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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Report of this Years Wheat CrOp.

Returns of the department of agri-
culture show that the wheat crop is
equal to, or greater than last years in
all of the states except Maryland, Viz
ginia, Texas, Kentucky, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas. In Con.
necticut, Delaware, South Carolina and
Illinois it is about equal to last years
crop. Other states have increased their
yield.
The New England states almost reach
the splendid crop of the census year,
approximating to a million bushels.
Maine has increased her yield 80 per
cent. The quality of the crop in these
sta es is considerably improved.
The Middle States have considerably
enlarged and improved their yield, New
York reporting an increase of Is per
cent.
OF the South Atlantic States Mary
land falls per cent. and Virginia 6 Der
cent. below last year but their def
cheney Is more than made up by other
states, Georgia showing an increase OF
81 per cent. The quality is also i'm
proved.
OF the Gulf States Alabama reports
an increase of % and Mississippi of 2
per cent; Texas a decrease of 7 per
cent; in quality Alabama improves %
per cent; and Mississippi declines 8 per
cent, and Texas per cent.
All four of the Southern inland states
show an improvement in quality from
per cent. in Arkansas to II per cent.
in Tennessee. In quality Arkansas pre-
sents an increase of 3 per cent, Ten
neAsee of % per cent, West Virginia
% per cent; Kentucky declines 5 Der
cent. The crops of these states are a
third greater than that of the census
year north of the Ohio river and Hi
nois equals that of last years CROP.
while Wisconsin, on account of the
grasshOppers, falls 80 per cent. short.
which reduces the aggregate yield of
this section below last year. Ohio in
creased her yield 16 per cent, Michigan
% per cent, and Indiana 8 per cent.
all showing an improved quality, except
Wisconsin, which declines % per cent
The aggregate yield of the states west
of the Mississippi is also short of last
year. Missouri increases % per cent,
and Nebraska l per cent, but Minneso-
ia declines 16 per cent, Iowa 2 per
cent, and Kansas per cent. The
grasshOppers have been destructive to
spring wheat in these states. The quail
ity is below last years in all except
Minnesota, which improves 27 per cent,
On the Pacific coast the crop is greatly
increased, ind is fully so per cent.
above the census of last year, Califor-
mia increases her yield 10 per cent. and
Oregon 81 per cent. Oregon equals the
quality OF last years crop. California
impr YES hers by 3 per cent. The
total yield will nearly if not quite equal
the census year.
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FAH Flowing.

In 1S42 Graded field of oats which
was peculiar in the growth of the crop,
1 asked my boss, "Why are your oats
so much better in the center of the
tield?" Are they better there ? -
g Yes, sir very much better and ripper. -
"HOw?" They are taller and stand
thicker" "Well, I plowed that strip
last fall, ard crOss-plowed it in the
spring" This reused my curiosity rel
alive to fall blowing hence 1 have ex-
perlmented with clay, clay loan and
sandy loan lands, and have found it an
advantage III every instance that I have
tried. Hence claim that fall blowing
Is advisable not only for spring crops.
but also for summer fallow, especially
for fields in heavy sward. However, all
my neighbOrs do not agree with me in
autumn blowing. Herein is the diff
Guilty clay soil quires the best of
management in its cultivation. If
worked when too wet it dries ont and
bakes if uncultivated until too drv Il
is lumpy and in bad condition. In
Michigan, the farmer who has fall
plowed his tielDs for spling crops, the
growing season being somewhat short in
said state, he commences cultivatino
said fields IN the spriug as eaIly as pos
slole N order to drive his work but if
the land be cultivated when too wet said
cultivation Will destroy the friableness
oil the soil the spring rains, if too abun-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29
Corn Acclimated in England.

