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THE FIELD AND F[l ll'MiL
Vol. I.
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etta Oeorght.
IVII> IKWIN.
W. A. e, M’CI.ATI 11KV. i. U. IKWIN.
Irwin. McClatchey &. Irwin,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will |>iu> tiga iii tin* Blue Ridge. Home.
A a (m ( oweta < 'iivuits.
Marietta, March 13, 1*77. ly
lam. r.iWKNM, wtt*. j. wink
W. T. * W. J. WINN,
All oi*it* y * :i i l<aw,
M ARIETTA, OFOROIA.
March 1.1, ly
%%. it. row Kit.
Attorney at Law,
*-
MARIETTA, GA.
WiFi. practice in the ( on its of < ohh
ami adjacent counties, Collect
ing a specialty. Otlicc with Judge A.
X. Simpson. northwest corner of I'nhlie
Square. ly
J. E. .VIOSEIA,
Alloi-met :it Liu.
WILT, attend toall husiues contidcd
to liiin in 1 ohh ami adjacent coun
ties. Office—in Mct'latchey’s Build
ing, up stairs.
Marietta, March HI, 1577. Cm
E. M. ALLEN,
Ke<iiiltiii Deiitiwl,
Of more ilimi t\c.onc
I HA K 0 KM R E ASOXABI.E.
Oftii k —Xnrlli side of l*id>lic Square.
Marietta, March HI, 1*77. ly
I)K. G. TENNENT,
Pi'iitlitiiig Physician.
Ottice on ('assville street.—-Resi
dence on Cherokee street.
Marietta, March HI, 1*77. ly
DU. E. J. SETZE,
Physician ami Niii^roii,
rTIEXDKRS his professional serviees
1 in the practice of .Medicine in all
its branches to the cilizens of Marietta
and surrounding country. Ottice at the
Ortig Store of \\ m. Boot. inch 13-1 y
H. W. GABLE,
mmmi
AND REPAIRER.
Row HER SI*KI \ti STREET.
iU.IETU. HA,
Work done at very low prices, and war
ranted. March 1, 1877.
Haley Brothers,
CtIEROK EE STREET,
Dealers in
GttOCKKIES, fUOV ISIONS,
AN If
HEXEKAL AIERCII WDIZE.
Marietta, On., Mardi HI, 1877. ly
M. B. Lyon,
C II KRO lv F. E ST R E ET,
FAMILI OKOMKOS.
Anil dealer in
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Marietta, March HI, 1877. ly
n. t. lauxT,
CHEROKEE STREET.
Mi and Harness Maker
AND REPAIRER.
Marietta. March HI. 1877. ly
House Building' and
Repairing.
SASH. BI.INDS, DOOMS FINISHED
TO ORDER.
Lumber of all kinds, and at the
lowest prices, for sale,
rpliunkful lor the lihcral patronage
I hitherto, the subscriber would state
that he is fully prepared to contract for
the erection of Buildings, and# to exe
<-ijfe tlfc contract'' in the most -atjsfacto-
H manner, s.lliil*. Sf l lllli -i'l,' |*nl*|h
oiiuhi e.
March, 1877. LEMUEL ill.At K.
CONTRACTOR
AND
hi HiiiPie.
THE undersigned continues hi- busi
ness of Brick Making, Stone and
Brick Building, and F prepared at any
time to take contract- on the most reas
onable terms, and toext-cide them in the
innt satisfactory manner.
H. B. WALLIS.
Marietta, Marclt HI. 1877. ly
Agmultural.
Profits on Sheep.
The profits from raising sheep
in Georgia are stated at sixty th e
per cent., notwithstanding the
ravages of dogs. These destroy
ed in one year near 29,000 head
of sheep, not a surprising fact, as
there are nearly three dogs to
every sheep in the State.
Rood Fanning.
