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THE I leil.lt \\ll 1',,..,.,,,
Vol. I.
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PIBJ.ISHEB BY
X. OK
At One Dollar a Year.
OFFICE
IN THE OLD PRISTINE OKI U E
Building, Powder Springs Street. Mari
etta Georgia.
w. n.
Attorney at Law,
MA KI ETTA. GA.
OFFICE, north side of Public Square
in Blackwell’s Building, up stairs.
Marietta. October 1, 1877. ly
M A HI FTTA.t^OROIA.
tiKaffii tx
EYEIt Y VARIETY O E
Choice Family Geoeeiies.
Marietta, Sept. 1, 1877. ly
DiVIJt IHWI.N. t. B.IISWIW
D. & T. B. Irwin,
attorneys at law.
IVIM |>iitetiee in the Blue Ridge, Rome,
* and Coweta Circuits.
Marietta, March 111, 1877. ly
\YM. T. WINN. WIU.. .t. WINN.
NV. T. & W. J. WINN,
I lloriiryt* al Ia w ,
M ARIETTA, GEORGIA.
March 1.1; 1877. G
W . h. eOWKK. H. M. HAMMKTT.
power # mm,
Attorneys at Law,
M.ytIETTA, < i A.
tin UK IN TitK rill KT HOfSK.
w a t'l E I. practice. in the Courts of Cobb
W ind adjacent counties. Collect
ing a specialty. lv
j. E. MOSELY,
Allot' as . . .and M
WTTILI, attend toall husines tcoulided
V V to him in < 'obh and adjacent entin
lies. Onicii —in MeClaieliev’s Build
ing, up stairs.
Marietta,..March 1.1, 1N77. dm
E. M. ALLEN,
Kckmlphl llpnlil.
Of more than twenty years.
CHARGES REA S O X ABI. E .
*ls*
On li t —North side of Public Square.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly
I)H. <L TKNNENT.
Frat'tiriiij; m.
fc#* Ofliee on t 'assville street*.—Besi
deuce on Cherokee street.
Marietta, March l.'t. 1877. lv
DR. E. J. SETZE,
Pliy*i‘ian amt Kiir^roii,
rpKXDEBS his [ii-ofcs-ional sfsmct*-
I in the practice of Medicine in all
iti hraiK-lieslo the citizens of Marietta
and 'Ui'ro4iidinj<eoiinlry. Office at the
Drug Store W'Win. Root. mch IWy
M. J
M. 11. (you,
< it LR< >K T. R sT RKK TANARUS,
liVtlliV (;KO(CKIIX
And dealer ill
< OI'XTHY RROIHf E.
Marietta, March Id, 1K77. ly
n. T. f.Kivr.
< IIKROKEK STREET,
*}j|ji)]i! yd fluigjg M^lmr
AND REPAIRER.
Marietta, Gen., March l.‘l, 1877. lv
House Building and
Repairing.
*A<H, BI.IXDS, DOORS FINISHED
W ORDER.
Lumber of all kinds, and a1 the
lowest prices, for sale.
rtXliankful for the liberal patronage
1. hitherto, the-ith-i-riber would state
chat he i.-. fully prepared to contract for
the erection of Buildings, and to exe
cute the contracts in th' iiio-t -ali-fueto
ry manner. SIIOI’, south -ide. I’ublii
Square.
Mafcli, 1877. LEMPER BI.At K.
CONTRACTOR
A N D
BIiMIKK.
rixilE undersigned continue- lii.- husi
1. lie.-- of Brick Making. Stone and
Brick Hnildin •r. i- ■ --red Ht any
tsioe to take i.. ■ ost rea—
enable terms, and i-• ■ them in the
mo-t -ai isfactorv manner.
11. B W AI.LIs.
Marietta, March Id. fs77. ly
B. R. Strong,
Successor to<. VV. W illiams.
\M*
Apothecary.
YCTl Li.continue business at the Old
fV stand ill MARIETTA, and will
keep on hand, and for sale,
A GKNKKAI, ASSOIM.MKM 111-
KREKII AND GENUINE
Drugs! (-heiniciils!
ioilcl hiiil I’.aiicy irliclrk!
