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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 ji#\ p't^i I