The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-09-24
s. Good Letter.

at VAS again night, so.we did not have
much chance to look IN upon central Illi-
nois, but when we awoke we found our-
selves in the beautiful "Western Re
serve" and looking with perfect amaze
ment at the high state to which agricul
ture IS carried IN the State Of Ohio. II
is there they have the large fields Of hay
and the fine horses and cows that make q
farmers life lock Ike something besides
q life of slavery and.poverty. This makes
ne think Of that old saying, mo grass
20 stock, no stock no manure, no manure
no land" These people have no better
lands TO say the very least Of It, than are
found in Tennessee, They were origi-
nally 10 better adapted to grasses and
grains than Tennessee lands. Yet they
now are IN the very highest state of cul-
tiYation because they haye been in gras s
es and grain and not run to death in one
crop. have had farmers to say to me,
that we cannot uss Agricultural maobiu-
cry in Tennessee because the land Is so
stumpy and cl5ddy. Now Ohio is the
foremost State in the union, in the en-
pigment Of improved farming tools, and
Lnow there is no State that has more
trees to the acre Of wild lands than 1t
has. The timber Is heavier than ia Ten
nesses. How then did she get 10 use all
this machinery BY taking up the roots
and stumpa with machinery and prePar-
ing her lands for cultivation It was
easier 20 do this you know, than to be
worried to death for six, eight, ten or
twenty.years with old etumps and roots
to pillow over and to hinder time with. As
to the character of their lands They
are pretty much the came as that Of Ten
nessse. Perhaps there is more lime than
in West Tennessee, but that adds but
very littIo 20 their favor as. n grass grow
ing country, as you could buy lime very
| cheap and put il with your grass crops,
/ thereby giving them all the advantage of
/ that element. Your climate Is far better
| for growing grass than Ohio, because in
! Ohio the grass Is often winter killed in
I Tennessee it never is. There are only
| two things lacking to make Tennessee a
fine grain and grass state; one IS prop
er agricultural implements and the other
! IS the skill to use them. When the PEG
pie come to consider these points they
VIII make a great deal mere money and a
great deal easier than they now do it,
You can see on every side, that farming
ing ekiIfully carried on as it Is done in
Ohio makes money for the people who
do it. You see fine fam houses of al
kinds and especially fDa barns and sta
/ bles for their stock have seen many
barns and stables that were finer than
the dwelling houses. These farmers arc
at work now turning under their siubbIe
where they have just eus OF their wbea
and oats, and they improve their land.
greatly, they say, by sc doing. Some
thing strange to your people perhaps
yet ! never saw one man pIowing witt
less than tFo plows and oftener four
Tbey have splendid horses, Gne, larg,
and stout They put their plows in to tax
beam, yet two Of their horses waIk or
with perfect case with two plovs All 0
the their pIows were Ieft-banded turnin.
plows. They seem to do easier worl
than theright handed plow.
NEW JERSEY.
1 would love to tell you about thu
beautiful vine clad hills of New Jersez
and the magnificent country homes tina
fruit has made, butt have written to-
much alreudg. I will venture this b,
way Of conclusion, however, that nor
money is mrde Of Of one acre of peache
in New Jersey, than is made of Of fiy
in Tennessee, and the peaches here vii
not compare with our Tennessee fcuit
for flavor or size. TIE houses on th
farms tell it; the roads through tie cour
try tell it, the horses, the carriages, tn
people all tell it. Where 4 people max
money they show that they have It II
everything they own. Here then !
another item for our people to consider
Fruit Is frst-olass money crop. j
proportion to the labor. the capital ant
the capacity required, it brings NOR
money to O people than any other crop
When our people awake from their Va
Winkle sleep, and realize that God ha
given them one Of the best countries IN
der The sun, and that they ara makiDi
less use Of it than any people could
What say, say kindly, desiring the pee
, pie to reflect upon what they are doing
Nov they are working year in and yea
out over cotton and always poorer thar
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