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2 THE WEEKLY ERA. WEEKLY ERA. AGRICUIiTUItAL. Greensboro North State. Hn. 8. W. Watts is a successful farmer aslwell as a Judrre. He has been engaged in cotton-culture, and has introduced what is called the Continental Cotton. It ' is very proline and has the finest lint of any cotton heretofore made in the South; and the last state Fair, re cognizing these qualities, awarded adeploma. Judge Watts asserts that This cotton will yield, upon improved land, from four to six thousand pounds of seed cotton to the .acre. We have heretofore advocated. in these columns, the planting of cotton in this section of North Carolina. We were promis ed a communication, giving direc tions as to the cultivation of this staple, but the gentleman upon whom we relied for this informa uou, mueu wr buiije reason, 10 give u. now is we time to consider uie iiufsuuu i -i cuuwii cuiiuro in this and contiguous counties. We ao not urge iarmers to engage ex A A tensively in this industry, but every one may try, in a limited way, what he can do. or the benefit of those who desire to avail themselves of the use of the seed of the kind of cotton above spoken of, which has been so flat teringly recommended by the State b air, we append the following di recti ons, given by Judge Watts "Plant by the 10th of April, and check as you would corn. 3 by 4 feet distance, 2 seed to the hill, taking out one, alter securing a stand. "In using guano, put one peck of salt to the bag, mix well and put a large taDle-spoonlul to the hill. "uompost norse stable manure. cotton seed and dirt together, using iour loausoi uin,oneoi norse stable and one of cotton seed. Occasion ally sprinkle your heaps with salt and lime. Put a large shovel full of compost to hill before planting." The seeds are Dut ud in Dackaerea containing one pint, xnree packages will plant an acre. I he price is one dollar per package. They maybe obtained of Judjre Watts, at his residence in Franklinton. Wo hope our farmers will take this matter in hand, and where they have a soil adapted to the growth of cotton, put in an acre, or two, by way of experiment. Peas for Pigs. The Stock Yard Sun Is satisfied SBS Colorado, ancrnuch other sections as ao noi proauce corn to any aa vantage because of the brevity and coldness of the season, may all have success in pork producing, simply by falsing oats and peas for feed. These two articles will grow to per iection in any of the countries named. Oats can be fed in the field -without harvesting, to the best ad vantage, and they fatten hogs in the most rapid manner. Peas are the chief dependence in Canada for making pork. Fifty bushel to the acre have been raised in that coun try, though that is an extraordinary yield, about 30 bushels being an average crop. The vines, after the peas are thrashed out, are about equal to clover hay, for sheep. Peas weigh from 60 to Go pounds per measured bushel, and have consid erably more nutriment than the same amount of corn. So there is no reason to doubt that the hog can be raised to good advantage in all the Northern country in question. A Peas will orrow to perfection where oats can be produced. An average crop of peas will bring the farmer nearly, if not quite, as much as an average crop of corn, counting the vines as food for sheep. This ap plies to the pine country of the lower South abaut :vs well as to Caunada. Success in Peach Culture. It is useless to undertake to grow peaches unless you intend to bestow the very best culture. A slip-shod svstem will not do. Many think that after a peach orchard is estab lished, it can be let alone like an apple orchard. There was never a greater mistake. The nature of the two trees is very different. The peach must have constant culture in summer, if you would have a large crop of large superior peaches. The ground must be plowed and harrowed often during the season. It must bo kept open and porous. The peach trees need cultivation as much as corn or potatoes, and you will not get fine fruit without. You shall have no other cropon the ground. There are so many failures in peach culture, by neglect of fork ing the ground, that we feel com pelled to urge no more peach tree planting, unless tho party planting intends to work the ground thor- I 1 A. I 4! T ! 1 ougniy aiier piamuig. j.i mis is done, and a good location is selected preach growing may be made a suc cess. If not done, it will prove a failure.. There is a fine prospect for a good peach crop next year, and those will make the most money who will bestow the highest culture. Chester Pigs. This breed of hogs was formerly held in high repute, for the genuine article is, no doubt, one of the best of the swinish fraternity ; but of lata years the demand for them has very materially increased, and the Pa. Journal of the Farm erives as a reason for the declension that ' it results from an almost indiscrimi nate shipment of white pigs in Ches ter County. When the demand was at its highest point, dealers were scourging the county, and buying up any kind of pigs so they had no black hair, and shipping them abroad to the disappointment of purchasers, and discredit of Chester Whites. They can scarcely be claimed to be a distinct breed, but are only the result of many years careful crossing, and not having thmii nhaMirariBtina tiro1 crnr o characteristics fixed, show stronfr tendency to revert to their original state "-State Journal. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. Edwards, Broughton & Co., PRACTICAL Book and Job Printers, FayetUville Street, Third Story of Williamson, Thomas d- Co.'s New Building, RALEIGH, 3N". C. Are now prepared to execute every description of Plain and. JSancy BOOK L JOB PRINTING from the smallest Card to the largest Poster, on as reasonable1 terms as the same work can be done at any estab lishment in the State. we win Keep constantly on nana, oi print to order, Solicitor, Superior Court Clerk, Sher iff and Magistrate's Blanks of the latest improved form, on most rea sonable terms. COMrETE IN PRICE AND EXECUTION with the best and cheapest houses in the State. Special attention paid to SCHOOIi CATALOGUES, CIHCULARS AND BRONZED TOBACCO LABELS. 4 Orders by mail promptly attended to, and work shipped by Mail or Express any portion of tbe State. SSlr Agents for S. COLLINS & CO'S News, Book and Job Inks at manufacturers prices, freight added. Orders solicited. EDWARDS, BROUGHTON & CO. Box 178, Raleigh, N. C. Sept. 1, 1S71. 39 tf. Greensboro Female College. Greensboro, N. C. Rev. T. M. Jones, D. D. President. The Spring Session of 1874 will begin on the loth January. Charges per eaaaion of 20 weeks, board and tuition in regular course, 8125.00. Charges for extra studies moderate. For full particulars, apply to the President. N. II. D. WILSON, 26-tf President Board of Trustees. TYr. W. PEEBLES, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jackson, North Carolina. Practices in all the Courts of North ampton, Halifax, Bertie and Hertford counties: in the Supreme Court of North . Carolina, and In the Federal Courts. 25 2m APPLICATION WILL be made to th Legislature at its next sosion for a charter of the GRAND ATLANTIC HOTEL and TRANSPORTATION COMPANY of Beaufort. North Carolina. Oct 24 tf H. C. ECCIiES, Proprietor, CENTRAL. HOTEL, CHARLOTTE, 1ST. C PROSPECTUSES. ESXAKI,ISIIEI 1S44. THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL, 4 CweeklyJ The Largest, Best and Cheapes Paper Published in North Carolina. The Wilmington Journal (Weekly) on entering anon its twenty-ninth an nual volume, has been greatly enlarged and improved. It is the only thirty-six column paper m the State. As a First-Class News and Literary Journal, it ia Unexcelled embraced It Its columns is a more complete, compact, yet comprehensive History ot the world s doings, irom week. to week, than can possibly be found in any other journal. it is just the paper for the home and fireside, full ol eood reading: all the best Editorials of the daily ; all the Con- gressionai, legislative ana r news of the day. . tt . a ji t i : a. i 1 Its Market Kenorts are always full and accurate. The Re view of the Mapfeets is accepted by the mercantile community as the true index of the commerce of the citv. while r reports of other markets are full and reliable. Interesting Stories, Tales, &c. are given every week, making it the best family paper published in the coun try. Its Circulation is very large throughout the State and the whole South. In New Hanover. jagecomoe, unsiow. uupun. Kampson. Brunswick, Bladen and Columbus it is especially large, while in Halifax, Wil son, Wayne. Carteret. Robeson. Rich mond, Anson, Cumberland and Moore. and in several counties of South Caroli na, its circulation is very good. it is published every .Friday on the following Terms : One copy, for one year, One copy, for Bix months, Three copies, for one year, $2 00 1 00 .5 00 Four copies.for one year. 7 90 8 50 Five copies, for one year, Ten copies, for one year, Twenty copies, for one year. $15 00 25 00 To everv eretter un of a CLTTR OF TEN, one copy will be sent free for one year. Address J O U RNAL,gton, Wilmington, N. C. FINE IIHP01tTI ENGRAVINGS. (Large size) for Framing or for Port folios.' xnis catalogue oi ; engravings com- E rises a list of elegant works, from the est American and . European artists. livery variety oi subject is represented. Portraits, landscapes,; Animals, Fig ures, juarine views, and Historical Pic tures, from such well known artists as LANDSEER, HERRING, WILKIE, ituiSA OJUiM tui! u it, and others. Over 700 Different Subjects. They are of all sizes, from 12x15 to 26x40, and cant .be sent by mail or ex press, prepaid, carefully done up in Price, from SI to S10, according to size. A discount made on large purchases. Catalogues sent free to any address. We also furnish the ECLECTIC GALLERY OF FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. (Small size) for the Portfolio, Scrap- iiooK or illustration. These engravings have appeared in the Eclectic Magazine, and comprise the Portraits of nearly every distin guished man of the past and present centuries. Our