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Agricultural .Department, AGRICULTURAL. CORN PLANTING. Some of our most successful agricul turists think, as Mr. Stephens did, that the farmers of Georgia are con- stantly growing poorer. Indeed this is their opinion of the condition of the farmers generally in the cotton States. We have often thought that there is no citizen who should be bet ter off. more thrifty, and freer from monitary troubles, than the farmer. When we contemplate the means of living cheaply, the farmer is the man to do it. Many in this occupation borrow money at extravagant per cents, and mortgage their lands for the payment. All such are on the downward track to ruin. Tempta tions are held out to them: they lack money and catch at the offers of moneyed men, and when they get the money they spend it freely and unwisely. It is not used to fortify their positions, but is often almost thrown away upon thingg they do not need to gratify temporary pride, in various ways, in the household. The crop is not managed wisely: judgment and thirft are wanting in everything They do. This thing, and that thing, is wanted to gratify personal and family pride, which, in a large majority of cases, could be dispensed with. A few' hun dred dollars seem to be an exhaustless treasure, and, in a short time, the money is gone, leaving sinew's of suc cess unstrung, and destitute of nerve, w ithout which even hope fails, and destitution follows. Many will agree w-ifeh me in the as sertion that a family can almost live comfortably on a good garden. Yet many, although seed are cheap, and vegetables are easily cultivated, pay little or no attention to gardens. With a horse to cultivate a few acres in corn, oats and wheat, a good cow to furnish milk and butter, some good fowls and a few' pigs, and three or four good acres for cotton, why should any farmer be in want of all i he means of living? This plan, for a farmer, in very moderate circum stances, pursued by other farmers of larger means, will place all in comfort able circumstances and exempt all from debt or want. If one lias the m*ans, without going in debt, to car ry out this plan, lie will be prosper ous. and, if every farmer is prosper ous, what more is needed to make the State rich and prosperous? The big farmer may sink money every year by grasping after results beyond liis r^aoii. It stands the large farmer, to be prosperous, to pursue precisely the same policy that is suggisted for the small one. If he spends thousands of dollars for fertilizers, and thousands in various other expensive wuiys, how can he escape loss if half his land will require several acres to make a bale of cotton? Mr. J. M. Smith, of Ogle thorpe, has published to the people his immense losses by this policy. A farmer, worth a hundred thousand dollars, may be reduced to poverty in n few' years by it. If he cultivates two thousand acres of land, that will yield less than five hundred should, he is on the downward road to ruin and iii a few' years he will find himself a bankrupt. A man may have the w isdom of Solomon in everything but farming, and land in bankruptcy in a I In northern Florida and the south ern border counties of Georgia corn planting begins in February w'hen the weather that month is mild and pleas —even at the risk of ha\ing it kill ed down once or twice by late frosts, but such killing down does not materi_ ally injure the young corn, or, at least, does not prevent the yield of a heavy crop In verv light, sandy land if the corn has not been planted a sufficient depth a severe frost will kill it root and branch, but this rarely happens to a farmer acquainted with the soil and climate. Early planting in su*h soil may be deeper than in stiff soil and still have the advantage of the sunshine claimed for shallow planting in the latter. But corn planting may continue through all the months from February to July with reasonable hope of good yield, if properly mana ged, thus making it possible for even the sluggard to secure a harvest of bread during the long season. The season lingers as if to tempt the labor er to further