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THE FIELD SHI FIRESIDn
Vol. I.
PUBLISH KD BY
T. <3r. CAMPBELL CO.
OFFICE
IN THE OI.D PRINTING OKEW'E
Building, Powder Springs Street, Mari
iMlllMi gi.l.
DAVID IKW'IN.
W. A. P. mV'I.ATCIIKY. 0. It. IKWIN.
Irwin, McClatchey &. Irwin.
ATTORN KVS AT LAW.
Will pmet it a* in ilie Blue Ridge, Rome,
anil (’oweta < ircnifs.
Marietta, Mart'll 111, 1877. ly
W.M. T. WINN. \\ 11.1., .1. WINN.
W. T. & W. J. WINN,
Allornryw at I.a u ,
marietta, gkorui \.
Mart'll 13, 1877. ly
J. E. MOSELY,
Alloniri al Lavt.
WILL allt'ntl It* all husiiifs; confided
to him in Cobh anti adjaeont enmi
ties. Office—in Met lafeliev’s Build
ing, up stairs.
Marietta, Mart'll 13. 1877. Bin
E. M. ALLEN
Retideiit llciili*l.
Of more than twenty years.
CII A RG E S R E AS O X \ B I E .
Office—North side of Publie Stinare.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly
DR. G. TEN NEXT,
Practicing Piiyticiaii.
IST Office on Cassville street. —Resi-
dence on Cherokee street.
Marietta, Mareli 13,1877. ly
DR. E. J. SETZE,
Phywiciau and burgeon,
TENDER* his professional services
in the practice of Medicine in all
its branches to the citizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. tiiiee at the
Drug Store of Win. Root. nidi 13-ly
R. W. GABLE.
BOOT m i- SHOE MIKEK
AND REPAIRER
POWDER SPRING STREET,
mum, GEORGIA,
Work (lone at very low prices, and war
ranted. Mareli l, 1877.
T. J. ATKINSON,
EAST SIDE OF PUBJAC SQUARE.
MARIETTA, GEO.
heai.fr in
C'hoicc Family (d’oeerit's!
COUNTRY PRODUCE
TAKEN ON THE MOST LIBERAL TKILMS.
Haley Brothers,
< HEROKEE STREET.
Dealers in
CROCERIES, PR OVIKIONS,
AND
GENERAL MERCHANDIZE.
Marietta, Ga., March 13, 1877. ly
M. R. Lyon,
CHEROKEE STREET,
FA HI la Y GROCERIES,
And dealer in
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Marietta. March 13, 1877. ly
A. Y. URINT,
CHEROKEE STREET,
Slit and Harness Maker
AND REPAIRER.
Marietta, Geo., March 13, 1877. lj
CONTRACTOR
AND
BUILDER.
THE undersigned continue lilt busi
ness of Brick Making. Stone and
Brick Building, and i prepared at any
time, to take contracts on the most reas
onable terms, and toexecute them in the
uiot satisfactory manner.
H. B. WALLIS.
Marietta, March 13, 1677. ly
House Building and
Repairing.
SASH. BLINDS. DOORS FINISHED
TO ORDER.
Lumber of all kind*, and at the
lowest prices, for -ale.
fTAhaiikful for the liberal patronage
i “hitherto, the subscriber would state
that he Is fully prepared to contract for
the erection or Buildings, and to exe
cute the contract* in the most satisfacto
ry manner, SHOP sontli tide Public
Square.
March. 1877. LEMUEL BLACK-
Agricultural.
PREMIUM POTATOE
ouuwiml
Jotht h.htnr uj the ).II m ill:
Sir: About a year ago you call
ed upon me for a report of my ex
pertinents in the growing of pota
toes, which was yen cheerfully
furnished. This year my sous and
myself have been still more sue
eessful. I’he premiums this year
were offered under similar condi
lions to I host* of last year llie
largest yield from one pound of
seed. The varieties were differ
ent, however, from last year.
T he yields from one pound of seed
were as follows:
Allred. Milton. Henry.
