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AGRICULTURAL.
DANIEL LEE, M. Editor.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1859.
COMMON SCHOOLS IN GEORGIA.
The Legislature of this State convenes at
MSledgevillo this week, under circumstances
which lead us to expect that Common Schools,
and the education of the masses, will command
more than ordinary attention. All intelligent
men recognise the fact, and a large majority re
gret, that our system of education is so defec
tive and inefficient. Its improvement presents
matter for consideration, not only of the highest
importance to the well being of the State, but
of the deepest interest to both parents and clii* j
dren as private citizens. It is impossible.^ o
overestimate either the dignity or the val»® 01
that mental, moral and social culture, whch the
youth of both sexes, rich and poor al> le > receive
under the care and instruction o*’ a wisely or
ganized system of Common Schcds. Long obser
vation in different States, theexperience of more
than twenty years as Superintendent of Com
mon Schools, and an inspector of their teachers,
lead us to believe th*» the bcst results are at
tained far less by private educators, however
excellent, than »y « wise and comprehensive sys
tem of pop' v ’ ar instruction, which places educa
tion with ll the reach of all. Yet, wo question
the propriety of attempting at this time to estab
lis 1 f ret schools over ull the inhabited parts of
,ue great State of Georgia. As one who has
children to educate at an institution of this pri
mary character, some of whom have been born
in the State, we shall rejoice to see its schools
as good in the next ten years as were those of
New York in the first decade of the present cen
tury. The writor was thirty years old when he
first saw a man born in the State of New York,
who could not read nor write; and he well re
members the surprise which the incident occa
sioned. The unfortunate man was born of Low-
Dutch parents in the valley of the Mohawk, at a
place and time when and where the English
language was neither spoken, nor taught in
schools; nor had the State provided Dutch
schools in his mother tongue. IVe remember at
tending schools in Herkimer county, fifty years
ago; and from that time to the present, it has
never cost a parent over a dollar a quarter to
send a child to an excellent school; or four dol
lars a year. Os course, this was not a free school
system; yet, it was a system that made educa
tion free to all who were unable to pay for the
tuition of their children, and so cheap to those
who did pay, that no child ever grew up without
at least the rudiments of a sound public educa
tion. Judging from what we see in the public
prints, as well as from the actual state of com
mon schools in Georgia, there prevails the fun
damental error of dividing all children into two
classes only, and regarding the one as paupers,
and the other as belonging to rich families.—
Now, in point of fact, the great mass of chil
dren occupy a position between these extremes;
their parents and guardians are neither ricli
enough to support good private schools, nor so
► poor as to be beggars.
Let the Legislature meet the educational wants
of this middle class, which embraces a large ma
jority of the people, and at tiio same time close
the door of no public school to any child because
too poor to pay tuition, and it will remove the
only reproach that has the least force, when ap
plied to our peculiar institution, and to southern
society. It is a sad mistake to assume that a
sparse population in the South, cannot have as
good Common Schools as existed in New York
fifty years ago, when its rural inhabitants were
few, and even more scattered than those of
Georgia now are. Less than six hundred thou
sand white persons in this State, own tbirty
seyen million acres of fair farming land; own
* nearly a half million of slaves; own more than a
thousand miles of railroad, and minerals of un
known value; and are, in sober truth, probably
richer as a commonwealth than any other equal
population in the civilized world. -If there is a
nation abroad, or a state in the great republic,
whose taxes on property for the support of a
good government, are as light as those of Geor
gia, we should like to see the person who can
name it. Our means are ample to make our
common schools precisely what they ought to be
without doing injustice to any interest whatever.
Acoording to the luminous, and most instructive
report o£ Comptroller Thweatt, $130,000,00 will
be expended in 1860 from the State Treasury for
common school purposes; “and allowing $50,-
000 for extraordinary appropriations, there will
still be a surplus of $289,605 to apply to the fur
ther reduction of the puulic debt, to education, or
to any other purpose the next legislature may
direct.”
