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TIIE FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
Vol. I.
dluvfiolrt.mil fivroirto.
IT BEE-MI ED iiv
J. G-. <Sc CO.
At Oii> l>oll;ir a Year.
OFFICE
l\ THE OEM 1*1? INTI N< • <>lll* E
Building, INtwilcr trinu - - Street. Mari
etta < ieorgia.
W. Yl.
Attorney at I a:i \>,
.MARIETTA. GA.
OFFICE, north-iile of I’uhlic Sipiare
in Blackwell's Building. 11 {• -lairs.
i. injA K iiiA,
WEST Sll>F.
MA KI ETTA. GEORGIA.
in vl.l i: in
EVERY VARIETY <>F
Choice Family Gi'ocerie...
.Ylarietta. Kept .-1. 1877. 1>
iiavid n:\vis.
V\. A. V. MYt.AK.iI I. Y. i. 1!. II!" IN.
Irwin, McClatchey & Irwin,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
NY ill practice in tin* Blur Ridge. Homo,
anil < owotii < iroiiil -.
Marietta, Miiroh lii, 1877. ly
YY.M. T. "INN. "HI. -I. "INN.
\Y. T. & W. .1. WINX,
All oi*nr v a I I. '* ■
M AIM ETTA. OEORCI \.
Match 1.1.1877. ly
w. is. i*o r.is.
Attorney at Law,
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M A HI ETTA. GA.
'■itt'lET. practice in tin* < ‘curls of < ohh
VV and adjnoont counties. Collect
ing a specialty. Otllee with dodge A.
N . Simpson, northwest corner of I’nhlio
Situate. l. v
.). E. MOSELY,
/Uloniry :tl Liim.
attend toall hiisine- eonlided
W to hint in < old. and itd jaeent I'omi
ties. Oi- t icK —in Met 'latehey's Hiii Id
itig, tip stairs.
Marietta. Match Id. 1877. lint
LfeEN.
ICtsitltnl .^ vT ;
Of more than twenty years.
( li tKO ES B F. Aso \ \ li I. E .
Office —North side of l’nhlie St|iiare.
Marietta, Mart h 111, 1877. ly
DR. G. TEX NEXT,
PrarliriiiK'
jjgjjp Otllee on < 'assville street. Besi
lienee on Cherokee street.
Marietta. Match Id, 1877. ly
DR. E. J. BETZE,
:<ntl Niii^ron,
rpENOEBs his professional serviees
1 in the praetiee of Metlieine in all
its hranehes to tiie citizens ot Marietia
and suvroundiugcounfry. oilieeat tin*
1 true store of Win. Booi. melt El-1 y
M. H. Lyon,
riIEBOK E E ST B K El'.
I A yi 11,1 icn s.
A ml dealer in
< OFNTBY I'BohlTi:.
Marietta, March id. 1877. ly
m. t. rlmt,
CIIEROK EE STREET.
Me and Harness Maker
AND REPAIRER.
Marietta, Ueo., March lil, 1-77. ly
House Building and'
Bepuiring.
SASH. 81.1 N Its. OOOBS FINISHED
TO ORDER.
Lumber of all kinds, ami at llio
lowest prices, for salt*,
rphankful for the liheral patronage
1 hitherto, thesuh-eriher would t:ito
that lie i- fully preparetl to Vont rad for
the erection of Buildings, and to exe
cute the eon tracts in tin* most -atisfaeto
rv manner. SllOl*. south -ide I’nhlit
Soil.ire.
March, 1877. I.EMCEE BI.A< K.
CONTRACTOR
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rpll E under-igned continues hi - htisi
-1 ness of Brick Making. Stone ami
Brick Building, and i- prepared at any
time to take contracts on the mo.-t re.i--
ottahle terms, anil to execute them in the
most satisfactory manner.
11. B. U A ETAS.
Marietta., Mstreh Id. 1877. 1>
~'ar'Frln ilNcEot all kinds, ueatlv
anil cheaply done at this ottiee.
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Beware of Humbugs!
