The field and fireside. (Marietta, Ga.) 1877-18??, November 27, 1877, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE FIELD AND FIRESIDE. Vol. I. Shr/irWand .fireside. rr BMSIIED BY J, Or. CAMPBELL&CO. At Out* Dollar a Year. OFFICE IN THE OLD PRIXTIXO OEKH K Building, Powil**!* Springs Struct, M:iii~ t*tfa Georgia. lAVJI> IKWIN. YV. A. P. .\rCLATCHKY. T. H. IKWIN. Irwin, McClatchey &. Irwin, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Mill practice in the Blue Ri<lge. Home, A piiiiil < oweta circuits, •arietta, March 13, 1X77. ly Wit. T. WINN. W11.f.. .1. WINN. W. T. & W. ,1. WINN, a 1 La w , MARIETTA, GEOROI \ March 13,1877. ly w. it. poh i:k, Attorney at Law, MARIETTA, GA. WILT. practice in the < 'onrts of Cobli ami adjacent counties. Collect ing a specialty. Ottice with Judge A. X. Simpson, northwest corner of Public Square. ly J. E. MOSELY, % Hornet al Law. \\T 11. TANARUS, attend to all hits i lies; eon tided W to him in < “ohh and adjacent coun ties. Ok kick— in Mot iafchey's Build ing, up stairs. Marietta, March 13, 1577. tint E. M.ALLEN, Ke*>i<l‘iil Di’lllM, Of more than twenty years. < II A ROES 11 E A SOX A II I. K . OtnrK—Xorth side of Public Square. Marietta, March 13, 1x77. ly PH. G. TENNENT, I’rucl icing Physician. 83P“ Ottice on Cassville street. —Ilesi- deiice on Cherokee street. Marietta, March 13,1877. ly PR. E. J. vSETZE, Piiy*icinn and Surgeon, rrtKXDERs his professional services 1 in the practice of Medicine in all its branches to the citizens of Marietta and surrounding country. < Mice at the Drug Store of Win. Root. inch 13—1 y H. W. GABLsE, BOOT AM) lr- SHOE MAkLIt AND REPAIRER. POWDER SPRIXO STREET, MARIETTA, GEORGIA. Work done at very low prices, and war ranted. March 1, 1877. Haley Brothers, CHEROKEE STREET, Dealers in GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, AN I, fiEXERAT. MERCHAXDIZE. Marietta, (ia., Mareli 13,1x77. ly M. li. Lyon, til Elio KE E sf REE T. mut 11 V IS 04 ’ KILN. Agricultural. Bermuda Brass. I ITS ORIGIN ANDV.UI K IN Til K SOI Til. In your issue of the Weekly \ Courier- bearing date of the 6th inst., appeared my letter in reply loan inquiry made thro' i your coinmnsin regard to Berinu da grass. Since its publication, 1 have received a number of let ters from Kentucky, and other i states, making further inquiries relative to this peerless grass, its growth, yield and advantages over other grasses. 1 have chosen to reply to many of these letters the columns of the Courier Jour uul) inasmuch as my attention is so closely occupied at present as to force me to forego the pleasure of answering many of them thro' the regular channel of epistolary correspondence. In the beginning of this letter, 1 desire to say 1 am not endeavor ing to create a sensation ora de maud for this grass that will ad vanee my pecuniary interest, but, on the contrary, to introduce a grass into a stock country that will eventually prove of para mount value to those engaged in such an enterprise. In view, then, of these facts, 1 have chosen this medium to com munieate my knowledge of Ber muda grass to those who have al ready intimated their desire to trv it* etc. Bermuda grass, when iirsi in treduced into lids part of Missis sippi, was brought by car loads lo plant on railroad embankments to prevent them from washing, and has proven to lie an infallible preventive. It was imported from the island of Bermuda in North America.— A geographical examination will show this island to he situated in latitude 33 degrees, and Clinton, Mississippi, is 32. In view of the fact that il grew luxuriantly in a more northern iatitude when ii was scattered on these embank ments, lam forced to believe it will grow in other more northern states. Asa forage for stock, it is e qual, if not superior, to red clo ver, because it is of an everlast ing growth, and not quite so woody. Il furnishes tine grazing for ealtle, sheep, hogs, Ac. during the winter in this climate, and with a favorable spring can be mown as early as April. Il re sembles blue grass in foliage, and grows from six to fifteen inches in height, and so dense that it is dif ficult to cut it with a scythe. It is so tenacious of life and of such vigorous growth, that it is regard ed among some classes of cotton planters as a great pest. Il grows luxuriantly in a lazy farmer's cot ton fields, when the cotton is too young, and under these circum stances crowds it out. It was brought here twenty five years ago. and for reasons stated above it soon became unpopular with 1 lie more indolent classes of cotton planters, while the indus trious and successful planters claim that it is very valuable, be nutritious food MARIETTA. GEORGIA. NOVEMBER 27, 187 J may be planted in a field of sedge, other grasses or weeds, and it w ill eventually crowd them out ; and no other implement of a less ra pacity than a