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THE FI ELD AM) FIRESIDE.
Vol. I.
Sltr/icltLiml fivrouk.
I’I’BLISH ED r.Y
j. Or, <sc co.
At One Dollar a Year.
OFFICE
IX THE OT.D PRINTING OFED'E
Building, Powder Springs Street, Mari
etta Georgia.
I>AVID IRWIN.
W. A. I*. M’CI.ATCHKY. T. B. IRWIN.
Irwin, McClatchey & Irwin.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will practice in tlie Bine Ridge. Rome,
anti Coweta < 'ireuits.
Marietta, March 13, 1577. ly
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WM. T. WIXX. WILL. a. WINN.
£. 0k W. J. WINN,
AI ir ii e jj> aIIj am ,
MARIE A.
March EUS77. I.V
W. R. POWER,
Attorney at Law,
MARIETTA, GA.
xttill practice in the < 'onrls of Colih
VV aiul adjacent counties. Collect
ing a specialty. Office with .Judge A.
X. Simpson, northwest corner of I'uhlic
Square. ly
J. E. MOSELY,
Attorney at Lanx
■wxtlEL attend to all tmsines - eon titled
W to him in Cohlt anti adjacent coun
ties, Office—in .McClatchey’s liniltl
i ng, up stairs.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. tint
E. M. ALLEN,
Kctiilcili
Of more than twenty years.
CHAR <3 ES REASOXA HI. E .
OtFicK—Xorth sitle of Public Stpiare.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly
DR. G. TENNENT,
Hratiieinsi IMiywician.
Office on Cassville street .• —Resi-
dence on Cherokee street.
Marietta, March 13,1877. ly
DR. E. J. SETZE,
Physician and Surgeon,
TEXDERS his professional services
in the practice of Metlieine in all
its branches to the citizens ot Marietta
and surrounding country. Office at the
Drug Store of Win. Root. inch 13-1 y
R. W. GABLE.
BOOT li\ll tr- SHOE MMR
AND REPAIRER.
POWDER SPRIXO STREET.
MARIETTA, OSOEGIA.
Work done at very low prices, and war
ranted. March 1, 1577.
Haley Brothers,
CHEROKEE STREET.
Dealers in
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS,
AX I)
GENERA I. M EROHAXDIZE.
Marietta, Ga., March 13,1877. ly
M. H. Lyon,
CHEROKEE STREET,
fa n 1 1.! a iso< i; ic i r..v
A lid dealer in
roI’XTRY PRODI’CE.
Marietta, March 13,1877. Jy
11. T. OKIT,
CHEROKEE STREET,
Saddle ai Harness Maker
AND REPAIRER.
Marietta. Geo., March 13, 1577. ly
House Building and
Repairing.
SASH,TIT.IXDS, DOORS FINISHED
TO ORDER.
Lumber of all kinds, and al the
lowest prices, for sale.
Thankful for the liberal patronage
hitherto, tin* suhserilier would state
that he is fully prepared to contract for
the erection of Buildings, and to exe
cute the contracts in the most satisfacto
ry manner. SHOP, south side Puldii
Square.
March, 1877. I.EMI EE BLACK.
CONTRACTOR
AND
BCIIJIGR.
THE undersigned continues hi-husi
nessof Brick Making, Stone and
Brick Building, and i~ prepared at any
time to utke contracts on the most reas
onable terms, and foexecute them in the
most satisfactory manner.
H. B. WALLIS.
Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly
Aip'icultHvaL
The Composition of Soils,
I*I.ANTS AMI ANIMALS.
One of the most important sub
jects presented for discussion at
the well attended and interesting
meeting of the,Farmers' Club of
New York, was introduced by l)r.
Heath, who read a valuable pa
per on the of Soils.
