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Agriculture! mEpartmEnt,
WHAT IS NEEDED.
The Abbeville Press nntl Danner ev
idently believes that the salvation of
the South is in farming. However
that may be there is as much common
sense in this paragraph as was ever
crowded into like space:
Much has been said of late about
the necessity for the establishment of
factories of all sorts, from fruit-can
ning to cotton mills and National
banks. A friend recently suggested
that there is u greater need, and one
within the range of possibility, and
that is prosperous farms. If we could
have the same energy infused into
the farms, and the same amount of
constant and systematic inteligent
labor applied to our farms that is re
quired to make the factories, cotton
mills, and banks a success, the coun
try would prosper beyond any reason
able expectation. What good will en
ure to you, my friend, of capitalists
building magnificent factories, if ye
stand here idle all the day! How is it
with you! Are you applying all your
energies to make the farm a success!
We need successful farmers. They
are not to be found among the lieners,
who spend one day in the week with
their teams going to town to buy
corn, at double price, which they
should raise at home. It is seldom
found among that class of men who
go to the mule dealers and buy West
ern mules, instead of raising them.
The prosperous man is seldom found
without a pasture and some gopd cat
tle. The trouble about the all-cotton
plan is, that the people begin to work
on the crop in March and finish early
in November—with a month's rest af
ter laying bv. We need prolitable
employment for the whole year. We
need pastures in which our cattle may
graze.
Raising Horses on the Farm
As to the cost of raising colts, any
one who is at all observing will have
not iced that a horse appropriates witli
n relish portions of grass while at. pas
ture that the cattle shun as though it
were poison, and that a lot capable of
supporting 15 or 20 cows a certain
number of days eaeti week has no
less capacity when a horse or a pair
of them are kept there. If a horse is
reared each year one can be sold each
yearandif more than 1 regularly, then
the same ratio, and the farmer who
does thus, while he scarcely notices tin*
cost, Will lind the money so obtained
very opportune at tax time. In win
ter feeding it used to be the custom
00 years ago to give the family horse
or horses (oxen being employed for
the work) the best timothv the farm
afforded. Hut to-day the horses
which are now compelled to do the
work also are fed on the poorer grades
or never get a mouthful of hav, being
given only the straw on which they
were formerly bedded, Intelligent
farmers have learned that a horse's
digestive capacity is such that with
bis usual grain ration, only a bulk is
necessary to keep him well and sleek,
and that this bulk can as well be
straw as more valuable provender.
Indeed, the French, who are celebra
ted as horsemen, have proved with
their cavalry horses that this animal
will keep in excellent condition and
perform severe labor on nothing but
bis grain, mixed with aquantitvof
sawdust to malee sufficient bulk.—
Right here 1 would observe that, by
poor grades of hay I would not be un
derstood to mean dusty or musty
piovender. Shun such as though it
were poison and never allow it to be
fed with a false view to economy. It
is better economy to see it rot.— H.
W. Parker, Putnam county, N. Y.
We gave a recipte for making corn
beer, recently, in which there was an
error in tho quantity of corn to be
used. We republish the receipt cor
rectly as follows:
Take one pint of corn and boil it
until it is soft; add to it a pint of mo
lasses and one gallon of water: shake
them well togetlier, and in cold weath
er. set it bv the lire and in 24 hours
tlit> beer will be excellent. When all
the beer in the jug is used just add
more molasses and water. The same
corn will answer for 0 months ami the
beer will be lit for use in 12 hours by
keeping the jug where it is warm.
In this way the ingredients used in
making a gallon of beer, will not
cost over six cents, and it is better
and more wholesome than cider. A
little yeast greatly forwards the
working of the beer.
Delaware and Maryland peach
growers are now sanguine that there
will be a Jarge crop, and the indica
tions are that peaches will be cheaper
than they were last year. Enormous
quantities are produced almost every
year, which are not marketed, and
the canning factories are to be reviv
ed. The strawberry and blackberry
crops also promise fairly well. In
central Connecticut there will be
some peaches in spite of the severe
weather in January. The Halo broth
ers, of Glastonbury, extensive grow
ers, anticipate a big yield this year.
