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THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
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Building, Powder Springs trivet. Mari
etta Georgia.
W. M. SKSSHEWB,
Attorney lit Law,
marietta, ga.
OFFICE, north of Public Square
in Black well - ' Building, up -iaii>.
Marietta. October 1 1877. ly
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Irwin. McClatchey &. Irwin.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will practice in the Blue Kit'ige. Itniue,
and Coweta < 'ircnit*.
Marietta. March 13. 1877. ly
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MARIETTA. GEORGIA.
March 13,1877. ly
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Attorneys at Law,
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inga specialty. ly
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\tlornri i Law.
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Vt to him in Cobb and adjacent coun
ties. Office —in MePlatchey’s Build
irig, up stairs.
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lience on t'herokee street.
Marietta. March 13, 1877. ly
DR. E. .). SETZE,
iMioirian and surgeon,
rpENDERS Ids professional services
1 in the practice of Mcdi‘ine in ail
its branches to tiie citizens of Marietta
aiql Jurroundipg counlry . Office at the
Drug Store of Win. Root. inch 13-ly
M. K. Lyon,
( H EPfnk K E ST R EE T .
LifliU GItOIKKICV
And dealer in
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Marietta, March 13.1877. ly
H. T. 4RI*T,
CHEROKEE STREET.
Sail anil lames: Maker
\XD UEFA IHE It.
Marietta. Geo., March 13. 1877. ly
House Building' and
Bepairing'.
SASH HI. 1 YDS. DOORS FINISHED
TO ORDER.
Lumber uf all kinds, mid at the
lowest prices, for sale.
ETlhankful for the lilieral pHironage
I hitherto, the subscriber would state
That be is fully prepared to contract for
the erection of Buildings, and to exe
cute the contracts in tiie most satisfacto
ry manner. SHOP, south -ide Publii
Square.
March, 1877. LEMUEL BLACK.
CONTRACTOR
VXD
BiiLDr.it.
trill E undersigned continue.* Hi- hit*i
_l_ ness of Brick Making. Stone and
Brick Building, and i- prepared at any
titne to take contract* on the most reas
onable terms, and to execute them in the
most satisfactory manner.
H. B. WALLIS.
Ttarifcttt March 13. 1577. ly
Agricultural.
Originality of Farming.
There are two ways in which a
farmer may manage his business.
He may observe definite rules
without regard to varying eircum
stances, or he may be guided by
his own judgement and regulate
his own operation according to
conditions. There is a tendency
among a large class of farmers to
he guided by maxims which they
have reeipved from their fathers.
They plant their corn and wheat
as nearly as possible on stated
days, or at stated times of the
moon. They hoe and cultivate
their corn a given number of times
without much regard to the condi
tion of the soil, and in all the rnu
tine of farm work, they keep as
nearly as possible in the old track,
believing that to be the only safe
one. •
When we consider the variety
of circumstances under which the
same crops are raised in different
localities, it is evident that no
rules can be given for their man
agement that it will he best to
follow in all cases. There are
fields of corn that will thrive and
produce well with very little cul
ture, while others will be nearly
ruined by quack grass and thistles
without very thorough cultivation
Sometimes the weeds are of such
a kind that a smoothing harrow is
the best implement that can be
used for destroying them, while
at others the time-honored corn
plow is the only instrument that
will prove effectual. Unless the
farmer uses judgement in the
management ol his corn, he will
not always get it at the least cost
per bushel.
The same may be said of every
department of farm labor. The
old rules may be safe, but there
is sometimes a better way, and
the farmer vvho can look beyond,
and see when his practice—and it
may he varied with profit—has
an advantage over others. There
is as much opport unity for mak
ing good returns in raising our
crops by taking advantage of cir
cumstances as there is in selling
them, by taking advantage of the
markets. It is often noticed that
the farmers who do the most hard
work, do not always succeed the
best.
This is because they do too lit
tie thinking. The question should
always be, 11 How can 1 apply my
labor so that it will be most etl'ec
tual f ' Many farmers accomplish
more with their head* than with
their hands.
There is an opportunity for ori
ginality not only in the manage
ment of crops, but as well in all
the appurtenances of the farm.—
Dirign Rural.
Hilling up Potatoes.
