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THE WEEKLY OOjfSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY DECEMBER 29, 1885.???SIXTEEN PAGES 11 FARMS AND FARMERS. A Prise* > Firmer-A Young Man T.kes n Stewart Ccunty Farm and Seta eu Example Worthy to be In??ltaled-A Sumpter County Parmer ' -Other New. About Parol.. Athens, Gs., December 25.???[Special Corre. ,|ondence.]???I???ve just Been a live Polish prince, to I???ve been assured. Ho is living on a fimu near Athens, and is unmarried. It is a severe f l ruin on the reader???s credulity to believe that a foreigner of blood and distinctive title, impe cunious and ugly, could have escaped capture at one of the eastern watering places. It la ac counted for by the fact that he never served as head waiter at a seaside hotel; and, besides, he is a decent-looking fellow and talkq like a sen sible man, so he was not suspected of being of royal blood. Prince Ponitowskl landed in New York city seven yean ago, and hurried on to Syracuse, where he secured work on a dairy farm and began to devote himself to learning tbo mysteries of milking and but ter making. Afterward he held a position on the celebrated dairy farm of Bhoemak/ at Baltimore. Three yean ago he landedwm Athens and took charge of the Ilolydale stock farm of Hunnicntt & Yalley; and It was at this farm, a visit to which I want to tell yon of, that I met the prince. The farm it situated one mile from the city limits; and to get out to it, I had but to take a seat, accompanied by Dr. Oibbs, of Clarksville, in a bandsomo carriage dnwn by a team of half blood, dapple gray Normans. Messrs. md Yancy enlivened the already Bunnicntt and . w interesting way by anecdotes and rominis' rcnces, connected with different old mansions along the street.. Tbo form is five hundred acres in extent, not hilly nor level, but rolling, with streams of-clear water flowing between the gentle slopes. A field of barley on the left and - big ???turnip patch" on the right gave tho plaeo tbo growing green of spring time. Too barn is roomy and well. arranged for twenty-four milch cows. These stalls are ranged on cither 'Side ot a wide ball or passage, running tho entire length of the barn. The loft is stored with native hay. At the end of tho rows of stalls are located the feed rooms, where, stored in bins and begs, the dairyman keeps prov ender for milch cows???meal made from oats, barley, corn and cotton seed, and wheat bran. It was near feeding time and the troughs were filled while I was there. Prince Ponitowskl mixed bis meals and bran in properproportion and moistened with hot water. Then, after putting in the trough, bo added a mixture of turnips and turnip tops, boiled well together. This makea a dainty dish to set before tho gentle and mild-mannered queens of the dairy. After thoroughly inspecting the barns, and asking some five hundred questions, I was con ducted to tho ???bull pen??????that???s what Dr. Oibbs called it. The animal brought out was a genuine eye-opener to a lover of good stock. Bubano???s Bioter, 11,444, is as fine a piece of cow-flesh as one gets to toe. Larger than Jer seys usually are, yet most perfectly molded and delicately shaded from steol gray to black on tides, he stands at the head of the Holydalo herd. His hide is ???mellow as a mole," while his mien is that of a lord. ???Bioter??? is a pure St. Lambert blood, having SO per cent of the blood of Stoke Pogis 3d, who was the sire of twenty-threo cows, that averaged twenty pounds of butter in seven days. Bioter also has 38 per cent of the blood of Pride of Wind sor, the dam of a number of fine butter cows; (II per cent of bis blood is from Victor Hugo, the head of a line of forty-flve cows averaging over fourteen pounds in sovon days, and (ii per cent Faullnc, the head of ono of tho finest branches of the St. Lambert family. Bioter was purchased in Canada at a very high price, and Is said by competent Judges to be the finest living bull of the Bt. Imubcrt family. Tradjo law model Jersey bull of very hand, some appearance, solid mulberry fawn And foil black points. Messrs. Hnnnicnt & Yancey may well be urond of him as the only son of Alice Jones, 8285???the ???queen of the southern Jerseys"??? who has a record of 31 pounds 131 ox. in seven days. This little follow is cer tainly a bull of wonderful promise, and if tho Jersey world docs not hear great things of his progeny this scribe is neither a prophet nor ???coulter??? among Jerseys. After looking at a lot ofyonnger but not loss f iromlsing bulls the perty proceeded to tnko a ook at tho milking nerd. Dr. Gibbs held his breath, Dr. llunmcutt smiled his blandest at the other doctor???s pleased surprise, and Mr. Yancey winked a knowing wink,!, mnch as to say, ???Yon expected to find scrubs, eh V??? Sir. Ponitowskl moved among his silken haired fa vorites as a beloved teacher goes among his pupils. Sleeking the sides or one, caressing another, and talking gontly to a third. I do not ico how any man can keepifrom admiring if not actually loving the eon-eyed creature that gives