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THE FIELD AM) FIRESIDE. Vol. I. tthr/irWand/irtsidr. PUBLISHED BY J. C 3-. CAMPBELL <Se CO. At One Dollar a Year. OFFICE IN THE OLD PRINTING OFFICE Building, Powder Springs Street. Mari etta Georgia. i m t i ii i ..I | W. Jfc SESSIONS, Attorney at Law, MARIETTA. GA. OFFICE, north side of Pnhlie Square in Blackwell's Building, up stairs. Marietta. October 1. 1577. 1 v D. F. M’CLATCHEY, WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. MARIETTA, GEORGIA. lIKALKIt IN EVERY VARIETY OF Choice Family Groceries. Marietta. Sept. 4, 1877. ly DAVII) IKWIN. T. B.IKWIX. D. & T. B. Irwin, AT LAW. Will practice in the Blue Ridge, Home, and Coweta Circuits. Marietta, March HI, 1877. ly \VM. T. WINN. W 11.1.. J. WINN. W. T. & W. J. WINN, Alto r iieys at La w , M ARIETTA, GEORGI A. March 1 It, 1877. ly \V. t:. I'mVKR. 11. M. IIA.MMKTT. POWER *■ HAMMETT, Attorneys at Law, MARIETTA, GA. OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. AlvrlLT. practice in the Courts of Cobb YV and adjacent counties. Collect ing a specialty. ly J. E. MOSELY, Attorney at Law. 'awrlEl, attend to all hnsinesieonlided VY to him in Cohh and adjacent coun ties." Oitki-: —In MeClatehey’s Build ing, up stairs. Marietta, March 13, 1877. Cm ' E. M.ALLEN, Hrnlisl, Of more than twenty years. < II A R G ES R K ASO X A I! L E . (li no:—North side of Pnhlie Square. Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly UR. G. TENNENT, 7 Practicing Physician. J3T* Office on Cassvillc street. —Resi- deuee on Cherokee street. Marietta, March 1.3,1877. ly DR. E. J. SETZE, Piiysician ami burgeon, rpENDERS his professional services 1 in the practice of Medicine in till its branches to the citizens of Marietta and surrounding country. Office at the Drug store of Wnt. Root. inch 13-1 y M. 11. Lyon, CIIEROK EE STREET. FA 111 LY U KOI'i:KIES And dealer in COUNTRY PRODUCE. Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly Jl. T. 6KIBT, CHEROKEE STREET, Saddle and Hanes: 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, rrthankful for the liberal patronage 1_ hitherto, the subscriber would state that lie is fully prepared to contract for the erection of Buildings, and to exe cute the contracts in the most satisfacto ry milliner. SHOP, south side Publh Square. March, 1877. LEMUEL BLACK. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. rpilE undersigned continues hi.- husi ness of Brick Making, Stone and Brick Building, and is prepared at any HintMmMve contracts on the most reas- and toexecute them in the manner. IL B. XV ALIAS. Marietta, March 13, 1877. Iv B. R. Strong, Successor tot.. VV. Will in ms, AND Apothecary. XITILL continue business ~t tin* Old YY Stand in MARIETTA, and will keep on itand, and for sale. ■ 4 A OKNKItAI. ASSOKTMKNT OK FRESH AND GEN FINE Drugs! Chemicals! Toilet ami Fancy Articles! Paints and Oils! Fine PciTiinicry, etc. All which will he SOLD LOW FOR CASH. Prescriptions carefully com pounded by an experienced Apotheca ry, AS HKitKTOFORK. 11. R. STRONG. Books and Stationery. School Books and Stationery of all kinds. Also, Musical Note Books for Sunday Schools and Singing Classes. Any book not in stock, cither Literary, Scientific or Educational, or any piece of Sheet Music, will he ordered and de livered in Marietta at publisher’s pri ces. B.R. STRONG. Marietta, Feb. 2(5, 1878. Onion Sets. White and Yellow Onion Sets, for sale at the Drug Store of felt 2(5 ' R. R. STRONG. Tlie Detroit Free Press. This popular weekly is received regu larly, and for sale at live cents per copy, at the Drug and Stationery Store of feb 2(5 B. R. STRONG. Garden t Field Seed s. I HAVE a full supply of Vegetable _ and Flower Seeds. Also, a stock of Clover, Timothy, Red Top, Orchard and Blue Grass, all whirl', will he sold low for CASH. B. R. STRONG. Marietta, Ga., Fell, lit, 1878. E. A. WITHERS, Iron Flunk & Machinist. MAM TA<TURKU OF S t o a in E n g in e s, CIRCULAR SAW .MILLS, Improved Sorghum Mill*, CRIST MILL M.\i JIIXKRY, Kl XX INC Gear for Water Wheels, ofevcrv size and description : Plans and Specifications for Mill Work furn ished free of charge, Also, .Manufactu rer of Cold Mining Machinery of latest improvements. Prices to suit the times. All work first class, ANJ OCAHANTKKD. And having just built new buildings, and having as good machinery as could be had North, 1 feel confident that I can defy all competition as to quality of work and cheapness of price. Being a practical mechanic of thirty five years experience, i am not afraid of my abili ty to give satisfaction to all who may fed disposed to patronize me. Marietta, March 13, 1877. J. B. O’NEILL & CO. Hunt Hide of the Public Hjunre , MARIETTA, GEORGIA, DKAI.KItH IN ALL KIXI)S OF mu SUES l (00.7 MCE. Marietta, Sept. 4, 1877. i y I-. A. IKW IN. A. ft. f'I.AY. IRWIN A CLAY, Attorney* at Law. -ll Till attend to the practice of law in