D. YV. H.: As long as your fowls
are perfectly health and lay well, we
should net worry ubout the droppings
being dark in color and thin. It, is
best for them to be loose, and the
dark color is better than white; yel
low is certainly dangerous. The color
is probably caused by some part of
their food or something they pick up.
If you give sulphur once a week, u
tablespoonful to 20 fowls, in soft feed,
and use a tonic in the water twice a
week, it may answer your purpose.
For the tonic dissolve 1 oz of sulphuric
acid and 1 lb of copperas in seven gal
lons of water, using a teaspoonful to
each pint of drinking water.
A good ration for butter is 4 lbs of
wheat bran, (1 lbs of corn-and-cob meal,
14 lbs of hay and 4 lbs of linseed meal
per day to each cow weighing 1,000
lbs; more hay and 2 lbs less of linseed
meal might be as well, and if good
corn stalks are available, less corn
meal will be required. If the cows are
heavier or lighter they must have
more or less feed accordingly. An
other good ration consists of 10 lbs of
oat straw cut in the milk, 25 lbs of
corn ensilage, 5 lbs, of crushed oat
and 4 lbs of good cottonseed meal.
1 formerly had trouble with butter
that refused to come in winter. 1
now churn every day in a half gallon
self-sealing glass fruit jar. I usually
get about a quart of cream a day,
and it is as much as can be churned
in the jar. I skim the cream into the
jar and let it stand about 24 hours in
a moderately warm place, shaking it
occasionally. When the time for
churning arrives I shake it vigorously
till the butter conies. The milk often
gets very thick just before the butter
comes, but continued shaking separ
ates the butter.—[Mrs. J. YV., Mur
freesbaro, Tonn.
I mix my meal with the corn ensi
lage before feeding it to cattle; the
silugc being moist, the bran, oil 01-
corn meal will adhere to it so all is
eRten together. My experience tells
me that the sume amount of grain fed
with silage will produce more satisfac
tory results than when fed witli en
tirely dry fodder. I never make an
entire ration of silage, as no one ar
tide of food is a satisfactory ration
only for a short time, however good it
may be.- -[K! B. Marsh, Rock countv,
YVis.
Farmers frequently ridicule fancy
poultry, but if they will recollect that
there is money in fancy poultry, or
even in common poultry improved by
cross breeding, their ridicule will be
changed to admiration and earnest
endeavor. It, is about time we quit
laughing at those who are making
money out of specialties in farming,
and begin to catch on to these money
making specialties ourselves.
A lady says turkey hens will lay
from 20 to 30 eggs in a season. I have
one turkey lien that brought her re
cord up to 150 last year; another laid
118, and then from' some cause died.
The hens did not want to sit at all;
the eggs hatched exceedingly well. 1
once gave soda to . a hen for cholera
(that is the only disease we have here),
which cured her; she was so near gone
that she could not stand. [M. Tay
lor.
Earth Storage of Potatoes.
1 have a sand ridge next to the bay,
a portion of which 1 use for potatoes.
As an experiment last season, I plant
ed a lew potatoes in December,
January, February and March, man
uring in the hill above instead of below
the seed. I fully demonstrated that
February is tho best month of the
year in which to plant potatoes here,
and that placing the fertilizer above
the seed, with little earth between, is
atgreat improvement over the old
way of below. In spading on the
same ground the first week in this
year 1 dug up about half a bushel of
fine potatoes without a blemish. 1
don't believe in leaving potatoes in
the ground, but this discovery will
lead me to experiment with a few
rows next fall, as these are liner than
any 1 have in the root house.—[R. JL,
A., Bay City, "Wash. Ter,
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GEO. It. LOMBARD & GO.,
Foundry, Machine and Boiler Works,
. TX «onw lUotni* Tnwor
Above Passenger Depot, near Water Tower,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Sell the Best anil Cheapest Engines and Boilers.
Complete Gin and Mill Outfits,
A SPECIALTY.
Mill and Engineer'9 Supplies, Cotton, Grain, Sawmill ami
Labor-saving Machinery, Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, Sawg,
Emery YV'heels, Governors, Pumps, Inspiiators, Injectors, etc.
Large stock to select from. Prices low, good* guaranteed.
Write for circulars. Castings of every kind, and new work (light and heavy) prompt
ly done. Best outfit South.
