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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-06
COMPOST HEAPS

1t Is often recommended that when ma
nure is thrown into heaps in the field, il
should be covered with layer of earth, to
prevent the escape of the ammonia. The
experiments Of Dr.. Voelcker, at the Royal
Agricultural College, at Cirencester, in En-
gland, have established the fact that the
evaporation Of ammonia from large heaps
of manure goes on but slightly; for the rea-
son that during the decomposition of the
manure certain organic acids are formed at
the same time the ammonia is evolved, and
then Immediately unite with the ammonia,
forming non-volatile compounds.
There is an active escape of ammonia
from The interior of large heaps, where the
heat is too great for the chemical change
above referred to; but, as it approaches the
exterior part of the heap, where the heat is
very much less, the ammonia is completely
taken up by the organic acids and retained.
There will be but triaing escape of am
monia while there is sufficient moisture to
retain it, for water absorbs and retains
many hundred times its bulk Of ammonia
gas at ordinary temperature. These non
volatile compounds, from being highly sol
uble in water, are liable to be washed away
at every rain storm, giving the well-known
color TO the DRAWINGS of manure heaps.
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NO FENCE.

To the Editor of the Union and American: -
BUNKER HILL, Tenn, June 90, 1872.-
As much has been said upon the subject of
the fence law pro and contra, propose to
give you few facts as they exist in this
locality. In the first place; / think an in
vestigation will sustain me in the assertion
that there is not farm in thisvicinity that
Is entirely enclosed with lawful fence. In
the second place it is not the custom for
landlords when making contract with
their tenants, to obligate themselves to keep
the fence up or to keep the stock out; but
the poor tenant must take the farm just as
he finds it and take the risk of having bis
crop destroyed by the stock that run on the
commons; or he must go to the woods,
make rails, haul them and put them upon
the fence without any compensation, and
in many cases owing to the great scarcity
of timber, this last privilege is not allowed
him. Now, who suffers most under this
statement of the case, the landlord or the
tenant? PROFESSIONALLY the latter. But
both parties under the present system
suffer. The landlord is having to sustain
the cost of keeping up even this inferior
fence; the tenant in having his crop ex-
posed to every fence-tilting bull that may
happen to come along, or every sharp nosed
razor-backed hog that has been turned out
because his owner has nothing upon which
to feed him, and which will not make
pork enough to pay for fatting,
him unless he can get start in some
neighbor's field. One other: Take ten
miles square Immediately south of Pulaski,
with Richland creek for its western bound
airy, and do not think there is good rail-
timber enough to put q substantial fence
around all the open land in said ten miles.
Then what is 10 be done? Win not the
country be forced to the adoption of no
fence law in the next decade? And if
so would il not be the part of wisdom to do
it at once? before the timber is all coDsum-
ed. We have in this country alarge amount
of land that has become so much worn that
the owners cannot afford to keep it enclos-
ed. These lands are barren wastes afford
ing but little grazing, and are total loss
to their owners. The cattle that run out
destroy the young timber that comes upon
these lands. Now if we had the no-fence
law we might plant these lands in black To-
Gust and in twenty years they would pro-
duce forest that would be more valuable
than the original timbers were. (This
would be in the interest of your climatic
influence in favor of rains.) But l win not
encroach further upon the space of your
valua BILE columns. write these facts be-
cause facts and not speculation are what the
journalist and the legislator wants. We have
harvested and are now threshing out
wheat, fine yield, and as soon as we can
get it to market we will pay up any arrears
that any of us may owe, as We cannot do
without it. SUBSCRIBER.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
nEmEDY roR STRIPPED BUGS

