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Agricultural Department.
ken o vat in g pastures.
Old pastures are often greatly deteri
orated in productiveness and quality by
(be incoming of moss. The lighter the
soil, the sooner the moss .makes its ap
pearance, and the wider the area it oc
cupies, Wc have known old pastures
ma<ic ftdarly unproductive from this
growth. So long as the soil is abun
dantly rich in grass food, moss will not
come in ; when that begins to fail, a
class of plants that draw different ele
ments from the soil—a lower and coarser
type of vegetation growth—is produced.
The best old pastures, those that seem
to improve with age, occupy soil that is
naturally extremely rich, deep, and moist
enough to favor the grass. On sucli fa
vored locations pastures improves with
age, because the turf thickens, and the
herbage becomes fine and sweet. This
process goes on for years—for a lifetime
—and people talk of permanent pas
tures. But the best will fail with age,
when the store of plant food is ex
hausted, unless it be kept good by arti
ficial means. The law of growth, ma
turity and decay, holds good with the
best pastures as well as with the poor
est ; only it requires more time to com
plete the cycle.
The most practical way of renovating
old pastures is to plow, crop with grain,
manure, and re-seed; but as it is not
always desirable to take this course, top
dressing may be resorted to as the next
best expedient. Strong liquid manure
will keep up and improve grass lands,
and effectually restrain the growth of
moss. For lawns and small patches of
pasture this is the best means to adopt.
Asa dry manure nitrate of soda is one
of the best, because it is readily dis
solved, and thus placed in the only
available form for appropriation by the
grass roots, in which any fertilizers can
be used by them, and it likewise sup
plies the needed elements. Farm-yard
manure, spread on the surface, will force
a good growth for a single season, but
it is not a profitable use for so valuable
a manure. Fresh earth, or that made
from the decay of sods, is one of the
most satisfactory dressings to apply to
old grass land. The effect of earth
alone is remarkable, and considering the
cost and the benefit, this material is most
profitable for common use. —American
Rural Home.
PROFIT OF FARMING.
No small experience and some obser
vation convinces me, that circumstances
being equal, farming will furnish as am
ple a dividend upon capital invested, as
the common trades which men engage
in, and even the ordinary pursuits of
mercantile and commercial life. Os
course, I except all extraordinary cases
of good fortune, and all matters of gam
bling and speculation.
The returns of most crops strike one
sometimes with astonishment, and would,
if taken as a test, lead to the most de
lusive speculations. A grain of seed
sometimes returns one hundred fold ; and
this being sown a second year would, per
haps, give ten thousand fold, and so on
in geometrical ratio. Seventy bushels of
potatoes' planted, will yield four hundred
or twenty for one; a bushel of wheat
sown, will yield sixty bushels, or two
hundred and forty for one; a pound of
carrot, beet or rutabaga seed will pro
duce six to nine hundred bushels, worth
one hundred dollars.
The proceeds in these cases seem to
be enormous, yet they are constantly re
alized, and that, too, in many cases at
comparatively small expense. But no
confident conclusions of the exact pro
fits of farming are to be drawn from
such results as these; so many untold
circumstances of abatement enter into
the cost, that if these were the only el
ements given in the case, the solution
of the problem would give the most er
roneons and deceptive results.
W e are not to look to agriculture for
any extraordinary or sudden gains, as
for example the drawing of a prize in a
lottery, or a shrewd speculation in stock.
If we will take ten merchants with a
fixed amount of capital, and ten farm
ers with the same amount, we will find
that at the end of twenty years the far
mers have the greatest increase, is more
evenly divided among them than among
the merchants. Farming is also far
safer and more certain to secure a com
petency than mercantile pursuits. I
venture to say that twenty merchants
fail iu business to one farmer, and this
ought to open the eyes of young men
with small capital going Luto business.
(Jermantown Teleyraj>h.
Sows Eating Pigs. —Young sows
will sometimes eat their offspring, from
costiveness, which may be prevented by
feeding some laxative food, and rubbing
the backs of the pigs with an infusion
of aloes; or raw salt pork given to the
mother will prevent her from eating her
pigs. It has been given to them with
success after they had eaten one or two
of their pigs.
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Threshing Grasses. —ls the straw
is long, remove the fenders ; if short, on
the contrary thresh and winnow us di
iccted £or clover, with the exception
thaL the force of the wind ought to be
xeO need
Household Recipes.