VABIKTY. H's. It*a. Ihs. |
Ruby, 1,57(5 1,358 1,334
Alpha, 1,280 1,03fi 1,059
Husain's late 1,509 1,312 1,330
" early 1,5.** IvJ* I 1,34a
Hawley, 1,518
Malmpac, 1 *-4 *
The inode of culture was the
same. The potatoes were planted
about the 20tli of May, on sail
dy loam soul, with a subsoil of
sand and gravel not underdrained,
the same land \\% raised premium
potatoes on in 1875. This land
was ploughed twelve inches deep
and manured with rotten barn
yard manure about three inches
thick, then harrowed and plough
ed under ten inches. Before the
ploughing, l spread on about three
bushels of wood ashes to a square
rod, and spread on more ashes al
ter ploughing. 1 marked it in
rows thirty eight inches apart bv
turning two furrows opposite one
another, ten inches deep. In this
furrow 1 put in one shovel full of
well-rotted lieu manure for each
hill of potatoes, and mixed all
w r ell with the soil, i cut the pota
toes on the average to make about
235 sets from each pound of pota
toes, 1 planted one set to each
hill, about tw r o inches deep. 1
used also as a fertilizer one cask
of lime with twelve pounds til
phur, mixed both, slaked, togeth
er, with water; then- lined in one
bushel of fine salt and five bush
els w ood ashes until all were thor
oughly mixed. Of this mixture,
I sprinkled in and around each
hill tw r o handsfull and mixed with
the soil. The potatoes w ere plan
ted eight to nine inches below the
| surface level, As soon as the po
tatoes were up and the branches
had started, 1 spread the vines and
continued to do so, and fill up the
hills until level with the surface
ground. At the same time i put
on more of the mixture, and dust
ed the vines with plaster and sul
phur, cultivating and hoeing the
same. Then I let the vines grow
until they reached half-way to the
adjoining hill in the row: the hills
in the row were three feet apart.
1 then cultivated with a one horse
plough eight to nine inches deep,
hoed and loosened the ground
thoroughly around the hills ; then
at this time I layered the vines,
making the hills meet in the row',
leaving but a little of the tops out
of the ground. At the same lime
I put on more mixture and work
ed in the soil. I also watered each
hill with five or six quarts of wa
ter, and again watered-ix to eight
days thereafter, a it was very
dry weather, not having rain in
two months. Some of the vine
layers took root in eight to fen
days from layering, and potatoes
formed on the same. 1 continued
dusting llie vines with plaster,
' soot. Arc. The vines soon covered
all the ground, and were a sight
to behold. Many of the vine-lay
ers had more potatoes on than the
main hill. Each pound of pota
toes occupied about two thousand
to two thousand one hundred
; square (eet. No artificial heat or
t slips were used.
The potatoes here mentioned
are oil fine and lirst class. Lu
sum's Eaiilv is No. 1 extra, and 1
don't see how it can be beaten.—
The Mahopac Seedling is an extra
tine potato. Mr. Gray, ol Penn
Yan. assisted in digging the pota
toes, weighed them, and testified
to the weight here named.
Alfred Rosj..
Penn Van. N. V , January 2H.
Lime by being exposed to the
air a month or two will generalh
become -hiked quite fine, and may
then be applied to land, either
upon the unace or •harrowed in
MARIETTA. GEORGIA, MAY 1, 1877.
on plowed soil, w hich is the best
way. Lime slaked by water is not
injured at all.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY
IN JAPAN.
Dr. J. V. C. Smith read a short
paper before the Farmer's Club,
in New York, on the subjeel of
Domestic Economy in Japan, in
which he said that the laws of
that country strictly enforce the 1
cultivation of the land, and the j
owner ho neglects to fulfil the
requirements over the space of
one year forfeits his title to the
property. This vigilance on the!
part of the Government insures!
food in abundance for all the peo
ple at a reasonable rate. Every
kind of vegetable product known
in America or in Europe is grown
there abundantly', besides several
excellent fruits and edible roots
quite unknown with us. Oxen
and buffaloes are exclusively used
for ploughing, and are rarely eat
en. Horses are reserved for rid
ing and driving. Neither mules
nor asses are raised. Milk and
butter are not much prized; swine
are scarce ; sheep are not prized,
nor are goats a favorite.
Excellent cordage is made from
the wild naitte ( urtiea japonica)
w hich is fully equal to Russian
hemp for ropes and cables. A
substitute for soap in general use
is a wild bean peculiar to the conn
try, which, when powdered, is an
admirable article for w ashing and
cleansing purposes. Lamps and
candles are common; the oil of
mustard, literally of small value
with us, is almost the only article
for supplying lamps.
