Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-05
THE COUNTY COMMISSIOAERS
Yesterdays Proceedings.

III NOA4DuAcoA0ACA AACG INItCAAIN
morning pursuant to adjournment, Pres
ident Lewis in the chair. A full board
was present.
A number Of accounts were taken up
and disposed of.
The jail committee asked for an APP
preparation Of coal for the use of the
prisoners, which was granted.
DR.. White, from the poor house
farm committee, presented a re-
port suggesting that the present
property be disposed OF and another
place be purchased as a house of refuge.
The assessment committee asked for
further time to report. The committee
on roads and bridges had no report ready.
Mr.. Louis moved that the bonds Of the
county officers who have heretofore been
appointed, shall be submitted by the
clerk for the inspection Of the commits
sIoners on Monday next. Adopted.
The board, on motion, adjourned to
meet this morning at 10 o'clock.
OLD BoNEs.-Few people are sware OF
the intrinsic value of old bones, and have
wondered at the quantities that are daily
carried through the streets and shipped
10 different points north. Little q no
use has ever been made Of this material
in this section, and the newspaper para
graphs abiding to its efficacy as a
manure have been generally disregarded.
At the nsrth, where every foot Of land
is highly cultivated, it is necessary to
employ some means to restore the inn
poverished earth to it, normal condi-
tian, and the most improved fertilizers
are used for this purpose. Among those
that have been tried none have been
found equal to the ammoniated manures,
as these contain a large proportion OF
lime, which is essential to the health of
the growing plants. These manures are
composed principally Of pulverized bones,
and the raw material is obtained from
all sections of the country and prepared
in the large factories in the northern
cities, from whence it is shipped often to
the very places hat supplied the bones.
In an agricultural country like the south
the Importance of fertilizers has been
long known, and large expendi-
lures are annually made by the
planters to procure them. In our
present impoverished condition, it is
Of vital interest to study economy
in every particular, and when it IS known
that we possess the fertilizing material,
the energy necessary to prepare it will
be soon generated. The freight on the
old horns and bones shipped from this
part, together with the return freight,
profit and charges Of the manufacturers
and their agents, amount to a considera-
bic sum-, which is drained from people
struggling against poverty. A factory to
DuIver.ze the bones and prepare the
manure for market, could be easily estab-
ished near this city, and would,
IN time, prove a paying success.
The butcher pens would furnish a
proportion Of the material used,
and quantities could be obtained from
he interior st low rates, while the
plantations in this vicinity alone could
support the estabIishmentby their patron
,ge. These are not the times for fold
ng the hands it is necessary to beSp
md doing. We have too long been
to our own interests, and the
ooner we encourage the introduction Of
Industrial and mechanical pursuits
Imeng us, the sooner we viii emerge
rom our dependent state and be again a
rec people. The south is an agricultu-
al country, and the establishment of
hese factories in her different cities
would soon be attended with profit to the
.wners, and a vast amount Of good to
he planter, while the none that now
strangers would be spent at
Iome.