1 think that hilling up, in the
way it is practiced, is, as a gener
al rule, injurious, excepting on
very wet land. If land is culti
vated properly, and to the right
depth, 1 claim that the crop where
no hilling up in the usual way is
done, will be nearly double that
hilled up, because those hilled up
do not receive the proper amount
of moisture. Should there he a
bundant rain to suit potatoes
planted on the level, it would
scarcely reach those in hills,
Modern hills are built as if toward
otf all the moisture possible, and
compel the poor potato to eke out
an existence in a heap of dust. I
have often wondered when open
ing out a hill, how the potatoes
grew at all. My experience in
potato growing is, that the proper
way to plant is on the level, and
then after this done, mulch the
ground well with some manure, to
save as much moisture as possilde
in the ground. Sometimes it is
necessary to draw up a little earth
where the tubers are pressing up
through the ground, but I would
only put on sufficient to cover. In
drills, I would plant one good
seed-eye every fifteen or eighteen
inches, and in hills, two or three
eyes at the most. Asa general
rule. 1 think potatoes are planted
too thick, and too much seed put
in the ground, and frequently we
find people reserving all the small
trash of the pit or bin for seed, in
stead of using the medium sized
pot a I oes . —Co an try Gen tlem an.
The most promising new straw
berry brought forward last year
MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 26, 1878.
in England is named the Loxford
Hall seedling, of the British
Queen class.
I’etulo Rrowing
I noticed in a recent issue of
Hie Prairie Farmer an article fn
potatoes and potato eyes, which
is at varance with my experience
and practice. 1 have had thirteen
years’ experience, during which 1
have made potato raising a speci
alty, ami tried many experiments,
a few of which 1 now give your
readers for what they are worth.
In the first place, the planting of
whole potatoes is entirely contra
ry to my experience. For sever
al years 1 planted a small portion
of my potato patch not only with
different kiuds of seed, but with
different varieties, cutting the
seed in shapes and planting dif
ferently, hut giving the whole the
same culture as the remainder of
the crop. Where 1 have planted
whole potatoes, of whatever kinds
they have invariably given me
more potatoes in the hill, but of
so much smaller size that 1 did
not get so large a yield and the
larger portion of what 1 did get
was almost worthless. As t o the
tops, they were always more a
bumlant but less hardy. The
most notable example I ever had
of this, was two years ago when I
hired an acre of land from a
neighbor and planted it in May
lOtli to Early Rose, he putting in
a half acre of the same variety,
the quality of the land being the
same. The plowing was done by
the same man on the same day,
and planted the same day and in
the same way. The culture was a
bout the same, the only difference
being that I cut my seed to single
eyes, and he planted his seed
whole. They were dug the same
day, my acre yielding 300 bushels
of fine potatoes, his one-half acre
yielding only twenty-eight bushels
©f small size and poor quality.
Now as to the difference in seed
selection from the different ends
of a potato. This experiment was
continued for three years in the
following manner: First, by tak
ing the potatoes and cutting them
ifito two equal parts and planting
the seed or blow ends in rows by
themselves,.and the stem ends in
other row*, always the same dis
tance between both rows, anti hills
planted side by side ; cultivation
the same. At digging time the
potatoes were dug and measured,
and in the three years the differ
ence in quantity' was hardly' per
ceptible, but those from the stem
end were the largest with fewer
in v the hill. The second experi
ment continued the same length
of time as the first, cutting the p©
tatoes as before,putting seed and
stem end by themselves. 1 next
cut each piece into single eyes,
planted them in drills three feet
apart, eighteen inches apart in
the row, side by side; cultivation
the same. By this method 1
found that (lie seed or “ blow ”
end gave me not only the largest
yield, but the best and most uni
form potatoes every year. Those
from the seed end grew better,
and those from the stem end pool
er. This last experiment 1 tried
twice with the same result. Now
I consider the theory, 1 Hat the
stem end being the best, which
seems to he se popular, to have its
foundation, if it has any at all,
based upon the simple fact that
where the seed end was planted
by itself, and stem end the same,
each end was kept intact, and the
seed end having a greater pre
pouderance of eyes, so many po
tatoes fuuned in the Hill that they
could noUgrow to any size; while
the stem end, having hut few eyes
and many of them often failing to
produce a sprout, they had plenty
of room to grew and develpe into
larger and better potatoes. After
trying every way of planting,
from the whole potato, half pota
to, and from five eyes down to one,
putting from one to three peices
in the hill, I have come to the
conclusion that one eye to the
peice, and one peice to the hill,
will give the best returns.—Prai
rie Former.
Se(h Green announces that the
Fish Commissioners of New York
are ready to receive any orders
from persons desiring to stock any
of the stream* of the State with
brook or salmon trout. Mr. Seth
Green's address is Rochester, N.
York.
Deep Plowing.
1 do not plow to an unreasona
ble depth, because 1 have no ma
nure that 1 wish to entirely get
rid of. About the year 1840, Gov.