Apple Fritters. —One quart of
flour, with a teaspoonful of powdered
yeast, little salt, one pint of milk, three
eggs, two nice apples sliced very thin.
Fried in hot lard.
llow to Extinguish Fires of
Kerosene. —‘In cases of kerosene fires,
don’t try to extinguish the flame with
water; that will only spread the fire.—
instead, use blankets or woolen clothes,
quilts, shawls, or whatever may be at
hand that can be used to smother the
flames. Don’t use water ; the oil floats
upon it and burns as rapidly as ever.—
Remember that smothering is the only
way of stopping the fire.
Strawberry Royal. —Put twelve
pounds of fruit in a jar, and cover it
with two gallons of water, previously
aciderated with five pounds of Tartar
acid; let it stand forty-eight hours;
then strain it, taking care not to bruise
the fruit. To each pint of clear juice,
add one ami a half pounds of sugar;
stir until dissolved, and leave it a few
daj r s; then bottle and cork lightly. If
a slight fermentation takes place, leave
the corks out for a few days.
Composition Pie. —The following
recipe, furnished us by a lady friend,
who is an excellent housekeeper, we
have tested, and can recommend. When
properly made, the pie will please al
most every taste, and resembles goose
berry or green apple so nearly as to be
readily mistaken for eithor :
“Take one teacup of good vinegar ;
three teacups of water ; boil to the con
sistency of starch; add a piece of but
ter the size of a pigeon egg; sweeten
to taste with syrup or sugar; add any
flavoring that may be agreeable, and
bake in very short thin crust. The
above will be sufficient for four pies.”
To Make Blackberry Wine. —Use
ripe berries. To every gallon of the
fruit pour half a gallon of boiling water,
and let them stand 24 hours. Then
pour off the juice (pressing the berries)
through a colander into an open vessel.
Strain again through a flannel bag, and
to every gallon of juice add two and a
half pounds of good clean sugar. Stir
it up well and put it into Demijohns,
filling them entirely. These should be
kept full to the brim, and for this pur
pose a bottlefull of the juice should be
reserved from which the demijohn
should be replenished daily, until fer
mentation ceases, when the wine should
be poured off in an open vessel and cla
rified in the following manner : “ Wash
sand (half a pint willl be sufficient for
five gallons of wine) until the water
will run clear from it. Beat to this
the whites of four eggs, and stir into
the wine. When it has settled, and the
wine looks perfectly clear, pour off care
fully into demijohns, putting a piece of
muslin inside in the funnel. Cork
tightly and set in a cool place where it
will not be disturbed until December or
January.
A few days before bottling, have the
bottles well washed, dried and sunned.
Provide new corks Have everything
in readiness before the bottling begins,
including cement for ceiling. Strain
the wine again into large pitchers, taking
particular care not to turn the demijohn
back after beginning to pour from it,
as it stirs up the sediment which is at
the bottom. Cover the inside of the
funnel with a piece of muslin before
placing it in the mouth of the bottle
and cork it immediately, driving the
cork in with a wooden mallet. Never
use old corks. Seal carefully with ce
ment, and keep in a cool place, with
necks of the bottles down.
Blackberries differ in quality, some
being much sweeter than others, the
above process will produce different re
sults, perhaps, in different localities.—
The berries also differ in the quality of
saccharine matter as they are more or
less ripe; hence, uniform results can
only be attained by the use of a sac
charometer, in determining the quantity
of sugar to be added. As this is not
practical for the masses, we will state
that the juice that will float an egg suf
ficiently high to show a surface the size
of a silver quarter, (if that relic of the
past age is remembered) will make a
wine of sufficient strength. If two and
a half pounds of sugar does not make
the juice thus heavy, continue to add
untilthepoint is reached.— Rural South-
La rut.
YOUR TIME NOW!
If You Owe us Anything!
THOSE who have not settled up during the
big rush to the counter of Ellis & Col
burn, can now have a showing. We hope
none will be backward, as we are ready to
receive whatever amounts they may be due
us; and will be very thankful to af! for a very
-peedy “settling up.” We must have funds
to carry on business. Soliciting a eontinu
ance of the liberal patronage heretofore be
stowed, we are, Respectfully, &c.,
Feb. 9, 71, ts ELLIS & COLL URN.
ALBERT O. PITNER. HENRY H. SMITH.
PITNER & SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail
Grocers & Commission Merchants
AND DEALERS IN
PUKE KENTUCKY WHISKIES,&c.