JL^GIN WORK, New and Repairs, promptly and well done,
at AUGUSTA GIN WORKS.
.GEO. R. LOMBARD.
April 19th, 1887. 41 ly-
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Wall Paper, Window Shades, Mixed Paints,
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Invites his friends to call and examine his new and ,•
of Groceries. He lias endeavored to opot
°hipleto si
First-Class Grocery Store,
in MilledgoviUe, and intends, so long as he continues in Up
keep up a full and complete stock of FRESH GOODS -ill! 8
just as LOW as the same goods can be sold in this or n to
market. He does not propose to cut under his Brother
but it will be a “cold day in August” when ho is run out ?'
Brother who proposes to undersell him. His advantage* :
better than any other man, BUT JUST AS GOOD and hi
afford to meet their prices. He ’ caD
Makes a Small Profit on all he Sel
and “Don’t you forget it.” He does not sell at COST he W.,
the best houses, pays cash, gets the benefit of cash discoun
therefore can and will uni >
SeU Goods as Low as Any One!
To mention the articles would be useless, suffice it to sav
nearly all the goods usually kept in a First-Class Grocery St!
cities of any size. He will endeavor, by STRICT HONEST
pohte attention to merit a full share of the public patrons
if successful in business will promise to do all ho can to bu
the interest of the city that has so kindly received him.
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MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldii
Newels, Rough and Dressed Lumber,
AND ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIAL.
Lime, Plaster, Cement, Hair, Laths, Paint
Oils, Glass and Builder’s Hardware,
BXXXS WOMBS, Foot of Cherry It.
March 8,1887.
MAC0ZT,«
35 a
I am here to Supply a Long Felt Want.
MILLEDGEVILLE
Marble and Granite Work
M Y Y’ARD is open and everybody is cordially invited to .
and see my work and how it is done. I am prepared to f
' ob f: ” ”
ish any size job from a small Headstone to tho finest elabon
carved Tablet or Monument. I have as good a selection of o
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We need money and for the CASH wo will duplicate prices of
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in every instance. Prices, Designs and Estimates sent by mail
application. Correspondence solicited.
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Lock Box, No. 1,,
Jan. 11. 1887.
. Millcdgeville, fi
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32 South Wavne Street, Milledgevillc, Ga.
March 1, 1887.
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Selections of the largest tubers from
the most productive hills produce bet
ter result than tile larger tubers from
the least productive hills. The smal
lest tubers from the most productive
hills gave better results than the lar
gest tuber from the least productive
hills. This was at the New York ex
periment station.
Farmers should test the new varie
ties of potatoes on a small scale, and
select those kinds which score the
largest number of good points on your
soil.
Vitality of Great Men
is not always inate or born with them
but lAany instances are known where
it lias been acquired by tiie persistent
and judicious use of Dr. Harter s Iron
Tonie.
W. H. HALL’S
—A large lot of Best—
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Anil in fact, everything kept by a First-Class Grocer. My trade
in the past has been all that I desired, and with better facilities,
lower prices, larger stock and a motto of “Honest Dealing,” I shall
try' and increase it. I solicit the patronage of my friends and the
public generally.
W. H. HALL, Jr.
No. 5 E. Hancock, St., Milledgeville, Ga.
March 7th, 1887. 35 ly.
CROCKETT’S IRON WORKS.
I BUILD and repair ENGINES for Steamboats, Locomotives and
Stationary,—for SAW, Grist, Stave and Lathe Mills, also Bolting
Machinery, Piping and its Fittings, Shaftings, Boxes, Pulleys and
Gearing, am prepared to do any job the country calls for. Make
tho best Water Wheel, call on or send fur price list
E, CROCKETT.
MACON, GA.
April, Oth, 1857. [39 ly.
It rich'. Brick! Brickl
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P ARTIES intending to build on the lino of the Georgia or Central Railroad- 1 ,
do well to consult us before making a contract.
First-Class Paving Brick a Special
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ker yard.
BRICK DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF TOWY
*s-We take pleasure In referring to Maj.J. FUSS, Architect and Building»
tendent.
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Milledgeville Ga.,June 10th, 1880.
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March 8th, 1887.