us golden hotter and delicions cream. Lucy Lanier 13,(153 and Mary Norton 13,053 are both descendants of the fomons imported Clement 115, and their already made records of 18 pounds 2 ounces and 17 pounds 14 ounces???which records do not seem to bo their limit???betoken no shadowing of the name of their ancestry. ???That???s a regular scrub,?????? aaidjan uninitiated visitor, pointing to a fawn andwblto cow, thin in flesh and, consequently, a little rugged. ???Not much!?????? was the reply of tho genial owner. ???That is Abbie Clay 15,072, and has a record of 18 pounds 1 ounce." Bioter???s Maggie, 22,530 Is a beautiful young cow, perfectly formed and very much like her world renowned relative, Mary Ann, of St. Lambert. Lome 5,218 is the sire of four cows, making over fourteen pounds in soven days at two years of age. Of the four, Maggie stood head, making 18 pounds, A) ounces. It is with apardonable pride thatHr.Yanceypolnted her out She was added to the Holydale herd when quite young, at a cost of $1500, and is the mother of the most promising young creature in the herd. This daughter, Farmer???s Floss, 17,773, was sired by Bubano???s Bioter, is a double grand daughter of the celebrated prise winner, Farmer???s Glory, 274, T. H. B., and is of tho purest St. Lambert blood. She is a little bcanty, and is already growing fomons. With her first calf she gave 42) pounds of milk per day, and now, with her calf six month I old, and several months gono with calf, she is undergoing a test that will, tho dairyman thinks, come up to fifteen pounds butter per week. Under such circumstances this is prob ably as good as is on record. A number of other cows are of sufficient in terest to keep one studying a whole day, but I will mention only two others. Bcltuate of W???oronoco, 18,040, is a pretty grey and white heifer andoccupied the front place as a two year old butter maker???having a re- cord of 24 pounds 14 ounces on common feed ???until the prise was captured by Major Camp bell Brown???s Eltheel 2d, with her record of 30 pounds. She will come to the front again. ???Alice Jukes 8,225, with her magnificent form and large, perfectly shaped udder, stands the queen of the southern Jerseys, and she look* altogatbor as though ahekne.wit Her record is the prondcst in the south, and she does not propose for any little upstart of a heifer to take it from her. She mado 31 pounda 13) onncea in seven days In August, when tho mercury stood at near 100??. Sho has also milked as high as 53 pounds per day. She is adding to her fomo by being the mother of Tradjo, 13,715, nnd a danghter sired by Bnba- no???a Bioter, 11,444. . This Holydale herd members over fifty head, and ia so carefully selected as to be the wonder of all visiting breeders from the north. But its prominence is not due to its being to a certain degree isolated, for It would be noticed, located in the'mldst of the best herds in the land And as for the milking qualities it it snfliclent to say that through the spring the entire herd averaged over thirty pounds of milk per day. What a Young Fanner Did. Hr, Robert Rood is a young former. Thin??? browned, afl fiber, slow bot easy of modoo, self-re liant tad Indepcndent-he it a fin* type of lb* young icuthem fanner. rri* earth ia ft goU mtee/???he sap, ???to anj man Ifcttworki it dUigtnUy.y wvea years lie has made over *40,000 in fanning- not by spcculating-for he has lost $10,000 by that method. But by the patieut tilting of tho earth, and the slow transmitting of sunshine, rain and sweat into corn and cotton. The story of Ids work is significant, and ft may lie improving, so hero it is In paragraphs, coaxed from his own lips. ??????My father said to me, about seven vents ago, ???My Ef n. I???m going to die, nnd I leave *0,000 in honest debts that you mutt pay.??? in six weeks he was dead, and 2 took the plantation in Stewart county ou |he Chattahoochee river. I mortgaged the place for 14,000 and went to work. Tho first lesson I learned was economy. I darned my own socks and patched my clothes as they wore out. When I went to Eufaula I put a biscuit in nry pocket, and when I go.t to town tied my horse to a rack, and saved hotel bill. I ran & plough myself, leading the way for my bands. At night I lit up the forgo and did my own black smithing, learning as I went. I never left my farm a day, and slept only six hours night.??? ???That must have brought Success r ??? ??????Of course it did, as it would have brought it in any other business. In two years I had paid my debt and had money in bank. I havo made in actual money over *40,000. This is my poorest year, and yet I will clear over *3,500. I would not give any man five dollars to guarantee me *3,000 a year on my ten mule farm for the next ten years .Farm ing Is the safest business a man con engage in, if he goes at it right.??? ???What are the rules by which yon woxk???? ???Pint, I raise my own provisions. I now havo 3,000 bushels of corn, 1,100 bushels of oats, 800 bushels of peas and 400 gallons of syrup now for sale. I raise much of my own meat aud would