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THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE. Vol. I. ulif/irlihtml PUBLISHED BY j ■ - ZZ?^ Y. Ivg7E-! — i T iT . Zic CO. U One Dollar a Year. OFFICE IN THE OLD PRINTING OI’FK E 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 V 0 S^rCLATTHKY, WEST SIDE SQL \RE. m uurnTr; i:< >rgia. nc.ti.r.K in KVKBY VAI!U:T\ <</ Choice Family Groceries. Marietta. s<*pi. 4. 1877. ly n.ivin n;\\ i\. tv A . i . ;vt'< I aTCHFI . i . b. ntwix. Irwin. McClatchey &. Irwin. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in the Blue Kit'ige. Itniue, and Coweta < 'ircnit*. Marietta. March 13. 1877. ly W-... I. O INN \\ 111.. I. W IX\. W. T. W. .1. WINN, lltor ii ryi si I li a h , MARIETTA. GEORGIA. March 13,1877. ly V . K. PhWI.IL M. M. II I.MMKTT. nwit i mm. Attorneys at Law, WA HI KIT A. <i A. OFFICE IN Till nil 1:1 HOl’sK. atrlJ,L pruciiee in tiie i 'ouris of < 'obb VV and adjacent.couniies. t'olleet inga specialty. ly ,T. E. MOSELY, \tlornri i Law. T]|T 1L L attend toall busiuesironlided Vt to him in Cobb and adjacent coun ties. Office —in MePlatchey’s Build irig, up stairs. Marietta. Mardi 13, 1877. bin K. M. UXEN, , iSisitleiil Drill ini, Of more than twenty year-. CHARGES BE VSO.VABLE. • iFFtcr —North side of Public Square, Marietta, Man'll 13. 1877. 1 v 1)R. G TENXENT, I'rari icing l*liTi iaii. IW* Office on Cassville street. —Resi- 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. '■ oW-. ■'■/'v" . 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 \ . afl- * ' - ’ . 1 1 yjM 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 No. 28J