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THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE. Voi. I.—No. 44.] .1. t AMl'lll 1.1.. ];. It. UOODMA.N. alif,firlilaml /iitoidr. PUBLISHED IJY j. a*. sc co. At One Dollara Yeur. IX THE OLD PRINTING OI'FH E Building, Powder Springs Street, M ;iri <‘it;i Georgia. w.m.t. \viv\. v. n.i.. .1. WINN. \\T T. &W. .1. WINN, A tin nays YV •at Lav. March 1.‘1,1877. Iy WAI. SESSIONS, AUw'MU Hi fytg, . office M I’llhlic S(|iiare Il'i MOS EL . will intend toall to him in Cold) and Ol l it'K in Met Tateliey’s BniKyo/g, 111 * stair*. Marietta, March I'i. 1577. ly J 5. M. ALLKN, itexiflcnt •ur®**®* Dentist, of more than twenty -O-CCXXT years. (’Barges Reasonalde. < Irncu—North side of Public Square. Marietta, Mareli Li, 1877. ly Dlt. G. TI'INNENT, I’liii-fifimi Physician. Office on Cassville St. —Residence on Cherokee street. Marietta, March 111, 1877. ly Dli. E. *l. SETZK, Physician mill Smycoil, tenders his professional services in the practice of Medicine inall its iiranches to the citizens of Marietta and surrounding country. Office at flic Drug Store of Win. Root. inch 18-1 y DA T. li. I It WIN, Attona ’ytt nt • Zjr Will iiractice in the Blue Ridge, Rome, :uid Coweta Circuits. Marietta, March 13, 1878. ly w. n. rowi:i:. 11. M. HAMMETT. pOWKR & HAMMETT, Attar- X ncys nt Lav, Marietta, Ga. Will practice in the Courts of Cobb and adja cent counties. Collect ing a specialty, l y 1 . A. IKWIX. A. S. CLAY. Ct LA Y&I It WIX,. I ttorneyx nt Lav, I will attend to the practice of law in Cobh and adjacent counties, All collections entrusted to them will be met with prompt attention. Office over M’Clatchy’s store, west side Pub lic Square. Marietta, August 7, 1877. ly. tl. T. UKIKT, CHEROKEE STREET, Saddle and Harness Maker AND REPAIRER. Marietta, Geo., March 13, 1877. ly CONTRACTOR AXI > rpliE undersigned continues hisbusi- X ness ol Brick Making, Stone and Brick Building, and is prepared at any time to take contracts on tiie most reas onable terms, and toexeeute them in the most satisfactory manner. 11. B. WALLIS. Marietta, March lli, 1877. ly GRE E R | RBYNOLDST Dentists. WEST SIDE OE THE PUBLIC SQUARE Rooms over M ’Clatchey’s Store. I P gives us pleasure to inform our friends that we have returned from our Philadelphia trip where we have been working solely in the interest ot our profession. Again we tender our services to our friends and the public generally, confident that witii the lat est appliances and most improved in struments, with all other improvements, gathered regardless ofexpen.se or trou ble, we can do work as satisfactorily and efficiently as can he done elsewhere. Marietta, Ga., March 5, 1878 H ouse Building and Repairing. SASH, BLINDS, DOORS FINISHED TO ORDER. Lumber of till kinds, and at the lowest prices, for sale. rjAhankful for tlie (liberal patronage 1 hitherto, the subscriber would state that he is fully prepared to contract for the erection of Buildings, and to exe cute the contracts in the most satisfacto ry manner. SHOP, south side Publh Square. March, 1877. LEMUEL BLACK. Manning cV Barker. BLACK- lid' UjS 1 M I T II S . AND REPAIRERS. MARIETTA, GEORGIA, VRI2 now prepared to do all kinds of . work in their line of business a~ cheap and as w eli as it can be done any- Busies and W'agons made or in tlie best style of vvorkniati gShflMk J ’'n iiest lmit.-ii.il ami "1 tlie wggßM . if- i . i 11 • .11-I*. an. 1 irive He ill . li.il'f'-ei ‘ In. Fa ‘ • . l oloii ni mid < i^ni'xji^Bl I>. 11. Strong, Successor tod. \\ . Williams,; irasftra, ANI) Apothecary. \\ Tl M. continue business at Hie Ol<l VV Stand ill MARIETTA, and will keep on hand, and for sale, A OKXKItAI. ASSOR l Ml N I Of FRESH AND (JEN LINE Drugs! Chemicals! Toil Hand B'ancy A Hides! Paints and Oils! Fine IVrliuncivt, rlr. All wliieli will he SOLD LOW KOR CASH. Prescriptions carefully com pounded liy an experienced Apotheca ry, AS HERETOFORE. 