Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-04

had better follow blacksmithing all my
i life. Now I never should have known
/ how to do this if I had not looked on ant
seen others do it,
1 The Best Renovator for Poor Farm.
j A Southern farmer with poor farm on
his hands, writes to his local paper how he
brought it up to first class condition at nc
cost. And his example is Of such nature
that it may be initiated by any farmer in
any portion of the country. II think ]
know a first rate renOvatOr which will pay
for itself, by its own increase, in one year,
and leave the good it does the land for clear
profit. When was Virginian, following
the flag of StonewaH Jackson, | had occa-
sion to see what sheep did for that country;
nothing but small, wOrnout farm, my
own labor, and the help of half grown
son, I determined to buy few sheep with
the first money could spare, and try what
| they would do for me. I bought In the
| fall of one year, for twenty dollars, ten
| two-year old ewes, that were in lamb. /
put them in a small field close to my house
| chat was fullof briars and weeds, and that
would have to be tickled nightly to make
| it produce eight bushels of corn. They
soon ate up the briars and the grass in the
lSuCo COIllSlS, duu UH tlclI CODSttsAAV VI Ill
ing back and forth they destroyed all the
weeds. Igave them plenty of water, a lit
tie meal or shorts, and / sailed them fire.
quently. I kept them in that field during
the winter, providing them with dry
weather, fed them regularly with turnips
and beetss and some swamp hay I had
s. They tlnone finely, and in the spring I
had fh1ftn as fine lambs as ever were
seen, worth as much as | gave for the
ewes, and consider that the wool and ma
the feed. I<plowed the field in time for
complaining, planted it in corn in the reg
ular way, and gathered from thirty to
thirty-fve bushels of corn to the acre
while on the spot, Immediately around the
shelter where they used to gather at night,
I am sure, at the rate of over fifty bushels
Ishave Kept up the use of this renovat0r
eyer since, and find that it pays hand
somely. have never bought an ounce of
guano or phosphate. I make fine crops of
corn, and wheat, and clover, and turnips.
soon not to have single worn acre of land
OH my farm. My renovator has not cost
me anything, and it lasts more than a
year. L will hear. from it for several years.
kESs = kfss
Gleanings. =
rs; The Inhabitants of Western town Were
badly frightened one night last week at
what appeared to be monster comet in
the Constellation of the Bear The local
editor, however, put their fears to rest by
telling them that the strange looking
'creature was nothing more nor less than
a crack IN the clouds 2 .3ans sTe ys6' ,ssia
Another man has graduated at the Yale
"SchOol of Journalism" He has been
rather more successful than any of bis IRE
decessors. When he found that he could
get mo more than eight dollars week OH
any western Journal, he went right away
and got position as clerk in all oyster sa>
loon, where his weekly stipend is ten dol
lars.
The CONSCIENCE CLAUSE Working Man,
"Ain't you going to send that boy of yours
to school, Bill?" Bill. 80, will 1! He
went one day, and when he came home he
told me it was repre- ems BILE to get drunk
Think I'll have p'rental feelin's outraged,
and all the sweet an 'Oly union q 'Ome
Election broken by swells teachin' of him?
Come and STAN pint"
Nor AGENTs.-We are told that i'll the
office of the Toledo Blade whenever a
patent medicine man exhibits a card bear
ing the words advertising agent, it is the
rule that he be Immediately seized and
dropped from the window. The Office is
up one, flight of stairs, and Mr.. Jones, the
proprietor, says that the only thing which
will reconcile him to going up another
flight will be the satisfaction of giving an
extra fall to these chaps. Jones is giant
in these times, and the sidewalk under his
window is said to be in constant need Of
repair.-American Newspaper Reporter.