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HOW KAlSim BOME PRACTICAL HINTS ON TUB RAISING OP IIOOS AND THE CURING OP HAMS. From the Charleston Wrrf.li/ Xi ict an<l Courier. The Wocklv New* awl Courier asks ine to joio its coterie of wiao men who cau make cotton at three cents per pound and do othor wonderful things, and wants tne to contribute an articlo to its agricultural department on "curing hams," My vanity is tickled by the assurance; "I have tasted tome of your hams and they are the sweptI hare ever eaten," Now, who could leftist that? Not I, oven though 1 lose caste with my fellows, who will ninile to see Die playing the accustomed rolo of telling others "how to do it." liestdes, I have had such froo license to use its columns for the purpose of airing our grievauccs and advocating reforms, that 1 would be ungrateful and appear churlish to refuse so simple a request. So here goes for a "swim in the agricultural uiillpond," pure and simple, along with Vetcrkin, Clarkson, Watts, kc , and for once, without a scintilla of "politics" beiog Uiu it." It is a straugc feeling, aud my unaccustomed pencil hardly knows whether to writo or not. Then tlicro is nobody to quarrel with and dig under the fifth lib, and I feel altogether uncomfortable. Yc?, there is the hog. I have rot to stick the hog before I can cure the hams, and though he can only squeal iu indignant protest, like others whom I have stuck have done, and die swearing he is innocent and ought to be let alone, still iic must die in tho cause of agricult ural science and in order to gain mo admission to tho "Agricultural Department of the Weekly A' its and Courier.'1 My dear readers of the Agricultural Department, congratulate me! I am promoted nnd forever lifted above detraction and accusations of-'failure.'' and 1 feel as proud as a "Bashaw with three tails." Couie forward, ye agricultural geniuses, whoso pens have illumined the "farmers' corner"' of our great weekly, and give me the right hand of fellowship, while the choir, led by Josiah Plain, siug--Trophctic aud mysterious truths, I never could unfold ni. Without a tlagon of good wine And a slice of good old ham. Now to bt lines?, for space in the Agricultural department of the Weekly News and Courier, like that at Columbia, is valuable, and there is no room for trash or ignorant pretence. So leave off your nonsense, oh, "dear Capt. Tillman" and tell us what you know about "curing hams:'" There is absolutely no difficulty or myster* about it. The trouble is to th?? him* to sure, and I feel that L really give fomo Taluablc hints en hog raising, as after paying 17 cents for bacon in l-SS'2, I began zealously to study how to raise my oirhmcat, and have been so successful that I can and have grown the bogs cheaper than I could buy them, even at the low prices of recent years. The celebrated I)r. Kitch ner, the first original cook-book maker, in giving a recipe for baking a hare, wrote: "First catch your hare;' and 1 think the farmers of South Carolina will be better pleased if I tell them bow to "catch"' their hams than how to "cure" them. I will condense as much as possible, for the spaco you cau spare will uot permit as full treatment of the subject as it deserve*. "A pig well started is a hog half made,"' and cheap meat cannot be grown from stuntod or ill-bred pigs. The requisites for a good "start ' arc a thoroughbred boar?Dorkshirc or Essex, at the South ? a vigorous sow not under eighteen months old, and a good milker, plenty of suitable food for the sow to turn, into milk until the pigs are eight weeks old, and all the soaked or ground oats, rye, peas, wheat or barley they will eat uDlil weaned. Commence to feed the pigs in a trough to themselves, at three weeks of age, and continuing after weaning at least a month. Milk is a ntost valuable food for young pigs, but our people aie generally too glad to "catch" aUittlo milk for themselves to spare any for pigs. Corn is unsuitcd f<>r young growing animals of any kind, and is the most costly liog-food we can