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THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
Vol. I.
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J. Or. CAMPBEX-L. <Sc CO.
At One Dollar a Year.
OFFICE
I\ THE OLD PRINTING OFFICE
Building, Powder Springs Street, Mari
etta Georgia.
W. M. SESSIONS,
Attorney at Law,
MARIETTA, GA.
OFFICE, nortli side of Puldie Square
in BlaekweU'- Building, up stairs.
Marietta. October 1. 1577. l.v
|).4. H*( LIT( HKV,
WEST SIDE SQL A HE.
MAUI KIT A, GEOUGIA.
DKAI.KIt IS
PITA')' VARIETY <>E
Choice Family Groceries.
Marietta, Sept. 4. 1577. ly
o.vvin novts.
w. i. r. m'ci.atciiky. t. b. ihwin.
Irwin, McClatchey & Irwin.
ATTORNEYS AT L.WV.
Will practice in the Blue Bulge, Borne,
and Coweta Circuits.
Marietta, March 1.1, 1877. ly
WM. T. WINS. W11.t.. J. W INS.
\Y. T. & \V. J. WINN,
II lorii vy ft a I Is a w ,
MABIETTA. GEORGIA.
March 13, 1877. 1
IV. R. I'OIVIIK.
Attorney at Law,
•
MARIETTA, GA.
it 1 1.|, practice ITTTIie * ounsoi < oiiii
VV and adjacent counties. Collect
ing a specialty. Office with Judge. A.
N. Simpson, northwestcornerof Puhlic
Square. ly
J. E. MOSELY,
Attorney al Law.
"tTTIU. attend to all husincs: confided
VV to him in Cohb and adjacent coun
ties. Oti'iciv —in McClatchey's Build
ing. up stairs.
Marietta, .March 1.1, 1877. dm
E. M. ALLEN,
KrMtlflll llcnli-l.
Of more than twenty years.
(HA BG E S BEASOX ABI. E .
Office—Xorfli side of Puhlic Square.
Marietta, Mavelf 13, 1577. ly
DR. G. TEN NEXT.
(Practicing Physician.
Oftice on Cassville street . Bcsi
lenee on Cherokee street.
Marietta, March 13,1877. ly
DR. E. J. SETZE,
Physician anil Surgeon,
TENDERS his professional serviee
in the practice of Medicine in al!
Its branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Office at the
Drug Store of Win. Boot. inch 13-1 v
M. K. Lyon,
('ll El?OK EE STREET,
i iuiiiV ison.itllls.
An<l dealer in
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Marietta, March El, 1877. l.v
n. t. oKis r.
CHEROKEE STREET,
Saddle and Harness Maker
AND REPAIRER.
\i a fir l I ;i. y u*cll 13, 1 5 77.
House Building and
liepairing.
SASH. BUNDS, DOORS FINISHED
TO ORDER.
Lumber of all kinds, and :t1 ilm
lowest prices, for sale.
Thankful for the liberal patronage
hitherto, the, subscriber would -tare
that he is fully prepared to eontract for
the erection of Buildings, and to exe
cute tiie contracts in the most satisfaeto
ry manner. SHOP, south -ide Puhlh
So ware.
March. 1577. LEMUEL IH.ACK.
CONTRACTOR
AND
RIILDKK.
THE undersigned continues hi- bn-i
--nessof Brick Making, Stone and
Brick Building, and i- prepared at any
time to take contracts on the most reas
onable terms, and toexeeute them in the
most satisfactory manner.
H. B. WALLIS.
Marietta, March ].*{, 1877. 1>
tST PRINTING,of all kinds, neatly
and cheaply done at this office.
MARIETTA SAVINGS BANK.
.ToilX It. WIXTERS, President.
G. C. BI'BX’AP, Vice President.
A. VAX WAT K, Cashier.
Notes Discounted.
Exchange Bought and Sold.
T. J. ATKINSON,
EAST SIDE OF PI BI.IC Stir ABE.
-MARIETTA, GEO.
KKAI.KI! IS
HioitT Family Id'ocerio!
COUNTRY PRODUCE
■
f AKEX <N THE HOST LIBERAL TERM*.
.1. R. O'NEILL & CO.
part Suit' of the Public Syuare ,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
ni'At.Kiis is
ALL KIXDS or
FAMILY GROCERIES & COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Marietta, Sept. I, 1877. • ly
F. A. IHWIN. A. S. CI.A V.
IRWIN A CLAY.
Alloriirys al Law .
TXTill attend lotlie practice of law in
W Cobh and adjacent counties,
All collections entrusted to them will
lie met with prompt attention. Office
j over M'Clatchy's store, west side Pub
lic Square.
