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AG lIICIJ LTUBE.
Hoof Rot in Horses.
The Enrol American says : One of
(lie most common afflictions the horse is
subject to is that of tender feet. When
it is said of a horse that he is troubled
with tender feet, it means, generally
speaking, that ho is afflicted with ‘‘hoof
rot,” for no horse has tender feet whose
hoofs are inn healthy condition, because
when in a healthy condition the hoof is
hard and tough, being adapted by na
ture to resist the severe concussion they
necessarily have to undergo, By the
term “hoof rot” we mean that the hoof
and bottom of the foot decays or per
ishes away ; this is caused by a kind of
dry rot, which produces a feverish state
of all the parts. Although foot root is
found in connection with spavin, ring
bone, swiuny, and foot-evil, and is often
occasioned by them, yet they are as often
excited and brought on by it. A ma
jority of the cases of spavin, ring-bone,
and foot-evil, would not occur if it were
not owing to the feverish influence aris
ing from the diseased condition of the
foot. Iloof rot is sometimes caused by
bruises or wounds sustained by the foot
in traveling over hard, rough roads.—
Among other causes of this disease is
that of permitting the shoe to remain on
too long, or keeping the horse constantly
shod, and also by compelling him to stand
in a wet, unwholesome stable. The dis
ease may be easily recognized by the ap
pearance of the feet, which are dry and
chalky, and this should be removed by
being dug out with a knife or chisel. —
As the disease progresses, the frog of the
Kananmu /l mil ill AWI in size, iind if
the liorse remains standing for any length
of time, the joints become swollen. In
case both feet are diseased, the horse
will advance first one and then the other;
bis steps will also be short, plainly indi
cating the soreness of the feet.
To effect a cure the bottom of the feet
should be thoroughly cleansed off, and
the chalky matter dug out the sides of
the hoof, and also the frog should be
pared down, and then the bottom of the
foot should be washed with corrosive lin
iment three or four mornings in succes
sion, drying it well with a hot iron.—
This course of treatment should then he
omitted for two days, and then continued
as before until a cure is effected.
Selecting Seed Corn.
The prosperous and progressive farm
er considers the selection of his corn for
the following years’ growing an import
ant matter; he will go through his field
day by day, when the corn begins to
dent, and select the largest, earliest and
most perfect years for seed. This seed
should be pulled with the husk on, car
ried to the barn and there allowed to lie
with the husk on for two or three days;
when the ear is stripped of it* covering,
leave sufficient husk to be tied or braided
into a string of ears, so that they can be
hung up. In this work of preparing to
put away for seed, let the farmer again
select the best ears with the smallest
cobs, and reject all others. Save double
the amount you will probably need, as
the first planting may rot in the earth,
or he destroyed by the cut worm, or he
cut off by an unlooked-for frost. As
corn seems to be a crop that the Ameri
can people will grow, whether more prof
itable than others or not, there is no sub
ject connected with good seed and varie
ties that should receive the careful at
tention of farmers, than that of having
early maturing improved seed corn saved
early and well cared for. The earlier
your corn for seed is selected, after the
process of indention commences, the
better; the dryer your seed is kept until
wanted for planting, the better it will
grow. .
The Objection to Turning Down
Green Crops.— lt has got into the pa
pers that plowing down green corn pro
duces acid in the soil from the decompo
sition which is hurtful to crops ; that it
is better to turn under when the crop is
matured, that the decomposition will
then he slower, and no hurt will result.
This is doubtless true with some soils
—those deficient in alkaline matter. —
But as most soils contain lime and pot
ash, and other kindred material, this
acid is not only harmless, but beneficial,
as it unites with the alkalies making
plant food, which otherwise might lie,
as it already has for ages, useless to veg
etation.
It is for this reason that the turning
under of green crops is go highly recom
mended, not because its chemical action
is known, but because experience has
demonstrated its advantage. The great
majority of cases have demonstrated that
it is a good thing to turn down the full,
blossoming succulent crop. The alkalies
are most always present in some form to
take up and unite with the acid. In
soils where the acid remain free, would
it not be well to sprinkle clover with
the lime before plowing or previously
apply it to the soil ? In such a case,
lime would be a benefit, as the soil re
quires it. — ltie a Herald.
