The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-02-22
Gardening VS.. Farming.

$50 Gardening vs. EARNING.
From the Southern CultiEator.l
We hold that no person will attempt to
cultivate avegetable garden without deep
cultivation and pulverization of the soil, /
and thoroughly enriching the ground by the
use of manure In some form. Everybody
at once comedies this to be necessary, and
his practice in accordance. Now, in what
respect does farm differ from garden,
except in the number of acres cultivated.
A corn or wheat field is, or should be- but
a garden on large scale, for the cultivation
of corn or wheat yet how few farmers
there are, who bestow 1.-THE Of labor or
manure to the corn field they acknowledge
to be indispensable to the.vegetable garden,
to make it productive and profitable. Now,
if it is necessary for the production ofgoOd
vegetable crops, it must be patent to every
one that there is the same existing neces-
sity, in order to procure . good produc-
ton of crops of corn and wheat, All are
organized plants, and require the same
treatment in regard to the enrichment of
the ground in which they grow, as well as
in their cultivation BIZ manual labor. The
object in view by every farmer and garden
er, is to convert the elements derived from
the soil and earth, into substances availi-
BILE to sustain life, and add to our enjoy
ments. To do this, we must furnish such.
materials as can be metsmorphosed. into
vegetables and grains, or disspPointments
is our lot. We have no right to expect that
nature will convert pure sand and clay into
cabages, turnips, corn and wheat. Every
intelligent mind knowsthat something more
is required, in addition to sand and clay
Manure of some SORTS Indispensable which
is but the debris OF remains Of vegetables,
which have once died, OF performed the Of
fee of food to animals. sE ha
All manures-even those derived from
animals-are of vegetable Origin.si The
minerals required By plants are usually
found Of sufficient quantity in most soils.
and are rarely required to be furnished ar
tifciaily. With these views, We hold il to
be folly to expect > crop, so long as We fur
nish nothing but the seed out Of which to
make it. There should be no farms. in the
common acceptance of the term. AL
should be gardeners in respect to thorough
manuring aud cultivation. and all farms
should be gardens, whether they OOutsiu
one acre or Fifty acres. a
DR.. Parker, Of Columbia, s. c., 9 fen
years since, made two hundred and twelve
bushels Of corn on one acre Of ground, by
judieious manuring and cultivation. Whai
he did, can be done again under like con.
ditienss and by any one, jet we will avel
that his neighboTs, With land as good By
nature as his, did not make more than
twenty bushels per acre, by the usual ma
nure and method Of cultivation, thus max.
ing it necessary for them TO work ten acres
to get 5 crop. equal to bis from one acre.
, Letus hereafter fallow gardening. II w
can make and work garden Of fifty acres
well if only ten acres. do nc more 4
only 6Re, be suEs and have it garden as
regards the fertility Of the soil and eultiYa.
! ton. e. sas5
: In q short article We furnished the CWl
E tivatOr last January. We called the attention
| Of our farmers and planters 70 the cultiTa