Suppose the legislature appropriates $170,-
000 of-the above named surplus, to increaso the
common school fund to $300,000 available mon
ey, per annum ; this will leave of the $289,000
surplus, $119,000, as an annual sinking fund,
for the more speedy extinction of the public debt,
pr partly for that purpose, and partly for the aid
oiSdl the higher Seminaries of learning and
sciem\ In this connection, we ask par
ticular attention to the fact, that the interest
on the six dollars, common school fund
of the State ofNpw York, yields an income per
capita, as eompaWl with the whole number of
children to be edu\ted, less than half as large
as three hundred thousand dollars will be to ed
ucate the children of GecWia. The white pop
ulation of New York is rao\thau six times that
of this Suite; while the inleiAn on six millions,
even at seven per cent, (which lVdoes not yield,)
is only $420,00 a year. How th<V it may be
asked, does sq small an income opeWe to give
life, strength and permanency to some eftveii thou
sand of the best schools, and each with \n ex
cellent public library, in the w'orld ?
EHE fcOTrafKW&i WSM&M Ml
The grand object is attained by using tbe in
terest on the public school fund as a "bounty, for
the support of a nearly perfect system of pop
ular education.
The Common School System of New
York is far from t*ing the creation of
any one mind or/ ye»f; or of any one
generation. It hjrs steadily grown since the
Revolution, to Income what it is—the cheapest
and best educational machine for the use of a
sparse filming population, in this or any other
country". Recently, in visiting the mountainous
districts *t the head-waters of the Savannah
it seemed like returning to our school-boy
ramb’es in New York, on the head-waters of the
Smquehannah; nor is there any more difficulty
\i maintaining good common schools in Rabun
county now than there was in Chenango county
fifty years ago.
Give the citizens of Rabun their share of
$300,000 a year as a bonus, not as a pauper
fund, nor as a perfectly free school fund, but to
aid them in establishing the best common schools
which their peculiar circumstances will allow,
and their own good sense will rapidly develop
schools infinitely better than any they now pos
sess. The noble element of self-government,
and wise self-education, must be brought into
requisition, before the people will fully appre
ciate all the benefits and blessings of high moral
and intellectual culture. You cannot, by a
steam engine and forcing pump, drive both
knowledge and virtue into the human brain.
Time must be given for natural growth, as well
in systems of mental discipline, as in forms of
government, and in the stately oak that springs
from a little acorn. It is equally an error to at
tempt nothing for the general support of good
common schools, and to undertake to supply
every neighborhood with a perfect institution,
free from all local expense, all parental thought
or feeling on the subject. Give the masses
good seed to plant, water and cultivate, and
thus make their common school education far
more their ow'n bnsiuess than that of the State.
Every man takes a deeper interest in the fruit
of his own labor than in any public gift of twice
the nominal value.
No school district can draw from the public
treasury in New York its share of the common
fund until it raises, by a tax on the taxable pro
perty of ill 9 district, at least as much money as
it gets from the State. The policy of the State,
founded on long experience, allows considerable
discretion to its qualified voters in cities, coun
ties, towns, and school districts, in the matter of
taxing themselves for common school purposes.
They can tax nobody but themselves, no more
than the voters of Augusta can create a mu
nicipal debt for the citizens of Savannah to pay.
When we resided in the city of Rochester it
contained more free-liolders, (that is, owners of
real estate,) than voters; for many widows and
other females own land, who cannot vote at elec
tions, either to lessen or increase the several
taxes on their property.
The true policy is to stimulate the people to
think and act for their own advancement and
elevation. Schools are only the means to ac
complish an end. They are not play-thiugs for
idle boys and girls, but sharp tools, which may
do harm if badly used. Cash premiums to the
amount of three hundred thousand dollars a
year for the improvement of Georgia schools,
will soon give the State the best system of pop
ular education in all the South. She has both
the talent and the funds to take the lead in this
glorious enterprise, and still have taxes less on
the one hundred dollars than those of any other
State South or North. Help such as have energy
enough to labor for their own benefit, and be
careful to help nobody else; otherwise you vir
tually tax the industrious to pay a premium on
laziness. Place a first-class school within the
roach of every parent, but be sure that he has
to work a little to command its advantages, or he
will not duly appreciate their value. These re
marks apply not to the needy from any misfortune,
but to the stupid, the indifferent, and the per
verse, whether poor or rich, or somewhere be
tween. The rich often evince a disposition to
neglect the proper education of their children,
and need a spur to action quite as much as the
poor. It should be the policy of “ the empire
State of the South” to render ignorance dis
creditable to any citizen born within its limits.