Paints and Oils!
l-’iiM* IVi'ibiiiri't. He.
All which will he SUED LOW FOR
CASH. Prescriptions carefully corn
pounded by an experienced Apotheca
ry, AS HKRKTOMIKK.
B. R. STRONG.
Books and Stationery.
School Books and Stationery of all
kinds. Also, Musical Note Books for
Sunday Schools and Singing Classes.
Any hook not in stock, either 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, Fell. Jll, 1878.
Onion Sets.
White and Yellow Onion Sets, for
sale at the Drug Store of
feh 2d B. R. STRONG.
The Del roil Tree ■•res*.
This popular weekly is received regu
larly, and for sale at live cents per copy,
at tile Drug and Stationery Store of
_ tVh 2d B. R~. STRONG.
Harden f. Field
Seeds.
I HAVE a full supply of Vegetable
, and Flower Seeds. Also, a stock of
Clover,Timothy, Red Top, Orchard and
Blue Grass, all whic>, will be sold low
for CASH.
B. R. STRONG.
Marietta, Ga., Feh. It), 1878.
n. a. nrrmiKK,
Iron Founder l MacM
MAM I'ACTI RKU ol
Btea in En gi ncs,
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS,
Improved ttorgliiim Mill-.
GRIST MILL MACHINERY,
OI'N’XIMI Gear for Water Wheel-,
XAi of every size and deserijitlou ; Plans
and S|K-citicalion> fur Mill Work furn
ished free of charge. Also, Manufactu
re r of Gold Mining Machinery ol lan-si
improvements.
Prices lo soil the times.
All work first class,
ANIJ Ot'AKINTKMi.
And having just built new building.-,
and having as good machinery a- could
lie had North, I feel confident' that lean
defy all competition as to quality of
work and cheapness of price. Being a
practical mechanic of thirty live year
experience, I am not afraid ol in v abili
ty to ive satisfaction to all w lin may
feel disposed to patronize me.
Marietta, March IS, 1*77.
.1. 11. O’NEILL * CO.
Kant Side of the Pilbl!<■ Sfjtnt /e,
MARIETTA, GEORGI
IIKAI.r.RS IN
ALL KJXDS Of
ruarttoM t tttmr rcetra,
Marietta, Sept. I. 1X77. 1\
K. \. IRWIN. a . ■*•. |.% V.
IRWIN A ( LAV,
Attorneys sit l.att.
Will attend to the practice of law in
Cobb and adjacent eoimrie.-,
All collections entrusted to them will
lw met w ith prompt attention. Ofli. e
over M’< lao-hy -tore, vve-t -ide Pub
lic Square.
Marietta. August 7. 1*77. ly.
MARIETTA. GEORGIA. MARCH 26, 1878.
Atirinilttir.il.
Points About Ploughing.
Good ploughing is ol' (ho first
importance in the art of tillage,
but the time or season for plough
ing is ;t question about which
every farmer or cultivator tf the*
soil should be able to lorm an in
telligenl opinion for himself as to
what he ought to know, the re
quiremeuts of his own soil and >il
nation.
Many good fanners advocate
fall or winter ploughing. Very
likely with them it may prove the
time,‘but take some other location
and individual and it might prove
far otherwise. For instance, take
land which is unprotected by
snow and exposed to sweeping
winds or flowing wtjter, as is of
ten found tlie ease in some locali
ties, and fall ploughing will be
found a work of supererogation,
and often worse, for instead ot a
benefit it results in a loss and
damage; for where land is expos
ed to high winds much fertility is
blown away, or if subject to wash
ing rains or flowing water much
soil is washed away, or, if not car
ried away, the soil is so compact
ed that it requires more teams
and labor to work it the following
spring than it wopld not to have
had it fall ploughed. Deep freez
ing of an unprotected soil is not
that which most benefits as the
results of frost in the soil. Let the
ground become well and deeply
frozen, and (lion a good covering
of snow coining and lying on all
winter and the full benefits of
frost in the soil result, and the
continous covering of snow pro
tects from further freezing and al
so assists the internal heat of the
earth in thawing out what frost is
in the ground already, and, in
stead of compacting the effect is
to leave a loose and a porous fine
soil. For subduing many kinds
of growth fall ploughing is the
poorest time to effect the purpose
for if often results in making ex
tra labor above spring ploughing;
and it often happens that warms
and insects, instead of being de
stroyed by fall ploughing, Ac.,
work very much more destruction
than where the ground is left for
spring ploughing.
