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Swamp Muck.
When composted with lime and "round
bones this gives us a fertilizer inferior to few
of the commercial manures. Oyster shell
lime is preferred by some to ashes as a sweet
oner for swamp muck, but neither will an
swer. l’rof. Stclle sets forth the value of
composted tnuck very fairly. He says:
“ In cold climates, where there are several
freezes in winter, swamp muck may be ap
plied to lands by itself with great profit, but
I could not recommend such an application
for this country. There it is dug up and
thrown in heaps or rows to freeze over win
ter, and that freezing puts it through a rot
ting process which fits it for spreading upon
the. lands; but here where there are no
freezes worth naming, placing it upon the
'surface does r.ot seem to work any very great
effect upon it, hence it remains the same sour
swamp muck still, and when applied to the
grounds will not show much if any benefit
done the crop.
“Our best method of using swamp muck in
the lower South is to compost it with other
matter, as stable or cow-yard manure, weeds,
grass, ashes and soon. It may always make
up two-thirds of the bulk of the compost heap,
and then give us a better manure than if no
swamp muck was applied, and it is one of the
finest absorbents in the world, destroying all
odor that would otherwise arise from the pile.
A dead animal chopped up worked into the
swamp muck heap never smells in the least,
even though its bulk should be one-fourth to
that of the muck.
“Composted with other materials, swamp
muck rots promptly and undergoes an entire
change of character, rendering it an invalu
able coarse fertilizer. It makes a good ma
nure for the scuppernong grape, composted
with ashes. Rubbish, such as grass, weeds,
leafy bushes, pine straw and pine cones,
burned under a covering of earth on the plan
of a coal pit, and then composted with swamp
muck until the whole mass has rotted to
gether, makes one of the best fertilizers that
can be made on the farm.
“Of course the reader is at no loss to un
derstand what swamp muck is. It is simply
the steepings of vegetable matter in water
that have settled in the great beds, where we
find it during the lapse of untold ages. You
have doubtless noticed that the water in many
of our creeks and small rivers has a dark,
coffeeish color—that coloring matter has been
extracted from decomposing vegetation, and
that, when it settles from the water, is what
we call swamp muck. In the swamps, where
it is deposited, many forms of animal life
exist, and these, when they die, contribute
toward giving the deposit somewhat of an
animal as well as a vegetable character,
making it better as a plant food than it would
be without them.”— Cotton.
A Lost Art.
The day was when planters on our rich
river lands claimed that they had made forty
and fifty bushels of corn to the aero. We are
unable to vouch for the truth of these state
ments, which come down to us as traditions
of ante-bellum days. If true, then we re
luctantly conclude that corn planting on the
river must be classed among the lost arts.
We think that the corn actually gathered
along the river will average nearer to fifteen
than to twenty bushels per acre. The cause
•of this poor crop is not due to poor land, but
to poor preparation, poor cultivation and poor
management. The cotton planter, before
planting his crop, puts aside an amount of
land sufficient to make “ corn enough to do
him,” calculated at the rate of forty bushels
to the acre. The cotton or corn stalk and
“ trash” are piled and burned, and the plow
ing commences, say in March. The season
is “getting on, ’ and the negro plowman, to
save time, will “ lap” his furrows ; in other
words, will cover up, under the ridge he throws
up, a strip of hard unbroken land twelve
inches wide. The strip i.s directly under the
centre of the “ bed” on which the corn must
grow.
In the rush the planter has neglected to
secure good seed corn, and, rather than wait,
plants from a sack of “ boat corn” which has
probably been heated. A bad “ stand” is the
consequence, but the cotton land is only half
prepared, and time is pressing. A part of the
cotton crop is planted and plowing still goes
on. More cotton 13 planted, and the first
planting needs scraping, and before this is
through, the planter, who lias had no time to
look after his corn, finds that it is up, needs
thinning and is foiTl with grass and cockleburs.
When it can wait no longer lie “ runs around
it,” “ barring it of” with one furrow, and goes
back to bis cotton. The corn is left standing
on a narrow slice of land, with the roots ex
posed, and if a hard rain comes much of it is
washed down.
When the corn is near knee-high, and the
weeds in the “ middle” still higher, it is chopped
out and two furrows thrown to it with the
turningplow, aucTthe “middles” covered up
with two more.
It i3 then left? standing in this condition
until it “ bunches for tassel,” when it is plowed
out in three or four furrows and laid by. If
the weather is dry, the blades shrivel and the
corn will hardly be worth gathering ; if a good
rain follows, the corn will recover from the
clumsy butchering and make from ten to
twenty' bushels per acre.
The sugar planter does nut pretend to be a
corn planter. When a “ cut” is exhausted
he plows up the stubble and plants in corn,
and when the corn is laid by he sows it down
thickly in peas. The ground is plowed deep
and well, but it is rough. The probability is
that the corn will be poor and borne down to
the ground with pea vines, which will overrun '
it. A wet fall will rot it badiy, and if it j
proves not worth gathering it will be turned
under with the pea vines. The next year the
ground being enriched with the pea vines',
will probably yield, with the ordinary cultivr*
tion, twenty barrels of corn.