Mir.d, highly and wisely cultivated, gives em
pire, because it is the power appointed by God
to rule in human affairs. There is too much
mind in Georgia that is little more cultivated
than its thirty million acres of primitive forest,
and abandoned old fields. Work the aurifefous
deposits in man first, and then he will bring out
for the common benefit of all, both golden har
vests from the impoverished soil, and gold itself
from the granite mountains of the State. Our
policy should be to make the political sovereign
of the State great, and this can be done by the
development of every element of human great
ness. Homo-culture and field-culture will rise
together or fall together, hs naturally as vernal
showers and sunshine bring the flowers of
spring, and the fruits of summer. Hence, we
deem it wise to improve man first, that he may
know how to improve the ground, out of which
he was taken.
— Ml
STEEL PLOW-LARGE WHEAT CROP.
Near Geneva, 30th Sep., 1859.
Messrs. L. Tucker & Son : I have been using
a steel plow this fall, made by Sayre & Reming
ton of Ilion, Herkimer Co., N. Y., and it is one
of the best plows I ever have used. It plows
stubble far better than any I ever saw. One
half a field that was in oats was plowed with it
—the other half with what is considered a good
plow. The whole field was sown in wheat.—
The difference in the looks of the wheat now, is
wonderful —that plowed with the steel plow is
almost like wheat on the best of fallows. Very
little oats came up among the wheat; while that
plowed with the other plows is oats and
wheat. Besides, the steel plows are of much
lighter draft for the horses, and lighter to handle
by the plowman. The beam and handles are of
wood, and all the other parts are of steel. I
have not tried it in land that has laid in pasture
for some time, but I think it will answer very
well, and will. I am satisfied, be quite a saving
of labor for the team. The beam of mine was
not set quite enough to land, but that can yet
be done, and three horse plows of the same
kind, that would plow about 12 inches deep,
would be just the thing to break up our summer
fallows with. By turning up fresh soil to mix
with the soil already worked for a long time, i
would not only give us stiffer straw, but also a
better quality of wheat I had 12 acres in wheat
this season, that was plowed 12 inches deep ,
the quality of the wheat was very fine, and I re
gretted it had not been thrashed when I sent
you my sample of Mediterranean, as it was still
a better specimen than that. That sent was
grown on a barley stubble, and gave full 354
bushels to the acre, on 20 acres. My neighbor.
Mr. Swan, has just threshed his crop. It was
all grown on fallow, and both Soules and Medi
terranean is full 40 bushels per acre. The Soules
was grown on an old field that had grown seve-
ral crops of wheat, and the - Mediterranean was
on land that had only raised two crops of wheat;
previous to this it had raised some three crops
of oats, and never was manured only on the
knolls with guano, for (his crop of wheat. On
knolls it was far too stout, and went down flat,
long before coming in ear. The soil of the field
is the very best, but since it was cleared, about
20 years ago, has been in pasture a large portion
of the time. John Johnston.
We clip the above from the Country Gentleman,
mainly to corroborate from our own experience,
the statement of one of the best farmers in the j
country, as to the superiority of steel plows over j
all others for light draft and good work.
Nor is the fertility of land which has been ;
twenty years in pasture with English grasses,
as above incidentally noticed, unworthy the
reader's attention. Such grasses draw the ele
ments of ammonia from the atmosphere, as well
as carbon, and steadily enrich the soil, as it is
managed by good husbandmen, from year to
year. Even the poor knolls were so productive
that the application of a little guano to them,
caused the wheat to grow so rank “ that it went
down flat long before coming into ear.” Messrs.