a correspondent writes: Having occa-
sion to use Paris Green and calcined plaster,
in the proportion Of one Of the former to
fifteen Of the latter, as destroyer of the
potato bug, l tried the stuff on squash,
melon and cucumber vines; with me, the
m, xture busted on from common dredg-
ing, has proved equally efectual against
the Colorado potato bette and the striped
bug.
On squashes of the tenderest variety TO
liage, like the Hubbard, for instance, and
on the harder, like Cymlin and the Winter
Crookneck, this mixture, whether put on
while the plant is wet or dry, does not in
jure them; and so of muskmelons and Gu
cumbers. The watermelon, however, does
not like TO be SO treated, but would re-
commend that the mixture be used with
care.
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needed stimulating. @SHmulating?" said
he; chow is that done." Firstly, drain it;
then plow it deeply, turning under active,
unfermented manures. 1t will lose its In
ertness, win exhibit vitality, win terminate
seed and produce crop. BE had never
heard of stimulating soil before!
Another friend Of ours, adds the Rurat
Neto Yorker, had been stimulated Oy
something he had seen, or read, to save all
the manure made on his farm, and get all
he could elsewhere. He told us after bis
first years experiment that it had astonlsh-
cd him to find SO much material that bad
before gone to waste. The very process
Of saving and applying had not only bene-
flied his farm, but acted as stimulant TO
himself. BE had learned that with bank
of stimulating material to draw from, he
could make every nook and corner of his
farm pay. He did not confne himself to
crop Of wheat, field of corn and patch
Of potatoes-leaving his meadows and pas
lures 10 take care of themselves. Now,
added to excellent staple crops, he produc,
ed early and late peas, beans, and roots of
all sorts; in fact, be did not cease to plant
and SOW from April l to Aug. 1. The
sweet herbs he gr.w in out-ofthe-way
hooks, paid for his magazine, papers and
books for the year. His pea
crop fattened his hogs; his pump
kins and sowed sweet corn made his beef;
his sowed corn kept up the milk of his cows
during drouths, and his sugar beets and
parsnips kept it up late in winter; his mel
ons, grown in fence corners, gave his boys
all the pocket money they needed; his tur
nips, grown in corn fields, kept thirty sheep
through the winter, with very little hay
and corn meal added; his crop of saffron
bought the women their bonnets and shoes;
he sold his neighbors spring and fall bulbs
enough to pay for his two girls wardrobes;
he grew evergreens and young naples en-
ough between his orchard rows to pay for
his hired help; he always has seed corn
seed wheat, strawberry, tomato, pepper,
celery, ETC., plants to sell. And 50 he went
through the list. Of course the production
of all this involved labor. But it paid him
to hire and pay good wages.
And this was all due to stimulants! He
did not hesitate to buy ashes, leached or
unleached, lime, refuse salt, livery-stable
manure, coal ashes, bones, shells, etc., ETC.,
wherever be could find them. He never
went 10 town but he carried something to
sell; he never left town with an empty
wagon; he would not waste the time of
travelling home unloaded. If his clays
needed sand, he drew sand and mixed with
them; if his sand needed muck, muck was
incorporated with it, As soon as one crop
was off he had stimulants to apply to the
land, and planted it with a crop that he
knew it would mature. In this complex
husbandry he found not only profit, but
the greatest pleasure. He said it was as
good as variety theater to him to watch
these various crops grow; and as delightful
8 stimulsnt to his mind and body as any
drinking bout could be to hummer.
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The Career of a Great Remedy

Twenty summers have elapsed since it was
briefly announced that new vegetable tonic and
Alternative, bearing the name of Hostetters StOm-
ach Bitters had been added to the list of proven
tive and restorative medicines. The modest adj
vertisement which invited attention to the pre-
paration stated that it had been used with great
success, in private practice, as a cure for dys-
pepsia, bilious complaints, constipation and in
term ittent fever. 1t was soon discovered that the
article possessed extraordinary properties. The
people, of every class tested its merits as tonic,
stimulant, corrective and restorative, and found
that its effects more than fulfilled their hopes and
expectations. From that time to the present its
course has been upward and onward, and it
stands to-day at the head OF all medicines of its
class, American or imported, in the magnitude
of its sales and its reputation safe, agreeable
and potent invigorant and restorative. For Ian
guor and debility, lack of appetite and gastric
disturbances, so common during the summer
months, it is absolutely infallible. Indigestion,
bilious disorders, constipation, nervousness, pc
riodical fevers, and all the ordinary complaints
generated by vitiated and humid atmosphere,
vanish under its renovatng and regulating inhu-
ence. This is its record, avouched by volumes
of intelligent testimony, extending over period
of a fifth of a century, and comprehending the
names of thousands of well-known citizens be-
longing to every class and calling. In Europe it
is thought great thing to obtain the patronage
of royalty for 'patent medicine" but Hostel
ter's Btters has been spontaneously approved by
millions of independent sOvereigns, and its pat
ent consists in their endorsement.
iY2 deOd1WSIYlt 3dp
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CORN FODDER.