No. 26, Corner Broad A Howard sts.,
ROME, - - GEORGIA
octC 1870-1 y
ESTABLISHED 18*7 J
L. H. MILLER,
Miller’s Safe and Iron Works,
BALMIMORE, MARYLAND ,
SALESROOM, 265 BALTIMORE St.
(One door above Hanover.)
factory, Square, bounded by Henrietta,
Celart, Fremont and War
ner Streets.
Every Variety of the Best
Fire and Burglar Proof
Safes, Banker’s Chests,
Improved Combina
tion Locks, Bank
Vaults and
Doors.
First Class Goods at Low Trices,
Send for Illustrated catalogue and price
list.
Refer to First National Bank, Lynchburg
National Bank, and People’s Saving Bank of
Lynchburg; all the Banks in Baltimore;
Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.
Also see near references: Georgia Loan
and Trust Company, Atlanta ; Scofield Roll
ing Mill Cos, Atlanta ; Branch, Scott & Cos.,
Augusta ; Anderson & Lumpkin, Rome, Ga.
Over 12,000 Safes in Use,
and Tested in 200 Fires .
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Are You Tearing Down thal
Rail Fence ?
because,
an now get for a very small amount,
EIGHT TO USE
TIIE
Stoker Patent
PORTABLE FENCE!!
Which I am convinced is very superior, and
can be built at one third the expense
of lumber and labor.
Why, Dou’t You See
It takes ten rails here to make a pannel.
which ten can be split into twenty, and so
arranged as to make four pannels, after the
manner of the
STOKER PATENT
THAT’S SO!
Where did you say a Right
could be Secured ?
Os MARSHALL, JONES or BOISCLAIR. at
Chlhoun- where they can show yon the
FULL SIZEI) FENCE,
And couvinee you how useful aud how supe
rior
(T !0
to any thing in the fence line you ever saw.
EVERY Bit TRUE.
It’s the fence lor the farnurs of Gordon
County, and everywhere. It’s the fence
that will supersede all others,
may 18-ts.
DR. J. BRADFIELD’S
Female Ifceg'ixiatOr*.
certificates of its wonderful cures, the reader
is referred to the wrapper around the bottle.
For sale by all Druggists. Price, $1,50
per bottle.
DR. PROPHITT’S
Celebrated Liver Medicine,
ONE of the Greatest Remedies of the age, foi
all diseases of the Liver, Jaundice, Bowel Com.
pla.nt, Colic, Chills and Fever, and Billious Fe
ver. In fact, all diseases arising from a deranged
Liver.
ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS.
These Pills have been used for the last fifteen
years, afld for Headache, Deranged Liver, Ac.,
are without an equal.
DR. PR OPHITT S AGUE PILL S,
A sure CURE for CHILLS and FEVER.
DR. PROPHITT’S
Dysentery Cordial*
Cures all derangements of the BOWELS.
Dr. Prophitt’s Pain Kill It.
This celebrated Medicine should be in every
household. It is a certain cure for all Pains, and
antidote to Bites of Poisonous insects, Snakes.
Ac. A superior remedy for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia. TRY It.
All the above articles for sale by Dr I). G.
Hunt, Druggist, houn, Ga. Ca sept29’7o-ly.
Bones, Brown & Cos., I J. &S. Bones & Cos.,
Augusta, Ga. Rome, Ga.
Established 1825. | Established 1869.
J. &S. BONES & CO.
ROME, GA.
IMPORTERS
AND
Wholesale Dealers
*
IN
HARDWARE,
CUTLERY, qUNS, AC.
WILL offer for sale, tfie coming season :
305 Tons Swedes Iron,
75 Tons ‘*Jenks” Plow Steel,
A LARGE LOT OF
Imported Cutlery and Files,
Together with a full assortment of G EN
ERAL HARDWARE.
WE are Agents for R. HOE & CO\S. Pat
ent Inserted Tooth Circular Saws; Machine
Belting, Orange Rifle Powder, and Rome
Iron Manufacturing Co’s. Merchant Bar Iron
and Nails.