raise it all except that my climate is too warm to cure it in. I never saw a man who did not raise ??ls own com that made money on cotton. I never saw a corn-raiser that wasn???t a prosperous farmer. T ou can often figure out that you can buy com cheaper than you can raise it-but that Is only on paper. Corn-raisers prosper???the others fail. My cotton crop is always a cash surplus. I make my other crops carry the farm.??? "Next to r^Mng my own com, I court personal attention to my business. I sow every bushel of oats myself, because I never found a hand that could do It right. This fall I worked eleven hours a day with a three peck basket on my arm and sowed oats ahead of twelve plows, till the ends of my fingers were bleeding. In making syrup I got along with four hours of sleep In twenty-four, and the result Is perfect syrup. I superintend every de tail of my farming as this. Every back strap of my harness has a bug of moss sewed under tho leather to protect the rattle's back. Thread wouldn???t do for that sort of sewing, os it wonld rot. Iron wire wouldn???t, for it would rust. So every pad is rowed with copper wire. I never had scald back or a piece of broken skin on a mule since l???vo been farming. Nc xt to personal supervision is economy. Nothing is wasted on ray farm. I have 120 tons of home made manure composted now, and one ton of com posted manure is worth three tons of guano. Not a blade or grasa is burned on my place. That with the reftirc of my sugar cano even is turned under and cnrlchea the ground. It la small things that make or ruin the farmer. My neighbors use two or three sets of plow-lines a year???mine last me two or three years. Every night I oil over wagon on my place, using cotton oil. Once a month I havo every axle cleaned and the old oil rubbed off. This saves my wagons. My stock and crops are all pro tected the same way. The poorest houso on my place Is the housed livo in.??? ???How about your labor???? ??????Better than slaves. I pay them 19 a month, half In cash every Saturday night, one rations and allow each hand a half aero for potatoes and an acre for com and give them overy Saturday after noon. They work because they know I know It when they shirk. They began stealing from me. Ilalept on tho (ground every night for three weeks, bagged three of tho thieves and now I am safe. When they are well I make them work and when they are sick I give them medicine from my own band. Iu short, they know I watch them and they work.??? ???You find tbo lifo a happy ono?' ???Tho freest, happiest, most independent life in the world. I have not been sick a day in eleven years. When I lay down I sleep. I ask no man any odds. My broad acres are there and they aro exhaustlcas. The best bank a farmer can have Is his land. Every dollar ho puts there Is safe and will pay him interest and principal Many farin as sell their cotton seed. That is robbing their land. I buy cotton seed, for with acid phosphato and stable manure it makes tho best fertilizer. The farmer is the one independent man.??? ???I cannot understand,??? Mr. Rood went ou to say, ???why a young fellow will stay in tho city and clerk at a small salary with no ftituro when a farmer???s Hie Is open to him. No man could have had a much worse start than I did. Now, in spito of markets, weather or anything e'sc, I cun live a free man's life, with health, open air, exercise, and at the end of every year put from *3,500 to 95,000 in bank. This is not chance. It is certainty. And there Is nothing in me except bard work, attention and a little common sense. If fifty young clerks wero to go to Stewart county today and farm just an I do, each one would reach the samo result. It In no experiment. It is tho most certain of certain things.??? And away tho young farmer wont with agang of friends who had called for him. Why may not he prove to be a type? Why may not there follow jin bis footsteps a race of young formers, sturdy and self-reliant, with smooth brows, clear eyes and strong arms? Why may they not come to ho res cue of our section from tho domination of western smokehouse and cribs, and win for tho south smld their com rows a ftiller and better experieno than their fathers fought for twenty-five years ago? There is plenty of land * and more to come. Mr. Rood started with 2,000 acres which ho has already cut down to 1,200. Ho contracts his arablo onco every year. "Intensive farming,??? says he, ???is tho policy of the ftiture. There is ono war cry un der which the routh can command the situation. That (s ???a bale to the acre, or frill comcribs, a big ccmpost heap aud home on tho farm!??? Frankly now hasn???t this broad shouldered yonng farmer, with bis steel-like slncwes, this untroubled sleep, come nearer to to solving the problem than those of us who, aiming at glittering heights, are fighting and stumbing along the uneavcu way. Farm Notes. Sir. William Cotton, one of tho champion farmers of Bartow, has picked nearly 1,650 pounds of seed cotton from a measured acre of land tbia year. Mr. W. 8. Dickson, of Hancock, killed