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Sri cultural Department. The people should fight the bogus butter now made and break up their nauseous trade. The people and the law should put a stop to the abomina ble stulT stilll sold in many sections. Every farmer should have a good roller to pulverize clods and level un- eaven surfaces. It gives tine tilth and adds greatly to the production of the grains. _ Lettuce seed being very small is generally sown too thick. It should be be mixed with a considerable quan tity of line soil or wheat bran. Let tuce sown too thick is of little value. Keep up with the farm work if pos sible; remember it is better to crowd the work than to have the work crowd you—andasa rule it is bettter to do anv kind of work in season than out of season. The low price of flax seed is causing it to be extensively used in feeding stock. It should however, be moder atelv used with cut straw. If too freely used it will affect the bowels of stock as it is somewhat laxative,. but moderately used with straw, it is found to be wholesome and nutricious. Blackberry Wine.—As this pop ular wild fruit is now appearing in abundance in the market, here is a good receipt for turning the surplus into wine: ••Placeman earthen or tin vessel any given quantity of ripe berries. Pour over them boiling water till barelv covered; let stand over night. Next dav strain through thick yellow homespun. To every gallon of juice add two pounds of sugar: stir well. Fill vour demijohn to overflowing, so that as the liquid ferments it will throw off all scum and sediments. Have ready in another vessel extra juice, which must be used to refill the demijohn daily. At the end of six or eight weeks all fermentation has ceas ed. Strain through flannel: add to each gallon two table-spoonsful of pounded rock candy. Bottle for use; always cork tight." < >r*they may he fermented without any water and wine made of pure juice. Dickson’s Agricultural Proverbs and Observations. Peach Borers. Man\* farmers think they would be happy* if they had peach orchards which bore regularlyand abundantly. And yet they can have such orchards if thev are willing to take the little trouble necessary. It is universally conceded, we believe, that the only great obstacle in the way is the peach borer (Algeria exitiosa), a slender, dark-blue moth insect which deposits it* eggs around the collar of the peach tree in spring and autumn, from which the borers or grubs are hatched and subsist upon the inner hark and sap wood of t lie tree. As they grow larger they bore deeper into the wood and have sometimes to be destroyed by probing with a wire; but generally thev can be found just under the out er bark where they remain, enlarging their homestead areas of destruction until they are half an inch or more in length. Exuding gum from the tree will always show tlieir locality near the surface of the ground above and below. This after they have-attained considerable size, but sought for ear-1 as lier they will he found small maggot-1 cro P be looking worms underneath the little clumps of gum brought out by the parent moth for their special accom modation. At this stage there is no trouble about removing them without cutting or probing, and this fact shows that a little vigilance and in dustry in the orchard at tlie right season will effectually remove this greatest, we may say, only obstacle to the raising of fine peach crops on every farm. What farmer cannot find time or recreation from other work for this “mail amount of labor in the orchard? < hie or two examinations of the trees each week during warm weather will be sufficient; but the examination ought to he thorough. The earth should be removed from the collars of the tree and from any large roots near the surface, and be restored after the borers are destroyed. Remembering that the eggs of the borers will lie de posited invariably at the surface, let this surface be kept clearly above all ma-sts of roots that may increase the labor of removing them. A healthy, thrifty peach tree, as it must lie in good soil and free of borers, will have only to encounter a late frost to fail of a crop of fruit, and this will rarely happen in this climate. We often hear that the peaches are “ail kille.l by the frost," but we also notice that the market refutes the statement in due time. if we can r&is • a >mali crop in spite of neglect, ciimaie or insect disasters, we can raise a large crop when we make up our minds to give it