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The demand for barley is said to be in
creasing largely every year, and it is thought
to be a more profitable crop than wheat.
The grape crop of Connecticut is immense.
For the want of a ready market the surplus
is being fed to hogs.
One of the best blanks in the National
Grange Platform—“ Any member found guil
ty of want on cruelty to animals shall be ex
pelled from the Order.”
One of the cardinal principals of the
VjraAgeG Id buy Nothing ybtl don’t want,
And nothing ybti can’t pay for. No man who
always lived up this principle ever died in
the poor-house.
The object of the Grange is not to control
political action or to tight monopolists, but
io advance the best interests of the farmer by
education in agriculture and horticulture,
and to practice economy and efficiency in
business transactions.
The WlsCoJ Bin Granges already have es
tablished forty-ojc co-operative associations
for selling goods manufacturing, and
twenty nine insurance <x’ m panics all flourish
ing, and representing CilpK a ' t 0 a,nount
of $4,000,000.
The Patrons, without going into n,) htics
as an organization, have exerted a wou (^er '
ful political influence the present season.
They have compelled all parties to select
their best men for office. They knew if they
attempted to force on the people played-out
politicians, the Grangers would defeat them
at the polls.
In preparing potatoes lor planting, cut olf
the most vigorous sprouts and plant them to
gether. Then plant the remainder as you
please, and when your crop is made, inform
us of the results.
The Patrons of Phelps county, Missouri,
propose to establish a Grange bank, with a
warehouse attached, and so related that the
bank will discount warehouse receipts.
Shares $25. A good idea !
The editor of the Florida Baptist has
been recently presented with specimens of
splendid oranges and lemons produced by an
orchard in Middle Florida, which show that
the middle as well as the eastern portion of
that State is adapted to the production of
these delightful fruits.
Dr. llexamer, of New York, has experi
mented on the planting of potatoes in fifteen
different ways. The best yield was from
sets of one whole potato; the next best
from two largo half potatoes cut lengthwise ;
next, the seed end of a large potatoe; next,
from medium sized potatoes planted whole.
A medium sized potato should not be cut
for seed.
The emigration from Ila'y to this country
is increasing rapidly. In 1872, the number
who left Italy for our shores was over
twenty thousand; in 1873, it was over
twenty-six thousand, and this year it prom
ises to exceed 30,000. This great drain upon
Italy is due mostly to the great increase in
taxation and the intolerance of the govern
ment of all political opposition.
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In the State of New Jersey, 4,960 acres of
land are devoted to the production of cram
berries, ai.d $1,662,130 are invested in this
pursuit. Last year, that State produced
90,000 bushels; Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, 70,000; Cape Cod and adjacent is
lands, 35,000; Wisconsin, Minnesota, India
na, and Michigan, 50,000, and New York,
500.
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English Laborers' Agent in America
—W. 11. Taylor, Secretary of the National
Agricultural Laborers' Union of Great
B; was in Chicago last week. He has
b ectiug statistics train all parts of the
cou. y, that in any way interests the great
mass ot English workingmen. He left tor
Canada on November 28th, and after making
an extended tour throughout the provinces,
he returns to England. All through this
country, he states that he has found the con
dition of the laboring classes to be very good
indeed, and much better than he had antici
pated.
The Virginius claims against Spain are
going to be summitled to arbitration. Ar
bitration is ail very well in its way,
but why is it necessary to arbitrate ,
American claims while the British demand
was satisfied without trouble? Our ca<e is
clearer than that of Great Britain. but the
Spaniards think by delay, to get out of pay
ment. The widow and seven children of
Cspt. Fry. of the Virginius. are in a destitute
condition at New ihlean-
I.on" »n has been luxe.: iating in one of its
u; rivalled to ,- for three days last week
ilxnert Ua . rses '.
pi >«'?.< lost !•.'.<* iv<> , etc.-s?
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SEGEG-IA
For the Georgia Grange.]
Stone Phosphate as a Fertilizer for
Turnips.
State of Georgia,
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 10, 1874.
