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THE FIELD SHI FIRESIDn Vol. I. PUBLISH KD BY T. <3r. CAMPBELL CO. OFFICE IN THE OI.D PRINTING OKEW'E Building, Powder Springs Street, Mari iMlllMi gi.l. DAVID IKW'IN. W. A. P. mV'I.ATCIIKY. 0. It. IKWIN. Irwin, McClatchey &. Irwin. ATTORN KVS AT LAW. Will pmet it a* in ilie Blue Ridge, Rome, anil (’oweta < ircnifs. Marietta, Mart'll 111, 1877. ly W.M. T. WINN. \\ 11.1., .1. WINN. W. T. & W. J. WINN, Allornryw at I.a u , marietta, gkorui \. Mart'll 13, 1877. ly J. E. MOSELY, Alloniri al Lavt. WILL allt'ntl It* all husiiifs; confided to him in Cobh anti adjaeont enmi ties. Office—in Met lafeliev’s Build ing, up stairs. Marietta, Mart'll 13. 1877. Bin E. M. ALLEN Retideiit llciili*l. Of more than twenty years. CII A RG E S R E AS O X \ B I E . Office—North side of Publie Stinare. Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly DR. G. TEN NEXT, Practicing Piiyticiaii. IST Office on Cassville street. —Resi- dence on Cherokee street. Marietta, Mareli 13,1877. ly DR. E. J. SETZE, Phywiciau and burgeon, TENDER* his professional services in the practice of Medicine in all its branches to the citizens of Marietta and surrounding country. tiiiee at the Drug Store of Win. Root. nidi 13-ly R. W. GABLE. BOOT m i- SHOE MIKEK AND REPAIRER POWDER SPRING STREET, mum, GEORGIA, Work (lone at very low prices, and war ranted. Mareli l, 1877. T. J. ATKINSON, EAST SIDE OF PUBJAC SQUARE. MARIETTA, GEO. heai.fr in C'hoicc Family (d’oeerit's! COUNTRY PRODUCE TAKEN ON THE MOST LIBERAL TKILMS. Haley Brothers, < HEROKEE STREET. Dealers in CROCERIES, PR OVIKIONS, AND GENERAL MERCHANDIZE. Marietta, Ga., March 13, 1877. ly M. R. Lyon, CHEROKEE STREET, FA HI la Y GROCERIES, And dealer in COUNTRY PRODUCE. Marietta. March 13, 1877. ly A. Y. URINT, CHEROKEE STREET, Slit and Harness Maker AND REPAIRER. Marietta, Geo., March 13, 1877. lj CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. THE undersigned continue lilt busi ness of Brick Making. Stone and Brick Building, and i prepared at any time, to take contracts on the most reas onable terms, and toexecute them in the uiot satisfactory manner. H. B. WALLIS. Marietta, March 13, 1677. ly House Building and Repairing. SASH. BLINDS. DOORS FINISHED TO ORDER. Lumber of all kind*, and at the lowest prices, for -ale. fTAhaiikful for the liberal patronage i “hitherto, the subscriber would state that he Is fully prepared to contract for the erection or Buildings, and to exe cute the contract* in the most satisfacto ry manner, SHOP sontli tide Public Square. March. 1877. LEMUEL BLACK- Agricultural. PREMIUM POTATOE ouuwiml Jotht h.htnr uj the ).II m ill: Sir: About a year ago you call ed upon me for a report of my ex pertinents in the growing of pota toes, which was yen cheerfully furnished. This year my sous and myself have been still more sue eessful. I’he premiums this year were offered under similar condi lions to I host* of last year llie largest yield from one pound of seed. The varieties were differ ent, however, from last year. T he yields from one pound of seed were as follows: Allred. Milton. Henry. VABIKTY. H's. It*a. Ihs. | Ruby, 1,57(5 1,358 1,334 Alpha, 1,280 1,03fi 1,059 Husain's late 1,509 1,312 1,330 " early 1,5.** IvJ* I 1,34a Hawley, 1,518 Malmpac, 1 *-4 * The inode of culture was the same. The potatoes were planted about the 20tli of May, on sail dy loam soul, with a subsoil of sand and gravel not underdrained, the same land \\% raised premium potatoes on in 1875. This land was ploughed twelve inches deep and manured with rotten barn yard manure about three inches thick, then harrowed and plough ed under ten inches. Before the ploughing, l spread on about three bushels of wood ashes to a square rod, and spread on more ashes al ter ploughing. 