proper attention. We notice in the Sparta Islimae- lite something over half a column of the Agricultural sayings of the late David Dickson, some of which we copv as follows: Annual manures are preferable, thev ought to double the investment. Soluble bones and Peruvian guano will square up the accounts with 100 per cent profits. Be vigilant to save all home-made manure jiossible. Manipulate your land with vegeta ble mold. Plow deep, rotate your crops and rest vour lands. Lay off cotton rows 4 feet apart with a shovel-plow; double furrow; put in the grain 8 inches deep. Ridge with a long scooter 5 inches wide: make the bed with turn-plows; subsoil the turn-plows ; split out the middles with shovel. Plant with a cotton seed sower, and cover with a board or harrow. First plowing: Run 22-ineli sweep with right winged turned down, hoe out to two or three stalks to the hill averaging 9 inches ten days after plowing. Second plowing: Use same sweep, the right wing turned up a little more. Third plowing: In the same way; run a third furrow in the middle to level. Cotton only requires distance one way. Mr. Dickson has made on some acres 0,000 pounds seed cotton per acre. A 10—acre lot made 3,000 pounds average to the acre. Be careful not cut the roots of cot ton. On level land run the rows north and south. Never put more than 100 stalks to the bushel of corn the land fought to make. Two thousand stalks of corn to the acres are enough for this county (Hancock, Ga.) 1 have make 1 bushel of corn to ev ery 52 stalks in the field. Turn the weeds, grass, peas and clover, and make the land mellow. Plow deep and cultivate shallow, and you will have no trouble in grow ing crops. Clay lands will bear the same treat- Iment as sandy lands, and with less | difficulty. No matter the color of lands, or whether sand or clay, keep up a full supply of vegetable mold: break deep before planting; cultivate lightly— the result will he good. In the distance I giye, 7 by 3 feet, there are 21 square feet to each stalk of corn. If there is enough soluble matter in that space for two, or even three ears, one stalk will take it up ; but if there is only matter enough for one ear of corn, and you put two stalks, and water is scarce at earing time, you will miss gathering even that one ear. # If it is a dry year, thin plantings will always make the most. Four distinct errors keep planters from making good corn crops; first, not keeping sufficient mold in the land; second plowing too shallow in preparing for the crop; third, plant ing too thick; fourth, cultivating too deep. Keep your land in good heart. To manure the land with peas, sow the peas the 1st of July. Drop the peas and guano in every third furrow, you break the land. If a good made, feed off with stock— otherwise turn under. The true polic}* is to secure the greatest amount of vegetable mold you can accumulate at the least cost. Avoid permanent manures. Use the kind that will come back to us the first year, and bring a large interest in the form of corn, cotton, wheat, etc. the land, and it requires all the profit on the cotton to purchase fertilizers, leaving little or nothing, for other ex penses. Cotton farmers, like truck farmers, think every year that the failure of the special crops the previous year to prove remunerative will drive many farmers into diversified farming, and that it is a wise thing for them, there fore, to stick to the special crops, and thus reap a harvest from big prices. The fact that they always meet with disappointment does not appear to discourage them. It is, "doubtless true that many fanners continue the-one crop system from a want of knowledge of any other method of farming. They have lost their slaves but stick to the slave system because they don’t know how to get rid of it. Mr. Tillman, in his opening address at the Columbia con vention said something of this sort, and hinted that a good agricultural college in South Carolina would dis seminate information that would be vastly beneficial to farmers. There is no doubt that an agricultu ral college, under the right kind of management, is a good thing. It sets farmers to thinking, and men who think are apt to get out of the ruts. Senator Brown points out that the South is entering upon a great indus trial period. The time is not distant when the South will spin a large part of her own cotton, which her fields produce, and her mines and mills will supply the iron and steel needed for her railroads. Busy populations will