production, and remem bering that contingencies may hap pen that scarcity may prevail in some other locality and prices rise to an un usual height, every farmer should en- deaver not only to raise his own sup ply but to have some to spare for his less fortunate neighbor. We have never known a planter in all our expe rience to have too much corn and fod der- and yet w r e have known them to have large bairns full of old corn when the new' crop came in. But on such farms there could always be seen large fat hogs at all seasons, w'ell-fed mules, horsest cattle and an abundance of fat poultry. The farmer who has planted a field of corn in February or March, may plant another in April, and still an other in May, finding less cultivation necessary each time, only observing to fertilize well and ploiv promptly when needed. In May old lields and pastures which have had their green verdure turned under a week or two beforehand may be plan ted in corn and a crop made with two plowings, the last given late in June to sow' peas, which will shade the ground and keep dow'n the grass dur ing the remainder of the summer. For this work use a plantar that will open the drill, drop the seed and cov er at the same time, leaving the drill smoothly as with a board. The sw r eep or the harrow' may be used on the middles. Two or three -weeks later side and add fertilizers in the side fur row's. At the next plowing, indicated by the growth of grass or condition of the soil, sow' peas and break out the middle thoroughly just after a good season. If the corn w as well fertiliz ed in the main and side drills its growth will be sufficiently rapid to yield a good crop, especially in moist land. Lemons for “Billtousnkss. The lemon treatment of biliousness is quite fashionable at present. Most people know the benefit of lemonade before breakfast, but few know that it is more than doubled by takirg an other at night also. The way to get the better of the bilious system with out taking blue pills and other drugs is to take the juice of one, two or three lemons, as appetite .craves, in as much iced water as makes it pleas- antto drink without sugar, before go ing to b^d. In the morning on rising, at least half an hour before breakfast, take the juice of one lemon in a gob let of w'ater. People must not irritate the stomach by eating lemons clear, but diluted properly, so that it does not irritate the throat, and taken on an empty stomach, the improvement is marked. _ Cure for a Rattle Snake Bite. —An Oregon Physician, gome years since, gave the following: “Stir in the yolk of an egg as much salt as will spread a plaster and apply it to the wound. Do this when bitten and I will insure your life for a six pence. I iiave tried it in a number of cases, and have never known it to fail/’ Perhaps in using this remedy, it would be well to take at the same time a good dose of whiskey and also call in a doctor as soon as possible. We pre sume the remedy would be good for the bite of any other kind of snake. A Cheap Rick Pie.—Boil a cupful of rice and a teaspoonful of salt in a suitable quantity of water until it be comes tender. Then take out the rice and mix with it a teacup of sugar, t^o eggs, a sufficient quantity of milk, and a little seasoning. This will make three good sized pies which will not displease a reasonable taste. POWDER Absolutely Pure'. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold onlv in cans, Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall St. New York. 15 11m J. M. Prescott in Southern Cultivator. I desire to say to “A,” of Lyons, S. C., in the Cultivator, that I have been experimenting with all the noted pork producing breeds of hogs for more than twenty years. I am a breeder on a small scale; breeding for pleasure as well as profit. I attend to my own hogs, watch closely growth, development and characteristics of different breeds; therefore my opinions concerning the hog are formed from w years on this plan. It is common j actual experience and personal *ob- fo hear people say “there is no money in farming. The man who says that, speaks upon The general results, as