The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-04-04
Written or the Home Journal.
LETTER FROM TURKEY HUNTER.


Mr.. Editor, or Publisher .-0r do'h as
the case may be:
notice in the Jovaal-your paper
"A wish, or rather, solicitation, that
would give to the community some
Of my views, or the results Of my oh.
scrvation, experience, and so on, OF
agriculture.
You have certainly mistaken me
Mr.. Editor. Writing on agricultural
subjects is out Of my line Of business
You certainly would not make appli,
cation to the red man Of the forest
whose life from his childhood had been
spent in fishing and hunting, and roam.
ing the wild woods, remote from pop,
ulous and enlightened communities
where agriculture had been carried
on with taste and science, and many
improvements made, for an ESSAY or
treatise on the best method of manag-
ing the soil, planting, cultivating, &c,
10 insure the greatest yield with the
least labor, and 50 on;-iar from it.
OF course, then, it cannot lie expect
ed Of one whose life to nearly man.
hoods prime, has been spent nearly as
much in the wild woods as the Indian
that knows no finer mansion than his
wigwam, no better use for his mind
and body than catching the turkey,
the pheasant, and the deer and no bet
ter use for his limbs than EMPLOYING
them in killing the white man who
drives him from his Businesses, aud
spreads civilization over his hunting
grounds. do not wish to make you
understand me to be an Indian, though
| suppose some Of pocahontaS' blood
runs in my veins, Of which ! would
sooner Toast than be ashamcd Asham-
cd Of so lovely, so humane, 50 almost
an angel in mortal habiIimcnts. whose
examples ought TO be known and imi-
tatcd by every one Of her SEX
But without any more circumlocu-
ton, ! will say in truth, that as am
ever disposed to be accommodating,
and have had some little experience
on small scale Of farming and cX-
perimenting on the nature and aptness
Of the soil, will give a little account
ofsome results following certain modes
Of management, to which have been
driven rather from necessity, than for
the sake Of information.
lembaIied in the married life when
tolerabIy young, though on the senior
side OF twenty-Onc years, Being too
poor to buy rich land, ! settled down
on a very poor little place, most Of the
soil too poor to bring anything but the
little running briars that scarcely
grow on any other sort Of soil. The
piece Of ground was about to put in
corn had been tried, and never brought
anything better than now and then Il
small soft cob, an inch or two long,
with few scattering grains Of corn,
never making exceeding a half barrel
to the acre.
| was now the husband of Il fine,
bouncing, interesting, bIuo-cyed, aGec-
Tomato, and ! might add, beautiful
wife, for she could look the most beau
tiful daggers Of love into my very
soul. Some dozen or more eaters
were on hand,-a wife TO be supplied
with bread and bacon and vegetables,
"a few shoats to be fattened the next
fall for pork,--a cow or two TO be
wlntered, a sort-of-a-horSc. and so on.
and sixteen acres for corn, that would
not average hardly barrel to the
acre, with three more, equally as poor,
for oats, and one for Irish potatoes,
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