Mr. Ephraim Legg, of Cobh
county, raised upon ten acres of
land, live of it being new ground,
two hundred and fifty bushels of
corn. On five acres, he raised 3
bales of cotton. Upon a “piece"
of ground, he raised one hundred
bushels of sweet potatoes. On
one fourth of an acre, he raised
fifty three gallons of syrup, and
made seventeen hundred bundles
of fodder. He lias nine head of
hogs—four nice ones to kill, keeps
a cow, lias one horse, did all the
work himself, or himself and Cam
ily, except the hiring of one hand
for three or four weeks; makes
his own fertilizers or mainly so;
has a one horse wagon. A writer
in noticing this, says : “Now, this
young man and practical farmer
is bound to thrive, if he lives, and
we call attention to all such men
as being the finger boards which
point in lhe direction where com
petenee a success are to be
found. May all speedily learn
the lesson.”
What shall We Eat.
The subject of diatetics is one
that is at the foundation of health
and longevity, yet mankind seems
averse to investigate it at all un
til health is sacrificed to impro
per eating and drinking, then they
spend their hard earnings for
quack nostrums to restore their
Just health. Would it not be
much better to preserve a strong
and sound constitution by proper
care and prudence in living rath
er than sacrifice it to improper liv
ing, and then have to dole out a
painful existence, and spend the
proceeds of a long life’s toil to
try to restore a lust constitution
to its w anted vigor when too late.
We may repeat what we have
heretofore stated, “that many of
our diseases are the results of im
proper living.” We violate phys
ical laws, and incur physical pen
allies, as cause and effect are link
ed together everywhere. Our
health not only depends upon
wliat we eat, but also upon how
we eat. Americans do not take
time to eat, but bolt down their
food in ten or fifteen minutes.—
Railroad lines give fifteen min
utes for passengers to eat. This
is an outrage upon common sense,
and a fraud upon the travelling
public, and should be suppressed
by law.
The most of people now eat
only the fine flour (which is the
starch of the wheat) and reject
that part next to the bran, which
contains the phosphates, the es
sential part to nourish and *us
tain the bones and the brain and
nervous system. It is well known
to all well-read physicians that
the brain material, as well as that
of the bones, is largely composed
of the phosphites, which is prin
cipally obtained from the grain
weed; and all good chemists
now agree that the coarser flour,
next to the bran, contains the
principal part of the phosphites
of the grain, which should not be
lost, but used w ith the fine flour
of the wheat.
Prof. Churchill, of Paris, ad
vanced the theory that consump
tion was caused by this deficiency
of the phosphites, and introduced
into use the lahratory made phos
phates, which proved useless, as
they were not assimilable, conse
quently did not supply that defi
ciency in the pulmonary tissues.
We are having consumption in
the United States, as well as all
kindred diseases, such as scrofula,
struma, and many grave forms of
skin diseases, ail from want of
the phosphites. Fox. one of tin
best writers in Europe, says:
“ there is something essentially
special in the organized plios
phates that have been formed
(from grain) by passing through
the living organism.”
We must not only have flesh.
MARIETTA. GEORGIA. NOVEMBER 20, 1877?
out of which lo fabricate muscle,
but we must have bread of the
proper kind, mil of which to form
bone and brain material Every
man in this free republic ought
lo know how lo conserve his
health, as well as to know the
polities of the country, and if
either is to be unknown, it is far
better that the latter be unknown,
and the former well understood.
The medical profession have been
as slow to teach the people the
art of preserving health as the
people have been to learn it ; and
the physician that attempts to
give instruction upon such sub
jects meets the sneers of the pro
fession and t lie contempt of the
people. Men do not mind to
spend much time to be duped by
political intriguers, or to be hum
bugged by imposters in almost
everything, hut they will not
spend time to read or hear a sin
gle lecture upon the subject of
health. 1. •). M.Goss, M. D.
The Best Time.
Very much is often gained by
attending to certain farm opera
tions at the best time. “ A time
to sow and a time to reap" is a
proverb that farmers are too apt
to construe in a sort of slipshod
way, ;cs though a day or two ear
tier or later in sowing or harvest
ing were a matter of no impor
tance. This is all wrong—expen
sively wrong.
Most farmers know when the
best time is for nearly every ope
ration that duty brings before
them, from the first day of Janu
ary to the 31st day of December.
and very few fail to see in the
course of the year more than one
loss resulting from failure to at
tend to one thing or another at
the best time. Of course it is
not presumable to instruct anv
one regarding these known duties
of the hour or the day, which, for
cause avoidable or unavoidable,
they fail to accomplish w hen they
would. Those who never pul oil
for tomorrow 7 what can as well
be done to day seldom fail to take
the best time for doing a thing.