Marietta, August 7, 1877. ly.
W. C. GREEN,
i
Watchmaker & Jeweller,
M A RIKTT A, JaMia (i 110 ltd IA.
VI. SO, (ff-aler in Clocks of every de
scription. Bepairingof Watches,
Clocks, etc. a specialty. Satisfaction
guaranteed, sign of Big Watch, west
side Piihlie S(|iiare. • oct 2
ruA RGins: ba Riel rv sr
X. 0. GIGNILLI ATS
Variety Store,
NOKTH Sim: l’l'Bl.te SI*C A lit ,
VI a•i e 11 :i, ( vorg i a ,
WILL SELL ( HEAP KOI? CASH!:
C 1 ALL soon or yon will loose a har
) gain. Come and see for yourself,
i A large assortment of Dry Roods, Dress
Hoods, Ready-Made Clothing, Sheeting
and Shirtings, Boots, Shoes. Hals, No
tions. Ac. Also,
GROCERIES!
| Sneii as Coffee, Sugar, Spices, Pepper,
Soda, Starch, Soaps. Ac. Also, tine Se
ga r- and Tobacco. ap3-ly
isTs prospectus istk
of till;
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L. 11. \\ ILLIA.MS, Manager.
Atlanta, Ga.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 5, 1878.
Afivintltural.
You Must Come to 11.
Cotton planting An a large scale
must he abandoned.
of fifty acres in this section, with
hired labor, cannot move than pay
expenses. It is a losing business
with endless worry of body and
mind. With thirty acres of di
vcrsilied crops-—grass, grain, cot
ton and root: crops, .judiciously
managed, and doing mainly your
own work in managing these and
your stock, yon can make farm
ing pay and pay well; but be sure
of disaster when you undertake
planting cotton in this section on
a large scale with hired labor.
Morality of Light Wrights
and Heavy Weights. —The New
York Central Farmer’s (Hub has
been discussing the commercial
morality of a practice among city
dealers in country produce—who
buy corn at 58 and fit) pounds per
bushel, and selling at st> pounds.
Too Mueb Toll.
A leading paper publishes the
following:
I Living recent ly sent t c mill
a grist of clean choice wheat—for
the grinding of which I paid in
cash—l received in return for
each bushel sent, twenty four lbs.
of (lour, nine lbs. of bran, and live
IDs. of shorts, being an aggregate
ret urn of only thi rl v civ hi nomads
per bushel, and showing a shrink
age of no less than twenty two
pounds. Would you have the
kindness to state what should
have been the amount and pro
portions of the products receiv
ed C
Choice clean wheat should
weigh sixty pounds per bushel.—
The shrinkage should not exceed
three pounds. A well construct
od mill should make forty five
pounds of good family Hour out
of sixty pounds of good wheat
will make three pounds of shorts
and nine pounds of bran. A mill
less complete in its structure
should make the same, or even
more, in the aggregate. Impor
feet grinding or bolting will re
duce the yield of Hour, but will
add to the shorts and bran. Col.
J. A. Stuart, of Georgia, one of
the best millers in the United
States, a man fifty years in the
business, informs us that, in his
experience with custom mills—
grinding for the one-eighth part—
the yield of Hour per measured
bushel was from thirty-sfx to forty
two pounds, depending on condi
tion and quality of the wheat,
and upon the number and quality
of the bolting-cloth, line or coarse.
He adds that the aggregate yield
from sixty pounds of choice wheat,
should never be less than fifty
seven pounds.
Plant-Feeding.
The first subject presented be
fore the New York Farmers’ Club
at its meeting on the 22d nit. was
an essay by Dr. A. S. Heath on
•• Plant-Feeding,” the substance
of which is subjoined :
The cultivation of plants and
crops is virtually a liberal and ap
propriate supply of plant-food
and crop-food. The wild, woody,
spindly carrot has been trans
formed into the large and juicy
root now grown in our fields and
gardens by liberal and appropri
ate manuring or feeding. Culti
vation, after all, is but liberal
feeding. We destroy the weeds
in our gardens that our cultivated
plants may have the more food.—
We pulverize and loosen the soil
so that our plants may obtain the
more food by making the food in
the soil accessible to the numer
ous delicate absorbing rootlets.—
We water our plants in a dry time
that their roots nitty drink up tln
soluble elements of food. Thus
we fatten plants as we fatten ani
mals—by liberal feeding. But
there is this difference in fatten
ing: animals may be fed too much
more than they caw digest, while
plant - take up only such food a
they require for healthy growth,
both a> regards quality and quan
tity.