Y V Cobb and adjacent counties, All collections entrusted to them will tic met with prompt attention. Office over M’Clatehv's store, west side Pub lic Square. Marietta, Augu-t 7, 1877. Iv. MARIETTA. GEORGIA, MARCH 19, 1878. Agricultural. Intense Fanning. A writer (L. ( 1 . B.) to tin* Sa vannah Weekly Xiu'h has the fol lowing to say of Judge Harda way’s experience in intensive fanning, and upon the system pursued by him so successfully : Mr. R. 11. Hardaway, of Thom as county, in tlie January num ber of the Southern Cultivator, says : “ There are two small farms adjoining mine. This year (l 577) one neighbor planted four acres of corn, on which he put seven bushels of cotton seed to the acre, and the other planted two acres of corn, on which he used ten bushels of cotton seed to the acre. I planted six acres in corn, and used sixty bushels of cotton seed composted with lot scrapings and one hundred pounds fertilizer to the acre. Each crop had the same workings and the same rains, and all had seven weeks drought, which did much injury. As mine was most largely fertilized, it had a severe ‘water test.' Mv corn stood the fiery ordeal far better than that of either of my neigh bors. One neighbor planted six by live feet, one stalk in a bill.— J planted four by two feet, two stocks in a bill. Result—my four acre neighbor made twenty seven bushels of com on his four acres, and half a stack of fodder. The other, with two acres, made twen ty-one bushels of corn and half a stack of fodder. Both together, with six acres, made forty eight bushels of corn and one stack of fodder. My six acres made three hundred and ninety seven bushels of corn and 2,032 bundles of fod der. “In a former year," continues Mr. Hardaway, “1 planted one acre of corn and used ten times more fertilizers than did a neigh bor, and planted ten times its much corn on the one acre. I made one hundred and nineteen bushels of corn, and he made on ly t welve bushels. The same sea son that will produce a good crop of corn on highly manured land will produce equally as line a crop on land containing ten times the quantity of manure.” It would seem by these experi ments that the intense system has far outstripped every other. The same experiments are easily made by every farmer, for be who cannot intensely manure even one acre can manure a half, a fourth or even one-eighth til' an acre. Surely his horses, his cows, his hogs, his cotton seed, and his branch muck would enable him to manure intensely one-eighth cf an acre. That would furnish him with the facts, about which there is so much diversity of opin ion, and each can prove the sys tem for himself. And now, if Mr. Hardaway’s success in yield is Ihe result of the manuring, as stated by him, why not every farmer practice it as well as lie ? Is it not better to concentrate the labor and manure upon a few acres than to scatter them wide upon many acres, where the yield would he the same? Would it not be infinitely better to make one hundred and nineteen bushels of corn on one acre by using ten times the quan tity of fertilizers, than to culti vate ten acres, using the same quantity of manure? Mr. Hard away is not alone in these experi ments. Many other farmers in Thomas county, and in other counties all over the State, have reported similar yields from such management, in corn, cotton,oats, wheat, potatoes, and many other tilings. They all prove that Geor gia farmers have it. in their pow er to make a great deal more than they do on less than one third of the land they cultivate, and with much less labor and expense. If these are real truths, are they not worthy of the very highest con sideration a/nong farmers? We think they are. The quickest way to improve our pastures when short of ma nure is to top-dress them, or to pasture sheep for a season, as these animals will exterminate such weeds and grasses as cows will not eat. If the pasture can not be given up to sheep, pasture as many sheep a cows, and it will be found that the pasture will sustain as many cows as when they were pastured alone, while the fertility of the pasture will allow an increase in cows of at least 10 percen, annually. The Soil. Silica, or sand, or clay, and car botiato of lime, are the principal ingredients of tho soil. The o pen, porous,or sandy,is where the silica is (lie main ingredient. The still’, clay soil is that in which al umina predominates, and what is called a loam contains nearly e <jual proportions of silica, alumi na, and carbonate of lime, furnish ing the best soil for tilage. Each of these soils require a different treatment for their im provement. The silicious’or san dy, is deficient in humus, or veg etable and animal matter. This can be supplied by < lie addition of muck, found in swamps or low places, by plowing under green crops, either clover, rye or oats, and by the application of barn yard manures. The