raise. A mixture of wheat bran, peas and corn meal, or of peas and oats and corn ground together is good for the sow, while suckling, but my hogs never get any corn, unless they Btcal it, until a couple of weeks before killing them. I'igs should he dropped in Octobor or March. If they come in wintor they aro liable to ho frozen at birth, and in summer they do not scorn to do well. I have found that the progeny of a large common or grade now and a thoroughbred boar do better than thoroughbred pigs. They will stand neglect better and have more "come out ' than the pure hogs, snouidgrowtli at any tunc bo checked by lack of food. In fact, a thoroughbred once stunted never gets over it, while tlie grades do aud still make fine hogs. ]?ut any neglect should be after (lie pig is weaned and not before. Thero is as much difference in sows as milk producors as there is in cows, and only those sows should be kept which will take better care of their pigs than of themselves. Hut no sow can make milk on ir, and the successful hog-raiser mu't feed ber liberally while suckling. Soaking grain is equivalent to cooking or grinding it, or at least it lias been so considered by good feodcl s. At v. caning i>n: the sow'a g fa"l slioui 1 Imj ! .'?*> i.f 1 ? 1 ' !)< >>r two ol s the !>i!i ill j? Icti or two, to pre* a vent injuty. It" more than mm sow is kepi r all should have pigs rs nearly together a? possible, niid e.aeh k pt rep-ar'ato until the t pigs loaru which is limit* owu mother. i Care must be taken to prevent the older I pigs robbing tliti weak or yo turner opes, as t they will surely try to d > if they ruu together. Sows sometimes cat their pigs. I This is cans' <1 hy a feverish condition, tho result ol" cmi-tip ninn or the lack of water. 1 Feeding on r :! ixing and e.?> >lin? diet a few days be I' re ; tunr'nim is the preventive? |< sweet p >t it" 11 : 1 1 turnips, beets, collurd I leaves, wheat loan, slops, or grazing on harlcy, rye ot burr clover. t J Jut I must hasli. n on. Tho p'gs started, bow shall We keep th :ni going? .My tnaiu reliance for cheap fool ft hogs is oats, peas and sweet notat. es. but there are many valuable adjoneis an l additional foods of which tho iSouih Carolina firmer cm take 1 his choice, and the ell'nt should bo to make the hog do his own galliotinir, so as to save labor, To do this we most have fencing, and a _*. .! deal vf it, or use hurd'es. L have :.h -it . . aei - s .u ton patches, ranging . , fi/.o . :u ' r> ten acres, and being f rtu it. eiy si. ; it d have running water : (:. ? ;?? .wo. ii- s is whci'O L glow V u: ::?y hog ion J. Ji-t us start iu Jauunrv ami go through tho your. The first crop t"> pi sfier < * I . r 5 - mas is tnaugold wur.ztd, or k 1. Oa very rich land, well p' Oj .ivo.i tit \ id enormously, at.it i> ; :ln '.i gu i di y, tops and all. iSo'.v in LA i . .< v iln L< us two and a half feel. : f, ?... i '? a.: > i very twenty inches, and plow i i i 1j like any other crop, This cm i> 1; i !?v befit e c lt"ti needs much agent i tiyy* are ready to feed iu June and e n 1; .used - a? needed till Christ tia>. I :?'v. iv? feed mine in July and August, as ihey ai n t needed later oscept to give \ w.eiv. a id !? -o let mo say the hog, notw thsta.uiiiig I :? h ish liantro, will api-'vr" >. v.: -y f l'.nnl and needs chant: oi an > niu-u as n??y other animal, i bed ou i .re v ive I isbels of sweet p ita'oO* in .Mure'i i -?.i: which to obtain draws, aid ! . a! a*, ten acres In this crop eve -y o . ft ! that iu pe >ple ov ri !. <s no \ Tho last of April Jl p'.i..t ... rjuui and speck lei peas in dri; s s : > t \v--.k them, and as la?t as th- bnhy pitri.c- i-upg o'i, I sow or plant them it' t eas or potitocs. I tiy to ha\o a fueeo'i.iu <>1" a pu.chv.-s to turn tile hogs in, u aciiehii? the ! t-c of July and cutitiuumg ti'l tin; c irn fi Ms are opened iu tho full, l'ous and potatoes supplement each other ado.!1 >!dy end l.iHiish a 'complete ration.' Pit .t s. the albuminoids and earbv-hydr 'los .