The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-06-05

Of thorough culture md immense power.
His action il intense and rapid, and his
vocal tones various = the musical octave;
and there he stood; IN his pulpit, the
sublime pcrsoai6eation Of lsofal VEN
geance. He seemea one vaet park q BIZ
bic artillery oompres1cd IN litele, falmina-
ting his deDunciations and hurting his
shain-lightning with ! certainty Of aim
aud earncstness Of purpose that drew
forth thunders Of answering applause
His sentences are barbed arrows, mex
tricable where they strike, and he
wrought up that vast audience to an
ocean swell Of indignation, which,
though it may ebb some, it will How
more, till the powerful institution which
is the object Of attack shall remember
the poor in his extremity" and no longer
take the part Of the oppressor against
him. John Jay, Esq, DR.. Thompson
and especially DR.. lying took up the
theme after Cheevcr, and the righteous
anger of mighty men did not flag till the
end.
Wandering yesterday down Broadway
and wondering in that adamantine street,
where most assuredly the grass don't
grow, what interesting subject / could
scare up for your agricultural readers, |
dropped into the Farmers Club, which
meets every Monday at noon at the Ame-
rican Institute. have had very little
to do with farm since l have lived, ex-
cept one day to be born on one; and yet,
green as l was, became profoundly in
terested in what was said and done; as |
am sure every farmer would be if faith
full transcript of the proceedings could be
placed before him. The subject up for
discussion was ffowers" aud ''small
fruits. - Mr.. Pardec, an enthusiastic
devotee of Horticulture, said great many
instructive and beautiful things about
flowers, and asserted the prime essentials
to successful flower garden to be, LIST,
thorough drainage, no matter how dry
the ground seemed to be; End fine COM
post manure, instead of the common sta
bic article full of weeds and coarse sub
stance and Sd, thorough pulverization Of
the soil, so that one fourth of it might be
fine as -four. He proceeded to indicate
the best variety of roses, dahlias, pinks,
climbers, shrubs, flowers, &C., very much
as | in my profession of letters would ad
wise in the selection of library He mod
estly declined infallibillity of taste, but
showed the decided advantage of cultiva-
ting few Of the best varieties, rather
than an indiscriminate mass of inferior
aud carelessly selected sorts.
Scion Robinson read letter i.vm a
farmer in Maine, who was intensely bored
and disguised by his neighbors, because
they would insist on his going to crack
aud ruin" by reason Of no crops unless he
planted according to the changes of the
moon; and he appealed to the Club to
know if there ever was any where in ma.
ture, science, or literature any founda.
ton for the very common belief in the
influence Of the moon in planting affairs,
The Club made very merry over the sub
iect, but declined to admit the moon to
any jurisdiction. Mr.. Robinson said he
knew man in western New York who
never would lay rail fence in the old Of
the moon, and he believed one farmer in
| five throughout the country, and more
than half OF them in some particularly dar.
kened localities, went according to the
mandates of the moon in the management,
| of their farm affairs.
| The topic then took turn as to wheth.
| er it was useful to add lime to ashes as q
fertilizer, and Prof. Mapes gave very
interesting statement as to lime and it,
uses in connection with ashes. As di.
rect food for plants he said there was lime
enough already in good unleached ashes
but if it was intended to supply the lacL
Of lime in the soil or decompose Other
substances, then ashes needed moro lime
than they naturally contain. But i,
makes all the difference in the world a.
to the condition of the lime. Chcmica
ANALYSIS shows the lime in ashes or thc
bones of animals or the shells of fish t,
be lime equally with the original lin,
rock; but the lime of ashes, bones ant
shells is in an infinitely progressed ane
superior condition. 1t had entered mil
lions of times into organic life, and mil
lions of times had returned to tho soil
so that that sort of lime is an infnitel,
better fertilizer, especially as a direc
food for vegetation than the original lime
stone, crushed ever SO finely and scatter
ed ever SO lavishly over the land Ant
still further, he said the higher and fine
the organization from which the lime il
extracted the better the fertilizer. On
this principle, the ashes of one roscbusl
will do more towards growing other rose
bushes than tuns of the ashes of the oak
A pint of the blood of man is worth
quarts of the blood of animals for tn,
same reason 1t is great fudamenta
error, and one which he had repeated,
tried to beat it into the public brains i
an error to consider everything linn
which takes the form of lime, withou
also taking into consideration the great,
advanced character of that which has en-
tered an infinite number of times int,
vegetable and animal life
But the west bank Of the Hudson il
getting into my sunlight, and l can writ
no more of rural affairs in this rural re
treat till next week. Meantime | han.
my pen on yonder rose-thorn and avail
my second coming. Y
From Woshsu