tw’o-horse plow can turn over the grass-soil. It flour ishes here when planted in any season of the year, but in Ken tucky, North Alabama, and more northern States, I do not think it would grow only when planted in spring or summer. As to the advantages il has o ver other grasses, 1 am unprepar ed to set forth in full ; however, I will venture to submit a few of its claims, etc.: First—The roots are as large as wheat straw, measuring from two to five feet in length, running in every conceivable direction, and in the spring, when the root joints sends out a sprite or shoot, that portion of the root between the joints decays and enriches vour land. Second—Because it can he cut three or four times per annum and will yield from <hreo to five tons of hay. Third—it will enrich land, and flourish under constant pasturing of cattle and sheep. Fourth—Because it will grow (unlike all other grasses) when once planted until you kill it by constant plowing in mid winter or summer. Prior to the introduction of the Bermuda grass into this country, the fearful malady of murrain, dry murrain,bloody murrain, stag gers. etc. prevailed among cattle, but now such a disease is scarcely known to cattle raisers. The dis appearance of these ealtle dis eases is imputed to the fact that Bermuda grass grows luxuriantly during the entire summer and fall seasons, so that there is eompari lively no dry or decayed grass for them to eat to produce these dis eases. lam of the opinion that it will act as a preventive in sec lions where cattle are alHicted with the above maladies. This conclusion is based upon the fact that when other grasses are per isliing from excessive drouth, this grass will be found to retain its green color, and a dose investiga tion will show the earth moist w here it grows. This grass grows so dense as to protect the roots from heat, and the roots are so compact as to retain the moisture in the earth. Upon Ibis hypoth esis, and in view of its willing ness to grow, spread and crowd out weeds, etc. and flourish when under ordinary pasturing. 1 am prompted to recommend it to others who need such a grass in their enterprises. It can not be made a commodity in this com niunity, because it grows so spoil taneously,and covers an unknown number of acres of land. Again permit me to say that I will send to any person wishing to propagate this grass, a small package of the sod without com pensation. When 1 say compen sation, I do not intend to be un derstood to say I will pay express charges for transportation, but simply that 1 will put it in a box and start it forward. The express agent holds me responsible for the amount of charges incurred ■■Mursiiortatiou. nndJ^BHKHfi rarely deficient, are tor that rea son less prominent among the factors of a crop. If any single substance, be it phosphoric acid, or sulphuric acid, or potash, or magnesia, is lacking in a given soil at a certain time, that sub stance is then and for that soil the most important ingredient. From the point of view of natural abun dance, we may safely state that, on the whole, available nitrogen and phosphoric acid are the most important ingredients of the soil, and potash, perhaps, takes the next rank. These are, most com monly, the substances whose ab sence or deficiency impairs fertili ty, and are those w hich, when ad ded as ferti liters, produce the most frequent and remarkable in crease of productiveness. In a multitude of special cases, how ever, sulphuric aeid, or lime, or magnesia, assumes the chief pro minenec, w hile in many instances it is scarcely possible to make out a crop producing value for one of these substances over several oth ers. Again, those ingredients of the soil which could be spared for all that they immediately contri bute to the nourishment of crops, are often the chief factors of fer tility on account of their indirect i action, or because they supply some necessary physical condi tions. This humus is not in any way essential to the growth of agricultural plants, for plants have been raised to full perfec tion without it; yet in the soil it has immense value practically, since among other reasons it stores and supplies w ater and ad missible nitrogen. Again, gravel may not be in any sense nufriti tious, vet because it acts as a re servoir of heat and promotes drainage, it may be one of the most important components of a j soil. I'otush as an Ingredient OK MAN IRKS. Interest is being rapidly excit ed on this side of tin* Atlantic with regard to the action of pot ash to mixed manures, as is alrea dy practiced in Europe on a great scale, and with excellent results, advantage being taken of the vast deposits of mineral potash dis covered a few years ago to the smith of .Magdeburg, in Prussia Saxony. That benefit is to he expected from the application of potash as a fertilizer, is fully show'll by a glance at any good list of analyses of the mineral matter removed from the soil by our commonly cultivated plants—thus we find, in round numbers, in the ash of I'Kit CIKNT. OK KOTABII. Wheat, grain. 