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THE FI ELD AM) FIRESIDE. Vol. I. Sltr/icltLiml fivrouk. I’I’BLISH ED r.Y j. Or, <sc co. At One Dollar a Year. OFFICE IX THE OT.D PRINTING OFED'E Building, Powder Springs Street, Mari etta Georgia. I>AVID IRWIN. W. A. I*. M’CI.ATCHKY. T. B. IRWIN. Irwin, McClatchey & Irwin. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in tlie Bine Ridge. Rome, anti Coweta < 'ireuits. Marietta, March 13, 1577. ly * ■— ~ WM. T. WIXX. WILL. a. WINN. £. 0k W. J. WINN, AI ir ii e jj> aIIj am , MARIE A. March EUS77. I.V W. R. POWER, Attorney at Law, MARIETTA, GA. xttill practice in the < 'onrls of Colih VV aiul adjacent counties. Collect ing a specialty. Office with .Judge A. X. Simpson, northwest corner of I'uhlic Square. ly J. E. MOSELY, Attorney at Lanx ■wxtlEL attend to all tmsines - eon titled W to him in Cohlt anti adjacent coun ties, Office—in .McClatchey’s liniltl i ng, up stairs. Marietta, March 13, 1877. tint E. M. ALLEN, Kctiilcili Of more than twenty years. CHAR <3 ES REASOXA HI. E . OtFicK—Xorth sitle of Public Stpiare. Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly DR. G. TENNENT, Hratiieinsi IMiywician. Office on Cassville street .• —Resi- dence on Cherokee street. Marietta, March 13,1877. ly DR. E. J. SETZE, Physician and Surgeon, TEXDERS his professional services in the practice of Metlieine in all its branches to the citizens ot Marietta and surrounding country. Office at the Drug Store of Win. Root. inch 13-1 y R. W. GABLE. BOOT li\ll tr- SHOE MMR AND REPAIRER. POWDER SPRIXO STREET. MARIETTA, OSOEGIA. Work done at very low prices, and war ranted. March 1, 1577. Haley Brothers, CHEROKEE STREET. Dealers in GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, AX I) GENERA I. M EROHAXDIZE. Marietta, Ga., March 13,1877. ly M. H. Lyon, CHEROKEE STREET, fa n 1 1.! a iso< i; ic i r..v A lid dealer in roI’XTRY PRODI’CE. Marietta, March 13,1877. Jy 11. T. OKIT, CHEROKEE STREET, Saddle ai Harness Maker AND REPAIRER. Marietta. Geo., March 13, 1577. ly House Building and Repairing. SASH,TIT.IXDS, DOORS FINISHED TO ORDER. Lumber of all kinds, and al the lowest prices, for sale. Thankful for the liberal patronage hitherto, tin* suhserilier would state that he is fully prepared to contract for the erection of Buildings, and to exe cute the contracts in the most satisfacto ry manner. SHOP, south side Puldii Square. March, 1877. I.EMI EE BLACK. CONTRACTOR AND BCIIJIGR. THE undersigned continues hi-husi nessof Brick Making, Stone and Brick Building, and i~ prepared at any time to utke contracts on the most reas onable terms, and foexecute them in the most satisfactory manner. H. B. WALLIS. Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly Aip'icultHvaL The Composition of Soils, I*I.ANTS AMI ANIMALS. One of the most important sub jects presented for discussion at the well attended and interesting meeting of the,Farmers' Club of New York, was introduced by l)r. Heath, who read a valuable pa per on the of Soils. Plants and Animals." The fol lowing is a synopsis of the points and arguments made touching soils and plants: Soils are substantially compos ed of organic matter, of potash, soda, lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, oxide of manganese, sulphu ric- acid, phosphoric acid, carbanic acid, chlorine, silicia and alumi na—twelve. The first eleven con stitute plants. But if we contin ually grow crops and and sell them all without returning the elements of the crops, we surely and persistantly impoverish our soils, so that crops decrease in quantity and quality year by year, until finally exhaustion be comes ti stubborn fact. Like the worn out tobacco lands of Vir ginia, they will no longer support the farmer. For instance, the constant growing of wheat on the same lield markedly removes the lime and the magnesia of the soil, also the silicates of potash and phosphates, all of which makes its straw strong and tall, and also makes its berry plump and heavy. But if t hese substances be not re turned tortile wheat field, the cniit soon ceases to tic remnnora live after paying the labor lie stowed on its,cultivation. Common sense teaches us that we must keep our farms good-—as good as they can lie made. They cannot be too rich. The richer in plant elements the better. No apprehension in this direction need be feared, for plants only take what they require; and tin less all the elements essential to their growth be present in the soil at the same time they do not ap propriate those which are. Crops cannot be fed, like half starved animals, on anything, suitable or not; for each crop must have its own peculiar food, and in proper proportions too. Selection of the fittest, though made prominent