Take ('arc of tlic Plow Stock.
Jt lias been said (hat the eye wf
••the master is worth-botli of his
hands."
In ho pari of farm management
is this more I .me than in the care
of slock. The carelessness ami
neglect ww-li which work slock
are fed, curried, and geared, on
many farms, amounts to cruelly.
Corn is sometimes thrown into
a trough already half full of cobs,
and fodder, djy and harsh, and
perhaps mold/finder the lie, is
thrown in with the ties uncut., -o
that much of it is wasted by the
animal while endeavoring to di
vide the bundles.
Coughs tire often contracted by
eating dry ami niold v fodder. The
mold is a vegetable fungus, which
should not be taken either into
the stomach or lungs.
Wet from the day's labor, the
poor lieast is turned out “to wal
low," and, without further atten
tion, admitted to his evening
meal, and then to his night’s rest.
At daylight, or before, lie is a
roused to take his breakfast,
which he is not allowed to eat in
peace, but must submit, while
eating, to a rough scratching o
ver with a cruelly rough curry
comb. In his excitement under
the operation, he gulps down his
food half masticated. His repast,
over, no matter how cold the
morning, a cruelly cold bit is
thrust into his mouth by the
thoughtless hostler.
If any one doubts the cruelty
of the cold bit, let him inform
himself by placing his own tongue
upon iron or steel that has been
exposed to the cold night air.
Gearing is often so badly ar
ranged as to cause great diseom
fort lo the animal, and not unfre
(juonlly to occa-iou -.evious phy*
ieal injury.
Haines are often so 100-el.y lied
at the top that the hook- hang
down over the point -of the -hould
ers, -o that, when fhe trace is
stretched, the halites, instead of
pressing uniformly against the
-lope* of the -boulder, press en
lirelv on it - point, and result in
producing sore shoulder.
The trace, when stretched,
should he at right angles to the
slope of the shoulder. This en
ables the beast to do his work in
comfort, and with greater effici
ency.
The back band is intended on
ly to hold up the trace, and thus
keep it from under the animal's
feet, and not to regulate the set
of the plow.
Sore hacks result from the ini
proper use of the hack hand.
The skillful driver, in order to
lighten the draft, gears his horse
as close to the buggy as possible
and yet, how common is it in our
fields to see plowmen lengthen
their traces in] order to “let the
plow into the ground."
Short check reins should not he
used in heavy drafts, as they pre
vent the animal irom availing
himself of the aid which his
weight may afford if allowed to
lean a little forward.
Rubbing dry before the animal
is put up at night is of prime ini
pertance to the comfort and
health of work animals.
The legs and feet of work ani
mals should receive especial at
tent ion, as, unless they are sound,
the animal is comparatively
wort Id ess.— Kn terpi'iae.
Fertilizers.
A farmer discussing the merits
of a fertilizer judiciously used,
says: “Some farmers tell me that
four dollars in reliable commer
cial fertilizers bring as good re
sults for tlie wheat crop and clo
ver following, as fifteen loads of
barnyard manure worth at least
one dollar per load. He who ran
do this need not trouble himself
about what he had better do.
Suppose his barnyard manure will
only fertilize ten acres a year on
a hundred acre farm. This is more
than the average of manure
made yearly on most such farms.
