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THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
Vol. I.
(The/if Ul and /ivcoidc.
PUBLISHED BY
J. OK
At One Dollar a Year.
OFFICE
IX THE OLD PRINTING OFFICE
Building, Powder Springs Street. Mari
etta Georgia.
"8888eg....... . .. J i ■"■—
w. n. sessions,
Attorney at Law,
MARIETTA, <iA.
OFFICE, north side of l’uhlie Square
In Blackwell’s Building, up stairs.
D. F. H (XAT( Hi:i ,
WEST SQUARE.
MARIETTA, GKoKGIA.
dkai.kk IN'
EVERY VARIETY OF
Choice Family Groceries.
Marietta. Sept. 1, 1577. ly
DAVID lItWIN.
w. a. l*. m’clatohkv. t. it. utwix.
Irwin, McClatchey & Irwin,
. ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will practice in the Blue Ridge. Rome,
and Coweta Circuits.
Marietta. March 13, 1877. ly
WM. T. WIXX. WILL. J. WIXX.
W. T. & W. .1. WINN,
AITor ne y * n I I, a w ,
MARIETTA. GEORGIA.
March 13,1877. ly
W. R. I’OW Hlt,
Attorney at Law,
MARIETTA, OA.
WILL practice in the Courts of ( obb
and adjacent counties. Collect
ing & specialty. Office with Judge A.
N. Simpson, northwest corner of Public
Square. I>
J. E. MOSELY,
Attorney at Law.
WILL attend to all busines t confided
to hint in Cobb and adjacent coun
ties. Office —in McClatchey’s Build
ing, up stairs.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. *in
E. M. ALLEN,
Keeidriii
Of more than twenty years.
CHARGES REASONA BLE.
OmoK—Xortli side of Public Square.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly
DR. G. TENNENT,
Practicing Physician.
0T Office on Cassville street. — Resi
dence on Cherokee street.
Marietta, March 13,1877. Iv
DR. E. J. SEIZE,
Physician and Surgeon,
TENDERS hi* professional services
In the practice of Medicine in all
lte branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Office at the
Drug Store of Wm. Root. nich 13-ly
M. R. Lyon,
C n E. ROK E E STR E K I',
FAMILY liR(MGRIFA,
And dealer in
* COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Marietta, March 13,1877. ly
n. V. RIST,
CHEROKEE sTRKKT,
S# and Harness Maker
AND REPAIRER.
Marietta, Geo., March 13, 1877. ly
House Building: and
Repairing..
SASH, BLINDS, DOORS FINISHED
TO ORDER.
Lumber of all kinds, anti at the
lowest prices, for sale.
Thankful for the liberal patronage
hitherto, the subscriber would stute
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 Public
Square.
March, 1877. LEMUEL BLACK.
CONTRACTOR
ANT)
BIILDFR.
THE undersigned continues his busi
ness of Brick Making, Stone arid
Brick Building, and i* prepared at any
time to take contracts on the mo-t reas
onable terms, and to execute them in the
most satisfactory manner.
11. B. WALLIS.
Marietta, March 13,1877. ly
1 I#* fcfclXTfNG , of all kinds, neatly
aaoeheaplr done at this office.
AgritultnraL
Suggestions.
The holidays are over, and our
thoughts must be given and our
efforts devoted to practical mat
ters. It will soon be time to be
gin preparations for the*work of
the approaching season, and the
thoughtful farmer will early cont
inence his calculations and his ar
rangements. Considering the
trite, yet wise adage, •• in (inn* of
peace prepare for war," as appli
cable to individuals as it is to go
vernments or nations, the wise
farmer prepares during the leis
ure of winter for the active opera
tions, or. so to speak, practical
warfare of the ensuing spring and
summer. Therefore, with the 1 fore
sight of an experienced comman
der and conqueror, he considers
and matures while in winter quar
ters the general, if not the detail
ed plan of the coming season's
campaign, and is thus fully pre
pared to bring his forces into ac
tion at the earliest practicable
moment, and to increase them
without delay whenever reinforce
incuts are necessary to insure the
success of important operations.