by Darwin, yet is nevertheless a law of nature which we cannot gain say. In order to keep our soils suitable to grow crops, we must husband everything from every source and from every part of our farms which will return to our soil these plant elements, these animal elements, these rich soil elements. Common sense also teaches us that we should rotate crops, be cause. though plants are all com posed of similar elements, yet these elements vary in proport ion in different crops, thus making it necessary to rotate crops and to rotate manures, so that each crop may have its peculiar elements in due proportions. A good farmer generally gives as well as receives in abundance. This is the only true principle upon which to cul tivate a farm fora lifetime with profit. Spoliation farming has failure stamped upon its every feature as indelible as the mark of Cain ; and the futile excuse that ‘I am not ray brother's keep er' will not avail. Everything we treat thus considerately increases in value. The farm will be worth more; the cows, horses, fowls, pigs, sheep, fences, buildings—all will be worth intrinsically more. It is in this way that the farmer becomes rich. Everything that he makes a demand upon prompt ly responds to his call, and he is never disappointed, for he trusts faithfully in the Dispenser of all good. Winter Houghing. The following hints on (his time ly topic are from tin* last number of Colinan's Rural World: Win ter ploughing is a good thing. It upsets tin* insects, turns them up from their warm quarters below, to cold quarters above. It throw s up the clay to be pulverized by the frost and air. It gives much aid to spring work, as, if the soil is dry now. it will not need to be ploughed again in spring—a good harrow pulverizing it for any crop. For oats and clover, timo thy, red-top, blue grass, orchard MARIETTA. GEORGIA. JANUARY 1, 1878. grass, etc. by all means do winter ploughing. Then in early spring you can sow the seed at once and not wait till the ground is in con dition to plough, and then spend several days in doing what could better be done in any open wea ther in winter. “ A word to .the wise is sufficient/’ Apple Product in Failed Stales. YALLK, VARIETIES, KTd. From an article on the clips and Downs of the Apple Trade,-’ given in a recent number ol the American Cultivator (Boston) the following facts of interest are taken: The crop of apples of IS7<>, it will be remembered, was the lar gest ever grown in the United States, and prices were lower than for at least twenty years. In some sections the fruit was so plenty, that farmers could not give it a way, while the eider makers were overrun with a surplus of stock. The yield this year is not so large as it was a year ago, but the quali ty is somewhat better, although many bad lots have come to mar ket. ibices are higher than they have been for sevei al years, and stand just about as thev did in 1875. * * * The orchard products of the ll nited States are estimated at, a value of !)!(>(),000,000 annually, in which New York leads, I’ennsyl vanin, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan coming next ; but there is no da fa showing the number of barrels of apples raised in the country, either in a single year or from one -decade to anotlier. And vet the apple is the national fruit, and is the only fruit of the orchard that is, like the cereal productions, ex ported to foreign countries. We know pretty nearly how many po tatoes are raised in the country every year—-some 200,000,000 bushels —and how many pounds of beeswax, but as to apples, we are left in a state of dense igno ranee. Mr. Young, who has had charge of the National Bureau of Statistics for a series of years, ought to lie reminded of the fact that the apple crop is an ini per taut, crop in this country, and of itself constitutes a mine of ranch wealth. * * * Over nine hundred varieties of apples are found in the gardens of the Horticultural Society, Lon don, and over fifteen hundred va rieties have been tested (her*!.— Most of the improved varieties are either the result of accident or of accidental crossing. It is generally considered that apples grown on the fertile lands of the West, though large and fair, Col orado not excepted, with its phe liominal capacity to produce the fruit in nearly all its varieties, are yet inferior in flavor to those that are grown on the strong, gravelly and sandy loams of this section. Hence, the preference given to the Michigan. New York, Massa chusetts and Maine fruit, while the apples grown in the British provinces, of which thousands of barrels are sent to Boston and N. York every year, are, in some re spects, among the best sold in the Eastern markets. In this connec tion, and wc