Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-06

| THAT Wul4e nOck OF Sncep may increase
not only from Al bought as seed to $50
but to $500, and the soil may be ferti
lized by sheep folds from LOCO pounds
of seed cotton to 1000 or 5000 pounds
of the same crop per acre. These facts
prove that the two most important
fibres of wool and cotton do best when
produced on the same plantation, especl.
ally if the soil is weak and needs nur.
sing, and some good sense in the owner
By all means plant seeds in March
to sustain hereafter systematic stock
husbandry on your farm, unless it IL
your purpose to ruin it. We have
made a good deal of rich manure out
of Bermuda grass and Gillian clover
(alfalfa) grown together. The last
named plant has been cultivated In the
south of Europe since Homer described
the cheeses found in the cave of Poly
phemus, some 5000 years ago. Roman
authors like Cato, Palladius and Co.
lumella, who wrote at length on de Re
Rusticd, have much to say in praise of
''medicago," our lucerne. The plant
lives more than FIVE times as long as
common clover; hence our preference
with Bermuda for pastures.
Believing that suggestions fortheim-
provement of Southern agriculture are
the best we can do for the readers of
this department of the UNION AND
AMERICAN, we viii cite another way
which is on little larger scale, in prac-
tice, and equally successful. Whatev-
er We may say or think of Quaker the
olOgy, from William Penn down to the
present writing, this sect in Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland has been distin-
guished for humanity, industry and
shrewd business management. We
learn from n communication IN the
March number of the Rural Caroliaian
that Francis T. King and other Friends,
of the city of Baltimore, purchased a
farm in North Carolina, ''red and roll
ing land" for the benefit of other
Friends in that State, poor and about
to remove with the million to
new lands of the boundless West.
1t is no part of the Quaker creed to do
things by halves; SO this farm was
stocked with Attorney cattle, South
down sheep, Essex and Chester hogs,
and comfortable houses and barns were
erected at cost of over $4,000. Friend
King, Of Baltimore, made grass king
on this model Southern farm; and his
North Carolina friends are doing well
and happy without leaving the old red
hills on which they were born. An eye
witness correspondent of the Rural
CaroliniGR says: "The establishing
and running of this farm is a genuine
piece Of philanthropy, for which Mr..
King and his brother Friends deserve
our thanks. How widely different from
the horde of thievish carpet
baggers coming South since the
war to steal and plumber instead
of aiding US to build up our waste
places, and develop the agricultural in
terests of the country" Small model
farms to illustrate in practice, which
all may see and understand the true
principles of agricultural science, are
what our people most need at this
time. In 1916 the writer taught an
agricultural academy with others on a |
model and experimental farm in a
county of Genesee Valley, New York, |
that produced more bushels of wheat |
as shown by the census of 1910, than
any other IN the United States. Few |
have taken the pains and trouble to !
study the connection between common
school libraries, reading and education,
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lures, arts, and commercial prosperity. |
Not many can state at once the reason
why New York has larger population
than the six New England States; nor
why Gov. Dix in his late message was
able to say that there were over $780,
600 depositors in savings banks in that |
State; and that these laboring farmers
and mechanics had thus laid up the
snug sum of three hundred and four
teen million dollars. The State of |
New York contains about one-tenth of |
the population Of the United States;
and if all farmers, mechanics and 9TH
ers, were as well off, their cash in loans
IN savings banks would be three thous-
md one hundred and four million dol
ars at this time. Here is food for
thought; and an instructive volume
might be written on the science of pro-
1ucing and keeping property.