Corn for fodder can still be sown to ad-
vantage, and should be largely cultivated
this season. We have already given ample
instructions for its cultivation, and its har-
vesting for winter feeding-but we are
satisfied that we cannot urge the matter
too strongly upon our readers. Mr.. r. II.
Simonds, in the Germantown Telegraph,
gives the following as his practice in its
cultivation, and his appreciation of its value.
He drilled twelve quarts of seed in
rows two feet apart, on one third of an
acre of mucky land, MANFRED with one
and half cords fine manure, June 8. He
says: Il ran the cultivator over it twice,
taking one half hour each time; my man
spent two hours following me each time
with his hoe, which was all that was done
TO 1t. l cut it up, which was just as the
tassels began to blossom. 1t grew ten feet
high, and there were three hundred bun
dies that averaged twenty pounds each,
green, making six thousand pounds, and
when dried it weighed eight pounds each,
dry fodder, which believe to be worth
more per ton than the best hay ever fed
to mich cows, for they ate every particle
of it, and gave large flow of rich milk
while eating it."
One Of our correspondents in this num-
Der speaks disparagingly of soiling stock,
but his conclusions were not in accordance
with the experience of most farmers of this
country as well as of England, who have
given it a trial-and this crop is admirably
adapted to the purpose. We have given
the views Of very able correspondents here
tofore, upon this point, and now add the
following from the Mark Lane Express, Of
London, furnished by Mr.. Mech, the cele-
brated English agriculturist: "The longer
farm, the more l am convinced of the su.
perior economy of sOiling farm stock. II
is cheaper and better to bring feed to the
animal than the animal to the food, because
in the latter case he is permitted to trample
excrete and lie upon it. One of the larges
and most successful farmers l know, ha:
no cumbersome, obstructive hedges to i'm
poverish him; he has always folded hi
sheep ard cut the grass for them-One man
lad, and horse chaf;cutter being on tht
field, there feeding the sheep green grass
chat, mixed with cake, etc. He has always
been among the very best root anC
corn growers of all my acquaintance
Green tares, clover, etc, are all passed
through the chaf-cutter for my horses anC
cattle, the corn is ground, and the root
pulped. One trial will prove the fact, ant
put money in the pockets of my agricultu
raj friends"
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STInHLANTE.

There is no class of men who need to use
stimulants more than farmers and horticul-
turists. The Rural Ne10 Yorker makes
this assertion deliberately and with the pro
foundest conviction of its truth. The IA
ture of their vocation, and their relations to
nature, prove it. Stimulants produce heat
heat is a means of motion; motion is essen
tial to growth; growth Is essential to pro-
duction. No one will suppose, we hope,
that when we say farmers need to use sLimu-
lante, we mean they need to pour them
down their Threats. We are led to COM
mend stimulants in agriculture, beause a
gentleman said to us the other day that
something allied his soil; it seemed dead
did not ap9sar to have vital force; was in
active; did not produce. We told him Il
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-06
AN EXCELLENT VARNISH FOR
LEATH Err.

Procure half a pound of gum shellac,
according to the quantity desired; break the
scales fine, and put them in a jug or bottle;
add good alcohol sufficient TO cover the
gum; cork tightly and place where it will
be kept warm. In about two days, if
shaken frequently, the gum will be dissOlv-
ed and ready for use. If the liquid appears
as thick as thin molasses, add more
alcohol To one quart of varnish add one
ounce OK good lampblack and an ounce Of
gum camphor. Such varnish will not
render leather hard, but viii keep the harness
from becoming soaked with water, and the
surface clean and neat for long time. A
coat of it will effsctualy prevent the oil in
the leather from soiling ones hands.
Nothing is better to render farmers boots
waterproof THAI an occasional coat of this
leather varnish.
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ORNAMENTAL IRON WORK.
PHILADELPHIA
Ornamental Iron Works!
ROBERT WOOD. THOs. 5. ROOT.
ROBERT WOOD & CO.,

