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THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
Vol. I.
slw .field and fireside.
PUBLISHED BY
X. Or. CAMPBELL sSc CO.
At One Dollar a Year.
OFFICE
IN THE OLD PRINTING OFFICE
Boil.ling, Powilor Springs Street, Mari
etta Georgia.
■■IL'gJJ'JU' LL J. ! ' "?LJ
w. n. sessions,
Attorney at Law,
MARIETTA, GA.
OFFH E, north side of Public Square
in Blackwell's Building, up stairs.
I, 1877. lv
_——
D. F. HM'LVTf’HEI,
WEST SIDE VlA.kc SQUARE,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
DEALER IN
EVERY VARIETY OF
Choice Family Groceries.
Sept. 4, 1877. ly
DAVID IRNVIN.
W. A. F. M’CLATCHEY. T. K. IRWIN.
Irwin, McClatchey &. Irwin,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will practice in the Bine Ridge. Rome,
and Coweta Circuits.
Marietta, .March 13, 1877. ly
WM. T. WINN. W 11.1.. .1. WINN.
W. T. & W. J. WINN,
A Korney * a I Law,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
March 13,1877. lv
\Y. R. ROWER. M. M. HaMMETT.
POWER I HAMMETT,
Attorneys at Lasv
MARIETTA, GA.
OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE.
WII.I, practice in the Courts of Cobb
and adjacent counties. Collect
ing a specialty. ly
J. E. MOSELY,
Attorney at Law.
WXTII.I. attend to all business confided
\\ to him in < 'obb and adjacent coun
ties. Office—ln McClatcheyßuild
ing, tip stairs.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. <im
E. M. ALLEN,
fct-idcHt llenlixt,
Of more than twenty years.
CHARG E S REAS ONAB I. E .
Office—North side of Public Square.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly
DIL G. TENNENT,
Practicing Physician.
Eg* Office on Cassville street. —Resi-
dence on Cherokee street.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly
DIL E. J. SETZE,
Physician anil Surgeon,
TENDERS ids professional services
in the practice of Medicine in all
its branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Office at the
Drug Store of Win. Root. inch 13-ly
M. R. Lyon,
(II F.RO FEE STREET,
FAMILY WROC’ERIES,
And dealer in
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Marietta, March 13,1877. ly
. T. WRIST,
CHEROKEE STREET,
Saddle 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, and at the
lowest prices, for sale.
Thankful for the liberal patronage
hitherto, the subscriber would slate
tliat 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 Pnldii
Sqiiare.
March, 1877. LEMUEL BLACK.
CONTRACTOR
AND
MILDER.
THE undersigned continues his busi
ness of Brick Making, Stone and
Brick Building, and is prepared at any
time to take contracts on tin* most reas
onable terms, and to execute them in the
luO't satisfactory manner.
H. B. WALLIS.
Marietta, March 13,1877. ly
PRINTING,of all kinds. ueatly
acd cheaply done at this office.
Agricultural.
Wbeu to sell Farm Products.
EASTERN EXPERIENCE.
In nine cases out of ten. as
soon as they are ready for the
market.
The aggregate loss by holding
; is at least ten times the aggregate
gain, taking the experience of
any hundred farmers together.
Take grain. In the natural ol
der of things the supply is equal
to the demand. The exceptions
are when war takes from the pro
during class, and adds lo the con
suming dass, which, in addition
to the waste and expense of trans
portation, inevitably augments
the demand, while decreasing the
production, and of course increas
es the price; or when a failure of
some crop in some section places
the supply below the needs of
that section, and other and more
or less remote districts are under
the necessity of making up de
ficiency.
But both of these causes are ex
ceptional. The world is slowly
but surely learning that the worst
use that can be made of men is to
form them into regiments and set
them to shooting at each other.
And as to the failure of the grain
crop in any section, it has almost
become an axiom that when corn
or wheat is below the average,
something else that can take the
place of one or both is above, and
thus the general average, except
in rare cases, is preserved.
Then as to potatoes. They are
generally less in the fall than in
the spring, blit the larger price in
May rarely if ever nets as much
as the smaller price of October.
The shrinkage in six months is
never less than twenty-five per
cent under the most favorable cir
cumstances, and is likely to be
much greater.
Take wool. Generally the clip
is bought up in July and August.
If not sold then, it must be held
till the next year, and although
there is 110 shrinkage, if properly
kept, yet there is some trouble,
the int erest of the money, and the
possibility of even a less price
which the possible advance in a
very large majority of cases never
covers ; and thus in every depart
ment of the farm.
The principal that should un
derlie this department of the farm
operations is: raise the best, when
the crop is ready for the market,
if offered a fair price, let it go.