have the testimony of Col. Wilder, it is a remarkable fact that where cultivation and protection from insects have been regarded, as in our gardens, tie* apple is ns fine now as it was in its pristine days, going back even j as far as the days of the Garden i of Eden. It is also a significant fact that the apples originating| in New England—for instance the i Baldwin, Rhode Island greening, j Connecticut and Roxbury russets, 1 are still the great favorites for) market, and that from Western! New York, annually, there are sent more than 1,000,000 barreb a year. (’reserving Fence I’osls. The American t’hemi-d says— “ Wood can be made to last lon gerthan iron in the ground. Rosts can be prepared for less Hum two cents apiece. This is the recipe; J ake boiled linseed oil and stir it in pulverized charcoal to the con sisteney of paint. Put a coat of this over tin* timber, and there is not a man who will live to.see it rot.” Like many other savings and recipes, this statement is made by a man who evidently! has never had proofs of what lie says: yet Jam -tire that, two or! .i.! "I po ; b • |-< >llll,l. will prove 7./-VG' -<*r\ or for ! Item : Inn a J will mil -uliico. The cluWfjgj im.il.l be 11 el \ ground or pflß altd 1 coat :dloll^B| contain much charcoal, as tIMP should be free tp fill up the outer pores of tin* wood, when the char coal may be freely applied. But let no one expect to thus preserve i parts made of w ood that soon do cays naturally, but use oak,chest i nut or cedar,a ml apply three coats ! of this paint, and your children, probably, will see them in a stale of decay—not you, unless you live to be very old.—T. B. Miner. A ( heap Greenhouse. Persons who w ;*t a greenhouse but think they cannot afford to have one,are referred to the cheap mode of building thus described by the Maryland Farmer: the cheapest plan of erecting a greenhouse that we have any knowledge of—and we used one successfully formally years—is to dig out a pit in a. side hill, where the upper end will be just, above ground, and the lower eml will be two or three feet above ground, where the door must be, with two or three stops down for an en trance. Wall up, roof the wall, and cover the whole with sash as in hot hods, the sash having more fall, say three feet in a width of two, tin* house being 15 by 10.— Direct in this the stand shelves, and w hen it is t ime to take up the summer (lowers, bulbs, Ac., store them here. The glass should be ci >voted wit h J hick straw unit s, which can he removed, even when tli?* weather is the coldest, in clear weather for an hour or t wo at mid day to get the warmth and influ ence of the sun. At such times, ventilation should he attended to by slightly opening a sash or t wo. No lire is needed. Nearly all the readily flowering plants will bloom, and there will scarcely he a week during the winter that a bouquet may not be gathered if ! the house is properly managed. Wheal Growing. The farmers will find more than a suggestion in this item from the New Hampshire Mirror and Far mer : At one of the county fairs dur ing the past season, two farmers, one of whom was the exhibitor of j a simple half bushel of wheat, held this little dialogue : Exhibitor—l raised ninety two bushels of wheat like that on four and one-half acres of land. Ilis neighbor—Well, if I had read that in a paper 1 would not have believed it, but if you say it is so, if is so, of course, and I’m an infernal fool to be buying my flour as 1 have done for ten years, and must do this winter, for my land is just as good for wheat as yours. There is a whole agricultural sermon in that little dialogue,and it is one which has been preached a bm id red times and made hun dreds of converts this fall. Scores of farmers, who last spring could not be made to believe that wheat could be profitably raised in New Hampshire, believe it now. Keeping Apples. The Michigan Farmer says that apples should not be put in the cellar until hard freezing arrives, and adds : They should be packed in clean new barrels and stored in sorpe shed or covered with hoards, exposed to the atmos phere, for several weeks after picking, then removed to the grain barn, away from tin* smell of stables, and allowed to remain there as long as possible and not be frozen. We throw stalks and straw' over the barrels, and often defer placing them in the cellar until late in December. The fruit cellar should be darkened and kept as cool as possible, and not freeze, l’laee the barrels on their sides, with strips of wood bet ween them and the cellar bottom, and do not open or move tiufil wanted for use. If the cellar is free from the scent of vegetables when the barrels are opened, a rich and a tempting perfume will arise.