open, porous nature of the soil has permitted the humus to either evaporate or sink beneath the roots of the growing crop. The more we ap ply vegetable and animal matter to this soil, the, more tenacious, sticky, and salvy it becomes, and thus better lifted to prevent sud den, extreme evaporation, leav ing the ground too dry, and also arresting the sinking of the ma nure. Where there is a stiff sub soil, five or six inches below the surface, a sandy soil may be read ily and permanently improved; and the purchaser of a farm of sandy soil snould be careful to examine the subsoil, which, if loose and gravelly, will make t he soil and ils top dressings of less value. The aluminous or clay soil will be benefit ted by the application of lime, which unites with the clay, disintegrating it, or break ing up into fine particles the whole mass, and thus permitting the small roots to penetrate eve ry part and find their food, which before this disintegrating, lay la tent and useless. Lime is also, in very small proportions, a direct aliment, or food lor plants. It is from the grass and grain the ani mal obtains the lima that, makes the bones. The clay soil is great ly improved by pulverization, and hence should never be work ed when wet ‘ when dry, it should then be broken tip as finely as possible. As this soil does not permit the surface-water to soak through readily, open and ample drainage should be provided. For this soil, a dressing of ashes is particularly valuable, the potash producing a looseness of the hard, adhesive clay, and being also a mineral food for plants. The calcaneus or lime soil combines, in greater or less pro portions, the silicious, aluminous, and carbonaeious, and being a mixture of the principal primary earths, it is the most fertile of all the soils, and on this soil, we may profitably put gypsum, or plaster, linte and humus in every form, and it may be more certainly re lied on, whether the season be a wet or a drv one. It is what is called loam, and is the soil of the Western prairies, holding in that primitive state a large amount of dead vegetable matter. The soil holds in its bo som the food lor plants. This food is mostly from decayed vegetable or decomposed dead plants and animals, the decaying and the dead becoming food for the * 1 iv ! ing. Rut this food can be taken ' only in liquid form, and hence the necesstiy of the presence of water, which is a solvent, and holds in solution that which the plant is seeking and can take iu no other way. This shows why liquid manures are more immedi I ate in their action than those I that are solid. The best soil is that which not only contains the most food foi plants, but that which has it also in the best prepared state for the ; plants to appropriate. The stiff', hard, and lumpy clay soil locks up the food; the open sandy soil permits it to run away, and even in the loamy soil, the plant fre quently is not able to take its food, either from the want or ex cess of water (for water in either anu sor dilutes too much),or from it not being broken up to the re quisite fineness. The intelligent farmer, by close observation of the habits and appetites, likes and dislikes of plants, can feed them with as much certainty as lie can feed an animal. And he may analyze his soil and know what it is wanting in, and whaU will supply the wanff .did work blindly and mee the dark.—/. n. hi Yorker. jjj£|g^SS| Hints lo FarmjSijffiffi| Flowing w hen I he at I In- -easoii ol iho climate, is exceedingly HgS&ml to I lie soil, and should I 11 is not injurious ly enough in the winter freezes to pulverize the surfaflH The soil, however, should not ha stirred at any season when Subsoiling is becoming common every year in and while on the subject <>l ing wet, we wish to cant si; readers against turning ! hWßpi soil to the surface, or when wet and sticky—better leave it undisturbed than break it when wet. Under the share and renting system so generally adopted, the farmer must watch narrowly the treatment of his land, or his pro fits, if lie receives any, will be made at the expense of the rapid deterioration of his land—his div idends will be declared out of his capital. The compost, heap should be frequently examined to see that the fermentation is progressing satisfactorily. If too much heat is generated, either turn over the mass or pour water into holes made with a crowbar. Experiments should he made by every farmer with different combinat ions of plant food, to as certain what bis soil needs. This may be done by selecting from the list of brands outlie market, with theaid of the analysis pub lished by the Commissioners of Agriculture, several having the principal elements of plant food in different percentages. To illustrate, some brands have only phosphoric acid; others phos phoric and pot ash, and still ot hers have all three of these ingro dients. The farmer who wishes to