1 marked it in rows thirty eight inches apart bv turning two furrows opposite one another, ten inches deep. In this furrow 1 put in one shovel full of well-rotted lieu manure for each hill of potatoes, and mixed all w r ell with the soil, i cut the pota toes on the average to make about 235 sets from each pound of pota toes, 1 planted one set to each hill, about tw r o inches deep. 1 used also as a fertilizer one cask of lime with twelve pounds til phur, mixed both, slaked, togeth er, with water; then- lined in one bushel of fine salt and five bush els w ood ashes until all were thor oughly mixed. Of this mixture, I sprinkled in and around each hill tw r o handsfull and mixed with the soil. The potatoes w ere plan ted eight to nine inches below the | surface level, As soon as the po tatoes were up and the branches had started, 1 spread the vines and continued to do so, and fill up the hills until level with the surface ground. At the same time i put on more of the mixture, and dust ed the vines with plaster and sul phur, cultivating and hoeing the same. Then I let the vines grow until they reached half-way to the adjoining hill in the row: the hills in the row were three feet apart. 1 then cultivated with a one horse plough eight to nine inches deep, hoed and loosened the ground thoroughly around the hills ; then at this time I layered the vines, making the hills meet in the row', leaving but a little of the tops out of the ground. At the same lime I put on more mixture and work ed in the soil. I also watered each hill with five or six quarts of wa ter, and again watered-ix to eight days thereafter, a it was very dry weather, not having rain in two months. Some of the vine layers took root in eight to fen days from layering, and potatoes formed on the same. 1 continued dusting llie vines with plaster, ' soot. Arc. The vines soon covered all the ground, and were a sight to behold. Many of the vine-lay ers had more potatoes on than the main hill. Each pound of pota toes occupied about two thousand to two thousand one hundred ; square (eet. No artificial heat or t slips were used. The potatoes here mentioned are oil fine and lirst class. Lu sum's Eaiilv is No. 1 extra, and 1 don't see how it can be beaten.— The Mahopac Seedling is an extra tine potato. Mr. Gray, ol Penn Yan. assisted in digging the pota toes, weighed them, and testified to the weight here named. Alfred Rosj.. Penn Van. N. V , January 2H. Lime by being exposed to the air a month or two will generalh become -hiked quite fine, and may then be applied to land, either upon the unace or •harrowed in MARIETTA. GEORGIA, MAY 1, 1877. on plowed soil, w hich is the best way. Lime slaked by water is not injured at all. DOMESTIC ECONOMY IN JAPAN. Dr. J. V. C. Smith read a short paper before the Farmer's Club, in New York, on the subjeel of Domestic Economy in Japan, in which he said that the laws of that country strictly enforce the 1 cultivation of the land, and the j owner ho neglects to fulfil the requirements over the space of one year forfeits his title to the property. This vigilance on the! part of the Government insures! food in abundance for all the peo ple at a reasonable rate. Every kind of vegetable product known in America or in Europe is grown there abundantly', besides several excellent fruits and edible roots quite unknown with us. Oxen and buffaloes are exclusively used for ploughing, and are rarely eat en. Horses are reserved for rid ing and driving. Neither mules nor asses are raised. Milk and butter are not much prized; swine are scarce ; sheep are not prized, nor are goats a favorite. Excellent cordage is made from the wild naitte ( urtiea japonica) w hich is fully equal to Russian hemp for ropes and cables. A substitute for soap in general use is a wild bean peculiar to the conn try, which, when powdered, is an admirable article for w ashing and cleansing purposes. Lamps and candles are common; the oil of mustard, literally of small value with us, is almost the only article for supplying lamps. Rice is the grand agricultural staple, as in China. That and fish constitute the chief food of the people of all conditions in life.— Japanese gardeners are masters of their art. They can dwarf al most any tree. For instance, an oak is kept down- —-as are many of the fruit trees—to a few inches or feet in height. They can also in crease the size of any ordinary vegetable to huge proportions— a common garden radish being de veloped to weigh fifty 7 pounds, and averaging ten pounds in the markets. The w heat is of excel lent quality, and is sold in their cities at $2 a picul, which is 133£ pounds. These people have a propensity for arresting the growth of dogs, keeping them down to a minia ture standard of size. They also mould the animals' heads so that they resemble somewhat a human head. This is accomplished by manipulating the pup’s