-.o ; ;oporly proportii.aed for heiitiiy a >d \i; ovtl: the latter. Hither by Ascif i* m ' so : ;o i, and peas in excess ur by themselves are likely to produce d'* :.n I lost nj my fyio. I *: he^ -.11 ! a, so-culled, before 1 fed the p. .-s ami j ,..1t. es loprcllur.' S itnen?>* 0! dl?f and ! .1 k of --lit were the ciu-es w". 1 pi id.iced the disease. Here let m 1:101 mo that 1 make it a rule to feed my lu^s on salt .".i.d ash ?9 every week ami have 1:: 1 :; > 'disc .> <: among thorn siuQe I com nit- seed it. Half a bushel of wheat bran or uieai auii two quarts each of salt aud stroma utile, iched ashes uiailc into a slop. Tl.cy will bo forced thou to take the aicuicine." but generally thoy' are very anxbiui l';r it. In M iy. Juno and July. J plant peas s.nd j o'.at.i >. iu Au :ust turnip", and i.. Septombs, r 1 sow a JicKl under fence iu oa's, in; 1 which the L c- are turm.d when in the dough to do (heir otvu "cradli- {?." \s fa t as the pea patches ale eaten out they mo prepared for rye and bis ley to graze in during the wiutci and Spring. Hero is the bill of f.i.*c from .T.inua: v t" lt.c-ml.r .ntury. 1 eh nr.ty, Morel j ami Aptii? J ha b y ami rjc v. iiti a few ! oats and May is a bad nio*. and tli' rc is :,otl:: jg e.\c pt licimndu ; sr and lesj.odcza til! get ready, When tliey .'in: turned in. a? 1 ?a"d to do their own gathering?Mick .?pi . ri.-ht so y ti farmers. who have ; >or land :.nci no m licy, but can build.; fence?oofs l'i ?i oft' by logs are the very cheap. M bod wo cm \-e. They cost nulhii'g b.it the seed and ph.i?ri. in jr. say ^l.'iti ];' r sc. and la id 'iniisown and the crop couMi Ji'.d on it improves and gathers vegetable inaucr very fn?r. ni.d after a lew } oars \.*i.i m ;ke a goo i r rop .<{ corn or cotton if manutid with c '.n...c.ci:.l fertilizers. lavcu if it is too po.i;- to r? w oats lii^-li enough t > { it T havo j ever sten them too ! >u* to i tiut it wiil n y bind souiely to .ji intii' ih. in t o hopes, s.nJ peas sown bia aueast at':? r the "its come i.-Jf wi'l th? this very i !i< aj-iy. sty at a ce-t of another J?l\"it) pei iieri'. Dot this system requires feucinp'. ami the stock law, which ahouid have been a bh.ssin/, Ins encouraged the culture <>f e ill >ii, and so we grow poorer (layby day, while all we mike is spent to buy food we can and ought to raise. l?y the time tin lion's eat i ll the oat-, the s, cckle peas are ready ;b it th< mid J! of .July. Uoot.s arc I" 1 Willi tin. n ili< < i_ ?? .July ami August. 1 ii Sojilciiibv r mil cmui is iii, ami is a most valinKii: lioj; 1* ?1 iloiio or foil willi j-a-, ^oini! ?;rr? lie tin. stalk ami all, is given an n *i| |clizer. .Sjuaalio*1, col la i ?i loan s, cnbbugi; ami oilier j fl I ifd d refuse, 'ill go (f? iln\li;i,!?, with .my p;ir?? lui.K and kitchen ;>lo|S. In October ud November peas . nd svjreet potatoes oary the bo^s bravely alv and with a final ronod Mf jol' euro for n fortnight or so, hey arc ready to kill??the first cold spell u December?weighing Iron 130 to -30 ounds, according as they uie ten to sixteen norths old. I have not mentioned many easily raised "oods which we can gtow in our favored soil irid climate?ehufas, ground-pen*, Spanish aeanuts, artichokes?all of which arc valuihle as meat producer*. !< t our people jn!y lay aside the idea that corn is the only (log*food and the trouble is at an end. Kverytbiog I have mentioned* except sorghum and beets is gathered by the hog himself, and the only labor is to fix the fences and grow the crops. 1 havb tried to show how to 'catch the barns.' 