
Stationery,
LEDGERS,
JOURNALS,
LETTER BOOKS,
WRITING PAPER .
ENVELOPES,
INK,
MUCILAGE,
INK STANDS,
PENCILS,
Etc.
Churches and Ministers supplied with Hooks at
publishers prices, by
BURKE & ANDERSON,
Feb. 25 - Athens, Ga.
ENCOURAGE HOME MANUFACTURES.
Maysville Shoe Factory.
We manufacture all kinds of shoes ; mens’
Brogans and Hoots, ladies’ High and Low Quar
tered Shoes, childrens’ Shoes, HARNESS and
BRIDLES. We are prepared to make all kinds
of fine work. We work the best material in the
most popular styles, and
Warrant our Work Equal to
any Goods on the Market.
We have experienced workmen employed. Uor
both coarse and fine work. As we defy comp* i
tion in quality, prices and service, we hope
have the pleasure of supplying you with Boots and
Shoes. BROWN A RILEY.
Maysville. Ga.
ESyAYe also keep constantly on hand a select
stock of Groceries and Provisions. Bacon, Lard,
Sugar, Coflcc, Syrup, Dry Goods, &c., &c.
TEETHISMA.
(TEETHING POWDERS.)
CHARkESUMOFFETTMO. 'T
Cures Cholera Infantum. Allays Irritation and
makes Teethlna easy. Removes and prevents
W'-rins.
Thousands of Children runt/ he saved or-
LOOK AT THIS!
THUSIK OH 1 IT I
\
GOME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES.
RECEIVED
300 ELEGANT COOK STOVES,
8000 Bozen Wash Pans,
100 Bozen Splendid Baking Pans,
100 Dozen Elegant Dish Pans,
Ami a large stock ol' goods in our line which will he sold
CHEAP FOR CASH.
A. K. CHILDS & CO.
Feb. 25 Opposite Reaves. Nicholson & Cos., Athens, Ga.
A. R. ROBERTSON,
DEALER IN ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MARBLE
Monuments, Tombs, Head & Foot Stones,
LARGE and SMALL CRADLE TOMBS,
Marble and Granite Sox Tombs,
AT ALL PRICES TO SUIT PURCHASERS.
A Large Lot of Finished Monuments and Tombstones on
Hand for Sale and Ready for Lettering .
My Yard is Full of Marble, and Heady to Fill Any Orders.
<3- : E ME -A. CALL,
A. R. ROBERTSON,
Monumental Builder, Athens, Georgia.
Baldwin & burnett,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
JkJSFD SHOEB,
No. 3 Broad Street, Athens, Georgia.
\l7 E IIA \ E just received the largest and most complete stock of Boots and Shoes ever brought
t T to Athens. The quality of our goods is of the highest order, and our prices within the reach
of all. We deal
ESZCIjITSIVEIjY
in this line, and promise the most courteous treatment and perfect satisfaction to all who
may call.
TO MERCHANTS:
Our WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT is complete, and we guarantee prices as low as
any house in the South, and will save you freight.
GIVE US VN CALL.
BALDWIN $ BURNETT.
Athens, Ga., October Ist, 1880.
T. FLEMING. J. 11. FLEMING. 11. FLEMING.
t. Fleming & sons,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Hardware, Agricultural Implements,
Wagon and Buggy Material, Blacksmiths Tools,
RUBBER BELTING, TENNESSE WAGONS,
HARNESS, DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS,
Carpenters Vools,
A FULL LIME OF HAKDWASIE.
We Would be Glad to Stow Yon Onr Coots and Give Yon Prices,
Very Respectfully,
T. FLEMING & SONS,
September loth. Athens, Georgia.
JUDSON’S MARBLE WORKS,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
Italian and Rutland Marble, Monuments, Box Tombs, Head and
Foot Stones, Iron Railing for Grave Inclosures, &c.
OFFICE AND WORKS ON CORNER OF LOVD AND ALABAMA STREETS,
Opposite Georgia Railroad Depot.
arte Sniinitp.il ami PmuitlY FiHp.il. Prices ReasonaMe. Terms Cast,
PARKER k CAMP BROS.
