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TIIE FIELD AND FIRESIDE. Vol. I. (The .field and .fireside. PUBLISHED BY T. Gk CAMPBELL dc CO. At One Dollar a Year. OFFICE IX THE OLD PRINTING OFFICE tiuihlino;. Powder Springs Street, Mari etta Georgia. DAVID IRWIX. \V. A. I\ M*CLATCIIKY. T. . IRWIN. Irwin, McClatchey & Irwin. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in the Blue Ridge. Home, aiuLCoweta Cireuits. lis;;. ly WM. T. WINN. WII-L. J. WIXX. W. T. & 10. L WINN, A<tor ne y s a t Is atv , MARIETTA. GEORGIA. March 13,1877. ly w. R. POWER, Attorney at Law, MARIETTA, GA. 'vtt IT.T. practice in tiie ('ourts of Cobb VV and adjacent counties. Collect ing a specialty. Office with Judge A. N. Simpson, northwest corner of Public Square. l.v J, E. MOSELY, Attorney at Lav*. WTryiT,!, attend to all busines confided W to him in ( 'obh and ad jacent coun ties. Officr —i McClatchcy’s Build ing, up stairs. Marietta, March 13. 1877. din E M. ALLEN, ttei<lent Itcnlisl, Of more than twenty years. rHAR GE S it EASOXA 81. E . Office —North side of Public Square. Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly DR. G. TENNENT, Practicing Physician. 0* Office on Cassville street. —Resi- lience on Cherokee street. Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly DR. E. J. SETZE, Physician and Surgeon, TENDERS his professional services in the practice of Medicine in all its branches to the citizens of Marietta aud surrounding country. Office at the Drug Store of Win. Root. inch 13-ly R. W. GABLE. BOOT m 1- SHOE MAKKR AND REPAIRER. POWDER SPRING STREET. MISHA, GEORGIA, Work done at very low prices,ami war ranted. March 1, 1877. Haley Brothers, CHEROKEE STREET. Dealers in OltO<' HHI EH, PRO VIHIOX H, AND GENERAL MERCHANDIZE. Marietta, Gu., Alareti 13,1877. ly M. It. Lyon, CHEROKEE STREET, FAMILY <-ieoriJCll>. And dealer in COUNTRY PRODUCE. Marietta, March 13,1877. ly n. T. IwRIHiT. CHEROKEE STREET, Saddle ail Harness Maker AND REPAIRER. Marietta, Geo., March 13, 1877. ■ ly House Building and Repairing. SASII, BLINDS, DOORS FINISHED TO ORDER. Lumber of all kinds, and :it the lowest prices, for sale. rjTliankftd for the liberal patronage 1 bitlierto, thesuhseriber would state that he is fully prepared to contract for the erection of Viiihlings, and to exe cute the contracts in the most satisfacto ry manner. SHOP, south side Pnblii Square. March, 1877. LEMUEL BLACK. CONTRACTOR AND mibiMJt. THE undersigneil continues his busi ness of Brick Making, Stone and Brick Building, and is prepared at any time to take contracts on the most reas onable terms, and toexeeute them ill the most satisfactory manner. H. IS. " \ LLIS. Marietta,'March 13, 1877. ly Ajivicultuval. Swine. IJV GEOH6E GARDNEIt. Having just delivered my last ' lot of hogs, which 1 sold for eight j cents per pound for all those | about 200 pounds and under, and I for seven cents pr. pound for those above 200 pounds, and having al so bought some voting ones for another year, I feel free to write ; a few lines on swine in general. It is astonishing how much im provement has been effected in j the whole swine of the country, j The Berkshire breed is the most i fashionable and as.is the case with the Shorthorn cattle extra | ordinary prices are paid for them | to those holding particularly fa > vorite strains, and though there is much bordering on the ridiculous in the absurdly high prices, it is not altogether folly, since, beside giving greater renown to this par i tieular breed, it causes a general | respect for pure-bred stock.— ! There are several other really j good breeds, and much of the ex - I eellence of the best types has i been attained by high feeding, followed up through successive j generations. By this remark there I is no reflection intended on high | feeding; for, on the contrary, it i would be of the utmost benefit to farmers if from the birth of every | animal on the farm they all feed in a way*!o force growth and se | cure the very best quality. There is no doubt about theEs | sex and the white breeds being ; possessed of ahhgcmd ijm (i 11i jt. as j also the Magic and the red breed. In relation to the last mentioned, | 1 can remember when there were | hundreds of thousands of the red, ; or. as they were then called, san i ‘ly pigs. They were decidedly much more prolific than hogs in general are now a days, for it was rare to see a sow, after her first litter, with less than twelve or thirteen pigs. Fifty-seven years ago, my father had a saiulv sow killed which weighed forty scores or 800 pounds. Thirty-eight years ago, i was steward for a large land-owner, and had a young sow slaughtered after she had (.nly two litters, and her weight was 000 pounds. Her mo ther, a Yorkshire white sow, was killed previously, weighing 803 pounds. The mother was nine feet long, and the daughter not | eight feet; but she was thicker and deeper. The last mentioned j had her pigs by an Essex boar, | and won a great many premiums 'at agricultural shows from this S cross, the