Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-04-08


Where our treasures are gathered from wild, beating
waves,
10 repose on de shores the blest.
HOME AND FARM.
A party purchased some time since two
short horn cows, paying $3.50 for the two.
The produce, so far. has yielded the neat
little sum of $1,000.
The largest banana plantation in the
United States is probably near Salt Lake,
Florida. 1t contains nearly 10000 bear
ing trees. A majority of these are of the
dwarf species, which are renewed every
year. The banana is a staple article Of /
food in many parts of the world. In re-
gions where there is no frost the fruit /
ripens constantly all the year round.
Make your farms sclf-sustaining, and |
then you will readily discern why there |
is no money in cotton. The money comes |
too seldom, the labor is too constant and /
long protracted, and the staple is too |
much the subject of speculation to make /
cotton planting profitable in many see /
tions, unless it can be raised as a surplus |
crop. Its net losses in Georgia last year |
nearly bapErHnfpd tho Pidnters there. IL |
,fsay oe different In the Mississippi bot
toms, and along the Yazoo and Arkansas
and Red rivers, where they calculate
many bales to the acre, while in Georgia,
Alabama and other States, they calculate /
how many acres to the bale.-Southern /
Farmer.
GEAPgs. FOR TENNEssEE.-IH the Prac-
teal armer appears statement from
Delns, OF Flasf Tennessee, of the result
Of aNparimeuts with different grapes in
that part Of the State. The Concord is
Immensely popular" and is the most
saleable; Ives Seeding is also very pop |
uar, and ripens later, and is not quite so
good quality Clinton is safe and reliable;
Alvey, promising; Hartford and Perkins
do well /; Martha is early, vigorous and
prOductive; NortOn's Virginia is the
mestreliable, a strong grower and never
rots; Herbemont often fails, but when
successful surpasses everything else; Le
noir is unproductive; OportO, worthless;
Northern Muscadine, of no value Creve-
line and Delaware, failures, and Iona is
pronounced the greatest humbug ever
known.
HUNGARIAN GRASS EoR Cows.-The fol-
lowing is the testimony of DIR. Loring
concerning Hungarian grass: l believe
/ can make more milk with this grass cut
and mixed with corn meal and shorts
than / can with the best timothy hay cut
aud mixed in the same manner. And
wnen you remember that you can raise
on ordinary land, by sowing the seed of
and One-half to three and one-half tons
of good fodder to the acre, and that this
CROP can be sown after we have ascer-
tanned whether we are to have good
crop of hay or not, you will see the val
ne of this grass. / have such high
opinion of it that on my own farm, this
wear and last, raised from seYenty-ffve
TO one hundred tons of it for the purpose
of feeding to my mileh cows during the
winter.
For THE CENTENNIAL.-The National
Grangers are to hold a grand encamp
ment near Philadelphia, tOattend the Cen
tenniaI Exposition this year. Sixty acres
of land have been leased, and an immense
building is to erected, in which rooms |
and accommodations are TO be provided 1
ut a cost of not more than two dollars per 4
head each day. This is done, the Gran /
gers say, to avoid the extravaganza and I
imp0sitions Of hotels and boarding houses. (
The Pennsylvania railroad company have [
consented to lay double track to the eX-
hibition grounds, TO be used exclusively /
by the Changers. The run will not be
more than 20 minutes. The new build 4
inc is to be lighted with gas, and supplied
with hot and cold water. Shares of fifty
dollars each are to be issued to the amount
of two hundred thousand doilars-no
member will be allowed to take more
than one share. This sum is thought to
be sufficient to cover the cost of the en-
terprise.
\ Few REASONS WHY LAND SHOULD
BE IMPRovED.-More can be cultivated
with the same hands because titled with
less hard labor.
Briers and shrubs disappear, grasses
appear.
Cattle damage the land and grass less,
because they do not have to tramp so
great space to fill themselves.
Less land required.
Less fencing.
Less trotting after COWS and horses.
Less work at the smiths shop.
Fewer whips worn out.
Stronger teams.
More manure and less need for it.
4 stimulus to action.
\ protection against winters frosts
and summers heats.
A good example to children and neigh
bOrs.
Keeps Of sheriils aud buzzarls.
Stops emigration.
Produces money for books, and time
for reading.
Also school houses and churches.
Produces time for travel, to lecture ON
economy and preach the gospel.
Produces sociability and hospitality.
Makes a paradise of n barren, plenty
out u poverty, and blessing out of a
curse.
The barn is filled, the dairy is filled,
the purse is filed, and the soul is filed
with gratitude.
If the reader Will reflect, he will dis
cover that the number of good reasons
Why the farmer should improve his land
is almost innm0rable.-From an old pa
per of 1904.
PRoFITs or FARNIING.-We believe that
there are many farmers who take an in
correct view of the business of farming,
so far as its profits are concerned. They
seem to suppose that what is sold from
the farm is alone accounted profit, while
no account is taken of what goes to sup
port the family or is invested in the i'm
proVement of the farm. To give an in
stance we will refer 70 a conversation we
had with 4 farmer a few days since-a
man with some five or six thousand dol
lars, industrious and thriving, who COM
planned that nc was only able to raise in
cash some seven or eight hundred dollars
annually.
As contrast he mentioned one who
had about the same amoust in funds rs
he himself had in real estate, and he seem
ed TO consider the interest which his
friend received as clear profit on his cap
ital, and that the money so invested gave
greater income than the farm would
We knew that our farmer friend had a
large family 10 provide for, aud suspect
ing that he had overlooked the cost of
providing for them in has estimate of
what he had received from his farm, we
inquired how much he thought should
have been left in cash after maintaing
such family rs his, from the sum which
his friend received Us interest? lie hest
tated moment and answered not any
thing; his receipts would barely foot my
bill of family expense for one year; in
truth, he has little or nothing left to sup
port his own. So we doubt not, it often
is with the farmer; that which his family
eat, drink and wear-that goes to make
him comfortable and respectable (the gift
of kind Providence and the result of
his own toll } is frequently overlooked by
him in the estimate of the profits and loss
in farming, and nothing is counted but
the cash which remains after expenses
and outgoes are providen for.
In one case the farm is capital and in