By this judicious foresight he ap
plies business principles and cal
dilations to his management and
operations—does not attempt to
bore large augur holes with a
small gimlet, nor expect Provi
dence tosave him from a failure
attributable to lack of attention
and invention in preparing for
this or t hat crop or improvement.
Knowing the condition and capa
city of t lie forces and elements
at his command —the laborers,
teams, implements, and last, yet
perhaps most important, the qual
ities of the various iields and
.soils which constitute his farm
lie can make his calculations in
telligently and with such aceura
cy as to secure favorable results
under ordinary circumstances. A
map of the farm, showing each
field, its size, capacity (or what it
has yielded), quality of soil, Ac.,
will, of course, be of great advan
tage, and this every farmer should
possess. After deciding as to
what shall be grown upon this
and that field, and as to any pro
posed changes in staple crops,the*
orchard, the garden and improve
ments to be instituted—whether
in draining, fencing, building or
otherwise—should receive care
ful consideration. A book for
plans and estimates will often be
brought into requisition and will
prove indispensible,
The new year is to be to most
of us what we make it, in a large
degree. It is therefore important
to start right, with well-consider
ed and matured plans, and work
to them with fidelity, only modi
fying or changing them as neces
sity or circumstances may render
expedient. But pftms are essen
tial—as essential to the farmer as
to the architect or Shipbuilder—
and should he carefully matured.
There should be a complete per
ception, if not detailed programe,
of the main work to be accom
plished during the year, of the
manner in which it should be done
and of the means available for
its accomplishment. Hence, the
importance of devoting these ear
ly days to ascertaining the exact
condition of things, the resources
available, the capital stock, and
starting with a set of books that
shall show all the farmer needs to
know as to the cost of his crops,
animals, Ac., and what each
should yield in return. In this
way leaks will be stopped, prac
tice will be modified and changed,
anew insight into the require
ments of the farmer from a husi
ness point o view obtained, and
his relations to men engaged in
other industries more clearly de
fined and understood.
Keep up with your Work.
Some farmers drive their work ;
are always up with it or ahead of
it. They anticipate the work" of
the farm in its order, and are al
ways prepared to meet it halfway
or more. Other farmers are al
ways behind their work ; there is
always something suffering from
neglect or delay. They are heavy
losers t hereby. The crops don't
get the attention they need at the
right time : the fences are not re
paired till the stock have done
more damage than the r'epairin,"
MARIETTA. GEORGIA. JANIRMMy.S, 1878.
would have cost : the seed is not
planted till it i- too late l< get a
good crop; the wood is not hauled
till the wood pile i- exhausted,
and that may be in summertime
when tilt 1 crops are suffering®!o
be harvested, and thus the work
drags all the time Such fa fillers
arc not happy. They have not
the lively spirits of those who are
always up with and a little ahead
of their work. Reader, to which
class do you belong .' Much work
can be done in winter tadvance
spring work. Who will do it {
.lute and Jute Culture.
Till-: XKW INin STIIY OK THE SOI I'll.
The subject of jute culture was
brought before the meeting of tin*
Farmers'(Tub, New York, by a
communication from I’rof. Water
house, of Washington University,
St. Louis, who believes that if
jute can be naturalized in the 1
nited States it is a fact of im
mense economic importance.
Jute ranks fourth in value of all
the productions of India. If it
can be grown in the country at
all, it ought to be second only to
cotton in industrial awd commer
cial importance. The writer urg
ed the trial of thft experiment on
a large scale. Letters received
from time to time giving the prac
tical details of actual experiments
already made, strongly confirm
bis belief that tin's important she
pie can be added to the growths
of tlu> Southern States and Low
or (’alifornia.
•IITE (TJ.TKIII-: IN INDIA.
Before reading an interesting
account of jute in India, where it
has been cultivated for hundreds
of years, President X. Kly ta—
ted that it contained the results
of personal observations upon the
growth of this plant-, made by the
professor during a recent visit in
India.