All of above to compete with any House
South. marlT’Tl 3m
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Bushel. Lbs
Wheat GO
Shelled corn 5G
Corn iu the ear 70
Peas 60
Rye 56
Oats 32
Bariev 47
Irish Potatoes 68
Sweet Potatoes 55
White Beans 58
Castor Beans 46
Clover Seed 60
Timothy Seed 46
Flax Seed 56
Hemp Seed 44
Blue Grass Seed. 14
Buckwheat 52
Dried Peaches 38
Dried App.ea 24
OnioDS 57
Salt 50
Stone Coal 88
Malt 40
Brau 20
Turnips 55
Plastering Hair 8
Unslacked Lime 80
Corn Meal 47
Fine Salt 54
Ground Peas 23
BBtMMAFg BKPTOUt.
(Central Position ©t the City.)
Nos. 95 and 97 Broad Street, Rome. G*.
FIRST CLASS FARE
OPEN AT ALL HOURS!
gigy-Free Omnibus to & from the depot.
Fine Bar ami Billiard Saloon attached.
Give rwe a call. J. H. Coleman, Prop’r.
april 6-ly.
“Home Asaiu.”
J. C. RAWLINS, Prop’r.
choice“hotel
BROAD ST., ROME, GA.
Passengers taken to and from the Depot Free
of Charge. oct67otf
Portable Fence!!
GO to Calhoun and buy a farm right to
that inimitablo, economical, movable
fence—the
STOKER PATENT.
The most practical farmers of the county
have examined it, ami declared it
the best Portable Fence
they have ever Seen.
Convertable to Any Use !
The most desirable of any , in point
of ECONOMY OF TIMBER AND
LABOR in building .
Confer w'th either of the undersigned:
J. W. MARSHALL.)
THOS. G. JONES. '
V. W. BOISCLAIR.)
NEW LIVERY STABLE.
JTodges^ T ANARUS& May.
MA Y’S OLD STA ND.
FINE Stock and good Vehicles al
ways on hand. Best attention paid
to customers’ animals. Satisfaction guar
anteed. Give us a call at the oW Brick
Stable. Broad Street. Rome, Ga.
pr.6-3ur.
18 one of the great
est blessinfis tnat lias
ever been given to wo
man. It will relieve
Suppression, M o n t h ly
Pains, Rheumatism,
. Neuralgia, and a cer
tain cure for the Whites
and Prolapsus Uteri.
For full particulars,
history of diseases aild
COLCLOUGH HARKINS & GLOVER,
Jobbers of _
Foreign tb domestic*
Hoots, Shoes, cfco.,
No. 9 Broad St., - Rome, Ga.,
* 117’OULD respectfully call the attention of Merchant* of North Goergia, to their ini
VV mense stock of seasonable goods which they are Offering at Wholesale, JFxclusirehf
as low as any Jobbing House, North or South.
Terms Liberal. F. H. COLCLOI GH.
JOHN HARKINS.
may 4-ly. CAIN GLOA ER.
Oils! Oils!! Oils!!!
MEE & MILLS,
155 Market Street, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Agents for Fairbanks, Peck <fe Co.’s Celebrated Caddy
Lard, Lard Oil and Neats-Foot Oil.
DEALERS IN
Coal, Carbon, and Kerosene Oil, Lubricating oil of every variety, for cotton
and Woolen Mills, Saw and Grist Mills, Railroad and Threshing Machines; also
Tanners Oil. Will ship any of the above Oils in 5 and 10 gallon cans, cased in
wood, at a small extra charge over the barrel price. mar3o-3m.
SEND FOH
IMWiiMll® PIICS Mil
OF
CARDWELL’S
THRESHERS AND CLEANERS,
AND OTHER
Agricultural Implements,
SORGHO MACHINERY,
REAPERS AND MOWERS,
CIDER JMELS,
F. /.A * JUIEES,
-and
CRADLES,
FOR SAI.F BY
MARK Ww JOHNSON,
Atlanta, “ ------ Georgia,
GENERAL AGENT FOR GEORGIA AND ALABAMA
“T§E LIVE DRUG STORE.”
— :o:
RIBWIII ft
Atlanta, - - - - - - Georgia,
DRUGGISTS,
AND DEALERS IN
Window Glass, Polished and Rough Plate Glass,
Colored and Ornamental Glass, Strictly pure White Lead,
Paint Colors, Oils and Varnishes,
Ail Classes of Brushes. Perfumeries & Toilet Goods,
PATENT MEDICINES, DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES, and everything usual
ly kept in a FIRST-CLASS DRUG HOUSE
The attention of Purchasers is respectfully called to our LARGE AND WELL
SELECTED STOCK.
decl’TO-ly Red wine & Fox, Cor. Whitehall <fc Ala. Sts.