list contains portraits of HISTO RIANS, POETS, ARTISTS, WAR RIORS, KINGS, STATESMEN, HIS TORIC AND IDEAL PICTURES, Nearly 300 Different Subjects. They are printed on different sized paper ; eitner small size, 7x10, or quarto size, luxiis, ana can De sent by mail. carefully done up in roller, prepaid, to any address. Price, small size, 10 cts Quarto size. 15 cts. A specimen of each size and catalogue sent on receipt ot25 cents. Catalogues sent free to any address. E. R. PELTON, Publisher, 2 108 Fulton St., New York. FOOD. Corn, Rye, Sheafs of Oats, Meal, Peas, Fodder, Hay, Oats, Fine Feed, Shucks, Always kept on hand at OSBORN'S Qrain and Feed Store, West of the North Carolina Depot in the ner Warehouse built for that pur pose. Orders dropped in the Post Office will be promptly nlled. W. A. GATTIS, Superintendent. Raleigh, N. C'., Feb. 7, 1873. ly 931 PROSPECTUSES. Prospectus for IS74 Seventh Year. THE AXDINE. An Illustrated Journal, Universally Admitted to be the Handsomest Periodical in the Word. A Representative and Cham pion of American Taste. Not for sale in. Book or News Stores rpHE ALDINE, while issued with all JL the regularity, has none of the tern porary or timely interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals. It is an ele gant miscellany ol pure, light and grace- lul literature; and a collection of pic tures, the rarest specimens of artistic skill, in black and white. Although each succeeding number affords a fr.esh pleasure to its friends, the real value and beauty of J7,e Aldine will be most appreciated after it has been bound up at the close ol the year. While other publications may claim superior cheap ness, as compared with rivals of a sim- ilar class, The Aldine is a unique and original conception alone and unap proacned absolutely without compe tition in price or character. The pos sessor oi a complete volume cannot du plicate the quantity of fine paper and engravings in any other shape or num ber of volumes for ten times its costs ; and then, there are the chromos, besides ! Art Department, 1874. The illustrations of The Aldine have won a world-wide reputation, and in the art centres of Europe it is an ad mitted fact that its woodcuts are exam pies of the highest perfection ever at gained. The common prejudice in favor of "steel plates,!' is rapidly yielding to a more educated and discriminating taste which recognizes the advantages of superior artistic quality with greater lacility of production. The wood cuts of The Aldine possess all the delicacy and elaborate finish bi the most costly steel plate, while they afford a better rendering of the artist's original. To fully realize the wonderful work which The Aldine is doing for the cause of art culture in America, it is only necessary to consider the cos? to the people of any other decent representa tions of the productions of great pain ters. In addition to designs by the mem bers of the National Academy, and other noted American artists, The Al dine will reproduce examples of the best foreign masters, selected with a view to the highest artistic success and greatest' general interest. Thus the subscriber to The Aldine will, at a trifling cost, enjoy in his own home the pleasures and ; refining influences of true art. The quarterly tinted plates for 1874 will be by Thos. Moran and J. D. Woodward. ' The Christmas issue for 1874 will con tain special designs appropriate to the season, by our best artists, and will surpass in attractions any of its prede cessors. 1 Premium for 1874. Every subscriber to The Aldine for the year 1874 will receive a pair of chromos. The original pictures were painted in oil for the publishers of The A Idine, by Thomas Moran, whose great Colorado picture was purchased bv Congress for ten thousand dollars. The subjects were chosen to represent "The Jbust77 and "The West." One is a view in The White Mountains, New Hamp- shire; the other gives The Cliffs of Green River, Wyoming Territory. The difference in the nature of the scenes themselves is a pleasing contrast, and affords a goed display of the artist's scope and coloring. The chromos are each worked from thirty distinct plates, and rre in size (12x16) and appearance exact fac-siiniles of the originals. The presention of a worthy example of America's greatest landscape painter to the subscribers of The Aldine was a bold but peculiarly happy idea, and its successful realization is attested by the Joiiowing testimonial, over the signa ture oi Mr. Moran nimsell. Newark, N. J., Sept. 20th. 1863 Messrs. JAteEs Suttox & Co. Gentlemen, I am delighted with the proofs in color of your chromos. They are wonaeriuiiy successtul renresenta tions by mechanical process of the original paintings. V ery respectfully, Signed,) Tuos. Moras. rtrti i j.nese enromos are in every sense American. They are by an original American process, with material of American manufacture, from designs of American scenery by an American painter, and presented to subscribers to the first successful American Art Jonr nal. 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