cluster about mills, mines and facto ries, and the Southern farmers ought to be ready to meet the demand for food supplies which will be made upon them. Southern farmers have no oc casion to feel discouraged. Let them produce what they eat and what their stock eats and they will at once stop the mortgages from eating up their farms. HOUSEHOLD NOTES. SOUTHERN FARMERS. Grapes. Mr. Bonham says graps3 are so uni versally liked ami are so wholesome and easily grown, it is a wonder every white man does not have a fu^l sup ply for his family. They are the best of all small fruits. A grapevine is good for your children and children’s children. It will cost less to start than an apple or peach tree, and will last many times as long. If one lias a lot only big enough for a small house, he can edge in a grapevine or two, and have a thing of beauty and profit. There is one blessed thing about the grapevine. It will stand all sorts of abuse and neglect, and yet live on and give a good crop. You may trim it too much or not at all, and it will Btll J bear grapes. You mav tie it to a i'take, train it over the trellis, tack it to the side of your house, or let it run wild over your fences or trees and yet it bears fruit. He lias seen grapes on hills and gulches, on gravelly and sandy soils, on rocky bluffs, and even in swamps. Nevertheless, the grape vine does best over a porous subsoil with a sunny exposure and on an ele vation above the bogs and frost line of low lands. Savannah News. In the course of a speech in the Sen ate last Friday, on the proposition to appropriate $200,000 to the Central and South American mail sex-vice, Sen ator Brown took occasion to call at tention to the fact that Southern farmers were paying too much atten tion to the production of cotton, and too little to the production of food crops. The position of the Senator relative to this important matter is the same as that which has been oc cupied by the press of the South for several years. The Morning News es pecially has made it a point to urge upon the farmers the importance of planting less cotton and more corn, oats, potatoes and other food crops. They ought to give particular atten tion to grasses and to the raising of stock. It is impossible for Southern farm ers to get ahead in the world as long as they buy all that is needed for their stock, their field hands and their families. There are very few of them who follow the all-cotton system of farming who do not find themselves in debt at the end of the year. On last Thursday a great conven tion of farmers met at Columbia, S. O. The purpose of the convention was to givedlie farmers of that State an opportunity to consult together with the view of seeing if it were not possible to find out some way by which they could secure greater pros perity. They are struggling under a load of debt and they do not see any prospect of improving their condition that is at all encouraging. When they have good cotton crops the price of cotton is not remunerative, and when the price of cotton is good the crop is generally short. As a rule, when their fertilizers are paid for and their farm and family expenses settled there isn’t any surplus—in fact, there is generally a deficit. Of course this sort of thing cannot continue. Dis aster must come eventually. Debts increase rapidly and the interest which farmers have to pay on mort gages quickly eats up the farms. Farmers who pay almost exclusive attention to cotton do not seem to re alize th(it they pay 50 per cent, more for their corn, hay anti bacon than it would cost them to produce these things at home, even though they cannot produce them as cheaply as the farmers of the West can. The con tinued production of cotton exhausts To apply a mustard plaster so as not to blister the skin, mix the mus tard with the white of an egg instead of water. The plaster will draw thoroughly without blistering the most delicate skin. For a cough, boil together a half cup of molasses and butter the size of a hickory nut; squeeze into this the juice of one lemon. This is a simple and often an efficient remedy for an ordinary cough. Toothache, caused by a cold in the facial nerves, may often be relieved by wringing a soft towel out of cold water and sprinkling it with strong vinegar. This should be laid on the face like a poultice, and will often be fol lowed by a refreshing sleep. Pop Overs.—One egg, one pint milk, one pint flour, not quite half teaspoonful of salt, beat thoroughly. Must be baked in a hot oven. Delici ous for breakfast. Fried Bread.