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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-19
COST OFRAISING CORN.

We commend the following remarks
on the cost of raising corn to many of
our farmers who are paying exOrbitant
prices for labor TO work poor land. Much
of the present financial pressure is at
ributed to this fact. Our own estimate
is that land which will not produce TWEEN
ty bushels to the acre will not pay the
cost of cultivation:
The editor of the Journal of Chemistry
says he has devoted six years of careful
attention to this crop. 1t has been cult
waited under every disadvantage-with
hired labor, in wet and cold, and in hot
and dry seasons-but the cost has aver
aged less than fifty cents per bushel. He
adds that "a crop of corn that gives only
twenty or thirty bushel per acre does not
pay, but one that gives seventy or
eighty, or a. hundred, does pay.
We have never raised less
than seventy bushels to the
acre, although our farm was exhausted
when we took hold of it." He plows in
autumn, and spreads the fresh manure in
spring. 1t is narrowed well and the soil
perfectly pulverizCd. Each hill has
handful of the enriching mixture of
ground bones and ashes thrown around
the hill and scattered over it before plant
ing. In our experience, manure spread
in autumn and diffused intimately through
the solution, is worth twice as much as
when applied in the spring; but any ma
nure, fresh or rotted, if thoroughly
broken and worked INTO the soil by re-
peated harrowings, is far more effective
than when left in Jumps or but partly
interntSed. If planting in hills gives the
editor of the Journal seventy bushels
per acre, drill culture would yield not less
than eighty-fve or ninety, other things
being equal.
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CLOVER AND PLASTER.

NJ. R. Schuyler, of Marshall, Mich,
writing in the Western Rural on the
action of land plaster says:
sIt seems to be fact now well estsb-
lished by repeated and carefully conduct
ed experiments, that its beneficial action
is chiefly owing to its faculty of fixing
the ammonia brought down from the at
mosphere by the rains, SHOWS, and dews,
securing, in this way, large supplies of
nitrogen for increasing the growth of
clover and leguminous plants. Frequent
ly, as every observant farmer knows, the
growth of clover on his fields where
plaster has been applied, more than
doubles that of the upholstered strips.
This large increase of organic matter comes
directly from the atmosphere through
the agency of plaster, clover thus being
collector, and not, like the wheat crop,
destroyer of nitrogen. By blowing IN
der this increased growth of plastered
clover, we supply the wheat plant with
an essential organic element, nitrogen.
The valuable experiments Of Laws and
Gilbert in the use of ammoniacal manures
for the wheat crop on the Rethemstead
farm in England, proved most conclusive
ly that for every pound of ammonia or
ganized in the wheat plants, four pounds
were lost to the soil in perfecting their
growth. Knowing now the amount of
ammonia actually required for growing q
bushel of wheat, we find that for wheat
crop yielding forty bushels per acre the
atmosphere ordinarily furnishes during its
growth less than half the needed supply;
the remainder must be obtained from ma
nures applied to the soil. "
Many of our poorer soils require the
use of plaster to insure the growth of
clover. When once vigorous growth of
clover is obtained the fertility of the land
is assured. No farmer in this State can
keep up the fertility of his land without
the use of clover unless he rents near q
city. 1t is the "open sesame" that un-
locks the wealth of our soils, turns barren
ness into fertility and poverty into wealth
and affluence. A man who If too poor to
SOW clover is too poor to own farm,
and if his farm is 80 impoverished that it
will not grow clover let him mortgage il
to buy clover seed and plaster.
On many sandy soils the summers
heats destroy the clover. On such farms
the pea might be substituted and plowed
under green. We have known in the
vicinity of Richmond, Va, crops OF
wheat raised on pea fallow that yielded
forty bushels to the acre.
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persons re-yisiting the State after this
change could hardly credit their senses.
Precisely the same thing occurred in
North Carolina and the writer has wit
messed fields of cotton yielding one thou
sand pounds per acre that prior to the
use of mari was not considered worth
the cost of fencing.
Let the farmers in this State make ex-
periments with lime. It can be burned
for about six cents per bushel in lime
stone region; and from fifty to one hun
dred bushels per acre is sufficient guam
tity to begin with, varying of course with
the sweetness or sourness of the land and
its quantity of organic matter. Many
low, swsmpy, sour lands in West and
Middle Tennessee could be made to yield
abundant harvests by being drained aud
literally treated to lime. The granite
soils in the eastern part of the State, COM
paratively thin and poor, could also be
made to repay the labor of the husband
man by the application of lime. The
soils of Cornwall and Devon in Western
England, granite in their character,
yielded a three-fold return of wheat by
the use of lime alone-thereby supplying
another illustration of the immediate and
enormous profit sometimes derived from
the application of science to practical ag-
riculture. Nothing at present can be of
more interest to the farmer than an eco
nomical method of enriching his land, for
upon that depends in great measure his
own prosperity and the wealth and great
ness of the State.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
Errors Corrected.