On this ten acres all the profits
have hitherto been made; A c. the
remainder of the farm barely
pays the cost of working. Then
an investment of forty dollars per
year—-the interest on nearly six
hundred dollars at 7 per cent,
will double the farm profits. An
investment of eighty dollars a
year will treble profits, Ac. Is it
not clear that under almost any
circumstances there will lie profit
in this operation? Added to the
obvious cash advantages in hav
ing double or treble profits from
the farm, will he an equal if not
greater benefit in the fc constant
increase in its fertility.
Save all The bones for home
made fertilizers Take a tight
barrel, box or hogshead, cover the
bottom with four or five inches of
unleached ashes; then another
layer of bones, and alternate lay
ers of ashes and bones until the
box or barrel is filled. Four in a
couple of pailfnlls of water, or
place the vessel in the yard,where
it will get sufficient moisture from
occasional • showers. In a few
months it will be touud that the
bones are dissolved.
A French agricultural journal,
the Basse ( 'our, describes the re
sult of some experiments i>i pota
to growing recently conducted
by scientific men in Germany, in
which it is demonstrated that the
“eyes” at the top of the potato
produce a much more vigorous
offspring than those in the lower
part, and the consequence is that
those agriculturists who cut their
potatoes in half before planting
them are well advised in cut I ing
them vertically, but should al
ways divide them horizontieally,
plant ing the upper half and using
the other as food for cattle. But
the best plan of all is to plant
the tuber whole, cutting out, nev
erthless, all the “eyes” except
I hose in the top part.
Pertinent (Questions
Of all the crops raised,probably
none is of such vast importance
to the farmers as the corn crop,
and on no account should it be
neglected.
Did you ever know any farmer
to fail, whose cribs were well
tilled with corn?
Did you ever know a man to
emigrate w4io.se cribs were well
filled with corn
Did von-know a man to corn
plain of hard tinies who-so cribs
are filled with corn t
Did you ever know a man -old
out by ihe -heriff whose crib*
were tilled with corn ?
Did you ever know a ma :
whoso bouses and fences were all
in good order, and that all such
other prosperity crowned him,
whose cribs YVcre not tilled with
corn ?
Did you ever know a planter
proud of himself and loved by
his neighbors and happy in his
family, whose cribs wore not till
ed with corn ?
Did yol ever know a man who
for the eultivaton
had -I He^^p^gg|j|gg
ever know a unß
planted cotton to the
corn, who had any money ? V
Did you ever know
to make money by
fon when lie had to buy his corn?
Kiiral Brevities.
There are ten stockmen in Tex
as who own together l,25!0,000
head of cattle.
The great hulk of the cotton
crop is now grown by white la
bor and upon small farms.
The market contains very few
apples suitable for the table or
for selling on the street.
Georgia and her ugrieultural
and other products will he well
represented at the Faris Exposi
(ion.
Canadian horses are being
transported t® England in large
numbers, where they are sold at
fair prices.
It is estimated that 12,000,000
acres of forest have been rut
down in the United States in ten
years past.
There are more than 150 nam
ed varieties of wheat, hut in ma
ny cases thw distinctions bo
tween them are very slight.
Ex-Secretary Chandler’s Mich
igan farm consists of 51,160 acres.
It has cost him about SIOO,OOO,
and is just beginning to pay ex
penses.
The number of sheep decreases
every year in the. United States.
Georgia had 512,018 in 1800,
419,305 in 1875, and 319,323 in
1877.
Mr. Harper, a Missouri farmer,
recently took a carload of 16
three-year old grade short horn
steers to St. Louis that averaged
2.000 pounds and sold for $0.50
per hundred.
Practical shepherds assert that
crossing the common sheep with
the merino will double the weight
of fleece, and add fully 10 per
cent, to the market value.
Regular and generous feeding
of sheep is necessary to develop
a good supply of yolk, without
which the wool lacks the elasti
city, strength and softness so es
sential to the liner qualities.
Teabody branching corn is be
ing advertised in the South.
One and two good ears on a stalk
of the ordinary varieties will do
for Northern men. This branch
ing corn was ‘run into the ground’
years ago.
There is promise of a European
demand for American broom
corn, which lias not hitherto been
among our articles of export.
A prominent firm of Gincinhali
has tilled a large order from for
eign market.
