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THE FIELD AND FIRMWS. Vol. I.— No. ;S7.] •*. < \Mrni-.i.i.. j:. ii. omodman. .fivcoulr, IM’BI.tsIIFD HV X. OF CXA.Is£PBELL.v!iCO. At One Dollar :i War. I X II IK Ul.lt rri.ntixc HI IKK Rilililiug, I'liwilm- Spring' Street. M:iri * 11; I < i<*ol*s**i:l. IV. Vi. si-:** ION*. Attorney at Law, • MAUI ETTA. (A.A. Oil'll K. 1 tort Ii -Tie ol I *iill * in BlaekwelFs ltniltlin#s. up -lair-. Muriel In. i. vnwk'. tv i;s'i' si hi: rrr.i.n- in:. M A Hi ETTA, GEOIMk. ill. \ I I K IN i:n:i,‘Y vmuety r Choice Family Groceries. \lnrivli:i. Sent.l.l*77. ly J. E. MOSEL\\ Attorney at Shat?. st tl.l. :il I fin 110 nil liii.-ines ■ i-oil |i i lei I V V lu'liim in < olili mill ml jni-eiii 001111- vif. . ( ti'Fii i:—in Mel Intolioy '- Miiilil iug, up stair.'. MiiriiMia, Maivlt l.’l. 1577. <im E. M. ALU-;\, Kroiilrnl Metif if. 1 n rfyT* Ol' more than twenty years. < ir AI!<; ES II KAso X A 1; I. K . nII. i— Xnrtli ~iilt* ol' I’uhlii- S.ll iare. Marietta, .March lit, 1*77. ly DU. TENNKNT, I'riicUtitii; B*liv*irij*i. • £J|" Olllcc on I'n-sville 1!•!*.■ I.- — I'i • lenee on Cherokee sired. Marietta, March 1. - !, 1577. ly DU. !•:. .I. SETZE, UMiDiciaii Xiu'sooit. rpKXDFRS his prof." ioiial senices 1 in Ihc iiradicc ol Meilicinc in all its hranchcs to the eitizeiisot Marietta an<l siirroii ailing cm in I ry. oil ice aI 1 lie Drug Store of Win. iiooi. inch R> ly M. il Lyon, i'll Kno K !•: 1: ST I! 1: KT . ft'A til BA (ii ICOI'KIKII-M. A ml ilcaler in roi x'l liv I’lioiH < 1:. M 1 net ia. March 1:5. 1*77. l y . T. UKfNT, i'll Kf’OK K !•; STRFFT. AND UEPAIUEU. M irictta, Goo., .March 1.!. ly DAY'll# fIftVJN. T. D !IfW IN, D. & T. B. Irwin, A Tip UNISYS AT LAW. M ill pra.-tiee in flic Blue Bulge. limnc. ami i 'oWctjt < irciijis. .Marietta, March TI, 1*77. ly OftHEK 4 KEYNOEDS. Dentists. avkst sun; nr tiik I’l hhir si/t a.i;i: 11...inis .lycrAl i liin hey Store, if T . gives ii* pleasure t" i'll form our i i'ridi.is that ivc have ret urneil from ..nr l‘hilai!ei|ihia trip when vve have lieea w orking ~olel\ in the int -re-t ol .nil' |.rot'i}ssioii. Again! tve leii'l. r our service-ISO ettr I'ri.ii.l- ami ihc |inhli. gejiCrnlly. conlhleiit that with the hit - .si appliances ami inn.-t improve.! in stl'iiiiients, w ith all other improvements, gathered regardless of-expcii-a- or rion iile, vve eatt ilo work as satisfactorily ail il efficiently as ran he done el a-where. Marietta, d;i.. .March A, IS7.s Hi mso Building and Repairing, SASH. 111.IX'DS, DOORS FIXIsnKD TO ORDKIf. Lumber of all kinds, and at the lowest prices, for sah*. rjshankfnl for the lihm-al p.-o ronage i hitherto, tite suliscriher won hi state ■ hat lie is fully prepare.l to contract for the erection of Bail.ling.-. and toexe ciite flic .anil rat is in J lie ino-t -at i.-facto i v iiiiliind 1 . "'lfni’, smith hie I’liMn sipiare. M ,ivh, 1*77. I.KM! 111. Bt. A< K. COM'MAC TOM AND cd coni imics hi' hu.-i- Making, Sion, and ml 4' prepared at any Id' on tin- riio.-i rcas toe.\> ciilc • iiaam-r. JSw It. 11. U.I.W i T. J. ATKINSON, KAsT SIDK i>K Kl'ltl.K swK a 1,T.. MAUI ETTA. (JED. hi \ I ED IN t llttlt i Family Groceries, c’OrNTRV I'UODIVK i aki non i iii: m<.>t i.im-:i: vi tkum . i, K.Strono, Successor tot!. W. \\ illiams, IE H GIST, AND A pot Ik'Cjii y. I ITlLKcontinnc husine'S at the Old V> Stand in MARIKTTA. and Mill keep on hand, and for sale. ' .11 N! I! U. A SSI IIJTAIKN I 111 FEES]I AND OEM INK Drugs! ( Inanicals! i'osSct .-tied l'itnc> iHirlts! Paints and Oils! S'iiit- IVrii nntcry. etc. All \t hi.-It ull he SDI.D LOW KOI! CASH. Prescriptions carefully com pounded by an experieneed Afioilieea rv. \s m:in i<n’or:i:. 11. It. S I RDXC. Books and Slat iont i’v. School Books and Stationery of all Kinds. Also, Musical Note Books for Sunday Schools and Singing Classes. Any book not in stock, either I.iterary, Seieiititie or K.locational, nr any piece of Sited Music, will he ordered and dc li\crc.l in Marietta at pit I>l ishcr’s pri ce'. It. It. STRHXC. Marietta. K.