We have received the following note
from DR.. F. II. Gordon, correcting some
typographical errors in the second num-
Der of his valuable papers on the Agri-
cultural Geology of Middle Tennessee:
/ must beg the attention of your resd-
erS to some errors in printing the article
No. 2, published Jan. 8. Where / said
'tguided by the Geology and map of Prof.
Stafford, it is printed Gafford. Where
I said of the Highland Rim, ''This
rim is some 400 to 600 feet higher than
the lowest center at Murfreesboro, it is
printed some .Jorty-Str hundred feet.
Where said of the silicious formation of
the highland rim This is a Vdst gravel
bed of the fiat woods, and lies upon q
bed Of black slate" it is printed a cast
grand bed, and Is q bed of
black slate.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-19

In 1853, when the approaching transit
of Venus was exciting the interest and
preparation OF astronomers, the American
Philosophical Society, of Philadelphia,
petitioned the Legislature of the Province
to procure suitable telescope with which
to observe the phenomenon, there being
none in America. A hundred pounds
were Immediately appropriated, and DR..
Franklin, then in London, authorized
to select and forward the iustru-
ment. David Rittenhouse, the earliest and
one of the most distinguished sstronom-
ers of this country, with this instrument
made those observations of the transit of
Venus, Sth June, 1859, which, in conse
quence of the clouds that happened to
obscure the sun at the interesting moment,
at points of observation in other coun-
tries, constitute to this day the most valu-
able record of that transit. The old te-
lescope, after a somewhat irregular his
tory, is now comfortably at rest in the
Pennsylvania State Library at Harris
burg.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-19
GOOD HAMS.

After hams have been smoked, take
them down and thoroughly rub the flesh
part with molssses, then Immediately ap-
ply ground and powdered pepper, by
sprinkling on as much as will stick to the
molasses, when they must be hung up
again to dry. Hams treated in this man
ner will keep perfectly sweet for two or
three years. This must be done before
the fly deposits its eggs, for after that is
done nothing will stop their ravages.
The above has been prscticed in our Sec
ton for more than twenty years. Nc
soaking is necessary. One pint of mo-
lasses and one or two pounds of black
pepper are sufficient for. any ordinary
family. Try this plan if you want good
sweet hams.-RaTdI american.
We know the above to be good, for We
have tried it. Care should be taken,
however, to spread the pepper upon every
part of the fleshy side.
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REMEDY FOR CHOLERA IN
POULTRY

The following remedy for chicken
cholera, sent us by an esteemed lady
friend whose success in the rearing OF
poultry makes her suggestions have the
weight of authority, will, we doubt moi
be gratefully received by persons who
have suffered from this disease among
their fowls.
Keep the chicken troughs well supplied
with red oak bark, renewing it at least
once week. This forms an ooze in
which fannie acid predominates and is
both. preventive and cure for chicken
cholera,
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JENNlNe's FoRK, Smith CO., Jan. 1871
THE WONDERS OF MICROSCOPY.