seven hogs that weighed, net, 1,921 pounds. He has a full smokehouse and frill barns. He ia ono of the farmers of tho old-fashioned sort. Mr. Matt Wilkinson, who lives one and a half miles south of Jackson county, made this year, with two males, thirty bales of cotton and 250 bushels of corn, besides plcuty of pota toes, peas', syrup, etc., to do him. W. J. Bridges of Crcswcll, will gin four or five hundred bales of cotton this season. Mr. Bridges is a good farmer. He runs ten plows, and fass mado 3.000 bushels of com and 110 bales of cotton. He used $420 worth of guano, and says he is able to pay his debts. Rarnesvillc Democrat: E. A.. Parker has made this year from two acre* of grapes aaveral hundred gallons of tuperlor wine. He has now on hand about 250 gallons of sweet and dry wines. We have sampled hfs dry wine and prononnre it orthodox. Mr. W. D. Pierce, who lives within about a mile of Perry, has killed ten liog<tbls season that averaged 250 pounds in weight each, four of them weighed 2601 pounds each: the heaviest weighed 298 pounds, and the Ughest weighed 246 pounds. An aggregate of 2^00 pounds of pork from ten hogs. Mr. I. T. Stephens, farming on Cedar creek, in Pularki county, made this year on a two- horse farm, twenty-two bale* of cotton, 100 bushels of corn, 100 bushels of potatoes, four barrels of syrup and peas in abundance. The greater portion of the land cultivated by Kr. Stephens was cleared sixty years ago. Mr. J. J. Kinchen, of Pulaski county, has made this year seventy-nine bales of cotton enough corn to run five plows next year. Tho plowing of the cotton and corn???105 acres??? was done with four mules. Another Pul ukl farmer made this year sixty-eight bales of cot ton on 100 acres. Mr. W. H. Harp, of Sumter county, runs a two-mule farm. This last year he only paid *o for labor, the work of tbo farm being done by himself ind-family. He raised 200 bushels of oats, 200 bushels of corn, 15 bales of cottou (which brought him $018.30), 84 gallons of syrup, 40 bushels of potatoes, besides vege tables for his family. Besides the $5 for labor he paid $83.50 for fertilizers. He lives at home and his cotton is a surplus crop. The Hawkinsvillc News says: It will lie re membered that the Newp, in July last, referred to Mr. J. J. Kinchen???s farming operations. Meeting Mr. Kinchcn iu town tho other day, Weasked him about the yield from his farm. ???Well,??? said be, ???I have made moro cotton and corn than I expected from tho number of acres uuQer cultivation. I hod 120 acres in cotton and 75 acres in corn. I cultivated this crop with four mules. From the 120 acre* in cot ton I got 70 bales averaging 508 pounds per bale, and I made enough com on 75 acres to supply n five-mule farm another year.??? Mr. Rfuchen is one of Pulaski???s most thoroughgo ing and successful farmers, and notwithstand ing the fact that ho is 65 years old, he stays on tho faun with his laborers, and when tho f rass and weeds teem to be making too rauch- cadway, he takes the fore row and says, ???come, boys,??? and you may just put it down that the boys come. You never boar such fanners os Mr. Kinchen say that there is no money in fanning. Ho makes money every year farming, and conducts his operations upon practical aud scientific principles. He ia eco nomical in his expenditures and knows ex actly how to mako every lick count. STORIES Of THE" WAR, Which Never Faff to Interest the Reader, Whether Old or Young. From the Washington Republican. Boon after the war actually began and the ad vance on Bull Run was mado many of the southern women showed their mettle. Some time lie fore tho battle was joined General J. E. B. Stuart, com manding the cavalry, was very anxious to obtain certain information as to the position of several federal brigades. He was acquainted with ?? highly educated, quiet and refined young lady of Fairfax Courthouse, and be doubtless had discovered that she was poo-erred of great nerve and spirit, and of an enthusiastic devotion to the cause of tho south. He managed to get a note to her, requested her to obtain such information an sho could, little thinking that sho would not only ob tain it, but bring it herself instead of sending a messenger. 1IU surprise was great, then, to see her ride into his headquarters on the evo of tho battlo thoroughly posted as to what he wanted to know. She bad undergone much hardships and danger, having been shot at many times in running tho gauntlet of the pickets, but the gamely persevered until her mission was accomplished. In recognition of her bravery and intclllgenoo, Stuart commissioned her as lieutenant and aide-de- camp on his stair, and this appolutment was actu ally recognized by tho confederate government. Mir* F. was perhaps the only female commissioned officer m either army. This lady was afterward captured and locked up for many months in tho old capitol prison, I think, and, after her release, tiuth compels the statement that,in the latter days cf tho war, sho was married to a federal major, then and now a prominent and wealthy citizen of the city of Washington. Of Bello Boyd, the well-known confederate spy, I need only refer to ncrc, but if h?r adventures were written out they would read like a romance, and would show that her services at one time wen simply Invaluable to the cause she esponrod. She U now. a staid matron, quietly residing in her Tex as home, and resolutely shuns the notoriety ahe acquired in time of war. Mrs Grecnhow, too, was a famous confederate secret agent, and sho had as much nerve and dar- _jftt, Her losa was a severe blow to the confederate auth orities, particularly at the time it occurred. 