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Saving Bwebt Potatoes. —A cor
respondent of the Souther)) Planter at
Benlomand, Ark., gives this method:
“Construct a house after the following
plan : Build a double wall, with a space
of ten inches between the walls, and
daub closely inside and out; then fill up
rhe space between the walls with drv
dirt, At the proper height place a loft
of logs closely laid and daubed, leaving
a square hole two or three feet to admit
air immediately over the door. The po
tatoes should he dug as soon as ripe,
which may be known by breaking and
laying up for a few hours; if ripe" they
will turn white where broken; if not. !
they will become dark. When ripe, dig I
and leave them in the patch two or three
days exposed to the sun; if cold, throw
vines over them to protect them from
frost. They should remain in the sun a
sufficient time to wilt, after which they
may be housed. Potatoes should be sort
ed before being put up. Place in piles
of thirty bushels, and sift on dry sand
until all crevices are filled. W hen the
weather is warm leave the door open to
admit free circulation ot air. Ihe hole
in the loft should never be dosed.—
This system will save sweet potatoes.”
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Twenty-finir bales of the new crop of
cotton have been received at Augusta.
Bedding Horses in Sawdust.
A late issue of the “London Field”
contains the result of an experiment, the
feasibility of which lias been discussed
somewhat. The writer says: “Having
used sawdust as bedding for horses for
some length of time, the result of my
experieuee may not be unacceptable to
some of your inquiring readers. I lit
ter my horsebfm it to the depth of five
or six inches, raking off the daWp and
soiled surface every morning, and spread
ing evenly a little fresh, removing only
four times a year. Its advantages ap
pears to be manly, and I will state a few
which gave it, in my estimation, its great
superiority over straw. It is much clean
er and more easily arranged, and of
course much cheaper at first cost > making
in the end excellent manure It is pe
culiarly beneficial to the feet, affording a
cool porous stuffing, a substitute for the
soil of earth we always find in the hoofs
of a horse at grass, and presents the
nearest resemblance to the horses’ nat
ural footing—the earth.
We have never had a diseased foot
since the introduction of sawdust in she
stable, now some years since. Horses
bedded on sawdust are also freer from
stains than when on ordinary litter, (sim
ply because sawdust is a better absor
bent, perhaps) and testify their own ap
proval of it by frequently rolling and ly*
ing down fur hours in the day. It has
also the recommendation of being uned
ible—an advantage which all in charge
of horses with the habit of consuming
their litter, will readily admit. Being
free from pungent smell, which is apt to
accompany straw (unless scrupulously
W“pt> it is innocent to weak eyes, and its
slight turpentine odor is rather sweeter
than otherwise. It makes (converted
into manure) the best possible founda
tion for hot-beds, andunlike other stable
manure, forms no harbor or refuge for
vermin. Pine sawdust is the best, and
oak the worst, as the latter turns black
on the second day.”
Advice About Hogs.—A writer in
Chester county, Penn., the original home
of the Chester White Hog, sends the
following very sensible hints to the
Planter and Farmer :
“No animal deteriorates faster than
swine. The trough is a great element
in the character of the hog; lie is amaz
ingly like the dandy. To keep him in
first, rate trim lie soon eats his head off;
yet, if he has to hunt his food, even with
the slightest effort, he soon becomes too
enterprising to be a fine specimen. As
soon as a pig becomes enterprising he
ceases to be a Chester County White. —
Dame nature soon fits him to his new or
der of things; his nose lengthens, the
disposition to use it also increases, his
legs grow longer, his sides flatten, his
hams lose their plumpness, and*in one or
two generations he is a match in a race
for any ordinary dog. At least this is
our experience. If you want to keep up
the breed of good hogs, keep no more
than you can keep so lazy they will not
grunt.