This is a picture hard to realize, but true
of many planters in the alluvial lands. The
corn region proper of the United States
planted and worked after the Louisiana
fashion would not make the seed planted.
Of course there arc honorable exceptions
among our valley’ planters, who make twenty -
five and thirty bushels of corn, but if there
are any of the old stock still remaining, we
would be glad to hear from them how they
made “ forty or fifty” bushels of corn to the
acre. — N. O. Democrat.
Senator Boone’s Big Feet.
In the early’ day’s of Indiana, one of the
State Senators was a good-natured giant
named George Boone. When he stood up his
height attracted attention, for he measured
nearly seven feet. If lie made a gesture, his
hands were noted as the largest ever seen in
that State. But it was his feet that amazed
his colleagues.
When about 18, young Boone thought he
would call on a neighbor who lived a few
miles off. Sally, the neighbor's daughter,
was large and pretty’, and the y’outhful giant
thought she would make a suitable wife.
It was late in the fall, though too early to
put on shoes, so that he started barefooted.
His best butternet-colored suit had been
made some six months before, and was much
too small for him. The pantaloons reached
just below his knees, while the coat stretched
as tight over his body as an eel skin dried on
a hoop-pole.
After wading creeks and muddy bottoms
the would be sparker arrived at the neighbor’s
log hut just as the family were sitting down
to supper of mush and milk. Being invited
to draw up, he sat down alongside of Sally.
The old lady offered him a large bowl, which
he stretched forth his hand to take. Not
making sufficient allowance for the size of his
hands, he struck the big milk pitcher. Out
went the milk over the table, and out went
Sally from the room roaring with laughter.
The old lady kindly remarked, “ It will rub
out when it dries but the youth knew that
he was already rubbed out, so far as Sally
was concerned. lie saw nothing more of her.
The clock struck ten.
“ Mr. Boone,’’ asked the old lady, “ won’t
you wash your feet and go to bed ?”
“ Yes, ma’am.”
“ Here’s an iron pot; it is the only thing I
have that’ll do.”
The pot proved too small for his feet to
enter, except by sliding them in sideways.
When in, they swelled so much that lie could
not get them out. The pain was intense. As
the clock struck eleven, the old lady asked :
“ Mr. Boone, are you not done washing
y’our feet ?”
“ What did this pot cost ?” lie roared ; “ I
must break it.”
“ A dollar.”
“ Bring rue the axe.”
Breaking the pot in pieces, he handed the
old lady a dollar, opened the door and started
for home. Several years after, he met Sally
at a husking. As soon as she saw him she
burst out laughing.— Sketches of Early In
diana.
MORE YET!
Notwithstanding the heavy inroads up
on our stock, wc still keep enough of
iv\u\ V
Dry CSrOods
on hand to supply our customers, and shall con
tinue to add-to the same as the requirements of
the trade demand.
WE ARE STILL OFFERING
BARGAINS
Staple Dry Goods
and
GROCERIES.
Call and price. We will take pleasure in show
ing our stock.
A. 11. BROCK & CO.
Jefferson, Ga., April 29th, 1881.
RIfiPAY agents
jlav*a ii l. WANTED.
M E A’ ANT A LIMITED number of active, ener
getic canvassers to engage in a pleasant and prof
itable business. Good meu will find this a rare
chance
TO MONEY.
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, IIARVEY & CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Coffins! Coffins!
I WILL keep on band, in Jefferson, a full sup
ply of
COFFINS
—AND—
BURIAL CASES
of all sizes, and at prices to suit the times. Ever}’
effort will be made to serve parties promptly and
satisfactorily. Respectfully,
apl 29 W. A. WORSHAM.
LOOK AT THIS!
thixistk: of it i
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES.
JUST TtECHIVEID
300 ELEGANT COOK STOVES,
3000 Dozen 3Vasli Pans,
100 Dozen Splendid Baking Pans,
100 Dozen Elegant Dish Pans,
CILe Jp FOIPcASH °* §OOdS ln our linc which will be sol<t
A. K. CHILDS k CO.
Feb- 25 Opposite Reaves, Nicholson & Cos., Athens, Ga.
MARBLE ! MARBLE!!
A. IS. ROBERTSON,
DEALER IN ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MARBLE
Monuments, Tombs, Head & Foot Stones,
LARGE and SMALL CRADLE TOMBS,
Marble and Granite Box Tombs,
AT ALL PRICES TO SUIT PURCHASERS.
A Large Lot of Finished Monuments and Tombstones on
Hand for Sale and Ready for Lettering.
3ly Yard is Pull of Marble, and lleady to Fill Any Orders.
g ‘ i VE me AX CALL, -A.2STID GET IvIVT PRICES.
A. R. ROBERTSON,
Monumental Builder, Athens. Georgia.