The land intended for this crop
is usually broken up in the fall,
thoroughly pulverized and richly
manured. The seed is sown broad
•cast, from twenty to thirty pounds
to the acre. The time for sowing
varies with the conditions of soil
and climate, in some localities
heingplanted in February, March
and April, and in others as late as
July. Sometimes two crops are
Raised to the acre, but this is very
exhaustive to the soil. After the
jute has come up, it is carefully
thinned, and then left without
much further tillage to ripen. It
matures in 12 or 15 weeks. The
plant sometimes grows to a height
of twenty feet, but the average
height is ten or twelve feet, and
the diameter of the butts varies
from half an inch to an inch and
a half. One variety, which is ex
tensively cultivated, has a smooth
white bark and wide spreading
branches, The jute is cut while
in flower, because the fibre i- then
more glossy and less woody. The
seed ripens one month after (low
erage, and the fibre lots then be
come so woody as to lose much of
its commercial value. After cut
ting, fche jute is usually kept two
or three days, till the leaves fall
off, and then it is immersed in wa
ter. The period of submersion
varies, according to the tempera
ture, Ac. from three or four days
to a month. The methods of the
steeping practised by the natives
are numerous, but in all cases the
action of the water is to loosen
the fibrous bark, from the woody
stalk. After its removal, the in
ner bark is shipped of its rind,
freed from all woody adhesions,
and thoroughly washed and dried.
It then readily separates into mi
mite fibres and is ready for mar
ket or domestic spinning. \o por
tion of this substance is wasted.
The leaves and ashes are used for
manure, the stalks for baskets and
fuel, the seeds for oil and oilcake,
the roots for fuel and paper, and
the silky floss, which escapes from
the fibres in the process of maun
facture, is wrought into hats. In
til recently, the government of
India has never fostered the eul
, tivalion of jute, but without it
patronage this industry has. with
in the last half century, riseii to
a world wide importance.
THE NEW INOFSTHV VI Till, sol I 11.
Under the auspices ol the In*
1 parlmeut of Agriculture experi
incuts in growing jute have been
successfully tried in a number of
the Southern States. T hese trials
have been sufficient to establish
the fact that wherever in the
Southern S:aic- Ihc
d.-imp c! ;.i iii- old ;i inni-tH
-oid i• I;i\ .im .11111\ i;i 1 niiiuH '"’po-d
<• io be 111 • ■! 11 . 1 1 1 ! \ rai-cd.
! Ilf I "!C ill ii *ll HI - I 111 11 Ild^Hry
and the practical test of
menls already made have been so
favorable as seriously to alarm
the government of India. The.
official report of an Indian com
.mission appointed by the State
has expressed a grave apprehen
sion of American competition in
t he cull i vat ion of jute.
According to the estimates of
practical experience, Professor
Waterhouse saj s that jute butts
can be produced in tin* United
Stales for three rents a pound in
currency, and the line fibre for
eight cents. The average price of
India butts in this country is three
and lour emits in gold, and the
fine yarns are worth eight or ten
cents a pound in gold. Thedilfer
ence between the cost ot Indian
and American jute is not, liowe ;
vor, the only source of profit.—
There is a relative economy in
the cultivation of this plant. Ac
cording to Soul hern testimony it
is four times as productive as cot
ton orilax, whilcut (liesame time
it does not require one tenth of
the lahor to raise it. In the man
ulaclure-of hemp and llax. there
is a loss of 1.5 or 20 per cent, of
the material, while the loss in
working jute is only about 0 per
cent. Another promise of sue
cess in this new industry, is that
tin* labor of th<* South is far more
intelligent than that of India,and
is generally tinder skilful guid
a nee. in India tlx* best soil is
usually'devoted lo raising jute
for market, and the poorer land i
left l lit* product ion of seed,- in
the United Stater-, on the contra
rv, a portion of the best land has
been reserved for seed, and the
result is a signal improvement in
tlu* quality of the seed... Ameri
can seed being one sixth heavier
Ilian that of India. Then, too,
the broadcasl sowing of Bengal is
uneven ami wasteful. Our. pat
(‘ill drills save 10 to 15* pounds to
the acre, do the work with far
greater rapidity and equality of
distribution. The efficacy of our
agricultural machinery promises
to neutralize the seeming advan
(age which Iqdia possesses in the
cheapness of its manual labor.