A Now York paper gives llte
following: •• Beware of all sorts
of humbugs, whether new devices
10 entrap the unwary, or old ones
revamped. There is no survival
i>F the tittest' of things long ago
exploded or proven failures, a nil
its to new matters no farmer or
liorlionlturist worthy of thetnitne
should purchase a so failed new
seed, plant, fertilizer, or imple
ment, tint ii entirely satisfied that
11 will dill the'hill'to a reasona
ble extent. All peripatetic veil
dels of new and wonderful tilings
lor country residents may safely
In* received with suspicion, for as
a rule they are far from being i*i
t her saints or philanthropists, and
those who treat them hospitably
will not be likely to entertain an
gels unawares."
Points about Plowing.
fhe •• wins" of ploughing are
given from various standpoints;
as, for instance, to pulverize the
soil, to mingle the dill Trent por
tion, to kill the weeds, to cover
the sward, Ac. The ploughing
which hest accomplishes the de
sired end is the hest, all tilings
considered. For all seed plant
ing, Ac., that ploughing which
most nearly pulverizes the soil,
and fits the seed bed, is the best
for the purpose. Dill Trent crops
veijuive the soil to be pulverized
to dill Trent depths, and there are
very few that are not henetitted
by having it broken and loosened
quite deeply. Gardeners seem to
understand and apply this princi
pie where tine vegetables and
plants are to be grown, as they
work the soil thoroughly and
deeply, fining it to the greatest
possible and economical extent.
Would farmers, on tlicit* larger
areas, hut measurably adopt this
system of thoroughness, fewer
failures would occur and there
would he less deterioration in va
•rieties to complain of, especially
where there, was dm attention to
selecting and saving seed for
plant ing.
If we are growing corn or wheal
it is less work to raise one hun
dred bushels of the former, or
forty of the laiter on one acre
than to produce the same amount
only from three or four acres; and
then the profit, which is what we
work for. is sotnel hing to speak of
with the larger product, while
with the smaller il needs lo be
spoken of.
Deep ploughing and shallow
ploughing tire merely relative
terms depending entirely on the
soil to he ploughed. \\ hilt; some
soils are ploughed three*6r four
inches deep only, t hey are plough
ed deeper comparatively than
others two to three times that
depl It. All soils are capable of be
ing deepened,but it s a work of pa
tience, good judgment and care.
It is scarcely safe or economical
to take it Held which has been
ploughed only four inches deep
and plough the same t wo or three
incites deeper, 1 uruing the 1 opsoil
to the bottom of the furrow: and
covering it w ith'-oil which has nc
ver seen the light of the sun and
free air. If we would deepen flit*
surface soil we should do i! grad
ually, working it a 1 rifle deeper at
each yearly ploughing, and then
being careful not lo turn all fhe
best soil to fhe bottom of 1 he fur
row. The standing or lap furrow
provides fhe host and most perfect
way of mixing and deeping soils,
as then the' dill Trent strata are
not inverted merely, but are hro
ken and mixed, the whole soon be
comingleavonodand alike. Deep
ploughing and deep working of
tiie soil are two distinct and dif
ferent operations which are often
confounded, ami in practice di
gits! fhe operator, sometimes to
his great los-, with hook farming.
('oofi-ii and lvn. . Shred fine
and properly soak some codfish.
Press it dry a- possible. To one
cup of lish. add one cup of egg
removed from the shell; beat the
two well together, and drop in in
spoonfuls into a hot pan. and fry
a light brown on both -idc-. I-e
half lard and half butt• r lo fry
them in. Yerv nice.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, JANTjKKjg29, 1878.
Cheese Made from Potatoes.
NI-.W W 1(1X10.8 till; \ M IlitlC AX S,
A foreign paper says that cheese
is made from potatoes in Tlntrin
gia ami Saxony, in the niamtfr
described below. Possibly, the
'process may be found worth try
ing, ii' not prolitahle. in t his conn
t ry :
After having collected a quan
tity of potatoes ot good quality,
giving the preference lo a large,
white kind, they are boiled in a
cauldron, and alter becoming cool
they are peeled and reduced to a
pulp, either by means of a grater
or mortar. To live pounds of this
pulp, w hich ought to lie as equal
as possible, is added one pound of
sour milk and the necessary quan
tity of salt. The whole is knea
ded together, and the mixture co
vered up and allowed to lie for
three or four days, according to
fhe season. At the end of this
time, it is kneaded anew, and the
cheeses are placed in little has
kets, whew the superlluotis muis
lure escapes. They are then al
lowed to dry in the shade, and
placed in layers in large vessels,
where they must remain for fif
teen days. The older tho eltei ses
are tiie more 1 heir quality im
proves. Three kinds are made -
t lit* iirst and most common is made
as detailed above; the second,
with four parts of potatoes and
two parts of curdled milk; the
third, with two parts of potatoes
and four parts of cow or ew e milk.