Johnston and Swan are justly regarded as mod
el farmers in western New York : and they pro
duce a great deal of fat manure by the fattening
of sheep and neat cattle on food adapted to the
purpose. Their land is generally a tenacious
clay, that requires under draining which it has
received. Deep tillage, and the careful saving
of all manures, including their production, make
their large farms pay the interest on several
hundred dollars per acre.
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LIME IN SOILS.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 19, 1959.
Dr. Daniel Lee: Dear Sir : —Enclosed I {
send you a sample of my sandy soil, which you
requested, with the view of testing for lime.
A red clay underlies this top soil, and at a depth
of say ten feet or less, a lime foundation, such
as is found under the prairie soil. I have tried
the sblphate of lime three years on this soil
with scarcely any benefit, two years out of three
not perceptible. I would be glad to have your
opinion of the kind of manure best suited to this
character of soil. The portion of the field from
which the sample was taken, has been in culti
vation thirty years in cotton and still produces
good crops of cotton. I have a large body of
this character of land. I would further add. that
this quality of my land is fully in advance of my
prairie 50 per cent in five years or 10 per cent
per annum (average.) This land I bed up with
double horse plows and cultivate the same as my
stiff land. The Georgians I conversed with at
your fair, seem doubtful of the good effects of
double plowa If they benefit the crops on this
soil, I feel confident they would benefit your
lands in a greater degree.
Very respectfully. "W. C. Bibb.
The above letter is from an excellent planter,
whose acquaintance we made at the recent Fair
in Athens. With the letter there came 437
grains of a sandy soil, from which we obtained
eighty-three one hundredths of a grain of lime
by the aid of hydrochloric acid, ammonia and
oxalic acid. Th 6 proportion of lime is about one
part to 500 of the soil. We rather regretted not
ascertaining the quantity and character of or
ganic matter, for we suspect it has much to do
in promoting the fertility of the laud. On heat
ing and burning the soil, to free it of all moist
ure and mould, it lost 27 grains in weight.
Much of the sand is pretty coarse, when freed
from alumina and the per oxide of iron. The
latter abounds in the soil.
If “ the lime foundation” that underlies the
surface soil somo ten feet, is accessible, will Col.
Bibb be kind enough to send us an ounce of
this “ lime,” be it rock, marl, chalk or comtni
nated shells ? Possibly it will pay him well to
use this calcareous substratum as a topdressing
to land in the same field. Doubtless the lime
contains more or less phosphoric acid, and it
may give his surface soil both bone earth and
gypsum, and even improve its too open and
sandy character, physically. The red clay sub
soil probably contains more lime than that sent
to the writer; and a little deeper plowing may
prove quite advantageous—adding more clay
with its virgin alkalies and phosphates, to the
comparatively impoverished sand above it.
Our opinion is asked as to the kind of manure
best adapted to this character of soil. The
tramping of sheep, hogs and other stock will
render the light open sand more compact; and
to save all expense of hauling and spreading
manure, we should have pretty large fields in
rotation of crops: seeding to barley and rye,
and sometimes wheat and oats in the fall for
winter grazing; and raising the maximum of
field peas in summer for fattening hogs, sheep,
and beef cattle. Two years manuring in this way,
covering the pea-vines deep in the sandy soil,
would prepare the ground for two successive
crops of premium cotton, while the meat, wool,
lard and tallow obtained from the sheep, hogs
and cattle, if not sold on foot, would yield a
large profit. If it were possible to produce cot
ton seed enough to manure land sufficiently to
grow nothing but our great southern staple,
then we would not name the manure of live
stock, nor the grass, peas, turnips and grain to
support domestic animals and yield the elements
of fertility. Our correspondent will not be of
fended if we tell him there is yet much to be
learned in the art of resting land, or recuperating
it in any way. We should be gratified for him
to inform our readers, how he managed to raise
a good crop of cotton on a field thickly set in
Bermuda grass.
———
THE STATE FAIR.
Atlanta, Oct. 29, 1859.