1 have heard soldiers of tho army ortho #o??t speak tntbiwJai-IIcally of an Snebbml well known in that army. During ono of General N. II. For rest's campaigns In Tennessee ho was anxious to point. Forrest brought up his artillery, and charg ed again and again ???** *??? J but ilia every attack . ward nightfall, in a final desperate charge, Colonel Forresd, the brother of the general, fell dead at tho head of hla command, General Forrest, who COTTON AND CORN. THE PRODUCT OF THE STATE FOR THE YEAR JUST ENDED. An Interview with Commla*loa*r Henderson, of the State Agricultural Department, Upon the Re sources of the Field, Showing the ???jretem of Farming that will Tay. j byhfa ifeatb, and resolved to???whin the enemy lose his command. Ho selected a nicked squadron and a single niece of artillery, aud direct! remainder of hla command to skirmish bit hold the enemy at the bridge, he moved off to find a ford, but could get no information of one. Fi nally. be inquired at a farmhouse, and a young ....... ??? guide him thither. 8he replied promptly in the negative and. despite th t B linding* of her widowed mother, she sprang up ehlnd Forrest and after a hard rldo showed him licie he could safe * of the officer* and men were killed and wounded, hut the girl never Uluciicd. 8ho wa* sent safely home under escort and, as a consequence of her R luck, Forrod wa* enabled to strike tho flank of ic enemy at daybreak aud to rout them complete ly. After the war was over and Forrest had somo- whftt recovered his fallen fortune* lie sent tho lit- An Amusing War Incident, From the Cincinnati Enquirer. During the war tho ???loatman??? and ???last ditch??? were ermmen phrases, and, strango aait may seem, they were located at the end of tho war. On Fourth of July morning, law, fifteen month alter I-ee???s surrender, the secretary of war, who had planned a fishing excursion to the fall* of tho J???mo- mac, received a telegram from tho provost marshal at Richmond, Vo., stating that a squad of confed erate soldiers were at his office ready to deliver up their arms and be amnestied. Knowing that Joking of that description would subject the perpetrator to court martial, ho mado a boo-lino for ihe while house to consult President Johnson, whlce resulted In a telegram to tho provost marshal: ???Who aro they and where did they cornu from???? The answer was direct to tho point: ???Sergeant Twekshtiry and guard from Dismal swamp. Did not know the war was over.??? After ft good roar of Virginian, ordered a couple of Georgian* to come forward, give up their shooting Iron*yiud stick their flrt* to tlnr'docymcnt,??? resolving film- self os the last man and old Dismal Hwamp'bo lfl>t ditch. Twcksbury???s description of how he as certained the w??r was over was very amudug. Ho and his companions had been ported on the edge of i he swamp to watch movements of yanks from Norfolk, with orders to remain until relieved. Ho never was relieved, and had subsisted on game and fish for three years. Ho met an old negro who told him that tho war had been over about a year, which tickled him better than If ho had been kicked by a mule, as he facetiously expressed it. Utilising the Fence Corners* A statistician has estimated tbit If all tho fenqg comers of the United States were cultivated the crops produced on them would bo sufficient to pay the national dclrt. The amount of laud wasted by the awkward corners of a worm fence Is almost inconceivable. Having lain follow so long, the fence comen are the rich est rpota on the furm. Anything that reclaims them from waste Is a public benefaction. This is exactly what the Georgia fenco company proposes to do. The fence they offer Is a coral (nation of twLstcd strands of wire and wooded slat*. It has taken the prize at all fain and exposition as the best fenct ever offered, and for economy and durability is unsurpassed. It has many advantages over the barbed wire fence. In the first place It does not destroy stock, although It is stronger than a barbed wire. In the second place it fa not an Invisible fence, and stock arc not lia ble, therefore, to rush against IL It will resist any pressure that Is likely to be applied, It la a movable fence, and pari tires can be shifted as desired. This fence can either be bought by tho yard, or a machine can be bought and tho fence manufactured on your place. Where a man has ft large farm the latter to perhaps the cheapest. Or ira man desires he can buy a county right, and by getting ono of these ma