These cheese have this advantage
over ot her kinds, t hat t hey do not
engender worms, and keep fresh
for a number of years, provided
they are placet! in a dry situation
and in well dosed vessels.
Doubling or Lapping Crops.
OATS AND NWKET COTATOKS.
In many eases, tin* doubling or
lapojng crops is very profitable;
and in no instance, perhaps, will
i! be found more so than in the
one indicated above, il neeessi
I ales, of course, t he sow ing of I In*
<>iils in th ills, bill the time is com
ing w hen the drilling and culliva
lion of spring grain especially
will cease to he regarded its novel
in this section of the country.
We are no prophet, nor the son
of one, lint we w ill not hesitate
to meddle this much with proplio
cy (if it may be regarded .as such)
to anticipate that these advan
tages will he recognized as il is
tested; and as farms become sma!
ler ami under the management of
those who regard farming its some
thing more than growing cotton
and a little corn, it will be (ested,
and extensively ado pied no doubt
There is a class ( small {■) the -lip
shod. * 4 do il in a minute" style of
farmer 1 hat will never he indue
ed to Iry t In* drill system. <), no (
not while it is so easy to scatter a
bushel of seed on an acre of old
field in February, and skim a
round w ith a blunt scooter, and
then hank goodness I've got my
oals in." lie gels ahead of hi
neighbors in this. and doit Idles-,
will be ahead again in get I ing his
oat crop under shelter in dime.
From* a representative of thi
class, as ho stands in his Held ami
looks about hint for a blade of
oats to chop at. comes this di
couraging assertion, *‘ t hi-oat Im
siness don't pay." We drift, how
ever, into what wje intended say
ing by admit I ing that there are
two sides to the shield, and that
tin* slam! point is everything.
On one aero of good land, thir
fy to forty bushels of oals and one
hundred or more of sweet pot a
toes may he readily made be
tween January awd November.
The land being well prepared, lay
off rows four feet apart, in which
sow two bushels of rust proof oats
in January or early February, if
1 lie soil i> not good, ti e two or
three dollar- wort It of manure in
the drill. < Hiltivate lhe oals two
or t h roe I inies. In April, or alii
lie later, open the water furrow
wit It a long narrow scooter, and.
after applying manure again in
this furrow. li-t on il w ith tin*
same scooter. The pot a toe plant
being ready, set out on 11 1 i- nar
row ridge lifteon to twenty incites
apart. Iloe tin* potatoes once or
twice before the oats are olf, and
when t lie outs are taken off. finish
the potato bed. ploughing up llte
oaf stubble with a large round
shovel. The ploughing w ill not
injure the oats, and the light tra-
< Mil.:: ite i.i. n< ... h,ir\?'ai; Y
<>at-. will mu injure t lie ]
At
e.l Jr- r >. Wi s
land, wit mil manui Mr:
tivatiou, will produce
bushel to the hundred yards. On
a small -calc, we have known of
two bushels being made on 100
yards, from a September sow ing.
Land set apart for potatoes should
certainly be made to produce a
crop of oats. A full crop of po
taloes can be made.
< hie remark as to sweet potato
vines. Whether the potatoes are
harvested jttsl before or just alter
a frost, the* amount ol forage rep
resented by the pities should, by
all means, be secured and eon ver
fed into milk and manure. The
day before, or the hour before
(just as (hi* size of the patch de
mands ) the harvesting begins, cut
olf the vines w ith a sickle, grasp
ing all the vines in a hill with the
left hand, and with one stroke
cut ting litem oil'; pull (he vine
on to llte next, and. after -ix or a
dozen hills,have been cut. roll in
to a bundle, and drop into the
row. Throw the vines of a half
dozen or more rows info one. Do
this after t he dew is olf of course.
