The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-13

1T for sustenance, and the comforts OF
life. Why this great difference IN the
productive capacity of these countries, or
rather these soils =? They are each cul>
tivated by the same people, known as
descendants Of the Anglo Saxon race
cousins german, and equally advances.
IN enlightenment. and all that is COM
pretended in the broadcast sense of
knowledge. The advantage is greatly on
the side of the American soil in climate.
As my article is growing to too great
length for a casual newspaper commu>
nIcation, | will pursue the subject here
after, accounting partially for the supe-
rior prOductiveness of the English soil
over our own a this time by asserting that
in the tillage of our comparatively new
soil we have been following rigidly the
depicting practice we have extracted,
we have skinned, we have leached out,
we have impoverished, we have destroy
ed, we have exported the elements of
fertility, or piantfood, once found in our
soils. And shall add, we have not, for
periods covering thirty and forty years
returned one shovel full Of generous
manure to millions of dying acres of our
rapidly perishing soil, starved, remorse>
lessly starved, against our better judge
ments, the dictates ofour common sense
and reason-aVariciously refusing to
give even one years rest by fallow, or the
recuperating energies of one dose of
green crop turned under; because We
could not afford to lose" so much
good S uf that would bring in ready
money rotation of crops even denied,
and the inexOrable demand for the same
kird of ele ments to produce annually
the same kind of crops, made upon the
fast waning energies of a perishing soil.
Is this not sufficient to promote death in
the soil, without resorting to the crueE
refinement of almost entirely banishiDe
stock best recuperative droppings from
them, for the food the earth had given
might 10 some measure prolong the feeble
Pickering life our agriculturistsl seem to
have been bent upon falling And shall
I expose cur folly, and the earth's bliss
tering nakedness, in the last closing act
of the tragedy in the persistent banish-
ment Of grass (green may its memory
ever flourish in co ton killed Southland, }
if not in her dry and papless bosom.
Let the curtain fall, enough, is as good
as feast " Whilst we have been ae~
complshing thusly what of our
cousins across the waters? They have
nursed, they have promoted, they have
augmented, they have deepened, they
have cherished fertility in the snil-they
have imported, largely imported, elements
of fertility for the generous soil; and
although the soil was fat, and /" in good
heart it received annually into its re-
jOicing bosom cord upon cord of recuper-
ating, and rejuvenating doses from acids,
and al kahs, from the rich store houses
of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and hydro>
gen. varying the pabulum now as a minA
eral, again as solvent of minerals,
locking up rich plantfood in their
tight embrace; and now as a eaustic,
then as neutralizer Ct causticity-now
as IiberatCr of plant food, rendering
soluble what was before insoluble, now
altering the physical condition of badly
constituted soil, and penetrating the
mysterious truths evolved by the revela-
tons of chemistry and appropriating the
teachings of philosophy to comprehend
in some degree plant life, with its wants
and healthy development In short, by
adopting the truths demonstrated by
science, and experimental investigations
to lay the f. uIdation of successful
husbandy and tillsge they have reached
the summit of idividual and national
prosperity; whilst we by pursuing an
opposite course in agriculture have well
nigh wrecked our prosperity, ruined and
destroyed our country. If we have
well nigh done this thing let US turn
back before the fatal catastrophe is ac-
oomplished, lest as improbable SER
wants we be condemned to wander up
and down ain the bad lands" forever
where the lion Toareth, and the whang-
doodle mourneth for its robbed, defraud-
ed and everlastingly ruined frst-born
HUNT