unossified jaws. INTELLIGENT LABOR. The great mistake of the labor system in the past has been that muscle lias been the chief requi site sought after in the selection of help upon the farm, both North and South. Experiments that are continu ally being tried in the South prove conclusively that an intelligent laborer, possessing the same a monnt of good health, muscle, en durance and willingness as an ig intrant one, is worth twice or three times as much to his employer as the latter one is. The South is fast learning this lesson. Still, this country is crowded with this class of ignorant labor, which stands directly in the way of the introduction of a better labor sys tem. This state of things, too, makes it difficult for the honest, willing and hard working poor man of the North to get a start in the South. If he comes here without the means of purchasing 50 to 100 acres of land that can be had for from $3 to sls per acre, according to location and excellence—often mostly on time—he will find it re quire* a severe struggle to get a start and become self-sustaining ; but if be has only a few hundred dollars he can get a good start, and can utilize all the labor he desires, and become independent, if he ha-; the brains and intelli irence to direct this labor. The South, too, is looking at honest labor in a different light from what she formerly did. There are thousands who never, before the war, put their own hands to farm and mechanical labor, that are now among our best farmers and artisans, and are not ashamed of their avocations. We should do all in our power to draw among us intelligent and skilled laborers. In this genial climate, where out door work goes on uninterruptedly the year round this class will soon become weal thy, and they are ever ready to help build up such institutions as will attract those who still hesi tate in the Nrth, although they greatly prefer our climate. In every instance, without an exception, in which Northern peo pie have come South, and gone back, the expression lias been, U 1 am perfectly well pleased with the climate, but 1 miss so many other things that I cannot consent to do without them.” They do not stop to consider that they would become dissatis fied from the same cause, let them go among strangers in any coun try 7 . Those who settle down hero, to stay, and go to work to help build up the institutions they love almost invariably are contented and satisfied. Let those who come South, and who are strenuous upon the mu! ter of society, come as much as possible in large numbers, or set tie in those sections where North ern people are locating. There are a number of such settlements started.— Southern Industrie*. A PROFITABLE HOG. The following description of a profitable hog was reported by the committee at the swine breeders' convention at Indianopolis, hid.: lie must have a small, short head, heavy jowl, and thick, short neck; ears small, thin and tolerably e reef, not objectionable if they 7 do droop slightly forward ; must be straight from the neck back to the Hank; must be let w 7 ell down to the knees in brisket ; of a good length from head to tail; broad on the back ; ribbed rather barrel shaped; must be slightly curved or arched in the back from the shoulder to the setting in of the tail; tail small; long in the ham from back to letting off I he loins; shoulder not too large to give sym me try 7 to the animal; ham broad and full; hair smooth and evenly .set on ; skin soft and elastic to the touch; legs short,-small and well set under; broad between the legs; good depth between bottom and top of the hog; with quiet dispo sition ; should not weigh more than 300 or 400 pounds gross at twelve or eighteen months old, according to keep ; color black or white, ora mixture of the two. The above described hog will measure as many feet from the top of the head to setting on of tail as lie does around the body, and will measure as many inches around the leg below i.lie knee as he does feet in length around the body ; depth of body will be four fifths of his height. HENS vs. HOGS. Poultry has its Fanciers and swine its Breeders. Those engag ed with either branch of the busi ness are largely enthusiasts in that direction, and to an extent ride a hobby. This is natural and right; in fact, were it not so, the results attained