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=-2---£~_- . ... " . .. . .. .. '-Tn amount of h:sh foIa ) g (i food is greatcer in oats and oarne:d miOd. than in any other grain, being aenot somt 1] per ce:,t, and the amlonnt of fatty e( to substance i dloulle that contained It is in wheat..-[Paultry Monthly. depat -- CLoLN!SZNG f~ws in separate ~iete small fltcks in the manner they are chant kept in villages and small towns is ruile practicabl. Any number divided and into small lots with separate houses grow and runs will be productive and pro corn, fitable, if brains, means and a tho toge. rough practical knowledge of poultry asol culture he employed at all times. fully -- [ l'onltry Monthly. OvER Focu BALES TO TIHE ACRE. J. C. F., of Rome, G orgin, writing grow to the Elitor of Cottob, New York, or ao under date of May 21, 1S80, says: his 1 "Your Aberdeen (Mississippi) cor ted respondent, who describes at length the the process by which a planter of the be c town obtained two bales to the acre, His has probably never heard of the gre' achievement of Mr. T. C. Warther, way of Washington County, Georgia, in prol 1873. Ile obtained, I believe, the buy heaviest yiehl of cotton on record. :ert IIe was competing for a premium of pio fered by the Georgia State Agricul cos taral Society, and gathered from an do acre 6,891 pounds of seed cotton, tilli yielding 2,096 pounds lint, or a little ati ovtC four bales of 500 pounds each. and The rows were checked off three feet fcrt eacth way, and one stalk was left in cos ,ac:h hill. This distance gave him not 4,900 stalks to the acre, and, allow t'a ing 100 bolls to the pound, he must gre have had 140 bolls to the stalk in or exl der to procure (,801 pounds of seed wit cotton. Mr. David I)ickson, of Iian cta stn cock County, Georgia, reported in 1867 a.eixteen acre field which aver aged 2,700 pounds of seed cotton to e the acre. He estimated that a por- to tion of his sixteen acres yiclded at the rate of 6,000 pounds to the acre." SuccESSFCL ENTERPnRISE -fester Manor, the farm of John B. Davis, is twenty-live miles from Richmond, Virginia. It contains 2,000 acres "n the L'amnnnkey river, of which 1,200 are cleared. A few years ago this farm was poor andI unplroductive. It i: now rich, giving employment to hund'lrcds and t'eeding tells of - thousands of people in various parts ,f the globe. During the last season 500 acres were in tomatoes, 130 in peas, 50 in asparagus, 50 in black berries, 60 in clover, and several hundred in peach and other fruit trees. Upon this farm the owner has a large canning establishment. There is no similar enterprise of this magnitude in the world, and it is the creation of 'Ir. Davis' own genius. lie has built a whole village about him, as residences for the people inlS( his employ, in which there is lnclud ed a hotel, a church and a station on the Richmond, York River and Ches apeake Railroad. IIis canned goods A have been sent all over this conti nent, and have been introduced into Europe. lie grows his own fruits and vegetables on land specially adapted to their healthy develop meat. They are gathered carefully and at exact maturity. Nothing un ripe, olor-ril e, unsound or tainted is used. The specialties are tomatoes, green pens, peaches, sugar corn, cul-. tivatedl blackberries, asparagus and mixed pickles.- [Exchiange. BRINGINao STOCK SOUTII.