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would have TO provide should he invest
four thousand dollars in stock of goods.
The best proof, however, that farming
is profitable is that there are fewer bank
rupis found among that class than any
other. We are not now referring 10
cotton planters or those men who
rely exclusively on one crop. We
hold that there can be no pros
perity without Investigation of crops.
The history of agriculture does not show
any people permanently prosperous, who
relied on one crop exclusively; for a
single failure to produce that article will
eat up the profits of years. Take the
cotton lands of the South. Many of them
have become permanently sterilized and
there is -not wealth enough in the
United States to iI reclaim them.
By diversifying the crops rotation of
crops is practicable and consequent pos
sibility of improvement in the soil, which
by adding to the value of the capital in
vested is itself a profit In Middle Ten
nessee no farmer is justified in combining
himself to one crop, for we can grow with
profit all the most desirable products of
both North and SOuth-rice and sugsr
only excepted.
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AND AMERICAN
TIE FARmER,s sPRING SONG.

By G. h. BARNES. ...-H.
The red buds are tinting the soft maple trees;
The wood-peepers chirp where withered vines
Full laden, to-day, is the breath Of the breeze,
With the blackbirds ballads of welcome to
The cowslip is blending her blossoms Of gold,
With the violet's blue, in shallow spd swale,
And peewits are piping good-by to the cold,
From brook-willow branches that swing in the
gale.
Come, farmer boys, now
With harrow and pillow,
Turn the brown turf in good cheerl
Old winter is gone
There's dew on the lawn
It's time to be sowing the seed Of the year
The rills long silent meath deep forest leaves,
Are learning to MARBLE their gsmut again;
Ana the purpie-Wlnged swallows are searching the
To find a retreat from the chilly spring rain:
Unrobed Of the snow, Garth beareth her breast;
Inviting the toll of toe husoandman's hand;
And he that sovs early reAps plenty and rest
Bis certain reward from the generous land.
So, farmer boys, now,
With narrow and plow
Turn the brown turf in good cheerl
Old Winter is gone
There's dew on the lawn
lis time to be sowing the seed of the year.
While savage December was lashing his team
OF tempest and snow-storm, in fury along,
1ou stored and sang till rafter and beam
Shook down the Light echoes of mirth and Of song
For your lArders were loaded-bursting your
bins
Your grAnaries glowing with Autumn's ripe
yield.
But low the now season of labor begins,
And April is calling her plougnmen sheld;
30, farmer boys, now,
With harrow and pillow,
Turn the brown turf in good cheer!
Old Winter is gone
There's dew on the lawn
lis time to be sowing the seed of the year
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AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Peach trees were all in bloom this year
by the 10th of March, and much appre-
hension is felt lest the fruit be destroyed.
Wheat has come out great deal since
the warm spell in March and will make a
tolerable yiel'. The breadth of land
sown last fall was much decreased in this
State, owing to the bad order of the corn
fields. The wet weather last summer
made them SO grassy they could not be
seeded to wheat.
Farmers, throughout the State, on the
advent of the fine weather, are gathering
fresh courage and preparing to plant their
usual crops, with this difference only
more corn and less cotton, a hopeful
sign. .a. .... -.. e.
Clover fields, grass pastures and wheat
fields are adding beauty and fascination
to the country by their delightful verdure.
Gardeners are in good demand, and a
large quantity of Irish potatoes, that
standard vegetable without which no one
can keep house, is being planted; as well
as peas, onions and lettuce, and other
hardy vegetables. The Early Rose and
Early Goodrich are the popular faEorites.
Housewives are industriously prepar-
ing to raise poultry. They will be
glad to learn that gapes in chickens may
be effectuslly prevented by putting
small quantity of camphor daily in the
water troughs.
The dairy crop for 1869 was estimated
to be worth $500, 900, 900, and the wheat
crop 1915, 900, 900.
On rainy days harness should be
overhauled, mended, scrsped and the
following mixture applied: Six ounces of
beeswax, four ounces of rosin, four
ounces of spirits turpentine, one pound of
tsllow, one. half pound of mutton suet,
two ounces of Burgundy pitch and four
ounces of linseed oil. Add the turpentine
and oil after the wax, tallow, etc., have
been melted. This makes a fine prepara-
ton for preserving and keeping plant all
kinds of leather harness.
A beautiful illustration of the theory
of Liebig occurs in the application of
gypsum or land plaster upon red clover.
By chemical analysis it is ascertained that
of 100 parts of the ash of red clover,
27S0 are lime, and 1895 potash; while
of 100 parts of white clover, 28.4S parts
are lime, and S1.05 parts potash. Now
as gypsum is the sulphate of lime, and
the constituent element of red clover
show larger quantity of lime than white
clover, it would be inferred a priori that
land plaster would show much greater
effect on the red than on the white, which
experiment has shown to be true.
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FARM AND GARDEN.