Plants and Animals." The fol
lowing is a synopsis of the points
and arguments made touching
soils and plants:
Soils are substantially compos
ed of organic matter, of potash,
soda, lime, magnesia, oxide of
iron, oxide of manganese, sulphu
ric- acid, phosphoric acid, carbanic
acid, chlorine, silicia and alumi
na—twelve. The first eleven con
stitute plants. But if we contin
ually grow crops and and sell
them all without returning the
elements of the crops, we surely
and persistantly impoverish our
soils, so that crops decrease in
quantity and quality year by
year, until finally exhaustion be
comes ti stubborn fact. Like the
worn out tobacco lands of Vir
ginia, they will no longer support
the farmer. For instance, the
constant growing of wheat on the
same lield markedly removes the
lime and the magnesia of the soil,
also the silicates of potash and
phosphates, all of which makes
its straw strong and tall, and also
makes its berry plump and heavy.
But if t hese substances be not re
turned tortile wheat field, the
cniit soon ceases to tic remnnora
live after paying the labor lie
stowed on its,cultivation.
Common sense teaches us that
we must keep our farms good-—as
good as they can lie made. They
cannot be too rich. The richer in
plant elements the better. No
apprehension in this direction
need be feared, for plants only
take what they require; and tin
less all the elements essential to
their growth be present in the soil
at the same time they do not ap
propriate those which are. Crops
cannot be fed, like half starved
animals, on anything, suitable or
not; for each crop must have its
own peculiar food, and in proper
proportions too. Selection of the
fittest, though made prominent by
Darwin, yet is nevertheless a law
of nature which we cannot gain
say. In order to keep our soils
suitable to grow crops, we must
husband everything from every
source and from every part of our
farms which will return to our
soil these plant elements, these
animal elements, these rich soil
elements.
Common sense also teaches us
that we should rotate crops, be
cause. though plants are all com
posed of similar elements, yet
these elements vary in proport ion
in different crops, thus making it
necessary to rotate crops and to
rotate manures, so that each crop
may have its peculiar elements in
due proportions. A good farmer
generally gives as well as receives
in abundance. This is the only
true principle upon which to cul
tivate a farm fora lifetime with
profit. Spoliation farming has
failure stamped upon its every
feature as indelible as the mark
of Cain ; and the futile excuse
that ‘I am not ray brother's keep
er' will not avail. Everything we
treat thus considerately increases
in value. The farm will be worth
more; the cows, horses, fowls,
pigs, sheep, fences, buildings—all
will be worth intrinsically more.
It is in this way that the farmer
becomes rich. Everything that
he makes a demand upon prompt
ly responds to his call, and he is
never disappointed, for he trusts
faithfully in the Dispenser of all
good.
Winter Houghing.
The following hints on (his time
ly topic are from tin* last number
of Colinan's Rural World: Win
ter ploughing is a good thing. It
upsets tin* insects, turns them up
from their warm quarters below,
to cold quarters above. It throw s
up the clay to be pulverized by
the frost and air. It gives much
aid to spring work, as, if the soil
is dry now. it will not need to be
ploughed again in spring—a good
harrow pulverizing it for any
crop. For oats and clover, timo
thy, red-top, blue grass, orchard
MARIETTA. GEORGIA. JANUARY 1, 1878.
grass, etc. by all means do winter
ploughing. Then in early spring
you can sow the seed at once and
not wait till the ground is in con
dition to plough, and then spend
several days in doing what could
better be done in any open wea
ther in winter. “ A word to .the
wise is sufficient/’
Apple Product in Failed Stales.
YALLK, VARIETIES, KTd.
From an article on the clips
and Downs of the Apple Trade,-’
given in a recent number ol the
American Cultivator (Boston) the
following facts of interest are
taken:
The crop of apples of IS7<>, it
will be remembered, was the lar
gest ever grown in the United
States, and prices were lower than
for at least twenty years. In some
sections the fruit was so plenty,
that farmers could not give it a
way, while the eider makers were
overrun with a surplus of stock.