We have a glass slide upon which, in
space less in diameter than the head of
small pin, are arranged, in perfectly SYM
metrical order, one hundred and four
didtOn1s. These wonderful vegetable or
animal organisms are placed upon the glass
in accordance with exact or scientific clas-
sification, and represent most of the ex-
listing and extinct species. They are not
frustules or fragments, but perfect speci-
mems, so admirably prepared that, when the
glass is placed under the microscope with
a first-clsss half-inch objective, they are
seen each distinct and perfect, with all the
wonderful and beautiful curves, lines, and
cells, which so astonish every observer.
This great work of microscopic art is due
to the consummate skill of J. D. Moller,
German microscopes. How he is able to
accomplish this feat is no better under
stood than the process or art by which NJ.
Nobert of Pomerania is able to rule upon
glass lines so fine, that it requires more
than u, 900 to cover the space of an inch.
The little speck upon the glass in which
are arranged these beautifully organized
bodies, is scarcely perceptible to the naked
eye, duu YET, III ILLS IullnJ6btLuhl bptCh,
the bodies are grouped with ample spaces
between, and the order of arrangement and
method is the same as would be observed
bya scientific entomologist in group in gone
hundred specimens of moths or butterflies
upon a sheet of paper. In the speck a
whole volume of scientific information is
embraced: it is an anatomical pal@ontologi-
cal museum which can be studied only by
the aid of microscope of the most per-
feet construction. We have spoken of
this plate, for the purpose of affording our
readers some idea of the wonderful results
of modern scientific skill in onesdepart-
ment of study and research. Such facts
cannot fail to awaken, even in the most in
different, respect for scientific investiga-
top, and also for the Investigators who are
doing so much to bring to light the hidden
things in nature. - Boston Journal Of
Chemistry.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-01-19

WILLIAMsPoRT, New York, has had a
revival, and among the converts is col
ored woman, who does not get along
smiably with a young Sambo in the house
where she does the ''washin' and SIGH
things" The other day she abused him
roundly, and was demonstrated with by
the good lady of the mansion, who told
Hannah that she had professed religion,
and should act differently. eyes, Missus,
1 know dat; has 'sperienced religion an
Ise gwine to jine the church, and be one
OBJ de Lords OWE lambs, but fore de
Lord, Missus, I'll scald dat niger fust."
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DENIAL.
By HErTY ATHoN MORRISON.

By HErTY ATHoN MORRISON.
never loved you'll Do you say lie,
Remembering all the times that have knelt,
And sworn It at your feet7
Remembering al. the times my soul has thrilled
Beneath the pressure Of your lips that gave
Kisses that were SO sweet7
1 never loved you, again repeat;
Yet, do 1 rot forget that blissful day
No God was In the sky,
AND heaven was not, and earth had passed away,
And In that hour of sweet, delicious joy,
There lived bat you and I.
There was the day my lips first said, st love-"
Twas true loved, and yet never loved;
lie not now, lied not then,
Which is the real-tbe burning, sandy plain,
OF those miragean streams and waving groves,
That dazzle wearied men?
Love did but clothe the desert Of your soul
With verdure that was growing in my own;
Thus turned my heart to you.
The mirage fed before my nearer sight
/ never said loved the desert plain
Thus am false, yet truei
1 will not so demean the bit of God
Within me, as to say that have loved
You, as know you are.
My soul, that knelt in worship to thy sun,
But smiles In scorn upon the borrowed light
OF my wan, faltering start
And yet that have Ioved-that have loved
Until the very bliss was agony
Witness my heart
4Ho eaIbn - sweet, tnOuSn Out . pace OF graves,
And heaven, though bright, ia farm mortal
pain,
When soul and body partl
" Pity mel" throw your pity to your face;
would not take my heart from of the rack
For worlds untold,
| do exult In all its bleeding pain,
As but the fire that purer brings from fame
The yellow gold.
Life comes from death; / have been born again,
By PASSIONS throes, to nobler, higher life.
There is beget
Within me such royal, lofty scorn
Of all things base and false can but say,
Away! loved you notl
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RULES OF TABLE ETIQUETTE.