TENNESSEE AGRICULTURE IST.
We have received the first number of
this paper, published at McMinnville
by Wallace Bros. at two dollars and fifty
cents per annum. 1t is neatly printed,
ably edited and will do much to develop
the agricultural wealth of the State. We
hail it as favorable omen that our peo-
pie are deVoting so much of their atten-
ton to improved methods of tillage and
to the introduction of better breed of
stock. Nothing contributes SO much to
forward improvements of this kind as
food agricultural journals, and judging
from the contents Of the first number of
the Tennessee AgricuIturiSt we have
no hesitation in placing it amongst the
most valuable of our exchanges.
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FARM MANAGERS.

One of the most serious drawbacks to
the large farmer is the difficulty of pro-
curing suitable men to assist in managin G
and carrying out the minute details re-
quired in successful farming. There are
many men throughout the country that
may be hired for wages, who are willing
to work as an ordinary farm laborer, but
to find one with sufficient knowledge and
tact to manage freedmen, who is both in
dustrious and sensible, honest and capa-
BILE, watchful and careful, is one of the
most difficult tasks large farmer has to
perform. So few men are really in
structed properly in the operations on the
farm, and those who are properly taught
often feel an indisposition to assume the
responsibility, aud care, and vigilance,
necessary TO success, that in our State at
least, good farm superintendent can pro-
cure exorbitant prices.
Prior to the war there were many fine
managers al over the South, and their
success in raising the products of the
country showed fine capacity for manag-
ing. But they were taught under a diff
ferent system. Their rule was imperious,
and the experience of such, since the war,
has shown that the very qualities that
made them successful in the days of
slavery, unfit them for management now.
The sensitive freedman will tolerate no
exact rules without remonstrance, and so
eager have farmers been to procure their
services that the very fact that manager
is rigid in the enforcement of the rules of
the farm makes it difficult for the farmer
to procure the force necessary to cultivate
his farm. The question finally resolved
itself into this, whether it is better to
have goOdrigid manager without hands,
or hands without a good manager. To
the rightly thinking planter there is
really very little difference, for the re-
suit in either case will be no crop. Out
of this difficulty grew the pernicious
cropping system That has so deranged the
labor of the country.
A few weeks ago we were in neigh
boring county town one Saturday, and
the streets from morning till night were
literally black with freedmen. Upon in
quiring we found that most of the plant
ers bad stopped hiring, because of tie
difficulty of procuring managers suited to
the times, and had adopted the system of
division of crops OF the principle, |
suppose, that "half-loat is better than no
bread" Results, that might easily have
been foreseen, followed. Left in great
measure without direction from the owner,
the freedmen worked sshe felt like, show
ing but little industry and less judgment in
the cultivation of their crops and at the
end of the year, with the low price of
cotton, they had scarcely enough to pay
for the provisions they had consumed.
OF course, both parties are dissatisfied
and both seem unwilling to enter into OBJ
legations that promise so little. There can
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peninsula. This neck was formed of
solid limestone rock rising abruptly from
the banks of the stream to considerable
height. A competent man was found in
the person of L. W.. Atkinson, highly
esteemed citizen of Davidson. county,
who has always shown most praise
worthy interest in the development of the
industrial resources of the country.
He succeeded, after much labor
and expense, in. piercing through.
The fall gained by this tunnelling gave
powerful force to the current, and sufflc-
lent power is thus secured to drivea num-
Der of large manufacturing establish
ments. In addition to the Harpetb, there
is Jones' creek, a fine, bold stream, that
winds with graceful beauty through rich
bottoms and high bluffs, the escarpments
of limestone rock often rising hundred
feet above the surface of the water; OPP
posite these bluffs are usually low bot
toms that yield in bounteous profusion all
the products of the climate. Sometimes
however, the banks rise to a moderate
height on either side, and in such situa-
tons the lay of the land is excellent for
the erection of mills. There are also
Turnbull creek, Barton creek, Piney
creek, Yellow creek, Johnson's creek, all
large, beautiful streams with sufficient
capacity to drive the machinery to a
thousand mills and manufacturing
establishments.
Occupying position midway
between the coal fields of Ken,
lucky and the cotton fields of the South,
with an abundance of water power, with |
the Cumberland, one of the best streams
for navigation in the South, sweeping the |
whole northeastern boundary of the coun-
ty, with the Northwestern Railroad trav- |
ersing its centre from east to west, with |
a fine, healthy climate, and large guam
tity of cheap land, the average price of
which is only five dollars per acre, it will
be the fault of its citizens if Dickson
county does not yet become one of the
leading manufacturing counties in the
Stste. The large immigration which has
come to the county in the past few years
is step in the right direction, and we are
glad to know that the people of Dickson
are welcoming them notwithstanding the |
many atrocities perpetrated by the Fed
eral soldiers in the county during the late |
war.
Concluded Tomorrow.
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is FARMING PROFTTABLEl