1 wiil now make short work with the 'curing.' Kill at the beginning of a cold Bpell never at the end, as the risk is too great ... <i.,? r. sj i no luiuuip nut in ? im i aiu< vui uj'j ?mwi spriukliug on salt, spread out to cool. Tbc salt draws the bloody water out. There is no dauber to meat if once the 'animal heat' gets out thoroughly and the joints stiff. "t d .vii in hogshead or box the next day. l>o sure to put on enough. A warm spell ar*d kipper Hies will not then c.iumj any utivar-hiess. Let it tvuiuin irons fifteen to thirty days, according to the size of the j moat and the weather ; if eold a longer period is needed for it to take the salt. Some use saltpetre to make the meat red. 1 u?o nothing but good Liverpool salt. TTanup t .1 a cold windy day , and s.iioke with hickory chips twice a day fur three or four weeks. Tuo tnueh smoking makes it. strung. The e dor?a bright brown?will toll wl en it is stacked enough. Lot it hang until the last of February, and tliou, to keep the skippers, bugs and hairy worms out of t'iie bams, take them down, wrap in paper and canvas with common yellow homespun; make a thick batter of red clay anu dipthcui in it, tabbing the mud well into the interstices of the cloth and haug up. They viii keep till some poor city man, win has eaten so called '.sugar cure 1 hams is sick, and g'Tes you l.~? cents a pound for tltem, and -blesses his stats and calls it luxury.' ]>. 11. Tm.i.man. 11 per.- S. i'., July 2. 1S.s7. v 1 At-'tant IT; vs.? In addition to the good tilings already uiculiomd about pens in the S'?uUu ra CitUivu/or, it may be said that after taking oil' the vines?which niake excellent hay, capable of keeping stock fat with the additicn'of a very small (piautity of corn ? the land is loft in good condition. The roots have broken and f \\ r c.tll la ; (Innt It tfl.ilyv .. num. tl:e growing crop has shaded the ground, which w t'o its attendant conditions ir> the h -st part of the f aults of jvm euUnrc. Three pe dm to one bu-hol of Life Preserver peas i* best t".?r hay-making, because the cvab grass will thou race with the \in- s and in iko a good mixture, which shortens the time >f earing. Mowu io the uioruing after the dew* .s oif, take I into windr ;wsthe r? ? evening. oj.-. iud luq next day a;i [oil .uto cocks the second evening, it W.'i be r - . ly for housing on the third d ly. To insure perfect safety, posts might be arranged for inserting bars as the hay is stored, which will give n;r passages through the bay. Dry bidder or straw may bo interlaid instead of the bars (which uiay bonelit all rouud.^ Kino crops of otiS or rye may be grown alter peas without addition of fertilizers. I know of a paceii of lyo following peas tint was grazed ail v. ntcr and till April, an i then made tie oe-st crop ol rye i ever saw. Any crop j.y. w-.??urj ? .?.-? v?i?; : j ui ;; c.?usiuerablc application of fertilize r. .My lirat observation of pc:i-?;ulturo as a bono'lt to i.uul, occurred the nd year ol Hip lionee. Not having c:i nigh peas ?about lwo acres uf corn were without a p i c.">i?tint Iall 1 -owed oats, using ) at scwiiiy-live p unds of guano per u< Wr.cro tiu: peas it id grown tho year ! :' to i gathered twenty to f.rty bushels of i ..ts, while tlie oats alter corn alone Wi re hardly stout enough to be cradled. ; >i .. certain liohl, which W'u.s partly in corn ami ji ui aud jiarrly in out.? last year, an i which is now in cotton without fetilizer, the difference in appearance of the plat.t i- tho di lie re n co of a moderate applie i i hi of l'eitili/.cr in favor of liio peas. ,\ at i pounds of ash element is cxcol1 i peas sown alter .small grain in June.?T. N. it. in Sou J. nt Cnlliotitor, A fatal duel wii-j foil;.lit Tuesday ceiling on i) o l"iiiks of the ^ river, opnosi'e Qrecnv o i, ilif , i liv. cn fic .r 'O Hv.nn and ibid !1 h i h, l.i .h well 1: own c doiv 1 men. Tlio i:i*Mi M ln ie J iln'ii.le hnrre'ile I . imigum loaded Willi buckshot. (>nly two paces apart they stood. Ilic muzzle of the gum almost touching. Wuen the word was given to lire hoth responded almost at the same in .niuiit. livaiis fell dea l, his hrc...-' torn to pieces, and Harris was fatally wounded. Many wlmsc occupations aro of a sedentary character, often have the feeling of being literally worn out, an 1 are rendu led very forcibly of declining years, when if thoy knew what ailed thorn, they would fin 1 all their (roubles arose from the iiricti >.i of their kidneys or livii. Il.lu-y ?vmiM -i' miicIi limes lake l>r. J. li .MeLenn s l iver :iii I Ki I'.ey llulm, would uj'Oiu fee! 