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, eflftier Literary, Scientific or Educational, or any piece of Sheet Music, will be ordered and de livered in Marietta at publisher's pri ces. B. R. STRONG, Marietta, Ecu. •>(>, 1878. Tlc Del roil Free l*ivss. This popular weekly is received regu larly, and for sale at five cents per copy, at the Drug and Stationery Store of feh 2(> B. IL STRONG. E. I. WITIIEK*' Iron Founder S; Machinist. MAXUEAt'II RER OK StcainE li g in es, CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, Improved *orglinni AliSl*, GRIST MILL MACHINERY, I RUNNING Gear for Water Wheels, Ai<>f every size and ileseri|ition ; Plans and Specifications for Mill Work furn ished free of charge. Also, Manufactu rer of Gold Mining Machinery of latest improvements. Prices to suit the times. All work first class, axd <u ai(\.vri i:i). And having just Guilt new buildings, and having us good machinery as could he 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 five years experience, I am not afraid of myahili ty to give satisfaction to all who may feel disposed to patronize me. Marietta, March!.'}, 1877. J. M. Wilson, MAM TA< ITRER OE TIN & SHEET IKON AND Wooden Wares. fjffi AND OKA l.lli: IX STOVES, HARDWARE, (JUT LKRY, HOUSE FURNISH ING GOODS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS KM 1! HA Cl NO Straw and Feed Cutters, Corn Shellers, 'fuming Flows, Wheel Barrows, Rakes, Shovels, Hoes, Grass Scythes, Plows. Plow Stocks, ie. A I .SO, Syrup Mills, Of a Superior Mnl.e. POCKET A TABLE CUTLERY. AXJ* Carpenter's Supplies. Many \ arieties of Wooden Ware. All these and many oilier valuable ar ticle* sold oil host possible terms. Marietta, July 3, 1577. 1 y W. C. GREEN, Watchmaker & Jeweller, MARIETTA, iilMiX GEORGIA. dealer in < 'locks of every dc ion. Repairing of Watehe-.- a -perialfy. Satisfaction 'ignof l . 1 ,• KH 38S Marietta, (Ceorgia,) Thursday, June 20, 1878. J. B. O’Neill & (V HAVE KEMo\ ED Til El E STOCK OE General Merchandise To Gus Barrett's old stand, East side of Public Square, -) Marietta, (ieorgia. Where (hey will keep a full line of choice Family Groceries STAPLE DRV GOODS, /attorn darns, Notions, Boots and Shoes, &c. All of which will be sold low for cash. 11. I). Mi Ot titieon will be pleased to wait on any, wbo will favor them with a call. Country Produce taken in exchange, on reasonable terms. Respect fully, J. 11. O’NEILL A CO. Marietta, April New Firm. —A-—iwi— v, ABC -__ J. J. Northcutt & Son are now receiving' a well selected stock of Staple iind Fancy Dry Goods, many lines of w hich have been bought lower than the same QOOdS were sold early in the season, the benefit of which we propose giving our customers For Cash. As proof of what we say, we oiler for the present Lonsdale Cotton, at 9 cents. Fruit of the Loom, cot., g at 8| ““““4 4 “ Of Edward Harris Cotton, “ 8 Androscouuins “ Of The latter we consider the best goods made for the money. Seistland J good at 7to 8 cents. “ I J stipT quality at il to 10 Allendale Bleach 10-4 at 25 Calico, “5 to 7 Pacific Lawn “ 121 Corded Jaconet, “ 12i Peqfes “ 7tolo Victory Lawn “ 1 Kid Gloves “ 50 HAMBURG EIHUNG “ 5 Marietta, April 25, 1878. Ilneoiiiqige Home laidiisiry William Spencer, CHEROKEE STREET, MA K 1 ETTA, GEORGI A, DEALER IN LEATH Ell of :i 11 kinds, Shoe Findings and Har ness Mountings, Upper Leather, Har ness, Kip and Calf Skins, ilemloek and Home Tan Sole Leather. O? I have employed as workmen, Mr. G. T. Swan, and Win. Ilimqiliries, and will carry on a first class Boot and Shoo Shop where we guarantee as good and cheap Boots and Shoes made as elsewhere.