-We arc pleased to know that the deuire to, improve our live stock is extending to every nook and corner of the South. This improvement will form the basis of real prosperity, and we expect to see the good work go on till scrub stock of all kinds shall live on;y in the memory of the "oldest inlhabitant." But just here we wish to sound a te of warning. It is much the fashion to send North and West for thoroughbred stock. In very many cases it is necessary to dLo so. But remember that flO kind of stock c mn be brought 8onth in the SprIng and Summer without cei·aia loss, especi ally if full grown anim;als are pur hased. Only' in the Fall and Win. ter months should valuable stock be imnported, and it should be as young as the nature of the case will allow. T'i'orouhbred stock of excellent quality can hoe purchased at home as a rule, and we are at a loss to know vbl oujr home breeders are not more iiberally patronized. Prices deman ded for good stock may seem exorbi p t, but when transportation char ges for long distanc~ are considered it will be found 1W o economy to purchase at home, even when leavinlg t o mautter of anclin a ion o It of con si !eratlion.-- [Conntry Visitor. Thls SCCESSFCL FAntxIa.-Many years of expelrience "ad muci obeir ration have taught us that there ate two things absolutely necessary to successful faInming. Thie irst requi site is to ascertain, by experiment, what crops the laudl is best adapted for. We say crops, for the second requisite is a proper annaal diversi t', which insures the farmer against want or that most to bedreadced-foc _debt. IIavingl decided what can be raisedl with pri t , we urge an adher ence tIo thIese CIp~, regardless of ex moren! .c::rs pr:,ccy my ,'fln FVeryC low, - an(l discolrag!menct will enter the mind of the fai mer, especially' ii some other f::rm product, not adapt ed to his soil, sills for high prices. It is at such times the temptation to depart from the beaten path is pre Sented. If the farmer yields, the chances are ten to one that he is ruined. It requires long experience and careful study to learn him to grow at y given crop-cane, cotton, corn, rice, ctc.-to the best advan tge. Tl''e diversity and rotation, absolutely essential to success, wili fully occupy the mind and time of the farmer without allowing any run ning after "strange gads." If he is growing cotton, corn, oats and rice, or any possible combination of crops, his whole at:tention should be dtevo ted to the cheapest way of producing the largest yield. lie should never be contented with modlerate yields. HIis land should he forced to the greatest possible extent, for in this way, and this alone, is there any real profit. It has become fashionable to buy large quanties of commercial :ertilizers. These are valuable and po luce immediate results. But they cost money, and money our farmers n do not elways have. The far-seeing tiller of the soil takes into consider c ation his future wants, and clover . andt cow peas furnish the bulk of his .t fertilizing meterial, al. insigniflcant n cost. The successful farmer does M not a'tempt too much. lIe concen n trates, and the more he does this the it greater are his gains. IIe does not r expect large crops from his land 0l without liberal mnuuring. He re a. cognizes the necessity of constant in study and watchfulness. In slang iphrase, which is, however, exactly to r the point, he does not "bite off a big to er piece than l. can chew," neither r- toes lie 'pu'. tll his eegs into one at ,ish." - [ Merchant, Mechanic and ' F'rmer. TOW N. MORRIS AARON, FAMILY . - G f C E . < - . --and ALEXANDRIA, LA. -P SODA WATER, CAKES, PIES and CON- S FECTIONEhIES and ICE at ALL HOURS. 