'lie vi^ >r ami atrcngili of maturity. For sick licnduclie. fern lie troulilcs, neuralgic |>iins in li li like l?r. J. It Mr Loan's Litlie Liver and Kidney I'illcis. '2-> cenla :i vial. THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEOK. I'r ttidcnl McBriih's lltvinr ?/" if.t H'o/A?The Course in Agriculture. Prof. J. W. McBridc, president of the South Carolina College, is publishing in the Columbia Register a series of interesting articles upon the work of the Institution of which lie is the oflicial head. Hero is what he says about the course of agriculture in the College : "The technical course in agriculluro and chemistry is exceptional as compared with sini ilnr courses elsewhere, for the quantity of laboratory work offered in the diflercut sciencrs and without additional charges to tlio student. The only non-technical studies arc (wo years in mathematics, three in modern languages and one in English. Vet all these are of direct value to the agricultural student. It requires, iti addition, one year of shop work (wood work,) one in mechanical technology, one in mechanical drawing, one in surveying and field work, one in physics, oue iu agriculture, one in agricultural chemistry, one iu entomology and horticulture, one iti physiology <11,.1 7.<nl.wv mm in morUniM mm in ininnv. alogy (practical determination of minorals,) one in geology and one in political economy, one and one-half years in botany (including laboratory work,) three years 5n general chemistry ainl three years iu laboratory chemistry. "In this course, in addition to shop work, field work and laboratory work, the students will be taken to the farm by the professor in charge, where they will note the processus of farming, the condition of crops, kc., and discuss them :ti tlte,class-room, thus testing theor< tical teaching in the light of practical experience. In the last course they are also required to assist in tho work of agricultural experimentation. This course is closely modelled after the plan adopted by the best agricultural schools in lvtrope, in which instruction is purely professional or technical, and uninstructivc manual labor in the field is not required, being left for those schools of distinctly lower grade, which arc designed to make skilled farm laborers and not scientific farmers. 'These colleges and schools, by the way, arc equally useful, but their ends and aims and methods of training are essentiall" different. The shorter agricultural coarse is based upon the longer course, being not quite so thorough and exhaustive. 'The number of students accredited to the cmrso of agriculture last session was ten. These were pursuing the two strictly technical courses. As the Congressional Act under which this College gets its somewhat meagre fund of !?."?,7o-l requires that this must be devole I to the 'leaching of subjects relating to agriculture and the mechanic arts,' it is proper to add to these agricultural students tin -c ] tissuing the courses leading to engineering and other industrial pursuits as well as those elective students applying themselves exclusively o those branches underlying agri culture ami the mechanic at Is. This addition would make a total of fifty students pursuing 'lie studies required by lite Morrill Act, out of a sub-graduate, non-professional attendance of If. 1, being about :>0 per cent? whereas, the agricultural scrip yields less than 2"> percent, of the College's annual income. Lastly, so far from not attempting anything practical, this College, from its reorganization, has constantly aimed at a thorough practical application of all theoretical knowledge. This is true in the literary department, as well as in tl.o scientific. Ma;, drawing in history, problems in logic, application of principles in psychology, ethics, ccc., are of commonest occur reiicc. An editorial in a current number of a new.