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Georgia Farm Notes.
—According to the Barnesville Ga
zette, Mr. W. R. Murphey made 135
bushels of oats on three acres. The
oats were planted last fall, and grazed
upon in winter.
—Hog cholera is rapidly extermina
ting the swine in the vicinity of Craw
ford.
—ln a communication in the Hawk
insville Dispatch, Wm. Summerford
states that he raised ninety bushels of
oats on one a:re of ground—the land
and oats both being carfully measured.
—The watermelon crop will be large.
Taylor county has made a better
wheat crop than she has since the war.
and her prospect for a good corn crop
was never better than now.
—Spaulding county has invested
twelve thousand dollars in steam
threshing. The machines are manu
factured in Indiana. Why can’t they
be manufactured inGeorgia ?
A Randolph county farmer writes
the Commissioner of Agriculture that
the wheat crop of that couutv averages
fifteen bushels to the acre.
—The Ogletarope Echo says : “Mr.
Jessie Maxev, of Maxey s, in this
county, was born in the year 1795. In
1813 he found a swarm of bees, and
has still hives from the same stock.
Mr. M. works regularly in the field, and
frequently on Sunday walks five miles
to church. He is one of our best citi
zens.
—The Albany News says: “A
young farmer of Lee, Mr. J. T. Whit
sett, has twenty acres in wheat, his
‘brag crop.’ A North Georgia man al
leges that it will make twenty bushels
to the acre on an average, which will
give him four hundred and iortv
bushels. Carried to the mill
ground, this will give him about
barrels of flour, we will say it is worth
ten dollars per barrel. This will give
him eight hundred dollars on twenty
two acres, which is a mite better than
if cotton ruled on that land.’’
—There have been more bee-trees
found in Butts county this year than
ever before.
—Ninety-nine out of a hundred peo
ple aiofee a .great mistake when they
cut offia dog’s tail, in throwing
the wrong end.— Blueglass ( Ky .) Clip
per. Tliat is just wbat a great many
of our wool growers think.
—The Monroe Advertiser says : “Mr.
J. D. Proctor threshed upward of one
hundred and forty bushels of wheat
from less than ten acres, being the
best yield from a large acreage yet re
ported.
—Cherokee Georgia is boastiug or
her crop. It is stated that there has
not been such a yield since 1857. In
Bartow and Murray counties are large
fields that will average twenty to twen
ty, five bushels per acre.
Tne crop of honey throughout the
country is unprecedented.
The Perry Home Journal says sev
eral millions of potato and c-hufa slips
have been set out in Houston county
the past week. Corn is selling forfone
dollar, and wheat one dollar and a
quarter per bushel in the county.
—The Quitman Reporter says :
The whole crop outlook is indeed encour
aging, and the planters are generally in fine
spirits; and indeed they have enough to cheer
them on —the country perfectly healthy, the
crops of every kind good, stock in fine order,
labor plenty, cheerful, and easily controlled at
living rates. The prospects for an abundance
of meat has never been so good since the war.
There are large quantities of fine, fat hogs and
cattle in every portion of the county. Brooks
is truly entitled to be styled the Egypt of
Georgia, if not the South.
—The Sandersville Herald says:
Rains have fallen copiously. The effect on
the crops have been of the happiest character.
The corn and cotton crops have grown in that
time at least ne hundred per cent. The
farmers very generally have their crops in
good condition. They have ploughed and
hoed their crops over twice, some oftener.
The prospect now i, that these two crops will
be superior to any realized for years past.
Sumter County Agricultural Society.
This excellent Society held its
monthly meeting on the 14th inst., at
the Court House, in Americus. We
call the following facts from Secretary
Callaway’s report in the Republican:
The chairman in pursuance of pre
vious selection to that duty, read a
most excellent paper on the subject of
“Improved Farming Implements,"
which were supplemented by some ob
servations from J. H. Black, regarding
the “Harvey Cultivators.” The thanks
of the body were tendered Capt. Cobb,
and a copy of his essay requested for
publication.
On motion of R. J. Hill, it was re
solved that all written communications
and addresses be referred to a com
mittee of three, to be selected by the
chair, whose duty it shall be to cull
therefrom such parts as may be proper
for publication.
In accordance with a request made
at last meeting, S. K. Taylor, Esq.,
gave some interesting facts on the sub
ject of Sheep Husbandry. It was a
matter of great regret that every farm
er in the land was not present to
learn the profits of this branch of in
dustry, and the comparative ease with
which success is attained. Mr. Hill
also gave valuable information with
reference to sheep rearing.
