The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-15

him.
One day while discussing with
his brothers the prospects for the .
future, he said, "Jim, 1 tell you and
John, this thing of cropping on
shares, or renting your lends in this
country, won't do. It'll rum every
man in all this region il we persist,
and the sooner we stop it the bet
ter for us"
Don't you see" replied he, "that
our lands are not only exhausted but
absolutely worn out; that on the
best it takes from three TO fivo
acres to make a bale Of cotton.
Now, count up the labor and ex-
pense incident to the making and
maketing that cotton, and you
know as we'll as 1 that you have lost
money. Is not this so; has not
your past years experience proven
it2 IL is then only aquestion OF len
iency with your merchant how long
you shall possess even the poor
pretence of home.
''I am satisfied, however, that to
get the country generally TO adopt
my views would be vain attempt,
but, boys, / insist that we try it
and I'll guarantee ultimate inde-
pendence.
"Now listen, can you get q rem
ter to take any pains with your
lands, or one working on sharesP
No; your lands and buildings get
more dilapidated, more quilted, no
attempt at improvement.
Il have a revelation, think. IL
was in this way: You both remem-
Der the three acres cultivated
myself in corn year before last
had it also planted in red peas, you
know. Well, 1 gathered six bush
els of peas myself, Coleman gath
cred four and Kit six-that makes
sixteen. had three large old sows,
and having no corn to spare 10 fat
ten them, / offered them TO every
neighbor, as you know, TO fatten on
shares. Every one though being
in my fix, nobody would take them.
So after gathering the sixteen BUSH
els and the corn, / turned them on
the peas They were miserably
poor, could hardly walk, yet it is
the truth that at killing, without
any other feed, they were fat, weigh
ing over 200 pounds apiece. The
ground is thin, you recollect, where
/ grew peas, but planting IT after
the peas were eaten off in wheat L
reaped that spring fifteen bushels
of wheat per acre. Nov, boys,
, what does this prove to your
= cit proves said Jim, shat it's
= very good TO love plenty OF peas,
= especially when you are scarce of
? corn"
= "Pshaw, Jim, you will always be
fool as long as you live. Don't il
- y prove to you that right there we've
y got gold mine, real Tennes'ss
Il gold mine."
20 Have you ever thought h9w h,9sat many am,
= bushels of corn and tons Of hay ar
~ ~ annually sold at Memphis TO Shel
I. by county? You havn'tf Well, yo
- know all we use Of either is brough
- from the North and sold 20 us
:. You know from your own sad ex
=, uerience that all the cotton we raise
~ and we grow nothing else, don't be
~ gin to pay the bill. The peopl
y who raise those articles do so unde
- greater difficulties than we woul6
~ here They have a long winter
there varieties of crops are rev
compared with ours. Our climate
is fortunate. We have neither
tne extreme summer or winter oi
= sections north and south OF u.s.
= Then TO work this gold mine have
4, found, the plan is TO go 20 work anu
;. pan It out for ourselves. Now let
= me detail my plan: We've each
- about a thousand acres OF worn-out
= land, producing us less than moth
= ing. Now we must make IL bring
! us a living and improve II while do
i ing so. The peas are the agent, or
g rather the grains in my gold mine
= You cannot produce or buy any
= other fertilizer for one-lifth of the
money you can grow peas Chem
=, lists say that nearly every element IN
, them is drawn from the atmosphere.
= The vines and leaves, then, full OF
= ammonia and phosphates, gives II
all TO the soil, while you give the
!, fruit, the pea, TO your hogs without
:, the expense OF harvesting, more
than your seed. Now 70 40 this
! successfully fallow all your land in
tended for peas In the summer or
fall deeply with double horse plowi
: the cost will be 81 per acre for that.
= In May or June broadcast your
= peas and plow under as lightly as
possible; this is another dollar.
Sown IN this manner at that time
Won are lust as certain Of a crop OF
- meas as YOU would be OF burs. An
- acre will fatten two hogs and two
= sheep. Then the bill stands thus
2 plowings, 81 90 each ... ..... OU
% hogs, 100 lbs each, 20 per ID. "a 90 90
III 2 sheep, 81 90 each ........' w
Total expense e............ f25 90
Ia hogs, 200 lbs each, at 7c ......f2s Ol
= 2 sheep, "a 90 each ..........t.. W
%, Total expense ....--..... 20 w
IA. Profit ....-......... ....... vi "
Add TO this profit the benefit oi
is the fertility given by the plowine
en- and vines which is large part oi
al your purpose in my system, and
n don't you think my mind has golc
u, ia itl
d, "Why, Peter, l do believe you've
nt gone crazy; you thought on this
sy subject so much," said John, show
lg in the name OF common sense can
Id YOU ever raise means - bestow twon
IL Iy-fve dollars OF work and stock
TO on your 500 acres Of open land; i
I'D is preposterOus--idle 20 think OF
ng s'There is nothing" said he "lik'
en- trying, and nothing ike success 4
ly prove a proposition. / shall try d
lr- il / live, and then we'll see"
ed Fan cane, and found Peter inten
en- on his plan. Onc.half perhaps o
his 500 acres was m cotton, this be
ed ing the best OF his land.
al He had managed 70 get the nc
nd groes on the farm to break most o