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

ut enc Of The provisions o the acr making This appropri
alton ii not To be expended in the county
ve years and hence be many before ho
another Fair under this act in hnox county have but it
doubt that the Legislature be induced 90 f the
towards encouraging the good work has Hoby begun.
would suggest something OF this kind Let the appropriation
OF thousand dolals be continued present except
Knox, Davidson and Madison counties in icu Of
permanent appropriation be made Of say three Thousand
dollars annually each of these three counties for GENERAL
GRAND FAR where the citizens of every division
o the State, be competitors Perhaps for the first
more should be appropriated for the purpose OF purchasing
ground erecting the necessary stalls Sheds &c. but after this
done probably three thousand dollars would be
sufficient Other amendments the law might be made but
this consider the most mnortanf and believe with proper
Efforts 1t can effected
The object of Society mprov of Agriculture
and the Mechanic arts generally and substantially The pre-
mus offered intended merely rewards for raising
the best ANIMAL at however much and labor merely
Tor producing the best of grain OUTLAW in
short not nkes show and boast of for having done
what almost could do equally well he had had the
tune and means and chose expend them in the way
but as rewards of superior merit shown in quality and
quantity of production attained practical way and within
the limits OF reasonable expenditure; and furnishing 10 Others
the benefits to be derived from example and exPerencedong
the greatest good to the largest number The object to
stimulate each 10 raise the and the best; to make
Inc pest Improvement IN husbandry to produce the best
Gle OF household according the best and approved
manner ana upon principle which all may understand and
practice and which every of sound mind will once
an improvement on the present mode of doing the thing
hat good has been done community if large weld of
wheat or cofn or OATS potatoes tunp anything
has been produced in that nobody would think adopt
ing on large scale Let then msappy the bounty
the State let squandert in empty show from which no
lasting good is to be felt or SEEN
With country whose so in its capacity scarcely
surpassed IN productvene by that of other country of
equal extent the face of the globe behind our
neighbors, eas west north and SOUTH in improving it, And
in the mode o our Agriculture it is everywhere apparent that
we have moi ayaed ourselves of the experience Of others
Should We continue thus to lag behind while all the world
around moving onward Shall we rest content with our
mode OF Agriculture with all its mperections, whilst
maj
ent and rich! But add to the Of natural
advantages beds Of minerals the value which already
estimated in London and New York by millions; and
OF tOne-cOal marble which surpassed quality
quantity variety by The known world and bound
less forests of timber and waerpoWer without limit may
boast of at least equality with the favored portion
the habitabe globe. Surrounded then with everything
need munfcently conferred upon by bounfu Bene
factor shall not be open the reproach our
posterity and surrounding neghbo if persist doing
nothing, comparatively nothing towards betteng cond
ton by improving advantages by regenerating soil
by doing something Short that will incline those who may
after remain in the land where their fathers ed
Besides the times demand that address ourselves the
work which before Soon State will be oyerspread
with an iron network of railways Through very midst viii
pass link in that great chain OF roads which m the
extreme and the and again. right among
viii cross another link connecting the south and the north
Along the line of these roads they pass through East
tennessee SHALL long hear the rumhng of the heavy
trains they pass swiftly by aud gorgeous
all its dazzling paraphernala. Bu what OF all this What
OF all these commercial facilities and advantages and what
pure mpid water, pure air and heahf cmatel What
word Of all that has done for us all that the
spirit OF commercial enterprise and internal Improvement
now dong, we do nothing tor ourselves if we look
with folded and with stoica Indifference that
Others shall reap the benefits and gain the applause
But methnks brighter day is dawning that better times
coming The immense assembled here to-day
striking evidence of the interest inspired throughout this
the which is present object foster
and promote.
Much has been attempted by Legislature promote
education provision has been made nothing has been done
towards the appropriate education and proper training of
youth who expected be the ters of the soil the farmers
For though the MAN, this the business of the parent STILL
much is expected from the commonwealth and the duty
OF the Legislature to do something towards furnishing the
proper and Indispensable facilities the attainment OF the
education required by those who destined Agricultural
pursuits mean AGRICULTURE in the broadest fullest appca
ton of the term.
If the tenth part of the patriotism that has been expended
for Buncombe Legislatures, reduce the salaries of
Judges down the per diem pay of the members abolish
the Chancey Courts and long list OF other reforms which
the Of the people desred- say if all the mock
efforts to reform that which needed reforming, very little
had been applied good faith the advancement of
Agricultural and Mechanical interests ami other objects OF
manifest Importance to ALL the face country would at
this day very different aspect and had the farmers
in the Legislature been educated men, this would have been
the
that the Legislature should provide general reliable
of knowing the products of the State the
methods OF cultivation; systems of management and every
thing connected with which afford instruction. species of
information which every State for ITSELF should furnish the
of ascerainng every yearwe would then know fully
all about Agricultural 1t would once
view the particular condition of each branch of us
bandry. branch anguing we would thus be enabled
it AT and the proper remedy could be applied
branch prosperous, found to succeed satisfactorily
would have the information before and all could know the
means by which that branch has succeeded
There prejudice with of farmers against what
tev call book farming and this perhaps proceeds the
fact that we read few books papers the subject of
farming We think that those who others
unless they are practical farmers But there is much good
and practical wisdom written subjects connected with
Agriculture bv persons who farmers though much
that is written and rejected sgmatsed book farming
nevertheless written the actual experience of practical far