The yield this year is not so large
as it was a year ago, but the quali
ty is somewhat better, although
many bad lots have come to mar
ket. ibices are higher than they
have been for sevei al years, and
stand just about as thev did in
1875. * * *
The orchard products of the ll
nited States are estimated at, a
value of !)!(>(),000,000 annually, in
which New York leads, I’ennsyl
vanin, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan
coming next ; but there is no da
fa showing the number of barrels
of apples raised in the country,
either in a single year or from one
-decade to anotlier. And vet the
apple is the national fruit, and is
the only fruit of the orchard that
is, like the cereal productions, ex
ported to foreign countries. We
know pretty nearly how many po
tatoes are raised in the country
every year—-some 200,000,000
bushels —and how many pounds
of beeswax, but as to apples, we
are left in a state of dense igno
ranee. Mr. Young, who has had
charge of the National Bureau of
Statistics for a series of years,
ought to lie reminded of the fact
that the apple crop is an ini per
taut, crop in this country, and of
itself constitutes a mine of ranch
wealth. * * *
Over nine hundred varieties of
apples are found in the gardens of
the Horticultural Society, Lon
don, and over fifteen hundred va
rieties have been tested (her*!.—
Most of the improved varieties
are either the result of accident
or of accidental crossing. It is
generally considered that apples
grown on the fertile lands of the
West, though large and fair, Col
orado not excepted, with its phe
liominal capacity to produce the
fruit in nearly all its varieties, are
yet inferior in flavor to those that
are grown on the strong, gravelly
and sandy loams of this section.
Hence, the preference given to
the Michigan. New York, Massa
chusetts and Maine fruit, while
the apples grown in the British
provinces, of which thousands of
barrels are sent to Boston and N.
York every year, are, in some re
spects, among the best sold in the
Eastern markets. In this connec
tion, and wc have the testimony
of Col. Wilder, it is a remarkable
fact that where cultivation and
protection from insects have been
regarded, as in our gardens, tie*
apple is ns fine now as it was in
its pristine days, going back even j
as far as the days of the Garden i
of Eden. It is also a significant
fact that the apples originating|
in New England—for instance the i
Baldwin, Rhode Island greening, j
Connecticut and Roxbury russets, 1
are still the great favorites for)
market, and that from Western!
New York, annually, there are
sent more than 1,000,000 barreb
a year.
(’reserving Fence I’osls.
The American t’hemi-d says—
“ Wood can be made to last lon
gerthan iron in the ground. Rosts
can be prepared for less Hum two
cents apiece. This is the recipe;
J ake boiled linseed oil and stir it
in pulverized charcoal to the con
sisteney of paint. Put a coat of
this over tin* timber, and there is
not a man who will live to.see it
rot.” Like many other savings
and recipes, this statement is
made by a man who evidently!
has never had proofs of what lie
says: yet Jam -tire that, two or!
.i.! "I po ;
b • |-< >llll,l. will prove 7./-VG'
-<*r\ or for ! Item : Inn a J
will mil -uliico. The cluWfjgj
im.il.l be 11 el \ ground or pflß
altd 1 coat :dloll^B|
contain much charcoal, as tIMP
should be free tp fill up the outer
pores of tin* wood, when the char
coal may be freely applied. But
let no one expect to thus preserve
i parts made of w ood that soon do
cays naturally, but use oak,chest
i nut or cedar,a ml apply three coats
! of this paint, and your children,
probably, will see them in a stale
of decay—not you, unless you
live to be very old.—T. B. Miner.
A ( heap Greenhouse.