The report of the committee on
“Model Farm of not over 200 acres”
not being ready, further time was
granted. Dr. Simmons also asked un
til next meeting, when he will explain
the Northern process of drying fruit.
Messrs. S. H. Hawkins and Samuel
Heys were invited to publish, at their
earliest convenience, for public infor
mation, any facts or data within their
knowledge or reading, regarding this
important industry.
The Secretary read an article from
Mr. Hill containing useful hints upon
the preservation of giain, straw and
corn tops for forage.
An announcement was made by S.
H. Hawkii s, President of the Horti
cultural Society, looking to the merg
ing of that organizition into this.
The body adjourned to its next reg
ular meeting, the second Tuesday in
July, at which time the chair announc
ed it would be in order to elect dele
gates to the State Agricultural Con
vention.
Farmers Children.
The American farmer, in all his
plannings and all his building, has
never made any provisions for life,
he has considered the means of getting
a living. Everything outside of this —
everything relating to society and cul
ture —has been steadily ignored. He
gives his children the advantage of
schools, not recognizing the fact that
these very advantages call into life a
new set of social wants. A bright,
well educated family in a farm house,
is a very different material from a fam
ily brought up in ignorance. An
American farmer’s children who have
■ad a few terms at a neighboring acad
huy, resemble in no degree the Euro-
peasant. They come home with
and new wants, aud if they
finer no opportunity for their satisfac
tion, they will be ready, on reaching
their majority, to fly the farm and
seek the city.
If the American farmer wishes to
keep his children near him, he must
learn the difference between living and
getting a living ; and we mistake him
and his grade of culture altogether, if
he does not stop over this statement
land wonder what- we mean by it. To
P?et. a to make money, to be
come “ forehanded ” —this is the whole
of life to agricultural multitudes, dis
couraging iu their numbers to contem
plate. To them there is no difference
between living and getting a living.
Their whole life consists in getting
a living; when their families come
back to them, from schooling, and
find that, really, this is the only pur
suit that has any recognition under
tbe paternal roof, they must go
away. Tbe boys push to tbe centre
of the cities, and the girls fol
low them if they can. A young man
or a young woman, risen to the point
where they apprehend the difference
between living and getting a living, can
never be satisfied with the latter alone.
Either the farmer’s children must be
ignorant, or provision must be made
for their social wants. Brains and
hearts need food and clothing, as well
as bodies ; and those who nave learned
to recognize brains and heart as the
best and most important of their per
sonal possessions, will go where they
can find the mystery.
What is the remedy f How shall
farmers manage to keep their children
near them 'f How can we discourage
influx of unnecessary —nay, burden
some—population into the cities. We
answer : By making agricultural so
ciety attractive. Fill the farm house
with books and periodicals. Establish
central voiding rooms, or neighborood
clubs. Encourage the social meetings
of the young. Have concerts, lectures,
improvement asso-iaiions. Establish
bright, active social life, that shall
give some s'gnificance to labor. Above
all, build, as far as possible, iu villages.
It is better to go a mile to one’s daily
labor, than to place one’s self a mile
away from a neighbor. The isolation
of American farm life is the great
curse of that life, and it falls upon wo
men with a hardship that the men can
not appreciate, and drives the educated
young away.— Scribner’s Monthly.
For Secretary of the Convention.
—One of the most distinguished Sena
tors of Georgia, now a member of the
present Senate, speaking of Col. Win. A
Harris, of Worth, the present Secreta
ry of the Senate, says : “ I hope, if a
Convention is called, the members will
elect Col. W. A. Harris Secretary, for,
from my experience of his discharge of
those duties dovolvington the Secretary
of the Senate, I have no hesitancy in
saying I regard his qualifications for
the position pre-eminent to those of
any man of my acquaintance in the
State. — Monroe Advertiser.
Is It Possible, that one will be so foolish as
to suffer from catarrh, cold in the head, bad
smells in nose aud throat, when by this new
antiseptic principle, Dr. J. H McLean's Catarrh
Snuff, you can be cured. Trial boxes, by mail,
only 50 cts. Dr. J. U. McLean, 314 Chestnut,
St. Louis, Mo.
—Corn in Calhoun is sixty cents per
bushel.
•***s©ll CrSOSCrM
Giorgla New*.