Rice is the grand agricultural
staple, as in China. That and fish
constitute the chief food of the
people of all conditions in life.—
Japanese gardeners are masters
of their art. They can dwarf al
most any tree. For instance, an
oak is kept down- —-as are many of
the fruit trees—to a few inches or
feet in height. They can also in
crease the size of any ordinary
vegetable to huge proportions—
a common garden radish being de
veloped to weigh fifty 7 pounds,
and averaging ten pounds in the
markets. The w heat is of excel
lent quality, and is sold in their
cities at $2 a picul, which is 133£
pounds.
These people have a propensity
for arresting the growth of dogs,
keeping them down to a minia
ture standard of size. They also
mould the animals' heads so that
they resemble somewhat a human
head. This is accomplished by
manipulating the pup’s unossified
jaws.
INTELLIGENT LABOR.
The great mistake of the labor
system in the past has been that
muscle lias been the chief requi
site sought after in the selection
of help upon the farm, both North
and South.
Experiments that are continu
ally being tried in the South prove
conclusively that an intelligent
laborer, possessing the same a
monnt of good health, muscle, en
durance and willingness as an ig
intrant one, is worth twice or three
times as much to his employer as
the latter one is. The South is
fast learning this lesson. Still,
this country is crowded with this
class of ignorant labor, which
stands directly in the way of the
introduction of a better labor sys
tem. This state of things, too,
makes it difficult for the honest,
willing and hard working poor
man of the North to get a start in
the South.
If he comes here without the
means of purchasing 50 to 100
acres of land that can be had for
from $3 to sls per acre, according
to location and excellence—often
mostly on time—he will find it re
quire* a severe struggle to get a
start and become self-sustaining ;
but if be has only a few hundred
dollars he can get a good start,
and can utilize all the labor he
desires, and become independent,
if he ha-; the brains and intelli
irence to direct this labor.
The South, too, is looking at
honest labor in a different light
from what she formerly did. There
are thousands who never, before
the war, put their own hands to
farm and mechanical labor, that
are now among our best farmers
and artisans, and are not ashamed
of their avocations.
We should do all in our power
to draw among us intelligent and
skilled laborers. In this genial
climate, where out door work goes
on uninterruptedly the year round
this class will soon become weal
thy, and they are ever ready to
help build up such institutions as
will attract those who still hesi
tate in the Nrth, although they
greatly prefer our climate.
In every instance, without an
exception, in which Northern peo
pie have come South, and gone
back, the expression lias been, U 1
am perfectly well pleased with the
climate, but 1 miss so many other
things that I cannot consent to do
without them.”
They do not stop to consider
that they would become dissatis
fied from the same cause, let them
go among strangers in any coun
try 7 . Those who settle down hero,
to stay, and go to work to help
build up the institutions they love
almost invariably are contented
and satisfied.
Let those who come South, and
who are strenuous upon the mu!
ter of society, come as much as
possible in large numbers, or set
tie in those sections where North
ern people are locating. There
are a number of such settlements
started.— Southern Industrie*.
A PROFITABLE HOG.
The following description of a
profitable hog was reported by the
committee at the swine breeders'
convention at Indianopolis, hid.:
lie must have a small, short head,
heavy jowl, and thick, short neck;
ears small, thin and tolerably e
reef, not objectionable if they 7 do
droop slightly forward ; must be
straight from the neck back to the
Hank; must be let w 7 ell down to
the knees in brisket ; of a good
length from head to tail; broad
on the back ; ribbed rather barrel
shaped; must be slightly curved
or arched in the back from the
shoulder to the setting in of the
tail; tail small; long in the ham
from back to letting off I he loins;
shoulder not too large to give sym
me try 7 to the animal; ham broad
and full; hair smooth and evenly
.set on ; skin soft and elastic to the
touch; legs short,-small and well
set under; broad between the legs;
good depth between bottom and
top of the hog; with quiet dispo
sition ; should not weigh more
than 300 or 400 pounds gross at
twelve or eighteen months old,
according to keep ; color black or
white, ora mixture of the two.
The above described hog will
measure as many feet from the
top of the head to setting on of
tail as lie does around the body,
and will measure as many inches
around the leg below i.lie knee as
he does feet in length around the
body ; depth of body will be four
fifths of his height.
HENS vs. HOGS.
