Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-11-03
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.,lar,inr IN The Midst Of Plenty.

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Starving in The Midst Of Plenty.
The man who would starVc him
self with n thousand bushels Of wheat
ia his granary, or with a hundred
barreI3o. potatoes in his cellar, be-
cause he knew not how to cook orIE
convert them to food, would not com
nit greater act Of folly than someI
Of the landowners, who possess vast
means Of ierlilizing their fields, which,
hey never apply. We have been
truck with tho pointed remark .oI
Or ClIil, in his address before the
glndhamI county Agricultural Sael1
atv. that l'smast men own Il seconfI
arm, bea@ath their present sulaeel
ahich has never bosn disturbed by
tho ploN We once knew a wealthy
man, whd had farm in one OF the
best counties of Western New York,
ami which he had cultivated ON Il bad
SYSTEM I'd many years, qplll solne Of
IN anss}a5la. we're rdpuied 10 hh
ia oa,, All Yielded poor
ornt best yerv unoerla.uIrraps Hi
binds had Iisu 1ly been nloWed about
ionr& inoAi \ deep, but octasionally
"sGbsoileEl, rs the owner termld II,
III six .n4hoa 4 plyt III II cllinto
new hanA7, and it was immediately
tlmed over to d depth Of eleven TO
twelve inches, BY means of three
yoke Of cattle attached to Michigan
d double mo billboard pillow. An
dntNely new d bacterial was turnol TO
the light Of day i, consisting IN part Of
Ire fertlliking tslcareouS subsoiI ,a1la
ia part Of + tten leaves. dqtayqd
l5ots, and black moald, which had
never been reached before, presenting
al the appeara nce of newly cleared
land, and giving Immediately heavy
growth in crops. In a neighboring
county, an extensive ANA Intelligent
farmer assured us, that SO great WAS
the fertility OF his suhsoil, that he
would regard it as a favor could he
have six inches of The upper soil
completely carried OF from his lands
Yet Eie never plows more than half !
foot in depth, and does not spbso
or tronoh-plow, because be "canqo
afford it. In some of the interio
portions Of the state, tho soil is
light sand which suffers droulh ans
sterility from a want of clay an'
mari, Now it happens that / latg
portion of this light and thin soil j
nnderlaid at a depth of a foot or tw
with a strong calcareoqs loan, wliic
might, at vely moderate expense
be thrown up from nils and sprea
in large quantities owe The surface
aud in some places it may be reache
even by subsoiIing and trencb-plnw
ing. One farmer accidentally Dis
covered this subterranehn bed OF lei
tiliiy, by spreading broadcast from
ditch fora few yards on each side, tb
Garth tlllon from The digging. i
an unGiyorahlc season, when the res
of the field produced only foul bush
els Of wheat per acre, tic land adipin
ing lhcditch, which had leen DRESSED
with the spbsoil, yicldda at tie rat
of twenty bushels per acfe. Vel t
this day, the owner Of the farm Hul
lors this'fertilizing suhF6il to remain
untouched and unrcachh1. In othe
instances, there are extensive lied
of peat and of mari, lying Just Il
they have done for centuries, wit
The adjacent pplands starving 70
their beneficial influence, which,
not SO great as yard manure, il a
least much more Rermoddut
Sa99 g.s II Hon "A CORES
pondenta@lia ue shat he shall dp {
cure the scratches il his horse
heels We never knew of but on,
remel and never know lId 10 I'll
if properly tried, To wit: Take :
heqplng Tablespoonful of powdfret
alum; and burn it slowly: I'll n quar-
bottle with one part bd ef brine, on'
part alcohol, and ouopart urine, h.tc
which place the buried alum, ant
wait tor The latter TO- dissolve thor
ougbIy. Wash the ibtEock joints
carefully with warm CASTLE soap siids
and, then battle the parts with the
above described decoclion If our
li'iends Or any of our readers will Try
ibis, they may cure an annoying and
troublesome humor, and give us cred
il for The Information, accordingly.
We repeat that we have tried it often,
and il nbver fails to effect Il cure.
4 FAMINE AT NrwrouSDLANo.- BY
the arrival Of the big llnlifax at
Boston, w9 have dates to Sept 81.
Accounts hav e been received there