9 A SPECIALTY MADE OF FURNISIIING AT SHORT NOTICE S Balls, Parties, Weddings, &c. iP ICE CREAM delivered at pri 3 vate residences EVERY EVENING, WARRAN'rED FRESI AND PURE. May 26 3m. JNo.KRAMER, CAIItE ENr TrER -and v UNDERTAKER st - CORNER OF a Fourth nd Scott Streets, he ALEXANDRIA, LA. or - y EEPS ON IIAND METALLIC andd ROSEWOOD BURIAI4 CA ut' SES, and al o PLAIN COFFINS. Al in ways on hand SA FI.NIE ITEABSE ei ir L Orders from the country res pectfully solicited and promptly at in- t udcd to. ek Jan. 21-ly. as U' SCRIBE FOR ill THE DEMOCRAT FOURTH Ci3NGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. int i s rHE MEM}3ERS OF TIIHE EXECU o tire Comt.littee of the Fourth Congressional DLetrict of Louisiana, )re are hereby notifi6'I to meet at the in- Town of Natchitoci'es, La.. on MON bi )AY, the 5th day of JULY, 18S0, for the purposo of perma uent or1ganiza ar- tion, and the transactionL of such busi ed ness ias pertaius to the .Coninittee. to'I'he following gentlemen aonipose the body: Hgon. II. W. Ogden, of Bossier. on- T. Alexander, Esq., of Calddo. Ilon. J. D. Watkins, of Webster. lion. T. J. Ilightower, of Bienville. ny G. W. Cawthon, Esq., of Red River. er- Hlon. J. F. Kelly, of Winn. C. C. Nash, Esq., of Grant. aIBe lon. J. C. Wise, of Rapides. to Hon. E. W. Sntherlin, of I'e Soto. S J. Smart, Esq, of Vernoo. Iu- Ion. E. F. Pressley, of Sabine. t, W. E. IiRussell, Esq., of Ntetchitoehes. ted W M. M. LEVY. -d Temporary Chairman. T, 0, MANNING, ATTORNEY &COUNSELOR at LAW, ex- ALEXANDRIA, LA. MISCELLANE{OUS8 .188 J. UOSENTHAL CORNER OF Second and Murray Streets, I This House continues busiLess at the old stand, where are kept, and will be renewed monthly, DRY GOODS -and C L.OT IIN G, BOOTS, SHOES, IHIATS 4' CAPS, Groceries, Hardware, C'roc kery, Glassware, Etc. IGHEST MARKET PRICE HIGHEST PA: FOR COT TON, HIDES, and all COUNTRY r PRODUCE. s -- T -] tro t Street, OPPOSITE FERRY LANDING. OPPOSITE l LANDING. FI.NE WIIES, [I&llS& CIGABI 1e °' ALWAYS ON IIAND ! d - G-IV ~I . Mr A CALL! "HELP ME THlOUSH THE WOILD ! l !" E. VALLERY,. - Jorlal iR. teT7aTIt, - IBIgT MAKE.R U& B SgTUR, FUTRTITUCRIE '7 Cleaned, Repaired and Varnished. Spring, liloss, hair & Wool MATTFRESSES Renovated and Made to Order. PICTURE FRAMES, MOUI,DINGS, AND WALL PAPER ON HAIND. ALL WORK TGTAl;ANTFI'ED! _ Shop-on Munrrny Street, lbetween Scoid and Third Strcuts, Alexandria. July 9-tf. BUY YOUR BOOTS C SIIOES and IIATS frnim HIIUSTMYRE A. PLASSAN & CO COTTON FACTORS U -and Commission Merchants, 198 GRAVIER STREET, T NEw ORLEANS. SB. P. ABAT, SPECIAL AGENT. May 5-t.n. O0 TO(000 A YEAR-OR $5 to $20 a day ill your own lo cality. Norisk. VWomen ldo as well asRmen. Many malke more thanll the amount sta ted abov. No one can fil to make mon ey fast. Any one can do the work. You can make from 50 cents to $2 an hour by devoting your evenings and spare time to the business. It cots nothing to try the business. Nothing like it for umonecy mak ing ever olffered before. BUsiuesspleasaut andl strictly honorable. Reader, if you