—Under a resolution adopted at the
last session of the Cobb county Sunday
school Association, a committee was
appointed to select one person in each
militia district in the county, to look
after the interests of the Sundav
school cause and to report to the offi
cers of the Association suitable loca
tions for organizing schools.
—The people have spoken, and a
Convention has been called to frame a
new Constitution lor Georgia. In ac
cordance with the provisions of the act
under which the election was held, the
Convention will assemble in Atlanta,
on the 11th of next month. The body
will number 190 members, chosen from
the Senatorial Districts of the State.
The list of delegates shows that some
of the ablest aud most distinguished
men in Georgia have been elected, and
that the body, generally, will be com
posed of admirable material.
—Mr. Henry W. Grady, of Atlanta,
delivered his brilliant lecture, “Just
Human,” at Macon, last Wednesday,
for the benefit of the family of the
lamented editor and poet, A. R. Wat
son.
—A concert for the benefit of the
family of Mr. A. R. Watson, will be
given by the Harmonic Society of
Macon, in Ralstou'Hall, July sth.
—The call extended by the Presby
terian church at Thomasville to the
Rev. Mr. Kerr, of Lexington, Missouri,
has been accepted, and he will enter
upon the discharge of his duties about
the first of September.
—Dougherty county is making ef
forts to organize a Pair Association.
—The Annual Commencement of the
North Georgia Agricultural College at
Dahlonega, begins the first and ends
the fourth of July. Bishop Pierce will
preach the sermon, and Dr. A. J. Hay
good, President of Emory College, will
address the literary societies of the
college.
—The Mormons are still preaching
and operating in Walker county.
—Mr. W. P. Howell has assumed
entire control of the Dahlonega Signal
and Advertiser. Unlimited success to
him.
Domestic News.
—The President has issued a procla
mation ordering a public sale of lands
at Harrison, Arkansas, on Monday, Ist
of October, 1877. Similar proclama
tions will be issued for tbe sale of public
lauds in Louisiana, Alabama, Missis
sippi and Florida, under the recent law
restoring them to the market.
—The Indians in Idaho and Oregon
are on the war-path. They have killed
a large number of white men, and made
prisoners of the women aud children.
They have thus far defeated every
attempt to capture them. A serious
war is apprehended.
—The British case has been filed
before the Fishery Commission. It
consists of a most voluminous history
of the fishery difficulties since the
American revolution, aud claims $12,-
000,000 damages on the part of the
Dominion of Canada, and $2,800,000
for Newfoundland for twelve years, six
of which have elapsed.
—The Secretary of War has received
a communication from Deadwood, sav
ing there must be military protection
or the agricultural interests of the
Black Hills will be abandoned.
—The civil service regulations will
probably bo ready in a week. The
President’i idea is to forbid Federal
officers from taking au active part in
political manifestations, being members
of political conventions, or serving as
members of political committees.
—The damage to the cotton crops on
the Arkansas river by the flood, is esti
mated at from 20,000 to 30,000 bales.
- —The next House of Representatives
will have a Democratic majority of
eight
Gokdan Institute. —We have been
invited to attend tbe commencement
exercises of this well established insti
tute of learning—located in the de
lightful town of .Barnesville, The
programme invites to a rare feast.
Rev. H. H. Tucker, D.D., is to preach
the commencement sermon. Capt.
Robert E. Park and Hon. Thomas
Hardeman delive be literary addres
ses. This is food sufficieutfor any hun
gry spirit.
“Old Reliable.”
There are many reputed remedies for that very
prevalent disease, Chronic Nasal Catarrh, but
none which can give general satisfaction and be
come acknowledged standard preparations, ex
oeptDr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. It continues
to enjoy sn unprecedented popularity. This
reputation has been earned through the perma
nent cures it has wrought, having proved itself
a specific in the worst forms of the disease.
Bierce's l’ocket Memorandum Books arc given
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GOLDENWORBS ’
An Appeal for onr Paper by tlie A>er
tary of the Georgia State Grange.
9
Editors Georgia Grange—l see
you propose, in a spirit to meet the
stringency of the times, to reduce the
subscription price to one dollar per an
num to cash subscribers. Certainly
our Patrons and farmers can now af
ford to suscribe for, pay cash for, and
read, The Georgia Grange. Reasons
could be accumulated why we should
sustain our organ—but I cannot re
frain mentioning a few :
Ist. It is worthy of patronage. * Every
issue contains some practical lesson
from farm life, which, if adhered to,
will remunerate the reader an hundred
fold beyond the price of subscription.