farming is conducted. Properly con ducted ir is the safest and surest plan f° r the great masses of mankind to se- cu'-e a competency, and we assert, now. that the farmers of Georgia would be the richest and happiest portion of our people, if thev could be brought to the plan of cultivation which we have suggested. It is the plan for opening a vista of prosperity, than which, no other can lie found for the cultivators of the soil. He who follows it will never feel the pinchings of want. Abundance will spring up in his fields and he will re- Joc-e in the benignant provisions of nature. Besides his senses will be en livened ;is he looks upon his fields; T - K * sunrise and the sunset will enliven nervation, and I take pleasure in giving them to your inquiring corres pondent. Three things he wishes to know— cost, management and best breeds. H e does not want breeds, but best breed for the South, and then stick to .that breed, determined to succeed. To answer his questions elaborately, as they deserve, will make this paper much too long, but if the Cultivator desires, I will furnish for liis benefit a series of short papers on “Raising Hogs in the South.” If his object is to raise pork for home use—an abundance for all the demands of his place—he need not inj quire as to the cost. It pays to raise plenty for home demand at any price. He is only playing at farming while buying his “hog and hominy.” It costs from ^hree to six cents to raise To Keep Milk from Souring.— After milking take what may be need ed as soon as it is drawn from the cow and stir it until it becomes cool. No cream will arise from it but it will be intemately mixed with the milk giv ing to the whole a rich and delicious taste. Sweet Potatoes for Cows.—A Texas Gazette says sweet potatoes will make cows give more milk than any other food they can have in the winter. Plant a great jnany and try it. The Gazette says “give a peck night and morning.” Dr. Morse, physician at Marine Hos pital, Baltimore, Md., found Red Star Cough Cure a harmless and most ef fective remedy in the cure of coughs. He recommends it especially for child ren, who are irritable and obstinate, as pleasant to take and prompt in its effect. Price, twenty-five cents. Dr. Chinn’s Liver Dills. Removes Constipation, prevents Ma laria, cures Dyspepgia, and gives new life to the system. Only one for a dose. Free Samples at T. H. Kenan’s Druggist, Milledgeville, Ga., Slobbers in Horses.—An infalli ble remedy is to give them a few doses of from one to two gallons of dry wheat bran. Mmi with rhe omnipresence of ! pork on a farm that is well managed. ?1 yiue love, and. added to his certain gains, will keep his spirit in unison witii The benignant goodness of his Heavenly Father. But this is an in cident. Every lover, of Georgia, de- ' to see her people rising in wealth and ixiwer; and will she not reach the / -enith of prosperity when her farmers -haii grow in wealth': The merchants, th'- lawyers, tile railroad men anil all oTle-r classes, would rejoice and the cry of hard Times would give way to the glad songs of the cultivators of Georgia’s benignant >oil. Our farm er.- have felt rhe thorns of mortality, but. by tile suggested change, they would 1 >•* crowned with flowers and fruits, and blessings. The surest and best plan, to .-eeure this happy result, is for every farmer to make at home all that he needs in food, and enough from a money crop to obtain all else That cannot be obtained from the soil. A few of his best acres in cotton, will accomplish that. WEAK EYES IN HORSES. Make up a wash of alum and water and after reducing it to blood heat, blow the liquid in the horse’s eye with a quill After two or three trials with tins reduce a piece of alum to a size about as large as the end of one’s fin- . ger and after burning it m the fire am, reducing it to a fine powder, blow tt stoutly through a quill into the eye ' ~ the horse. We have tried this on a number of horses that have had sore eyes and have always found it a val uable remedy. It will remove all scum and restore clearness to tlie eye. —American Stock Journal. Dysentery.