Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-27

SORGHUM.-The time Is near at hand
when seed of this valuable crop should
be planted; and every one who has land
to spare, onght to plant and cultivate at
least enough for his own family, If not
more. Quite recently we had occasion to
use very fine article of refined syrup,
which made sore mouths and caused a
burning pain in the stomach. Who
knows but that many are slowly poison
cd by such stuff, without any one ever
knowing what was the matter? H. is on
this account that we so often repeat the
advice to farmers to plant the above. 1t
can be grown on any good soil that will
yield fair crop of cOrn.-Coleman's
Rural World.
TO MAKE BARREN TREES FRUITPUL.-
A correspondent of the American Agri-
lesslturalist says:
kEEiSh TO describe to YOU the method of
Q. -.s:.A1ng fruit trees bear, that blundered
.fJn. Some 10 years ago l had n small
apple tree that leaned considerably. l
drove stake by it, tied a string to limb
and fastened IL to the stake. The next
year that limb blossOmed full while not
another blossom appeared on the tree,
and as Tim Bunker said, sit sOt me
thinking" and l came to the conclusion
that the string was so tight that it pre-
vented the sap from running to the roots,
consequently it formed fruit buds. HaV-
ing couple of pear trees that were large
enough to bear, but had never blOssomed,
took coarse Irvine and bound 1t sever
al times around the tree above the lower
limbs, and tied it tight as could. The
next spring all the top above the cord
blossomed as white as a sheet and there
were no blossoms below the place where
the cord was tied. A neighbor seeing
my trees loaded with pears tried the same
method with the same result. / think It
is a much better way than cutting OFF the
roots. In early summer. say in June or
July, wind strong Irvine several times
around the tree or a single limb and tie
it, the tighter the better, and you will be
pleased with the results.
SrocK PAYS ALL THE TIaE.-The head
ing of this article, says the Valley Far
mer, was the remark OF an old farmer the
other day while deplOring the failure of
his wheat crop. "One year the wheat
fails, another the corn; but, the, stock
pays all the time. He moreover re-
marked ''that the farmers who early
gave their time to stock raising had gone
right along, without setbacks, and out
stripped the grain growers" There is
no doubt but that there Is much truth in
the old mans remarks. Stock is the
surest and most remunerative, but in
thickly settled regions it is better and
two assist each other, and improve the
farm. Waste straw and offal of the stock
viii go to fertilizing the soil and improve
its capacity for productiveness. The
strength of the soil Is a great desidera-
tum with the farmer. The soil is the
mine of wealth-his treasury, his bank
of deposit. He must keep It good, or his
paper will be protested, his reputation as
i farmer dishonOred. 1t Is we'll to keep
"a iafx Of otn nrtaf s,C
grain crops. The general profits of each
year are thus kept zearly equal. Farm
ing may be done close--less wasted and
more made.
The prospects for a heavy corn crop
are as fair as could be expected at this
season of the year, but it must be borne
in mind that the demands upon the COM
ing crop will be greater than upon any of
It's predecessors since the war, in con-
sequence of the vast increase in the num-
Der of hogs In the country, and the large
accessions being made by birth and impOr-
tation, daily hence IL behooves the "a M
ers, regardless Of the present surplus on
hand to exercise all due economy in feed
ing, aud above all things we warn them
against the common indiscretion of
"overselling" at present low prices, in
anticipation Of making up the deficit from
the new crop. To use n common phrase
"corn will be corn" next fall, even
though the yield be quite as generous
and general as Is was last season; and
those who have corn to buy may expect
to pay at least dollar bushel for it, for
there will be tens of thousands of new
mouths to feed, and few producers who
will be forced to sell at anything but re-
munerative figures.
If your corn is not well housed, now
is the time to attend to it, and now is the
time to stop all the leaks in barns, bins,
and cribs. II you can do it, put in few
extra acres of corn, and If you cannot,
devote extra attention to that already
planted. 1t will pay yOn TO do it.-Ex-
aminer.
stern and dignified Judge ordered a pris-
oner to stand up and offer objections, If
he had any, to being sentenced to prison
for long term of years, the prisoner
rose and said:
81 never had mother to shed tears
over me-"
His words entered every heart in the
in middle age Of life, and he had been
convicted of burglary, but every heart
softened toward him as his lips uttered
the words. He felt what he said, and
tears rolled down his cheeks as he con-
tinued:
''If had a mothers love and q moth
er's tears-some one 10 plead with me
and pray with mel should not now be
what am ~
Ali That's It! There is a power in A
mothers love, in her tears, pleadingS and
prayers, whose influence is hardly to be
realized. God pity the lad who has no
home to go to-nO mother TO whom he
can tell all his troubles and his griefs-
no mother to put her arms around his
neck and beseech Heaven to keep him in
right paths There is no heart ike a
mothers. Her child may wound it again
and again, yea, pierce it with a sword,
and its last pulsations will still beat with
love for the migrate. 1t is the first to ex-
cuse his faults, the last to condemn.
There is no love like q msther's-none so
aduring, SO tender, SO far reaching. 1t
Wished upon the child ia the cradle,
: 81 it follows the boy over the ocean. 1t
calls up the wandsrer the first thing in
the morning, and it remains with him
until sleep closes the eyes. When moth
er's love for her offspring dies out, it is
a certain sign that he has become being
too atrocious to longer live among men.
There are no tears like a mothers.
Nothing can so tighten the sorrow of
child-nothing so restraints mind from
wandering into evil paths. The man
who looks back over his childhood and
youth, regrets nothing so much as that
he has brought tears of sorrow and sad
ness to fond mothers eyes. Every
tear a mother sheds over a hayward child
is recorded in the Great Book, and he
shall answer for 1t.
There are no prayers like mothers
none that reach so far, and none so ear
nest. The wanderer on foreign shores
feels this in his heart, and ne is thankful
to Heaven that he can feel it. kneeling
at her bedside and asking the angel to
guide the feet of her children in right
paths, who can doubt that a mothers
paryers are heard in Heaven?
81 never had n mother to shed tears
over mel''
The sorrowful words of that burglar