Haul olf at once, and spread out
thinly in loft or other -belter; or.
if you choose, may he put into
pit s if cut before touched by frost.
A large lot of il can lie run thro'
tin* fodder cutler and mixed with
oat straw and corn fodder, and
w ill he highly relished. .None of
il need he lost ; and its long a- it
last-, the milk will be richer and
more abundant. 'There i- no im
■pediuTnrt tcrvr m 1 1! reign [Tig ; aim
without any further ploughing
oat - or ot her grain can go into tin*
furrow made by ploughing up the
potatoes. The following spring
lap cow peas on the grain, which
should be turned under as man
tire, lap a second crop of peas im
pea-, and all in lime tor wheat.
I'mler This rapid rotation land
will only grow richer if supplied
with a little inorganic matter
(phosphoric acid childly) from
time to time. S'. ,I. ('. in Smilli
lip ('itltir/ilor.
Sheep—-Value and I’rolit.
In all suitable localities our
Southern farmers and planters
should keep as large Hocks of
sheep as pos-ilile. for the* follow'
ing reasons :
’They are very profitable, both
for wool and million.
They speedily enrich the land
over which I hey range.
'Their number increases with
rapidity when properly cared Tor,
and protected,and they will make
the owner rich in a few vears.
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A German agrtiMill nrist has cal
ciliated that the droppings from
one thousand sheep during’ one
night would manure an acre of
ground -iilliciont for any crop.-
By usingcheap portable fences,
and moving the same from place
to place, a farmer may manure hi
outlaying Holds with sheep, will)
a less co-t than the hauling and
pi eading ordinary manure.
A great deal of 1 he most valua
ble manure may bo made by a
cheap and easy -y-tem of night
folding on well liltered yard- and
in -lied- w hich should he creeled
on t.he range to protect the llock
against -urlden and -even* chaw
go- of t lie weather.
These are a few of I he many ad
vantages of keeping -beep, and
if we can obtain stringent legis
lative enactments against prowl
ing and sheep killing dogs, and
engage extensively in hu-bandry.
tiie wealth of the country can he
increased bv million-, in a very
few voar-.
How to Manage Wet Boots.-
Though not exactly agricullti
ml. the following paragraph,
which appeared in a Western pa
per a- cminating from *• a friend
in Europe," may prove of service
to many farmer- during winter
and spring:
What un amount of discomfort
wet hoot- entail, to be sure ; and
how well we all recall Ihe fretful
effort- we have now and Il>eii
made to draw on a pair of. Hard
baked one- which wen- by
the (ire overnight lodrv. Damp
and adhesive within, they arc
without still' and unyielding us a
horn. Once on they are a sort
of modern t lock-, de- t rind ive of
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and hang them in a
lire I<> dry. ready for the
night ; draw on the boots aa
happy about the day’s worfl
lilt ml Brevities.
The next crop of w heat in Tex "
as promises to he very large.
.More wheal ami less cot ton is tin*
order of t In* day.
Cattle, sheep and hog- to the
aggregate value of
were received at tin* Chicago l
nioH Stock Yards during tin* \Mumj
\ Mankind p-vo
-aid to have -hipped t
rcl- of peach kernel- to
(tliio, recent ly, lo he u-eiJ^R|||
• • 11• 111i■ •;11 imrpo t
The public land-
than 1,000,000 dollars last \ uA.
If would he inleresling to
how much the public land-
away to railroad- yielded in the
same time.
11 It r 1 i,i >w 1 |Yt*i.*.t
for a thoroughbred yearling is
•tdD.OOO. Lord Lonsdale Inn ing re
cently pnidlhal sum for a brol her ;
to Doncaslor, tlie Dei by w inner
of 1 s7.‘.
Il required nearly I .'>,ooo lbs. of
poultry and 5,000 lbs. of oysters
to feed tin* inmates of I he public
institutions of Now York oily on
('lirist mas day.
Corned mutton is extensively i
used in foreign countries. 'There
is no good reason why il is not in
general use here. Tor cooking
with vegetable- then* i- no meal
superior lo it.