About a hundred years ago Indian
corn was introduced into England with
the expectation that it would furnish
the bread about the supply of which
the fast-increasing population were get
ting nervous. That country must then
have been experiencing a cycle of hot
summers, for the corn ripened all right
for three years in succession. In the
fourth year it was largely planted, but
failed to mature. The attempt to grow
corn was then abandoned, it being clear
that the summer heat was not great
enough, while the liability to June
frosts, similar to those of this year. was
alone enough to make the attempt hope
less. The English papers now state
that William Cobbett, son of the ia
nous Liberal agitator, has successfully
acclimated corn at Hounslow, near Lon
don, where he has three acres growing
which have withstoOd the severe frosts
of last June, and are now very propis-
ing. If our English cousins have really
got frost-proof corn, it will be as valu-
able to us Gs to them.
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Coal for Pigs.

There is no doubt in our mind of the
benefit from feeding carbonaceous mat
ter to swine when they are kept in close
pens. The avidity with which hogs eat
rotten wood is well known. Charcoal
is but another form. The utility of
feeding wood has long been recognized.
We some years since substituted the
ordinary western stone coal with the
best results, where from 200 to 500 hogs
were kept in close pens, on the refuse
of city hotels Something of the kind
seems as necessary to them as salt to
herbiverous animals. We have known
them to consume a pound in the course
of a day, and again they would not seek
the coal for some time. Just what the
particular use coal is in the animal
economy, is not so easy to answer.
Swine are Cspeciallyliable to scrofulous
and infismmatory diseases. Carbon. in
shape Of coal, is an Rnteseptic, and the
probability is that it acts in this way in
purifying the blood Western Rla-aI.
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THE PLAINS.
By JOAQUIN MILLER.

60 ye aud look upon the land,
That far vast land that few behold.
And none beholding understand
That old. old land which men call new
Go journey with the seasons through
It's wastes, and learn how iimitless.
The solemn silence Of that plain
Is, oh ! 80 eloquent. The blue
And Bonded skies seem bailt for Il,
And all else seems as yesterday,
An idle tale but idly told.
Its history Is of God alone.
For man has lived and gone away
Aud left but little heaps Of stone.
LO here you learn how more than ht
And dtgnified is silence when
You hear the petty jeers Of men.
Its awful sOlitudes remain
Ihenceforth for aye part OF you,
And you have learned your httleness.
Some silent red men cross y,'ur track;
Some sun-tanued tTampers cosue and gos
Some rolling seas of buffalo
Break thuuder-like and far away
Against the foothills, breaking back
Like breakers OF some troubled bay
Some white-tailed antelope blown by
So airy like; some foxes shy
And shadow-ike move TO and fro
Like weavers' shuttles as you pass;
And now and then from out tue grass
You hear some lone bird cluek and cali
A sharp keen call for her lost brood,
That only makes the solitude
Seem deeper still, and that is all.
That wide domain Of mysteries
Aud signs that men misunderstanding
land Of space and dreams a land
OF sea-salt lakes and dried up seas;
Aland OF caves aud caravans
And lonely wells and pools /, a land
That hath its purposes and plans
That seems so like dead Palestine,
Save that its wastes have no confine
Till pushed against the leyeled skies;
A LAID from ont whose depths shall rise
The new-tiIne prophets {; the domain
From out whose awful depths shall come,
All clad in skins, with dusty feet,
A man fresh from his Makers hand,
A singer singing oversweet
A charTner charming very wise;
And then al men shall not be dumb
Nay, not be dumb, for he shall say,
80 Take heed, for prepare the way
For weary feet (; " and from this land
The Christ shall come when next the race
OF man shall look upon his face.
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Lawes On Commercial Fertilizers.

