The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
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NAL; human skill converts it into a
bread winner. The whole race of
domesticated animals in Mans SER
vice, yielding him eggs, milk, wool,
and even flesh, was wild at first
that is to say was so far separated
as to be of no use to him. By his
skill he not only tanned these ami
mails, but, as it were, he has modi
fed and remodeled them after pat
tern supplied by himself. Man
fashions at will draught horses and
racers, oxen for the plow and oxen
for the table, sheep which furnish
wool and sheep which furnish tai
low, fowls which lay eggs and fowls
which are fitted for the spit, fat pigs
and lean pigs. From one breed Of
dogs Man has produced the grey
hound and the bulldog, the setter
and the terrier, the pointer and the
lap dog. When you go to an exhi-
bition of any kind of live animals,
remember that Art has as great and
Nature as little share in it as n
an exhibition of pictures. Apply
the same method ofreasoning to all
agricultural, horticultural, and hor-
ticnltural exhibitions. Neither our
gardens, our fields, nor our woods
are masterpieces of Nature, as is ig-
norantly said. They are master
pieces of human industry. All
doubleflowers, without exception,
are Mans work Pluck a wild rose
from a hedgerow, and then 60 and
see a collectionof Verdiers roses, and
you will learn how much nature has
bestowed and how much Man has
made of it. All the pulpy and juicy
edible fruits are Mans work. Man
went as far as Asia, and even far
ther, in quest of the coarse products
that resemble our peaches, our cher
ries, our pears, as much as the wild
rose resembles the Remembrance
of Malmaison rose. Each of our
vegetables represent not only dis
tant voyages, but also centuries Of
skilled labor assiduous elaboration.
It was not nature that gave the pota-
to to the poor of our land. Human
industry went in quest of it to Amer
lea, has cultivated, modified, amel
iorated, varied, and brought it up,
to its present state-accomplishing
the result In less than a century,
Yet to this century of culture must
be added the prior labor on the
plant by the natives of America.
"When the products of a distant
country are brought to US, we are
prone to believe that Nature alone
has done everything. But when the
Spaniards discovered America, it
had been cultivated from time inn
memorial. Hence man had turned
Nature to his advantage there, as
well as in Europe and elsewhere
Wheat, such as we see it, is not a
gift of Nature. 1t grows spontane-
ously in Upper Egypt; yet there it
yields but a poor and miserable
seed, untitled for making bread.
Many ages and prodigious expendi-
ture of labor were required in order
to develop and perfect the seeds OF
this useful food for Man. Have
you ever been told that wheat is dis
tinguished by its containing a nota
BILE proportion-sometimes a quar-
ter-of nitrogenous substances?
This valuable gluten represents the
blood and flesh of thousands OF
generations that perised in the cul
ture of wheat. While Labor sup
piled the most precious of its useful
properties to this grain, Of which
each Of US consumes three hectolires
yearly. Pharmacy altered the use OF
of fifty vegetable poisons, and con-
verted them to the profit of our spe-