Asa commentary on these sug
gestions, the experience of two
farmers, living in the same New
England town is in point. 111 the
fall of 1868, both cleaned up the
same day sixty bushels of white
beans, the product of the year.
One sold his crop ten days after
ward for three and a quarter dol
lars a bushel, putting one hun- j
dred and ninty five dollars in his
pocket. The other “held’’ his crop;
when offered three and a quarter
he asked a half-—was confident
that they would soon be worth
four. To make a long story short,
he kept them till last spring, the
market all the time falling, till
failing to sell them at any price
himself, he sent them to a com
mission merchant, some time in
May, for his disposal. He sold
one barrel, in June, for two dol
lars a bushel. This fall, opening
one of the seventeen left to show
to a customer, who thought he
might pay a dollar and a half, he
found them covered with green
mould, rendering them utterly
unsalable.
The farmer lias orderd them
home, and proposes to feed then
to his sheep(if they will eat them)
Confident that the trouble of mind
be lias had and the loss of at least
one hundred and fifty dollars will
suHicp to teach him his lesson
when any crop is ready for mar
ket. if offered a fair price, sell it.
To \mK flannel. —They should
be put into hot water first and
then into hotter or cooler water,
bwl all the water should he alike,
about medium. Do not let them
lie long after being wet. When
they are wrung out the last time
shake well, turn around and'shake
from every side very thoroughly,
and von will find your flannel nice.
You can not keep t lit in from
shrinking, but you can iu a meas
ure. Shake it out again as soon a
they come out of the water.
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 19, 1878.
Country Hoads
AND THEIR IMPROVEMENT.
This is a national matter, and
of importance to the people of
every state and territoiv in the
Union. The “open winter,” with
its moisture and its mud, has de
veloped a sad state of things, and
shown the necessity of greater at -
tention to making good roads and
keeping them iw proper repair.—
Western papers tell fearful sto
ries of the condition of the roads
in prarie regions, where stone or
gravel suitable for ballasting the
causeways cannot be obtained.—
In many localities the mud has
been so deep as to render the
roads almost impassable for weeks
in succession. One of our West
ern exchanges, describing the per
ils of traversing the roads in its
section, says that a farmer with
an ox team and wagon, having a
small boy mounted on the ox
yoke to take soundings, soon
found it impossible to proceed.—
The boy called out: “Two feet
and a half,” “three feet,” “three
and a half, -Dio bottom !” and this
ended the navigation in that di
rection. Though this may seem
an exaggeration, it might be very
near, if not exactly the truth in
many widely separated localities
of different states, where deep
mud has, in the absence of snow
and frost, been the rule rather
than the exception during a great
portion of the present winter.
The present season, when the
roads are so universally bad in aIL
sections, where proper attention
lias not been given to their con
struction and repair, is the time
for farmers and others to study
the subject of road-making, and
prepare for action when the pro
per time arrives. The trouble
with too many is, that their logic
on the subject of roads is like that
of the Arkansas fiddler on (he
house-roof question: “When the
roads are bad, we cannot mend
them; when they are good, they
do not need repair!” And yet it
would seem that the horrible con
dition of the country roads in so \
many regions, near and distant— ;
clogging the business and pros
perity of whole communities by
placing an embargo upon commu
nication and traffic—ought, to
wake up even the Rip Van Win
kles to the importance of making
good roads and keeping them in
repair at the proper season, and
thus provide for such an emer
gency. There is no good reason
for this had stale of the roads in
most sections, and t herefore it is
inexcusable. 111 most of the states
wherein the people are now suf
fering both damage and disgrace
from the bad condition of the
roads, the laws are sufficient, if
properly enforced, to secure what
is needed. The trouble is with
the people themselves in most lo- i
calities. They have a chronic ha
bit yf neglecting the highways,
and what is attempted lo be done
frequently proves a farce worse
than useless for all practical pur
poses, for the simple reason that
the work is performed without
either knowledge or system. Eve
ry district should select its best
man for commissioner or path
master (overseer) —and one who
knows what should be done, and
will see that there is no shirking
on the part of hands in the per
formance of their duty. The po
sition is an honorable one, and
those occupying it who discharge
its duties properly, are entitled to
much credit. Ex-Gov. Seymour,
of New-York, has been path-mas
ter of his district in Oneida coun
ty, and we venture the assertion
that he has performed the duties
of the office faithfully and lo the
benefit of the public.
If the people throughout the
land were to select the best men
to control and manage their roads
and schools—taking second aud
third rate talent for supervisors,
members of the Legislature and
Congressmen, if necessary—our
public highways and “people’s
colleges” would soon be vastly
improved, and local communities
and the public at large propor
tionately benefited. Every land
owner and parent should lake a
pride in having good roads and
schools in Ids neighborhood, and
he willing to make some effort to
secure these blessings and make
them permanent.