would never he reached; it is the thorough wedd ing to an occupation that makes it succeed; but the question is, are the hens supplanting the hogs? it is stated on authority that if the same quantity of food is given out to chickens that is fed to a hog, they will produce more lbs. | and return greater margins of pro i fit than the pork, to sy nothing of the eggs produced, and they will pay fortlie grain. Pigs, from | the time they breathe, are calling ; for food, and the amount consuin ed in growing and fattening a hog is surprising. Then, when we con sider the immensely greater value there is in poultry meat over pork for producing brain and muscle, is it not fair to suppose that pool try will make inroads upon pork, ! and w r e shall find ourselves feed ing more on chickens and less on piggy. CULTIVATING ORCHARDS. There is an excellent example of the benefit resulting from eul tivating apple orchards in the case of W. Lombard, of Augusta, Me., who has someone hundred and seventy trees, mostly old, well cultivated, the soil stirred about as far as the limbs extend, and the ground mulched with refuse corn stalks, potato tops, straw, etc. — One Tallman Sweet tree yielded j six barrels, which, at $5 per bar J rel, brought S3O. The w hole or chard in one year yielded s(>l3 in J fruit sold ; and the present, not a bearing year, S2OO. UNLEACIIKI) ASHES. A learner asks how? when? ! and how much unleaelied ashes may be applied to winter wheat while growing? They may lie ap plied any time during winter or early spring, al the rate of from ten to thirty bushels per acre J evenly over the surface. Fifteen" bushels is a fair dressing. A broad cast machine for sowing them is best, The winter season is a good time, and snow will do no harm, unless the surface is so steep as to wash badly in a thaw. Good unleached ashes are worth fifty cents per bushel to apply to most grain crops. Leached ashes are also well ap plied in winter on a dry .soil, in quantity from three to six loads per acre, evenly spread. Leach ed ashes have the greatest effect upon a sandy soil, as they absorb ammonia aml assist sttcli a soil in holding volatile manures, but they are good upon any soil need ing phosphate, 1 ime, soluble silica etc. They are worth on many soils ten to twenty cents per bushel. Rural JVnr Yorker. To the Young Mou ol' the Country. THE FARMER vs. THE FRO LESS IONS. The professions also receive their share of recruits from those who are dissatisfied with the hard work of the farm, and seek an ea sier livelihood under tlie. broad shield of a professional vocation. It is natural that the country youth should institute compari son between the lawyer, the phy sician and the clergyman, as lie looks upon them from the burden of some unsheltered 1 ask, and ini agine their duties less onerous than their ow n. He sees I lie ex terior of the edifice and thinks not of the weary days and nights, months and years spent in laying its fou ml at ion, nor of the constant exertion necessary to maintain its proportions. His ears areas founded by the verbal display of the learned counsel in a cross roads’law suit, and his mind is awed by the deference shown the village doctor an i the peculiar relations of the shepherd to Ids flock. He grows ii|) more and more dissatisfied, concludes upon a change, and his will soon finds a way for the prosecution of liis design, if he is ambitious, Ids ignorance of life and its varied duties ;u<l perplexing cares in every sphere, leads him to desire what he considers a more honora ble occupation than tlistf of the husbandman, and thus a two fold motive impels him to a change. Should lie select the calling of a lawyer, he must begin at the foot of the ladder by performing the duties of an office boy, by no means elevating in their charne ter, upon a miserable pittance, in ferior to the value of Ids services in the country. Later, the hard work of Ids path way begins in earnest : eight or ten hours of the day must be spent in transcribing the documents whose preparation falls within the power of the al torney in attending to the cones pondenee and books of Hie office, and in assisting Ids superior in the close and confining duties of an ametiueiisis, shut out from the bright sun and the smiling skv, j the green grass, the song of the | birds and the scented flowers. S