—Of the various reme- • ‘.ics for curing this ailment the fol- iowing is one of the pleasantest and i u ; Beat up an egg and add to r a iajJe-spoonfu3 of loaf sugar, a tea spoonful of gr - ' - sweet milk. hound spice and a gill of Give the patient a table spoonful every 15 minutes, until re- I conduct a small farm oli poor land; 1 raise about 2,000 pounds of pork to the plow, at an average cost of four and a half cents per pound. There is so much to say on the man agement of hogs that I do not know how to abridge. The work requires a thorough preparation of special quarters, pastures, crops, etc., and systematic treatment, such as a con siderate farmers affords to his mules and horses. He must not get tired and neglect his hogs and then expect good results. 1 never touched any thing that yielded such quick and satisfactory returns. He is right to inquire after the best breed. The farmer who is satisfied with less than the best of everything is foolish. The best is no myth: there certainly is that which affords the best returns, and that we call the best. I think the Poland-ChiAa hog is the best for the South, if not the best for any other place. Hair, skin, constitution and characteristics all suit our changeable climate and care less ways. This breed is more free from disease than any other, and statistics will show that the death- rate is lower. I do not think I ever lost . half a dozen from cholera. I have not a single pig for sale nor have I any controversy with any man as to his special breed. I have tried all, and know what I am now saying to be true. I have kept for years, Prince Albert and Sallie Berksliires. Jersey Reds, deepred and pale yellow, Chester Whites, Essex, Poland Chinas, spotted and, lately, black recorded. These last I prefer. The Poland-China, as now developed, is an honor to breed ers. The standard of ten years ago is not the standard of to-dav. Many persons talk about Poland-Chinas who never saw one. Some having tried a pair of pigs from a cheaper breeder, ate ready to say they are not much. Good pigs cost high, and such “A" needs; if lie buys registered pigs from reliable breeders he will risk noth ing. CORDIAL FOR THE J BOWELS &,CHILDREN TEETHING It i3 THE GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY for the bowels. It is one of the most pleasant and efficacious remedies for all summer complaints. At a season when violent attacks of the bowels are bo frequent, some speedy relief should be at hand. The weitried mother, losing sleep in nursing the little one teething, should use this medicine. 50 cts. a bottle. Send 2c. stamp to Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., for Riddle Book. Georgia Railroad Company. STONE MOUNTAIN ROUTE OFFICE GENERAL MANAGER, Augusta, Ga., April 17th, 1886. Commencing Sunday, 18th instant, the foliow- mgpaBsenger schedule will be operated. Trains run by 90th Meridian timer N018—EAST (daily). Leave Macon. Mu a m LeaveMilledgeville 9:19 a m Leave Sparta 10:41 a m Leave Warrenton 12:00 noon Arrive Camak - 12:15 p m Arrive Washington 2:20 P m Arrive Athens 5:30 P m Arrive Gainesville 8:25 p m Arrive Atlanta 5:50 p m Arrive Augusti 3:35 p m NO 17—WEST (daily). LeaveAugusta 10:50 a m Leave Atlanta 8:00 a m Leave Gainesville 5u>5 a m Leave Athens 9:00 a m Leave Washington U-o am LeaveCamak 1:36 pm Arrive Warrenton l:«o p m Arrive Sparta 3:04 p m Arrive Milledgeville 4:20 p m Arrive Macon 6:15 p in NO 16—EAST (daily.) Leave Macon 7:35 p m LeaveMilledgeville 9:30 pm Leave Sparta 10:48 p m Leave Warrenton 12:01 a m Arrive Camak 12:10 a m Arrive Augusta 5:00 a m NO 16—WEST (daily.) Leave Augusta 9:40 p m LeaveCamak 1:18 am Arrive Warrenton l:8Sam Arrive Sparta 2:57 a m Arrive Milledgeville 4:27 a m Arrive Macon |6:46 a m No connection for Gainesville on Sundays. The Fast Trains does not stop at Camak. Trains will, if signaled, stop at any regular scheduled flag station. Close connections at Augnsta for all points East, and Southeast, and at Macon for all points in Southwest Georgia and Florida. Superb Improved Sleepers between Macon and Augusta. Superb Improved Sleepers between Augusta and