Writing on the subject of commercial
fertilizers, Mr.. J. B. LaEes, a noted
English chemist, and for many years a
manufacturer of manures, says thrs only
two substances really required in artif-
cial manures, are
1. Nitrogen.
2. Phosphate of lime.
Nitrogen is useful in three FORMS
l. As nitric acid.
2. AS ammonia.
AS organic decomposible matter,
yielding ammonia or nitric acid.
Nitrogen is more valuable in the form
of nitric acid than it is as ammonia, and
ammonia is more valuable than decay
possible manure for all gramineuus
crops, wheat, barley, maize, oats, sugar
cane, rice, pasture, grass, is a mixture
of superphosphate of lime and nitrate
Of soda 300 lbs. of superphesphate of
lime and 275 lbs. of nitrate of soda ap-
piled every year to one acre of ordinary
English land, has for twenty consecu-
tive years given a produce annually of
quarters of barley IA tons of farm
yard dung applied annually over the
same period has given the same produce
of barley. Superphosphate of lime Is
a special chemical manufacture which
can be made cheaper on a larger than
on a smaller scale, and therefore farm
ers ought to purchase it cheaper than
they can make it, but it is better to
make up their own compound manures,
purchasing their nitrate of soda or salt
of ammonia. Il is not advisable to SOW
artificial manure with beans, peas, tares
or other legun1inous plants. Corn and
root crops will take all the artificial
manure which the farDoer caD afford fl0
pay for. Superphosphateo of lime should
always be placed under the soil, either
by drilling or narrowing in when the
seed is sown. Nitrate of soda may be
sown the same way or it may be sown
broadcast when the crop is up. The in
crease in the growth of the cereal crop
is much more dependent upon the nj
trogen supplied than on the phosphoric
acid. Potash is generally found in suf-
fcient quantities in soils, and the arti-
fetal supply is not required.
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dant, viii add to the damage, and the
crop will be failure. Whereas if the
soil be worked at the proper time,
neither too wet nor too dry, the spring
rains will settle the soil, and the crop
will have an early start, and keep ahead
in growth and maturity the entire sea-
son. Fall blowing is especially adyisa-
bic for clay soil in heavy swards, and
prefer late blowing in the fall and cul-
tivating with a wheel cultivator in the
spring, just before planting time, to
early fall blowing and cultivating in
the spring.-COr. N. Y. Tribune,
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STEALING HEAVENS LIVERY. The
great alcoholics remedy, Vinegar Bit
ters, is everywhere driving pestiferous
rum potions out of the market. That
famous combination of the finest medici-
nal herbs on the continent of America,
is accomplishing such cures of diseases
which affect the stomach, the liver, the
bowels, the kidneys and the nervous
system, that the grateful masses have
adopted it as their Standard Specific.
The various rum bitters have gone down
before this pure vegetable antidote like
tenpins before a well-aimed ball. The
people have at length discovered that
ali the spirituous excitants are worse
than shams-that both morally and
incidentally they are inimical TO the
well-being and safety of the community.
1t won't do. The handwriting is on the
wall They are weighed and found
wanting. Rum remedies are defunct,
and Vinegar Bitters, the universal anti
dote. reigns in their stead.
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Alaska as New Iceland.


The Icelanders have recently ceIe-
brated the one-thousandth anniversary
of the settlement of their remote ances-
tors IN their Eleak northern home, q
region of dreary wastes, volcanic noun
tains and vast fields of lava. In the in
terror are extensive regions embracing
thousands of square miles where moth
ing is to be seen but the vestiges of vol
canic destruction. Since the first settle
ment the climate and physical geography
of the country have undergone q re-
markable change, so that the country is
now scarcely habitable. For q long
period the mean annual temperature has
been steadily decreasing. Varieties of
grain and vegetables formerly raised IL
comparative abundance will no longer
grow there. The ancient forests have
almost entirely disappeared. The raw
ages of famine and pestilence have re-
duced the population to some 10000.
These facts have warned the Icelanders
that the time is at hand when their
native land will cease to be habitable by
man, and they began some years ago to
look abroad in search of some region
to which they might emigrate. A few
hundred of them undertook to establish
settlement In the highlands of Brazil,
but they found theclimate uncopgenial,
and the colony went to Canada, but
were not satisfied in their new home.
Others tried some of our western states,
with no better result. More recently
some of their leading men have con-
ceived the idea that of all the territory
of the United States Alaska will suit
them best. In this belief they have
petitioned the president to furnish IA
cilities to a committee of Icelanders to
visit Alaska for the purpose of ascer-
tanning its suitableness as a home for
their cOuntrymen. The president and
his cabinet viewed the proposition with
favor, and the sloop-of-war Portsmouth,
at Mare Island, was detail ed to take the
committee on their expedition. On the
18th of the present month the committee
arrived in San Francisco, and on Thurs
day of last week they sailed for Sitka,
on the Portsmouth. Should they find
that Alaska is all that it has been rep
resented, they will issue a report, the
effect of which will undoubtedly be to
produce a steady and increasing tide of
emigration from the old Iceland to the
new, and the United States will receive
the benefit of large body of hardy, in
dustriOus and intelligent settlers.
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Bleeding from Lungs, Catarrh, BrOnchf-
tbs, Consumption. A Wonderful Cure.