Persons who w ;*t a greenhouse
but think they cannot afford to
have one,are referred to the cheap
mode of building thus described
by the Maryland Farmer:
the cheapest plan of erecting
a greenhouse that we have any
knowledge of—and we used one
successfully formally years—is to
dig out a pit in a. side hill, where
the upper end will be just, above
ground, and the lower eml will be
two or three feet above ground,
where the door must be, with two
or three stops down for an en
trance. Wall up, roof the wall,
and cover the whole with sash as
in hot hods, the sash having more
fall, say three feet in a width of
two, tin* house being 15 by 10.—
Direct in this the stand shelves,
and w hen it is t ime to take up the
summer (lowers, bulbs, Ac., store
them here. The glass should be
ci >voted wit h J hick straw unit s,
which can he removed, even when
tli?* weather is the coldest, in clear
weather for an hour or t wo at mid
day to get the warmth and influ
ence of the sun. At such times,
ventilation should he attended to
by slightly opening a sash or t wo.
No lire is needed. Nearly all
the readily flowering plants will
bloom, and there will scarcely he
a week during the winter that a
bouquet may not be gathered if
! the house is properly managed.
Wheal Growing.
The farmers will find more than
a suggestion in this item from the
New Hampshire Mirror and Far
mer :
At one of the county fairs dur
ing the past season, two farmers,
one of whom was the exhibitor of
j a simple half bushel of wheat,
held this little dialogue :
Exhibitor—l raised ninety two
bushels of wheat like that on four
and one-half acres of land.
Ilis neighbor—Well, if I had
read that in a paper 1 would not
have believed it, but if you say it
is so, if is so, of course, and I’m
an infernal fool to be buying my
flour as 1 have done for ten years,
and must do this winter, for my
land is just as good for wheat as
yours.
There is a whole agricultural
sermon in that little dialogue,and
it is one which has been preached
a bm id red times and made hun
dreds of converts this fall. Scores
of farmers, who last spring could
not be made to believe that wheat
could be profitably raised in New
Hampshire, believe it now.
Keeping Apples.
The Michigan Farmer says that
apples should not be put in the
cellar until hard freezing arrives,
and adds : They should be packed
in clean new barrels and stored
in sorpe shed or covered with
hoards, exposed to the atmos
phere, for several weeks after
picking, then removed to the
grain barn, away from tin* smell
of stables, and allowed to remain
there as long as possible and not
be frozen. We throw stalks and
straw' over the barrels, and often
defer placing them in the cellar
until late in December. The fruit
cellar should be darkened and
kept as cool as possible, and not
freeze, l’laee the barrels on their
sides, with strips of wood bet ween
them and the cellar bottom, and
do not open or move tiufil wanted
for use. If the cellar is free from
the scent of vegetables when the
barrels are opened, a rich and a
tempting perfume will arise.—
Most cellars are too warm for the
storing of fruit.
Fram e produces 531 pounds of
sugar beets for every head of her
population.
Itliode Mai
I,; l In-1- ..I |■■i! a I, icWß^^^jjSSgjSi
Seveiily nine per >.
productive „|' |J|||BE
yrass and forage. *. 1
Hiis year'-- corn crop in k:9 :'•'■*
is pronounced I lie lam^^fl
A I I •elll ell. I e\a .
hu liee11 made foi I lie and
10.1 M>() 1111 In'!- ill emu .M^ijj
Two ni ill ion> and a hall'
worth of American dried
has been sold in Kurope dm9rit
tin* last twelve months.
Half the eggs hatched in France,
the great poultry growing nation
of tile world, are hatched by
meaus of incubators.
Working oxen, in wet weather,
are apt to have sore necks. To
prevent this, rub a little tallow
on the yoke and bows. _
Farms, like steamships, LgnlL
vise" carrying capacity .
only is an admit farmer oBL
Her who loads with the best/jp*
Oregon, with a populat iaoM‘-
but 1.45,000, this year produß/y :a;
surplus of S,00( 1,000 I,ii-®' ‘
grain and 4,000,000 pmmTs^p
The rice crop of this count
coming to lliefront again. South
Carolina lias an estimated yield
ol 44,000 tierces last, year, and
Georgia 20,000.
Cue Kentucky farmer appro
priates the yearly product of one
acre ol his farm to the purchase
of reading matter for himself and
family. Wise.