Many, however, have yet to
learw, from their own successes or
losses, and from those of their
neighbors, that they have sowed
or planted or gathered in a crop
too early or too late. Thedilato
ry are prone to err on the late
side, and the prudent, also, are
often with them.
it is too early to plough in spring
w hen the soil is stiff and moist e
nough to clog or work into lumps,
And it is not the best time after
such stiff soil has so baked in dry
ing that it will not pulverize
when turned up in furrow s.
It is the best time to plant corn
as early as the soil can be worked
light and made ready, if that be
not too early for I lie grain to es
cape frost after it breaks ground.
It is the best time to cut nearly
all kinds of grass for hay as soon
as the seed is well-formed and he
fore it hardens or the seed stems
become wiry and dead.
It is the best time to cut all
sowed grain, including oats and
peas, as soon as the stem begins
to t urn yellow and deaden near
the root. Remaining longer un
cut injures and lightens 1 he i|nan
tit v and quality of the grain, in
ju res the straw and injures the
soil. So say all the hesl farmers
who have compared the result
with that of grain cut when dead
ripe, or fully hardened in the ker
nel. They all agree that the ker
nel is more plump, and that the
grain will measure more bushels
and weigh more pounds to the
bushel, aside from the great sav
ing of what a fully ripe harvest
would waste by shelling while
being handled in raking, binding,
shocking and loading and unload
ing.
It is the best limeto cut up In
dian corn at the root as soon as
the later ears are glazed and the
earlier are out of milk. And cut
ting up at the root at this time is
the besl way of harvesting the
crop. Like other grains, the ker
ne! is more plump, and larger
w eight to the bushel are secured
bv this early cutting of the crop,
besides making the fodder richer
and tenderer and increasing it
ijuantily also.
It is the best time to harvest po
tatoes immediately when they be
come so fully mature that the
haulm dies and dries down. If,
however, you find signs of rot, it
is best to stop digging. Rot will
not spread in the soil so readily
or rapidly as it w ill in a heap or
bin in the tubers in bulk. But no
tatoes dug and housed or buried
after they are dried from outside
moisture seldom are attacked by
rot afterwards.
It is the best time to set fruit
trees and grape vines in orchard
or vineyard as early in spring as
the oil can be well prepared to
receive them; and the best way
to set them i to make a mellow
bed of sutficient size to spread
their roots at full length in all di
rections and leavt* at least one
foot at the extremities of mellow,
rich soil for these roots to start
and spread themselves in. Soil
from this bed is to be so thrown
out as to admit all these roots to
be placed in a natural position at
a depth of four to six inches when
covered, and the best of the soil
is to he placed over and nearest
to these roots. When the roots
receive their first covering of two
to four inches, water liberally,
and leave t he surface or after till
ing wet. Mulch on stiff soils.
The best time in the day to
handle all trees and plants that
are to he transplanted is towards
evening. If this is not practica
ble, or even if it is, all roots out
of the ground should be carefully
protected from sunshine and all
light and from wind; and rather
than expose them to both sun and
wind, even while handling them,
it is better to delay a day or two
and moisten the roots, and keep
the plants in a cool cellar or oth
er s!iado. —I'hmts-set fn a rain are
liable to be badly set, and soil
handled w hen wet is liable to
bake.
It is time always for thriftless
farmers to anxiously look for lhe
real reasons why their neighbors’
harvest better crops and realize
better prices and larger profits
tban they do.
It is time now for successful
farmers to Hell their experience"
to each other and in the papers,
and encourage each other, and
make converts to the good cause
of better farming.
Millet,
t 'ommissioner Killebrew, in his
report of the crops of the State
of Tennessee, says that this crop
is regarded with less favor by
himself, and considered il a great
exhauster of the soil, and not e
qual to clover, timothy or herds
grass in nutritious elements. Ma
nv farmers in his State are aban
doning its cultivation. It wag fur
ther depreciated as being a gross
feeder, in consequence of which
the soil devoled to it does not re
• operate for several years aftei
the crop is taken off.
I'mllts of Small Farmers.
IN VJROINIA.