31 Bariev. •• 22 Oats,' •• 10 Buckwheat, u 23 Indian Corn. 27 Rice. 18 Peas, seed, 40 Beans, “ 40 Swedish turnips, roots. 51 Garden turnips. “ 39 Beets, “ 53 „ Potatoes. i -“iii ill.! i! , - ! ; no oi iii. I iii a \cn I;ir-1 niiml Peruvian gives bVHHOT nia. phosphoric acid and lime; raw hone and lish substances af ford tin* same substances in other proportions ; the host of •• plms pliatie guanos" (Nevass, Redon da, Sombrero, and the like,) give us phosphoric acid and lime; iand plaster consists of sulphuric acid | and lime; the manufactured ‘♦su perphosphates'' yield phosnhm'jc acid, lime and sulphuric lime is ;i 111111 <I; 1111 ly : iis as burnt lime, calcareous marl, I ula, etjji Mag nesia, also a constant of plants, has been, a good deal neglected, com ing in incidentally with lime in several of its forms. I'.xi V |>| a- wood ashes, .i 11< I in this condition but sparingly, pot asli can hardly lie said, until laic l.v, to have been included in the list of fertilizing materials,though it occurs, and in relatively good proportion, in the article of that most valuable of all fertilizers, properly-saved stable manure. Tlu* obvious reason has been that the commercial price of pot ash was too high—il was practi cally unattainable upon a scnlfl commensurate with the dcmarJH of the world. d’lie discovery of very large bedfij of mineral salts of potash overj lying.rock salt, at Stassfurt,*( Prussia, has greatly changed state of ail'airs, and now', after buU a few years of working these posits, potash, though still a liable substance, has become ac- 1 eessible to the farmer as well as j the manufacturer on a much lar 1 ger scale, and at much reduced prices. The leading idea to be borne in mind is t hat t hose pot ash It s aro j not of themselves all sufficient and independent manures—are not rivals of bone dust, plaster, lime, nr fertilizers yielding ammo , nia—but are simply most valua ble additions to these, supplying; that which they do not contain, and cannot be made to yield. Spin your Own Cotton. Forty years ago. it would have been deemed absurd if any one had predicted that almost every planter would have to day his own gin power and packing screw to gin and pack his crop. In those days of wagoning, crops were hauled to Kivvn and sold in the seed. Now, except in those cases where amendment clad fellow citizens confuse the rights of pro pertv and sell seed cotton which never belonged to them, no scad cotton is sold. It is all ginned. The saving in transportation and the increased facilities of trans portation, are among the strong est evidence of the mechanical progress of our time. Why may we not go a step fur ther, attach spinning machinery to our gin power, and send our cotton to market in the shape of thread? Il would • r ' ’ to shipal^^^^^^^^^* ■ T' 5 ' V- '• -r, tt r T • 1 - "' " l " ■v’ ! -^.! SB||WHm Mn 11 it■ K mil -nli ®g|ifl *i• ■ll 11: i • •ri ili .Hm&fiffigl mil' .i" iin i :i II I.i Imr ■'ln i•< ■i > . ami In' .'..nl.'ijmi "i'i <• mil1■ hill-. i'i rl.lni, ', irin I I " 1 M I I I'll III' I 1 ! < II ! I I • I I I \ Now lull 111 -luVI l;i l 1 ■ 11 ip ' ' l '" I "'-' I'll I I!| ill'll 11, I*lll "I I III' I uml'P! JjjkAl V; M 1" 1! 11 ' ; *^h& < ( • i'' i" ii p i -a i ii Mil .ll I>iIII I Tli illlJ iTp ■ -|jJi.i\ '■ In in ili '■ i^H^H^kl i! 1 * i** ■' ■ll ll'' 111 r.ULTBI 111 i-p 11 a ii^^^VdjmdflHHHHHEH I I■ " 1 I ■ • ■ " 1 | ml. I I I II :i 111. l M | V ii"*! i' '■"Mill 11 ■ : 111; i ■•uni-1' 1,1 ken In (111 I uni. iii 11<>11.-.i'.11 ' " 1 11 I li;il 11 i : ''' ‘li" 'l\ prolu Mi' l li;il iin , Hggg§ >\ii! '.'T.v ‘"mu !)•• wmk'nß^^| Slock liaising SoulflH i i"hi ami-- i>r s "'iHi | I'lyflH^S I'.im' 11"111 "1 m III" way "I mil urn! i'4HH limy tail t<> utilize. who live •' ; r || fVß| v !"> li.i \ " I -iiinnmi I’.mJHH ' •' 1 1 I'' nail Imr r . \\ Im In w.ii'i i r.Him- for hog-, vet®, ii limn -1 - | >'' 11 < I ,i lino Ii ■ 111 i I'ollon ,iml ri' c lor ;i ip. io. | i|i.'. ,' - KQM "Ii Inn mo i' ii"lill , ri'iii^t ; ;‘s+'" I 'J| 1 11'"■ Mii'v i"-o ,i ii-w ii (|,^HHH| i'llo|oi':i. ,11"! Imr o- .mil iSHH "| || Iff lin f \ ori' went Imr Tli^nßH III',- I Im .-lock I 111- i III'O'. TlmvHU clan*, I hen, it won't pay to stock. Now, if these farmem would provide themselves with lew acres of meadow, and have plenty of hay to feed their stock regularly in the winter, they would come home every night, miss tin* high water, not he stun ted in their growth, nor die for want of a little attention in se vere weather. Stock should hdl salted regularly, too. SumnlH pasturage for hogs should also IkP *rvvbVA,r I’yj'Jtajiß white clover MARIETTA, CJEO. ‘ ’ A okai.kk in lam iI > U roerries!