-li, •((, IS7*. Onion Stds. W hite and A'cliow Union Sets, for -a le at I In- I irtlg Store of fell g(i It. It. ST I*oN’t:. Tht* Sh-iruit I'm- S*rr>s. Thi' popular weekly is received regu larly. aml for sale ai live cents (id-copy, at the Drug and Stationery Store of felt 21! It. I*'. STRONG. Gimlets $ Field Seeds. 11l AV K. a lull supply of N’.-getahle and Flower Seeds. Also, a stock of < lover. Ti mol by, Red Top. < trehard and Blue t irass. till whie\ M ill he sold low for CASH. It. R. STRONG. Marietta. Da., IVli. lit, 1-78. r:. uinii i.s Im Fsunisr l Mashinisi. MA Xi l'Al I I• Ri:R OF Slt* a m Kng in (* s, < I U< T EA U SAW AlD.i.s. Bitt|rov<‘d Mt'pglt ttiii URlsp M | |.l, MA< IIIXFRV. I>l X X INC C.-ar lor Water Wheel-. k. of every -i/e and d.--.-ription : Plan' ami Speeili.-at ions for M ill Work fnrn ished free of charge. Also. Manufaetii rer of Cold Mining Machinery of late-t improvetncnl s. I'riccs to suit the tiiiK*.-. AII ork fii-st class, AN 11 .it A It A M I I.I). Aml having just built m-w hnilding-, and having a'good machinery as could he had North, I feel confident that I .-an defy till competition as to ipiality of work snd cheapness of price. Being a practical mechanic of thirty live* years experience. I am not afraid of my abili ty to give satisfaction to all-who may feel disposed Vo patronize me. Marietia, March II"77. It'S, T. WINN. M II.I* \\ INN. W. T. & W. .). WINN. 1 (it i* ii -y• a I ij :> h . M VRIFTTA CliuRCI \. Marietta, ((aeorgia,) ’fliin-sdiAv,(Slay *2, 1878. A(ivifii !t it v.! I. Soimil V itwvs ol' Airricnllun*. Pl.Ot (illlNO. Dr. A. S. Heath, jnesitletil <d' tin' New York Inmiers eluli, ii*:o! ;t ]i!i]HU- enliiletl “Souiol A’it'ws of Agrieiilltiie I ’lough Ettrlw I'lough Ente.Hlougli Deo|i."\vhii-TT i< given in full ;ts follows : Extreme sDiteinenls nitty lie eovreet, ttinl nnlietil view s nitty he elear and rigid,lnti there is mtn-h taken for granted in all lliat is radit-al and extremt 1 . That is sound ttdviee which s;iys,--<'ari fully‘analyze assertions." Some of tlie learned members of the Farmers' Clnli tell tc that shallow ploughing is the only rational method. Others again tell us t hat shallow ploughing in dieates tho'mental depth of the man who advocates so stiperlicial a prof-ess, while those who advo cate and practice deep culture are said to get swamped the lirst year. Now deep and shallow ploughing are both advisable un der certain circumstances.. if in land like the thin sandy surface soil in the valley of the Ued Uiv er, in Northern Texas, you plough but two or three inches your crops will not prove remunerative. Hut. if you go deeper you will iiud a rich, deep, black alluvium, almost inexhaustible, and your crops will lie not only abundant, lint immense. There shallow ploughing would indeed prove that tin- farmer did not know the capabilities of his own soil, and that deep ploughing was the re sul* of thought and observation. How many farmers do really un derstand the qualities and capa bilities of the soil they till, or rather attempt to till ! It is as advisable to go to tite bottemofagricultureas.it is of any kind of business, pursuit or calling, it is reasonable dial if four inches of soil contain only a given amount of plant food, and tliiit litis soil is rapidly drained of litis plant-food by annual crop ping,'-it will eventually become exhauste i unless these elements lie some way supplied lo tite soil. Manure and fort ilizers will main lain tite soil in good condition if liberally supplied. Now. econo my advises ns to cast about ns to sec how we can best and cheap est keep our soils productive. Eel ns lirsi see if we have a rich soil deeper than we have been ploughing, and if so vve have two ways by which wo can make and keep our soils productive. Then plough four inches and tthsoil four inches the lirst year and do not fail to use both manure and fertilizers at the same time, if only moderately. The useofllio .subsoil plough is of great advan tage m root crops—beets.carrots, (fee. I laving succeeded well I he lii-t year, let us continue to go deeper ttud turn up more good soil and put crop-food upon the soil and mix them intimately. Frequent ploughing aids the alnorption of aerial gases and ammonia, and enables tin- rootlets to obtain air and moisture; ii enables tin- line soil to drink in 1 lie dc\ and slight bower.'