Atlanta. JXO. W. GREEN, General Manager. E. R. DORSEY. General Passenger Agent. JOE W. WHITE, General Traveling Passenger Agent. Central and Southwestern Railroads. [All trains of this system are run by Standard (90) Meridian time, which is 36 minutes slower than time kept by City.] Savannah, Ga., Nov. 15, 1885. N AND AFTER THIS DATE, PAS SENGER Trains on the Central and Southwestern Railroads and branches will run as follows: GOING NORTH. Money JHakes the Jflare Q 0 t —AND— Money Buys Groceries Cheap! —AT THE— . GREEN STORE! We buy for Cash and sell the same way. If you want your mono- to go a long ways, be sure to go to WHITE & TREMOR S. If your cow is hungry send to WHITE & TREANOR for Bran. If have no cow, send to them for the finest Butter in the city. Nice HaV^ Shoulders and white Meat cheap as the cheapest. Lard in 8, *5, 10, 20 andti lb. Buckets; also in Tierces, at bottom prices. Nothing but water er Meal sold at WHITE & TREANOR’S. Nice lot smoked Pork Sausage kf received. White Swan Flour the best ever Brought to this city. We s ’ sell the celebrated Wade Hampton Flour. In Fancy Flour, Tube Rose S Cadet, we will suit you. Extra Family, Odd Trump and Moss Rose are hard r beat. Coffee from 10c to 35c per lb. Fresh Rice, New Grits. The nicest w of Buckwheat in the city and Maple Syrup that will make your mouth wate» k Chow Chow Pickles, loose, any quantity; also, in bottles. We sell only best Teas, green and black. Full line Spices and Extracts. Cigars and TV bacco our specialty. Canned Goods, Candy, Crackers and Cheese. In fact you can get anything nice you may want at the GREEN STORp All goods delivered promptly and free of charge to any part of the city WHITE & TREANOR,' No. 17 South Wayne Street, Milledgeville /Ga. Feb. 9th, 1886. 31 ly. Brickl Brick! Brick \ 1,000,000 FIRST-CLASS BRICK for SALE. P ARTIES intending to build on the line of the Georgia or Central Railroads would do well to consult us before making a contract. ’ First-Class Paving Brick a Specialty. We are making Brick with the latest Improved Machinery, on the celebrated Cam. keryard. BRICK DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF TOWN. tsrWe take pleasure in referring to Maj. J. FUSS, Architect and Building Suncrin- tenaent. FOSTER & McMILLAN, Contractors and Builders. 48 ly Milledgeville, Ga., June 10th, 1885. LUMBER! LUMBER!! I have moved my Saw Mill into a fine lot of timber, six miles south of Milledgeville, and am prepared to fill orders promptly for any and All kinds of Lumber at the Lowest Prices, in any quantity. Will fill orders and deliver lumber on short notice. W. H. H. BARNES, April 6th, 1886. * 39 3m Agricultural Implements —AND— T 0 ! 8.40 a. m. Leave No. 51. Savannah D Arrive No. 51. Augusta D Macon D Atlanta... :....D Columbus D Perry D E S Fort Gaines D E S Blakeley D E S No. 53. D 8.10 p m No. 53. 3.45 pm... D 6.15 am 4.20 p m... D 3 20 a m 9.35 pm... D 7.32 a m 3.42 am... D 2.15 pm 8.45 pm 1)ES 12.05 p in 4.38 pm 7.1Q p m Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein Avill cure Coughs, Croup, and Consumption. Price 25c. and ?1 a bottle* ~ Dec. lotli. 1885. 23 lv DON’T YOU USE And stop worrying every mornin article. g over a poor GROCERS SELL IT. &S~ Send 10c. in stamps for a complete set of Levering’s New Cards (60 original designs). E. LEVERING & CO.. BALTIMORE, MD. May 4th, 1686. 43 3t. The Mirror is no flatterer. Would you make it tell a sweeter tale? Magnolia Balm is the charm er that almost cheats the looking-glass. May 4.1SS6* lm: Eufaula D 4.06 p m Albany D 10.45 pm.. D 2.45 pm Montgomery. .1) 7.25 p m Milledgeville D E S 5.49 pm Eatonton D E S 7.40 pm Connections at Terminal Points. At Augusta—Trains 51 and 53 con nect with outgoing trains of Georgia Railroad, Columbia, Charlotte and Augus ta Railroad, and South Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects with outgoing train on Augusta and Knoxville Railroad. Train 51 connects with trains for Sylvania, Wrights- ville and Louisville. At Atlanta—Trains 51 and 53 connect with Air Line and Kennesaw routes to all points North and East, and with all di verging roads for local stations. COMING SOUTH. Leave—Nos. Augusta .18 D Macon ...52 D Atlanta....52 D Columbus20 D Nos. 9.30 a m. .20 D 9.30 p m 9.40 a m.. 54 D 10.50 p m 6.00 am.. 54 D 6.50 pm 9.00pm.. 6 D 11.10am Perry 24 D E S 6.00 a m.. 22 D E S 3.00 p m Ft. Gaines 28 “ 10.05 a m Blakeley 26 “ 8.15 am Eufaula 2 D 10.55 am Albany.... 