Poultry has its Fanciers and
swine its Breeders. Those engag
ed with either branch of the busi
ness are largely enthusiasts in
that direction, and to an extent
ride a hobby. This is natural and
right; in fact, were it not so, the
results attained would never he
reached; it is the thorough wedd
ing to an occupation that makes
it succeed; but the question is,
are the hens supplanting the hogs?
it is stated on authority that if
the same quantity of food is given
out to chickens that is fed to a
hog, they will produce more lbs.
| and return greater margins of pro
i fit than the pork, to sy nothing
of the eggs produced, and they
will pay fortlie grain. Pigs, from
| the time they breathe, are calling
; for food, and the amount consuin
ed in growing and fattening a hog
is surprising. Then, when we con
sider the immensely greater value
there is in poultry meat over pork
for producing brain and muscle,
is it not fair to suppose that pool
try will make inroads upon pork,
! and w r e shall find ourselves feed
ing more on chickens and less on
piggy.
CULTIVATING ORCHARDS.
There is an excellent example
of the benefit resulting from eul
tivating apple orchards in the case
of W. Lombard, of Augusta, Me.,
who has someone hundred and
seventy trees, mostly old, well
cultivated, the soil stirred about
as far as the limbs extend, and the
ground mulched with refuse corn
stalks, potato tops, straw, etc. —
One Tallman Sweet tree yielded
j six barrels, which, at $5 per bar
J rel, brought S3O. The w hole or
chard in one year yielded s(>l3 in
J fruit sold ; and the present, not a
bearing year, S2OO.
UNLEACIIKI) ASHES.
A learner asks how? when?
! and how much unleaelied ashes
may be applied to winter wheat
while growing? They may lie ap
plied any time during winter or
early spring, al the rate of from
ten to thirty bushels per acre J
evenly over the surface. Fifteen"
bushels is a fair dressing. A
broad cast machine for sowing
them is best, The winter season
is a good time, and snow will do
no harm, unless the surface is so
steep as to wash badly in a thaw.
Good unleached ashes are worth
fifty cents per bushel to apply to
most grain crops.
Leached ashes are also well ap
plied in winter on a dry .soil, in
quantity from three to six loads
per acre, evenly spread. Leach
ed ashes have the greatest effect
upon a sandy soil, as they absorb
ammonia aml assist sttcli a soil in
holding volatile manures, but
they are good upon any soil need
ing phosphate, 1 ime, soluble silica
etc. They are worth on many soils
ten to twenty cents per bushel.
Rural JVnr Yorker.
To the Young Mou ol' the Country.
THE FARMER vs. THE FRO
LESS IONS.
The professions also receive
their share of recruits from those
who are dissatisfied with the hard
work of the farm, and seek an ea
sier livelihood under tlie. broad
shield of a professional vocation.
It is natural that the country
youth should institute compari
son between the lawyer, the phy
sician and the clergyman, as lie
looks upon them from the burden
of some unsheltered 1 ask, and ini
agine their duties less onerous
than their ow n. He sees I lie ex
terior of the edifice and thinks
not of the weary days and nights,
months and years spent in laying
its fou ml at ion, nor of the constant
exertion necessary to maintain
its proportions. His ears areas
founded by the verbal display of
the learned counsel in a cross
roads’law suit, and his mind is
awed by the deference shown the
village doctor an i the peculiar
relations of the shepherd to Ids
flock. He grows ii|) more and
more dissatisfied, concludes upon
a change, and his will soon finds
a way for the prosecution of liis
design, if he is ambitious, Ids
ignorance of life and its varied
duties ;u<l perplexing cares in
every sphere, leads him to desire
what he considers a more honora
ble occupation than tlistf of the
husbandman, and thus a two fold
motive impels him to a change.
Should lie select the calling of a
lawyer, he must begin at the foot
of the ladder by performing the
duties of an office boy, by no
means elevating in their charne
ter, upon a miserable pittance, in
ferior to the value of Ids services
in the country. Later, the hard
work of Ids path way begins in
earnest : eight or ten hours of the
day must be spent in transcribing
the documents whose preparation
falls within the power of the al
torney in attending to the cones
pondenee and books of Hie office,
and in assisting Ids superior in
the close and confining duties of
an ametiueiisis, shut out from the
bright sun and the smiling skv,
j the green grass, the song of the
| birds and the scented flowers.