An Arkansas paper says: “Do
not neglect your garden patch,
if you desire any comforts. A
very little care and attention
now, even to occupy your leisure
hours, will amply reward you for
the expenditlire.”
Frog cult ure is the late-l Wes
tern industry, and is being sys
tematically carried on im Min
nesota. It is a simple process,
consisting chiefly in the protec
tion of eggs and tadpoles from
birds and other enemies by
means of wire screens.
A farmer in Concord, Mass.,
grew 800 bushels of onions on ail
acre last season, well-manured
with stable manure, with a. top
dressing of 100 pounds per acre
of the sulphate of potash! He
Mowed 9 pounds of onion seed per
acre.
In the interior counties of i’enu
syl Vania and in New Jersey
women perform an important
part of the Übor of sowing and
harvesting. In the Stale ol New
i oik 'there be 2,130
‘lift ,-uu-k >f tij,
Uuni-irjMHpiers, 53 V/wWlg Gninjfl
'SarUenoW*
111 Ill'11. II
serviceable giganl
plough. mA >ent nL|g
ded by turn men ipffturns iWK
huge ridge and aj ,I’iJj
three feel deep
half feel wide at flic
is the deepest sub soil phifflHj
we have any account of. mi
Seed— not, in
too deeply.
seeds oHj®
to V N> ,sV'A x '' cnjttflf
' \ ' /G „v" v arl<ejjjß@i
•Miniate and s nil
proper depth is tfffir
half to three inches-
Where lamU^^H
lie'll -
II i* I't ■ t
■;
10 :
lemld lie apply
and imi
ally, a i! lifl.,
!" m!, 1.1
i I e l
gn - ■. - ! B I
li'-iii 1
■I" till
A
I- _T|v;
i
and
ashes
on this a lit I le snH
if straw only is usoTl
way a convenient hollow is cB
tainod that prevents the egg
rolling out from under the set
ting lien. In cool weather tU
eggs are thus kept at a mill
more equable temperature lIJ
in nests made simply of lonfl
straw. "
Farmers and people generally
in this section, are better oft’ at
this lime than at any time since
the war. Many planters are able
to hold their cotton and wait for
ail advavee in prices. Resides this
there is fifty per cent., more .pro
visions in the hands of the cou ,
sinners than lias been since
war. jAll of this is home raised!
and consequently much .h'<Mtefl
than Western produce. If bur
farming community now will on
ly “keep near the shore,”
make I heir farms scll-snppnh
an era of prosperity and
dawn that will make a bright
for the country. Will they do it/
Walton County Vidette.
A gentleman from 11 an*
county informs the Hainilton|
Journal that he has never seen
as much clearing up and bring
ing old fields into cultivation as
the farmers of his county are do
ing this season. Nearly every
pine thicket shows the effect of
the axe, and the bright new vails
lie scattered ever a hundred hills.;
It is also said that IkfllQprc deal j
ing very generally iu guano, and!
every preparation is made for >ll
large colfoij. crop. The Journal
■suggests t hat they make at leidS
corn enough to do them. * *
Col Baßorsby at t he X.
ers Club, says he had lived in Ire i
land when it had a population oit
8,000,000. Most, wf the peopldj
lived upon potatoes. They fe<B
and sold their pigs to Knglaim
ami ate potatoes instead of inerH
The pigs are fed on potatoes
boiled and mashed. The poor!
man’s pig was fed upon the re-J
fuse of the table,namely
They made good pork, and
bacon was especially noted flfl
its sweet flavor, partly becainH
smoked with turf. He
in potatoes. Most of
•if Ireland, of all
ed on potatoes. It may be
cause Ireland produces the best
potatoes grown in the world.
The speaker concluded (in an*
wer to questions) by asserting
that the Irish were superior to]
other nations in both mental mill
physical strength and uttrihute<l|
the fact to good potatoes. i
Professor Dunn suggested that
if t he 8,000,000 people of Ireland ,
had lived &n beef iustead of pota J
tgiek they would not nor.<v
where 1