1136 Ridge Avenue, fAllauelphla, 4 Ne
FOUNTAINS FLOATING SWANS
TVASESL -FRO6S--
-STATU ny -WAEER LILIES
T-DTUKN -TURrssES, etc.
for decorating fOuntains.-
vERANDAHS. SUMMER ssOUSEs,
ARBORS. CHAIRS, SETEEES, etc. ,ete.
NEW STYLE WROUGHT. IRON
RAILING for Front of House and Cemeter-
les. Never before produced. es .
CAST AND WROUGHT-IRON RAIL
INaS. for Public Buildings and Squares, Gem
etery Lots, Garden Fences, baIconies, hooi
Crossings, etc, in great variety OF Patterns.
IRON STAIRS, Spiral and Straight, of var
iOus Patterns and Styles Special AtIen-
tfOn given this class Of work
LAMP POSTS, for fronts of Public Build,
ings, Hotels, and City Streets, OF Plaln ana
Elaborate Designs.
SEABLEFITTING of Cast and wrought
Iron, Of New Improved Styles, such as LAY
Racks, Stall Divisions, Managers, Harness DIdcA-
cts Cutters, Traps, Ventilators, ETC.
WIRE WORK of every description. Wire
(Iuards of Crimped Wire, Galvanized or Rahe-
ed in Plain or Ornamental Patterns1 iOl oeos ae
Doors and WindOrs, Factory and W aIenou tS
windows. Ratings for Offices, Banks, OouHeeI
Ratings, Balconies, Lawn and + Nm ren0oS'
ETC., etc. nm.
Gates for entrance to Cemeteries, Z u6hc
SQUARES and Gentlemens Country Seats, u S "a
Tubing or Wrought-ITon, both SIN gle anu
in elaborate and simple designs -
DRINKTNG FOUNTAINS ior stre eai, uses so.
Verv large assortment of designs expressly Ior
this purpose.
CAST.IHON URINAL BOXES, for Pub
bic Parks and City Streets
OVAL VASES, Latest Styles, Centennial
! MITCHING POSTS, Jockey, coole, Sam
DO, and Plain Designs. aPh eouom
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mediately before sowing it, As these opera
tions are generally performed in the latter
part of the summer, it is at this season that
lime is mostly used"
To the foregoing we may add that the
applyer of lime often becomes discouraged
from not witnessing immediate results.
He need not expect it to any great extent,
for lime is slow to act. The first year very
little effect is noticeable; the second it
begins to tell, while in the third year il acts
like magic; and what is better, 1t continues
to act for many years after.
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Wheat! Wheat. Wheat!

TTAVING TAKEN CHARGE OF THE RE-
III servoir Mills for the ensuing season, L will
PAY the Highest Market Price for Wheat
at the Mills, or at SO South College street, Nash
vile, Tenn. JNO. j. MCCANN.
les deod&wtf SD 3dp
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The market is unusually active for the
season. We quote packed from store as
follows
BAcoN-Clear sides enS11c; clear rib sides
7ic; shoulders &c; country hams 116114 &c.
CHOICE HAMs-Hart q Hensley's @. u,
C. hams 12a613c.
BREAKFAsT BAcor-We quote at l2ac.
LARD-We quote choices Iesf In tierces
DC; pressed do. loo; kegs lie; buckets
113c. 30 - - e
Mess PoRK-Full weight % Dbl. s14.00.
BUMP PoRK-Ful weight W Dbl S1O.50.
DRIED BEEF-We quote canTased Tic.
BEEF ToNeUEs-S. G. $3.50 % doz.
Country bacon is in great demand, the
supply being entirely exhausted. Dealers
are offering from wagon CSC for shoulders,
Tactic for sides and lie for hams.
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New York General Markets.

NEW YORK, July 5.-Flour dull and
strong in buyers favor $5.25611.5O, or SUI
perfine Western and State to best st. Louis
Rye -four and corn meal unchanged.
Whisky dull at Ole. Wheat 1.4961.77c.
Rye and Barley unchange. Corn Goa
62sc. Oats 403d42e. Eggs dull, western
166I9c. Coffee quiet-Rio 16a619ac.
Sugar fair to good refining Ss69c; Cuba
Sa69c. Molasses dull.Rice 969ac. Mess
pork S13.4O6I3 CSC. Beef and Cut
meats quiet. Lard, No. to prime steam
$1,000; kettle9sc. Butter; Western lOd
10 Sfafa 2262Sc. Cheese 6I11Ic.
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GENERAL MARKETS.