-pa per furnishes a head in the final examination in political economy. The law school has its weekly debates tin I regular nmot courts, presided over by lawyers from the city Duiing commencement week an appeal from a circuit luuot court was argued before a supreme moot court of three judges. Students are thus trained in the practice n.s well as in iijc uieory 01 low oy a lawyer oi acKnowteugeil ability and of many years honorable practice in the Courts of the State. 'It will thus be seen that the Collego docs real university work in addition to its ordinary curriculum, and that by a proper differentiation and division of labor it is nblc to accomplish the work that woul 1 cost the Stele five or six times as much were a separate oj!lege established for every profession and pursuit in life. Allegation and concentration have been the secrets of the success of the great liuropcan universities ami of the great colleges and universities of America, and they have done much to elevate the standard, intensify the instruction and promote the usefulness of the South t arolina College.' - ? Ca.nokhs Knokks.?Near Oglethorpe, Ga., Doc. 2, 1880. Gentlemen: This is to certify that for years I had sntiered with cancerous knodes on my face, and I feared they would turn into malignant cancers. About a year ago I began to use Swift's Specific. At that time 1 was in general bad health. After using about one <1 rzen and a half bottles of S. S. S. the cancerous knodes parsed away, were dissolved, and my general health lapidity improved. 1 am seventy years of age. Your medicine has a splendid reputation among my neighbors, and there arc plenty cures hereabouts to vouch for the efficacy of S. S. S. in all u'lmeiits arising from bhvjtl disorders of whatever kind. Ti; 1ST I AN ^VATEHd. Cu.mk \xi> Skk.? (ienllcnicn : 11 aviiijr used your remedy, S. S. S., for rheumatism. and having been relieved. 1 feel it hut a duty to the aflliclel to make this unsolicted .statement and recommend all who are suffering with rheumatism to try S. S. S. And if any in the city wont to know more about Swift's Sj ccific as a rheumatic cure, let them call on nie at my house, tjl'.f 1st AvutiilC, New Vork. December 17. ANDItEW TIEItXEY.* Treatise on Mood and Skin Disease mailed free. Tiik Swn r Si'Kcine Co., Drawer .5, Atlanta, Ca. . .? Ax Examim k Worth Foli.owi4m.?Thevc are thirteen first-class mercantile houses, two millinery stores, and one inantua-muking establishment in Clinton. Also, a first-class hotel, ? __i.t--.-t-_ ?! ?. - -? ? mi mi'ip imiu si imrni)' snip. aii 01 wiese niiverl i?c in llic Enterprise Ibis week. This is the best evidence of a live town. Is there any other town in the Stale whcio every merchant in it advertises T Nature usually makes a gallant fight against disease, and when helped by Dr. J. II. McLean's .Strengthening Cordial and blood l'urifier will eradicate it from the system. Wornii its Wkiuiit in Gold.'?Di* T. E. rcniiingiou. of Palmetto, Go., a well-known , mi l prominent physician, soys : 'During my J ccrcer iu ilie practice of medicine, 1 used a greet deal of the prcpnration known as Olother's Friend' nnd want to recommend it to every woman and to my brother physicians. It makes labor ensy, hastens delivery and recovery, and insures safely to both mother and child. No woman can bo induced to go through the ordeal without it after onco using it. I have also sold it as a druggist with the best of satisfaction. It is certainly 'worth Its weight in gold.' All druggists sell it. For particulars and full directons address Uradfikld Kf.uulatok Co., Treatise ou Blood nnd Skin Diseases mailed free. Tho Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. -? Bucklf.n's Arnica Salvk.?Tho best snlvo in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt hcutn, fever sores, tetter, chapped bauds, chilblains, Corns, nnd all skin eruptions, aud positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guarantee*! to give pcrlect satistoclion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per bor. For sale by./. W. Posey. jly. ly. That hacking cough can ho so quickly cured by Sltiiolt's Cure. We guarantee it. For sale tiy J. W Poesy A Pro. l-'or Dyspepsia and Diver Comp atnt, have you printed guarantee on every bottle of