It i- the poorest kind of econo
my to attempt to manage a farm
without a newspaper. If it- ad
vice is heeded and it- teachings
followed, each of its number w ill
he worth ten time- its annual
cost.
11 is si ated t ha! il la lies NO per
cent, of the wheat crop ol lowa
lo t ran sport if to the seaboard.
If so, Ohio. Indiana and Western
Virginia wheat growers ought to
be able I o com pete with t lio-c of
lowa.
More grass and h*--grain, more
condensing ol food on the farm,!
should be the motto now. 'The
plan of put I ing more of our idle
acres into gras.-, and of raising
more live slock of a bid ler qua Ii
ty, will be a Hep in the right di
red ion.
'The pork packing deficiency in
1 lie We-I io.lanuary I st, was li 15,-
000 head, a- compared with pre
vious year. The crop Tor llte on
lire ensen i- ox peel ed lohe a fid I
one. Total packed to above dale
•‘>,020,000; estimate for the full
season. .'>..‘>oo,ooo.
The only management. besides
warmth and high feeding, by the
which a perpetual succession of
eggs can he obtained iu wittier,
is by having pullet- and lien- of
ii i Heron I ages, which, moult ing at
din’eron! period-, do not all con e
laying at Ihe same t ime.
A fat call’ i <>2.-‘> per cent, wa
ter, and 07.7 of dry sub-lance.
There are I. I 1-1.500 mule- in
tin* I nilod Stull*-, valued at SOO.
150.070.
Nebraska mi ed 2*>.000,000 of
bit-hel-of corn, and I 70,000 hog
in I "77.
Books and papers form as much
a part of a farmer'-working tools
ti-do the plow and -hove! and
hoe. The farmer who attempts
to use (he latter without the as
si-tance of the former does an
• i p hill lui-ine-s " which nearly
a! ways end-in failure and poverty
Mr. 11. J. <lsiniin. t In* largest
grower of potatoes iu Totnpkin
<'minty, N. Y., recently sold ov
er sixteen hundred bushels of
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A correspondent <!' the
Farmer who remarked that “ Carl
hut’s don't work enough," woktfl
up an agriculturist, who says
I lie Farmer t hat digging up and
hauling oil' old apple lives from
morning until evening, and tlien 4
doing chores with a lantern tilt;
eight,mid setting glass in the hard
windows until ten, thinks that at '
ter pul ling anol her pine knot on.
the lire, lie is in a condition to re* 1
lute such mii improper and till
I rut liln 1 charge.
( ol lon seed some years ago was
considered worthless, and im
mouse piles of it, accumulated on
I lie Soul lieHi plantations. For a
niiniher of years it kgs been util
ized. however, and lirtS become a
valuable source of income. It
yield per lon about seven hun
dred pounds of cake or meal and
thirty live gallons of "oil. The
meal i wort h eighteen dollars per
iod the cake from I wenty-fourto
I wcnly ciglil dollars, ami the oil
in tCtSjri rude state about thirty
eight cent pm'gallon. Much of
I In* cake is exported.
According to the .Northampton
( M assaeliuset I s ) < hizettc, William
S. houglass, of (ircenwich, has a
very remarkable cow. It 'is staled
ihat lie gave in the nioutlt of
June. lijnarts of milk. The
most she gave in any one day was
■>i!\ *lllarts. She averaged through
Hie month JUj quarts a day; aH
i.\ cenls a quart, the milk would
bring eighty I hree dollars and fif
ty t wo cents.
K .u: .hick’s Fit err <'ikk. Soak
two mips of dried apples over
night in lukewarm water. In the
morning drain the apples and
chop them fine. Simmer them
for two hours in two cups of mo
lasses: when cool, add a cup of
brown sugar, half a teaspoonful
of (dove-, one of cinnamon, half*
a nutmeg grated, and a pinch ofJ
salt. Stir in a nip of hut ter, twqj
heaten eggs, half a cup of sotnl
milk, and three cups ol Hour; adefl
a heaping lcaspoonfi.il of soda,
dissolved in t wo lablespoonfuls of
hot water, and last of all put. in a
nipfiil or more of stoneJw’ai.sius
dredged lightly Stir!
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