Fair week, the Carnival of Atlanta, is well
nigh over, and everybody has gone home ex
hausted and weary, and willing enough that it
should be succeeded by a Lent of twelve months
duration. The road to the grounds, which yes
terday was lined with vehicles, pedestrians and
riders, and overclouded with blinding dust, is
almost deserted now, and that part of our city
will remain unfrequented, until another Fair
brings it again into fashion.
The city has ne/er been visited by larger
crowds of visitors. Every public or private
place was literally swarming with these inva
ders. You had an unpleasant consciousness of
their presence at the theatre; they breathed in
your face at the depot and fair ground, and de
prived you of your meal by day and your rest
by night. Beds, procrustean and otherwise,
which had been empty since the closing of the
last Fair, were now enlisted into service, and
those which had been occupied before, were
compelled to do double duty. Many who could
find temporary lodging, might have said with
King Richard: “ Here will we sleep to-night,
but where to-morrow ?’’
When you visited the fair grounds, you found
i already assembled a motley crowd of every
i class and section. Honest farmers in spuntruck
! and copperas, examining some new plow, or ad
miring perhaps an overgrown hog; fast young
| men passing sentence on a fast buggy; or pretty
; women, of which Heaven knows there was a
plenty, going into raptures over an embroidered
dressing gown, a “ dear little bonnet,” or the
most beautiful chemisettes (we hope we are not
mistaken in the word) in the world. There was
a quantity of fancy knick-nacs for sale, made of
bead-work and leather, which also elicited from
them many expressions of admiration—perhaps
because they were for sale. As our pocket
book was left behind, we were not able to ex
amine them as carefully as we would otherwise
have done, aad cannot therefore express an
opinion. In the department of fine arts there
were exhibited a number of paintings, some of
them good, but many of them bad, or at least
indifferent. There was a picture of a fine young
man, chiefly remarkable for his delicate mous
tache ; there were three pictures by Miss Frank
lin, of Athens, the best of which was Abd-el-
Kader, iu which the oriental features were re
ally admirably delineuted. The remaining two
were an old woman, wrinkled and in the winter
of her life, and another of Tallulah Falls, which
was said by visitors to be very faithful to the
original Miss Caniack, of Athens, also exhibit
ed two paintings, which gave promise of a high
j order of talent; one of an Italian flower girl,
j and another of Toccoa Falls. There were some
' Grecian paintings, which were well
| cuted, but which, when it is remembered that
j the colors are put ou printed designs, do not ap
pear very difficult. Apelles and other masters
of the Grecian school, we imagine, painted in a
somewhat different manner.
Assisted by Mr. Barnes, who as well as ev
ery other gentleman connected with the fair,
gave us every facility for seeing, we followed
the crowd around from building to building and
from stoll to stall. All of the latter were filled
Wtlil a gwdlj- number ot’ Dnrhemif?, I>evoua and
Brahmins, in the cattle line, and with horses.
Morgan, blooded, and of all work. In the form
er class was a bull of antideluvian proportions
and of 2,700 lbs. He must have been fully as
large as the brazen animal of the same species,
in whose stomach Phallaris confined his prison
ers. The most magnificent stallion on the ground
was Sligo, who took the premium, and who be
longs to Mr. McGhee, of Troup.
There was much disappointment felt at not
hearing the anticipated speech of Hon. Rob't.
Toombs. The audience was, however, consoled
by the address of Rev. C. W. Howard, on Fri
day morning, who, besides lending his elo
quence, contributed some of the finest stock that
was made, to the fair. In the afternoon of the
same day there was an exciting trotting match
on the track within the enclosure of the
fair ground. A small black horse gained the
prize, whose owner we did not learn.
In the number of visitors and of articles en
tered, there is a large increase on former years.
Our State Fairs are still far behind those of al
most every other State, and until more assis
tance is given and interest taken in this exhibi
tion, they are likely to remain so for some time
to come.
FIRST SECTION.
Namier of Entries made in each Department.
Farm and Field Crops, 10 entries.