Shlloh's Vitalizer It never fails to cure. For sale by J. W. Posey A ltro Shiloah's Vitalizer is guaranteed to cure you. For sale y J. W. Posey A Pro. . - . C'atarrali Cured, health and sweet breath seenrred, by liitoli's Catarrh ltemedy. Price 50 cents. Nasal InjreSorfree. For sale t>y J. W. Posey AlPro. For lamo baek, side or chest, uso Sliilolin's Forou Plaster l'rice -"> cents. For sale by J. W. Posey A Pros Croup, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis immediately relieved l?y Shiloh's Cure. For sale by J. W. PoscyA. Pro. R/T AHTT1TT1" bo made. Oil this on 1171 I I lYI 17 \f nn,l return to us, mid .we IvIIJItI 1'J I will send you tree, none * ?* i*i w thing of great value and i inportalKe to you, that will start von in business which v ill bring yon in more money right away than anything else in this world. Any one can do tlio work and live at homo, lather sex; all ages. Something netv, tlint just coins motley for all workers. Wo will start you; capital not needed. This is one ofthcgenuine, important chances of a lifelime. Those who are ambitious and enterprising will not delay. Urattd out lit free. Address, Tkl k > Co., Augusta, Maine. Pee, 3 4S ly. POMONA HILL NURSERIES, I^omona, N. C., Two nnd it half miles west of Greensboro, N. 0. The inaiu line of the 11. & L>. It. II. passes through the grounds and within 100 feet af the oflice. Salem trains make regular stops twice daily each way. These interested in Fruit and Fruit growing arc cordially invited to inspect this the largest nursery in the State and one among the largest in the South. The proprietor has for many years visited the leading Nurseries North and West, and corresponded with those of foreign countries, gathering every fruit that was calculated to suit the tsouth, both native ami foreign. The ref utation of l'oniona Hill Nurseries is such that many agents going cut from Greensboro, representing other nurseries, try to leuve lite impression thnt they are representing these nurseries. Why ilu they ilo it ? Let the public answer. 1 have in stock growing (and can show visitors the snme) the largest and best stock of trees. &c., ever shown or seen iu any two nurseries in North Carolina, consisting of apple, peach, pear, cherry, plum, grape, Japanese persimmon, Japaucs plum, apricots, nectarine, Russian apricot, mulberry, quinces. Small fruits : Strawberry, raspberry, currants, pecans, Lnglish walnuts, rhubarb, asparagus, evergreens, shade trees, roses, &c. Give your order to my authorized agent or order direct from the nursery. Correspondence solictcd. Descriptive catalogues free to applicants. Address, J. VAN. LIN DLL V, Pomona, Guilford County, N. C. Persons wishing any of the above named Nursery Goods will please leave their orders with the Lditor of the Union Ti.wks. May i? ly Cm Til I S PAPER ?AND? "" Southern Cultivator ?AND? ]>IXIIO Jj* A 1{ 3r K 11 77/<- Limtt l\tnn, Jiuluxtrial ami Sh>ck Journal of the South. 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" Saluda 4 57 a. m " Flat Rock 5 37 a. m " Hcndersouville... 5 53 a. im " Ashcville 7 00 a. n " Hot Springs 9 00 a. m Leave Alston 11 59 a. ni. Arrive Prosperity 12 44 p. ni. ?? Newberry 1 01 p. ni. " Laurens. *5 45 p. m. 11 Ninety-Six 2 13 p. m. .1 I 2....nn ........i > r.o .. ... UI??U..?V1I.., ~ I" ?. " Greenville..., 5 40 p. m. ? Abbeville 4 35 p. in. " Anderson 4 50 p. m. ? Seneca G 0*2 p. ni. '? Walhalla 0 35 p. ni. Atlanta 10 40 p. in. SOUTHBOUND, No 52 No. 5 Leave WalhaPa *S 55 a. in. " Seneca 0 17 a. m. ' Anderson 10 40 a. ni. " Abbeville 10 45 a. in. " Gi-ccnville 0 40 a. in. ' 'Greenwood 12 5G p. in. " Ninety Six 1 18 p. m. " Laurens 8 45 a. ni. " Newberry 3 05 p. m. ?? Prosperity 3 23 p. m. Arrive Alston 4 05 p. m. Leave Hot Springs *7 20 p ra Lcavo Asbcville 49 p. in Ileudersouvillo... 11 07 p. m ' Flat Hock 11 23 p. in " Saluda 11 53 p. m ' Try on 12 39 a. m " Spartanburg G 00 a. in 2 17 a. m " Union 3 45 a. m Arrive Alston 12 00 noon 5 37 a. m " Columbia 3 10 p. in. 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