Our present purpose is not to
discuss the quession of how to
make good roads, but rather to
awaken the attention of farmers
all over the country to the impor
tance of the subject. Good or at
least passable roads are indispen
sable to the prosperity and com
fort of all communities. In new
countries they are among the first
requisites of the settler who has
anything to carry to market, and
good roads always add to the val
ue of farming lands, wherever
they may be located. The farm
ers of the South and West must
have passable roads to transact
their business, while those in the
Middle and New-England states
not only need them for that pur
pose, but also as drives, and they
can afibrd to and render
them pleasant, with trees planted
at the sides, the grass cut like a
lawn, and no briars or weeds in
the corners of the fence. In fact,
the public highways are a dis
grace in many sections, and ought
to he speedily reformed altogeth
er. It is a matter that needs ‘in
vestigation,’ and we the people
interested had better improve the
present hour and adopt the neces
sary measures to secure road re
form.— y. World.
A Valuable IW
FOR COTTON SEED OIL.
Cotton seed oil has for some
time past figured conspicuously
among our prominent articles of
commerce, on account of the val
liable uses it is made to serve.
The cake is. export ed large lv, amr
the refined oil is growing in im
portance as a substitute for palm
oil for saponaceous purposes in
this country and abroad; and, in
addition to lhis v it is shipped in
considerable quantities to Med
iterranean ports, aed after a little
doctoring, reshipped her as the
olive oil of commerce to no little
extent. Numerous unsuccessful
attempts have peen made to give
the oil ihe necessary qualities as
a drying oil for painters’ use, but
nevertheless, experiments have
continued, and now a party re
siding at Capleville, near Mem
phis, Tenn., announces that the
desideratum has been reached.
He states that he has discovered
a comparatively non-expensive
operation by which the cotton
seed oil can be made equal to lin
seed oil for this purpose, aud cites
an instance where a house was
painted some eight months ago
with cotton seed oil as a substi
tute for linseed oil, on which the
paint is as bright now as on Ihe
day i< was applied.
The process discovered makes
cotton seed oil a dry oil for house
painting that is said to have 110
superior. It now remains to have
a trial of it in the different cli
mates, and in the event of its sue
cess, cotton planters will find a
material addition to the value of
their seed, while to consumers
there will no doubt be a consider
able saving, as a very heavy duty
has to he paid on Calcutta lin
seed, from which the best grades
of linseed oil are crushed. The
greatest saving, however, will be
in the Southern States, as large
sums are spent annually in our
Northern markets for linseed oil
for use in that quarter. Then
there is a possibility of further
outlet. Large quantities of lin
seed are exported from this conn
try, and if cotton seed oil can be
made of desirable quality the
cheapness of price will do the rest.
Of swamp muck, its use and
value, a Saratoga (New York) cor
respondent of the Country Gen
tleman says: I have had quite an
experience for twenty years with
muck, and the best results have
been obtained by me when dig
gingaud piling it in ridges in the
swamp in fall or summer, letting
it remain to dry and slake until
it is fiued by the atmosphere; then
I draw it into the stock yards and
pig yards, where it will absorb all
liquids. 1 draw it out in the
spring and spread on broadcast, or
put it iu the hill for corn as I may
need it. The results have been
satisfactory with me, ami I con
siilcr muck treated in this manner
equal to common stock manure
for grass or any crop on the farm.
An Englishman, iu speaking of
some fine cattle, says: They were
i-venlv Hushed all over and the
meat of that texture which shows
steady, continuous feeding from
infancy, and not a hy.* . &
blubber wrapped - 1
six weeks, as pig.- * ‘
corned against Uhiasrui?iViYfr. , l J t*k i
strong way of putting ifcliut line
nevertheless. -
Vegetable
At the New YorkfAttjWK’-bysi
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anit>TO?'n i" 1 . 1 is I 11
laluy. All Inmgli I lit* \ |JB|||||h
exposed Iu inlcll-c < nil | 1
w liciv animal life
ex posiuv imild inn c\
planted in a lluwor pot, tin- yHEj
speedily germinated, illustrawß
the fact that vegetable vitalrsj
may be suspended almost imho
nitely.
Dr. Smith also stated that in
Lapland reindeer milk is frozen in
cakes in the interior of l lie conn
try aud sent to the coast, where
it is an article of commerce, ex
ceedingly prized on account of
its purity and niilritous qualities,
to be dissolved over the tin* when
ever required. The quantity l hie
made marketable is amazing. A;?
owner of 2,000 reindeers may Ji'jj
said to be a largo manufacturer or
frozen milk. It is also melted b 1
another class of manufacturer'i
and made into cheese. .J
This allusion to pure milk cal 1
ed up a member who stalml, oh
llie authori-ly -of -lb. Ti iinldo. i D.iT
100,000 quarts of water were sold
as milk every day in Hie city of
New York.
l)r. Smith alluded to the won
derful instincts of animals, and
cited several instances, lie call
oil out Brother Besson, long a re si
dent among Hie Indians in tin'
West, who related some instances
of the remarkable instinct and
industry of beavers.