On the Sth inst., it was my pleasure
to visit “ Spring Bank,” near Kingston,
Bartow county, the home of our friend,
Rev. C. W. Howard, accompanied by
T. C. Howard, Clerk, and J. Henly
Smith, Stastician of the Department.
It was with the deepest- interest that
we walked over the grounds in which
he conducted the experiment referred
to in his certificate. It is certainly
a triumphant and entire success. Here
is a practical exemplification of what
can be done in building up our waste
places by a judicious director and di
versification of labor and crops, and
in developing the important interest of
sheep husbandry in Georgia.
It is gratifying to be favored with
the opportunity of commending
an experiment, with results, as one
conducted by Rev. C. W, to
the careful attention an d considera
tion, of the farmers and planters of
Georgia.
( A very valuable lesson is Jiereby
given, and it would be well if our peo
ple generally would give heed to and
urofit by it, l homas P. Janes,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
The Stone PlioepUate as il jpertilizer
for Turnip*.
During the summer, the Stone Phos
phate Company were kind enough to
present the writer with a ton of their
Ammoniated Phosphate to be tested as
a fertilizer for turnips. The experi
ment has proved an entire success.
A hill side of six acres was sowed in
oats last spring. Two acres of the six
was quite worn and poor, producing
not more than ten bushels of corn per
a< -e. After the oats were cut, the
stubbi< was ploughed under, with a two
horse plo< v > then harrowed anil twice
rolled. The .wound laid off in rows
two and a half to feet apart. The
fertilizer being dropped into these
furrows at the rate of 400 ppunds per
acre. It was covered with two fur
rows, the ridge smoothed with a board,
and the seed sown with a drill at the
rate of two pounds per acre.
The after cultivation was one deep
ploughing ; after thinning, one hoeing
and once passing through with a culti
vator to break the crust. The drought
of August prevented the completion
of sowing until the first week in Sep
tember.
The crop is fine —at least 500 bush
els to the acre. The cost of each acre,
including the value of the fertilizer,
was $lB. This makes the cost per
bushel between three and four cents.
My sheep are now enjoying them in
the fold. They will be worth more than
cost to the sheep; and there will be
some poor land made rich without cost.
One-half acre of these six was ma
nured with stable manure. This half
acre is not so good as that manured .
with the phosphate. No one need
hesitate to plant turnips on very ordi
nary land if he will use this specific
fertilizer in their culture.
C. W. Howard.
A New Hom« Shoe.
The Scientific American reports a
newly patented horse shoe made of
India rubber, which is adjusted snugly
to the hoof without nails,’and can be
removed or replaced at pleasure. The
bottom is made with groves and bars
so as to prevent slipping and increase
the foothold.
The invention is likely, if not com- '
plete in itself, to prove the harbinger 1
Os a shoe that will meet the require
ments of the age. Many efforts have '
been made, and as many failures, to 1
produce a metal ic shoe that could be I
adjusted without nails. The failures
have, we think, resulted fr >m 'he fact ’
that the proper material was not e:n- ’
ployed. India rubber is likely to prove
the thing that will fill the bill. It i>
soft to the hoof, easily adjustable to •
any size or shape, and exceedinglyl
durable. \\ by some one ha> not ‘
thought ot this before appears strange.
W e regard this conception as .1 great
blessing. Ihe barbarous and injuri
ous practice of nailing to the hoof—
which continually expands bv growth—
an indexible metal 'hoc will, we trust,
soon find a conclusion in tire improve
ment to which we refer.
Xgent I I iois
Harris Br rthet . of Boston and
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l\l>> t ?•(. : ‘ u.
Improve Our Stock.
To supplant our poor stock with im
proved breeds is a consummation that
would be hailed with joy and pride.
This may never be accomplished, but
it would, ’» achieved, greatly advance
the interests, the wealth and the enjoy
ment of our people. When we say
stock, we mean to include hogs, cows,
sheep, goats* horses, etc.
It is generally agreed that good pol
icy dictates the introduction of im
proved breeds of all classes of domes
tic animals, and that these should take
the place of the present supply of the
degenerate progeny of a degenerate
ancestry. No man Uso unwise ft* f 0
dispute this opinion, and j s true
that comparatively \\ttle is being done
in conformity t ] ie approved theory.