- ~ LIS We liable
True politeness has its origin in
Christian charity and kindness, and all
standard rules of etiquette were founded
for the greater convenience and happi-
ness of the members of society. Although
the reasons may not be obvious at first
sight, they exist and will be apparent on
careful consideration:
1. Do not keep others waiting for you
either at the beginning or close of the
meal.
2. Do not sip soup from the tip, but
from side of the spoon. .'. -
3. Be careful not to drop or spill any
thing on the tablecloth.
4. Keep your plate neat do not heap
all sorts of food on it at once.
8. In passing your plate to be re-helped
retain the knife and fork.
6. When asked for a dish, do not
shove, but hand it.
7. While drinking do not look around.
s. Instruct the servant to hand the cup
at the left side, so that it may be received
by the right hand.
9. Do not drink your tea or coffee
without first removing the teaspoon from
the cup to the saucer.
10. Use the knife for cutting only;
never put to the lips nor in the mouth.
II. Break your bread into small pieces
and rest them on your plate while spread
ing.
IL. Do not eat too fast; besides giving
one the appearance of greed, it is not
healthy.
Is. If you find any thing unpleasant in
your food, put it aside IS quietly as pos
sible without drawing the attention of
others to it.
"A Do not open the lips, nor make
any unnecessary noise in chewing.
Is. Do not touch the head.
Is. Do not rest the elbow On the table.
II. Do not speak with the mouth full.
Is. Brush the table neatly before bring
ing on the dessert.
10. Be thoughtful and attentive to the
wants of those about you.
90. Converse on pleasant subjects with
those sitting near you.
81. Do not say any thing not intended
for all present to hear.
%. Leave your plate with the knife
and fork lying parallel, the handles point
ing to the right.
%. Never leave the table before others
without asking the lady or gentleman who
| presides to excuse you. - Christio7l
| Standard.
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WHITTIER,
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Self Pollution, Prevention, Marriage. Every young man
and ought to read il warning. The nervous
debitated partially impotent scientifically advised.
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= OOsADALIS.

THE GREAT AMERICAN
Il HEALTH RESTORER purI-
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Syphilis, Skin Diseases, Rheums-
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Resa the testimony OF Pbysi
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ton
DR.. R. ". Carr. Ct Baltimore,
says:
I take pleasure in recommend
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syphilis, in which the patient pro
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icine; the Other Is case Of scrof-
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and the Indications are that the
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By which your ROsadalis IA made,
and ind II Ia an excellent com
pound of all Alternative ingredients
DR.. Sparks, Of NichuI&sTile, KY,
says he has used RosadaHs In Cases
Of scrofulA And secondary syphi1G
with satisfactory results As .
cleaner Of the blood know no
better remedy.
Samuel g. kIeFsdden, Of Muir
| freesboro, Tenn, says:
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rheumatism. Send me four bot
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Benz. Bechtol. Of Lima. Ohio,
writes:
L have suffered for twenty years
With "a fnveterste eruption eVef
my whole body; short time
since purchased bottle Of Boss-
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RosadalIs Is sod by N
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NOTICE IN BANKRUPTCY.

Middle District Of Tennessee-At Nashville, the
7th day Of January, 1871.
THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY GIVES NO
i tice Of his appointment as Assignee of James
williams, of the county of Wilson, State Of Ten
nessee, within said District, who has been ad-
Judged bankrupt upon his own petition by the
District Court Of said District.
JOHN RUHM, Assignee,
jsn7 lav3t 53H Cedar stree.
Lebanon Herald copy.
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PAPERS BY DIR. GORDON-No. 8
Agricultural Geology of Middle Ten
nessee-COntinued.
THR SOIL AND sUBsoIL.

TIKI SOIL AND bUB5OILs
To the Editors of the Union and American:
In former numbers we have seen what
q billy country we have. We have seen
how the soil is made of the rocks on the
surface and Just under the surface. And
we have seen that all the soil made is
continually being washed down into our
water courses, which float it into the
Gulf of Mexico. And now let us look a
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To Newspaper Publishers.

