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ItkGRiCULTITRAL.
L«U«r From Mr. David Dirk
«on.
We take the liberty of publishing
the following extract from a private
letter of Mr Dickson to us, which
accompanied the communication be
low :
'■With my present business I cannot
answer private letters, and at the same
time contribute to the Cultivator. —
What I do, therefore, must be for the
benefit of all, through your paper I
repeat, from actual observation, that
nearly one half of the Agricultural la
bor of Georgia is thrown away, from
want of knowledge at and skill in its ap
plication. There is as much for the
farmer to learn about the use of the
plow and hoe, as there ; s for the pain
ter, concerning the use of the brush."
Editor» Southern Cultivator :—There
is a great demand lor mo to re write
my plat, of cultivating corn, prepara
tion of land, manure, &c., by new sub
scribers, and by {arsons that are not
subscribers, to your paper.
In the first place, 1 refer them to
my system of im[ rovemeot, rest and
rotation, given in the Southern Cui i
vator last j ear. Many inquire, what
is the proper time to break up land. I
write for this latitude, and every per
son must make due allowance, as his
farm may b« North or South of this
line. The plowing must be commenc*
ed tlie first day of January, to get it
done in time, or as soon as you ai*e
done sowing wheat. If I had my
choice, and could get all the work
done in one day, I would not have the
plowing done more than ten days be
fore planting, lor the following reaeons,
derived from actual experience:
If it is dry, cold freezing winter and
spring, the fall plowing is the best; in
some springs of this kind, as those of
1839 and 1854, I left belts through
the middle of (be field, which were not
plowed until a few days before plant
ing, and I could distinguish the belts
all through the year—the corn in them
being from eighteen to twenty-two
inches lower than the rest. For the
crop and the improvement of tho land
in about one winter out of seven, fall
plowing is the best. In the cases
where the belts wero left, when she
winter was warm and rains abundant,
the late plowing would beat the early
plowing twenty five per cent, in the
crop; besides, according to my expe
rience, there is less less from washing
Land must be well broken before
planting, so commence in time to do it
—the later it is done the better for the
land, taking seven years together, but
not quite so good for teams.
Have good turning plows, and ac
cording to your abili'y, use one or two
horses, and sub soil; ride over the
field, and lay ofi the land so that the
horses will go round on a level, and
the dirt will fall down hill —a team will
break up the soil nine inches deep in
this, as easily as they could seven
inches, on a level piece of land. Con
tinue to take the lands in the same
way until the field is finished, one
team following another—all the time
going around the circle; and if you
sub-soil, have one team between each
turning plow, running in the bottom of
the furrow. When you finish, the
field is ready for planting, if the prop
er time has arrived. In deciding this
point, you must be governed by the
weather—it varies from the 10th of
March to the let day of April. Ac
cording to my experience, a man
only gains hard work and more of it,
by very early planting
Now for planting. Lay off furrows
with a long shovel plow, on a level,
seven feet apart. Commence at the
opposite end, with a longer shovel, and
open out the same furroyv. The rea
son for this is, yon get up to trees and
stumps, and make a better finish at
the ends. This furrow should stand
open seven or eight inches deep.
Whether you use compost, cottoo
seed or guanos, let each band have his
three foot measure, and deposit the
manure in the bottom of the furrow,
just three feet apart. Then drop toe
corn within three or four inches of the
manure, one or more grains, as is your
custom—dropping on the near side of
the manure, as the dropper goes ; then
with a very light harrow, cover the
corn one or one and a half inches
deep. The harrow should go the
same way the dropper does, to keep
him from pulling the manure on the*
grain.
If you cover deep, you lose all the
advantages of low planting, (but not
tbe deep breaking,) and for this rea
son;
Corn, in good weather, wil. come up
from A depth of one to six inches, but
will strike out roots about one inch
from tbs surface of the ground, and
all below that will perish. That is one
reason why I atn opposed to dirti ng
corn as Fnon as it comes up—it brings
the root of the stalk to the top of the
ground.
My plan is to finish the first working
from the 29th of April to the 10th of
May. Sometimes I have not finished
before the 25th of May. With the
land well turned, very little grass and
weeds will come up, except in the bot
tom of the furrow, and this is easily
managed.
For first plowing, have a heavy
twenty -two inch sweep, with the right
wing so set, that its buck end will not
be more than one inch above the
ground. This is to n*i near the corn,
and should fill the furrow within one
or one and a hall inches of the general
surface. Break out tho middles with
the same sized sweep, with the back cf
both wings .urned up; if the plowing
is well done, four furrows will finish
out —four hands completing fourteen
acres every day, by going sixteen miles
a day.