Tho following are the cotton quotations,
received ct the National Savings Company,
corner Union and College streets, where
cotton, gold, bond and stock quotations are
received hourly, and are always accessible
30 the public:
LIVERPOOL, July 5, 1f:3O.-Cotton
dull. Sales to-day 5000 bales. Middling
uplands lid; Orleans 1146115d. Sales
of the week 1900 bales, of which 1000
bales were for export and 1000 for specula-
tors; total stock 100000 bales, of which
$4,000 bales are American; total stock
afoat 285, 900 bales, of which 10000 bales
are American; receipts of the week $4,000
bales, of which 10000 are American. Ac-
tual exports 5000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, July 5, 1:OO.-Cotton
steadier. Middling uplands 1161l5d; Or
leans 1lI611sd. Sales to-day 10000 bales,
Ct which 1000 are for export and specula-
ton.
LIVERPOOL, July 5, Solicitation I'M
changed. Middling uplands 11011 81; Or
leans 11!6115d. Sales 10000 bales.
NEW YORK, July 5, 4:30.-No Board to-
day. Net receipts ASA bales; exports to
Great Britain 6,6f9 bales; to Continent
none; stock Of all classes 141 351 bales.
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New Orleans Markets.

NEW ORLEANS, July 5.-FlOur dull,
depressed and lower; superfine S5.7566;
Xxx S6.756T xxx S7.2569; extra to
choice family So 2561O.50. Corn quiet;
mixed 5Sc; white 6s670c. Oats frmer at
Acc. Hay scarce; prime $25627. Bran
quiet at SI.O5A110. Pork dull; mess held
at $12.75. Bacon scarce and active at %,
81, 81 and SIC. Hams-sugar cured, III
H13c. Lard in better demand; fierce
packed &c; refined 9Sc; key, kettle 10tc;
refined 1O4c. Sugar-fair to good fair Ssd
9fc; prime I05c. hlolasses-ReL Louisiana.
Whisky dull and lower at S5694c. CItfee
I7619ac. Sterling exchange 125; sight
nor CONT nramium. Gold lI3d. ..r
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RaItim Markets.

BALTIMORE, July 5.-Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat S1.4561.55. Corn
63Jc. Oats 43d46c. Provisions unchang-
ed. Whisky dull at Ole.
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NASHVILLE Produce nlarAe CT.

EGGs-Market dull at Sc from wagon.
.FEATHERs-We quote at 6Oc for prime
and market dull.
HAY-We quote at S336S5 per ton, and
stock light.
WoOL-Market unchanged. We quote
tub-washed, free of burs, 60665c; UNI
washed do. 40645c. BURY lots 50lOC
less. ..
GINsENG-We quote at 6567Oc. Z -
" BEEswAx--We quote at 28G131c.
PoTAToEs-New potatoes are arriving
freely ard are taken from wagon at S2d
2.25 Per Dbl.
RAGs-The market overstocked and dull
re quote at SIC.
BUTTER-We quote at 12a@15c for good
country; choice 2Oc.
CHCKENs-We quote spring at prices
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Nashyilie FIour and Grain market.

FLoUR-The demand is entirely local,
and there is no trade except in new -four.
We quote as follows: Superfne $500;
choice family $7.5008.00; strictly fancy
$3.50.
CORN MEAL-We quote at 70 and Toe
for unbolted and bolted.
CoRN-Sman sales on the leyee at Csc.
Shipments of 600 bushels at 6S and Toe,
sacked and delivered in depot.
WHEAT-Sales to-day of !, 100 bushels at
prices ranging from s1.l561.30 per bushel.
OATs-We quote at 56c per bushel by tha
car load, sacked and delivered in depot. e
BARLEY-We quote at SOC, and but little
demand.
RYE-We quote at zoe per bushel. o
BRAN-We quote at SIS per ton. .
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Gold was quoted in New York yesterday
at 1l3s. Dealers here were paying 1l3 and
were holding at 113s.
Exchange on New York is taken by the
banks at par snd is sold by them at 81 per
thousand.
Government securities were quoted in
Nnur XnrIr rnafnrdau as fnlinws.
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NEW YORK, July 5.-The commission
agents almost in a body have closed for
business to-day excepting those necessary
to receipt drafts and for the delivery OF
goods, but jobbers generally were open, al
though hardly any regular trade was done.
Many of the Iobbers, however, though fully
open, gave the majority of their employee
holiday. There was no market and no
auction sales were held.