chines he can manufacture It and sell it to his neighbors; being protected in bis right by the pat ent A great many counties have been sold already and are being handled very profitably. A few forma will pay back the amount paid for the entire county. Those who wish ft good holi ness for (becoming yeftr, and good fence* ou their farm*, will do well to correspond with the Georgia Within the next few days J. T. IIondcrsQii commissioner of agriculture for the state of Georgia, will present bis supplemental crop report, which will be an Interesting publication. The report fa now in the hands of the printer, and will bo ls*u??d as soon a* practicable. Yesterday a Constitution* reporter colled updn Commissioner Hcndcretm for the purpose of getting at some of the con touts of tho report. ???What information of unusual interest will ap pear in your forthcoming reportf was asked Hie commissioner. ???A thing of the most unusual Interest to me. is to see one of tho largest crops ever made In the ktato and all marketed without any money being left in the hands of tho fanners. I fear that such has been tbo case this season. The price was origiually very low and has been still Airther reduced by the damages inflicted by ono notably bod spell of weather, which we hod sumo time in the latter i??art of Beptcmber, I think it waz ?????? **?????? ' ??? cession of rains since, wh or less damaging, tiuppolng it takos about S100 to every thirty acres of well-cultivated land, and that the yield has been but about ono hundred and fifty pounds llut per acre or cue commercial bale of four hundred and fifty pound* for every three acres, then you see we have only ten bales to tho thirty acres, which does not require much figuring to convinco you that it will not re produce the outlay, viz.: 1400. ???Hence,I am confident that the sequel well shows *???--* * r - * -??? uuceu ki n wry unusual expense, whiclK to'say P the least of it, is rather encouraging. The supple mental report ol tho deportment, in addition to the estimate of the yield of cropa of tho year, will contain a lecture on the Irish -potatory Prorc Yillo, and the report of experiments on the _... versify farm, conducted by Professor II. (J. White, under tho auspices of tho deportment of agricul ture*. ???You ore satisfied then that the cottou crop of this year has not been a paying one???? ???Such is my opinion, as you ??? *??? that 1 have Just made. ??? ??? What was the character or averago grado of tho crop nnd what the pricer??? ???As to quality it was unusually mixed, dlfiei very widely in this respect from tho crop of ... year, for last year there was no rainfall from tho beginning to thr * * 3 from the remarks * utc generally. 1 other cnora. ???Well, commissioner, tell us all about other crops of the state.??? among tho forge ... ???. W lil.o tho cotton crop has not been a paying one, owing to Inferior condition of the lint and low prices, and has gone to liquidate debts accruing from previous short crops or cotton or grain, still, they lcld of tboyear, taVijigJntoconniJeratloa the Dlygivo. r ... , tlnuoui curies of such years. ???1 have always thought that we were a fraction too high on the corn crop of that year, and I believe that Colonel Newman, then tho editing clerk of tj^is department, hod some doubt os to the occur*- itiuui ri'iiva ui biiuii Jims. T have always thought that we were a fract ) high on the corn crop of that year.and I bell it Colonel Newman, then tho editing clcrl s department, had some doubt as to the aoct of there figure*. 1 believe our estimate for 1882 s 30,000,000 bushels. I am sure #e are in bounds when we put the crop of thtoyear at80,000,000 bash ??? : Tho oat crop was an unamallytanall ono, andfitt that differs more widely from the corn crop of'82 than did the crop of th to year. My recollection Is that the oat crop or '82 was 11,500,000 bushels where as this year it to but a little in excess of 6,000,000 ~ in other words, but little more than one-half. ble* there was no such thing as an inferior garden, unless where It was choked by the woods and * f ???Is the all-cotton system ou the Increase or dc* ???Diminishing slowly. In former years all ol tho choice spots about our village*, and eYen tho cities were crowded with cotton, but now they are a ed fey grasses aud not InfrtniuonUy. by patch mJJJomsJxe or potatoes,or some other crop, any ono ??f which will net moro profit than cottou. I am ideavoring, in every possible way, to obtain fomo for cotton???something that ubril . _ w ells readily and Is equally as convertible in addition to the patches which I hare J *- -fifti^ifif if goo$ substitute for com, and consequently tho disposi tion teems to bo to Incroaso the acreage in oat t Jn )port Ion as tho acreage of other products to bi ased to thclcotton crop diminished.??? HOW IT WILL PAY. 