The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-01-13

AND USEFUL INFORMATION.
GOLD MINES,
Some Valuable Suggestions to Giles
County Farmers.

AT least every farmer may SO
utilize the wornsand waste places
on his farm as to make them ex-
ceedingly profitable. Quilted, wash
ed and unsightly hillsides, and 9TH
er spots lost to the pillow, set out in
black locust. wills.pay an hundred
fold for the labor it costs.
Don't think, farmers, because
this is not a matter OF life and
death, that it does not require grave
consideration. 1t may not, indeed,
impress those whose farms are yet
abundantly supplied with timber,
but to 9Th, Sc whose farms are
stripped it should appeal with ire
sistible force. Where timber is
plentiful there can be no better way
Of utilizingssthese spots, turning
them to profit and hiding a deform
ity. These spots constantly
charging, growing more unsightly,
and thus are all the time robbing
the farm of its attractiveness and
market value and the owner of his
character as an energetic, thrifty,
progressive farmer. A very little
labor at the right time will put
stop to all this and start a work of
improvement; the gullies will be
filed up, the soil will be restored.
the value of the farm increased, for
a valuable timber will be growing to
replace that which is lost-valuable
for railroad ties, gate posts, stock
poles, hubs, tire-wood, and especial
ly valuable for fence-posts. Fenc-
ing timber, in some neighborhoods,
is already growing very scarce and
expensive. Some of our farmers
will have to import their material,
or resort to other means. Our
forests are being rapidly cleared up;
there has, indeed, been a frightful
destruction of timber in our county
OF Giles, IN the last ten years, and a
timber famine will one day over
take us If we are not wise in time.
The barbed wire fence will be the
fence of the future In our state, and
before twenty years have passed
away there will be great demand
for posts. There are mountains of
iron il Missouri immense guam.
titles in Pennsylvania, and an mex
haustsble abundance in our own
state and almost everywhere await
ing the furnace and the demand.
The manufacture OF furniture is
q great and growing indus
try in the United States; the facili-
ties for its manufacture are abun-
dsnt, and the supply will keep pace
with the demand. Let US prepare
to grow our posts against the day
Of need. The supplies of durable |
timber are being rapidly exhausted |
with US. The walnut has gone to |
supply foreign demand; the white |
oak and cedar are rapidly disap-
pearing, and the locust, which |
each farmer can grow for himself,
must take their places. He can
grow them for use on his own farm
and for sale, for the demand will al |
ways be abundant.
Every farmer who has had his
attention directed to this subject
Dr. may read this article, will begin
20 notice the numerous bleak and
brown hillsides, and quilted spots
Ill over our county, that are going
10 ruin, but which might be made
% blossom with rich and
valuable growth Of timber, with
very little labor. One days la
Dor now, before spring work
will lay the foundation for
/ years support in the future
in this matter
steals beauty from your farm, mon
" from your pocket, rest from
eur weary limbs in the future, and,
worse than all, steals golden OPP
you can never regain.
This homely subject grows upon
Is, and will upon every farmer who
ives it intelligent thought; but we
AVE only aimed in this article to
IMPRESS its Importance in an eco
ionic point of view,and the necessi-
y of our doing something to restore
he forests that are being ruthless
Y destroyed in our midst. We
night have contented ourselves
nth the fact that "a hint to the
rise is sufficient" but then all will
ot be wise In season, and we have
to make the hint forci.
lie because it is so important our
armers should heed 1t. One of
be finest acres OF cotton grown on
be farm of the writer lasJ year was
nee a locust thicket; sprouts ap
ear every year and have to be
rubbed, but then there is no time
,st, or expense incurred in fertil-
ling. Every spot on the same
lrm, unfit for cultivation or lost ,
, the pillow, is maturing its crop OF !
,custs. Let every farmer read
Ills article twice before he throws
is paper aside, and reflect that one
ere Of land will grow posts enough =
,r several miles Of durable fence, i
it'll proper effort. There 10 en-
in this step-money,
le wisest economy, and such con-
eniencs as will one day gladden.
10 hearts of the farmer who needs =
ar advice and goes straightway =
nd plants him a forest,
Mr.. Editor, don't begrudge the
pace this homely communication a
Ay occupy, foryou promote a very I
mple plan by which two blades of
ASS can be made to grow where
lie will not be able to grow after d
While, and you will thus be made r
public benefactor as well as the
Iitor of most excellent paper. :
PROGRESS.
COr~rpy SIM Gura COrr-v