.Several members discussed the
subject of instinct. Dr. Trimble
exhibited tin' cocoon of the silk
worm, which feeds on the ailan
tus tree as attached to the leaf
and limb. The instinct of the iu
sect was shown bv the manner in
which it had first attached itself
to the leaf, and then, knowing the
leaf must fall to the ground when
winter came, fastening itself by a
cord of its own make to the limb
of the tree.
The discussion on instinct led
to a talk about ants, their wonder
fill knoweldge (or instinct) and
industry. A mouther said one
kind of ants built castles twelve
feet high—four limes greater in
proportion to their size, compared
to man, than the pyramid of the
ancient Cheops.
A note from a Maryland farmer
asked how to preserve to best ad
vantage (lie manure aeeiuniilat
ing during (lie year at a stable of
fifteen to twenty horses i Doctor
Heath advised keeping the man
ure under cover and sprinkling li
ver it gypsum—-sulphate of lime,
to prevent the evaporation of am
monia. President Ely suggesled
that muck spread upon the man
tire would answer t lit* same pur
pose. Other member concurred
iu these views.
in tli(‘ birch wood of Giillodeu,
Scotland, there i a remarkable
tree. About forty years ago a
large tree of the forest wa blown
down in a storm and fell across a
deep giilley, which it completely
spanned, and the lop branchc
took root on the opposite ide.
From the parent stein no le s than
fifteen trees grew up perpendieii
larly, all in a row, and there they
still flourish iu all tlieir splendor,
while thf' parent stem evince- no
token of decay. Several of the
trees are not les. than thirty feet
high. The tree is a large fir.
There is very little, if any, dif
ferenoe between the cattle known
as Alderney and Jersey. The la!
ter is considered the proper term
for both. The island of Jersey is
much larger and more important
as a breeding station than that of
Alderney; tin* former exports
yearly somethingover two thou
and head of pure bred cattle, and
the latter seldom more than a bun
dred. 1 lie Guernsey- are e--en
tially the same in their most si ri
king characteristics, but are rath
er larger and coarser, and have
recently been classed separabdv
by the Royal Agricultural Smut
ty of England.
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1 rccs :'"<l ; !'i^f ( . |f
and |ii 2o<i,ooljl®§|
Ik 500, ( MMI j'i| |—ffnds of IlmPl
y*" r 'y- m*n
A cliccm • elArang 7,000 noundJ
has been ina\li* higersoll facto!
i',v in < Canada. >i required thirt
five 1 ons; ol milk for its
sition.
Oilon breaking up a
keeps a soil in iieallh; for when
it lies iu a hard bound condition,
enriching lain runs off, and the
salnlirious air cannot enter.
Asparagus and tomatoes grown
under glass in Mew Jmy are Kell
ing in I’hiladelphia, 1 lit* former at
75 cents per hunch and the latter
a I 50 cents per pint.
Louisiana, has a very promising
outlook in her sugar district. The
planters are making preparations
for more extensive culture, labor
troubles have ceased and every
I hing is encouraging.
The first eggs are always the
best for hatching. They produce,
the finest and most uniform
chicks, and are truer to their
breed, show all the liner points,
and develop sooner, where the
breeding birds are chosen with
an eye to the nearest possible
perfect ion.
Ohio raises the most, winter
wheat, 27,025,05!) of the 175,192
192 bushels produced in the
I Tiileri States, and also more
than half the lla.x produced in the
country. The wool yield of the
Stale is one fifth that of the
Foiled State-, and double that
of < 'alifornia.
Oreat licit ain paid to foreigl
nation lor grain, cattle and meat
during the year 1877, $484,398,-
085. while during 1870 the total
wa 11*15,0 td,930. Of the total in
187 , was for grain,
♦80,508,270 for cattle and meat,.
♦•17,091,525 for butter, $23,815, I
205, for cheese and ♦ 12,302,405*
for eggs.
It costs no more to produce aj
pound of wool than u pound of]
cot ton, and t he wool sells for tliie™
times the price of the
Again,the 100,0()0dogs in (Jeer
gia consume and destroy an a
mount ol food, either already fit
Ibr human u e or - tillable forfeedj
ing to productive animals, which,'
estimated in bacon, would supply
50.000 laboring men.
Twelve million acre# of forest,
it i estimated, have been cut
down or burned in the I'. States
within the last ten \ us. Much
of the timber i- used for fuel,
twenty live cities being on record
a-- consuming lion.-live to teii
thousand ;utc each. Fences ana
'3MA ' f s-v
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