'How would youadvtoc a man to plant Jso at to make bis farm telf-suitalniug???? ???1 would advice both diversification and Intend- Heat ion, if 1 may be allowed so to speak. ???Tho system of growinglbut ono thing Is bad poli cy In more particulars than one if any attention is vnricii proportion*, or course in ail sons, nnci irono plant to grown to the exclusion of all others there toon gets to be a deficiency of the om mast fed upon and that lrarc* a superabundance ot others and cither the i plum on 120BCTCS.MtaWi* Hwj????J!iX7-~P???!*'/. W.wortBUlum.". . ??? - . ^ mUug ??? leapt j ri,hfo 4K beinf rapidly. It t&s ctrvuniy proTeu to be one to Mr. Rood. In | tirating acre y growing plant. I therefore warmly urgo itlng of everything needftil to the sustananre roan and boas I upon the farm. Heed ootton doc* not make big bogs but a plenty of com does and many or them. A plenty of both meat and com satisfies the laborer, and satisfied labor causes everything to go off smoothly. It would be invidious In me ??? ??? -ye a large rmqst that you could mention upon thefr' farms, really the cotton they now to but supplementary. Thoy hero something or every kind grown upon the farm for sale, sometimes even poultry. I havo In my eye now ono man who. 1 am informed, has slaughtered seventy five bogs, all largo and fat, and in addi tion, ha* corn, wheat,oafe, bermuda hay. etc., etc., in equal profusion around him. What to the se cret of all this. May It not be that this gentleman. " Iam informed, to always athto post planning and ring for hto sheep, hog*, laborers, and looking out Iu every way to increase the fertility of hJssoll. Whilst he boys liberally of guano, ho docs not. as to too frequently the case, rely entirely upon it. but builds Immense heaps or comport with which to supplement his guano. Now Just think of it. The nroportlon of tlmo that is wasted upon the farm to often perfectly appall ing. Could the merchant do this and prosper? Could the manufacturer, the Insurance agent, the broker, the banker, the fruit grower, or indeed anybody else, but the fir mors do the half of it and still live. With them eternal vigilance is the price of success. Is it not reasonable to suppose that If farmers, too, would ??????--Bguneives at home Saturday afternoons rhout tho week as well, there would be a ud of balance sheet shown at tbo con clusion of ~ the main seclusion fa one cause of the frequency of hto visits to the village*. If fanner* were more social, and w-rutd visit at odd hours one another at thslr homss, tho ennui of country Ufa would bo measurably over come. STOCK rahino. ???Is stock raising on the increase?*' ???Fork hogs ore 14 percent short of lost year??? and stock hogs ore 13 per cent less, and sheep are like* wire on the decline in numbers.??? ???What do you attribute this decrease tof ??? ???The decrease In hogs I attribute to the ravages of cholera, which existed In many portions of the rtatednring the spring and summer, and tho de crease in sheep to dog*, which to quite as fatal.??? ???To what use could the lands in the southern por tions of the state, from which timber has been re moved, be nicctssftilly applied???? ???I know of no use to which they could be belter applied than to grazing purposes for cattle and sheep, and particularly for sheep. I think that by rr asou of the mildness of the climate Urge flooluof sheep could subsist there upon the tender groat at all returns of the year.??? rnimjtda.% Is the production of commercial -fertilizers on the Increase In Georgia???? ???During the season of IWti and 1805 the total amount of ammonlated fertilizer* inspected fat Georgia was ]S3,017 tons. Out or this amount Geor gia manufactured *7 Ji2 tons. For tbo same season there were 16,012 tons of arid phoqrhate or dissolved tones iiapectrd. out of which amount Georgia man ufactured 0,457 tons, making the total aamntof ???rrmonfated fertilizers and add phonphat?* mini- factored In Georgia tons. f ???During the year 1M?? the inspections were the cav lest ever made In this state, and there has *??n*Ic*s complaint so far, notwithxtanling the U>w price of cotton. I am of the opinion the acid ??? ???.ophate* have been used for composting as lib- ally as daring any preceding year.??? ???Good gracious,??? sold the hen, when she dis covered the porcelain egg in her nest, ???I shall be ??? brick lay tv next.??? ^ Iforsford's Add Phosphate in fieasiekness. Professor Adolph OtL New York, says: ???I used it for maaickaeah daring an ocean pos tage. In most of the cases, the violent symp toms which characterize that disease yielded, and gave way to a healthful action of the func tus Impaired.??? ION SEWI8G ICi An Improvement on the Singer CHEAPEST AND BEST - SEWING MACHINE ' WITH THe Weekly Constitution One Year FOR 03STLY 8B18. Regular Price of the Machine Alone $45 to $50. WHAT TH03E SAY WHO HAVE TRIED THE MACHINE. The abo\e is what we say of our Machine. We know it Is the truth. Buthere is what those who have tried our Ma chine say of It. Their testimony is without prejudice or Inter est. Read what they say. B. T. Whitts., aogtfniTlUfi. a??.