Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-28

The Sacramento Union says: "Dr.
Glenn, of Colusa county, owns a ranch
which contains nearly 5000 acres. 1t EN-.
braces frontage Of eighteen miles on he
Sacramento river and extends back about
five miles. it ia inclosed aud divided by
ore hundred and forty miles of fencing.
One tenant. w. Hoog-rents aud Guilt
Yates about 10000 acres Of land, and the
Gupton Brothers cultivate an equal portion.
Some 10 900 acres are rented out to num-
Der of farmers who work on smaller scale.
A. the present time farming operations are
going on on this ranch at a lively rate, as
the work OF harvesting is progressing rapidly.
Hoogis engaged in cuttiJg seven thousand
acres of wheat and barley. The total crop
will amount to nearly 10000 bushels. He
is threshing his grain with one Of Cases 49,
inch cylinder threshing machines, which is
run by twenty .borse power steam engine.
To supply this machine requires six large
sized headers and eighteen hesderwagons,
all of which require the labor of one hun
dred and ten horses and fifty men. The
machine has threshed five sacks of barley
per minute, at which rate it has run for an
hour and half in succession. 1t has also
threshed thirty-two sacks o. wheat in seven
minutes. 1t will require about six weeks to
thresh the entire crop. These are the opera
ons of Hoog alone. Gupton Brothers have
an equally large crop, and are driving bust
ness on about the same scale. The smaller
tenants are equally well employed"
Large farms, like large factories, can intro
duce many small economies, which 10 the
aggregate amount to large profit, as COM
pared with returns from small operations.
No other business admits of SO many COM
binations in art and science, including all
that relates to plant and animal life, earth,
air and water, growth and decay, produc-
ton and consumption, as agriculture. The
natural laws that govern alike all possible
increase of fertility in any soil, or decrease
in the same, are matters profound science
for deep study, which will ultimately place
all cultivated land under the care of the
wisest men in the nation. When it shall
contain one or two hundred million people
to be fed three times every day,
comfortably clothed and housed, it will not
do to let every one who pleases impair the
indispensable fruitfulness of arabic earth.
Such farming in the country, or any waste
of fertilizers in cities, will rob thousands of
families Of their daily bread. Mankind
never increased so rapidly from year to year
as they now do, and never before in the
world injured the soil so much by the an
nual removal of crops by tillage, and the
effects of washing rains. There are more
inhabitants living in cities and villages as
consumers of breadstuffs and provisions
without producing any, now than
at any former period OF mans
history. 1t is plain that our
land killing system, carried on in pant by
insane cultiyators, and in part by equally
insane residents of towns, cannot last one
hundred years longer on this continent.
Machinery Of all kinds will plow, SOW, reap,
thresh and grind into -four everything in
field that will make bread, in few years.
When finally restitution is sorelV needed to
prevent starvation, the public will discover
that all the cities Oh the Mississippi and Its
affuents have sent the natural fruitfnlness
ofths great valley down stream into the
Calf OF Mexico. Instead Of doing some
thing to tenefit our posterity, we do them the
greatest possible injury. Nothing that we can
do for The ten or twelve hun
dred thousand inhabitants in Ten.
neesee, will be SO useful as to teach them