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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1879)
■ * I si ivi * Uv«% V # » far 4 “ WITH AN HONEST PURPOSE, WE SHALL BRING TO BEAR ENERGY AND A DETERMINED EFFORT TO PLEASE.” YOL. §larks&m %m% Published Every Thursday — AT — BLACKSHEAR, CA., — BY — E • Z. BYRD, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Bates of Subscription : One copy, one year (post-paid), in advance $ 1.00 One copy, six months “ “ 90 One copy, three months “ “ ,23 One copy, one month >> it .10 Advertising Rates: Transient Advertisements, first insertion, $1.00 per square and 50 cents for each subsequent inser¬ tion. Legal Advertising Rates : Sheriff’s Sale per levy........ • • • • • • . * $5.00 Mortgage Sales (not exceeding two squares).. 8.00 At plication for Letters of Administration.... 4.00 Application Letters Guardianship............ 4.00 Application Dismission from Administrator¬ ship......................................... 5.00 Application Dismission Guardianship.......... 5.00 Homestead Notice... •••••••••» • 4.00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors. • ••••*•••••• • . 6.00 Application for Leave to Sell..... 4.00 Administration Sale (not exceeding two squares)..................................... 6.00 COUNTY DIRECTORY. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd. Cle^k of Court—A. M. Moor*. { COUtHj xrtmuuier— O. l>. Oranucy. County Surveyor—J. M. Johmion. Tax Receiver and Collector— J. M. Purdom. Sessions first Mondays in March and September, J. L. Harris, Judge, and Simon W. Hitch, Solioltor General., Oct. 31, 1878. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. This office will be open every day (Sundays ex¬ cepted), from 8 a. m. to 6 r. u. On Sundays from 9 a. it. to 10 a. m. Money Order and‘Register business from 8 a. it, to 4 p. sr Mails dally from each way—East and Wf at. Eastern mail arrives 7.30 p. m. Western mail arrives 4.20 a. m. oct31-ly T. 3. FULLER, Postmaster. Professional Cards. DR. W. E. FRASER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Blackshear, Ga. Prompt attention to calls, day or night. Diseases of Womeu and Children a speciilty. oc!31-ly DR. A. M. MOORE, PE ACTICING PHYSICIAN, oct3l-ly BlacLsnear. Ga. S. w. HITCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ulacltshear, Ga. Pr3ft1i'9 regular iu the Brunswick Circuit, OOtSl-ly J. C. NICH0LLS * ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blnchshear , f*a. Pr?ct:ce r ft guiar in the Counties of Appling. CIincb Camden. Charlton. Coffee, Echols, Glynn, f Pierce, Ware, and Wayne. oct31-ly liberty. W. R. PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 7 oct31-ly Iilachsheur , Ga. BLACKSHEAE. GA., JULY 1870. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Carrot Culture. The carrot prefers a light, sandy loam of medium fertility. .A good coat of manure, will applied to the soil the previous year, prove of advantage; but if it is manured the same season it should be with guano after the crop is up. As a Garden Chop. —For garden cul¬ ture the earliest crop should be sown as soon as the ground is fit to work. Late crops for winter use can be sown any time before the middle of June. The seed should be soaked a couple of days in water: and immediately afterward mixed with a small quantity of ashes or plaster. This wiljmrevent the seed from adhering together evenlv \ and it in can ix'.^s then be sown inches more apart and cover j Sow the seed fifteen with about half an inch of soil. Later, the young plants should be thinned to three inches apart in the row. Cultivate diligently, and remove all \v.?eds from the rows. The carrot cron is one of those crops that are irrevocably dam¬ aged if the weeds are allowed to get the start. The Early Horn and Atringhatn are among the best varieties for cooking purposes. For winter use f> carrots are most packed conveniently dry kept in a cellar, in sand. As a Field Crop.— But the carrot is more for extensively food for cattle cultivated and as a field crop horses. For this purpose the Long Orange and Large White these Belgian attain are the best. In good soil may a size of twelve inches long and three inches thick, and give a yield offiom 1,200 land, to 1,400 bush¬ els to the acre. The which thouhg light must not suffer from lack of mois¬ ture. should be thoroughly pulverized by.deep ing. Soak plowing the seed and and repeated harrow¬ mix it with juf.hes or plaster middle as before, and sow it from the of JVTay to the arsi; of June, in rows two feet apart witli a seed-drill, taking care that it does not clog the in the .hopper. be Hot- the crop as soon as rows can seen, and when a couple be thinned of inches to six high, or seven the plants inches should apart. After this, the horse-cultivator should go through the plat the at least once a fort¬ night, In fall, as long as crop is