The ('harlottsville ( Va.) Jeffer
sonian, of the 7th hist., says ; The
farm of Frank Carr, in this conn
tv, was left by him when he went
to St. Louis, in charge of Mr. J.
R. Bryan. Mr. Brvan has had the
management of it for one year.
Mr. Carr authorized him to sell il
for $3000; it is assessed at $3750.
Under Mr. Brvau's management
fortlie last year, it has yielded a
net profit of s6ll, which is about
sixteen and a half per cent, upon
the assessed value and twenty per
cent, on the price at which it iias
been offered. At the same time
Mr. Bryan managed lib own farm,
which i* assessed at $3,400, tin
aggregate income from which was
$3,000. The Lynchburg News re
cently published the fact that J.
J. Lawrence, of Amherst, who
lives on a tract of ninety seven
acres of mountain land which
would bring about $291, being
three dollars per acre, made on it
a crop of tobacco which brought
him $2Ol, besides bread ami meal
enough for his family and some
corn for sale. Before the war we
knew a worthy man named Ber
ry, in Madison county, w ith a wife
and child or t w o who owned t w en
ty acre* of mountain land that
would have sold for not over $l5O,
from w hich he supported his fain
ily comfortably and saved about
eighty dollars a year, lie refused
to take a situation as overseer at
s!so a year, ami a house, firewood
and provisions for his family fur
ni- hed. There are gentlemen of
Louisa county who came out in
the war without a dollar.
a very scant supply of clothing,
who have bought lands and paid
lor them from the crops made
from them, and are now comfort
able and thriving in the midst of
abundance at home. Let the far
mers wake up and take courage.
Let them put their brains, a* well
as their hands, to work. Let them
be careful and attentive to every
interest, and there is no business
more profitable.
Grapes. *
Grapes, like all
fruits, are profitable
where the climate and soil are fa
vorable. Many a man lias v lost
his money in trying to grow this
fruit. For instance, Germans
and other foreigners, who were
grape-growers at home,have come
come to this country, and seeing
our cheap lands, apparently well
adapted to grape growing, have
sent to the valley of the Rhine
and other places in Europe for
vines to set vineyards. They had
no access to the records of fail
ures ot those who had previously
tried the same experiment, so
they ordered vines by the tlions
and, or less, set them with great
care, and in about three years
they began to realize that their
money was lost, as no foreign va
rietv of grape ever did fruit pro
fitahly this side of California.—
Why is it so { No one can an
•wer that question. Bill we know
that such vines in outdoor cult ure
have everywhere been a failure.
So, also, it is partially with all
“hybrid" varieties my called- -ritr
merican vine* crossed on foreign
varieties. Some of them pro
duce fair crops in some localities,
as near large bodies of water; but
away from such influence these
“hybrids” are not reliable. The
Concord appears to be the main
for market that is now cultivated,
not because it is a very reliable
variety, but because we have no
thing else so good. There is room
for great improvement in pruduc
ing new varieties, as we have but
very lew really good black grapes,
and notone variety that satisfies
lhe demand. An extensive grape
dealer in New York told me re
cently that he was paying3s cents
per pound at wholesale for what
white grapes he could obtain, and
that he could not supply one
tenth of the demand. They re
tail at fifty cents per pound; but
let no one suppose that any w hite
grape w ill command this price, as
among the fifteen or t wenty vari
eties that are called white, only
two or three will be bought in
that city at any price.
“ Well,” asks one, “ how much
can a man make on grapes per
acre yearly !" If yon live in a
good locality for grapes, the In-st
you can do, probably, would he to
produce about 8,000 pounds to the
acre, which would sell in our
large cities at five to seven cents
per pound ; and if your acres net
led SIOO to $l5O clear profit, lak
ing a series of years together, it
would In* as much as you ought
to expect. There are many draw
backs in the business. Disease
affects the crops, more or less ;
and sometimes in the Northern
or Western States a May frost will
ruin the entire crop for that sea
son. In brief, there is not much
money in grapes now,w lien grow*
in extensive vineyards, if one re
lies solely on marketing the fruit,
unless lie has a variety that is bet
ter than the Concord, as that is
thrown into every place to so
great an extent that tin* price is
often so low that it affords no pro
fit. In all places where grapes
are grown extensively by differ
ent persons, wine making is con
nectcd with tin- business ; and
then if the fruit cannot be sold
to advantage it is made into wine.