4 D 4.10 am..26 D 12.15 pm Montg’ry 2 D 7.30 a m Mill’dg’ve 25 D E S 6.37 am Eatonton 25D ES5.15am ’ Arrive—No. No. Savannah. 52 D 4.07 pm.. 54 D 5.55 am Connections at Savannah with Savannah’ Florida and Western Railway for all points in Florida. Local Sleeping Cars on all Night Pas senger Trains between Savannah and Au gusta, Savannah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Macon and Columbus. Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths on sale at the ticket office, No. 190- Mulberry street, and at the Union Depot, Macon, Ga., 30 minutes prior to the ieav ing of ail trains, WM. ROGERS, G. A. WHITEHEAD, Gen.Supt., Sav, Gen. Pass. Agt. Sav. T. D. Kline, A. C. Knapp. Supt. Mac-on. Agt. Macon. W. F. Shellman, Traffic MangT., Sav. “D” daily' ‘D E S,” daily except Sunday. As the prosperity of every country depends upon the success] of agriculture, and realizing the necessity of thet horough breaking 0/ land and cultivation of the crop, I have supplied myself with a large lot of two and one horse Plows of the best makes, consisting of the Syracuse, Benton <fc Harber, White’s Clipper, Meikle’s Blue Pony and tlie Boss, and I also have a largo lot of Steel Plows, Hairnan and Southern Plow Stocks, single and double, and farming implements generally. To all who use Guano, I would recommend the Chesapeake or Pendleton Goods! And to all who would like to have a Pump put in their wells, I would recommend the Buckeye Force Pump, which myself and many others have been using with perfect satisfaction for some time. All who wish to supply themselves with any of the above articles will do well to call and examine my stock and get mv prices before buying elsewhere. „ IMI- imsTEIS- Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26th, 1886. 29 ly &c BRO., Midville, Ga., 9} C. R. R., —MANUFACTURE— Yellow Pine Lumber, Of Every Description, Rough and Dressed. Framing Lumber, Ceiling, Flooring, Weatherboarding, Staves, Shingles, Laths, Fence Pickets. VEGETABLE AND FRUIT CRATES. SiTSteam Saw and Planing Mills in Emanuel Countv, connected with Midville by Private Railroad and Telephone Lines. April 6th, 1886. 39 CAMPBELL'S ONE SPOON Baking Powder! For sale by C. L. CASE, Druggist. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 20, ’86. 43 1 LANDEETH’S Seed Potatoes! EARLY ROSE, PEERLESS, GOODRICH, at tlie Drug Store of C. L. CASE. Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 23, 1886. Wool Carding. T AM prepared to do Wool-Carding 1 at my place> at Scottsboro. Wool sent to my address at Milledgeville, Ga., will be promptly carded and re turned. All persons shipping wool to me should, also, mark plainly their own name and address on^the package, so that no mistake can be made in re turning carded wool. A. CORMANNI. Milledgeville, Ga., ^u*ch 2, 1885. tf Spectacles and Eye-Glasses. r PHE “PEEPERS” “OUR BOOM” I 1 “PRINCE EDWARD,” all favorite i brands of Cigars, at 5 cts. at C.‘L. j CASE'S Drug Store. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26, 1SSG. 43 ly OLD EYES MADE NEW! A N astonishing announcement which will please the people, is that JOSEPH MILLER has the largest, and one of the best select ed stocks of “King’s Combination” Specta cles and Eye Glasses, in the State of Geor gia. We have studied to supply the need of every eye requiring assistance, and with our large stock and long experience, we guarantee to fit the eye. Call and see them in prices ranging from 25c to $3.00. JOSEPH MILLER, , The Jeweler and Optician, Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 5,1886. 26 tl Onion Sets At C. L. CASE'S Drug Store. [15 ti /CIGARETTES and Cigarette holders O at C. L. CASE'S Drug Store. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26,18SC. 43 ly Harrison’s Combined Writing and CopY- ’ing Fluid for sale at tins office.