— Spend your money at home and it will eome baek after a few days. Encour age home industry and you build tip Ihe prosperity of your neighborhood. Marietta, Ga., March lb, 1878. ly Marietta UVISIiY STABLE. JjLAI* (Op|isite tlie Kennesaw House.) rpllE best of Vehicles, the safest of X I)ri vers, and the fastest of Horses, are always ready, night and day, for hire. No man or woman or child has given me a call in the past who lias beep nor shall any ever in the future, lie disj satisfied witii my teams or the men in my employ. Everything and everybody about me are a no. one. I have cheapened my charges propor tionate to the stringency of the times.— For reference to the truth of what I say as to Hip turn-outs and charges, go to my friends, which means the public gener ally. Parties hiring arc strictly respon sible for the safety of themselves, vehi cles and horses. THE FINEST STALLION IN GEORGIA. Bit l MOXT lias been successful in every race hi* has trotted, and is to trot five races soon for large stakes. If you want to secure tine colts, from this celebrated horse, call on or address his owner. .LA. G. ANDERSON. Pure Ciller Vinegar—Received al tin* Drug Store ol 15. If. Si hum,. •lob Printing, the m-di-t ami at lowest price-, done at the office. Afpinilttiial. Rust in Wheal. I’Ut'CTNLV GRAMINAS. As early as 1786, Fontana pub lished an account of this destruc tive pest,; and since then botan ists have pursued the investiga tion with much interest and as siduity. It is now admitted by all scientists to be a microscopic fungus, to which the name of puo einias grammas has been given. It alt acks both stents and leaves and glumes of all kinds of grain, having at first an orange colored appearance (resembling rust on iron, hence the common name); il afterwards resembles a deep chocolate color. O One stoma on a straw will pro duee from twenty to forty fungi, and each of them it is believed will produce at least one hundred spores, or reproductive particles, so that the progeny of a single one will be enough to infest a whole plant. The period of germination is supposed to be about one week. The spores, being very light, are wafted about in the air, lighting upon adjacent stems, and will ger initiate under the influences of warm damp weather, and prove more or less destructive accord ing to the favorableness of the weather for their increase and growth. Plants have pores which are closed in dry weather, and open and expand in warm, moist wea ther. It is supposed that these pores are thus made receptacles of the spores of this parasitic fun gus, where they immediately take root, intercepting the nourish ment intended for the grain; as it has been ascertained by analy sis that these fungi contain very much I lie same constituents as I he Hour. Some kinds of wheat are more affected than others, and in north ern climates, fall wheat suffers more than that sown in spring. Farmers in England affirm that wheat sown in the neighborhood of the barberry bush seldom es capes the blight, as it is supposed that the spores are generated and preserved on these bushes. It is believed that the spores may be perpetuated from unde composed straw carried out into the fields as manure, if this be true, fanners should bo careful in this matter, as well as destroying all grasses in fields producing rusted wheat.— Farm Journal. 'File Hessian Fly. The Hessian fly is a small gnat or midge of the order d!pier a ee eltlomijiaila;, or gall gnats, and genus ceeldom tjia. It was called Hessian fly from the supposition that it was brought to this coun try by the Hessian troops in some straw, during the revolutionary war. It was scientifically describ ed in 1817, by Mr. Say, as ceeido nnjia (/extractor. The body of the insect is one tenth of an inch in length, and (he expanse of the wings a quarter of an inch more. This insect, so destructive, in some seasons, in fields of wheat, bai ley and rye, generally mat tires two broods in the course of the year, appearing in spring and an tiimn, earliest in the southern slates. The transformation of some are retarded in various ways, so that their life from the egg to the perfect insect may be a year or more, rendering