Animals are sometimes dainty
and require change oIHPIMk-ii.Ti
greater variety, to tlio.
gestive organs healthy, and
increase in Hesh and growth con;
stantly progressing. Plants re-,
quire a constant supply of all the'
elements present in the soil at the
same time. Titov feed from the
earth and air at the same time,
and only at the same time do they
assimilate both to the earth-food
and air food. All of our cultiva
ted plants and vegetables have
greatly improved by this very
treatment of appropriate supply
of the elements of which they are
composed. Animals can be high
ly stimulated by food given in ex
cess and of a rich quality; but
excess of food only insures for
p ants ;i constant •uul unfailing
supply, which perfects the plant
bill does not stimulate. The ox
cessive supply of manure does not
in jure the garden vegetable, but
perfects it. This plan has brought
to perfection our potatoes, cab
bages, turnips,cauliflowers, toma
toes, onions, and also our grapes
and small fruits, it is this liberal
feeding that has increased the
size of all our vegetables and all
of our fruits.
Our grains and grasses have al
so profited by this treatment, in
growth, size of berry and general
luxuriance. It is the new chemi
cal conditions in which the plants
arc placed which cause the more
abundant introduction f certain
forms of food into their’circuln
(ion, and the more full develop
ment, in consequence, either of
the whole plant or of some of its
more useful parts. We can even
darken and enrich the llnwcrs of
the dahlia, the rose, the petunia,
and other plants, by adding char
coal to their rots; or redden hy
acinths by carbonate of soda; or
make many cultivated plants
brighter in line and bloom by the
supply of superphosphate of soda
or the solution of sulphate of iron.
But we can only perfect plants
and vegetables by selecting the
best of the first fruits—-the seeds
of those which ripen first—and by
freely supplying all their chemi
cal elements in abundance in mi
nute division and perfectly incor
porated with the soil in which
they are grown. Providence will
abundantly supply the air-food.
Starve cattle, and they become
lazy and poor; starve plants and
they become dwarfed and sickly ;
starve fruit trees and the catter
pillar helps to destroy both tree
and fruit.
(Job Henry Brewer, of Ithaca,
thought Dr. Heath was mistaken
in supposing that plants cannot
be overfed. He knew the wheat
plant could he, and had grown a
crop nearly all straw, Ac.
The Doctor replied that the Col
onel’s lacked certain ele
incuts; that the plant would not
over eat.
Colonel Baltersbv fully concur
red with Dr. lleatli, and said that
if we would go to nature, we
would learn more than we could
from hooks. He made a very in
teresting statement concerning
his observations in California o
ver twenty years ago.
I’liidieiil Experience in Feeding.
SAVE VOl'K STB AW.
For the past six years, 1 have
fed. from .September to March,
from six to eight horses on straw
and corn, and, without one excep
tion, they have done well, and
have not any more grain than
when led on hay, and no straw.
1 am so well pleased with the re
sult that I would rather have good
early cut, well-cared-for wheat or
oat straw and corn for my horses
than 1 lie best of bay with either
corn or oats. But if the grain is
allowed to stand until dead ripe
before cutting, and then allowed
to remain, as it often does, in the
field for weeks in tlie'rain and the
sun until bleached, and, whenaf
ter it is threshed, stacked in the
most careless manner, so Hat that
it retains all of the rain that falls
on it for mouths.it will not make
any bet ter feed titan bay treated
in the same way. which, i pre
sume, all will agree, would be ve
ry poor feed for any animal, and
of little value in the compost
heap. I have never had any trou
ble in hauling off my old straw at
threshing time, but, on the con
(rary, have never had enough to
last from one threshing time to
the next, although I have for
4SS - .
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1 ' 1 ■■ l v i'<2 • ’’ >A f
Max' IK.
dud,
nude, ii r.nvh ' _
four dollar- per
has o ivmilar m.iMR
M*u dol larger I <
1 '""‘a
' |' ",,
'innHEgPfin ji il< -
*n \W and grain : and iWHHB
po-l hi-yp. in .
lind a- ”ooil while I'ccdi®^.;-'^
,i- while feeding hay. I
lied that much of ilic
what we shall do with our
grow- out of Hie fact that
first to last we treat it as a
of little value, and, as a result, i!