Each ears t 0 b e wa fting f or his
ne \ghbor to take the lead in the matter,
and the result is that we are still cursed
with the “ sharpshire ” hog, the cow
that yield from a gill to one-half gallon
of milk at a milking, the diminutive,
coarse wooled sheep, the fleeceless
goat, and the horse whose deficiences
would constitute a catalogue of incon
venient length.
The exnerience of eve’-" one who
has made the comparative test oi infe
rior and improved stock, attests the
great advantages of the former. Their
profits, their convenience, and the
pleasure afforded proprietors by their
development and use, are vastly supe
rior to such as result from the inferior
grades.
The trouble in the way of realizing
the desired substitution and increased
benefits is inaction. We know what is
dictated by our interests in this parti
cular, but defer action from time to
time. 'The exchange may never be
universally made by our people, but to
approximate the thorough eradication
of our poor breeds and to supply their
places with blooded animals, is practi
cable and easily attainable. If the
people would go to work for this pur
pose, in earnest, a few years would
suffice to work the desire revolution,
Treating this subject more in detail,
we will inquire for the common sense
that is exhibited in feeding a hog that
will neither grow nor fatten, when an
other breed can be obtained that rarely
become poor, and that show growth
and fat for every morsel of food they
eat ?
Where the common sense in keeping
little coarse wooled sheep that seldom
yield more than a pound of wool at a
shearing, when they may be supplanted
with a kind that grow to respectable
size and produce an abundance of silky
fleece ?
Where the utility of bestowing our
care upon a goat that produces no
fleece, when the celebrated c ashmere
breed is within our reach ?
W here the reason in keeping the
I cow that never rises above three quarts
1 of milk at a milking, when such as will
give two gallons can be easily ob
tained ?
Why keep the diminutive, ill-formed,
clumsy and weak horse, when he can
be at a small cost set aside for those that
possess strength, elasticity, activity
and beauty ?
We appeal to the farmers of Georgia
to go to work in earnest to effect this
needed reform. Let each determine
to do what his convenience, interest
and enjoyment suggest in the premises,
and Georgia will soon be supplied with
nogs, sheep, goats, cattle, horses, etc.,
of which all may be ]>roud, and that
will vield good profit to their proprie
tors.
OomeNlic and Foreign NuraerleN.
There are three good reasons why Geor
gians should purchase fruit trees from domes
tic rather than nurseries beyond our State
limits. Ist. Because trees raised in other
latitudes must pass through the process ofi
acclimation, and often die during the test of j
their vital powers. 2d. Our own nursery 1
mtn are more thoroughly versed in regard i
to the classes of fruit best adapted to our soil !
and climate. 3d. The proprietors of our
domestic nurseries are present, and arc re
sponsible for any failures against which they
offer to guarantee, at the time of sales ; while
the distant vendor escapes in time to save
hmself from all legal inconvenience on ac
count of his mistakes or fra ids.
May we not appropriately, in con lusioa,
suggest to the proprietors, the importanc- or
advertising in The Gr \nge‘- It goes directly
t< a very large number of persons upon whom
t'aese nursery men art dependent for success,
md is theres re, a cei tain m< ans < f c immu
no iti a between then. If tL v fail to ai
v rtis m : inform the p >ple what they < m
-■’ y. and at w hat rates nd wl it t
? ....11 nnt string? sh .1 ’ Northern cr ‘
w < rn rivals <k’f< ;.t tiieir ir.tr’c stS. I
Tbe Isefui Home and Walking Gait.
This is said to be a utilitarian age—
that the first question asked about any
new project, or scheme, is : AV hat will
it pay ? But when we come to estimate
the horse, little attention is paid to use
fulness or real value. The question is
seldom asked : What can he draw ?
