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Tho liepoi'ter. ENTER ED AT THE POST OFFICE IN DAN BURT, AS 6ECOND CLASS' MATTER. * LJJi PKPP ER% SOXS, Pub,, and Props. I THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. 1881. Irrigation in Connecticut. The report of the Secretary of the State H.mrd of Agriculture Connection) for 1880 contains accounts of cevrral farms, illustrating difif rent methods of culture. T-he following is a report of I the farm of Albert G A)res in the north part of the tufrn of Preston: The farm consists of 225 aero* of land of average quality with t lie faruis in the j neighborhood It has b:en the home stead of thar family f>r throi) st least Here his lather Jonaa A) res i lived, an lurmer in hi* time j and did a urge busn.ow iu raising mules, and in trading iheui off lor the West India market - fitly years ago, or mora, he bought the celebrated Jack Barbarossa, fourteen and a half hands high, of Frank Stanton,of Stoning - ton, and greatly mcroa*ed the size of j uiules, for which there was then a lively j demand. The beginiog of tho system of irrigation that p'cvails upon the j farms dated baolc to the time of his grandfather, a hundred years ago or more Any good farmer iu pacing by would notice the exceptional greenness" and fertility of tho southern slope of this farm. This is owing entirely to the tree use of water for a hundred years or more, upon about forty acres of the i farm. The system of irrigation is of the simplest and most inexpensive kind. I just such as aoventerprising farmer could make for himself without the aid of Btono mason or engineer. Near the j north end of the farm a small trout I brook comes in, never big enough for a mill stream, and in summer often dwindling away to a mere rill. It it fed by springs and io these springs the trout survive through the heats of sum mer. This brojk is dimmed near tho ■pot wheare it enters the farm, with a slight bank of earth and stone. No effort baa been made to accumulate water in a reservoir against a dty time, though it could be done at small expense Only a part of tbe natural flow of tbe i water has been turned out of its channel. The irrigating ditches, of which there* are several taken from the main stream, I are small and narrow, and have a very slight fall. They could be made very rapidly with a plow and ox shovel. The j forty acras put under water, slopes gen- j tly to the south and east. The water | is taken out of these irrigating ditohis '■ in slight rills, and passed over tho mead nf Any surplus water falls into the ditch beiow, or is returned to the brook. ' Tbe distance for which the water is di verted from its natutal ohanoel is less than a quarter of a mile. The water is kept lowing summer and winter, and the winter flowage carries quite as muoh fertilizing matter as that uf summer, and perhaps more The refuse vegetable matter gatherd in tho swamps above, j floating leaves, wash of roads and culti ; vated fields and brook channel, is carried down to these meadows. The water discolored in heavy rains, and even that which seems to bo pure carries more or less sediment with it. Tbe liquid manure may be very thin, but tbe faet is well established that wherever watrr rum over weli drained soil, grass springs up in greatest luxur ance. The purest spring water' makes grass wherever it flows. While Mr Ayres sleeps in summer and winter, this i brook is making money for hiua. as it , did for bis ancestors. The only expense to him is tbe slight labor of keeping the ditches olear, and of regulating the flow of water. The soil is a gravelly loam, and sopes so much that theie is no chan ce for stagnant water. Io the opinion of Mr. Ay res the crop of hsy is nearly doubled by the irrigation aloue. There are several advantages of this system of irrigation, besides tbo large | increase of the grass crop. All these forty acres of meadow can be kept per petually in grass, which is probably the most profitable crop upon Connecticut farms There need bo no more plowing, i no more tillage-crops The lurl may thicken from generation to generation, and produce that the best of all forage, a thick, fine hay made from a mixture of grasses growing upon an old sod Then top dreesiag, when it is applied to increase tbe year's crop, can be used to tbe best advantage. The manure is crrried do«n immediately to the roots of grasses; by tbe largo turply of water ■•poo tbe Surface. There is no loss I- >m evaporation. The soil