ask his soil, through the agency of experiment, what it, needs, can purchase a sack, each, of the brands having the above different combinations,and apply a portion of each to small plats on the diff erent classes of soil on his farm. If several years’ tests shows t hat, (lie potash adds nothing to the yield of his crops, he may con clude that his soil is already sup plied with a sufficient quantity of this salt. If the compost of superphos phate with stable manure gives as good results as an amnioniated superphosphate, be may conclude that his stable manure and cotton seed supply enough ammonia. These Experiments will cost very little, while they will add both interest and instruction to farm work. Selection of seed receives too little attention at the hands of far liters generally. The improve ment, in varieties of cotton illus trates the advantage to be deriv ed from a careful and judicious selection of seed. Corn may be improved materially by careful selection even in Hie same varie ty. Those who have previously neg lected this important matter, should commence now by secur ing enough of the best varieties to be bad to be used for seed for the next year,and then by careful selection of the best and earliest seed produced, improve them ev ery year. Corn will be planted in moro than half of the States during Ibis month. On the manner in which this is done will largely depend the amount of work that will be required in cultivation. When the land is well prepar ed and the corn planted, tin* work of making the crop should he half done. Plow stock should receive good attention in every respect, that they may commence the crop in good condition Good work can not he done by poor stock. The watchword on the farm should now be “speed the plow.” Enter peine. Rural Hi The soil is thai ill which I'nnJgj plants. |§ ] and ( fpjlteW "oul ion.- in 1 1, n| < ''n'crmi^HfiSS Hi,mi, under the HW ; ! ' <•<>llll *<-tent -cii.ntiMjSMß Hil ' • l ' practical iinm.-Mgfgpli ■d ashes -cal( ''Fddo Mom- will ahsorb feUgMU 1 '- P l ''vent the catjflßHH falling, , i" 11 the a iv 1 Lmd'yM4|H9HHßH| ‘•in . TV\ ards-hc soil. file Ini/iidtK that I here will ho mi., "I h,-r improved r<>ad Indiana during nc.x t Vm than in nn\ |.rc\ imt history of the Slate, !> h^||g§|pj for an open winter and ble roads. Good seasoned nittek is nirntse service to farmers iisml as tin absorbent, and stalls for animals should he constructed as to admit of a passage iu the rear, with geuMS rous room for the muck to ■ used daily with tlie droppings. “Farmers,” says the AyriniUi/rlst , “should be hitSl ness men.” Whereupon an e:S change pertinently “And, on the other hand, wo" think it would lie a good thing for the resources of (ho country just * now if more of our‘business men’ could he ‘fanners.” The French Government, real izing that national and individu al prosperity are depenhent upon the development of agriculture, have introduced a bill in the Sen ate making it, obligatory to teach the elements of agriculture and horticulture in the 30,000 primary schools of the nation. Threshing by water-power is being successfully done at the grist-mill at. McKellar’ Parry Sound District, Canada. Some off lie fanners bring their wheat to mill, where it is threshed by water-power and then gristed, and return shortly afterwards ( with their Hour-bags well filled. Trees should be planted not only by dwelling-houses and a long roads, but they should bo in j every pasture and by watering places, and near every barn | wherever cattle, horses or sheep j are to be provided for. All these I animals suffer from our burning sun ; and to say nothing of their comfort and enjoyment, the cost of shade trees will be many times paid back in the saving of milk fat, lleece and strength, which will result by protecting domest ic animals from the heat of the , suit. — llural. Southland. M. Genin, in a communication to the French Academy of Scien ces, states that he was able, after having carefully investigated the matter for several years, to say that, all eggs containing the germ of males have wrinkles on the small end, while female eggs are smooth. .Johnson says of millet, that its grain is quite equal in nutritive value to the average of English wheats. No one can doubt its value after seeing a field of Uer mait millet ripe and ready for the sickle. It contains 9 per cent, of nitrogenous matter, 74 of starch and sugar, 2,<> of fat, with 2,3 of mineral matter. If milch cows be fed upon dry hay it cannot be expected of them to give full supplies without succulent food the cannot, except upon a linirtt? scale, carry on its milk secreting operations. In view of these facts every farmer should make! it a part of his business to raise] a sulJicient quantity of beets, ca"* rots and parsnips to give eaclJ milch cow on his farm bushel daily during the winfl| and early spring— GemantJM 1 Telegraph. '