Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-06-01

], Recess views SO far as be alluded
to. clover as a reStorer of land
Deep blowing is good means of
restoring land, butmore difficulty is
experienced in restoring some
spots too poor to produce clover.
He had found peas as a crop on
such land the best restorer. If the
vines are turned under they make
a good manure. In this way the
land is made capable of producing
clover, and then its improvement
is insured. DR.. Gordon recon,
mends subsoiling up and down
the hill. When land is plowed
deep, the water is absorbed as it
falls, and this keeps it from wash
ling. bitches should be prevent
ed from coming at all-prevention
is better than cure.
! Mr.. Rees sid the task of re-
claiming lands by hauling manure
is too great to be practicable. The
manure should be hauled out and
thrown on the land certainly, but
the best manure is clover. He
said that he has shelled corn
around in the stables, and the
hogs root up the land and scatter
the manure.
Hon. John M. Bright said that
while he made no pretensions to
practical farming, he had thought
much of the theory. What sort
of manures are the lest? Where
we find land that bakes too quick,
there is too much lime. We need
sand and vegetable matter on such
land. Clover is o good fertilizer
because it is such an eXuberant
vegetable substance. Clover, straw
and the droppings from stock sup
ply the desideratum of vegetable
fertilizers, just as guano is fer
tilizer. If the people on the south
side of the river would come over
and burn lime and scatter it on
their farms, they would reap ad
vantage but we on this side don't
need, as general thing, any mole
lime. He expected as the Repre-
sentative Of this people in Con-
gress, to devote more attention to
their agricultural interests than to
anything else. He would send
seeds of every description, books,
documents, etc.
Gullies should be filled up and
not permitted to widen and deepen.
This is done best by blowing on
each side, widening the same and
filling up with dirt as much as
possible.
Maj. F. G. Buchanan had tried
straw unsucccssfully, but had used
sorghum cane with great success.
MIR. J. B. Hamilton filled up
bitches by throwingin straw first,
rocks on that, blowing dirt over
the rocks and sowing rye on that.
The experiment had been success
full.
The thanks of the Club were
offered to Hon. John NJ. Bright
for his kind offer of seeds, books
and papers, and he was requested
to send them to President Stone
for distribution. Also, the thanks
of the Club were resolved to the
editor of the MeauS, for bis zeal in
its behalf.
On motion, Jacob Vance, A. c.
Martin, F. G. Buchanan, Alfred
Bearden and L. D. Sugg were ap-
pointed to assist J. W. Holman,
statistical reporter Of agriculture
for Lincoln county.
Ga motion, a meeting of the
Club was called 10 be held at Null
berry on the End Saturday in
June, and Col. ]. D. Tillman is
requested to address the Club on
the dignity OF labor, and the moral
responsibility Of the farmer; DR..
D. J. Noblitt 10 read an essay onI
the prevalent diseases of farm
stock, and the best remedies for
the same. The subject for dis
cussion to be the best method of |
saving the different kinds of hay.
J. W. Holman Tas appointed to
ooon tbo d;Oouc.;O,, FoIix- n Re-