Keep Ploughing Under. —A Geor
gia farmer, in 1865, fenced in a field of
ten acres—land worn out, and plowed it
in June and sowed it to Wheat in Sep
tember, and at harvest time got four
bushels to the acre. The next season
there was a fair crop of weeds. These
were plowed underand wheat tried again.
The yield, per acre, was nine bushels.
The same process the succeeding year
produced seventeen bushels per acre, and
the last year twenty-seven bushels. As
no mention is made about the use of
clover, these successive croppings and
constantly increasing yield are some
what remarkable. It is assured that
had the ground been subsoiled twenty
inches deep, the last yield Would have
been doubled.
The House-Keeper.
Poultry Notes.
GAPES IN CHICKENS.
Thousands of fowls annually die of
gapes. In hope of remedying the dis
ease, we copy the following, by W. R.
Burnell, of Bridgeport, Conn., to the
Farmer’s Club, said to be a sure cure:
“Mix in a tablespoonful of soft soap all
the meal it will hold, and give to a brood
of ten or twelve chickens.” Mr. Bur
nell adds: “All that die from taking it,
or all that die from the gapes after tak
ing it, I will pay for at any expense.”—
Let some of our readers try it.
ALUM FOR CHICKEN CHOLERA.
The following concerning the cure of
this disease, which has been so fatal
among hens in some localities for the
past two or three years, is from the re
port ot the Department of Agriculture.
Both correspondents reside in the State
of Iowa:
“For the last two years my chickens
have been dying of cholera; even tur
keys have died in the same way. When
l notice the hens begin to droop and look
sleepy. I give them three or ftmr tea
spoonsful of strong alum water, and re
peat the next day. T also mix the feed
(say corn meal) with strong alum water,
feeding twice a day for two or three
days; afterwards once a week. Bmee I
have practiced the above I have not lost
any.
Another gives the following remedy :
“Take, say, two eggs, a tablespoonful of
finely pulverized alum, and a sufficient
quantity of flour to make a thin paste,
and force the chicken or turkey to swal
low a portion of the mixture, and there
are two chances to one that it will recov
er. I have used this remedy for two
years with good success. I have also
found it necessary, as a preventative, to
use more or less alum in their feed once
a day, when the disease prevails. Fowls
should never have access to slop or swill
tubs, or any other kind of sour food.”
Chickens. —A friend told me that
when chickens are first hatched they
should be taken from the lieu and kept
in the house in a box until they are as
large as partridges, and they will have
no'gapes. I am trying the plan with a
brood of eleven, and they are now three
weeks old and flourishing finely. In
moderate and clear w eather I place them
in the sun; and they are so spoiled by
my loving care that they prefer nice lit
tle messes from the table to the usual
do’ugh feed. Their mother seemed very
uneasy for a day or two, but was soon
consoled and is now laying again. I
think I will keep them in the box until
the weather settles somewhat. I put
fresh sand in the box almost daily, and
they would be a lot of trouble, only we
get fond of such pets, and it is pleasure
to minister to their frequent wants. —
They must go in a larger, deeper box to
morrow. as they begin to try their wings,
and often run over the kitchen floor. —
No sign of gapes or vermin yet. — Ger.
Telegraph.
Consumption.
Consumption is not a disease of the
lungs, but one of the system, showing
itself in the lungs. If you fully com
prehend this, you are for the common
sense treatment.
Avoiding all local treatment by in
halation. all the panaceas, including
whisky and cod-liver oil (fashionable to
day, exploded to-morrow.) employ those
natural methods about which wise doc
tors have never differed.
1. Walk in all /rinds of weather, two
or three times a day If too weak for
this, begin with the saddle.
2. Hanging by the hands, by rings
suspended from the ceiling above the
door, swinging backward and forward,
sideways and in a circle. The effect
upon the walls of the chest is very re
markable. T have known such swing
ing to reduce the pulse very sensibly in
a week. In each exercise continue un
til slightly fatigued.