Bleeding from Lungs Catarrh, BrOnchi-
tbs, Consumption. A Wonderful Cure
ROCHESTER. N. Y. Jan IS, 1874.
r. Y. PIERCE, NJ D., Buffalo, n Y:
Dear SRI had suffered from catarrh in an
aggravated form for about twelve years aud
for several years from bronchial trouble.
Tried many doctors and things with no lasting
benefit. In May, 70, becoming nearly worn
out with excessive editorial labOrs on paper
In New York city, wss attacked with bron-
chitis in a severe form, suffering almost to-
tai loss of voice. I returned home here, but
had been home only two weeks when was
completely Frustrated with hemorrhage from
the lungs, having four severe bleeding spells
within two weeks, and first three inside of nine
SAYS. In the September following, 1 improved
sufficiently to be able to be about, though IN
very feeble state. Ny bronchial trouble re-
NAMED and the catarrh was tenfold worse than
before. Every effort for relief seemed fruit
less seemed to be losing ground daily. l
continued in this feeble state, raising blood
almost daily until about the first of March,
Y, when became so bad as to be entirely
confined to the house. A friend suggested
your remedies But I was extremely skeptical
that they would do me good, as had lost all
heart in remedies, and began to look upon
medicine and doctors with disgust. However,
I obtained one Of your circulars, and read it
carefully, from which 1 came to the conclusion
that you understood your business, at least.
1 finally obtained a quantity of DIR. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy your Golden Medical Discovery
and Pellets, and commenced their vigorous
use according to directions. To my surprise,
l soon began to improve. The Discovery and
Pellets, in a short time, brought out severe
eruption, which continued for several weeks.
1 felt much better, my appetite improved, and
I gained in strength and flesh. In three
months every vestige of the cstarrh was gone,
the bronchitis had nearly disappeared; had no
cough whatever and had entirely ceased to
raise blood; and, contrary to the expectation
OF some of my friends the cure has remained
permanent have had no more hemorrhages
from the lungs, and entirely free from ca
tarrh, from which had suffered so much and
80 long. The debt of gratitude owe for the
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Gratefully yours.
VIM H. SPENCER.
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Vegetine is Sod bY an Druggists.
The American Meat and Vegetable Chopper.

An improved Meat an Vegetable Chopper to
pariDg the vaTions articles Of food which reqiIiFe
Gholping such as sausage. Mince meat Saiads
Hash, Fish, Fruit and vegetables OF Varfous L-+15
has come TO be considered unucn OF = beresssfS,
IN every Wei cOnducted household as a C-I0fI,es
Wringer or cooking stove, while for Hotels RsEe-
Tles, heSiauranss and Public Institutions y here
large quantities. OF fOod are required fuch a me
chine IS absolutely ind spensab e. 90
OF the many inventions designed for tho NM
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and PROVED perfect success is the rericaf1
OF which more Than 5000 have been sold and We
years constant use has proved Their superioTitv
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labor every ear. and great has the deuae ma fo-
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seven sizes sold by dealers everywhere
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TIE signal-office at Washington has
perfected arrangements with the va
rious meteorological bureaus of Enro-
pean states, for an international ex-
change of weather reports. This CO
operation cannot fail to be productive of
highly-impOItant results both Tor com.
merce and for science,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29

