Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-27


nessee. Some things that We learned il
pleasant association with their learned
progressive farmers, might not be out Q
place, nstated 10 your numerous readers.
That society is nothing more nor les
than one of the best agricultural school,
with the actual live, practical farmers q
/ teachers and the students of the same class
! The students and teachers come from ever
| county in the State, and when they come
they instruct and they receive instrnc
/ ton. They carry their instruction home
| and practice upon It six months, and come
back and teach, and 60 again and practice,
/ and thus have they done in Georgia for a
| time beginning thiTfy-six years ago, under
/ theshadoW OF Stone Mountain, with cotton
/ logs FOX seats and grapevine for shelter,
with but few delegates. But It has grown,
till il is nov the pride Of the State with
| 200 10 800 delegates. II embOdies the in
1 telligence of the State. 1t has introduced
science in the field. II has talked it, and
taught and demonstrated il, TIL it is not
laughed at if a member of that Society
talks in the language Of science, and re-
ports he has worked according TO the teach
ings of science on his farm or garden.
That is not all. They have made farm
ing and farm labor honorable. They have
elevated labor. They have made it remu-
nerstiTe. They have made the farmer the
maker Of laws, the dispensers Of justice,
and in every sense the equal Of any other.
That Society has among its membership
those whom the State has delighted TO
honor and who were at the same time
farmers, that they were honOred as legis-
latOrs, as Governor and as Congressman,
and present Senator.
They are interested when there. They
show that though they are occupying posi-
tions showing confidence and high trust,
yet they are delighted at being practical
farmers. They take up business in order
and with that precision and system that
shows they are well drilled in parliament
ary usage, and under the leadership of their
tried President, Gen. COlquett, who was
elected for the sixth time President, they
go smoothly on. They have
AN EXPERIMENTAL Farm
conducted by the learned DR.. E. II. PEN
dletOn, the highest authority in the En-
glish language on Agricultural Chemistry,
and who has a text book on that subject,
and who read paper on that occasion well
calculated to do honor to farming as a
science. John Stark, Esq, read ans essay
on grape culture and wine manufacture, in
which he demonstrated the advantage of
science as applied to grape culture practi-
cally, be being both a scientist and prac-
teal grower Of the vine.
a new interest was created there in the
habit of observation and noting results on
the farm life by a written report Of a
years experience on a farm by practical |
farmer, DR.. J. S. Lavender, reporting an
actual years every day work and the re-
suits. Il became intensely interesting be- |
cause il made one live a year over again |
and 90 through all the excitement of year |
in one evening. And it so clearly demon
strated the advantage Of that close Obser- |
Eation that is necessary 70 success. l want |
10 mention one practice Of his he presented |
70 relieve him Of the annoyance of fence
JUMPING sheep; that is he stated his habit |
vas TO cut off a leg.
The society also has a geological depart
nent presided over by Prof. Geo. Little, !
Who has but recently began 4 geological
survey Of the State, and reported the pro-
yress be had made, and presented a very
showing Of progress in his
work, on hastily impTOTised maps, what be
lad accomplished, in which be demon
trated practical knowledge of his bust
less. he is to make physical survey as
veil as botanical, and present also an anal
isis Of the soils.
The analysis he shows he has arranged
With the Commissioner of Agriculture,
Dr.. Jones, to have done.
There were other papers prepared |
nd TO be read on other industries, which it |
vas not our privilege 10 remain long |
nough to hear. Also on Agricultural Ed
IcatiOn and she Science Of Agriculture.
The Commissioner of Agriculture is a
raCtical farmer and a practical scientist, | ,
Who is doing much to work a revolution in !
gricultuTe as 4 science, and has already |
wrought a revolution in commercial fertii- ,
zers IN his State, and made their prOduC- |
ion there an honest and an honorable call
ng. A popularity Of that Agricultural
Ociety. is it has systematized the whole !
usiuess and the whole subject of farming, |
nd has established fully every department,
nder State aid and State laws and State |
r0visiOns for their encouragement. 1t Sc
eCts competent men in every department, |
nd requires their time in their various de- | l
aTtments, and then remunerates them for | !
heir labor and for their scientific attain
lents and for the developments -ey make I
D their various departments. s
1t has the sanction and encouragement Of
is eXcellency the Governor aud the entire Z
lppOTt of the Legislature. And beside all {
nat its railroads, with the exception Of one :
hort line, (and that gives half fare), very {
isely and literally carries It's delegates
9TH ways free of charge, and that semi c
lnually, 10 any place in the State on any
their lines, wherever itmay elect to hold /
s meetings.
Where public and private interest are all @
ting in cOncertas they are there, is it at all G
uprising that visitors from a great State {
Ike Tennessee could spend a few days | a
and pTOftablg among such a {
sople? v
In a word, Georgia is progressive. {
through the teachings Of that society in .
S scientific and practical view Of things,
is making Georgia blossom as a rose.
he sterile spots are becoming productive, :
I'D the productive spots are becoming
OTe so.
Science is doing for her what nature has
Jne for Tennessee, making her soil re-
1Ond beautifully to the labOrer.
And if they 90 on in the application of '
fence, soon Georgia farmers Will have to ]
, on her improved soils what Tennessee
rmeTs have done on her natural soils
Iect the small ears Of corn for seed TO 2
old growing corn so large that it is in . .
nvenient TO handle. Better not say that
~ loud, lest some supperstitious ones
ho have never seen Tennessee's best soil
light think it a little extravagant. :
Georgia is certainly entitled TO be called
st among her equals in agricultural i'm
ovements. Free from skepticism, the
plicatiOn Of science to agriculture, and
1 a captive and slave to Ignorance, may
T refulgent ways illuminate the homes