The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-02-06

may be put in this condition. The /
GermasstoaOn Telegraph has some good
thought on this subject, which We trans
fer to our columns Il says: We sup
pose that when old DR.. johnson wrote
that little learning is a dangerous
thing, he must have been regular |
reader OF agricultural papers, OF Of the
reports of agricultural discussions, and |
noted how people run away with half
an idea, to their fellow-creatures' injury
In the "Iong run. And yet not alone
agriculturists, but many other strange
people are Just as much demented when
they hold of some half idea which
they think think viii benefit the world.
Here is one man who processes to have
found out that thought is nothing but
phosphorus that without phosphorus
the brain would cease to think; and
that the light of intelligence is really
and literally but phosphoretie glow
Then he finds that Professor Agassiz
says that fishes contain more phosphorus
than any other animal, and straightway
our over-iealous humanitarian goes
preaching over the country that no man
need be stupid if he viii only eat fish
Now, many of the lectures farmers
get are much like unto this fish story
Here is one before us about deep blowing.
A farmer had three hundred acres of
land. His daughter got married. He
gave her as a dowry half his farm
pretty liberal, wasn't it Z? But finding he
had more time to spare, he went to deep
blowing, and found he raised Just as
much on one hundred and fifty as on
the three hundred acre lot This en-
couraged him; and when another
daughter married he gave her half the
remaining-to the great joy of the SON
in-law no doubt, and went to work plow-
ing deeper In the seventy-five than be-
fore. But 10 and behold he was more
blessed than ever Heaven smiled on
his generous deeds-and deep blowing
and he found he got more from the
seventy-fve than the whole three hun
bred acre farm, while his labor and
taxes and all thatwas less And he died
a rich man but whether it was the
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heavy deep blowing which killed him
or not, the story does not tell And
then the writer goes on to say that if
every one would only go and do ike
wise, how rich they might get to be
The truth is, there is many soils In
which if one pillow deep he may find
fortune in so doing; but on the other
I,,,,1 4I,o,-, 90 o,..oe - 1o,,7 -, u =
sheer madness to pillow deep. On flat
clay lands where water can not
drain rapidly away, and where the lack
of drainage is the bane of the cultivator,
it is found by experience that shallow
but rich surface soil is much better
than deeply stirred one. And the
reason is obvious IL water be an
injury, and it cannot get into the soil
by reason of the hardness of the sub
soil, the rain viii pass over the surface
to the open bitches which always have
to be made in fiat country. If we
loosen such soil deeply we only harbor
more of our liquid enemy, and this
counter-balances what otherwise might
be good thing in deep soil
Besides this, there are other consid-
erations. If the surface-sol be poor,
and we turn this down into still poorer
subsoil. we bury what little good there
might have been in the surface-soil, fan
below the reach of the roots. If any
one has prospective sons-in-law with
such soils as this, they had better not
be too liberal in dividing the land.
A little learning is undoubtedly 9
dangerous thing in farming. There Ii
no department of industry wherein cir
this. While deep plowing is an excelleni
thing when circumstances suit, there are
innumerable cases when it is wise to &c
the other way.