. Many have done as!i.i pid filing by raising the subsoil, not properly fertilized, and cover ing by ii tin- fruit fill -oil out of reach of the roots of hungry plants. Deep ploughing enable in dry v, eat bet t Im* deeper mob t ure to reach the root., of crops, and in wet weather the 'opera bundance of rain can -ink o that the roots of the crop- are not drowned. Another extreme view put forward is that plants cannot In too generously .supplied with food because they will only bike ami assimilate what they require to perfect themselves and their fruits. Some of the fertilizer are caustic and poison to both vegetable and animal 1 issues. Florists and horticulturists ma nure and feed plants profusely, il is the secret of their 'ticce-s. Of course when I say food i do not refer to poisons in n state of great concentration, but appro priato food for crops, I conti dently refer to the immense storehouse-of plant-food in *ln deep, rich, alluvia! -oil- of river liats and prairies, which contain a thousand times more food than any crop can appropriate, andyel l he large*! and mo-t perfect crops of wheat and corn are annually produced on these soils, and no I tody feels the least apprehension' of over feeding or stimulating or glutting them. Some of the W estern States have local alluvi al soil' of i weiitv to thirty feet in depth’, which, when raised from wells, at once abundantly pro duce crops. They do not over-feed plants. Drops can he poisoned Inti cannot lie glutted like nni nulls. Therefore, 1 say, if you find plant food in the subsoil, bring it to light liberate it give il to plants and needy man, that food nia\ abound and happiness prevail. If I am wrong I look In I hose luminaries around us to sel ine right and to place me in l he- path of t rath I hat i may not east a douM or shadow on any mind. 0 lit England deep ploughing and high eitll tiro are generally prac tised, and improved farming im plements are used. In Belgium from six to seven inches is the usual depth ploughed for cereals ands (o !i inches for root crops, hut on small plats of ground tin* spade reaches eleven inches. In Prussia ten inches for grains and thirteen inches for roots. The average depth of culture is ton .inches, though in some districts the plough reaches sixteen indies dee]). In Switzerland it is from six to eight inches only. In Xwe den five to seven, and for roots eight to ton, and some even fif teen indies. The medium depth in Italy for cereals is eighteen incites, while for hemp it is still deeper. The subsoil plough is uncommon in Austria, and six to seven indies for cereal crops and eight to nine inches for roots is the practice, hut in some parts of Hungary even sixteen inches is practised for roots, in Egypt, though tin* Kedivo lias 1)0,000 acres in cultivation, with sugar cane in Epper Egypt, yet the soil i--- scarcely more than Scratch ed. In < Hiina, though not an ex ample of judicious culture is often me!, yet added to superficial til lage, concentrated manuring is generally practised. In the Is land of .Java they have the richest agriculture in the world. Deep ploughing is unnecessary, for the earth is deep in fatness, irrigation is lavish, and the never failing, crops are always bountiful. Improved American agricul I lira! implements are nowhere tip preeiaied in the East. Wevelhey used in Dliimi no horrifying spec lade of the starvation of 10,000 000 of people could sadden the world. Wore these same appli tlUloes used in Egypt, the poor la borer instead of ! cents per day would receive ten limes that a mount. In all Oriental culture the earth is not encouraged to yield up it- treasures of wealth t o maiik ind. Aml even in t his country farmers -com afraid to penetrate the deep rich soil, lest, perchance wealth of production may Im poured out in overflow ing abundance. The soil is far richer I ban the gold and silver mines, .and if treated judiciously will never become exhausted of il - 1 tvs -u r< . The prodigal and not tit- frugal man, comes to want. Eahorccs Doing South. barge ti'indicr-of white laboring men are moving South, where they are offered homes on reason able terms. These honest toilers will liinl warm hearted friends in the Southern Shite.