All this is tin* rout ine work of the brain,and no one who Inis tried ! both will declare this easier than the average physical exertions of | daily farm labor surrounded b,v nature and her wondrous charms, i To this period succeeds the life of I the student, with its close appli cations,hard and imrelenting stn dy, and the strain upon tin* men t.ul energies necessary to make j the discrimination between the perplexing subtleties of the law. Then, after a preparation of three to five years in the theory, come the practice of the law and it conflicting operations, 't he office of the law, in the social compact, is to secure justice, but it s com plex character i made use of to defeat the object of it creation, ! and this disparity bet ween justice and law i a seriou thorn in the con deuce and feeling of the young practitioner, until- ■ ircum stances shall have so warped hfl that justice signifies only S| cause of his client, and the’® the means-of his success. Hetr also, the inexperience of the rJI ice presents a formidable \rJmi to his success, and this opqHfl in various keeping!* 'll assmA jjL 1 'T 1 - Jjfi whi / --nr- .Wm id 11 from \ (mi- a. ! \T- ii! in innocence in your beusTWHB been obliged to sit up iii^^^H oil II! lamp i• i• a I'll ioABH 'diambor .1 I■p:■: . , -i imiisa h^^^l^iiii 1 1 ' Itoestird cailiiiii' SiJ fnrtlllu* sliiifl upon the there befl burdened conscience to obsj|fl its b 1 i •_• 1 1 1 Hess ' Will his sped and honor remain islied amid the u years over other pimple's re I- \ vain. I he ranks mil profession al e full. I ho^^Bffl more laborers lii,-i ll work, amnHfl also presents several disudvmfl (ages. Il makes il more dilliciill' for a beginner to succeed and in I apt to drive him from his profes sion lo launch his frail vessel up on the tempestuous waters of a political life, to become a prey to its worst and wildest passions.— * If he remains, he is more likelv to accept any case,right or wrong, lb in to discriminate between tli right and the wrong, and this! lead ii to t he consideration oC the honorable character of his calling. We implied above that justice and law were interchange able terms. A case may be just and have no law tosustain it; and tlie law declare innocent, where the reason and conscience of the absolved party brand ‘‘guilty” upon his innocent soul. Is it lion orable to work night and day in efforts to save from the punish ment of the law a person tried and found guilty at the tribunal of bis ow n conscience '? Is it honora ble to w ield llie authority of the law against a ease which has noth ing but its justice to recommend it ? Is it honorable to aspire to be great in the profession, whose time must often be spent in lalm rioiiN efforts to prove before 12 sensible meif that wrong is right, that truth is a lie, and that justice is a criminal to be scorned of all men.? Is il honorable to do all Ibis from the motive which actu ales the counsellor, the hope of gain,weighing sordid gold stained with crime in the balance with the spot less jewels of the robe of jus tice? Yes,the law gives her vo laries, all honorable men, the pri vilegeof forgetting in their “sur plus age” (halt hey are men that should ad upon those principles held sacredly binding by the res! of civilized mankind. < )||! the perversion of t he liuinan intellect in I lie thing called law, if all t his is honorable, the life of the farmer #uwcr I<> the height of all excel lence and perfection, and is,to the occupation of other men, what llic-nn lit pinnacle of the temph* is to its base, wrapped in the mist and mire of t hcTalley. Concerning the physician, our remarks will necessarily he more concise, as for t lie case oft his pur suit we cannot conceive tl^H^iy. one should enter il to M-mnJ per uii.d enmforl. A L- I^RSB its requirements will everyone t hat il is no life IbR indolent. If there are aB exact ing^Mj^^^J and burdens nn usuallv lull to of maijJ till', lir. 11! I■ | iic-t <!<<<>) *l mm- i'll', ii-lan. ;m- to he -pent in dmlioiis eation, patient investigation, and a conepfiiratioii of nieniai ettat required ly no other eallini^^K upon him, rests a re spa experienced by no otheM on him hangs the feurfiflfl life and death, eiu'ouut(M| bv him. A m tiicJhfl sion, hi experience! her that stand waitnJ of di -9 res- are ol mediate success Hein? No. 9 WMi.TII