Hill, of New Hampshire, after
finishing his political course, en
tered into the spirit of agriculture,
published the Farmer's Monthly
Visitor, wherein he advocated ex
treme depth (ten inches) in plow
ing, and asserted that another
farm is laid beneath every man’s
farm, aud that he had only to run
the plow to this depth, or two in
ches deeper, reaching quite a por
tion of subsoil, and he could have
another farm of superior fertility
to the first, without any addition
al purchase money. This myth
was believed aud practiced by
many “ new light'’ farmers, to the
great injury of the agricultural
portion of the State wherein hun
dreds of thousands of dollars'
wortli of manure was hopelessly
buried beyond the reach of vege
tation, as manure at that depth
will leach down much faster than
plant roots can grow to overtake
it. To this point, I quote Colonel
Wfiring, in American a 9 ricnltv
rlk, “About six acros were plow
ed some seven or eight years ago,
twelve inches deep. The subsoil
of blue clay, which was brought
to the surface, was a lasting inju
ry to the land. It still shows the
ill effect of the treatment, in spite
of time and manure. I confess
to having been an advocate of
these theories for many years,and
1 have seen them sustained on
certain soils. Where 1 Only on
swamp, mud and prairie soils,
where the bottom is as rich as the
top ; but I have slowly come to
the belief that it is usually the
safest plan to leave the surface
soil alone, where nature made it,
and where she always keeps it in
her most fertile forests and fields.”
This writer found en his three a
cres of corn, the past year, that
the corn was best on the sward
ground (that is usually the poor
est), where the manure was plow
ed in only five inches deep, com
jffcred with the residue of the soil,
which was old ground, where the
manure was plowed in eight in
dies deep. Also, a piece of mea
dow of about one acre on the
shore underlaid with a gray sand,
like sea sand, was plowed deep,
for the purpose of smoothing it
down better, and was then sowed
to Herd’s grass early iu April last,
and came up well, and when I
looked for grass, behold there
grew nothing but sickle gras.—
Nev' Fug. Farmer.
Destroying Poultry Lice.
In your issue of Dec, 20th, 1
notice an enquiry from I. F. G. iu
regard to the extermination of
poultry lice from the stable and
hen-house. 1 can fully appreci
ate his trouble, for I have myself
experienced great annoyance and
suffered considerable less from
that pest in my poultry-house.—
1 tried every thing that was sup
posed to he efficacions—sulphur
alone by the quantity, both as a
powder sprinkled liberally in the
nests, and by burning it. I also
burned tobacco by itself, then to
bacco with the sulphur, then sul
phur with sassafras. 1 also tried
whitewash, but all to no purpose,
the lice multiplied to such an ex
tent that not only the hen house
was filled with them, hut they
even swarmed in the woed-pile
that was close by. 1 was in des
pair, for having failed with sul
phur, the fumes of which 1 knew
to he death to every living thing
that should inhale it, 1 did not
then know what else to do. But
the reason why the sulphur failed
was ©wing simply to the fact that
1 could not sufficiently confine the
smoke. It made its escape thro’
the roof, notin the least affecting
the vermin in the cracks between
the weather boarding or on the
ffoor, and 1 think that! F. G. will
find the same difficulty if he will
try it. The whitewash will do but
little good.
I can, however, tell him, with
the utmost confidence, what, if
properly applied, will free his sta
hie from the|pest. It is crude po
troleum. I made my boy go into
my hen-house, last spring, with
the largest sized paint-brush, and
directed him to use it liberally,
and to force it into every crack.
I also made him coat the under
side of the roof, and all the nests,
inside and out, and the result is
that there have been no nlH|
that house since, nor do 1 expect
any again very soon.— ,J. C. jP. <?
Country Gentleman. . ' *
Fare of Ewes. -
A correspondent of the Agri
cultural Gazette , England, gives
the following in relation to the
care of Sheep, which is. applica
ble here as there, wi|
do uot to
of wa*
the f Jf
I. i *—r"
■*©•©’ i n< • ;
a tESyffrary one cuiTOM
leeway setting down a dm
of hurdles aud stuffing i!
tween with straw. We,,
month before lambing to
our ewes every night m>nKsß
turnip pen to a yard where
have a laddering of straw,
and morning, in the cribs; the
yard is supplied with fresh litter
daily. Here they have a dry,
comfortable bed. Ample breath
ing space, uncamiuated by nox
ious vapors, and a gentle exercise,
with a moderate supply of pure
water, are conducive to health.—
It is surprising what a quantity of
barley or oat straw a flock of ewes
will consume; the dry food has a
salutary effect in contracting the
watery influence of the turnip/A
When the food of the breeding!
ewe consists principally of tur-'i
nips during the last six weeks and
gestation, the difficulty, and con
soquently the danger, of yeaning
is greatly increased. During tin
latter period of gestation, the nii“
triment derived from the food is
principally expended in increas
ing the size of the foetus in vtero
instead of being stored up by the
mother; hence the increased dif
ficulty and danger of parturition.
In order to strengthen the ewe,
and enable her to safely with
stand trials through which she
must pass, and to encourage the
flow of milk, a mixture of oats
and maize (half a pint to a pint
per day) should be given for a
month before lambing.”