offsprings of which were not as large when full grown like j the ones mentioned above, but | they came quickly to maturity. The progeny of this cross between the large Yorkshire white and the small black Essex was very | good for fattening at any age, for from the age of two months they would lie only just aide to wad dle about, 1 ill at the age of twelve months the show pigs became to tally blind from the accumulation I of fat. and were fed with balls of barley meal put into their mouths as they sal on their haunches. It is very certain that it will not pay to keep pigs running a round in what is called “store" condition, but which is often a J half-starved state; for, although | they cost but little for food, they 1 pay nothing at all for that little ; whereas, when fed well from the | first, they pay all the while, and by being kept in styes they will i so enrich any farm with their nia ! mire as to bring it up to bear j heavy crops. Indeed, their drop pings are richer in fertilizing pro perties than those of any other animals, excepting those fed on a great deal of oilcake. Swine ; are fattened by a great propor | tion of the best tenant-farmers in j England on account of the prodi j gious crops which the manure from fat tening hogs produces. So well is this understood there that i a farmer is well satisfied if the I manure is all he gains for the ; trouble; that is,if the hogs when sold make enough to pay for the feeding, the fanner thinks tin* manure a good profit. The worst of hog feeding in the West and South is, that the culti vated land is robbed and impov erished by giving the com to the hogs either in the woods or in places where the manure i- <ll MARIETTA, GEORGIA, JANUgMK), 1878. j lost, and if the present genera tion of Western farmers could he allowed to revisit the earth a cen tury hence, they would find its in | habitants at that period lament ing the ignorance and terrible sc# fislmess of themselves, the spir ! itual visitants, when they were in j the flesh. Come to Georgia. Northern and North-western ; man—yea! no matter where you hail from—if you are desirous of | making a change of residence, j come to Georgia. If you have in | dustvy. if you wish to do well, | prosper, live well, and to a good | old age, come on, and we will cor dially welcome you. All the ne eessaries, and many of the luxu ries of life, can he made here. — Prosperity already peeps out from j our hills and valleys. The politi j cal condition of the State is set | tied satisfastorily and durably.— I We have a perfect climate and a J good soil. It is now mid-winter ! and yet a pleasant sunshine Isolds j North Georgia in her arms. To- I day the skies are as beautiful o ver Georgia as ever looked down I on Italy, while the air is pleasant ; and not too cool. Here you do not require as much food or fuel as where you are. And here you can work more hours in the day than where you are. Here in sum l mer the term is not too short nor ! very debilitating, but the country is pleasant, with the melody of ! birds, the murmur of waterfalls, ithc songs of laborers, and the j chattering of squirrels. Georgia is rapidly recovcrijuug j from the effects of the war, and | wills intelligent farmers, horticul turists, gardeners and laborers ; from your section, to aid us. she will rise from all her defeats, with | renewed activity, and soon be I come ‘magnificently rich and glo ! riously independent.' Instead of the ‘thorn, shall come up the fir tree.' and our grand old state shall more than ever blossom as the rose. The Grain Props. The reports of the correspon dents of the Department of Ag i ricnlture,received at Washington, and nowin course of preparation for immediate publication, show the enormous aggregate yield of 300,000,000 bushels of wheat for 1877. which is 50,000,000 bushels more than was ever before pro duced. The same official author ity shows that (lie corn product was 1,300,000,000 bushels, with correspondingly large yields of oats and potatoes. The report show s that there never was great er abundance in the land. Out of the wheat product it is estima ted, deducting forborne consump tion in food and seed, that up wards of 110.000,000 bushels of wheat can be spared for export. The largest export yet made in one year was 91,000,000 bushels, with an average of 03,000,000 of bushels. The Department is also in receipt of information from wheat producing sections of Eu rope, from which it is ascertained that the wheat crop in Southwes tern Europe, which produces the largest of the surplus,is good; in Southern Russia amounting to 25 per cent, above the average. The crojt in Northwestern and North eastern Europe is poor. It ia stat ed in communications from south ern Russia that, if the war should stop shortly, there will be a large shipment, and that shippers are | ready to take advantage of Ihe first opportunity, Great Britain i offering the lowest market, which will, il is stated, require about 100,000,000 bushels from the pro ! sent season’s yield. The Aineri | can surplus will have its usual de | maud in English markets, with an increase subject to the contingen | cies of the existing, struggle in southwestern Europe being pro longed into another season. The Department is also in receipt of very flattering accounts of the on eouragement which the great yield of the past season is having on every class of enterprise. The acreage of winter wheat for this year is greater than that of last. .Sorghum molasses of last year is of superior quality. When it is properly made it is a healthy article of diet, and is far better , than the syrup made from ulplttt ' t ie acid and •;! arch. Does but Littb^W^pa i’hc g. neral il \ of GoorgWS%jC In thcm^^^H ■ jiictith dn not pr<q£pyf| • hey >hoiild. to aid in their localities as they Gato had a favorite maxim which was. that a farmer should always be seeking to sell ’rather than buy. What would the censor say if life could be breathed into him, and he be transported to a Geor gia farm to see its management ? He would find with a majority of farmers that from the hat to the shoe, and all the articles of cloth ing, were made abroad that they consume, use and wear, yet do not Meed, raise or manufacture. § The Tea Plant in America. A pamplot treating of the cul ture of the tea plant in America has been prepared at the Agricul tural Department at Washington, under the supervision of General LeDuc, the commissioner. It will soon be published as a supple mentary report of the department. Quoting from treasury statistics, which show that the value of the annual importations of tea into this country from China and Ja pan amounts toahoul $20,000,000 in coin, the commissioner expres ses the belief that the payment of this large sum to foreign coun tries can he avoided. lit* thinks that the United States can at least compete with those countries for its local consumption, even if it cannot rival them.in supplying foreign markets. The pamphlet gives a detailed history of the cul tivation of the laa-yJhwl.—u-t-4-k-e- East, and then continues; “ The lat itudes in which tea is successfully cultivated in China, Assam and Japan, correspond with those of the states of Dela ware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,Ten nessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mis souri. and a portion of the Pacific coast, and the conditions of tem perature of the soil are also about the same.*Successftil experiments in tea cull tire, already made in several of the states mentioned, amply justify the opinion that it can he made an industry in this country of immediate advantage and profit. “A little calculation will show the profits which may be derived from an acre of land containing 2,000 tya plants three years old. The third year the yield should be 187 pounds, ihe fourth year 312 pounds, the fifth year 500 pounds, and the sixth year 750 pounds per acre. When the leaves are abundant one person can gather sixteen pounds per day,. but the average result of a (lay's work may not exceed ten to twelve lbs. The leaves are gathered at three different periods, ranging from March to September, and on an acre yielding 500 pounds, the first picking would be about 120 lbs., and could be gathered by four persons in two days. The same number could pick the two crops in three days.” Many extracts from letters writ ten by farmers in the localities named above arc given, with the report, and the commissioner thinks they justify the opinion that the practicability of the cul tivation of Ihe tea plant success fully in this country,is no longer a matter of doubt. On the sub ject of preparing the lea leaves for use, the report says : •• Asa business, and in compe tition with t he cheap labor of the Chinese, it "would he an experi ment in 1 his country, especially as regards the coarser article. As the finer teas rarely leave China, and the finest never, there would be no competition in these grades if the manipulation of the leaves is carefully and successfully at tended to, while the possibility that modeni methods and appli ances might be substituted for the tedious hand work of the Chinese, seems to promise suffi ciontly well to make the experi ment a wise one.” The eomdm ions reached are that whet her or not t he cultivation and curing of tea can ever become an industry among us, it is plain that there are thousands of families in our land who may profitably eul tivate tea gardens, and enjoy the fruit of them as they do that of the orchard or the berry patch,at the same time that they have the agreeable sensation of drinking The tea the Failed SiHjßMjfi commissioner I'Mp original v> Smith made tended > :!i£jX§j| (■ reeiivillo. Soul It* thirty years ago, aPH success in the Patents ports from ISIS to I same experiment is no\ peated in California by of Japanese. Hints on the ( are of In pot ting n i-o- to liloomflHH winter, use small plants. ;®|jf§l not use over a four inch ptTH Keep the foliage clean by fiR quent sprinkling with luke wan* water, and give the roots a good drink of