The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-10-01


yields dividends to its stockholders or
not If instead of this one cotton factory
you had ten of the same SORT, who can
calculate the benefit they would be to
your county? A market would then be
furnished at home for all the wheat,
corn and hay You can raise, besides con
suming all the cotton grown in the
county. Your Touring mill Is an
other source of great profit to your coun-
ty. You might also have pork packsries,
sIanghterhouses, if you had any hogs OF
cattle to supply them. We underrate
our country and thereby keep others
away. Money expended IN building
manufacturing establishments, even IF
they yield no dividend to the stockhoI-
ders, pay the county well, and therefore
the landowners Of the county ought to
aid and sustain such enterprises by all
the means IN their power. So long as
we are dependent on other sections for
what we eat and wear we will never be
prosperous, and although we may call
loudly for immigrants, it will be like
ealing spirits from the vastly deep"
HOW TO SECURE D1l1GRArIox.
To do this, you must make your cOun-
try attractige and agreeable, pleasant as
well as profitable. You must have your
winter pastures of wheat, rye aud barley,
AMI our summer pastures of clover and
other grasses. You must have focks Of
sheep, herds Of cattle, and droves Of
horses Men must feel, when they come
here, that this is country delightful to
live in. DecayiBg fences. dilapidatad
farm-houses, barren and deeolate fields,
wearing and washing away, do not pre-
sent attractions to immigrants. We
must show what our country is capable
of producing; that we can have green
pastures during the winter as we'll as
summer; that we can raise our own food
and manufacture at least a portion OF
our own clothing, and this Will furnish
better immigration argument than any
speeches we may make or pamphlets we
may publish. believe in giving all the
information we can in regard to cur
country, and in using all the means in
our power to get immigration, but first
and foremost we must make our State
what tits capable of being most de-
lightful country to inhabit, while it af
fords the most inviting field for profta-
bic agriculture and manufacturing.
WHAT CONSTITUTES A FARMER.
TIC be a perfect farmer q man should
combine reading, observation and prac-
tice A man may work in the fields all
his life and be poor farmer. We should
gain knowledge By reading and study,
and also by what we see around US, and
then this knowledge must be put into
practice. Our views, If they will not
stand the test Of actual experiments, are
worthless. AL sound theory is based
upon practice, and all seaside practice
is the result Of well-groundcd informa-
ton, whether learned by our own obssr,
vation or from the experience Of others
That theory which will not stand the
test of experience Is worthless, and that
practice which is not based upon sound
theory is equally worthless.
CONCLUSIONS.
Let US all, whether rich OF poor
whether we have little or much, do all in
our power to make Tennessee a great
rich and prosperous State. East Ten
nessee is making more rapid strides il
improvement than any other portion OF
the State, and you can see the effects Of
enterprise upon the cities of Knoxville
and Chattanooga. In many portions O.
middle Tennessee agriculture has reach
ed high state. In Maury county, land
that thirty. years ago only yielded ten
bushels of wheat per acre now yields
from twenty to thirty bushels. In that
county some land under skiIGul manage.
men5 has been improved until 1t now
produces twice as much as formerly.
There as here, land cultivated in cotton
is generally impoverished under the sys-
TEN practiced. Middle Tennessee needs
manufacturing establishments. Elk,
Duck and Cumberland Rivers, as well as
the smaller streams, should be lined with
them. Her immense ''banks" of iron
ore, now useless as so many grains OF
sand, should be converted into pig metal
or iron manufactures to enrich herself
and benefit other countries. Nashville,
situated in the midst Of magnificent
grain region, with unri7aled facilities
for obtaining cheap and abundant coal
should become q manufacturing city IN
ferior to none in the West. West Ten
nossee, as l have endeavored to show
needs diversity ia her agriculture. Will
her generous soil and mild climate she
might become the garden and the or
chard to supply Louisville, Cincinnati
! Chicago and ST. Louis with early fruits
and vege tables, and the granary from
which the West and Southwest nigh
draw It's supply of early wheat. Having
been born and brought up on farm
and having in youth been actually anl
actively engaged in the cultivation c
the soil, / naturally feel deep Interes
in whatever concerns agriculture
which is the basis Of our wealth TIL
occupation Of an educated, intelligen