About eleven and a half pounds
of grapes will make a gallon of
pure wine, worth one dollar any
where as soon as pressed.
Fruit-Growing.
The profits on small fruits are
generally more per acre than on
ordinary farm crops. Mr. Fairy,
of ciauamiutoii. N. J., reported
his crop of Brandywine (Susqm
to) raspberries as follows; Ten
acres produced 26,300 quarts, be
ing over 82 bushels per acre,
which sold at w holesale at 164
cents per quart, netting $2,800,
after allowing $1,538 for conunis-
.■ t, iii c . mannre.BftffilSffl
lion. u-c of erale-.
Till i- net pel .iciv.BHIB
u.i- pmbaldy more i ii,e i
age pm lit. a-- ten or t
per quart i- a- much as jflfgg*
peeled an \ where.
'Mi with I Inw. f.&•%,*!
S| raw berrie
hundred bn -diets to the .SHHHH
it f the lie-1 large \
can lie 1 a rge (HHHHjj
I" cent- fIHSHB
time-, how ever, a glut laEHH|||
and the price goes d'>
cent per (jiiart, bu&£-!
age. ihi fruit wi I
pm ae re overall
pie pa\ a higher
I raw Un rie- I han sni.aijSHBSHB
it i ifc!-idedl\ more |fn 1
eu 11 iva I e such varictic&Pjra§3E
••real American. .Mo ll a
We-d. Slat-of the Wot, Semv^i^-I
••and, ami mau\ oI h t
i to plant hi
w Inch i e\lcnsi\c
became n is proli^;\M'i"- :^VfV-.t‘;
Well inos,^^^^^S
II of*"mv
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oil. iseen-ittcsjc^^^S^
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Mr. Viin a New^B
and. oi \ in ail of 'experience aiSHH
Iclligcnce, says that wheiH|P|
thought <d establishing a
good dairy cows, In* selected IHf
calves from his best milkers, auM
raised them with great care, bijfl
soolteii met with disuppoiutmefll
that he changed his tactics ajßf
procured iin Ayrshire
ealves from which nearly all |HH
e<l lo be good milkers. H (i H
ther remarks:
What we want is to decide first]
what qualities are desired iu tinE
stock which we are to keep, aujl
then get thoroughbred
have this character. In breed iß‘
lor dairy uses, attention
paid to the pastures, to the (Spf
o! keeping ami to the purpfcjßHj
iu view. If butter is the
and the pastures are hilly, audV
the keeping generally at all be ”
low really good, I do not suppose
it would be wise to use Short
horns, it might be that grade
Jerseys would be as good ns anv
that could he chosen for some sit
nations. Ayrsliires would proba
blv be better for general purposes
ami the llolsteins iu some cases
would no doubt be preferable to
any other breed. What is needed
at first is to decide upon the re
quirements, and then get a male
that comes nearest to the chosen
use. When this is done on all our
larms we shall have much more
profit in all our stock. If is sur
prising that farmers give so little
thought to this matter, and it is
plain that there is room for great
improvement, and that it can he
made almost without cost of mo
ney. Let proper attention be gi
ven to the matter, and we shall
find soon the general wealth much
increased.
L'ikf; for Hum MA'nsii. —The
New Kngland Farmer recom
mends the following recipe as a
simple and invaluable remedy for
rheumatism : Take a pint of the
spirit of turpentine, to which add 1
half an ounce of camphor; let it
stand till the camphor is dissolgff
ed ; then rub it on the part
ted, and it will never fail to re
move the complaint. Flannel
should be applied after the part
is formed with turpentine. Up
peat the application morning au’U
evening. It "is said to be
avadable lor burns, scalds,
and sprain, never failing ofk^H
t-i ui; for a Frxox.— l had otm|
about three years ago which waai
immensely painful. 1 broke ofli
the end of the egg shell, pourin*B
out a little of the white, and djß
ped my linger in what was
Kverv six hours 1 changed foril
fresh ega', the other one becoiml
ing unpleasant. In twenty fo(H
hours the felon dischurgei^^fl|
liie-. i I ti lik'hl
'is
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