Second plowing—have the wing ol
the siding sweep turned a little more
than half up; run close «o the corn,
leaving nothing for the hoe; sot if all
tho plowing is well done, there is no
use of a hoe. Break out the middles
with three furrows, to make a good
place to plant peas From the first of
June to the 20th, is a good time to
plsnt | eas. Proceed in this manner
After the second plowing, run a shov
el furrow in the middle of a > trn row;
drop one bushel of peas to every eight
nt res—say six to eight peas to every
hill. You can plant sixteen ucres per
day, and will use two bushels for
each plow—and cover with a har
row.
Third and last plowing—pair your
hands, one to side the corn, and otut
to side the peas; the band that si ies
the corn will need a twenty-two inch
sweep, right hand wing Well up, and
it should run chse to the corn—not go
ing more thaD a half inch deep ;me
left wing should be nearly flat. The
hand that sides iho p< as, will need a
heavy twenty-six inch sWerp, with the
right wing set at medium height, and
should run it near the peas, and fill the
pea furrow entirely up ; the left v tng
should be up, to push the dirt near the
corn. This is the last plowing, and il
well done, the ground will be as smooth
and leval as a floor, with not a spar of
grass to tho two hundred aerss, nor a
weed to be seen in the field. In old
tirucß, I required every hand to clean
the crop as he went—what the plow
left, to be removed with the loot ar.d
hand. From 13 to 16 miles, accord
ing to the condition of the crop, was a
day’s work.
Such pine land os mine, (some of it
very poor,) should average twouty to
twenty-five bushels per acre; and wet
or dry, if the work is rightly done,
there is no such thing as a failure, as
my many visitors, from all parts of the
country, will testify.
Messrs. Editors, I have been too
lengthy in deecribiog the preparation
of land and cultivation of crop, to give
my reasons for a choice of manures.—
I use, after a long experience, Peruvi
an Guano, Dissolved Bones, Land
Plaster and Salt, and have them mixed
at homo.
I wish the the Southern Cultivator
was in every man’s hands. It would
pay good dividends.
Very liespec'fully,
DAVID DICKSON.
Sparta, Ga., Jan. Gth, 1868.
Senatorial District Conserva
tive Committees.
By virtue of the authority vested in the
Central Executive Committee, the following
committees are hereby appointed for the sev
eral Senatorial Districts in this State, and
they are requested to organize Conservative
clubs in their respective counties without de
lay, and prepare for action when the Consti
tution to be prepared bv the Convention now
in session in Atlanta shall be submitted to
tbe people for ratification or rejection :
Ist District; . Chatham; ,
Brian; , Effingham,
2d ; , Liberty; , Tatuall,
3d ; , Wayne ; —, Pioroe ;
4th; , Glynn: , Cam
den ; , Charlton.
sth ; M A»bley, Coffee ; B F Wil
lianis, Ware; J C Nichols, Clinch.
6th ; AC Martin, Eehols; 8 W Ba
ker, Lowndes; H T Peeples, Berrien.
7th ; O L Bmith, Brooks; B B
Moore. Thomas; D E Watkins, Cti
quitt.
Bth ; H G Crawford, Decatur; R J
Bacon, Mitchell; J R Whitehead, Mil
ler.
9th; B H Robinson, Early; G W
Colley, Calhoun; W D William*, Ba
k. r.
10'h; G J Wright, D ugbern ; G
M S'okes, Lee; A J Macar by, W rth
11th; FT Tenoilte, Clay; PL J
May, Randolph; Leroy Brown, Torrell.
12th ; J M Scott-, Stewart; G S Ros
ser, Webster; D Morris, Quitman.
13th; T M Furlnw, Sumter; W J
Sears, Schley ; W H lt bin.-on, Mac. n.
14th; R Redding, Dooly; Darling
Johnson, Wilcox; N MeDuffic, Puiask\
15th ; John Mcßae, Montgomery ;
16tb ; Robs Robinson, Laurens; T
A ParsoD, Johnson; L B Boucbelle,
Emanuel.
17th ; , Bulloch ; E B Gross,
Seriven; UT Jones., Bui k».
16th ; L D Lallersteadt, Richmond ;
J C King, Glasscock; Geo. Stapleton’,
Jefferson.
19th ; , Taliaferro; M W Lew
is, Greene; E A Pottle, W orren.
20 It; A If Kenan, Baldwin; 11 T
ll’irrH, Hancock; Green Brantley,
Washington.
21st; D G Hughes, Twiggs; WE
Carscll, Wilkinson; It W Bonner,
Jones.
224 ; Thomas Hardeman, Bibb ; 11.
Phiniiy, Mrnroe; .1 J Caldwell, Pike.
23d ; K Warren, Houston ; B fl Na
pier, Crawford ; W S Wallace, Taylor,
24th; W M Brown, Marion; EG
Kaiford, Chattahoochee; J A L Lee,
Muscogee.