growing. the when the roots are taken up, they should be allowed to dry in the sun for a couple of days after the tops are cut off, before they are put up for winter use. out-of-doors, They may be stored in a cellar, or in pits, like potatoes and turnips, decay but than having these, a greater tendency to when put together in large quantities, they should be placed in small heaps only. is A crop of carrots somewhat more expensive but for winter to raise and than spring a crop feed, of both turnips, for horses and cattle, they are said to be better than any other root crop. Fed hi moderate quantities, they strengthen the digestive assimilate organs of food the animals and help to other eaten in connec¬ tion with them. Experienced dairymen have maintained that carrots, fed to milch eows, not only increase the flow of milk, hut that they impart a flavor to the milk similar to that from green pas¬ turage, and that the butter from eows fed on the Orange varieties acquires a color like summer butter. The follow¬ ing analysis gives the composition of carrots: Water............. 87.5 Albumen and casein 0.6 Sugar.............. 5.4 Fat................. 1.2 Gum............... 1.0 Woody fiber........ 3.3 Ash................ 1.0 100.00 —Rural New Yorker. House-top Gardening. A really serious effort is being in made to establish house-top gardening our city, says a New York letter. All the sanitary objections which have have been made to it at one time or another been easily waved aside by our skillful inventors in styles of roofing. Having seen these blossoming upper surfaces arranged in Europe impossible with many pleasant look consequences, it is not to forward to the possibility of their general posed uses with eagerness. of It is pro to have one Dart the roof glassed over, and the other part covered with a wire netting to keep the mischiev¬ ous sparrow from despoiling the tender vegetation, and also to prevent a heedless foot from treading upon nothing at all over the eaves. A summer evening, with easy garden chairs, tea-trays, with glasses and unmentionable delicacies of cooling them, liquids standing in readiness upon are said to be as certain a luxury awaiting the future New Yorker as is a new moon once a month or a Black Friday once in a dozen years. Of course, tin* garden summit to a home will protect scuttles down which the burglar lately tinds an easy and un¬ disturbed opportunity to enter a house. Incredible as it may appear, in our own block nine huge trunks were lifted up through this necessary aperture to a neighboring value in whole roof, where family every wardrobe article for of a summer uses was removed unnoticed and carried away, nobody !w»s yet learned where, and the trunks selves were left to be returned to the attic, to be again refilled with costly marketable fineries for future burglars. A Kelishfoi’ Farm Stock. The importance of an occasional relish of salt and wood aslios for all kinds stock, says the New York World , cannot be too highly appreciated. in which these The materials most convenient form are offered, accordin \ to feeders of wide experience, is in a solid mass, which ad¬ mits of diligent without licking gaining on the part of the the animal more mixture than is desirable. In order to mix those ingredients so that a solid mass may be formed, take salt and pure wood ashes in the proportion of pound fo pound, with water sufficient to hold th mixture together. To preserve the mix ture in a solid state sufficiently place it in trough kee us- boxes sheltered to p ttfcir&syLjipow It from reaching it and con¬ verting Into an alkaline picki’e. TArtm' troughs with their tempting contents prove efficient as baits for alluring ani¬ mals, turned out night. on long runs during the day, home at When cattle chew leather, wood ami old bones, remember that it indicates a lack of phosphate of lime in their food, which terial. is A required teaspoonful to supply of bone hone meal ma¬ given daily with their grain will correct which the habit induces and it. supply If the the disposition deficiency to eat bones is indulged deficiency in evidently when eows exists are on grass, the in the soil, and the pasture will be greatly benefited by a top dressing of bone dust. Two or three hundred pounds to the acre, sown broadcast, will repay attending expenses in a better yield and quality of milk and butter. Leave* in Cookery. An English writer, speaking of the culinary uses for leaves, says that one of the most useful and harmless of all leaves for flavoring is that of the com¬ mon syringa. When cucumbers are scarce salads, these where are tiiat a perfect flavor substitute is desired. in Again the young leaves of the cucumber itself have a wonderful similarity in taste to that fruit. Carrot tops may be used, and a prodigious waste is suffered in not using the external leaves and blanched footstalks of the celery plant, The young bottled leaves fruit of the give gooseberry fresher added to a flavor and a greener color to pies and tarts. The leaves of of intermediate the flowering flavor cur¬ rant give a sort between citron black lemon currants leaves and red. Orange, flavor¬ and impart a ing e^ual to that of the fruit and rind combined, and somewhat different from both.