The Peoples Stamp of VaIue.-The
Government endorsement, which legalizes the sale
Of PLANTATION BIrTERs, is not the only stamp af-
fixed to that famous VEGETABLE Tonic. 1t bears,
in addition to that official sanction, the MORE
VALUABLE STAMP OF PUBLICA PROBATION. This in
estimsble voucher Of its rare properties Tonic
CONNECTIVE and ALTERNATIVE is worldwide.
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Gained Fifteen Pounds of Flesh.

SOUTH BKKwIcI1, Me, Jan. Il, 1872.
H r. STEVENS, Esq:
Dear Sri have had dyspepsia in its worst form
for the last ten years and have taken hundreds of
dollars wort h Of medicine without obtaining any
relief In September last commenced taking The
Negetine, since which time my health has steadily
improved. Ny food digests well, and have < in
ed bitten pounds of flesh. There are several
others in this place taking the Nesetfne and all
have obtained relief \ ours truly
THOMAS F, ATOORE.
Oversser OF the Card Room. portsmouth Co.'S A iIs
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To HAVE good health the liver must
be kept in order. SdrfordS Liner InUigOratOr
vegetable dthdrtic and Tonic-for all de-
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Will clear the complexion. cure sick headache,
etc. Shun limitations. Try SGnfords LiUeT
.SnrjgOr1fOT.
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The great central plain of California,
for six months of the year, is a scorched
and dust-swept desert. IN April it be-
comes one fiower-bed nearly 400 miles
long and thirty wide, set under a range
OF snow mountain. a traveller writes of
1t 'iiiGo where I would, east, west,
north, south, was still surrounded by
flowers, which closed over my feet at
every step. as if I were wading in wa
ter"
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To CORRESPONDENCE answer to
scores OF letters we state: The Fifth Gift
Concert of the Kentucky Public Library viii
positively take place November 80, 1874, aud
there Will be no pOstponement. he capital
prize viii be $3.50. 600. For information con-
corning this matter drop line to Gov. Thos
+. Bramlette, Louisville. XIV
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-29

How TO Look Young -Sixteen.-Donf
paint use vile Hair RestOrers, but simply apply
Hagsn's Magnolia Balm upon your face, neck and
hands, and use Lyons Kathairon upon your hair.
The Balm makes your complexion pearly, soft and
natural, and you can't tell what did it. 1t removes
freckles, tan, sallowness ringmarks moth-patches,
etc, and in place of red rustic face you have the
marble purity Of exquisite belle. 1t gives to
middle age the bloom of perpetual youth Add
these effects to splendid head of hair produced by
the hathairon, and lady has done her best in way
Of adOrnment. Brothers Will have spinster sis
tiers when these articles are around.
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THE Narragansett Collar Company are
turning out from rs, 600 to 100, 900 ElmwOod
and Warwick Collars day. This shows their
immense popularity. If you have not worn
them, we would advise you to do sO.-N Y.
Times
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No Sewing Machine Received a Higher Medal.

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WIsHART's Pine Tree Tar Cordial
cures coughs, colds and consumption. Wis
harris Worm Sugar Drops Danish worms COM
Dletely-CO Com.
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RAGGED stockings and protruding
toes are not seen on feet where SILVER TIPS
are worn. Parents remember this, they last
twice as long.
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yon Nish 70 get a PRACTICAL. FtT1,IT-
- = = SIS EDUCATIOS, attend and gradusts a.
l lpssit ltion; jones' COmNERCTaT- 49, -
W. - - AFH OOLLEGE, 81 Io1ss a ~ ID