W D HO YT & CO
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
AND
D R U C C I S Tj S UN D R IE S .
No. 43, Broad st. f ROME, GA.
Wliolesale Agents^For
Rosadalis, Plantation Bitters, California Vinegar Bitters,
Ed Wilder & Co’s. Preparations. Pemberton, Taylor & Co’s. Prep’s, j
Ayer & Co’s. Preparations, White Lead, and Linseed Oil.
All of which will be sold at Manufacturer s Prices sept 15,1870-1 y
NeW Advertisements.
n.sa yers, '
DEALER IN REAL ESTATE
Franklin, Pa.
Buys and sells improved and unimproved
lands anywhere in the United States
HESCHIm
GARGLING OIL
\ . ift good for
Burn* and Beal tit, Rheumatism,
Chilblains, - Hemorrhoids or piles.
Sprains anti Bruises, Sore nipples,
Chapped Blands, Caked Breasts,
Flesh Wosmds Fistula, Mange,
F*ost bites. Spanns. Sweeney,
External Pa,sens, Scratches, or Grease,
Sand cracks, Stringkalts, Windfalls
Galls of all Kinds, Foundered Feet,
Sitfast, Ringbone, Cracked Heels.
Poll Evil, . foot Rot in Sheep,
Bites of animals <Jr., Roup in Poultry,
Toothache, ,sc., Lame Back £c. ,ke.
Large Size 1,00, Medium, 50c, Small 25c
The Gargling oil has been in use as a
Liniment for thirty-eight years. All we
vsk is a fair trial, but be sure and follow
lirections.
Ask your nearest *lruggisl or dealer in
patent medicines, for one of our almanacs
and Vade-Mecums, and read what the peo
ple say about the oil.
The Gargling Oil is for sale by all res
pectable dealers throughout the United
States and other countries.
Our testimonials date from 1833 to the
present, and are unsolicited. Use the Garg
ling Oil, and tell your neighbors what good
it has done.
We deal fair and liheraTwith all. and defy
contradiction. Write for an Almanac or
Cook Book.
Manufactured at Lockport N. Y.
-BY
MERCHANT’S
GARGLING OIL COMPANY.
John Hodge 9 see’g,
FRAGRANT SAPOLIENE
cleans Kid Gloves and all kinds of cloths k
clothing ; removes paint, grease, tar, &c.,
instantly, without injury to the finest fabric.
Sold by druggists and fancy goods dealers*
FRAGRANT SAPOLIENEco„ 33 Barclay St
Ne>v York, 40 La Salle St., Chicago
/IG£NT6! B£*D THIS!
\Ai K WILL Pay aaronts a Salary
If of *:«> per W eek & Expenses,
or allow a large commissisu to sell our new
and wonderful inventions. Address M. Wag
ner & co., Marshall Mich.
A MONTH, Horse and Carriage
Expenses paid. 11. Shaw,
Alfred Maine.
mil DOLLARS!
Shrewd but quiet men can make a fortune
by revealing the secret of the business to no
one. Address WM. WRAY.
688 Broadway, New York.
G.P.R.—June R-lw.]
TENNESSEE HOUSE,
ROME, GEORGIA,
J. A. STANSBURY, Prop’r,
THE above Hotel is located within Twenty
Steps of the Railroad Platform. Baggage
handled free of Charge* octO’TOtf
great mumiMN!
FOR
CASH!
BUY YOUR GOODS OF
BOAZ, BARRETT & CO.
AT THE
I3ig- Brick Store I
NEAR THE RAILROAD.
WE arc always prepared, with a full
and complete stock, to offer induce
ments to purchasers of
STAPLE DRY GOOD,
FANCY DRESS GOODS,
FURNISHING GOODS,
CLOTHING,
HATS,
BOOTS,
SHOES,
NOTIONS, &c.
We also keep a large and choice Stock
Mill GROCERIES!
Which we are prepared to sell as Cheap m*
anybody in this part of the country.
Our stock consists in part of
SUGAR,
COFFEE,
FLOUR,
BACON,
LARD,
SYRUP,
RICE,
salt;
Tobacco, Snuff,
And, in fact, everything usually found in
a FIRST CLASS Family Grocery Store,
and will sell as
As any one in this market.
We are “regularly in” the
Wheat Market,
and pay the Highest Market Prices for
Wheat and Produce generally.
BOAZ, BARRETT & CO.
Calhoun, Ga., Jan l'J, 1870.tf