The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-03-25
BILL ARP ON THE PRESS.
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From the Dixie Farmcr.l


Your paper is n comfort to me; in
every number | tina something To put
away in mind and memory something
tina, did not know before, and which
will he Of advantage to me in time to
come. If Il man can read he can get
Il good education by taking one good
paper; he can keep up with the world.
and make himself an entertaining mem
her Of society; he can talk up Il little
on most any subject. Book learning
is very good Thing, but he never
reads the papers, and he passes for Il
fool in his naborhood. Some papers
are not much account to appearances,
! nut | never took one that didn't pay
me IN some way good deal more
than paid it. One time an old friend
started little paper away down in
Georgia and sent it TO me, and sub
,crlhed just to encourage him, and s."
after while 1t published notice that
an administrator had an order IT, sell
sevcral lots OF land at public cutlery,
and one Of the lots was in my county
SO | enGuired about the lot aud wrote
down to my friend 10 attend The sale
aud run it up to fifty dollars, lie did
50. and bid of the lot for me at thirty
dollars, and | sold 1t IN Il month to Il
man it joined for hundred dollars,
and so ! made sixty eight dollars clear
by taking that paper My father told
me that when he was young man he
saw notice in n paper that a school
teacher WAS wab'ed away of IN u dis
lanl county, and he went down there
and got the situation, and little girl
vas sent to him, and after a whiie she
grew up mighty sweet and pretty, and
he fell in love with her aud married
her. Now, if he hadn't took that pa
per, what do you reckon would have
hccome Of me2 Wouldn't be- 50 me
other feller or maybe not at alp
Your article, by Prof. Brown, on
" EnsiIage," has put me to thinking
Ii ! wasent always on my guard
against new inventions and new dis
ccvcles, | would say this new process
Of preserving green vegetable matter l.,
n wonderful theory, and will prove a
great blessing to the farmers If an
acre OF green corn forage or red clover
Weighs forty Thousand pounds, anh
can lie saved green with all it, ncr~
just like it was cut, why, an acre or
TWO wilt run my stock all winter and
keep the cows fat and the butter vel.
low found pit on my farm when
ten wide, and was dug to compost dead
noises and cows and such things
think | will fill it this summer with
corn-fodacr and clover, AMI pack il
down and cover it with earth, just as
the Professor did at Vanderbilt. I'm
going to put in II lot Of roasting ears
and garden vegetables, aud see ii they
won't keep fresh and green, for it
seems Nhat the only secret ahout it is
10 keep the mir ont OF anything to pre-
serve il-on the principle of canning
fruits and vegetables aud fresh fish
AMI oysters. Ever, thing wants air to
gro" by, hut rs soon rs you stop the
growth the air becomes poison, and
tnaxcs ii decay. 1t is no new thnu To
preserve animal and vegetable matter
by burying 1t in the ground fyou
give n dog arhunk Of fresh meat he
will go of and bmv it. ] used to
think he buried it to hide it, hut he
don't-he huries ii to keep it fresh and
sweet. My poor MAJOR, Quito r,
showed me some very fine potatoes the
other day, and when | asked him how
he kept them so sound and fresh look |
ing, he said he kept them in big hol~ |
low stump that held about five bushels, /
and he covered them with straw and
filled up with dirt He says hollow
stump is the best cellar poor man
ran dig, I've read about frogs heinz
found alive in the cavities of rocks aud
trees, where no air could get to them
maybe II man wouldent die if he was
buried alive, who knows? Wonder If
we can't get some philanlhropc gen,
tlcman to try it for the good of his
racer Maybe he would just 90 into a
torpid state like bear doe. in winter,
aud we could unhury him at any time.
and take him out all fresh and green. |
and set the clock TO running again. III
that can he done it would he a hiy
hing in many respects 1t would stop
Ill suicides, for if man was tired of
ile and not exactly ready tor heaven,
re would compromise in retiring for
ear or ten years or maybe fifty, and
hen he walked up aud try it again We
would have to have special grave I
ard IN every community foI all such.
nd keep Il register, and label the time
o wake them up, just like the hotels y
70 their customers who are going OH :,
n the hight train, If young lad,
'ouldenl mary man because he was
little too old for her. why, he conlt u
" dead until she caught up with him :,
would he a splendid thing to pre- +,
rrve the Truth of history, for snmr e,
ould go dead maybe for hundred y,
ears or thousand. and they coulu y
III positively all about what happcnen .,
the oldrn times ] think on the
hole we would like this sort OF hu,i- l.
'ss. In fact. would 90 dead right al
Nv for month, Tor Mrs Arp has 1r>
'rted these coasts Tor that time. AMI
'crytlIlng seems so desolate and ..
nelly. IL a man Sept for fifty year.
~ over ] suppose we rrnll rnIl then,
"" kIp' when they come hack. ~
nor of Rip Van Wrinkle. Wnuldrn,
he splendid way for man to get =, a,