For instance, the essay on apple cul
ture, by “ a member ” of Richmond
Yale Grange, in your last issue, though
bearing the imprint of the modest
gentleman, emanated from the pen of a
thorough agriculturist, as the writer
knows, and from one devoted to our
cause. It contains practical, simple
find valuable hints on apple culture,
and is worth to each member who
practices them far beyond the meagre
sum of one dollar. That practical talk
from Central Grange, recently pub
lished in your columns, is an effort in
the right direction, and one which we
wish to see imitated by every Grange.
It gives experience in few words and
valuable. It is to “ talks ” like these
from the Elmira Club of New York,
which has given “ the Husbandman ”
front rank in agricultural journalism
and Grange advocacy. The essay of
sister Wiggins, of Richmond Yale
Grange, on “ poultry raising,” fur
nishes us mauy suggestions, pointing to
great economy in the production of
that most delightful adjunct of table
civilization. Allusions could be multi
plied, but we desist.
2nd. Every Patron should read
at least one agricultural paper. The
failures and successes of his farmer
friends will alike benefit him. The
“ used key is bright, ” and so will
the mind become so by contact
with the thoughts of other minds.
Reading develops thought—makes us
think more. The farmer’s vocation is
an isolated one. Hence greater the
necessity for reading those papers con
taining ads iu the pursuit of his vo
cation. The Georgia Grange is de
voted to the true interest of the farmer.
Hence supplies the necessity.
3d- It has been sent out to hundreds of
Patrons gratuitously for three years.
Justice between man and man, demands
that a return of favor be extended to
the generous proprietors, and that we
pay for and read their paper.
4th. Its future promises increased
importance, aud good in the i.dditional
able services of Col. Clarke, formerly
of the Atlanta Constitution, and so long
and favorably known in journalistic
circles.
st’n. It was born in the cradle
of the Grange, into ’ whose every
frame work has been interwoven
the “ good of the order.” It has
never faltered iu its defense and sup
port of every principle and purpose
held dear by the Patron heart. When
foes without aud the designing within
have assailed us, it has ever borne
aloft our peaceful banner.
6th. It is the adopted organ of our
Order in Georgia, and its right arm of
power and usefulness. Let your organ
cease—and the perpetuity of our State
Grange organization becomes a matter
of doubt It is the only channel through
which the State Grange is able to hold
official communication with the local
Granges. Official information, in a
great degree, ceases when our organ
fails. The records of the State Grange
will attest the fact that The GeoHa
Grange has saved to its treasury H§n
dreds of dollars since its adoption. It is
the oidy medium through which our
subordinate Granges can interchange
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and, hence, becomes the common board,
around which brothers aud sisters can
meet, and tell of the dangers encoun
tered, and battles won.
In view of these reasons, we do think,
and ardently desire, that every Patron
in Georgia shall become a cash-paying
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Foreign New#.
—The Montenegrians have met with
serious defeats at the hands of the
Turks.
The Daily Telegraph's special from
Delababa, confirms the report that the
Tuiks suffered a severe defeat in Sat
urday’s battle.
—The Russians have successfully
crossed the Danube, and have begun
their march to the Balkan.
—Austria will soon take decisive
steps towards a military occupation of
Servia.
—The French Chamber of Deputies
has been dissolved.
—France is increasing the armament
of her navy.
Dreadful Battle Between the Turks
and Montenegrins.
New York, June 18. —A cable spe
cial reports a terrible fight between thj
Turks and Montenegrins. The advance
iutu Montenegro has begun. The
Turkish force numbered ten thousand,
under command of Ali Saib. The
Montenegrins had taken up their sta
tion at Planade, three thousand strong.
About ten o’clock the Turkish advance
came upon the Montenegrin pickets,
who fell back to the body. An hour
later the fourteen battalions of Ali Saib
came up, and without halting attacked
the Montenegrin position. During
eight hours following the engagement
four determined attacks were made by
ihe Turks, but in each instance were
repulsed by the Montenegrins. Flush
ed with three victories Montene-1
grins saw that their enemies came up
with little heart, therefore, they re
frained from firing until they were
within 200 yards, and then poured a
deadly volley into their enemies’ front,
as a small body of Montenegrin horse
men dashed out from either side and
fell upon their flanks. Retreat, soon
became rout, and the Montenegrin
horsemen pursued the Turks to Spuz.
The Turkish dead at Plava, aud along
the road, certainly equalled 2,000 men,
besides mauy wounded and a few pris
oners.
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