The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16
The Higher Aim in Farming.

The higher aim of every intelligent til
Ter of the soil, should be the improvement
of the productiveness of his land until
it reaches the point where maximum
crops are produced at the least expense.
Wise husbandry regards the farm simply
as machine for turning out crops. The
machine is the matterOf first Importance.
| This is always to be kept i'll good running
order, and its efficiency is to be increased
| by all economical methods. The man who
farms upon this system will never sacri
| flee soil for great crop. His aim is to
have every crop found it. He aims in
every working of the soil to increase its
depth and to add to it more elements of
fertility than he removes in the crops,
and to make the crops not only pay for
themselves, but to pay for the improve
ment of the acres upon which they are
grown. In CARRYING out this aim, SO
to realize these results, a man shows his
skill as a cultivator. 1t is a compare
lively easy thing, for any one who has
money to improve the soil so that it shall
produce crops paying for the labor of
growing them and the interest on $200or
$500 an acre Stable manure, enough
well ploughed in, will do this. But it is
altogether another matter to make this
improvement pay for itself. Yet, it is a
possible thing to do this, and there are
farmers skillful enough to accomplish this
result, and this we hold to be the true
aim in the cultivation of the soil. The
most judiciOus improvements, those which
finally pay the largest profits require sew
eral years to bring in their full returns. |
1t is matter of great importance that |
our farming population should not only |
be settled, but that they should feel set
tied, and plan all their operations upon
the farm as if they expected to spend
their days upon it.-Herold.
THE SECRET OF THEIR Success
Moody shut down on the publication of
his life by Hartford house as soon as he
got home While in Birmingham he was
approached by photographer who offered
him a considerable sum of money fer the
privilege of taking his picture, which he
refused, with the remark that he would
readily give 81, 800 to have all existing
pictures of him DESTROYED Strange us it
may seem to the average yankee, this man
puts himself last in all things. 1t is
simply because he and Mr.. Sankey have
enough of the primitive Christian, true
religious fire in them to do the work for
the works sake, that their sincerity is
doubted. The ordinary American can
not bring himself To understand how any
man can do anything in which the pril-
cipaI figure is not No l.-can do work
without some Interior object, ordinarily
money, and always more or less selfish.
THE SOUTHERN METHoDIsTs. - The
Nashville Christian Advocate consolidates
the conference returns of the Methodist
church for 1871 The following are the
aggregates:
Travelling preachers -. ,...... 3,224
preachers POI
local preachers 1856
W hite members .969, I64
'olorcd members 1862 ,
Indian members ... 1907 .
Total preachers and membership 7l2,165
Increase over 1871 ...... 81, 375 ,
Infants baptized u? O9
ADULTS baptized ......... 1898
sunday schools ........ I,29l q
sunday school teachers. ~, 80 :
sunday school scholars. ....... .32S, 674
Collections for conference claim
ants Sb4,2?4 81
collections for missions -. .lOl COB 46 y
The number of conferences is thirty
even, of which North Georgia. is the
arrest having Il membership of 81 ,6S3.
>orth Carolina is next, with Il mrmbcr- :
hipof -, i2G.
WE are, all of us, different creatures =
18th different people; our very physique :,
han"cS according to our surroundings. Il
We expand mentally, morally, physically, I
zone atmosphere, and We close and shrink !
nd fade in another. Nervous. sensitive -
coplr show this distinctly; but even the d
nost phlcgmatic 10 not escape the effects y
f rcpulsion or at traction WITHIN an IcC 7
q, if the good deeds ofhuman creatures n
puld be traced to their source, how beau Il
full would even death appear; for how =
luch charity, mercy and purified aficc |
on would he seen To have grown i'll dusty r
raves, -DiekcRS
IL putting mp stove-pipe remember .
lat the elbow was made to fit the oven Z
Dor, and that siN blows from IN ax will :
mock thunder and li"htnin" out of amy Z