IC want to know all about the best paying CA- business before the public, send ns yonr Al- address and we will senld yon full particn lars and private terms free; samples worth $5 also free,; yon can themn make up your - mind for yonrself. Address GEO. SITN SON-& CO., Portland, Maine. SGUS. GEHR, -DEATLER IN ¶ATC tRil FufMhY uRmllES, ECU- WINES & LIQUORS, 2 01IOARS &TOBA000C . t t he SPALACE "BAR!" meille. -AND ver. ILLIARDS SECOND ST., OPP. TOWN HALL, ALE/XAN'DRIA. flcfhe. AT THE WHITE ORSAL STORE, CORNER SECOND & JACK SON STrS., and CONSTANTLY KEPT ON HANI)D, LIME and CEMENT. W. IUSTMYRE. 1880 1880 o -OF EVERY DESCRIPTION EXECUTED WITH NEATNESS & DISPATCH, - .A.T - - FAIR PRICES FOR CASH ONLY! GIVE US A _ALL! ,N. 0. & R; 1. TRANSPURTAT'.N CO. NE W ORLEANS E ANDI) RED RIVER Or' T RASPORTATIO N IC IIO] CoOMPANY. S W United tatbs Minl Packet3, EI The following First-Class Steamecrs will j comIpose this Line, for to i Season of f879 1880 0 and will plyregunlarly in the Red River trade, carrying the United States Mail ; C SJTESSE XK. BBEL'L: ke Mt MARIA LOUISE, YAZOO VALLEY, g SILVER CITY, n- ONNIE LEE, K- KATE KINN3TEY JO. BRYARLY, ALEXANDRIA, LAURA L~EE, ASHLAND, JE WEL, D.D I UBE, CORNIE BRANDON, W. J. BEHAN, FRANK WILLARD. !" No Wharf-Boat Charges, 4. Drayage or Commlissins, will he charged at the Mouth'of Red River, Bayon Sa. ra or New Orleans, on forwarding JL, warding freight consigned to thoeCompany by( Bill of Laling. K- r"i All information frnishiled on appli PT cation to m 0S. A. AIREN, President. * No. 46 Camp 8tret, New Orlcans, La. Aug. 13, 1879;-ly. .MISC( ELLANEOUUS. EOLIPSE STABLE! NEt NELS. TAYLOR, - - - Proprietor THIRD) STREET., OPPOSITE T'IE NEW ExastE IlousE. ALEXANDRIA, LA. C iARRIAGES, S BUGGIES and HORSES TO LET. - HGORSES KEPT by tihe DAY, WEEK, 5101MTI The STABLE is the LARGEST and MOSI' COMFORI'AILE - in the STATE. V Parttienlintr nattntion pa i d to iIORtSES left on KEEP, or ftor SALE. To Drovers! SPLEýNDED MiULE PENS Will rent STALLS by DAY or WEEK FOR HORSES hORSES, ,CARRIAGES, BUGGIES and . HARNESS dL ' 1. 1 S on HANi'D FOW .SAL4 ' R. HARDTNER, B OO T. and 11 E) Fl M1'A.1EI3L, LEVIN'S ROW, .(rlPV.Al 2 .,.aLE'AIJ'R n1I.1 r A LARGE stock of Fine Calf Skin and Morocco a1 ways on hand. REPAIRING DONE WITH NEATNESS and DISPATCH - CHEAP FOR CASH T AGENTS WANTED! TO INTRODUCE INTO EVERY COUNTY IN THE SOUTH -THE- HISTORY OF TIlE BIBLE. The best work to sell that has ever been published. SPLENDID PREMIUM TO EVERY SUBSCRIBER. For Circulars and terms apply at once to THE HENRY BILL PUBLISHING COMP'YI 41, 43 atd 45 Shetucket st., D. NORWICH, Cr. $3003 A MONTH GUARANTEED $12 a day at home made by the iundstrious. Capitol not required -we will start you. Men, women, boys and girls make money faster at work for us than at anything else. The work is light and pleasant, and such as any one can go right at. Those ' who are wise who see this notice will send us their addresses at once and see for themselves. Costly outfit and god terms free. Now is the time, Those '- already at work are laying up large sums of money. Address TRUE & CO. Augusta, Me. W, W. Whittington, Jr., Attorney-at- Law - and - ph. NOTAIRY PiUBLTIC t. OFFICE IN THE TOWN HALL ALEXANDRIA, LA. MISCELLANEOUS. OPPO AL T. M. BIOSSAT, me WATCIIMAKER - and - SECOND ST., KUIlNAGEL BUILDING, Front TOWN HALL ALEXANDRIA, LA. A FU 011 BUT -------------'c~ THE REPAIRING OF WATCHES, JEW ELRY and CLOCKS. EXE- S01 CUTED WITH -- -N EAT NESS and DIS PArCH, ON THE MOST E V REASONABLE TERMS-FOR CASH. - - GRA Coa PU] NEEDLES AND ATTACHMENTS FOR ALL SEWING MA- Col CIINES. 