We have within the last few weeks
opened up a first-class stock of
FANCY and FAMILY GROCERIES,
CIGARS AMR TOBACCO,
STAPLE DRY GOODS, 11ATS AND SHOES,
All of which we are offering at
R.oclt 33otto>:ocL JPir’ioes.
Our Goods Arc Bought From Manufacturers For Cash,
And We Will Sell As Cheap As The Cheapest.
C3r S 17" ]E3 ue
*K\\A Yw YowwvwceA Y\\a-A \Y c Wcvaw YsYnanA *W c.
Respectfully,
PARKER & CAMP BROS.,
Feb. 2-j No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, (la.
CZEiIUSLA. HALL,
DEUFREE BLOCK, ------ Athens, Ga.
For “3?ia.o Spring TTbrstde l
MERCHANTS and housekeepers are invited to inspect the splcnded stock which is offered at
prices that cannot be surpassed in Atlanta or Augusta.
China, Crcadkery, Glassware, ILasnps,
CUTLERY, PLATED WARE, WHIPS,
Tin, Wooden and Wdllow Wares.
Jobbing price list figured to the lowest notch—saving freights of breakage.
Sept 17 Broad Steet, Athens, Ga
M UIIL E Y & SJI IT 11,
(SUCCESSORS TO HODGSON HROS. and D. C. lICRLEY,)
- Gta.
WE MANUFACTURE AND DEAL IN
Fine Vehicles of Every Description!
Fine Hand-Made Harness, of Supei'ior Leather.
Wagon and Harness Repairing Promptly lone in the Best Manner and at tie Lowest Prices.
WE HAVE ON HAND A FEW OF THE CELEBRATED
HODGSON BROS. BEST MAKE OPEN BUGGIES.
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
WE WARRANT all of our work, and CHALLENGE any one else to produce as good for the SAME MONET
YWv\ V s iW§ove YAsavvAnayc.
HURLEY & SMITH,
Hodgson Bros, old stand, Oconee Street, Athens, Ga.
P. S.—l have associated with me in business Mr. FRED. C. SMITH, of Atlanta, Ga., a fine
Carriage Trimmer, and with enlarged means, line shops and good workmen in every department,
am better prepared than ever to give my friends good work at reasonable prices. Sincerely thank
ing them for their liberal patronage in the past, and soliciting its continuance,
I am, very truly, D. C. HURLEY.
Marble Works
A-ZDsTID-
ANUF AOTORY,
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
WE call the attention of the public to our new and the ONLY MARBLE WORKS in Northeast
Georgia. We are prepared, with ample capital, large experience and skilled workmen, to
till orders on short notice tor C3-R._A-A7’JE STONES beautifully and artistically finished,
Monuments, Marble Mantels, Fite.
c guarantee all work m our lino, and will sell as cheap as the same can be procured in am?
market, North or South, and respectfully solicit the patronage of the public. Oftice on Main St.,
near the Depot.
MADDEN $ MENGS, Proprietors.
I>fccembcr 17th, ISSO.
Dr: J. B. PENDERGRASS,
having built and furnished a splendid
BRIOIL iOIO.TTCSr
has opened up a full line of fresh and
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
of every description. lie is now prepared to furnish the public with anything usually found in a
first-class drug store, such as
PAINTS, OILS, *
VARNISH, DYE STUFFS,
PA IN T BR USIIES, TO BA CCO,
CIGARS, SNUFF,
STATIONERY, PENS, PENCILS,
INK, HAIR BRUSIJiS.
COMBS. TOILET SOAPS,
PERFUMERY, DENTRIFICES,
MA TCHES, BLA CKING,
BLACKING BRUSHES, cs-c.
Special Attention Given to the Compounding of Prescj'lo -
tions at all Hours.
With thanks for the liberal patronage bestowed upon him in the past, he still offers his pre*
fessional services to the public, and will endeavor to answer calls promptly and treat diseasesm tn
1 w pst.