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The Farm and Household. * —— * Tabic of Weights and Measures. 1 Bushel*. Lbs. Bushels. Lis. Vbeat 60 Blue Grass Seed...l4 ►Shelled corn 50 Buckwheat 52 (’ora in the ear 70 Dried peaches 38 Peas 60 Dried apples 24 j Bye 56 Onion ......67 Oats 32 Salt 50 Barley 47 Stone coal 88 Irish Potatoes 68 Malt 40 Sweet Potatoes 55 Bran 20 White Beaus 58 Turnips 55 t'istor Beans. 46 Plastering Hair 8 C iver Seed 60 Unslacked Lime...Bo Ti nothy Seed 46 Corn Meal 47 FI x Seed 66 Fine Salt 54 II nip Seed 44 Ground Pea5........23 Raise Your Own Fork. Should we not now beijin to turn our attention practically and in earnest to pig raising ? When was corn ever so plentiful and so cheap in our land as at the present time ? Not since the wri ter was a boy,at least. The good old time seem to be coming round again. If my memory serves me correct,about 1810.-5 my father soli corn in Georgia at from 25 to 35 cents per bushel. Corn is selling in Atlanta to-day at G 5 cents per bushel shelled and sacked. This does not net the producer over 45 cents per bushei lt possibly might have been more prof itable to sell c >rn and buy bacon when the grain commanded $1 to §1 25 per bushel; but not so now. Wealthy Cin cinnati doubtless derive a great part of her wealth by converting every 15 busli els *of her surplus corn, worth about §lso‘ into c barrel of pork, worth about §25 to §3O. Now, Mr. Editor. I contend that we can convert our grain into meat at the same ratio of profit as this great Western City has been doing for so many years, and thereby keep the millions at home that we have anuualy contributed to Cincinnati s wealth, by turning onr attention again to the rais ing of pigs. Yes, I say pigs, not hogs. Let us as sjon'as possible, get rid ol the remaining ugly, piue'TOOting, rough, course savage, ilLbrcd squealing, mon grel hogs, that still ma) be seen about our barn .yards, and replace them with someone of those quiet, refined, well bred pigs such as the Poland China, Berkshire, Essex or Suffolk ; for it is an established fact that the quiet pig will, with the same amount of food con sumed, gain in flesh twice as fast as the other. Of the breeds named above, the writer prefers the “Poland,” (as they arc called by some breeders ;) yet we might safely say that the purchaser of either of any one of the above named varieties would be pleased with his selection. The Poland China are spotted white and black, long body and short legs great eaters, an 1 very gentle and kind in disposition. They take on flesh fast er than any breed with which I have experience. I have on my lands the True Improved Berkshire, and with like feed and treatment the Poland China take on least 50 cent, more flesh. A neighbor of ours has now a litter 0 f pig g —first cross from my Poland Chi na boar ‘ Stonewall” a common sow— three months old, that weighs seventy five pounds each, and the had no extraordinary feeding. These pigs have taken on 33 ponnds of flesh in the last thirty days. For pork hogs we advise a cross, but for a separate business breed only a pure-bred stock. A fancy price can only bring what is worth foi perk. Pigs may be raised at a very email expense by planting patches of chufas, ground peas turnips etc., for them to run on. Chufas make the best meat. Turnips should be boil ed and a little meal or bran with a lit tle salt, thrown in and mixed, before feeding. Raise pigs— beautiful, well forned, quiet pigs, and thus fill your ptnoke/.houses and keep your dollars at home. M. W. J. ;: The Mysteries of Bees. In every well balanced colony of bees is a queen or what is more properly e ilh'dja mother bees the duty of which is simply laying of eggs. To her has been attributed great royalty, etc , yet she exercises no authroity whatever over any of the inmates of the hive. Her simple duty is the laying of eggs, and the mother is governed by one infalli ble rule—abundance of honey and the requisites heat to mature the blood. When they possess these requisites, the swarm may be considered a woL-balon ced one. . But the mother is neither more or less than a slave from her birth to her death. As soon she begins to fail in furnishing the requisite amount of eggs for the colony, the work ers will commence cells, in which they place an eng to rear another mother to take the place of their own, which they intend to supersede. They are aware that they will cease to exist unless they do this, mid as soon as everything is satisfactorily arranged they tall upon her and destroy her. This (hey know is strictly necessary for their safety. Let the que n be laying very rapid y, and should a failure take place in the honey she ceases to lay in proportion, although they have abundance of honey in the hive. —Ree World. Colic—A Certain Cure.