'vI T H U S-TMYRE i Tl ' '4 SIGN Ol TIBE - ' tin Il tt "n go Af i I a% oA aD "COND ST, THE PLACE TO BUY I.r;4 ft - YOUR - iti el SBOOTS SSHOES8 T IN LE. IHATS. ", Cr. **OLD PETER." .EED . - oo qired --and ster at S ]-I 0 E ThoseMAKER co wll m ul s. p large S B2 0 D ST 2 51 &CO. Feb.4-1y. -NOTICE. f1 -tR. A, COCKERILLE HAS ASS~ J 1.1 eiated Dr. Ratcliffe with himO in the praeticee of their profession in its 84V various branches. He takes this op portonity to thank the citizens ol Al exadiandria and irsieity for their past I liberal patronage, fnd hopes to hamec a continuance of thlie asoe to the now COFb KE-.LLE & RATl-FFE., FRONT ST., I OPPOSITE TOWN WHARF ALEjXANDRhIA - DEALER IN C00KING AND H1EATING SSTOVKES A FULL ASSORTMENT OF THE CELEBRA rED BUCK'S BRILLIANT ON HAND SOLD at CITY PRICES! House Furnishing Goods EVERY DESCRIPTION GRANITE IRON WARE, PRESSED WARE, , Coal Oil Lamps.& Lanterns PU MPS, " SGAS PIPE and FITTINGS MANUFACTURERS OF Copper, Tin afid Sheet Iron Ware 4 WHIIOLESALE and RETAI : TEIrIS ' CASH. -r PAhOIHIAb SCHiOOL ST, FRANCIS XAVIElt, A LE X NT.DRTA. '[HI- TQ'rIT:I'IO., WIICN l . T aD \Y SCHloou. r.~,,i,,d,,td I,b the .IS'I'ERS OP M1IRY, will len its ho,,nrs pals itn MONDIAY, SEP-t..i TE1MBER 1..T, 1879. : lng, is Paruchin, viz tat. Undcy the t immediaie snpervisio.n .f tihe i astor;.. Sand 2.1, Supo.rt'd iby the Cadthl,]ti-r eangr.egation. C.aseq.u.tlya IT 1..IS. FREE to all Catholic childreni, trres- : pective.ot their Iaiets' Ioverty, but, al l most proenre.. the perquLdstes of 4 sacholar, to-wit: BOOKS, PAPER,INIK H and PENS. BOYS and GIRLS arcadmitted i . SEPARATE ROOMS. The ba.i -mnus be under twelve os. There is n- limitationi for firla; . Every mnoth n halletin or repnrt:! concerning tihe PROGRESS andil CON DUCT of the pupils, will wiie ente to. Y their respective parents. :-. Twice a'year, viz: every fifth. mouth, there will be a PCULIiC EKAMINA 'TION, so that parentls nmay form an." idea of their clildren's proficiency. The children of nor-Cathlolio p.r*: eats will be admittedl, provided(ONEE-; DOLLAR be paid every nionutt for their*tnitiom. - IF PIANO LESSONS BE DESIRED ,;. application must ihe made-to thpMiOi STHER SUPERIOR f.r that- purpose. J. B. AVENARD, : Sept. 8, 1870 . Pastor. IIE UNDERSIGNED HAS TH$ J. pleasure to onnouce tolhe.P S lie, and particularly to TRAVELERS,,: ' VISITORS and his lhome friends thaii he is now installed in his 1Tw I)EotBe of entertainment so well known as 'tlhd EXCHANGE HIOTEL, or 'Ice Howe'; and that le is prepared to AccoN o date Boardlers and Lodgers, byt3 SDay, Week or Month, at modeaf rates. His accommodations are a complete, comfiortable1 and tihe eti Hotel has been reflttedland.refornilS ) whilst le wiill still give extr attea tion to his cuisine, which shall slw lie furnished with the best the N Orleans and Alexand.ia markets t ford. IHo will tilI run his Resttira a[ nd sierve all callars withl meals at £ S* hoar of the day or niglht. SAM. FELLOW s - -zne. "EF. -7 his op- rFB, NT S ,E W E E cir past PFIIEVILLE, IA the now antsimte a ntrnastedto ine will a :LFF. ript attenti , an.l d I may. .; IFE udtlraNemsd t.lrtishg the PQnt