Jute is a.very successful crop
in Louisiana, where the imported
seed makes a very strong plant,
growing jn some localities as thick
as wheat. It can also be profita
bly raised in other Southern
States, where w et. moist soils and
a mild climate prevails. If is on
ly killed by Irosl. The average
crop is about 3,000 pounds (o the
acre, with 1,000 pounds of seed.
It is either sowed broadcast or
planted in drills, and is cut with a
reaper or mower, bound and sen!
-In the decorticating and crushing
mill.
While it costs less to grow jute
than cotton, it could never come
into extensive competition with
it, anymore than rubber does
w i*h leather.
In Louisiana, jute sown in A
pril is cut in July ; that sown in
May is harvested in August, and
that planted in June is cut in Sep
tember, thus giving a succession
of crops which greatly facilitates
labor. The last crop, left till frost
kills the plant-, is used for making
paper. Of the refuse in clearing
•50 per cent, is employed for paper
and the balance for manure. The
beteliel refuse is utilized in up
liolstery. Nine tenths of luanilia
paper is made of jute. Oil cloths,
carpets, gunny bags, burlaps,
sacks, and paper also call upon
this commodity. While better
suited to coarser material'* jute is
in*vertheles employed with col
ton. flax, Ac. in the backings of
silks. \elvets and salins. to chea
pen these fabrics. Jute is also
largely used in making up ladies
switches in place of human hair.
What makes a Car Load.
This question, which bothers a
areat many farmers, is thus an
swered by an exchange:
•• Nominally an American car
load i- 20,000 pound'. It is aBo
70 barrels of salt. To of lime. I*o
of Hour. 00 of w hiskey,2oo -arks
of Hour, o cords of soft wood, 15
t o 20 head of cal t le, 50 or 00 head
of hogs, >0 to !o<l head of sheep,
0.000 feet of solid hoards, 340
bushels of wheat, 400 of corn,
GSO of oat-,. 400 of barley, 300 of
i>n m
iLi \ and *-i
and horses.
qually iiMpm-t *
\ well * ‘-O'flHpHß
is a blessing
I mod. .
Fvery year t he field I
on true seionf ilie prill
dens, and every mai|
rouse to act ion.
Says a Western paper.
is cheap Fatten and sell j;
and old cow s. and get bed 1
for breeding and for niilk."^^^B
Farmers who look after thq
health and comfort of their stock,
and not trust to hands, seldom
suffer pecuniary loss by disease
or death.
fho young stock calves and
colts —when allowed good food
and sheltered, will be one third
larger in the spring than if
I" ith JM
and iiinn In I mi,
It is the opinion of :m ihH|
gent dairx mail that t here
feivnee m: iv, m quarts ~ |
(la\ bet w cell .1 -’MW •
housed and I In* same one
to I lie cold lbi’ half I lie day.
see them.
low a produces l tic largest sprtm?
wheat crop of any State, the pro
ductiou of the United Slates be
ing I 12,54!),533 bushels, and that
of lowa 25.707.312 bushels, while
W isconsin ranks next with 24.
375.435 bushels.
The English feed for laltcning
sheep consists of cotton seed and
turnips. They claim that il will
jmi t on the most fat. is the safest
feed, makes the best mutton at a
less cost, and produces the best
and st rouges! manure.
During the pa'l sea-on there
wore shipped I'm in the Stale of
Delaware 3,072,020 bushels of
peaches. T here were canned in
the Slate 310,075 baskets. It is
estimated that the growers real
ized a profit of fifty cents per
bushel, or nearly $1,700,000 for
I In* out ire crop.
The average steer in Texas is
worth $0.25. Suppose he can be
reared at a nominal cost, il seems
he is worth but little when nia
lured. The average steer in Mas
sacliusetls i- worth sfo.N(|; in N.
