Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-12-19
COMPLEMENTARY.

The Scottish Farmer says that "in all
things connected with milk, the Americans
have shown an example which the old
country is glsdto follow. Their cheese fac
tories proved so successful that now We are
making au attempt to introduce them
throughout all dairy districts in this couu-
try. The success of the one that was estab'
Iished under the superintendence Of the late
lamsnted Mr.. Jackson, has been, we under
stand, so great that it is in contemplation
to erect oilers in the same form. Ameri-
can cheese made upon this principle has
baen largely supplying the home markets,
the amount of money which we paid up to
tho end of October Chiefly from America)
being, in round numbers, f3,OO0,OOO'
CSl5, ,O0O,OOO)
Esst Tennessee has as fine springs Of
cool sater, and tracts of grazing land, as
any in Scoll nd. Raised on a dairy farm
in New York, on which sixty tons Of nay
were sometimes put into single stack
during Jackson's administration, aud hav-
ing the care and management of fifty COWS
rs years ago, the writer may be pardoned
. little enthusiasm on the subject of milk
and lis bloOd-foImins qualities. What is
more instructive, or more interesting as an
agricultural process, than to see first rate
COW elaborate a quarts Of rich milk in "a
hours from her own blood? Great nature
forms in her system, first pTodigious
quantity of blood, and then sometimes as
much as sixty-two or three pounds Of milk
In 24hours. There is but one other agri-
cul ural machine that will compare favOra-
bly, with this, and that is one which should
be studied in the same connection.
Take p microscope and examine small
grass seeds, and learn that there are mil
lions in bushel sown upon an acre. Mi
croscopie germs in almost microscopic seeds
have he power to transform air, water, q
little iroa and bone earth, into organised
grass with wonderful rspidity, out Of which
the COW of Providence forms so abundantly
the blood Of children and the blood Of calves,
From the blood, brain aud thought of young
maphooj, back to disorgauised earth, air
and water, less than ten days intervene
Through the agricultural chanel herein made
plaia to the thoughtful reader, "Al flesh
is g ss;" and all grass is air and vapor.
Bum up 100 lbs Of milk that forms the
babs's flesh so rapidly, and you will have
left less than oUe-fourth of that dust from
whsci human flesh was once thyught to be
mlda.
Yo1ng farmer, if you would prosper in
this '~1r'I, and be respected as a man Of
clsa- lead and sound ideas, study the sci
ence Of feeding and clothing mankind as a
d5p s.ment of knowledge worth cultivating.
The State Of New York was the first in the
vol TO enumerate the number of COWS
mill 4 within its limits. and the writer, as
Cfs i.anan of the Committee on Agriculture,
drew up the bill aud schedules for that and
Other agricultural purposes. Those sched-
ules and the law that followed require, for
the fl 81 time in America, the return Of
every acre planted in corn or potatoes, or
SOW in wheat, rye, barley, oats, peas or
Gax and the Yield per acre. That was in
1875: and from that day to this, l have tried
in v&5n to induce Congress to do as much
for advancement of agriculture over the
VIII, ia Union. Tennessee came into,
the Union as q State in the
last century; and from that day to
this y man ca say, even approximately,
how 'aany acres were ever planted In any
one yaar in corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat or
oats, in an agricultural commonwealth
whicl has given three Presidents to a IA.
fi7r farmer. Facts like these are hu..
luliadng and dscouraging. The statistical |