25th; A W Redding, Harris; T D
Weaver, Upson ; W A Little, Talbot.
26th; J D Stewart, Spald ng ; J S
Haikacss, Butts; M. M. Tidwell, Fay
ette.
27th; P Reynolds, Newton; Dll
Walker, Walton; J Ii Carlton, Clark.
28;h ; G T Bartlett, Jasper; T G
Lawson, Putnam ; J A Billups, Mor
gan.
29th; H J Lang, Lincoln; W J
Steed, Columbia; J T Wingfield,
Wilkes.
30 h ; J D Matthews, Oglethorpe;
DJ Chandler, Madison; J H Jones,
Elbert.
31st; Wm Bowers, Hart; Thomas
Mortis, Franklin; J II Wyly, Haber
sham.
33nd; Francis Logan, White ; Wier
Boyd, Lumpkin; A J Logan, Dawson
33'd ;J N Dorsey, Hall; D G Can*
dhr, Banks; W PDeadwyler, Jackson.
34'b; T M Peeples, Gwinnett; M
S Candler, DuKalb; Allen W Turner,
Henry.
35'h; J 0 Ellington, Clayton; LJ
Gienn, Fulton ; G N Lester, Cobb.
36 b; - J M Parks, Merriwether ;
Hugh Buchanan, Coweta; W A Tur
ner, Cam; bell.
87 th ; R AT Ridley, Troup; B D
J .tinson, Heard; D D Th masaou, Car
roll
38th; J Garnor, Haralson; J A
Blanc*, P" k ; J F Dover, Paulding.
39 b ; , Cher kee ; O F Skel
ton, Mi t>u ; H P B 11, Forsyth.
40 h; , Union; , Townes,
D M Si* gleti n, Rabun.
41 at ; , F iuuiri; , Gil
me*; , Pickens
42nd; W Aiken, Bartow; A K
Wrigor, Floyd ; JO Sett, Chattooga.
43 and; G :M Thompson, Gordon; R
E Wilson, Murray; I W Avery,
White-Id.
44ih; M E Rhodes,Walker; Henry
Bakor, Dade ; M>• es D dt- n, Catoosa.
E G. CABAN 188,
CbairmuU Central Ex-on rve Cun
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PERRYMAN & MERIWETHER.
Dawson, Ga.
C. F. & H. E. OLIVER,
Movfs amt Hollow M are,
Pocket and Table Cutlery,
Iron Pipe, Steam Fittings, &c,,
WHOLESALE
MANUFACTURERS OF TIN WARE,
No. 42 Third Street,
November 15;3m .f/.IC'O.F, 6',/.
Corn For Ssalc.
IjMGHT Hundred )r a Thousand Bushels of
U Corn is offered lor sale at the Musgrove
place, cheap lor cash, by
janistm ff*. McClelland.
1868. 18(38.
PERRYMAN & MERIWETHER
ARE NOW RECEIVING
ONI OF Till
MUST in BIST
Selected Stocks of
FORI MEDICINES,
Ever before offered iu this market.
They havo been
STCf ESSFIL FRAf TITIO.VERS,
Os Mtdicine in South Western Georgia,
for the last seven or eight years, and
have purol ased their Stock of
In sccordtnce to the necesisties es tb.
People, and the. peculiar diseases of the
country with which they are pcrfoctly
conversant. All wishing
PUKE & FRESH
DRUGS,
CHEMICALS,
DYESTUFFS,
_ PAINTS,
OILS,
PERFUNERY,
FANCY ARTICLES ETC.
Will find it to
Their Advantage
To Call on
Perryman dc Meriwether,
At their Drug Store in
LOYLEBB BLOCK,
Next door to T. J. Pratt’s,
Ff AS OJT, G E OH
LOOKOUT BELOW!
Leroy Brown,
W A REHOUSE
—AND—
Commission Merchant
(At Sharpe & Brown s old stand)
DA WSOy, - - GEORGIA
IS trow teidy to receive C’OT'/O.V,
Sto*e it, Sell or Ship it lor the planters,
tie will make every effort in bis power to be
i mi amt assist all ihase who may see tit lo
tavnr bim with their patronage.
II ' i-, and will keep constantly on hai
• supply of
BACON;
FLOUR,
BAGGING,
• and TIES,
for the accommodation of his customers,
which he will sell at the lowest market pricis
FOR CASH !
IT.-still retains in his employ. CnDt. Joht
A. Fu'ton, who will always be found at hi
post, and re idv to attend to customers at all
times, either in the office or the yard.