—Bread fried in this way is relished for breakfast or lunch: Beat three eggs and season them with salt and pepper; cut some bread in thin slices and dip them in the beaten egg and fry a delicate brown in hot lard. Potato Scallops.—Fill a nice pud ding dish in this way: Butter the dish well, then cut in thin slices raw pota toes, over each layer sprinkle a little flour, salt and very little pepper, I use mostly red, and drop bits of but ter when the dish is filled with pota toes; shake a few cracker crumbs over the top and fill with milk; bake one hour in a moderate oven; if they brown too soon cover with a tin. They aVe so good you will want them often. Remember that eating between meals is one of the most serious causes of ill health in both old and young. No one can eat regular hearty meals if constantly nibbling at odd hours. It is impossible to have good health and strength without eating regularly and heartily. Whatever mothers do, let them educate their children to ab solutely no indulgence in food be tween meals. The Pear Tree.—No family should be without at least a few pear ti*ees. Any good kind are good enough, but ! the LeConte should be grown if pos- ; sible. All the good kind bear fruit l every year and will outlive the oldest i inhabitant and yield delicious fruit j every year. Much time is lost on many farms for want of suitable arrangements to save labor. Stock, grain, hay and I roots, with water, if not under the same roof, should be close togethei*. ! It may cost a little to effect this, but ! the cost will be inconsiderable and will soon be saved in the convenience i that is secured. CORDIAL pop i BOWELS ^CHILDREN TEETHING It is THE GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY for the bowels. It is one of the most pleasant and efficacious remedies for nil summer complaints. At a season when violent attacks of the bowels are so frequent, some speedy relief should he at hand. The wearied mother, losing sleep in nursing the little one teethintr. should use this medicine. 50 cts. a bottle. Send 2c. stamp to Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., for Kiddle Book. Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gmn and Mullein will cure Coughs, Croup, and Consumption. Price 25c. and 51 a bottle. Dec. 15th, IS55. 23 ly 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 only in cans, Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall St. New York. 15 llin Georgia Railroad Company. STONE MOUNTAIN ROUTE OFFICE GENERAL MANAGER, Augusta, Ga., April 17th, 1886. Commencing Sunday, 18th instant, the follovr- ingpassenger schedule will he operated . Trains run by 90th Meridian timer Mould have been written on the Waitzfelder Building ov#r ‘ L H. WOOD & CO. • d 00] If they had not sold good goods cheap and worked hard to attn business. Our extremely low prices and meritorious goods h ave r - creased our business hundreds of dollars above what it wag lQ * Spring, and profiting by our experience, we shall continue to Bargains to Consumers! k,l ^llino Throughout the coming season. We invite attention to a NEW ORLEANS SYRUPS, which we bought low and are accordingly. SUGAR IN BBLS. AND HALF BBLS., COFFEE BY SACK OR DOLLAR’S WORTH AND TOBACCO BY THE OR PLUG, are our specialties. . * We have a few packages of Mackerel, Macaroni, Preserves, V[q\\ and Buckwheat to close out at greatly reduced prices. We keep the celebrated FLOATING SOAP, 3 bars for 2oc. Nu^Call and get our figures. L. H. WOOD & C0„ No. 18 S. Wayne Street, Milledgeville April 20, 1886. Gv. 31 ly N018—EAST (daily). Leave Milledgeville ... 9:19 a m Arrive Athens Arrive Gainesville Arrive Atlanta .. 6:30 pm ... 8:25 p m ... 5:50 p m NO 17—WEST (daily). Leave Atlanta .. 8:00 a in Leave Athens ... 9:00 a ra Leave Camak Arrive Warrenton Arrive Sparta Arrive Milledgeville .. 1:36 p m .. 3:04 p in .. 4:20 p m NO 16—EAST (daily.) • Leave Milledgeville Leave Spaih a. Leave Warrenton Arrive Camak Arrive Augusta NO 15—WEST (daily.) Leave Augusta .. 9:30 p m ...10:48 p m . .12:01 a m ..12:10 a m .. 6:00 a m .. 9:40 p m Arrive Warrenton Arrive Sparta .. l :33 a m .. 2:57 am .. 4:27 a m Arrive Macon 56:46 a in Uriah! Bri ck! Mr i ch! 1,000,000 FIRST-CLASS BRICK for SALE, P ARTIES intending to build on the line of the Georgia or Central Railroad* w™ 1 do well to consult us before making a contract. " ’ U-] First-Class Paving Brick a Specialty, We are making Brick with the latest Improved Machinery, on the celebrated Cm ker vard. BRICK DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF TOWN. js®-We take pleasure in referring to Maj. J. FUSS, Architect and Building Superin. FOSTER & McMILLAN, Contractors and Builder?, tendent. Milledgeville, Ga., June 10th, 1885. 