York $33.15; lienee the Fastern
farmer can alloid to feed and
house his cattle.
Mr. Dairy in pie i- called the
wheat king of Minnesota, lie is
half owner of 7500 acres of w heal
in the Red river valley, has 1500
acres on his farm at Cottage
Grove. .Minnesota, and is half
owner of a farm of 40,000 acres
in Dakota. 11 is profits last year
an estimated al $50,000.
Corn in (lie ear sells at sixty
cents per barrel in Fast Feliciana,
Louisiana.
The Madison (Indiana) fanners
are complaining becau-i.* they
have to buy lumber to make cribs
for their extra corn.
Missouri farmers are shipping
cattle from Colorado lo I’opd with
the abundant corn crop of l hr* for
mer Slate. which will not pay to
ship.
Il i- siiid seventy one per cent,
of the farms in Indiana are culti
vafed bv their owners, twenty per
cent, are farmed on -bare-, and
nine per cent, are waled.
The cause of -o many window
plants showing long, white, leaf
less stalks, with a tuft of leaves
on the end. i- too great heal and
too little light.
No le-- i han fifty miles of rock
fence i- in course ol construction
in Mason counts, Texa-. al the
present time.
Of all business men, farmers
-liiould be the mo-t contented.
\n matter how prostrated trade
may become. I here i. a ceaseless
demand for the products ol the
farm. The forge mas gross chill,
the loom cea-e it- active motion,
and the anvil rtisMbr svanl of use,
hut there i- a profitable market
at all times for farm and garden
crops, for people must lisa*, and
land m
Mil
linii-okl
rv ini^l
S
h a m 15*1
si reiigt h
-I rain \ A
of saltfl
spread over |t;V|N
;n- i like ;i <-1 111 1111.
cloths n> soon ;is cold till 11 in
is nil gone: 1 Immi cover (lie placß
with n soft -i lev covering (ill
spiral ion i- over, sons lo prevenjj
Inking cold. Rheumatism can ofl
leu lie relieved liy application ifl
llie ]>;iinl*i 1 1 purls of clollis net
n weak solnlion of snl soda iB
wilier. If lhere is infhiiiimalioH
in the joints I lie cure is verß
ipiiek ; I Ik* wash needs lo lie Inkel
/,'<mi dilj'ui' lii rntii/i * lin. —Take*'
dried leaves of common mullein
plant, powder and smoke them in
n new clay pipe; he on re fill that
no lohneeo Inis beegwin the pipe.
Draw (In* -moke well into the
throat, occasionally - wallowing
>onie. I -so it 111 rev times
daily.
1< n mill < nfft r. lea and collet*
dietary foi' children is as had in
il s clients -as its use is universal/
Dr. Ferguson found that children
>o led only arew four pounds per
annum between the ages of Ihir
I ecu and sixteen, while those who
got milk night and morning* grew
lift eon pounds each year. This
need> no commentary. The de
leriorated physique of tea and
coll'ei* fed children, as seen iit
tlieir lessened power to resist dis
ease, i- notorious amidst Ihemed
ical men of factory districts.
/'n /'ni'ifi/ lln (liiinidf.i'inii.
Kat an orange or two every mor
ning hel'ore break fast, drink plen
ty ol lemonade not -weetened;
never drink lea, codec nor any
kind of stimulants; do • not use
soap on the face or neck; take
a sponge hath every morning, ei
I her cold or tepid, in water made
of I with powdered borax, a tea- I
spoonful in a basin of water.
//a a h/tKii hi t lurt. jersoiis i
troubled with feet that perspire.’
or smell offensively, call idled in
permanent cure by bathing I lien J
every night, or uftcucr, in a
solution of borax, using a lierdH
ing lablespoonflll of pu 1
borax id a basin of water. TuH
or three week -of such IreutuiengS
will probaldv be snflicient to ef ■
/ ' "i • 13
dimply applying
ovoninfi. a ilmpfl
iron. b\ umuns fl
Thi- i ro.-tl 111<'i
ici'ii >U,y^M
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