BALDWIN & BURNETT,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
BOOTS J&LJSTJZ) SHOE3S,
Mo. 3 Broad Street, Athens, Georgia.
\YT E IIA A E just received the largest and most complete stock of Boots and Shoes ever brought
' f to Athens. The quality of our goods is of the highest order, aud our prices within the reach
of all. Wc deal
EXCLUSIVELY
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 XT S AX C _A_ LL .
BALDWIN Sf BURNETT.
Athens, Ga., October Ist, 1880.
ISAAC LOWE. JOHN COHEN.
LOWI3 $c COHEX,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC LIQUORS,
WINES, 33*0., 33*0.
ALSO AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
Stone Mountain Corn Whisky.
Corner Broad and Jackson Sts., Athens, G-a.
Feb. 25
.1 udsonA M ARBLE WORKS
ATLANTA, G-EORG-IA,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
Italian and Rutland Marble. Monuments, Box Tombs, Head and
Foot Stones, Iron Railing for G-rave Inclosures, &c.
OFFICE AND WORKS ON CORNER OF LOVD AND ALABAMA STREETS,
Opposite Georgia Railroad Depot.
Orders Solicited and Promptly fiM. Prices Reasonable. Terms Cash.
Addrcs3 - - D. N. JTJDSON, Atlanta, Ga.
Inducements Extraordinary!
•J
AT THE MAMMOTH
China , Crockery and Glasswarelhm
OF NORTH-EAST GEORGIA.
No. 7 Broad Street, Athens, Georgia.
H AVING just returned from the Eastern market, we are ottering the largest, most varied
. best selected stock of . ' an I
CHINA, CROCKERY,
GLASS WARE, LAMPS, CIIANDALTERS, LAMTErA
&e., &c., 25 per cent. lower thcan ever before known in this market. A full
and complete line of
HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS!
Such as Buckets. Brooms, Seives, Traj's, Knives and Forks, Table and Teaspoons, Coif I
Mills, &c. Also, a complete stock of Table Linen, Oil Cloths,
Napkins, Doylies, Towels, Etc.
SILVER PLATED WARE!
A handsome stock of TRIPLE PLATE SILVER CASTORS, TABLE and TEASPOOXs
Prices SURPRISINGLY LOW.
Kerosene Oil by the Car Load. Also, Aladin and “Red i I
Oil,” Staple .Dry Goods, Groceries, Canned Goods,
BOOTS, SHOES, IIATS, CAPS, LEATHER, Etc., Etc.
at prices as low as any house in the State. DON’T FORGET TIIE PLACE.
oct - 1 J. H. HUG-GINS, No. 7 Broad Street. I
PARKER & CAMP BROS.
j * ' i '■ • I
We have within the last few weeks
opened up a first-class stock of
FANCY and FAMILY GROCERIES,
i ,; el ,f G ■ ■ •' *• ’<* 0 HU.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO,
STAPLE DRY GOODS, HATS AMD SHOES,
All of which we are offering at
Rock. Bottom Prices.
Our Goods Arc Bought From Manufacturers For Cash,
il T<; -7 t
And We Will Sell As Cheap As The Cheapest.
GIVE US A CALL.,
*Kv\A fiy Co\\v-u\evd\. Y\\.va\ e Wttvw AVVuA \Y c
Respectfully,
PARKER & CAMP BROS.,
clj * , No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
Marble Works
3VE LA INT XT 3J" _£L O T <3 R Y .
xisr
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
WE call the attention of the public to our new and the ONLY MARBLE WORKS in Northeast]
TT Georgia. We are prepared with anrplc capital, large experience and skilled workmen, t"
fill orders on short notice for STONES beautifully and artistically finished
Monuments, Marble Mantels, Etc.
guarantee all work in our line and will sell as cheap as the same can be procured in nay
market, North or South, and respectfully solicit the patronage of the public. Office on Lain Si.,
near me i-^enot*#
11. T. MENGS, Proprietor.
December 17th, ISSO.
Dr. J. D. PEJfDEIIGUASS,
HAYING BUILT AND FURNISHED A SPLENDID
BRICK. DRUG- STORE.
HAS OPENED UP A FULL LINE OF FRESII AND
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
of every description. He is’ now prepared to furnish the public with anything usually found in a
first-class drug store, such as
PAINTS. OILS,
VARNISH . DYESTUFFS,
PAINT BRUSHES, TOBACCO .
C l GA R S. SN UF F,
STATIONERY, PENS, PENCILS,
INK < HAIR BRUSbiS.
COMBS, TOILET SOAPS,
PER FUMERY, DENTRIFICES,
MA TCIIES, BLA CKING,
BLACKING BRUSHES, Nc., sc.
Special Attention Given to the Compounding of Prescrlo
tions at all Hours.
V\ ith thanks for the liberal patronage bestowed upon him in the past, he still offers hi?. \ x f
fessional services to the public, and will endeavor to answer calls promptly and treat diseasesm do
skill, after the most approved methods. Charges as low as the lowest.