-I rewired tin mteWno which I orflored with Tnc Oossirfo- hok MB* lime igo, enfl And it ant clui In ererf w??j. It (. mnch better th.n I expected, to ,et don???tieeiow ,on ctn roll them rochetp. The nefohbom who have Been It ere dellihted with it; ???omewbo b.Tebought of aienta ere aorryol Its othemit, the, will haveioneother exceptyourB. We hare tuled our. onaUaoitaol woix, end the more wo mo It the better wo llko It, L D, HoxoiM, Rolled,e, Ge.???I Teoefead my acwlne machine andnythat alter trying: It that It alna pttfect Mtbfactlon. I did not expect .0 nice and aiihatentiaiamacMna. We b.io been uilu* Wheeler * WUmd Improved, and amildar yonia a gupeilor machine. J, A* B* Syxib, Bock Fond, Ga.-The aewlng machine: bought from yon iItci perfect aitUfoctlon, A. F. Ailxh, DeArmaylUe, AU.-I am happy to Inform you that tho tewlna mtchlno which I or. Cored through yoncamo tale to hand, aid haa been proven on trial to meetup In full to all you J. W. Wimaa, Honteaoma, Ga.-Onr gewInTmachluo haa atrired. We are pleated with It. It la all that yon claim for It. Bereralof our neighbor! hare examined It and pronounce It flnlclaag. It la at aood aa th* machinu they tik from fra to too loi In if ostnuma. Wa. DoniU>-l rectlrcd my machine and weekly. I ranit iay that I never expected any; think line the lewlua machine. It la unear perfection u poailble. Iaho* It to my neighbor! and they actually doubt my word, u thoy paid US for ??? ???*??????- T btltar work and look better. I will hare aomo food < Aycock, Monro* pleased with ii u, Dtioie writing you. Shff moro handsome machine thi waa to much pleased with ours that he hxothcr and several ol our pdighbora say 1 ago Ga-We My wilt __ _ *ith Itt soya It glvec entire satisfaction and to a much machine* that sgonta have tried to sell us. My brother one at onco and haa Jatt received it. Also another ey are going to order ono soon. This is the voice of the people. Rt-ad it and heed it. We might fill columns with it. Hundreds of homes are made happy with Constitution Machines, and testify that the/are the best. Order at one. Remember, you have five day???s trial of the Machine, and if it don???t suit you, we guarantee to refund your money. Address . THE CONSTITUTION. After a careful nvertlgatton into tho merits of th?? flcwloi Marhlne. tt xact representation ol it, wobaveooncludeil to offer It to subscriber* of' pricoastonishingly low for flnteflasa machine. Tho machine to inanufiiuiiiriMi ior mu uuusmu- ion and woobtain them In quantltlea at aboutwholesale cost price, and the reduction to tu wo glr?? th *$'h7p a ,??? 1 ??ci , s. , c u n b ?; r i!;rB.w,o, M??h.???,.t, Constitution one year, la only about one-third to one-baH what alralUur machine* aeii for everywhere. We Warrant a number ol things about this mar hlne: That it doee all work thst any sowing machine doc*, aud doe* It wp\U That you gti ft fall line of attachments; retail print of them S6. That the rom blne I* well made ??? 1, haa black walnut case, Tour drawer* aud exteiuiou *helf. That wo got it to yOB it charges will hardly ever cost you moro thau boceuta to 91.60, Thai you will b??? machine In every particular, Inca aro very nicely fininhcd, perfect in all respect a, and guaranteed to give sat ____________ trading for lane quantities, HWlttnuafttSf ttum to our custom are at about cost agents' aid dealers' profile can be saved, and one of the best machine* obtained by ordering from u?? lager, but* machine which to an Improvement on the HI tiger. The ???head,??? or machlnepart oQthe Wing machine, ae represented In cut above, is a fao simile of tho Hlnger Manufacturing Go.'a in shape, namentattoo and appearance,with the eicspilon ot tho tottering ou the arm.and the trade mark. Wa give a few reasons why every household 'should have the Sewing Machine offered by THE CONSTITUTION : ??Ihe Best Ad tilled, us Ihe Beit Material, its the Finest Flr.lsh- iu the FrettlestWoodwork I Is Mechn???-sm IsBetterf Hied I 9 It will Wear the Longest! t his the Best japanning. 10. It It Always Re labia, t has the Best Stands. II. It Ii the Cheapest, t hat the Best Teuton. I HERE IS 0DR OFFER: _ or $18.00 ??? The Weekly Constitution??? one year and the Sewing Machine. A Five Day???s Trial of the machine Is allowed, and each machine b guar anteed by THE CONSTITUTION PUBLISHING CO., to be repreiented, and to give perfect satisfaction, or ft may be returned, s^d The Money Will be -Refunded. SPECIAL We have sold hundreds and hundreds of these Machines, and hav.e guaranteed every Machine. We have had ONLY ONE returned. OF HARD WOOD CUT WITH ONE FILINS BY ONE OF OUR CELEBRATED SILVER STEEL DIAMOND SAWS. TUB Is ths Meord of A prxctloil IndUni B!Try??r,.with thi KliA of laws, nudo from our luect.l En(U??U Tool Btcel, ctpiblo of Boldin, aa BdfB longer thin urotboraair made. WecuUsugauioworlatoaquUM. Baadlaa and Oaugo. For-ilMd eltlnr r-xulu taift ar Moa, *1.00 per roof, including Handle extra thin hack. Any one >??? r. lit- j thli card, with with one ot our Qfebfitri Crli' non Haw >???;!*. YV user* cf E. C. ATHIN3 ?? CO., SOIC MAiJ g ONCAVf Tooth Dkxtzr. Special Steel Di uts. Circular, and Mu lavSaw*, In PERKINS BROS. Agentn Atlanta, Go. order ior a Saw of any length, will be | JAM IAMOND AND CHAMPION Ca NDIANAPOLIft, IND. tied???wkyl3t eow not