How fast can he walk ? What service
can he perform daily? but rather, W hat
gait can he trot, and what is his bottom
in miles ? In this respect a large class
of farmers are nearly as crazy as tne
rest of mankind. They ignore the most
1 useful horse, that does the prtncipa l
work of the farm and city. We belie; ~
in breeding and training tor speed, of
using the thoroughbred stallion, and
that this has done much to improve the
blood of our common stock, and may,
with judicious selection, do much more
in perfecting the useful horse. But this
wild mania for simple speed is likely to
be a material injury to that large .class
of useful horses, in which the country
has a hundred times more interest than
in that of simple speed. The great in
jury comes from selecting breeding
animals wholly on account of supposed
trotting or running characteristics. It
1 is true that speed may be accompaiued
by the necessary weight, muscle and
endurance of the useful horse of all
*mrk: but as the selection is not made
for the useful ‘ he tendenC)r
is to beed these out in the effort to ac
complish more trotting speed with light
weight. We should as soon think of
employing acrobats and circus perform
ers to do our farm work, as the mercu
rial trotting horse for the plow. We
think the tendency of breeding so
largely for this one purpose of speed
has been to increase the nervous action
at the expense of muscular force and
endurance.
Now, walking is the most important
gait for the useful horse, yet so little
attention is paid to developing the most
valuable quality, that the managers of
our fairs seldom include this among
their premiums. In fact, the qualities
required in the horse that does all our
most useful work, are not taken into
consideration bj r these promoters of
improvement; but five to ten dollars
in premiums in speed are offered to one
dollar for all other horse premiums.
There are agricultural fairs (so-called),
organized and sustained by the farmers,
yet nearly ignoring the horse for the
farmer. The fast walking gait is of
immensely more importance than the
fast trotting gait. An increase of one
mile per hour in the walking gait of all
the farm horses of the country would
represent hundreds of millions in the
economy of labor a single year. Yet
this might much more easily be accom-1
plished than what has already been |
done in increasing the trotting speed.
The ordinary walking gait of horses on
the road is about three miles, and on
the plow, two aHd a quarter and two
and a half miles. Suppose this could
be increased one mile per hour in each
case; it would represent thirty-three
per cent, extra travel, or ten miles per
day on the road, and about the same
on the farm. The money value of this '
for the 25,000,000 working teams would
be enormous, but is perfectly capable
of accomplishment. If the attention I
could be turned to this practical im- '
provement as it has been to the pleas
urable and fanciful one of trotting, it
would, in ten years, add more than a
hundred million to the annual produc
tive industry of the country.
We hope the managers of fairs, who
are supposed to be made up of ad
vanced farmers, will see the necessity
of encouraging real improvements, and •
of advancing the true interests of agri
culture instead of frittering away their
time and money in horse trots. This 1
had much better be given up wholly to
the sporting fraternity.
In England, the draft horse is not
permitted to be driven faster than a
walk on the public road. Heavy draft
and steady movement go together, and
any attempt to mix up trotting action
with work must result in failure. But i
the useful horse should be trained with
the same care and zeal for the special
purposes to which he is to be devoted,
as is the trotting or running horse : and
could the same enthusiasm be infused
into the breeders of these f.iiti.r .i -
vants. as the -porting fraterrit v _ j •
the rearing and training of their
ild r luce almost a revolu
tion in the motive power of the farm
and local commer The alk.; _ ,ai:
5 the work
world » mor t titan th
not breeders igt r
that is connected -G hf. .h : ' re
gress of mankind
The Groat Race.
Below will be found a brief pedigree
of each of the blooded stock that fig
ured on the San Francisco turf this fall
for the purse of $23,000. It will prove
interesting to such of our readers as
admire horses for speed and bottom ;
The- first money of the immense
purse, $13,000 in gold was taken by
Katie Pease, who won the race in twb
straight heats. She is a chestnut mare,
four years old. At the Dexter Park
meeting of July, i<S?3, she was entered
by Col- McDaniels, her owner at that
time, in the Grand Pacific stakes, for
three-year-olds. Her owner paid for
feit, however, and she did not put in an !