soot tea occasionally if you want a large quantity of blooms. Do not be afraid to keep them in your bed room at night; it will he beneficial to you and your flowers il you will set a bucket of boiling water llowcr stand at night. I in gi vo I liom all Iho sine . von can. For winter I'loWBft 1 nothing can give more i ban a dozen ever bloom aud to think that that iJkHSb can be obtained I'm the ‘HiHv of two dollars. I have every |W' or w bill*, cream, canary. \ cflgSj blush, pink, and crimson. One of the most interesting aim never (ailing m> <■- m beaut v and fragrance that my yard eon taiued this summer and fall, were my ever-blooming or monthly ro ses, which I had sent me by mail. When I received them not a sin gle leaf was wilted; some that were received in April are over two feet in height , and have been covered in blooms all the time. ./owe (1. in Courier Journo/. Fruit Growing. The value of fruit crops in the United States is estimated by the Government Statieian at one hun dred and forty million dollars an Dually, or about half the value of the wheat crop. The value of the annual crop ol Michigan is put down at $4,000,000. California has 00,000 acres of vineyards, producing 10,000,000 gallons of wine annually, besideg vinegar, raisins, brandy, and fresh grapes. The other states produce five mil lion gallons of wine annually. The single port of Norfolk, Vir gi ilia, reported 3,000,000 quarts of strawberries shipped Ibis year.— Illinois, a prairie state, whose fruit growing is of recent origin, now has 320,000 acres of orchards. Farmers. Whitt calling more honorable— what profession freer front cares and annoyances? Good judg ment, energy and attention by the farmer, and sunshine and rain from above, and the business is a success. No fawning toothers, no bank bills to meet, no sleepless nights,no particular dependence on others, but work and energy and a reliance on self are the great requisites. No cringing and ser vilify upon another’s power and caprice in the supply of tjieir wants. It is immaterial how they please men by their votes and acts; under t lie smile of < tod's sun shine, and the fructifying influ ences of 11 is showers, they are the makers of their own fortunes, and get their living by a faithful and upright use of the faculties of body and mind with which God has endowed them. Winter Plowing. Clay lands are bcfiietittod by being broken up in the winter. The action of frost, snow freezing and thawing improves such land after being broken up. Do not wait for spring to plow hiu-Ii lands. You will be delayed in your work frequently, you will be forced to break your land when too wet and it will he sure to run together. Be sure, too and plow deeper than you ever have, and with the assis taoe of Ihe frosts on your plowed land your crops will be better. To Ct ke YVakts ox Houses.— Take one ounce of cobalt, one of gunpowder, and the same of lard, mix well, apply to the warts with a soft woolen rag, twice a dav. si ry'clmlj Lalmfl I'alhol 1 lor I Ins I class li M j§ r M| New Yon sl3s,C2fif bushels^ in N | 1,1 i 11, 1 r'c •• fj feed c;ilI It* w ith it led with ground bones, in lo increase the dose of phosphafl lime in the food. The farmers in Scotland sutfejJ ed severe loss last year by bfl weal her, and 1 heir aggregate emie will fall short of that receßj <■<l in good years by an cstimatS amount of $40,000,000. Fall ploughing is very destroy t ive to weed seeds, and hence it is of great value to gardens and all cultivated plots, #i aTioiisamls of weed seeds arc turned up td \ fl surface, and with the winter frosts they are largely destroyed. America annually imports $50,- 000,000 of flax, hemp, jute andra mie—till being products that be raised on our own soil This is an actual fact, as in 1870 America raised 27,000,000 pounds of llax, as from successful experiments that have been made, jute and hemp may be produced in like quantities and of equally good quality. A sound New Hampshire farm or says no acre of land ever chea ted him when lie had treated it with a liberal hand. Cultivation and manure will redeem a swamp, or a sand bank. Ten Texas stock growers own in the aggregate 1,024,000 head of cattle, besides horses and mules,J and have an enclosed pasture con’ turning 682,000 acres. i The farmer who is negligent has less stock, lighter crops, and more, money to pay out than his mora careful neighbor. V The careless planting and bail vesting of crops, leaves but aj small margin for profit. aj Plaster should be used freely ifl bout stables and pigpens, spring ling it upon Hie floor immediately after they are cleaned. It w not only serve to keep down noifl some odors, but will greatly by crease the value of the pile. A bad -iiicll about a ini pi ie u-nally a waste of aiiHH nia which may all be saved jH&ij liberal application of plasteJHiJ Keep the teams at work pb'Mg ing this cool, bracing whenever the frost don’t pr< i priii:'. do le now. II •Tops 1.0 In* puU orally in lictfl al)o\i* all. i*l J 1 iooil plonjdiß iln* dlistiis