Samples “ “ 22 “
Horticulture 1 “
Fruit Trees 6 “
Fine Arts 24 “
Miscellaneous 30 “
• Cattle 30 “
Sheep 6 “
Swine 11 “
Peaches, Grapes, &c 1 “
Farming implements 30 “
Stone, marble, &e 1 “
Miscellaneous book for sixth section. 32
Patch work in cotton 10 “
Works of Shop and Factory Clothing. 14 “
American needle-work 12 “
Horses, all work 04 “
Machinery 11 “
Embroidery iu Silk 19 “
Pears 2 “
Apples 2 “
Wood andiron 15 “
Knitting in thread, &c 23 “
Leather 10 “
Miscellaneous, seventh section 18 “
Raised worsted work 10 “
Household department 3 “
Dairy 8
Household miscellany 15 “
Domestic management 22 “
Mules 8 “
sth Class, open 20 “
Horses, Georgia-raised 24 “
Morgan 11 “
Blooded 1G “
PREMIUMS
Awarded at the Southern Central Agricultural So
ciety, held at Atlanta, during the week ending
October 29, 1859.
PATCH WORK IN COTTON.
Best Quilt —Mrs. A. G. Spies. Marrietta,
cup. $5
Woven Counterpin—Miss S. J. Henri’,
Gwinnet co., cup. 5
Cotton Quilt (raised work) —Mrs. J. Lins
loy. Cobb co., cup. 5
Worsted Quilt —Miss C. Harrison, Mariet
ta, cup y
Silk Quilt —Mrs. Mary Prior, Madison,
cup 5
Cradle Quilt —Mrs. Isaac Winship, Atlan
ta, cup. 5
ORNAMENTAL NEEDLE WORK.
Best Shirt and six Collars—Mrs. M. J.
Daniel, Atlanta, gold thimble, §5
Best dress for child—Miss F. Strickland,
Gwinnet co., 2
Best Embroidered Handkerchief—Miss
S. North, Griffin, 3
Best Embroidered Vest—Mrs. Carlos De
Laigle, Atlanta, gold thimble, 5
Best Jeans Pants—Mrs. Susan G. Leigh,
Floyd co., 5
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SIXTH SECTION.
Best Hair Wreath—Mrs. S. D. Niles, At
lanta, cup, $5
Best Thimble Cushion—Miss M. A. War
wick, Atlanta, cup, 2
Best Bread Basket—Mrs. M. J. Leonard,
Augusta, plate, . 2
Best Cuff and Collar for lady—Mrs. J. C.
Orr, Athens, cup, 5
Best Feather Flowers—Mrs. J. C. Orr,
Athens, plate, 3
Best Wiregrass Basket —Mrs. E. J. An
derson, Atlanta, 2
Best Flax Mits—Miss C. Harrison, Mar
ietta, 1
Best Sofa and Pin Cushions —Mrs. P. Gio
vannini, Atlanta, 3
Best specimen of Embroidery—Miss M.
Phinizy, Athens, 3
Best Crochet Table Cover—Miss. M. G.
Baker, Atlanta, 3
Best Crochett Rigalett—Miss M. A. Bor
zelia, 3
WORKS OF THE SHOP AND FACTORY.
Best Bolt Flannel—James A. King, Ros
well, Cobb co., cup. $5
Best Linsey—J. A. King, do., cup, 5
Best Ga. Plains—J. A. King, do., cup, 5
Best Bolt Cassimere—J. A. King, do.,
cup, 10
Best Bale Kerseys—J. A. King, Roswell,
cup, 10
Best Bale Osnaburgs—Waynman Mills,
Upson co., cup, 10
Best Bale Yarn—Troup Factory, cup, 10
Best Bale Wrapping Twine —Troup Fac
tory, cup, 3
Best Bbl. White Wheat Flour—J. H.
Newton, Athens, 5
Best Bbl. Red Wheat Flour—W. S. Pe
ters, Atlanta, cup, ' 5
CLOTHING.
Best Wool Hats—J. Bowman, Hall co.,
cup, $5
FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
Best Cotton Press; 0. P. Perry, Augusta,
Pitcher, S2O
Best Wheat Fan; J. H. Doughty, Cal
houn Ga., cup, 5
Best lot of Agricultural Implements; J.