WE ARE PREPARED TO PRINT, UPON THE
w most favorable terms, Newspapers, either
in whole or in part insides or outsides, with COM
position and presswork, or either separately. We
are now running one Double Cylinder, capable Of
making 1000 impressions per hour; one Single
Cylinder, making 2, 600 impressions per hour; one
Drum Cylinder, making 200 impressions per
hour; besides an Adams press for the finer class
of work, and several other presses suitable for
small papers. Our cylinder presses are very su-
perior machines, in excellent order, doing first
class work, and are all driven by fine large en-
CINE, nearly new, and very reliable, thereby in
Surfing prompt execution Of all work entrusted to
as. Gail and see specimens and compare prices.
Address -
dec15-tf Nashville, Tenn.
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VOID NUACKS.-A victim Of ca

A WIN HOACAS'-A Elctim OF carry IN
n discretion, causing nervous debility, prema-
ture decay, etc having tried in vain every ad-
vertised remedy. has simple means of self-cure,
which he will send free to his fellow sufferers.
Address: J. II. FUTILE, 70 Nassau street, New
York. dec25eOd6m
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Mr.. Benjamin F. Woodside, of East
Tennessee, has invented an improved pat
ent paper percussion cap, and it is said he
intends to go East to introduce his inven-
ton.
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LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
R a 4 Il R o A ID.

R a 4 L R o A ID.
TRAINS BUN TO AND From NASHVILLE AS
l. follows:
LEAVE. INOVs 20, IsTOsl ARRIVE
$40 Il n. e:16 4 n.
2:l0 Pm. 80 p. n
~ Trains connect at Louisville for 81. Louis
and all points North, East and West
~ Mail bosts leaving Louisville at 10 4 n. and
P. n arrive at Cincinnati In time to connect With
early trains for the East.
~ Passengers from 6aIlszln ana points South
arriving at Nashville at s:15 4 =. have until I:IO
p n. In which TO attend to business before re-
turning.
81 For through tickets, baggage checks and In
formation to Sleeping Cars through connections,
etc. ETC., apply at Office Nashville City Transfer
Co., under Maxwell House, and st depot Louisville
and Nashville Railroad In Nashville.
ALBERT YTHK,
Iuiy11y General Superintendent.
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act Ike Cnafm. buperlOr 10 All OTHERS Tor
Colds, Sore Throat, Bronchial and all Lung
Difficulties. RUSHTON'S IF. W COD LIV-
Err OIL for Consumption and Scrofula; the
hTst introduced; fresh and pure. Sold by drug
giSts generally. decl3-3m
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Wood is cheap and plentiful in Mem
phis, and coal is tumbling.
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THE YARDS AND STABLES~seeEA
Il certainly surpsss anything Of * 81
the kind ever built In Tennessee. 8
Ample room is here provided foI the --A--4A
care Of over loo head Of stock, enclosed within
brick walls under cover OF hreprOof roofing;
centrally located in the business portion Of the
CITY, near the steamboat landing and railroad de-
pots and in one hundred yards Of the only pack
ing house in Memphis. receive stock at cars or
boats at my own expense and risk; do an ex-
clusively commission business, and solicit con-
signments from all parts of the country. Stock
consigned to me will receive my personal atten-
ton. Parties ship ing stock should telegram in
formation Stock dealers visiting Memphis are
respectfully invited to call and the establish
ment and judge for themselves. declS-3m
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CON SUMPTION

Is talked Of, and perhaps the youth is removed
from school and sent into the country. This 1,
one OF the worst movements. Removed from or-
oinAry diversions Of the sver-changing scenes Of
the city, the powers ef the body, too much an
feeoled to give zest to healthfu and rural exercise
thoughts are turned inwArds upon themselves. I,
the patient be
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In the Young and Rising
GENERATION.

'HE VEGETATIvE POWERS OF LIE ARE
strong, but in few years how often the paid
nue. the lack fustre eye and emaciated form. and
tne impossibiity Of application 10 mental EFFORT
show its baneful influence. 1t soon becomes svt
dent to the observer that some depressing INF
en'e Is checking the Development Of the body
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Ministers and
Singers will
find these par
ticularly adap-
ted to the
voice. They
contain no Gu
bebs,. are very
lpalatable and