The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-07


one great advantage which Nerthcrn I
agriculture has had over Southern, has /
been in the employment OF machinery F.
aud improved implements Ter che cul i
iivstion and securing OF crops, Then
respipg aud moving machines have =
worldwide celebrity, aud thoir plowS
csltivsio.s, sNed sewers, corn plantors,
mach ne sp. de, and al immonseysri ~
Vi tned ana well approved impie-
ments, have enabled them 70 do With
one man the work Of sometimes ten
There has always been great difiical
q in introducing the use OF machinery
into Southern cultivation. IL needs Ia
telhgent and careful handling, and il
was seldom that a negro could be foupo
who would give * proper use and care
Perhaps tne most els eient reason pr
ven-tpg their Use vas "A the abundance
II LABOR, IN the earlier stages Of civiliz
ZION, aud the fact that cotton picking
al % be done by band; as but one eli
{ TT stcot o. picking machines had been
.lsdei and thas No. very successful one
Is cotton was toe slphS and omega OF
al planting until We came 70 the sugar
'7glon, there was little demand for ma
hiaery which could be used for graiu
ons, hay making and the like.
The times have changed. Hereafter
.O0r VIII never be over abundant d.
Nc our lives, or those of our elder
children. To make up for this We
must use the Briarean arms of ma
ehinery. Less land must be cultivated;
ut by cuttiva1ing it well great results
viii be Obtained- It is likely that the
invention Of the steam plow. or rather
the Improvements upon it, " be such
Is TO enable our large plantations to be
lroken up sc readily IS before. Then
ne new horse hoes or cultivators
which are carried alsng by high cart
wheels, so as to clear the young corn OF
cotton plants, will take the place of hoe
lands, while the sowing machines and
planters will answer for the half hands
who were formerly employed in drop,
ping seed and covering it.
The old difficulty will here again pre-
sent itself, as to having their new i'm
| elements well handled, cared for, anC
properly worked. To do this our plant
ers must seek for hands from tn,
skilled and intelligent men of the Yves
OF East
When the thrashing and rlowinI
machines we're first invented, men wer
in the habit of taking them arount
from place 10 place
Our planters will hereafter give NOR
attention than they have previousl
lone to making their own hay, and, i
higher ground, to raising wheat, oat
J barley, etc. They will then find nee
20 use these machines, and could q
4 irst pursue the same course by buyin
a machine between several Of then
aud by employing man to run it efeC
o ike results.
] Many other machines could be o.
p tanned and used in the same way,
they might induce the owners Of sue
. machines to bring them out and |
o paid for their work at specified rates.
d In purchasing their implements or
= machines u will be difficult for those
whom they are novel and strange
= decide as 10 which is best The inve
RI tive genius Of the northern people is
t prolific that it has produced an il
10 mense multitude of poor machine
many good ones, and few which q
very good.
rs II occurs to US that our planters, WI
IS should form parish or neighborho'
n agricultural societies, could commissiC
!; some intelligent person who has an e,
= for machinery and q knowledge
Fl practical agriculture, to go around 81
IL see their agricultural apparatus
work, and make reports upon them,
confidence, Of course, and thus 4
planter viii be able to place his moA
es well If one Of themselves 10 comp
,s tent and will act, SO much the better
M In some way or other We must 7
place man labor with intelligence, Al
labor-saving and concentrating II
a. chinery-N o. Piesyms.