tin* continuance of the species in at ter years more sure. The eggs, about one-fifth of an inch in length, translucent and pale red, are placed in the longi tudinal creases of both winter and spring wheat, very soon after the plants are out of the ground, to the number of twenty, thirty or more on a leaf, it the weath er be warm they are hatched in four or five days, and the larva*, small, footless maggots, tapering at each end, and of a pale red color crawl down the leaf and fix themselves between it and the main stalk, just below the surface of the ground, there remaining head downward, till their trails formations are completed, nour ished by the juices of the plant, which they obtain by suction.— Two or three larva* thus placed will cause the plant to wither and die. In about six weeks they attain their full -ize. about three twen tieths of an inch in length, when the skin gradually hardens and becomes of a bright chestnut col or, about the first of December in the autumn brood, and in June of July in the spring brood. In the beginning of this, the pupa state, they look like tlax seed. In two or three weeks the insect within becomes detached from the leaf li \ cry skin and lies loosely within, a motionless grub. It gradually advances toward the winged state about tlu> end of April or the be ginning of May, according to the warmth of the weather. When mature, it breaks through this I ease, enveloped in a delicate skin, | which soon splits on the hack, j setting the perfect insect at full 1 liberty. Burning the stubble of wheat, rye and barley lields, afterwards plowing and harrowing the land, appears the best method of get ting rid ol this insect. Various! minute parasitic insects, similar in t heir habits to I he inchueumon Hies, destroy a large proport ion of I every generation of the Hessian fly, preying upon the eggs, larva' ! and pit pie.— Farmer x Friend. I'low Less ami Graze More. These five words sound the key ! | note to success in Soul hern agri j culture. No where else in the United States is so large a pro | portion of the land tinder culti | vation subjected to clean tillage i as in the South, and in this fact is Ito be found the solution of the rapid deterioration of our lands. Exposed as our soils are to the burning rays of our summer’s sun, and the washing rains inci dent to our ijiimite, they have been rapidly exhausted by our system of clean culture, The cotton crop, while it abstracts I from the soil fewer elements of | fertility than any other, is an ex j hausting one, mainly because it j involves the constant use of the plow and the hoe, and exposes the soil to the deteriorating influ ences of sun and rain. Hence, those districts which have been given up most exclusively to cot ton culture exhibit the most la mentable proofs of exhaustion. This evil will he corrected by changing our system of fanning front those crops which demand clean culture to pasturage and stock raising. Wo shall thits not only improve our lands, but make more remit iterative crops. In order to in j sure a profit in Ihe cultivation of those crops which require con j stanl labor, we must bring our lands up to a very high degree of productiveness. The cost of la bor absorbs all the market value of a small crop per acre. Every acre devoted to hoe crops must be made to yield a heavy return, or there is no money in it. While so large a proportion of our lands is devoted to crops of I his kind, it is impossible to keep them up to the standard of productive ness necessary to make them pro titable. By plowing less and gra zing more, we reduce the number of acres required to be fertilized, 1 and at the same time we increase ! our capacity for manuring. More past urage insures more live stock, more live stock insures more inn mire, more manure insures better crops. Farm Journal. Thereare thirty eight agricul fural industrial colleges in Ihe United States, diffusing an