3. Wash the entire skin with tepid
water and good soap every morning, on
returning from the first walk, and rub
the skiu to redness every night on going
to bed with sharp hair-gloves. Law
rence’s English Patent gloves are the
best. All druggists sell them.
4. Sleep much, retiring before nine,
adding a nap in the middle of the day.
Never forget that good ventilation dur
ing the hours of sleep is vital in every
case of diseased lungs.
5. Eat for breakfast and dinner, oat
meal, cracked wheat, beef, mutton, plain
bread, potatoes and other vegetables,
except tomatoes. Use no pastry or other
trash. Eat no supper.
6. Cultivate jovial people. Laughter
is the most precious of all exercises for
chronic lung affection.— Ex.
Beauty eventually deserts its possesor,
but virtue and talent accompany him to
the grave.
He who is conspiring against the
peace of another, necessarily loses his
own.
Faith which works by fear only leads
to a selfish, dishonest repentance, if to
any.
By doing good with his money, a man
stamps the image of God upon it.
Happiness is a perfume that one can
not shed over another, without a few
drops falling on one’s self.
When will talkers refrain from evil
speaking? When listeners refrain from
evil hearing.
Land in the vicinity of Waverly, near the
New Jersey Railroad, is held at $2,000 per
acre. It ought to be held a longtime at that
price.
The Parkersburg Times says that Nicholas
Longworth once purchased the business
portion of the City of Cincinnati for the
value of a horse.
General Robert E. Lee, has declined on
the part of his wife, to receive an annuity of
three thousand dollars from the college of
which the General is President.
Don’t be afraid of the storms of time,
knowing that God holds the moral as
well as the physical ocean in the hollow
of his hand.
y .one’s joy will actually be great
er in proportion as he gets away from
selfishness, and becomes like God in his
benev^ence—that is, in his love.
If we seek our happiness in anything
besides the peace of God and a good con
science, we shall as certainly he unhap
py as that everything in the world is un
certain.
Never be sorry for any generous thing
that you ever did, even if it was betray
ed. Never be sorry that you were mag
nanimous, if the man was mean after
ward. Never be sorry that you gave.
It was right for you to give, even if you
were imposed upon . You cannot afford
to keep on the safe side by being mean.
“ Ah,” said old Mr. Doosenberry,
“laming is a great thing! I have often*
felt the need of it. Why would you be
lieve it, I’m now sixty years old, and I
oqjy know the names of three months in
the year, and them’s Sppring, Fall and
autumn. I larnt the names of them
when I was a leetle bit ot a gal!
North Carolina has gone overwhel
mingly democratic. The conservatives
have carried both Houses of the legisla
ture by decided majorities, while (lie
third, fourth, fith, sixth, and seventh
Congressional districts, send conservative
delegates to Congress, which makes the
State.stand five democrats to two republi
cans.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Bushel. Lb?
Wheat flo
Shelled corn 46
Corn in the ear 70
Peas 60
Rve 46
Oats 32
Barley 47
Irish Potatoes 60
Sweet Potatoes 44
White Beans 60
Castor Beans .....44
Clover Seed 60
Timothy Seed 46
F!ax Seed 46
Hemp Seed 44
Blue Grass Seed 14
Ruekwfceat 42
Dried Peaches 33
Dried App.es. 24
Onions 47
Salt 40
.Stone Coal 80
Malt S3
Hran 20
Turnips 44
Plastering Hair „ 8
Unslaekcd Lime 80
Corn Meal 43
Fine Salt 54
Ground Peas 24 ,
A box 24 by 16 inches, 22 deep, contains onei
barrel.
A box 16 by 16 inches, 8 deep, contains on®;
bushel.
A box 8 by 8 inches, 8 deep, contains one
peck. (I
A box 4by 4 inches, 4 deep, contains half
gallon. j
A box 4 by 4 inches, 2 deep, contains <»e j
quart.
GRAND RAFFLE!
• AND SALE OE
B E A1 ESTATE
AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY!
IN CALHOUN, GEORGIA,
October 24th, 1870.
TICKETS ONLY ONE DOLLAR !