is kept i i toe production of nearly two tons of hay to the acre, without any topdreis ing Upon this the calculation is based of the value of irrigation upon this farm. c suppoosn the natural produc tion of the land to be not over a ton to the acre. A ton to tho acre then would be a fsir estimate of the hay mads l>y ; the irrigation. Hay selles in the neigh- I boring pity markets at from fifteen to j twenty dollars a ton, according t' season and quolity. If we call the hsy tan d«l lars a ton standing, it would give SIOO us the annual divident declared by tbe brook The investment is about as secure as government bonds, wt.ich pay four pen cents, nearly ; the income is about the same as §10,( 00 in U. S. stocks. Not every farm has the facilities of this for irrigation, but some could irri on a much larger scale. Almost eve y farm that has a brook t unning through it, or upon its borders, could have soma portion of its acres subject to irrigation Carp, the Farmer's Fisb. ITEMS CF INTEREST CONCERNING THIS EXCELLENT FISII. During the last four years there has been much interest taken in the culti vatioa of fish as an article of food. Through the labors of the National and State Commissioners much light has been thrown on tho subject of their oultiva'ioa. Among other things it has been demonstrated that at a very slight expense tbe farmers may iiave at hand constantly a supply of fresh m«at foi d that will in some degree take the place of animal food. Prof. Baird, United States Fish Commissioner, declares tbe carp to be, of all olhrrs, ihe best adapted to the wants of farmers, and calls it "the farm er's fish." While trout and bass require not only very pure but cool water, and an abundance of it, and most of the iufcrior varieties of fi»h require water at leant moderately cool, clear and abun dant the carp is in its element in water moderately warm and requires but little of it. It prefers, the Professor says, a pond whose bottom and banks are Composed of mud. the mud affordiog it a shelter in cold woathsr, aod producing ' plants which it rsliahcs as food. The carp is not a dainty feeder. It will eat anything that pigs and fowls relish, and will devour insects, small reptiles, and meats of all kinds- It also eatf nearly all kinds of preen vegetables, fruits snd garbage. It can be fattened ou grain as easily as pigs and turkeys are, and tbe young are especially fond of sweet curd aud liver The carp possesses a number of good qualities that render it a valuable fish. : It is throughly domesticated It can I be traasporied easier and will live longer \ out ot water than any other scale fish 1 It is exceedingly prolific, a large one i often yielding as many as four hundred thouaaud eggs. No hatohing house is j needed. The eggs batch in a tew days j and the jroung, when not disturbed, grow rapidly. It is possible that the future farmers ' may raise oarp as they now raise beef and pork for table use and for market Cincinnati Commercial. THE RAPID GROWTH OF CARP. We have frequently called at tention to the German Caro as a fi-th specially adapted to the farmer for raising as a food fish in small streams or poods. From the Winchester papers we learn that in April last, Mr £ R Thacker received from the United. Statea Fish Coumishioner a lot ot German Carp, tho largest of which at the time he re ecived them was not more than two inch es long and weighed not more than two ounoes. He placed them in the dam at bis paper mill, and, wlseo the water was drawn off recently for tho purpose ot cleaning the dam, tbe dam, the larg est of (he fish was found to be ten inch es loon, and weighed one pound, and not one fish in the lot uoder eight inch es. This extraordinary was made in leas than three months.— Staunton Spectator. "Seeing the South." Few things in this life are so delight ful as the oharniing way in which the average "staff ooraespondent" discourses ! of ' the South," when the line of his traveis happens that way. A week or two, or at mort a month, of basiy flit ting across several Southern States by rail with more or less frequent stops in the latger towns he comes to, seems to abundantly qualify him to explain thi entire sonthom situation in ail its phutes and doveh pments. What he does not then kaow about the South is net worth knowing. * Every aspect of th e problem has become intelligible to him—political, industrial, soeial, dootes tie, educational and religious.