- A few leaves added to pies, or boiled in the milk, used to bake with rice, or formed into crusts oi paste, im part an admirable ‘‘bouquet. An mfu sion can be made of either the green or dry leaves, and a tea or tablespoonful flavor Poach leaves give the of bitter almonds, Mule til i»k Trees. During warm weather the advantage mulching of young trees is a decided to theii^growth, particularly the first sea son have, after after planting. planting, Many started young well, trees out and as soon as the warm died, dry season came, withered up and whereas if they had been mulched they would have 17. prospered placing finely. Mulching is done from by a layer of coarse manure three to six inches deep, extending one or two feet further in each direction than the roots. This protects the earth nliout the roots against drying or baking w r ith moisture wind and and sun, obviates retains to all it occasion the requisite for a practice the watering generally of newly-planted of injurious effects— In trees. case it is not convenient to get manure, cut down grass, weeds, etc., and put about the trees, plae flat stones or boards on top to keep from blowing away .—Exchange. Fun with the Bears. Garden Nobody who visits without the seeing Zoological the hears, and goes from away looking them the at desire to see them eat is jus natural as second thought. There arc three bear pits In the containing first altogether cinnamon eight hears. noted for their pit are laziness two ami their bears, dis position placed there for for climbing their benefit, tin* artificial and falling trees The asleep on pit the contains loftiest perch huge in grizzlies, the sun. next two and the third four black bears. This last nit is tin' chief center of interest. The black bears stand on their hind legs as erect as the stump of a tree, fold their fore paws across their breasts, ami open¬ ing their mouths as wide as possible, look up at the spectators, mutely appeal¬ them. ing to them to drop the something critical good in This is moment. There is a rush of men, women and children for apples, peanuts, ginger cakes, sugar-cakes and bananas, and tin' bears’ throats become a target for the skill of old and young. It is likfe an ex citing game of base-ball. When a pea¬ nut bear’s or mouth, ginger-eake the feat is is dropped hailed with into uni¬ a versal applause. The bears partial $B fljflMQvcs * ' ‘•-s.— rhikuteipkio Losing Her Life lint Saving Her Child. II. L. Skinner, Secretary of the Ameri¬ can Emigrant Company, and his son, a youth, Des were fixing a cistern pump at Moines, la., and lifted the cover ot the cistern, about ten inches square. babe, Into the niece opening of Mrs. an adopted Skinner, daughter, foil. The a *i ehild, mother, tried terrorized plunge by the ery of the to after it in the water, eight feet deep, and was kept back by the husband; but while be went to give the alarm to the neighbors she leaped in. The son followed, and saw his mother’s hands reaching out of the water. Adjusting a rope about the neck of the babe, which was drawn out and resuscitated, with one arm fast to a rope, ing hair the hoy and grasped drew her his mother’s the float¬ to surface. She exclaimed: “I have saved her!” The rope was lowered again and a slip noose fastened on his arm, disabling it from supporting his mother; and be¬ coming exhausted he was forced to let go of tier, and he was drawn out and two lives were saved. A young man, ered an expert the woman, in water, and plunged adjusted in, recov¬ rope a about her and she was drawn out, but life was gone. *, Novel Mode of Packing Flowers. Choice flowers have been sent across the continent from California by a novel method, which is described as follows: the A large potato in the of world, a California variety, largest of the pulp scooped was cut in of two the and part out center of both pieces. Into the halves were laid the' “ Occidental bloom,” and the potato was of thin joined together again the witli a strip paper about edges. the The flowers moisture fresli during from the their potato jour¬ kept and their color beautiful reaching ney, their destination was sis when first on sis plucked. The odor, however, was gone from the flowers, “potatoish” and they gave We forth a decidediy scooped-out pumpkin scent. would pre¬ sume a answer the purpose equally for sis well, and afford greater room storage. In the United States the consumption of butter is sixteen pounds per capita, while in pounds Englsmd it is only seven and per capita.