S All this is tin* rout ine work of the
brain,and no one who Inis tried
! both will declare this easier than
the average physical exertions of
| daily farm labor surrounded b,v
nature and her wondrous charms,
i To this period succeeds the life of
I the student, with its close appli
cations,hard and imrelenting stn
dy, and the strain upon tin* men
t.ul energies necessary to make
j the discrimination between the
perplexing subtleties of the law.
Then, after a preparation of three
to five years in the theory, come
the practice of the law and it
conflicting operations, 't he office
of the law, in the social compact,
is to secure justice, but it s com
plex character i made use of to
defeat the object of it creation,
! and this disparity bet ween justice
and law i a seriou thorn in the
con deuce and feeling of the
young practitioner, until- ■ ircum
stances shall have so warped hfl
that justice signifies only S|
cause of his client, and the’®
the means-of his success. Hetr
also, the inexperience of the rJI
ice presents a formidable \rJmi
to his success, and this opqHfl
in various keeping!*
'll assmA
jjL 1 'T 1 -
Jjfi
whi
/ --nr- .Wm
id 11
from \ (mi- a. ! \T- ii!
in innocence in your beusTWHB
been obliged to sit up iii^^^H
oil II! lamp i• i• a I'll ioABH
'diambor .1
I■p:■: . , -i
imiisa h^^^l^iiii
1 1 ' Itoestird
cailiiiii' SiJ
fnrtlllu* sliiifl
upon the there befl
burdened conscience to obsj|fl
its b 1 i •_• 1 1 1 Hess ' Will his
sped and honor remain
islied amid the u
years over other pimple's
re I- \ vain. I he ranks
mil profession al e full. I ho^^Bffl
more laborers lii,-i ll work, amnHfl
also presents several disudvmfl
(ages. Il makes il more dilliciill'
for a beginner to succeed and in I
apt to drive him from his profes
sion lo launch his frail vessel up
on the tempestuous waters of a
political life, to become a prey to
its worst and wildest passions.— *
If he remains, he is more likelv
to accept any case,right or wrong,
lb in to discriminate between tli
right and the wrong, and this!
lead ii to t he consideration oC
the honorable character of his
calling. We implied above that
justice and law were interchange
able terms. A case may be just
and have no law tosustain it; and
tlie law declare innocent, where
the reason and conscience of the
absolved party brand ‘‘guilty”
upon his innocent soul. Is it lion
orable to work night and day in
efforts to save from the punish
ment of the law a person tried
and found guilty at the tribunal of
bis ow n conscience '? Is it honora
ble to w ield llie authority of the
law against a ease which has noth
ing but its justice to recommend
it ? Is it honorable to aspire to
be great in the profession, whose
time must often be spent in lalm
rioiiN efforts to prove before 12
sensible meif that wrong is right,
that truth is a lie, and that justice
is a criminal to be scorned of all
men.? Is il honorable to do all
Ibis from the motive which actu
ales the counsellor, the hope of
gain,weighing sordid gold stained
with crime in the balance with the
spot less jewels of the robe of jus
tice? Yes,the law gives her vo
laries, all honorable men, the pri
vilegeof forgetting in their “sur
plus age” (halt hey are men that
should ad upon those principles
held sacredly binding by the res!
of civilized mankind. < )||! the
perversion of t he liuinan intellect
in I lie thing called law, if all t his
is honorable, the life of the farmer
#uwcr I<> the height of all excel
lence and perfection, and is,to the
occupation of other men, what
llic-nn lit pinnacle of the temph*
is to its base, wrapped in the mist
and mire of t hcTalley.
Concerning the physician, our
remarks will necessarily he more
concise, as for t lie case oft his pur
suit we cannot conceive tl^H^iy.
one should enter il to M-mnJ
per uii.d enmforl. A L- I^RSB
its requirements will
everyone t hat il is no life IbR
indolent. If there are aB
exact ing^Mj^^^J
and burdens nn
usuallv lull to of maijJ
till', lir. 11! I■ | iic-t
<!<<<>) *l mm- i'll', ii-lan.
;m- to he -pent in dmlioiis
eation, patient investigation, and
a conepfiiratioii of nieniai ettat
required ly no other eallini^^K
upon him, rests a re spa
experienced by no otheM
on him hangs the feurfiflfl
life and death, eiu'ouut(M|
bv him. A m tiicJhfl
sion, hi experience!
her that stand waitnJ
of di -9 res- are ol
mediate success Hein?
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