MY TICKET mmm A PRIZE!
NO STOCKHOLDER PERMITTED TO PURCHASE or be INTERESTED
IN’ -A- TICKET !
Never before, in the memory of man, was there such inducements offered to
People everywhere to make their Thousands on the investment of ONE DOL
L There Is nothing lost, and Thousands to be gained by purchasing Tick
ets. Look to your interest, and let Every Man, Woman and Child have a ticket,
or tickets, before the time appointed for llaffle. ONLY ONE DOLLAR A
TICKET I
LIST OF ARTICLES TO BE RAFFLED FOR.
Ist CAPITAL PRIZE—One Plantation lying on Coossawatte
River, well improved, and in a high state of cultivation,
valued at : ; . ; : ; : SO,OOO
2nd Prize—One Lot Creek Bottom Land, on the Western
& Atlantic Railroad, well timbered, valued at : : 3,000
3d Prize—One small River Farm, within half a mile of the
Depot at Calhoun, valued at ; : : ; 2,000
4th Prize—One House and Lot in the town of Calhoun, on
Railroad Street, fronting Depot, elligibly located, : 2,000
sth Prize—One Livery & Sale Stable and Lot, new building,
put up upon the most modern improvements, ; 2,000
6th Prize—One Large Dwelling, 2 acre lot, good well water
and all necessary out buildings : : ; 2,000
7th Prize —One 6 room Dwelling, acre lot, near Court House, 1,500
Bth Prize—One pair very large, extra fine, young mules,
Carriage and Harness, all new : : : 1,200
9th Prize—One Lot and Dwelling near Calhoun Hotel, 1,000
10th Prize—One Business House and lot on R. R. street, 1,000
Uth Prize— “ “ “ “ “ “ “ 1,000
12th Prize—One pair extra large fine Match Horses, 600
13th Prize—One pair fine match Horses, : 500
14th Prize—One lot and stable fronting Wall street, 500
15th Prize—One house and lot near the Academy, 500
16th Prize—l6o acres land in Gilmer county, 400
17th Prize—One fine buggy, harness, &c., : : 350
18th Prize— “ “ «* “ : ; 325
19th Prize— “ “ “ « ; ; '3OO
20th Prize— “ “ “ “ : : 275
21st Prize—One new iron-axle Wagon, coach harness, &c., 275
22nd Prize— “ “ “ « “ “ 250
Also, 29,778 Prizes consisting of all articles kept in a first class store, such as
Watches, Saddles, Boots, Hats, and other articles too numerous to mention. —
Prizes valued at from $1 to $6,000.
There will be 30,000 tickets issued and sold. Every ticket will be duplicated,
the purejuisor bolding one, the other to be filedin the office. On. the day of the
Raffle (Ay duplicate tickets will be placed in a wheel, anl the three first
drawn out will be entitled to Raffle for the highest prize, and the two remaining
tickets will be placed in wheel No. 2. Wheel No. 1 will again be turned, and the
next three tickets drawn will be entitled to Raffle for the 2d prize, and the
two remaining tickets will also be placed in wheel No. 2 ; and so it will proceed
until wheel No. 1 is emptied of all tickets then wheel No. 2 will be turned and
drawn ffom the same as No. 1, and the remaining two tickets, after each drawn,
will be llaced in wdieel No. 1; and so continue to draw from wheel No. 1 and 2
until th| 30,000 tickets are drawn ; thereby giving each and every one a chance
and a ]<ize.
The laffle will be conducted with six dice, thrown from one box. at the same
time. Jn the event there be a tie between the contestants, a throw from each
will determine the fortunate one.
Refe‘to Hon W. H. Dabney. Atlanta, Ga.; Col. R. M. Young, Calhoun, Ga.;
H. C. lunt. Clerk Superior Court; D. W. Neel, Ordinary, and other County
Officer sos Gordon County.
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Money lent for Tickets by express or registered letter (if by mail at sender’s
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H. K. ITTOKS & CO.,
Managing Agents, Calhoun Ga.
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