—Phila delphia Record. Two or three boys at Pooasset, Mass , undertook to teach tbeir little biothor, (V years of age, to swim, by taking him to tbe middle of a swift-running river and dropping him. He got out*alt right onca or twjqe, but tbey suoceeded in drowning him at last. The Condition of the Ciops. WASHINGTON, August 16 —The fol low U£ rep,iris wore issued by the Depart ment of Agriculture to-day : • The sdrin{ wheat returns of August 1 give the condition of spring wheat as 81, against 88 last year and 81 in 1879. At the same tiuic, compared with the crop of last year, there is a reported heavy decrease in the States of lowa and I llinois ; a slight decrease in Minnes ota, Nebraska and California, while in Wisconsin and all ilia New Englaud States there is an increase Reports | from Dakota indicate a fair crop with a large increase in the acreage of tobacco > The.condition of tobacco at the date ol | the returna to this department was I somewhat lower lhau at this time last year. In the North and "Middle Atlan tic States the crop was reported as bet ; ter than last year. In Kentucky, Ten ' nessee and Missouri it was suffering from drought. In Wisconsin it i* re : ported better than last year, i The general average conditio* of corn on August Ist is 77, a very considerable decline since last month, when it stood at HO. In August, 1880, the condition was 118, which however, was exception ally high. The Atlanlio coast States made a showing somewhat better than the gcneril ayersge, except in South Carolina, where the excessive drought out down the figures to 41 Louisiana and Texas are the ccxt lowest of the coast States, from some cause reporting 67 and 4U respectively. Tennessee is the lowest of the interior States, its bverage falling to 61. In the great corn growing region the highest reports are 95 in Wisconsin and 92 in Nebraska, and the lowest, 74 in Kausaa. To Householders AND OTHER I'KRSO.NS INTERESTED IN THE I REVKNTION OF THE ADULTBKA TION t)» root) BUI)STA.\CES AND MEDI CINKS : The North Carolina Bjard recognising the widespread intetest of the public in the rumored frequent adulteration of food-substances aud drugs, desires to give every facility to detect adulterations or quiet unfounded suspicions. While the Hoard does Dot share in the frequent public statements of the harmful adul teration and cheats in the food wo eat, the liquids WH drink and the medicines we give, it was d"emed advisable to offer at many as desired it, up to the lull capacity of the laboratory, analyses ofsus pected articles The list of artioles given bctow need not be the limit of the enquiry , but may serve to direct attention to the clusscs of artioles: FOOD SUBSTANCES. Soda, Saleratus, Biking Powder, Cream of Tartar, Bugar, Milk, Be er Ly) uors, Flour, &c., &o. DRUGS. Paregoric,Ltudanuui,Q linioo,Opium and such articles as are usually sold for domestic use. Upon application to the Superintend ent of Health of your coilQty, you can procure the necessary information THOMAS. F. Wo 't», Secretary. North Carolina Naval Stores. Fiom Dsake's Paper hetore tha Press Conven tion For years past, and for years to come North Carolina has, and will supply the ciyiiiz;d world with naval stores. Tha products of her loog-leaf pines are used in every thip of every nation that tra verses the bigb seas, and while we have received the application of Tar-heels— and the name will stiek to us as with all the tenacity of the article from which the name is derived—we have the satis faction of knowing that we have stuck some of that tar upon every ship that floats upon the ocean's wave or carriss a national flag—that the turpentine that is distilled from the pine forests of the Rip Yau Winkle State, ia mixed with the paint that is spread upon every house in the land from Maine to Mexioo, and is used upon the furniture that adorns the palaces of kings and the drawing rooms of the Vauderbilts and other mil lionaires of the world. Again, commencing at tho seaboard and through tha. swaaip lands of the coast, the vast forests of cypress are furnishing lumber and shingles for a home and foreign mirket, while the hitherto despised sweet gum is being manufactured into plutes and dishes that find a ready sale in the Northern cities of the United States. REDMOND, About whom so much has been said and written, has been taken to Qreene ville S. C to receive sentenoe for resist ing a U S effieer. He was tried and convicted and before sentence was passed upon him. A Deputy Darshal from thnt court