has little value, while, if handled
with the same care t hat we use in
saving and keeping hay, it would
he as nearly as good, and if it
could not he readily sold, and for
nearly the price of hay, it could
he fed to good advantage, and the
hay sold, which would bring the
same result. Much of our umJM
dow land- luiuhl be ii-cd “
or pa-l inv if -I ra w wa
its proper position as a
feed, as it. i- when cut early
prnp<*rly cared for. Large
rai-cr- cannot alvay- fon^^Mj r
their straw; if they feed
stock through the winter on
tin y have -aved their hav,wlH|
is quite an item. So far as 1 ki<H
I all over the country, there is a
DTcat waste, in the i.U-jAux-OA—l—
than in any other farm product,
and mainly on account of not pro
perly or fairly testingits value.—
M. K. A .in Country Gentleman.
Indian Corn,
The cultivation of this grain is
receiving increased attention iu
almost every part of the Globe
where the hand of civilization has
broken the turf. Especially is
this true iu the United States,
where the value of litis crop ex
ceeds t lint of all other grains com
billed; where two million farm
ecs ate engaged in cultivating
nearly fifty million acres in Indian
corn. Last year the exports of
corn were 89.70 per cent, in quan
tity of all the di tie rent grains,
and llti..8(1 per cunt, in value.—
Showing the vast importance
which the exports of corn have
assumed in this country during
the past forty years, statistics
show that for the live years end
ing 1885, the average annual ex
port was hut 700,000 bushels; for
the five years ending 1845, the av
erage annual export was 079,000
bushels ; for the live years ending
185’", 4,780,000 bushels; in 1805,
10,522,000 bushels ; 1875, 29,200,.
000 bushels; while the export for
1870 amounted to a total of 19,
498.572 bushels; showing con cl ii
sivelythat its consumption is ra
pidly increasing in Europe.
Iu the cause of true agriculture
it is gratifying to note that the
New England states and N. York
are again devoting considerable
areas to this valuable crop, since
it is for staple, standard products,
which the whole world demands,
that farming is to he made attrac
tive and profitable. Indian oorn,
as food for man or beast, has ne
ver received that favor abroad
which its true merits demanded.
Corn meal contains four times as
much oleaginous matter as wheat
flour, more starch and nearly as
much nitrogenous material; con
frequently in all cold climates it
is admirably adapted to sustain
the system by furnishing heat
forming compounds. The oil
gives warmth; the nitrogenous
principle gives strength to the
muscles.
No other cereal, except rice, is
so extensively cultivated. On
our continent, it is raised front
CiiMuda to Patagonia and the i-l
amis of the South Seas, through
almost every variety of climate
and people, and over an extent
front north to south of more than
7,000 miles. It was introduced
into Africa by the Portuguese, in
the sixteenth century, and is cul
tivated. more or less, from the
Mediterranean sea to the Gape vf
Good Hope. In Java and the A
siatic isles, it forms an important
product. In central Asia, Aus
tralia and the islands of the iuj
dian Ocean.it is known and val '
mas. If
kill it. I
Uarnie
jj
jm-y,
iM HrH|
] In. *
ter than if
ly t wice a day.
The English feed for fattening
sheep consists of cotton seed and
turnips. They claim that it wi™
put on the most fat, is the safest
feed, makes the best mutton at aj
less cost, and produces the besjj
and strongest manure. j
Mr. Joseph Stiles, of Stafford!
N. IL, raised the past year, on a
piece of ground containing jus!
three acres. 187 bushels corn,
bushels beans, J() bushels pota
toes, 87 bssbols rutabaga turnips!
and four caul loads of pumpkins.
The United-Slates has6sl head',
of cattle 10. every 1,000 popula
tion, I)enmark/flB7 head, Norway
564, Sweden l 8?, : Hoiland 395,
Switzerland 888, Germany 384',
Austro Hungary 354, France32s,
Russia 315 and Great Britain3oo.
f our coni] tetiters for a prize
for the best crop of Indian cornt
in Maine produced on a half acwr
respectively 88, 72, 70 and 60 bu
shels of shelled corn. The esti
mated cost, counting everything,
varied from 28 to 50 cents per
bushel.
it is of more credit to a farmer
to raise 120 or 140 bushels shell
ed corn ou an acre than it. would
be to serve a term in the Legisla
ture, and to be able to raise 167
bushels of shelled corn from aiki
acre is more to be desired than!
an election as a mi on her of Cn J
gross. JM
Buttermilk cheeses arentJue
simply 'training the buttermilk]
through a cloth, and then eithem
gently beating' the buttermilk J
which causes the curd to separated
or, as is sometimes done, by tliej
addition of rennet. This kirnlM
cheese is not unworthy of attciJfl
lion, and it is often richer tliaiß
that made from milk only onCfl.
skimmed. ■
Some farmers iu Maine are trvfl
ing the Miller system of feediijß
tod, iii winter, which consists' Hi
corn meal alone, disusing hay ,V|
tirely. One funner has fed a C®§
for t wmil v days upon three quiftH
of meal daily, and the animal
thriving, it is said that a
can be wintered by this system 1
for twelve dollars. I
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