Appearance. } |
She was sired by Planet, out of Min
nie Mansfield, and her many victories
have proved her to be the best-bred
filly in America. She has the best re
cord at 1%, 2, 2 2and 3 miles of
any horse on the turf—that is where
the time was made in a race with a field
of horses. She was purchased last
spring by Mr. A. S. Gage, of the, firm
of Gage Brothers & Co., whoiesale
millinery dealers on Wab“ sh avenue
Her success is therefore a Chicago suc
cess in every respect.
Henry, the winner of the second
money, $5,000, is a four-year-old brown
colt, got by the celebrated California
stallion Norfolk, out of Versalia.
A great many people confound this
Norfolk with the once celebrated trot
ter. But the trotter was of the Oppo
site sex. '' -
Hock Hocking, one of the entries, is
owned by Joseph Carin Simpson, for
merly oi wot) d Place, D, A, Gage’s
stock farm, near Riverside.
Joe Daniels, who broke down, is a
son of Australian, out of Dolly Carter.
He, too, was bred by Col. McDaniels,
who is a veteran of the American turf.
Hubbard is an own brother of the
winner, also bred by Col. McDaniels.
Thad. Stevens was, previous to this
race, the pride of California. He is a
nine-year-old, and was sired by Lang
ford, dam, Mary Chilton. He is best
known in connection with his race of
November 15, 1873, for a purse and
stake of $20,000 for all ages. It was
a post-entry of $2,000 each and closed
with eight nominations. It was one of
four mile heats. Daniels, who also
ran in the race of Saturday, won the
first heat in 7:45. 'Phe second heat
was won by John Chamberlain’s bay
colt True Blue in 8;o8. True Blue,
who was a son of Lexington, broke
down in the third heat and was dis
tanced. Thad Stevens took the next
two heats in 7:57, 8:20^; Joe Daniels
corning in as second. .
Fertilize! Fertilize!
As we are continually menaced with
the loss of necessary labor for the
cultivation of our lands, and as the
time seems to be rapidly approaching
when the proprietors of the soil and
their sons must do their own farm
work, the importance of increasing the
fertility of our fields, that we may pro
duce largely on a small area, is more
clearly and forcibly perceptible. Let
us prepare to give up hired labor,
which will probably equal one-half of
that applied to agriculture, in Georgia,
and reduce our cultivated acreage in
the same ratio, but keep up products
by doubling the capacity of our land.
1 his can be done in a comparatively
brief period and at a small cost. 'Phen
the farmer who employs two laborers
and furnishes two from his own family
for the cultivation of a farm of one
hundred acres, may by applying fertil
izers judiciously, realize with half the
labor on fifty acres as much as hitherto
on the one hundred; and, by pursuing
this policy, the cost of the labor dis
pensed with will be saved.
When the above policy is adopted
and pursued, the young men of that
country will be more disposed to stay
on the farms ; for while it sickens the
spirit to labor and toil on poor soil,
witnessing through the whole period
indications of a scanty reward, there
is a magic charm in luxuriant growth
on fertile fields, and a satisfying influ
ence in the signs of a bountiful harvest
and large reward. If our farmers
would pursue this course they might
laugh at the idea of a lack of labor,
replying to all such suggestions by
pointing to their fertile fields and the
enlightened home muscle ready for
their cutivation.
M” i depends on the Master in the
Grange. He should be a progressive,
rending, thinking, active man. He
>h mid lea 1 is an officer, and have his ■
' mit'R-cd and sound, and 1
■ -e would have the confidence of '
in Let the Masters wake
u; to tne importance of their position,
-e prepared tor ,;ny emergency.
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D-.-.. ..• -1 m;.lenient',. 1>
One of Dickens’ Characters. (
A gentleman writing from London *
about the late terrible explosion of a
powder-laden barge on the jjThames,
by which so many houses were injured
and lives destroyed, reveals this bit of :
history: ,
Winterton House is a large rambling
edifice facing the outer circle of the
Park. It was for many years inhabited
by an eccentric lady, a Mrs. Cass, who
died not long ago at a very advanced
age. 1 his lady, nearly half a century
ago, foi med a connection more intimate
than honorable with one of those royal
dukes whom George 111. presented to
! his unappreciative subjects. I should
not have alluded to the history, but
that there is connected with it a story
which is not generally known, and
which wiii be of interest to the literary
people, because the knowledge of it
coming to Charles Dickens, furnished
him with tbe remarkable idea he made
use of in “Great Expectations.’'