— Most cellars are too warm for the storing of fruit. Fram e produces 531 pounds of sugar beets for every head of her population. Itliode Mai I,; l In-1- ..I |■■i! a I, icWß^^^jjSSgjSi Seveiily nine per >. productive „|' |J|||BE yrass and forage. *. 1 Hiis year'-- corn crop in k:9 :'•'■* is pronounced I lie lam^^fl A I I •elll ell. I e\a . hu liee11 made foi I lie and 10.1 M>() 1111 In'!- ill emu .M^ijj Two ni ill ion> and a hall' worth of American dried has been sold in Kurope dm9rit tin* last twelve months. Half the eggs hatched in France, the great poultry growing nation of tile world, are hatched by meaus of incubators. Working oxen, in wet weather, are apt to have sore necks. To prevent this, rub a little tallow on the yoke and bows. _ Farms, like steamships, LgnlL vise" carrying capacity . only is an admit farmer oBL Her who loads with the best/jp* Oregon, with a populat iaoM‘- but 1.45,000, this year produß/y :a; surplus of S,00( 1,000 I,ii-®' ‘ grain and 4,000,000 pmmTs^p The rice crop of this count coming to lliefront again. South Carolina lias an estimated yield ol 44,000 tierces last, year, and Georgia 20,000. Cue Kentucky farmer appro priates the yearly product of one acre ol his farm to the purchase of reading matter for himself and family. Wise. Rat hunts are all the rage in Green** county,Ohio, and tin* pen pie want tlie Legislature to an thorize the payment, of ten cents for each rat slaughtered. Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, attributes the destruction of th<> pure agricultural fair system to horse racing, three card monte and prize* candy. Boor land is a poor in vest men I, so is poor stock, poor teed, poor anything. Have the best if you have to take much less of it. It will pay best in the end. In every house, however hum'-' Me*, (lowers should he cultivated, for their sunny light, their cheer ful teaching, and for t heir insensi bly ennobling influence. Texas is so anxious to insure immigration that she is virtually giving away her public lands. The head of the family can get IGO acres for the expense of the sm vey and patent,which isalfogeth er about sls. The best stock you can invest in is farm stock ; the best shares, plough shares; the best banks, t he fertile banks of rural streams, since the more the latter are hro ken tin* better dividends they pay on the investment. Mr. Joseph Willoughby, near Eaton (on, N. C,, is raising large quantities of tin* very best green lea. The quality of the tea ly>is been tested by numbers; in fact, the difference cannot be told from imported tea when placed in cups beside each other. Wild turkeys have not fora long time been more numerous in Vir ginia than they have this year.— A flock entered the city of Lynch burg a few weeks ago. <)ne kill e<l in Shenandoah county a few days ago weighed thirty five lbs. j Keep no worthless animals, mi less they are growing in fat or are paying their board in service. According to the Department of Agriculture, the cotton crop is as large as last year. Texas bids fair to be the great est among the grain growing States, the yield to the acre in wheat being much larger than in California, which is regarded as tin* finest wheat growing country m the world. Mr. Bland is going to set up a ninety two cent store.—N. Y. Heraid. ind. 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It ' nii ih/'foi' IfortrscnrsH —Horse radish will atlord instantaneous relict in most obstinate eases of hoarseness. The root, of course, possesses the most virtue, though the leaves are good till they dry, when they loose their strength. Ihe root is best when it is green, t he person who will use it freely just before beginning to' speak, will not be troubled with hoarse ness. \\ herever (lie past arcs of West ern Missouri have been destroyed" by the grasshoppers, new varied ties of grass have sprung up, which the oldest inhabitants nev er saw before. Jhe principal of these is a green bunch grass of luxuriant growth, which now co vor pasture and dooryards where only bluegrass has grown forma ny a year before. Stock eat it J with avidity. Some persons sert that it is Ini Halo grass, while} others see in it a resemblance to oilier grassc- of tin* plains and* mountains we ;t rf us. We hope] that its development will he stu ' died hy some expert in the hota t ny of this continent, for its origin] may throw anew and important 1 light upon the origin and inigra J tioli ol the locusts. The seed waj evidently brought ln*re and posited by the swarm that eggs in this region last fall. brought here from Kansas or orado only, its identity surely have been determined 'erß this by old plainsmen, who arc siil numerous hereabout, p^a toi l h iiu talk I”l ll.lp -111 ••! I in ■ ■ ! i • i - , |