-. if they go there lo make an honest living ;ti .111 honorable occupation ; bill if iiiey tire going I here to control and shape tin- political affairs of t lie Soul li, t hey will find lhem selves living in the wrong conn try. The South has had its share of dead beats, and now asks for lione-t men to make their homes in that goodly land. We would ay, go South, if the money lords and the landlords of the great North and West will not give to hiii’d working people a chance to live. There tire millions of acre* of laud in the West that ought to !>■ in cultivation, but the system of land holding b such as todrive the poor out of the West. Hie South ha- many uncultivated fields now inviting labor, which i- hurrying there to take advan tage of the opening. 'the South b now it peace, prosperous and happy, and we hall be surprised if she does not soon regain her' old-time glory. Soldiers of tite North will find true friends in the South, if I hey cannot find employ ment in the North. T/n /><o/.v in AVer. V Few Words about Fish Culture. Fish culture has lately become a profitable employment and branch of business in main see 1 ions of the eon 111 ry, and may lie made such in many others. In numerous localities where little or no attention has been given to the matter there are laeilities for rendering ti-It both plea -a n t and |>r a farmer Im ha- lake on his farm, or a ing spring so sifmit'od that damming up I lie gully or hollow below il 11 pond can he formed, may make an acre or two located the most profitable par™ of his premises by slocking tin water with fish. This can now la done wit it little ex pense in I lib and other States where then- are Fish Commissioners, as ihey fur nish the spawn of choice varieties on application, with rcquisilenli reel ions and information. by giving the nuttier altention al the proper season thousands of our readers may easily inaugurate upon I heir I arms a brunch ol' in dusfry which will not only prove a source of substantial income, hut from which much pleasure may also'be derived by them selves and their friends, Tin* profit which have been and are being realized from eoniparitively small ponds and streams of trout in va rious parts of the country, and notably on Fong Island, demon strates Hull the business, proper ly conducted, must, lie lucrative in favorable sitnations. l’iseiculflire is a natural branch of agrienll tire and may Ik pttrstt ed to advantage by many fanners who never gave a serious I bought to the subject or figured upon the income that might In-derived from slocking the lakes, ponds nr rivulets upon their promises with suitable fish. “The relative fer tility of wafer and the land is al together in favor of the water,*' said N| r. [Johor! I>. Itoosovelf til New York now I'residcnt of 1 lie j American Fish Dulliirisls' Asso Million -in a speech in Congress ! some year> ago ; and lie added: >‘An acre of land will produce i corn enough <0 support a human being, bill tin acre ol water will support several p'-rsoiis.and could readily be made, with proper aid, <0 sustain the lives of many more. The former requires manuring, working, plant ing and harvest ing; tin' latter merely requires harvest ing, and that when Hie tisli are sufficient ly abundant is hard ly :t labor at all. While I lie yield from the land i- reasonably large the profit is exceedingly small. The field must, lie plough ed and harrowed ami fertilized; the corn must be planted ; ii inn-1 he ploughed again, and M j]| ugnin must be lined ; and a Ila I I lie <-a 1 nut'! be stripped, lin-kcd ami ground. What .i t In- net re nils of this, compared with the nahi : fill increase of lisli grown in abiin dance, almost without effort, find ing their ow n food, and finally taken in some ite'l which does ifs fishing while its owner is -deep ing." lit Ilit- '.ame speech Mr. |{l,l isc veil, after peaking of the great t advantage of the I niled Stales over ol her count tie for ft It mil it 1 re—its vast lakes, t Mormons riv er-, innumerable Ire ini-. ponds, bays. lagoons, creek -and rivulets not being equalled in any other quarter of the globe -aid; 1 “But more important than till this i- flic character of our fish, for we have the fines! fi-lt in tite world for artificial cultivation, the most prolific, the easiest man aged, most ronmnerative." And the speaker concluded with these tmlhl’ii 1 and eloquent -enteuees; “What wtis done with the com fnon tomatoes, potatoes, onion-, and hundreds of other vegetable productions which, as wild, were worthless, may in a higher degree be carried into effect witli fi-lt. Wild rice .-carcely product* eed to continue the. supply ; hut pro tected, developed, encouraged, il feeds ti tenth part of the world. I' i'll, neglected, de l l oved, |iO,l e|i ed and wasted, can -oon Im mini hilate l. Their reproductive pow ler can only maintain a certain e [Subscription, 81.00. quiliinium : incline that lo\yS|| destruction, and the entire will quickly disappear. jS*®* 1 hem like wild animals, .ajJMK will inevitably be oxterirtjKHE donie-timite it w^B*s*! eoin*a go by ptfflH them under '■''healthful mnlluencP protect them from tinreasoiiabH disturbance, lei them breed ij peace, guard t lie young from ill aid Ibr ■ . 1! ■ ■' ' - EsM A Bk A w q * ii 1 It"!. ill- tea !lii | i Il 'illl uSHH Of course, those il slimtlii doso prudently, first im whet In r yflL pns^fl proper laeilities rigid kind of wm informntion t^fl ! < ■!' J'I i-e W ! > "i i .. but to lie ('xorcised in J pro pa git I io^ujd •11 mr* - k pu 1 - 'll f;liilH|| I lie iH U le* 11:! \ c 1 1" am: 3 inn I.• I!iW.'”> it in | More tliiiii led bind in Scotlamr to the growth of oats. l\vn thousand live li uml red ini A migrants, who will devote llicjjfl selves In fanning, landed in sas in one week lately. lli .41 horil ins „of Trnniwsr A reporl llial llial Slad* has rcfl reived 1,007 solders from North during the past ten iiion I lIS. i'n destroy lire upon lings rnh well into (lie bristles, along the spin*', on I lie brisket and beneath (In* arms and thighs, a mixture of lard and sulphur well rublied to gel her. A gent lonian who has t ravel ed very extensively over the* \\ est, slates that Dakota has the finest soil to he found in the em tire country. It is as rich as any Illinois prairie, and nineli more ea ily worked. " .No tanner in tin* older states ean alVord to sell wood-ashes for any price that the soap-boiler would pay. Where oats lodge as they are apt to do upon heavily manured land, an application of adic would save the crop. Ilemy Sallonsfall, of Boston, lei a pure bred Jersey cow which in l s7<! gave 9,t2J pounds rtf milk and in 1877 8.3-1 fi an other eow in I lie sanic^MjHmivc *r reported from pure so vs. ■’ m Our fanner lionld try*sowing some Oerman or golden millet this spring. We had a little ex perioneo with it last year and can reeoniniend it as yielding, itn men-e|y aud making excellent feed for slock, ft may he sown a late as May or even June,. ftbttM* <>r a Imshel to the a | 1 /■"/; i WBBBm the mil.i fiiiWi--' i 'luh. aid at aBUII '•enl meet ing : |i I want I plant early, jH/f '-a' •11'.'. \..l> to get I _ ,'^j .• a.' ■ i .ii in lli w inter, if not frozen wTt^^BHH tuher fit for use before spring planted potatoes. If wta could he sure of heavy snows jfl protect from frost, it veil i<< (plant in the full 111 M. V \ cil'i ill'll -eed \\ i ((tiieker if cut. and the cut suH lace dried well before planting! than if cut and planted at once! so it I w anted to plant to day ai the seed wa not cut, I should i|H hi Ink time was lost if the dSH| wa cut and then placed i 1 w day- in a warm place.” pH