Mrs, Qass hacj qne dQtighiur. ’
married against her „ 110
althouff’' *' miner's wishes,
.... 0“ ule wedding took place at
. Winterton House. When the guests
left the room in which the wedding
breakfast had been given, Mrs. Cass
1 ordered the shutters to be shut and the
1 doors to be locked, and from that time
l to the day of her death the room was
never opened. Ihe key was kept by
, Mrs. Cass, and a lady who lived with
. her as companion for a long time told
' ”1! I 11 ?' ? he , did not believ « Ito fc
old lady had ever looked in herself. I
ha\ e been permitted to peep through the
keyhole, and have seen, by the few
rays of light that penetrated the chinks
of the shutters, the table laid out with
all the plate and china just as they had
been lei* wedding party. The
table linen was y'dlovv, and had been
eaten in places by mice and rats. The
food had all crumbled into dust, but in
the center still stood the immense wed
ding cake, with its sugar figures and
wreaths of orange blossoms, now black
with age. It was a ghastly mockery of
a feast, and I turned from the sight
with a shudder of almost superstitious
horror, yet with a feeling of pity for a
woman whose hate for her own child
could have remained unw-eakened for
twenty years. When I knew Mrs. Cass
she was a little, shriveled woman nearly
eighty, but it was easy to see in her
the traces of former beauty. Although
very wealthy, she spent an extremely
small sum annually, and lived with her
companion in two rooms in a w-ing of
the house, the main building being quite
unoccupied.
Meeting of Georgia Farmer*.
All the members of the Patrons of
Husbandy, delegates from all the coun
ty agricultural societies, and all leading
agriculturalist of the State, and the
stockholders of the Direct Trade Union
are earnestly requested to meet in mass
convention, in the city of Atlanta, on
Wednesday, the 15th day of December,
to consult about matters of great im
portance to the agricultural interests of
the State.
The meeting will take place at the
hall of the House of Representatives,
at 9 o’clock a.m.
Railroads have agreed to pass dele
gates at half rates, and hotels to reduce
rates of board.
A. H. Colquitt,
President Georgia State Agr’l Society.
T. J. Smith,
Master State Grange.
L. F. Livingston,
Chr’n Executive Com. State Grange.
J. S. Lavender,
Executive Committee State Grange.
E. T. Paine,
Secretary Direct Trade Union.
D. E. Butler,
Director Direct Trade Union.
R. A. Alston,
Director Direct Trade Union.
A good time is expected, and all
farmers are invited to attend.
Ladd’s Fertilizer*
We call the attention of the readers
of The Grange to the advertisement
of A. C. Ladd,whose fertilizer is spoken
of with enthusiasm on account of its
value and low price by those who have
used it. We append Prof. Wm. J.
Land's analysis, which makes a fine
showing for the article as advertised.
Prof. Land has too high a character as
an analytic chemist to require any rec
ommendation from our pen :
Land's Analytical and Assay Labobatoby I
Atlanta, Ga., November 3, 1874. )
A. C. Ladd, Esq., City—Du* Sib ■ The ana
lysis of your Alkaline Fertilizer” results as fol
lows :
Lime 30.10 pct
Magnesia 21.40 V
Sulphate of lime 9-95 “
Chloride of sodium 9.87 “
Sulphate of potassa 2.18
Vegetable matter 5.21 '■ \
Carbonic acid, silica, and alumina... 15.52 “
Phosphoric acid andiron L 65 ‘ .
Mcisture 4.11
100.00 1
N > te- -Tue above fertilizer absorbs and retains
O.ur- strongly, and is especially adapted to £
the majority of soils. r
W.'i. J. Land. A^a : ;ti al Chemist. s
T. i > the lut <t frm of wedding invita- JC
ti >: '■ Corn • s.roiii lan I see me capture a Q
m >th-2i-in-law ut 8 o'clock, sharp.”
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