arrived here Monday ; and started bsok that night. This will de fer tbe trial in tbe St.te Court at Bre vard where he was indicted for murder. —AthevU/e A*wt. The Atlanta Constitution states that the Warm Springs in Madison county, id this State, have bsea sold to Col. Bethel, of Memphis, T»nn, and Col. CJisby, of Montgomery, Alabama, for SIOO.OOO —Col. Bethel was formerly I of lUckingham county, in this State, but moved to Memphis years ago, where he has since become a leading citisen and a man of princely fortune. Advico to a Young Man. James G. Fair is worth $12,000,000 Aud the whole Sl2 000,000 of it, my dear boy, can't make him ns happy as I you aje with the dew of youth in your hrar, when you hold the hand of the ■ girl you !o»c. and walk with her in a path that is only i d; enn.igh for one, with the rustling branches whispering al ove your head, so happy you cannot spiak with anything but your eyes. If , you envy him, Telemachna, il'jou, with . your brnwn hands and your bright young ! face, with ihe down just (liadinjj your ' lips with not « gray hair in your head or a gnawing Care in your heart, with the morning sun shining upon yout up 1 turned fice. with the velvet tuif under your feet and the blue heavens above your head, with the blood coursing through your veins like wine, with filty or sixty years of life before you, with mirage after mirage of bright dreams and beautiful illusions and pleasant vanities making the landslips beautiful rewind you, if you envy this man his to ty two millions of dol'ara, and his spocliclcs, and his gray hair, and his wiinklcs, and his old heart, you area fool, ny hot ; and you are scattering ashes r.n the loses that grow in the mortiipg There is lightues-i in your step, my soo, and color in your blood, and dreiti s in your heart, and all the low; aod beiittty and Ireshness of the su-.ris", thu §12.000.000 ear.not buy, and d ti'l you forget it You dju't want 842 000,000 unyhu*, Telemachu* ; §2, 000.000 in 1 plenty, that will keeph ih of us. Aid if you want a couple if millions, why, go ahead and gut it ''Sitst thou a man diligent in his business? He shall »t md before kings; lie shall not s!..nd before meau mon "—llnck ye. Oieensb. ro Patriot: Oreeniboro is soou to Lave a cigar factory. 0.,1y i hree eountirs given prohibition majority ; Yancey, Trsntylvania and H'ywood. Msjori'y against prohibition as lar >.s heard from, 112,328. Twelve oounties to hear fr.'Ui. I'Hlso.vtlts Pki.iVKHKI) —Sheriff I'V gl« carried to the liailrottd and Slaie ptnitentiary on Monday, the Inferior court's cmitiihution as follows : Andri » Jackson Williams, 2 C. I*'. & Y V. K. B Wihon Johuson ly months and Ai.nie Ferrihee 3 jears to tl.o l'en iteotiary, Raluigh Wntitoit Uepubti can. No GOOD I'nr.ACIIINU —No man can do a gojd jib ol work, preach s gooli sermowi try a l»w suit well, doctor a patieut, or write good articl> when he feels miserable and dull, with sluggish brain and 'ut stead nerves and none should u.ake the attea pt in sjch a con dlHuti when ft can tis so easily wntf cheaply lemoved by a little II y Biters —Alia by Timet A Card. Ul.kn'S FAI.LS N. Y , Dee. 14 1880 RKV. Mit. L N ST. (JNUE. Dear Sir.—Will you please state below what satisfaction St Jacobs Oil gives }ou which you got of us some time »«•>, and oblige Ltoutrr & 81-SII. Very effective. L, N". ST. ONOK Glen's Ful/t (.V. }*.) Time*. Notice. By virtue of i d-rrec 'f the Pr bite court, I will i ffci f r sale on M oday, tbe sth of Fcp'tmbcr, 1881, at the Court Hou-e d "ir in Danbory. NINEIY-TIIKEK ACHF.S OF LAND, (Subject to tho widows dower li. cloven acres), lyiu • near tho waters of Flat Shoal creek aud adjoining the lands of James Ricrson and others, also 23 acres more or IPRB subject to the widows d >wer, it being the home place of Jn >. Warren, deo'd Said land is conveniently situa led, well timbered aud produces well Purchasers wishing to buy good land, will please attend Teruis, credit of ninety days, good security rrq lired Title reserved until money is paid This tbe 2nd day of August, 1881. GEO F WARREN, Adm'r of JOHN WARREN deo'd. WEBSTERYUNABRIDGEO. If you intend wnn'flmo In get i\ ropy of Web* timhridgod Dk-tiouary, "DO IT NOW." Bee Wnb»tpr> I'naluUlgrd, PNPO 11C4, RlT ltt|t the namo of uaeh wail, —Miowinic tho value of UKFIMTIONS BY H.LIWTUATIONH. The pletums In Wch«tcr nn l- r tin■ lu words, Bmf. Itoller, Casllo, Column, Kyr, Horn*. M»IIIUK>, riirfiiolojry, Itavnlln, Hliliix, llirt nod lain) Hteani