Tlie* “Uri>v«»iecn Piano Forle’
Kec’d the higlicetaward of m crit at the cele
brated World’s Fair, where were exliibi ed
instruments front the be.-t makers of Louden,
Paris, Gerinanv.Pliilade phia, Baltimore, Bos
'on and Ntw Yo k and also at the American
Institute for five successive years, the Gold
and Silver Medals l orn both of which can be
seen at our ware-rooms. * •
rly the introduction of improvements we
make a still more perfect Piano-foite, and by
manufacturing largely, with a strictlv cash
system, are enabled to offer these instruments
at a price w hich will preclude all competition.
Our prices are from SIOO to S2GO cheaper
than fits el <ss Piano forte.
TERMS. —iNkt I’asii in current funds. Pe
acriptive circulate rknt free. Aug 17,lyear
BROWN HOUSh
E. E. Bium n A SON,
Fourth St., Opp' sife Passergrr Depot.
ufSitcoii) Georgia •
37*ROM h Is of Jul* the ,bnsi pss of hi*
1 House v:l lie etiitriuct d<» E E B own
s .ii, tii** hivin. o« ij»» e*i hi- »ou,
Wm. F U OW", in management and in
te«pß» if the Hotel.
The hou e contains tfxty rooms, which are
eserved chi. fly for the use of r av* llera and
transient guess U< mpeient awdsttintp have
been se- cur. and i 1 every and partmeor, and eve
y attention w»U *»» -ui 10 eiisuie eoinfor
*> their tui*r« nu*rs Room**«le tr» and airy, »nr)
*e table ahv ys -up; lied with il e best rh*
••ouutrv affo <L. l'« r era H l<e fi effrival and
•h partu*e of ;tii trains to conve> begone
iful conduct piissengeis across th** srrect t<
heir quarters. jul>27,tf
NATIONAL HOTEL,
Nearly opposite Passenger Depot
MACON CIA.
f.
(Late of Granite Hall,)
Proprietors.
STEVbISVS house,
21, 23, 25 & 27 BROADWAY, N. 1.
Oppnnite Bowling Green.
OY.THL EllllllEAN PLAN,
HE STEVENS HOUSE is well and widely
know., to the public The location is es
n cialty suitable to merchants and business
men; i is in close proximity to the business
part ol the city—is on the highway of South
ern and Wes', rn navel—and adjacent to ail
he prit cip 1 Railroad and Steamboat depots.
THE STEVENS HOUSE has liberal ac
commodation for over 2(10 guests —it is well
furnished, and possesses every modern im
provement for the comfort and entertainment
of its inmate*. The moms are spacious and
well ventilated—provided with gas and va
ter—the attendance is prompt and respectful
—and the table is generously provided with
.-very delicacy of the season—at moderate
rates.
The rooms having been refurnished and re.
modeled, we are enabled to offer extra facil
ities for the comfort and pleasure of our
Guests.
GEO. K. CHASE & CO.
Proprietors.
GitOYESTEEJT E Cos.,
Piano Forte Manufacturers,
499 Broadway, JWeu> York.
r |' , HE!?E Pianos received the highest award
JL ofnierit at the World's Fair, over the
best makers from London, Paris, Germany,
the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baiti
more pnd Boston ; also, the Gold Jltfdal
at the American lustitute, for Five Successive
Years!! Our Pianos contain the Fiench
Grand Action, Ilarp Pedal, Overstrung Bass,
Full Iron Frame, and all modern improve
ments. Every Instrument warrented five
v«ars. Made under the surpervision of Mr.
J. 11. CiKOVIiSTEILM , who has a
practical expetience of over thirty five years,
and is the maker of over eleven thousand
pianofortes. Our faeili'ie* for matiufacturins
enable us to sell these instruments from $ 100
to S2OO cheaper than aoy first class piano
forte. Aug. Sl lyr
CROVESTEEN&CO.,
Piano Forte Manufacturers,
•199 Broadway .1 '(tv York.
flvtlK artel ti >i. ol tl • pnbl Cni.d the us.'e is
I invited t<. nut «tfi r Settle, Seren
Oclavc , Iloftftcuod Clano M'orlen
which tor volume and pun y id tone are un
livalled hy any hi'herto offered in this mark
er. They contain all the modern improve
ments, French gtand action, harp pedal iton
frame, over strung bass, etc., and each in
strument being mad- under the per-onal
supervision of Mr J. 11. Gsovestxvn, who
has a practical experience o' over thirty rears
in them mat ufactufc, is fully warranted in
every particular.
“TlCifllt I.II.II>” A Novel, hy
FIDSEtr LiNlKß—Price $1,65 For sale by
HAVENS & BROWN,
■9l Cherry street, Maeon, G».
HAVfcNS & BriOWN,
Wholesale and K»*iuti
B OK*ELLERS, M AIIONLRS,
And General News Oealegj—j/iatigulu
Block, Übeiry Street, .Baton. Ga.
Ui.ro of p.n.r
For sale at Pickkvmaj* A Mkrivvkthbr’s
Drug Store.
1868. V©l.3. 1868.
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