Rat hunts are all the rage in
Green** county,Ohio, and tin* pen
pie want tlie Legislature to an
thorize the payment, of ten cents
for each rat slaughtered.
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina,
attributes the destruction of th<>
pure agricultural fair system to
horse racing, three card monte
and prize* candy.
Boor land is a poor in vest men I,
so is poor stock, poor teed, poor
anything. Have the best if you
have to take much less of it. It
will pay best in the end.
In every house, however hum'-'
Me*, (lowers should he cultivated,
for their sunny light, their cheer
ful teaching, and for t heir insensi
bly ennobling influence.
Texas is so anxious to insure
immigration that she is virtually
giving away her public lands. The
head of the family can get IGO
acres for the expense of the sm
vey and patent,which isalfogeth
er about sls.
The best stock you can invest
in is farm stock ; the best shares,
plough shares; the best banks,
t he fertile banks of rural streams,
since the more the latter are hro
ken tin* better dividends they pay
on the investment.
Mr. Joseph Willoughby, near
Eaton (on, N. C,, is raising large
quantities of tin* very best green
lea. The quality of the tea ly>is
been tested by numbers; in fact,
the difference cannot be told from
imported tea when placed in cups
beside each other.
Wild turkeys have not fora long
time been more numerous in Vir
ginia than they have this year.—
A flock entered the city of Lynch
burg a few weeks ago. <)ne kill
e<l in Shenandoah county a few
days ago weighed thirty five lbs. j
Keep no worthless animals, mi
less they are growing in fat or are
paying their board in service.
According to the Department
of Agriculture, the cotton crop
is as large as last year.
Texas bids fair to be the great
est among the grain growing
States, the yield to the acre in
wheat being much larger than in
California, which is regarded as
tin* finest wheat growing country
m the world.
Mr. Bland is going to set up a
ninety two cent store.—N. Y.
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subjects of controversy hefbif ,1
liri ll ia lo he'd, as contested su'l
.jcHs Inive an irritation upon the
nerves.
LalrSiijijicru —Late suppers aifl
ini invention of the enemy. l)oi
eat solid food within four or li
I hours of retiring for the uiglfl
11 1 is. is a rule which no person w
ever regret having adopted. 5
A /urn/hvh c.v -Chloroform sliouJe*
never he used except hy physi
ciaws. and rarely hy them iftsudi
cases n a el her will uofmTfect.Hftr*-
tost holies are very dangerous in
domestic use. The health of ma
ny a child ha* been mined cvetr
hy paregoric given to produce a
sleep.
It ' nii ih/'foi' IfortrscnrsH —Horse
radish will atlord instantaneous
relict in most obstinate eases of
hoarseness. The root, of course,
possesses the most virtue, though
the leaves are good till they dry,
when they loose their strength.
Ihe root is best when it is green,
t he person who will use it freely
just before beginning to' speak,
will not be troubled with hoarse
ness.
\\ herever (lie past arcs of West
ern Missouri have been destroyed"
by the grasshoppers, new varied
ties of grass have sprung up,
which the oldest inhabitants nev
er saw before. Jhe principal of
these is a green bunch grass of
luxuriant growth, which now co
vor pasture and dooryards where
only bluegrass has grown forma
ny a year before. Stock eat it J
with avidity. Some persons
sert that it is Ini Halo grass, while}
others see in it a resemblance to
oilier grassc- of tin* plains and*
mountains we ;t rf us. We hope]
that its development will he stu '
died hy some expert in the hota t
ny of this continent, for its origin]
may throw anew and important 1
light upon the origin and inigra J
tioli ol the locusts. The seed waj
evidently brought ln*re and
posited by the swarm that
eggs in this region last fall.
brought here from Kansas or
orado only, its identity
surely have been determined 'erß
this by old plainsmen, who arc siil
numerous hereabout, p^a
toi l h iiu talk
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