englnn. Tim ber., doflno 343 worrit and ternin fur Utur titan Ihoy could lie defined in word». New Edition of WEBSTER, Has 118,000 Words, 3000 Engravings, 4000 NEW WORDS and Meanings, Biographical Dictionary of over 9700 Names. Publishedl>y 0.4 C. MERRIAM.SprIngReId, Mass. BETHEL Classical and Military Academy A'tar Warrenton, Fauquier Co , Va, Prepare for Cutltge, Vniterrity or Buiinrti. Recommended for Location, Health, Mor alit;. Scbolarstiip and Discl|iltne. Board, Tuition, and Hedioal Attendance, (Half Saasion) 995 00. Addrrra for Catalogue, Mai. A. O. Pmm, Supt. Bethel Academy P. O , Ksqnier Co., Va. IRON B ™ A TRUE TONIC A PERFECT STRENGTHENED A SURE REVIVER. IRON BITTERS nFo highly recommended for all J? quiring a certain and efficient tonic; especially inwr miUent Fatert, Want of Appetite. Lvss of Strength, lack of l.ueryy, tic. Enriches the blood, strengthen? the must les, ami gives new lilo t> the nerves. I hey act like a charm on the digestive organs, removing all dvspcptlc symptoms, men as Taxtinit the Fivxt, Hitching, Heat in the Slomach. Jlcartbur»,ete. I HO Only Iron Preparation that Avill not blacken tlio teeth or give hendaelie. Sold by all druggists. Write fur tlio AIS C Book, 3i pp. of useful and amuaing wading— lent free. BROWN CHEMICAL CO., Baltimore, Md. BITTERS Mil GEORGK W. lIINSII AW. W. M. HINSHAW. * SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1881. HINSHAW BROTHERS, WINSTON. N. C., Four years ago to day we > pened our first Moclt ol GOODS in one ol ihe build in>.s we now occupy. Not Stiialicd to reuiSlu wliere wo stuned we have Irouj liuie 10 time added to our building and stuck so t-ial we oau salel) fay thai we have the most coui| lete Stoic Booms in life State. We have in u»o two ol BAIES best ELEVA'I'ORd by the u.e ius ol wluoU .ve llive ea-.j, scoo.a to a,I paiia ut the ten Rooms in our Bluek all ol which are hud #lth Meieomaiau ol' ev, ry tle.cnp lion which we boy at I .West prices, moi-iTy Iroui uiauulaeiurers aud winch we aell at icasonable prices IN UIJR W lIOLESALE DEPARTMEN I'S, WHICH ARK I iIK L VllGb-i IN TOWN, we will duplicate in puce* aoy bill ol uu urili-.u) autouo t)Jog " I" any market, Height taken into cousiouraiioii OCR RKl'Alli DKPAUI'»iEN id AUIS l'Hii MOST > U N L.'.lh IA Wi.v TOA. We Call especul uiuouoo to our .Icie ol DRESS GOODS, nIM.MINGS, LAWNS, I'KQUKTS, SUITINGS, NOTIONS, I'ARASOLS COTI'ONADES, CACSLMKUES. BOOTS AND sHOES. WINCHESTER VIUIiI.MV \.\l> Jlli.ES' FIHLADELriIIA sIIOES AM'EfllLil. 400 Suits Mev's and B~y'a Clothing. 40 Cases Hal's". ' % (i ' 8o Cuaos aud Baleu ol' iJiy \ 60 " JSutloi a. *" * 100 Bags Colled. 60 Battels bugur. 75 " Syrups 160 Kegs of .bail* aud Uors; EL°os. SPLENDID STOCK OF STAPLE HARDWARE, DRUGS AND PATENT MEDICINES. TIN WAIIS, H01.1.0W WARE AND QUEENSWAKE IS I.AItOE QUANTITIES AND GREAT VARIETY 2.000 Dozens Coats' Sp >oi C tton at Now York Prices. 2,H)O pounds Sjle Leather. 20,000 pounds Meat and Lird. While Lead, Oils, Varnishes, Ac. Wc intend to make if to the iutcresl of every one to couie and see us, andwsia vito you to do so. 7,500 L'ujt of the CeUbraltJ Star Bran I TJIJCCO ihnurt for Suit thu Syr in y. Buy your good* of us and sell your Tobacco at our Nuw Warehouse, (PAuLS) when completed and you will come as near yeitiuij tnu worth ol your uiouey tn Merchandise, and the worth of y .or fobacoj lu money ai u oau get IU this wide world COME ONE, COME ALL, Bcspectfully, Msy 14th, 1881. lIINSIIA IK BROILERS. STILL VVRS I> KICKING. JOHN F. GRIFFITH, FRANK L MOORE, ISAAC H NEL6ON, 01 Davie County. Ol Stokes County. Of Stokes County. A RIG SHOW COMING ! Although wo have been drivon out of the Joyner block by fire, we beg to let tb« publio know that uur business is going on as il nothing had happeoed. Ws are now located on the Ogburn Corner, where We have on view a Large, New and Well Selected STOCK OF DRY UOODS, Groceries, Notions, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Tinwaro, Queensware, Willow.W.r# Sole Leather, Bacon, Salt, &c., &c lu fao-. everything kept in a First Class Store We aio now open aud earnestly solicit our many Irieuds and lortuer eustousers f RE SURE sod not buy goods before Riving us a look in, as we are satisfied we are fally pre pared to give entire satisfaction. All Goods Guaranteed as Represented. We are just stsrtiog and intend to boild up an honest trade by fair dealing. Griffith, liloore & Co. Winston, January, Bth.
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