Numerous complaints cone to US from
every part of the country that farming is
not profitable, and many correspondents
are asking in piteous tones, ''What shall
we do 2" We reply as we have often
done before: go to work yourselves; en-
rich your land by sowing clover and haul
ing out all the manure that lies wasting
about your stables and lots; SOW more
grass; plant more corn; raise more stock;
hire fewer negroes; live within your in
come, whether that income be great or
small. Stop all the little leaks, such
as leaving implements exposed to the
weather; working with indiffeI ent tools,
thereby throwing away all the profit on
your labor; getting up late in the morn
ing; entrusting the care of your stock to
negligent hirelings; wasting feed by
leaving stable doors open for COWS, poul-
try and other animals TO pull down and
waste; letting your lands wash into gull
lies; permitting sassafras aud persimmOn
bushes to attain growth of two or three
years 80 that it will take weeks instead of
days to clear up the land for blowing;
keeping more work stock than you can
profitably employ; permitting your fences
to become so low that outside stock will
be tempted 10 break over and destroy
your crops. Make the best of your stu
alton. Become satisfied with your en-
ployment. Nothing else offers so sure a
means of support. Look through the
country, and you viii find every farmer
who attends strictly to his business, in the
possession of all the necesssries and most
of the comforts of life.
Let US look at it in another point of
view. A merchant or mechanic works
throughout the entire year. Every day
he ceases 10 work he loses days work.
Rain or sunshine there can be no money
made by them unless they are at work.
How different the farmer. The rains of
summer that work loss to others make
his gains. At night his crops are grow
ing and ripening; and while he is enjoy
ing his needed relreshment, after labor
ious days work, Nature, his strongest
silly, works for him. The winters SHOWS
and freezes, that produce so much desti-
tuition and want to the laboriDg class in
cities, enrich his land and prepare it to
bring forth more abundant crop.
Now let any right thinking farmer
count the actual capital he has invested,
the number of days he lsbors, and then
set opposite his profits, and he will find
that there is no investment that pays bet
ter than small farm. He gets his house
rent private use of horses, his provis-
ions, vegetables and money enough to buy
all the necesssrIes Of life.
Take three thousand dollars and invest
in . farm of one hundred acres, and one
thousand more and invest in stock and
implements, and We confidently assert
that an industrious man can make twenty
per cent, counting every thing, house
rent, frewood, etc, which merchant
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be but one remedy for all this Let the
owner hire his hands for money and pay
them promptly every month, If they
desire it. Let these hands be directed by
a competent manager, and when a de-
mand for such managers springs up there
will be supply suited to the changed
condition of things.
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Agents f6 Man'sd BINGLEY'S
Natural HISTORY,

Giving a clear and intensely interesting &C.
count of the infinite variety Of habits and
modes of life of nearly every known
species OF beasts, birds, fishes, Insects, reptiles
mollusca and snimacu le of the globe. From
the famous London four-volume edi-
ted naturalists of the age. Complete IN one large
handsome volume of $40 pages, with over l 600
spirited and accurate engravings. Price, only
$3.50. The cheapest book ever offered, and one
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Time Tests the Merits of All Things.
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TNHIS CELEBRATED MEDICINE HAS WON
i a deseryedly high reputation as slleviator
Of pain and preserver of health. It has become
household remedy, from the fact that it gives
immediate and permanent relief. 1t is purely
vegetable preparation, made from the best and
purest materials, safe to keep aud to in every
family. 1t is recommended by physicians and
persons Of all classes, and to-day, after public
trial OF thirty yeaTs-the average life Of mAn-it
stands uurivalled and unexcelled, spreading Its
usefulness over the wide world. Its large and in
cIeasing sale affords positive evidence Of its en-
during fame.
PAIN KILLER was the First, and
is the only permanent pain relieyer.
Since the Pain Killer was first introduced End
met with such unsurpassed sale, many Linim Is
Reflects, Pansceas and other Remedies have
offered to the pubic, but not one Of them has
ever attained the truly enviable standing of the
Pain Killer.
~ WHY is THIS SO II:
It is because Davis Paia Killer Is what it claims
to be, Believer Of Pain. Its merits are unsur-
passed. II you are suffering from internal pain,
twenty to thirty drops in little alter will almost
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In few moments it cures Colic, Cramps, spasms,
Heartburn, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Flux, Wind in
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In sections of the country where Fever and
Ague prevails, there is no remedy held in greater
esteem.
EB Directions accompany each bottle.
Price, Is cts, so cts. and 81 per bottle.
J N. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, o.,
Proprietors for the Southern and Western States.
IL For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
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r. A. ROBINSON l. CO., Louisville.
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FOR RENT.

INOR RENT-The place now occupied by
II Capt. Mccall. on the Charlotte Pike, two and
half miles from the city. A brick residence
with i've rooms, besides kitchen and servants
room, with ten acres Of ground. q IN ..r .H7H
oec2s II a-r--rF ~. -,r JOHN Q. BUROH.
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MEDICAL.


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don
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DICKSON OF sMRDRYILLR

is iourishing little village on the North
western Railroad, settled since the war
by Pennsylvanians. About three hundred
have bought land in and around Dickson,
and are displaying an amount of energy
and enterprise that should put many of
our native born citizens to the blush.
We observed more tasty style of building
and superior tillage of the soil. With
one single exception, we saw clover grow
ing at no other place in the county. Our
opportunities, however, for observatiO
were limited, and it is possible that in
other parts of the county much clover
has been sown. We were informed that
the amount of clover seed sold thisspring
was more than the entire aggregate since
the war, a most favorable sign and one
that will tell on the future prosperity of
the county.