Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-03-25

c9anFy, which fifty years ago rented fer two dolIs ~ @
cents actually for thirty and ifty JoIIa ~
acre, and, indeed, some higher than ifty And -
these high the tenants make fortunes for there tbev
for number of years aud the careful of the f
enches and improves it, and thus continues occupy the
same land pei haTS long he lives gets rc himself and
at the time enrches his landlord There nobody can
rent land unless he will improve it, This shows difference
between improved English huSbandry and the manner in which
we DO things in this western country
CUR land Is susceptible of high a rate of Improvement
ana can De made to yield quite much the land in England
III Slahd he land Is rented of years to those
o orS H. who are the farmers and after paying the high
rents we have mentioned they become rich The land owners
ner compose manly the aristOcacy 1t the interest there
Tor the renter to enrich and improve every inch of roppd
How much more it the interest of the farmers here H make
improvements for with in nine out of ten the farmer
owns the land he cutivates yet how v
are Dehhu our Atlantic neghbors Agricultural i'm
/ provements. ~
have adverted to the high which lands in England
rent and have attributed the high state of AicnI
Improvement IN that country. Our land suseeptbe of 50
high state OF Improvement the land in England or Elan
oef Our Mechanics and Artzans fully equal to the Eng
sh excelng them IN many things So can we eoua them in
husbandry if we will but try.
Many who have assembled here to-day expect to be
ltos for premiums; nave taken pains to fatte Soma
imal; prepare article to enrich their acre for G
casion This may be all very well for as it goes Bnt nm
less th has been done IN way that be extended to the
whole farm be profitable; un ess we eontinue s
gular business enrich land and ten our stock and i'm
prove in everything connected with our Agricultural prt
whether intend to exhibit annual Fairs or NOT ~
shall have done very little towards efeetng any substantial
good We may, tobesue, show what Be done at large
expense thousands have done before and as u MANY
no other good done beyond the obtaining of a silver Gun
gold medal, similar testimonial
we have agO0d to do, but think can
oe accomplished Let me mention things. Our
lands can be enriched Do this and there we cannot
produce? We cultivate much larger portion of in
and less in Perennial grasses for Won NAV denepd
upon IT, timothy and herras well grasses OF that
class will grow and make good meadows, well as good pas
lures on highlands. is much better raise stock than corn
to SELL and the former will enrich while the latter will impov
erish your soil If expect make profit on raising stock
yhe
CATTLE and mules and horses and will grow I,r5er
Let with the cart before the horse m inc
heavy expenses buying fine stock before are prepaed
with the right kind of grasses the pastures
and meadows have will do any considerable ex
tent and be protabe but with the necessary provendr we
may import better stock An anecdote recently gone
the rounds OF the newspapers which apty illustrate point
"A farmer sold to of his neghbo very fine COW re-
aRabe or the quantity ot milk which she the
OF the milk maids hand mornng and evening The purchaser
drove home his proud of his purchase nduging in
many pleasant Thoughts of home flowing at least with mill, If
not with honey But short time however elapsed before
ne returned to lay his grievances farmers feet He COM
planned that the milk falng-ha he had been deceived
and that the whole transaction fraudulent With per-
feet eonPosure the farmer turned and said when sold
sold that did sell NV pasture also This
revealed the secret and settled the difficulty And with
regard TO our cattle, and mules. and hOrses we
would have them of the finest quality we must provide for
them the very best pasturage.
With Our railroads completion we are doomed to
wOful disappointment unless be up and doing Then let
20 work will find the old aphorm verified thai
live so Tar from market those who have nothing to SELL
y
republican, laws of ena by which undivided property in
land preserved and perpeated in descending from
generation to generation 80 there be apprehension
here OF particular ames possessing vast hereditary wealth.
and becoming too potent and influential say luxurious
and arrogant by absorbing and mOnopozng themselves
and their exclusive postety all the land which the
intended for the of those whose hands it might
properly fall; of having in midst and maintained
among an hereditary arsOcraey upon whom the less
nate but perhaps industrious deserving are serve
y dependent for subsistence. Nor the hand have
we anything to tear for centuries and probably for from
the opposite evils of endless subdivision of properties and
estates which is the case at this moment in all the Agrcu
ura districts of France and which has reduced people
object poverty and ignorance and consequently deprived
O influence In the affairs OF State la these districts
find small land holders farmers, independent cuI
tvators of the SOIL but merely poor helpless, ignorant
ambitious and unenterprlsng peasantry These millions Of
estates having become prey under that system of central
zaton under which France has lain PROSTATE for half
tury, comparatively few metropolitan and urban princes
the favor of government and
tain that mpovesh oppress their rural tenants
The possibility of either of these caamites Detailing the
ricuura interests Of own country is precuded the first
instance, the popular dislike our people to all
idea OF hereditary poweby the universal and
the mmutable truth of republican principles pro-
greSsiyc spirit enlightenment the and by
ed and ncogbIe jealousy OF plain and republican peo
pie against anything like overruing OvershadOwng
persna or family influence And in the second instance
by The wide and almost mtabe of productive lands
the and occupation of people, andby that spirit
propa which has from induced
add territory after territory already
domain and which Is now considering OF the purchase of
Russian Ska the north, the acquisition Of Spanish Cuba
the south and the annexation OF the independent Hawaiian
Islands in the Pacific The thirlyodd hundred million
of of unappropraed public domain say anything
the many millions already occupied and cultivated that
may hereafter in the policy of our government become
gra portion OF Unon will defy any possible ia
picaon OF the human and Imaginable sub
division OF land and wealth, to reduce from the equal
ty of comfort, happiness and intelligence which
enjoy a people and which daily the increase
the condition of poverty misery ignorance and
existing Ireland and France The dayw
trust when this vast and woniFous territory
OF will be camped by eudal restrictions oriental