inlel leotual and healthy influence over our broad domain. The branches taught in the four years of instruction in these colleges are similar, and range from prac tical agricultural manipulation, algebra, botany, geometry (En glish and French), chemistry (el emental, organic and analytical), trigonometry,surveying, mcchan ies, physics, drawing, agricuHn ial chemistry, horticulture, onto mologv, astronomy, English lit erature, meteorology, rhetoric, logic, geology, zoology, political economy, moral philosophy to landscape gardening, Ac. If Daniel Webster said in his day that “agriculture feeds us; to a great extent it clothes us; without it we could have no man ufaotures, we could have no com merce: these all stand together, but stand like pillars in acluster, and the highest is agriculture;” were lie now among us, he must think with it' that our thirty-eight industrial agricultural collmrc -to •• -• A [Subscription,* educate t-liQf&rmcr to taluKy®! side by side With tfie b ablest men of all prd e !KS and lay the broad founds i ffig I lie successful farmer, etWE soldier, scholar and These noble schools will fill isi at tires with thoughtful, prail cal and sound lawmakers, wA will honor our d;r* -,, u1. genera lie who will pie ami* Vis' '.'ll 111. a Lilli \ dignil \ and Agricultural Aphoril^HH Rlanls and nitrogen from the atmosphere. Ammonia is (he last prod** ol the putrefaction of aniiii' | .. dies; nitric acid is the of the transformation of aipM nia. J All animal bodies during . cay, however deeply buried (he earth, yield up their liitrogel to the atuiosphere in the form < ammonia. ft . Ammonia is extremely stduM in water, and every rain and ev cr.V snow brings it to the earth. Planls have (lie power to re* turn to (lie earth all matters mv necessary to their The air oilers rarl.mitlg^J 'Oil ll'l a I'm ii | I'm 111 ‘VgSmgS Ihe carl 1 1 oilers llm ■'lance in u hieh a i al' "I I". I, ii i ' ,~| I'hn phale . , ■'* Man am I animal.-. consl it uents of their their bodies from the vegetifU world. M ■ H here a useless weed will 'JHB nselnl plants may lie thrive for man's sustenance. j|H A goneratiof 1,000,000,000 nieil is renewed every thirty years! but, in the same period 100,000, 000,000of animals. Ploughing green crop In mai'j^^^^k long praeli-ed by Homan . ami i ilom- ’'./vjj in ni.in nlher cminl the soil and climale are^^HSß ble. This mode of specially suited to warm mpS tries where vegetation is raw and luxurious. In the Southed countries of Ktiropc the harvesi is early and (.lie crops remove' in f ime sufficient lo allow lluj-riiJ iority of the green plants tfl same season. fhe object of mulching js -two fold first, to retain moisture jr the ground and prevent it fror being parched hy summer \\orA second, to jirotecl the roots A vegelahles from the severe fnfl of winter. The best malerlffl for imilcliing are tan-bailcj )e JM dust—or better still, cIimBU dll-1 leave-, t law. o,j pom- nlj-l.inre u bichWj^HH t lie mi In" e and I'"'!" 1 11111 h' h 1 11 potatoes, peas, beans, onions a ml ot her veget a Ides mum tain their growth through the driest summer.— F.xchnuje. i A writ(M'on bee management says; “An excellent way to make, now swarms is to put tlio o]J umt’if.now liive. with thru! c , ' | i , i! |,o 'Mini !-1 M wg ' !■■ to fi 1 now IkipA wi frames of comb, with the ing young boos, and leave J| <|Moen to lay ;i now brood "Id hi vo. I have goii'WV'^HHj sued this course, giving liivo from five to ten frames ™ comb, taking not more than tw* frames from one hive!"’ Jad Ingraft upon the praclicaU useful, the educational, the* entitle, and all shall grow■ produce much goodly fruit fJ honor and glory of our lions. I'olafocs require less mamu| than other garden vegetables, will well repay an 500 pounds per acre of wood a!j esor sulphate of potash. Capons sell in the l'hiladefpln market for 8 cents a pound mor than ordinay chickens. ajuLofle. aj-Uiiii Yvt-mht