—Dis solve a pint of hot water, then add a quart of good vinegar and drench the horse with half the mixture. If the horse is not well in half an hour give him the remainder and he will soon be all right. Another —Give him two fable-spoon fuls of soda dissolved in warm water. Repeat the dose every half hour there after until the patient is well, hoi in fants with colic soda in small quantities is invaluable. If persons who are sub ject to colic will take soda, they will have no use for antispasmodics, as a genual thing. I give soda for colic, for same reason you would use water to put out lire.— Stock Journal. Another. —For colic or scours in houses, give half a tumbler of spirits of camphor in a pint of warm water (cold will do if in a hurry.) If not relieved in 15 minutes repeat the dose. Give noth ing else. To see whit is right and not to and o 't ; is want of courage —Ccutuc;ovu AN ADDRESS TO THE SICK. I)o you want to purify the system? Do you want to get rid of Biliousness? Do you want something to streng hen you ? Do you want a good app ,-tite ? Do you want to get rid of nervousnes ? Do you want good digestion ? Do you want to sleep well ? Do you want to build up your constitution? Do you waul a brisk and vigorous feeling ? If you do. TAKE smmQm’ REGULATOR 1 Purely Vegetable. Ts harmless, Is no drastic vitdeni medicine, Is sure to cure is taken regularly, Is no intoxicating beverage, Is a faultless fairily medieme, Is the cheapest medicine in the world, Is given with safety and ilie happiest re sults to the most delicate infant. Does not disarrange the system, Takes the place of quinine and bitter Jof every kind, Contains the simplest and best remedies. Ask the recovered dyspeptics, bilious sufferers, victims of fever and ague, the mercurial diseased patient, how they recov ered health, cheeiful spirits and j ood appe tite—they will tell you by taking Simmons’ Liver Regulator, The Cheapest, Purest, and Best Family Medicine in the World. It contains four medicinal elements, nev er united in the same happy proportion in any other preparation, viz : a gentle cathar tic, a wonderful tonic, ai un *xceptionable alterative and certain corrective of nil im purities <4 the body. Such signal success has attended its use, that it is now regarded as the EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC For all diseases of the Liver Stomach and Spleen. -4s a Remedy in MALARIOUS FLYERS, BOWEL COM PLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL DE PRESSION, R EST LESS N E3S, JAUNDICE. NAUSEA, SICK HEADACHE, COLIC, CON STIPATION and BILIOUSNESS. IT HAS NO EQUAL. CAUTION. As there are a number of imitations of fered to the public, we would caution the community to buy no powders or prepared Simmons’ Liver Regulator unless in our engraved wrapper with trade mark, stamp and signature unbroken. None other is genuine. J. H. ZEiLIN St CO., Macon, Ca.> and Philadelphia. Your valuable medicine, Simmons’ Liver Regulator, lias saved me many doctor’s bills, I use it for everything it is recom mended and never knew it to fail; I have used it in colic and grubs, with my mules and horses, giving them about half a bottle at a time. I have not lost one that I gave it to, you can recommend it to every one that has stock as being the best medicine known for all complaints that horse flesh is heir to E. T. 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GEORGIA, Gordon County Board of County Commissioners, | February Term, 187 G. / This is to rotify all whom it may eoncem that a certain review'd, marked out, and reported favorably by reviewers ap pointed by said board, will be established or the first Monday in March if no good cause be shown to the contrary, reported on as follows: Starting at Jones’ Ferry, coming east; the use of -he same road that is now used is recommended until it reaches the south west corner of lot of land now owned by Noah McGinnis; thence along the southeast cor ner of same; thence ‘lirough the gap of a ridge east until it intersects with the Rome toad leading from Calhoun to Rome, the point of intersection being about one hun dred yards south of the K. M. Young gate on said road. This February 7, 187(5. C. KING, Chairman. T. A. FOSTER, 11. T. lIEEfsE, M V. WATTS, J B. GORDON, Board of County Commissioners; A true copy from the minutes. feb9-lm. Thos. A. Foster, Clerk. 500 Volumes in One! 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