Attend to Business.
Nothing hut ultimate ruin stares
that farmer iu the face who does
not pay personal attention to all
the most minute details of his
farm. There are a thousand small
leaks about the management of
an ordinary farm that, if not close
ly attended to, will surely bring
the most, hard-working farmer to
ruiu aud bankruptcy. Niue tenths
of the sinking farmers can attri
bute their present distress to no
other cause than a lack of close
attention to the small details of
the farm—-a closer supervision of
machinery and tools, the stock
and their feed, a place for every
thing, and everything in its place.
No one is as much interested iu
attending to these details as the
boss. Such a course will, in a
few months, or a year or two, at
most, onahle many farmers, who
aro now on the down grade, to
again begin to ascend. If herioc
ally persevered in, it will surely
make headway against what now
looks so hopeless. A fear of suh
burnt hands and face, ami dirty
clothes and boots, and a desire to
have a reputation that he does
not work on the farm, have been
a fruitful source of loss to many
farmers. A course of this kind,
once entered upon, will he hard
to depart from.
in a paper lead before the A
merican Dairyman's Association
lately, Mr. C. W. Ilorr, of Ohio,
sensibly said: “No farmer should
buy a cow that, after careful in
vestigation, he does not believe
will bring him at least SSO worth
of milk during the season. He
had much better give away a cow
if he owns one, that does not give
over S4O worth of milk per year,
than to keep her during a series
of years, even if he has to pay
S7O or SIOO for a five-year-old cow
that will give S7O wortli of milk a
year. Poor cows are dear at any
price ; really good ones, if young,
are never sold too high. Great
pains then should he taken in the
selection of cows to obtain natu
ral milkers.”
In spite of the difficulties with
which the farmers of Georgia
have contended, they have, to a
large extent, accomplished their
emancipation from trie ruinous of
fecte ot the “ all-cotton” system,
many year-. W
Jpen the point of raisiuj
tlie-fftfjn all the supplies necel
ry for homo consumption, t
oau produce cotton profitablJ
a money crop, even at piJ
prices, hut not on
I*l i• . Rural Southland.
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sum ol“^1
K e n a e IHT I
i. Mll • alary
"laded . "j" ..V I .'..'V ~'"f%
ii tin i a "r/ffiy ■C-IV-w'.V
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1
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h p
1 -^h
■ - pi
Would illn'
tion hI del riii^^M
milk. * ’IHhS|
GW Mhjve, of
sugg<> blue as a goHS
tipple lor<y, tWuds at the Sou3
and says : “I have found
ley. Stephenson's winter and tflH
lo be Ihe best winter keepei
• his section of the country.” Hi
It is computed that the
used for liquors in a year i* tin
United States readies’ 70,000,000|
bushels,which would make 1,050. |
000,000 four pound loaves of gooi 1
bread. Great. Hritain uses 80.
000,000 bushels of grain vearl tA
for the same purpose, and annul
ally imports food to the value of]
nearly $400,000,000. A
The heaviest animal at the r■
cent Sinithlield Club show *[
England wtis a short hornox. ifl
live weight when exhibited wn
2,744 pounds. On being slaugli ®
tered a few days after the show
his dead weight was 1,990
which is within 274 per cent. oM
live weight. Of loose tallow tiled*]
were 336 pounds. * J
The state of husbandry in
cum lit ry is the best test of its nBJj
ligliteninenl. TJio thermomete™
of civilization rises or falls aJJ
drives the plough. “ You must
send the plough,” exclaimed a
man who had travelled all over i
Christian missionary ground, “in "
to heat hen lands ; a barbarian na
tion needs but to be
deep, snb'-oiled, pi. uled, and SB
inevitable harvest will be an qH||
lightened nation."
Never in the history of Arkfl
sas were there such signs nfflH|
dust ry and iinprovcmciit. I jHB
every county in I lie State we
the most clieering news.
wheal has been sown, and it
in (letter condition than ever
tore known. .More new groSSII
has been put under fence, ij '
new fencing made, more lanHHj
provements, and more
displayed Ilian was ever
ed in our State in any one yjHg
previous to I hi-.- .1 , hnn*H*. JHH
vert iHer. dHH
Hiain work, and that,
< l*an*st kind, conics into
file play tjiiit** as well on ilicWj
as anywhere else. Look aUH
get a just view of the posit*
have ploughing, sowing,
iug and selling all done
proper time. .Never hurry, iJ
always drive work ahead. Knl
in the evening what you intcnJ
do the next day. Have
ny day and your clear day rH
pation designed heferehand. n
ways bring into requisition, A
full means for compassing thel
sired ends. In short,
understand vour business,
will enjoy it and thriv* iHSi
C£n rf
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