48 ly 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 Augusta 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. jno. w. Green, General Manager. E. E. DORSEY. General Passenger Agent. JOE W. WHITE, General Traveling Passenger Agent. Macon D Atlanta D Columbus D Perry DES Central and South western 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. O N AND AFTER THIS DATE, PAS SENGER Trains on the Central and Southwestern Railroads and branches will run as follows: GOING. NORTH. Leave No. 51. No. 53. Savannah D 8.40 a.m.. D 8.10 pm Arrive No. 51. No. 53. Augusta D 3.45 pm... D 6.15 am 4.20 p m... D 3.20 a m 9.35 pm... D 7.32 am 3.42 am... D 2.15 pm 8.45 pmDES 12.05 p m Fort Gaines DES 4.38 p in Blakeley D E S 7.10 pm Eufaula. D 4.06 p in Albany. D 10.45 p m.. D 2.45 p m Montgomery.. 1> 7.25 p m Milledgeville I) E S 5.49 pm Eatonton —DES 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. LUMBER! LUMBER! I have moved my Saw Mill into a fine lot of timber, six mils 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, din Leave—Nos. Augusta.. 18 D Macon 52 D Atlanta 52 D Columbus20 D Nos. 9.30 am..20 D 9.30pm 9.40 a m.. 54 D 10.50 p m 6.00 a m. .54 D 6.50 p m 9.00 pm.. 6 D 11.10 am Perry 24 D ES 6.00 am. .22 D ES3.00p m Ft. Gaines 28 “ 10.05 am Blakeley 26 “ 8.15 a m Eufaula .... 2 D 10.55am Albany 4 D 4.10 am..26 D 12.15 pm Montg’ry 2 D 7.30 am Mill’dg’ve 25 D E S 6.37 am Eatonton 25 D E S 5.15 am Arrive—No. No. Savannah.52 D 4.07 pm..54 D 5.55am Connecfions 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. 100- Mulberry street, and at the Union Depot, Macon, Ga., 30 minutes prior to the leav ing of all trains, WM. ROGERS, G. A. WHITEHEAD, Gen.Supt., Sav. Gen. Pass. Agt. Sav. T. D. Kline, A. C. Knapp. Supt. Macon. Agt. Macon. W. F. Shellman, Traffic Mang’r., Sav. “D” daily* ‘D E S,” daily except Sunday. Agricultural Implements —AND— C3-TT JkJST OE31 As tire prosperity of every country depends upon the success; oi agriculture, and realizing the necessity of tliet borough breaking of 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 Harber, White’s Clipper, Meiklc’s Blue Pony and the Boss, and I also have a large lot of Steel Plows, Haiman 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 w r onld like to have a Pump put in their wells, 1 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 my prices before buying elsewhere. HinsnEis. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26th, 1886. 29 ly -EH-IF- &c BRO., Midville, Ga., 9| C. R. R., —MANUFACTURE— Yellow Pine Lumter, Of Every Description, Rough and Dressed. Framing Lumber, Ceiling, Flooring, Weatherboarding, Staves, Shingles, Laths, Fence Pickets. VEGETABLE AND FRUIT CRATES. connected with 'HTSteam Saw and Planing Mills in Emanuel County, Midville by Private Railroad and Telephone Lines. April Gth, 1886. 39 Gw. CAMPBELL'S ONE SPOON Baking Powder! For sale by C. L. CASE. Druggist. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26, ’86. 43 1 Machine Shop. Spectacles and Eye-Glasses, T HAY E REMOY ED my Machine I Shop from Milledgeville to Scotts- boro, where I am prepared to do any and all kinds of work in iron and metal. Any person having intricate nr t* TiTTnn nr i Tvn ytttttti or particular work in repairing would NT.]] FYES MAM NEW do well to call on me. Mv P. O. ad- „ J'" 1 * Ai , A K V U » • . . dress is Milledgeville, Ga.’ A wilfplease b? A. CORMANNI. please tbepwple ls‘hat March 3d, 1888. 34 tf 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- w , gia. We have studied to supply the need AM prepared to_do Wool-Carding 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. 2bJf. CH'OICE STQRY BOOKS, Games, Toys, Ac., for the little one?- YVool Carding. at my place, at Scottsboro. YY r ool 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., March 2, 1885. tf THE “PEEPERS” “OUR BOOM'’ I “PRINCE EDYVARD,” all favorite brands of Cigars, at 5 cts. at C. L. CASE'S Drug Store. Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 26,1886. 43 ly Croquet Hammocks, Fishing Sots, Tackle, nh prices to suit the times. C. L. CASE, Druggist- Milledgeville, Jan. 26, ’86. 43 ljT “'Harrison’s Combined Writing and Copy - ing Fluid for sale at this office.