W. Bloodworth, Griffin, cup, 10
Best Sub-Soil Plow; J. W. Bloodworth,
Griffin, 5
Best Cotton Planter and Grain Drill; M.
M. Hall, Agt. Milledgeville, 5
Best Plow for all work (Adams’); M. M.
Hall, Agt. do, 5
Best Churn ; M. M. Hall, Agt do, 1
Best Single Mould-Board Plow; J. C.
Williamson, Wilkes co., 5
Best Iron Stock Plow; W. A. Heam,
Wilkes co., cup, 5
Best Cultivator; W. C. Barnesville,
cup, 5
Best Double Moqld-board Plow; J. P.
Harris, Byharro, Miss., cup, 5
Best Sweep; J. P. Harris, do., cup, 5
Best Cast Iron How, H. W. Randle, Al
abama, cup, 5
Best Double Mould-board Plow; J. B.
Hart, Agent, cup, 10
Best Straw Cutter; Clarke & Lewis, At
lanta, cup, 5
Best Cotton Side Plow; N. Warlick, Al
abama, cup, 5
Improvement in Plow Gear; N. Warlick,
Alabama, " 2
Best Corn and Pea Planter; J. M. Mitch
ell, Webster, co., 5
Best Cotton Scraper, and Improved Plow
Stock, J. W. Ryles, Marietta, 5
Best Wheat Drill and Sower; John Cun
ningham, Greensboro, 10
Best Turning Plow on Rooter-Stork ; B.
S. Williams, Green co., 5
For improved foot to Rooter-Stork; W.
J. Griffin, Marietta, 5
MANUFACTURER OF WOOD AND IRON.
Best R. R. Iron; Atlanta Rolling Mill
Co., cup, 5
Best Buggy; W. 11. Henderson, Jones
boro, cup, 10
Top Buggy; J. J. Ford, Barnesville, Ga.
cup, 5
Trotting Ruggy; J. B. Bray, Rome, Ga.
cup, 5
Buggy; T. C. Howard, Atlanta, Ga.
cup, 5
Best Flour bbl.; T. J. Daniel, Atlanta,
cup, 2
Best Tight bbl.; J. J. Daniel, Atlanta,
cup, ' 3
Best Wine Cask; 125 gal. T. J. Daniel,
Atlanta, cup, 0
Best Bureau ; F. A. William’s,. Atlanta,
cup, ‘ 5
Best Sash aud Blinds; Pitts A Cook, At
lanta, cup, ' 0
Best Pannel Doors; Pitts & Cook, Atlan
ta, cup, 5
Best Self-loading Whcel-Barry, W. H.
Manning, Atlanta, 5
Mrs. Reid and Langdon, Premium for
improvement in Sewing Cords, by Sewing
Machine, ■ 5
MANUFACTURES OF LEATHER.
Best Pair Boots; J. Beusse, Athens, Ga.
cup, • ' $ 5
Best Buggy Harness, J. M. Lanier, Ala
bama, cup, 5
Best and largest selection of Kip, Sole A
Harness Leather; Maltly, Cleveland and
Lawrenceville, 10
Best Half Dozon Calf Skins; Maltly,
Cleveland and Lawrenceville; cup, •'
Best Brogans; Eddleman A Banks, cup, 5
Best Shoes for Ladies; Dimick A Mix,
Atlanta, cup, ®
STONE AND MARBLE.
Best Marble Monument; S. V- Oatman,
cup,
Best Southern mado Perpmmry; Massey
A Lansdell, Atlanta; cm* 5
Best Lime; N. C./Yonge, (Cowasena
Works) Ala., 7
Machinery.
Best Force P/hp; J. M. Lonquest, Gris-
lin, cup, / ! ? J
Best Stationary Steam-Engine; Atlanta,
Maehinojfforks, (Dunning agent) cup, 5
Best Steam Boiler; Atlanta Machine
Wojrfs, cup, 10
/Best Horse Powor; Bartii A Nicolai,
■ agents for Messrs. Wilson A Athens, Ga.
As this power was given Premium last
year, it cannot take it again; though we
consider it the best one on exhibition,